Eye-Rolls

 

Democrats’ impeachment season has begun.

The House of Representatives on Thursday blocked a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump.

 Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), who introduced the resolution, has already had one attempt at impeachment rejected this year and has been introducing impeachment resolutions against the president ever since Trump first took office in 2017.

But with campaign season approaching, Trump’s popularity may be waning and Democratic primary voters looking for candidates with backbone, Green’s lonely quest to use the House impeachment power is gaining some new supporters eager to make political gains, even as it prompts eye-rolls from other party members.

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) filed impeachment articles against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Wednesday and Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) this week introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his murderous boat strikes and reckless handling of classified information.

Sabotage..

 

The Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams is racing to fill key positions before Zohran Mamdani takes office, including on the powerful Rent Guidelines Board, which could undermine the incoming mayor’s pledge to freeze rents on more than 1 million stabilized apartments.

First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro said Adams plans to appoint and reappoint several members to the rental board before he steps down at year-end and is considering candidates who have put their names forward to fill vacant spots. 

The mayor could secure a majority of appointees whose terms would extend beyond Adams’s final days in office, Mastro said in an interview.

“The board’s composition will be critical for Mamdani, whose rent-freeze platform was central to his election victory. A stacked board could blunt his efforts, at least in his first year.  Just a thought.

Papers..

Cheer up..

 

Drone..

 

Style..

 

One of the best things you can do as you get older is walk regularly. Walking is easy, accessible, costs nothing, and may even add years to your life. Still, simply going for a stroll every day can start to feel a bit boring. “Any repetitive motion in one plane of motion, such as walking forward, will activate the same muscles each time,” added Amy West, M.D., a sports medicine physician at Northwell Health in New York. That means you won't get the aerobic and strength gains you need as you age—but incorporating different ways to walk to build muscle can get you all those perks.

Lindsey Benoit O’Connell, C.S.C.S., a certified trainer, a meditation teacher, and the founder of The LAB Wellness, agreed: “Different walking styles can help improve balance, coordination, and agility,” she said. Aside from building strength throughout your body, using different walking styles “challenges your brain to work harder to coordinate the steps,” O’Connell added. Then, once you can confidently do all of these, you can add high-intensity intervals or extra resistance. “Mix up your walks during the week by doing different styles on different days­," O'Connell suggested. "Over time, you’ll see big payoffs!”

Poll Number..

 

Senate Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee released a report Thursday estimating that tariffs cost the typical U.S. family nearly $1,200 from February through November.

Using data from multiple government agencies and Goldman Sachs, the report found the monthly cost of tariffs for households jumped from $54.65 in February to $184.51 in October.

If tariff levels remain unchanged in 2026, the typical household is projected to pay about $2,100 more for goods due to tariffs, the report said.

Tariffs, a tax on companies importing goods into the United States, are often passed on to consumers when businesses raise prices to offset the added expense. Some companies have said they try to absorb the costs, but many have not.

Comment:

 During a press conference in Brussels in March 2022, President Biden was discussing the global impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on wheat and other grain supplies. He stated that the food shortages were "going to be real" in the context of global supply chain disruptions and the US sanctions added mainly on Russia but affecting many countries, particularly those in the Middle East and Africa. Just a thought.

Cerebellum..

 

Table tennis heavily engages the cerebellum, the brain's coordination center, due to its demands for fast reflexes, hand-eye coordination, and rapid processing of the ball's spin and trajectory, requiring integration between motor skills (cerebellum, parietal/occipital lobes) and strategic thought (prefrontal cortex) for successful execution. 

This rapid, coordinated action boosts neural pathways, improves cognitive functions like attention, and enhances brain connectivity, making it a "brain sport" that benefits mental agility. 

The cerebellum is crucial for coordinating movements, and table tennis trains it intensely with its quick back-and-forth action, linking vision to motor response.

• You must track the ball, anticipate spin, and plan shots, all involving the cerebellum for coordination and the parietal/occipital lobes for visual processing.
• The prefrontal cortex plans tactics, while the cerebellum and prefrontal cortex work together to execute the physical follow-through.
• Studies show ping pong players have increased dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) in areas including the cerebellum, hippocampus, and visual cortex, indicating better network flexibility.
•  This comprehensive engagement improves attention, memory, and overall cognitive function, making it a great workout for the brain, especially for aging adults. In essence, table tennis is a "chess on steroids," demanding constant mental and physical integration, strengthening the neural networks controlled by the cerebellum and other key brain regions. 

Gold..

 

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration’s new “gold card” visa was open for sale, offering an expedited and “direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted people” in exchange for a $1 million “gift,” or $2 million if their company is footing the bill. 

Hours earlier, U.S. Customs and Border Protection formally proposed requiring visitors from visa-exempt countries in Europe and Asia to provide a five-year social media history and detailed information about family members as a condition of entry to the U.S.

The intrusive new “social media snooping rule” for visitors from the 42 countries in the Visa Waiver Program would “come into effect early next year shortly before hundreds of thousands of football fans” travel to the U.S. for the World Cup, 

Comment:

For those who hate this USA and wish it's destruction, should not be welcomed here. 

They should immigrate to the Countries they love, and most likely are not welcomed there either.

let many of those coming to USA who are will establish, and can contribute to the success of this country instead of the illegals, Kayotes, scam artists, sex trafficker. 

Sanctions..

It is widely acknowledged by experts that the U.S. and Western sanctions on Russia, combined with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and blockade of Black Sea ports, have contributed to global inflation and exacerbated food shortages, primarily through disruptions in global commodity markets. 

 Russia is a major global exporter of key commodities, including oil, natural gas, wheat, and fertilizer. Sanctions and the war have disrupted the supply of these goods, leading to price spikes in global markets.

Inflationary Pressure: The rising costs of energy and agricultural products have been passed on to consumers worldwide, contributing to general inflation in the U.S. and beyond. This has compounded pre-existing inflationary pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic, such as supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages.

 Sanctions, coupled with the physical destruction of Ukrainian agricultural infrastructure and the blocking of its ports by Russia, have threatened global food security. The UN has warned that the number of undernourished people globally could increase due to these disruptions.

Lopsided..

 

For nearly two decades, esteemed economist Nouriel Roubini has worn the nickname “Dr. Doom” with honor. He earned it in the mid-2000s for warning of a housing crash that Wall Street dismissed, until he was proven catastrophically right.

In a new essay for the Financial Times, the economist argues that the conventional view—that America’s “Liberation Day” tariffs would trigger stagflation, tank the stock market, kneecap the dollar, and end U.S. exceptionalism—is simply wrong. 

Instead, he sees something close to the opposite: a short period of cooling growth, followed by a powerful rebound led by technology and capital spending that keeps the U.S. firmly in the top spot.

The now common view that the U.S. stock market is in a massive bubble and bound to crash is incorrect over the medium term,” he wrote. 

On the other hand, what he predicted isn’t necessarily the rosiest. 

The near-term picture looks like a “growth recession,’ he said, meaning slower, below-potential GDP. It’s not the hard landing or 1970s-style stagflation many have predicted, and it isn’t a bubble popping, but it’s a lopsided economy, as many Wall Street analysts have also noticed.   Just a thought.

Fraud..

 

They’ve made grave errors.

The Social Security Administration must do more to prevent benefit checks from going to dead people and Congress should step up to pass safeguards to protect taxpayer dollars from fraud, according to one GOP senator known for cracking down on pork barrel spending.

Ernst cited examples where authorities eventually discovered that dead people were still getting checks, which were often taken by their relatives.

In one instance, Canadian national Ellis Kingsep allegedly cashed in some $420,000 worth of checks for his mom between 1995 and 2023, when she would’ve been 103 years old. The feds later caught Kingsep with books on how to make fake IDS and photocopies of his mother’s signature.

Vetted..

The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guardsmen just blocks from the White House on the day before Thanksgiving served in an elite CIA counterterrorism unit in Afghanistan, according to new details that emerged Thursday about the suspect’s background.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal

 entered the U.S. legally in 2021 under humanitarian parole as part of the Biden administration's Operation Allies Welcome that followed the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover of the country. 

The operation aimed to support and resettle vulnerable Afghans, including those that had helped U.S. troops in the past.

 The shooting is an example of what happens "in this country when people are allowed in who are not properly vetted." 

The Biden administration allowed "thousands of people into this country without doing a single piece of background checking or vetting."

Net-Fkix..

 

Convict..

 

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has picked a controversial rapper who did seven years in state prison for armed robbery to advise him on the criminal justice system, The Post has learned.

Mysonne Linen, 49, a Bronx convict-turned-activist who was found guilty of two felony heists in the late 1990s, was appointed by the democratic socialist to sit on his mayoral transition’s “criminal legal system” committee — just one of many questionable picks.

According to officials at the state Department of Correction and Community Renewal, Linen was hit with a sentence of seven to 14 years and was sprung on parole on July 5, 2006.

Comment:

The coming 4 years will be a great watch. Just a thought.

Memba?..

 

After the U.S. Congress voted to release all of the files connected to the late, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's case in late 2025, social media users began recirculating a painting of former President Bill Clinton purportedly found in the financier's New York City apartment.

The painting is authentic — as in, Australian-American artist Petrina Ryan-Kield genuinely created it using oil on canvas, not with artificial intelligence or photo editing tools. As of this writing, prints of the painting, titled "Parsing Bill," were available to purchase from the prominent online art gallery Saatchi.  

Ryan-Kield reportedly told Artnet News that Clinton's attire in the painting is a reference to Monica Lewinsky's blue dress, a central part of the media circus around his affair with his former intern, who later became an anti-cyberbullying activist. According to ArtNet, Ryan-Kield said the painting, as part of a series of work she made, was supposed to be about "how opposition parties caricature presidents."

Fak..It..

 

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville argued on Friday that the changing economy has left young people behind, and that Democrats must ditch radical cultural agendas to win their support.

Commentators on both the left and right have warned that there is an affordability crisis as young people struggle to join the middle class and obtain the same lifestyle previous generations did. 

Housing prices continue to climb, while employers in key industries rely more heavily on foreign H-1B visa workers, contributing to tougher competition even for entry-level jobs.

Carville then called out Democrats, saying they must stop getting distracted by unpopular culture-war issues and refocus.

"I think the Democrats, as I've pointed out in the piece, it is quit f---ing around with all this cultural stuff and start talking about people's wages, start talking about what we can do to protect people who are trying to make it, and particularly young people," he said,  

Comment:

What happened to Protecting Democracy?     Just a thought.

Citizenship..

 

Immigrants from Haiti, Venezuela, and several other countries were pulled from a naturalization ceremony at the last minute as they prepared to take the oath of allegiance and become U.S. citizens. The incident occurred on Thursday at historic Faneuil Hall in Boston, where several hundred candidates had gathered for what was meant to be a celebratory milestone.

The Trump administration recently established a list of 19 countries deemed “high risk.” The list includes Haiti, Venezuela, several African nations, and several countries in the Middle East and Asia. Nationals of these countries now undergo additional vetting—even at the final step of the naturalization process. According to immigrant rights groups, applying this scrutiny at the moment of the ceremony is a major departure from long-standing USCIS practice. 

The oath ceremony traditionally serves as a formal confirmation, not an additional screening phase. All the candidates who were removed had already met all legal requirements. Their sudden exclusion, based solely on national origin, raises important legal questions.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren denounced the practice. This is outrageous and un-American.

Comment:

Not sure anymore what is Un-American on proper vetting. Just a thought.

MacK..

 

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $7.2 billion this year in her biggest ever giving announcement. 

The gifts bring her total philanthropy to $26 billion over the past half decade. 

Scott, 55, who was married to Amazon.com Inc. co-founder Jeff Bezos until 2019, made the latest contributions to 186 organizations around the world, including universities, environmental nonprofits and groups fighting for equality.

Scott’s net worth stands at almost $40 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, largely stemming from her stake in Amazon. Earlier this year, a filing showed that she had reduced her holding in the online retailer by $12.6 billion. 

Since her split from Bezos, Scott has become one of the most prolific philanthropists in history. Her giving is characterized by large gifts to small or otherwise overlooked nonprofits. Unlike some other billionaire donors, her donations come with few strings attached, giving recipients the chance to use the money as they see fit.

 Just a thought.

Feel Good..

Physical activity stimulates the production of endorphins, the brain's natural mood

Exercise helps manage tension and depression through several key mechanisms: 

Releases "Feel-Good" Chemicals: Physical activity stimulates the production of endorphins, the brain's natural mood elevators and painkillers. It also increases levels of other neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, which are often diminished in people with depression.

Regular exercise helps modulate the body's stress response system (the HPA axis), leading to lower levels of stress hormones like cortisol.

 Exercise supports neuroplasticity by increasing the birth of new neurons and the growth of new connections in brain regions associated with mood and memory, such as the hippocampus.

 Exercise offers a break from the cycle of negative thoughts and rumination that feeds depression and anxiety, acting as a form of "meditation in motion".

 Setting and achieving fitness goals can provide a sense of accomplishment and self-efficacy, which improves self-worth. Group exercises also offer social interaction, combating feelings of isolation.

 

Exercise helps regulate sleep patterns and quality, which are often disrupted by tension and depression. 

Any amount of physical activity is better than none, but specific guidelines exist for optimal benefits: