Random thoughts
Travis Hunter, the Heisman Trophy winner, had a 4.0 GPA last semester at Colorado majoring in anthropology. His overall GPA is 3.75. He was named to the Academic All American squad and joins Tim Tebow as the only Heisman winners that are academic all Americans. Why isn’t this well known? One would think it would be headline news. But no there is more coverage on Hunter’s girlfriend than on his academic prowess. Hunter is from Swanee, GA.
Trudeau admonished Americans for having “voted for a second time not electing its first woman president.” So Canada must have had a lot of women prime ministers, right? No they have had only one. Kim Campbell was prime minister from June to November 1993. Earth to Trudeau: shut up.
Trump wants the debt ceiling raised. How does that square with the Department of Government Efficiency’s task of reducing spending?
Have you seen all the howling on the left about “President Musk”? I haven’t heard them complain about all the faceless “presidents” who have been running the country for the last four years.
Tom Cotton called Biden an “addled, demented old man.” Well that addled, demented old man is still in charge. That addled, demented old man just commuted over 1,500 sentences and took 37 prisoners off of death row in federal prisons. Who picked these folks for the “president” to commute? Surely not the addled, demented old man that is president. There has been an uproar mainly from the victims and their families and from the right. Most notably Josh Shapiro was critical of one release. I have heard nothing from Kamala Harris or Tim Walz or Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries. Also I have not seen criticism from CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times or the Washington Post.
Although there was much hue and cry over the commuting of the death sentences, two of the inmates have been on death row 31 years. Commuting their sentences from death to life in prison seems redundant.
Trump wants to take back the Panama Canal. He says that Panama is ripping us off with the fees charged to go through the canal. Trump says we built it, we operated it and then Jimmy Carter gave it away. He wants it back. Of course the Panamanian president say “No way” and Trump responded “We’ll see about that!” Stay tuned. I’m waiting for Trump to slap a 25% tariff on the whopping $152 million in goods imported from Panama if they don’t give back the canal.
Trump has also wants to annex Greenland which is administered by Denmark. Greenland is closer to the United States than to Denmark but Alaska is closer to Siberia than it is to the lower 48. Does this mean we are to cede Alaska to Siberia? Greenland does have a US Air Force base but so does Germany. Maybe we ought to annex Germany. Obviously, guarding against an invasion, Denmark has responded by increasing the defense funding for Greenland. It added two more dog sled teams to their defenses. I am now waiting on a 25% tariff on Denmark’s exports to the United States. Carlsberg beer anyone?
Speaking of Panama, I was once at lunch with a friend who is a well known professor. He started talking fluent Spanish with the waiter and I asked him where did he learn his Spanish. He said that the relevant question was where did he learn his English. He had a fairly common American name but he said he was Panamanian! I thought he was from Chicago. Not a trace of a Spanish accent. It turns out that his grandfather went to work on the canal in 1906 and never returned to the states. There were thousands of other American blacks who went to Panama. Some returned while many stayed. The same is true for the 45,000 Barbadians who also arrived between 1904 -1916 to build the canal. My professor friend said that the Americans set up schools in which the instruction was in English, maintained their social clubs and churches. Who knew? So maybe Trump can seize the canal by invading Panama to unite the Panamanian brothers with their kin on the mainland. Isn’t that the excuse Putin gave to invade Ukraine?
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