Odds and Ends — 9 May 2022
I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter, but I’m wondering if #startdrinkingearly is trending there. I’ve recently seen quite a bit of remarkably bad morning-time driving.
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:
Quelle surprise: Central African banks scold the CAR for Bitcoin adoption
There’s no such thing as a free lunch says hello.
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Excess Death Rates Ran 21x Higher in Reddest Counties
For the full year 2021, official Covid deaths ran more than three times higher in the reddest tenth of the U.S. than the bluest. This is something I’ve been tracking and writing about for nearly a year now, so while it’s pretty dramatic, it’s nothing new.
What is new is the ‘other’ excess deaths in 2021: They ran a jaw-dropping twenty-one times higher in the reddest decile than the bluest… nearly 50 per 100K residents vs. only ~2.3 per 100K.
Bartiromo Says Democrats Are Inventing New Variant
Politics:
If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet will tell you that Mother’s Day began in 1908 when Anna Jarvis decided to honor her mother. But Mothers’ Day—with the apostrophe not in the singular spot, but in the plural—actually started in the 1870s, when the sheer enormity of the death caused by the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War convinced American women that women must take control of politics from the men who had permitted such carnage.
Mothers’ Day was not designed to encourage people to be nice to their mothers. It was part of women’s effort to gain power to change modern society.
Military was told to purge “extremists” after Jan. 6 — so it went after a Black Muslim officer
Trump Claims He No Longer Has Cell Phones
Boating accident?
Russian envoy to Poland hit with red paint at war cemetery
Too bad, so sad.
PRO TIP: If you want to live a peaceful, normal life with no protesters outside your home, don't be a insurrectionist traitor.
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) May 9, 2022
Putin’s ‘Doomsday Plane’ Fails to Make Appearance
Its flyover was much-hyped, but Vladimir Putin’s ‘Doomsday Plane’—a specially equipped jet from which the Russian elite can allegedly run a nuclear war—was conspicuous by its absence at Russia’s Victory Day parade in Moscow on Monday.
It was reported that the flyover of the plane was canceled because of bad weather, however footage showed Moscow enjoying a pleasant and sunny spring day and weather services suggested there was wind of just 3 mph.
Tennessee Criminalizes Mail-In Abortion Drugs
Jake Tapper, after noting that Louisiana and other states are looking at possibly criminalizing IUDs: "I’m not making this up... But just to be clear, you have no intention of seeking to ban IUDs or Plan B?"
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 8, 2022
Tate Reeves: "That is not what we are focused on at this time." pic.twitter.com/YeKipDLFsU
Trump’s latest hate rally: A master class in cult mind control
Colorado Election Officials Adopt Safety Measures
When Josh Zygielbaum left the Marine Corps more than ten years ago, he thought he would never have to wear body armor again.
But now Zygielbaum is back to wearing a bulletproof vest as a Colorado county clerk — one of the many extreme measures he says he’s been forced to take as the state has emerged as a battleground in the shadowy world of election conspiracies.
MN state Rep. Steve Drazkowski (R) argues for abolishing early childhood education:
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) May 9, 2022
"We should let parents raise their kids until they're 5 at least before government comes with a school bus, backs it up to the maternity ward room door and takes them to the government school." pic.twitter.com/qV1abRUnaQ
How the Jan. 6 panel broke through Trump allies’ stonewalling
Serendipity:
Forget 8 Hours – Scientists Discover Ideal Amount of Sleep in Middle and Old Age
Pixabay photo: (source)