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Ken Burns usually takes the high road...not today. Trump is the opioid of all opioids

I can remember when the Virginia Community College system charged next to nothing for tuition. Looked at the cost for the one in Richmond the other day, nearly $15 thousand not including materials. My wife was part of the first Co-Ed class at UVa in 1972, All in including room and meals was about $5. She did go on a full ride. My son graduated from Milwaukee School of Engineering in 1995 or so. Total yearly tuition was just shy of $10 Thousand including room and meals. Now it's running just short of $50 thousand a year. Thank goodness we had CBS radio stock options back then were running about $65 a share. I just checked on Parent Company Audicy...10 cents a share... That's what the free market gives you

Private Spurheels and his sons who haven't worked a single day of their entitled lives. Throw in the Russian Spy third wife. What exactly have they sacrificed? Nobody asked them for anything. It's been 8 years of revenge against a silly Obama joke

They held onto Jim Price well past his sell by date. Gibby deserves the same benefit

https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/judge-outlines-mar-a-lago-shell-game-classified?r=45wcm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email Very damning…. THIS WEEK’S MOST IMPORTANT NEWS is barely making headlines: On Tuesday, it was revealed that a federal judge found over a year ago that there is sufficient evidence, if believed by a jury, to find that Donald J. Trump committed numerous federal crimes in connection with his alleged theft of classified documents and obstruction of the FBI’s attempts to get them back. Meanwhile, a second federal judge is dragging her feet getting that case past “Go,” let alone ready for trial before the November election. The second judge is Aileen Cannon, who on Wednesday held hearings on two of the many motions sitting on her docket in Florida. The indictment originally came down nearly a year ago, on June 8, 2023, and trial was supposed to start this week, on May 20, 2024, but Cannon has—indefensibly—delayed it indefinitely. This week’s hearings dealt with Trump’s rather silly “Motion to Dismiss the Indictment Based on Selective and Vindictive Prosecution,” which Cannon tabled, again, for now. She also considered co-defendant Waltine Nauta’s motion to dismiss the charges against him on the theory that the government did not specifically allege that Nauta—who was caught on camera moving boxes out of a Mar-a-Lago storage room to Trump’s personal quarters in the days following Trump’s receipt of a federal subpoena—actually “knew that there were classified documents on premises.” The first motion is classic Trumpian bravado, and the second raises a factual question for the jury. Both motions should fail, but that’s not the point. The point for Trump and his co-defendants is to file whatever lawyers can dream up, even if it’s legally garbage, in order to give Cannon more reason to delay the trial further in the hopes that, if Trump wins (or steals) the election in November, he’ll call off the whole prosecution. Share Read the whole thing

It's a bit like the college loan argument. As a boomer I could pay off that loan in a couple of years on a job making about $3,000 a year (early to mid 70's). I could also find a decent apartment for under $200 a month, my car cost me around $2000 new. If I took a part time job, my second employer would try to accommodate my schedule, and I knew in advance if there needed to be any changes. I'm not sure that happens for kids or older adults anymore

Somewhat related to the perceived economy thoughts about the election is this NYT story. It does seem to make sense about the "Peak Millennials" those born around 1990-91. That group reached college age 2008-09 just about the time of the Bush housing crash coupled with a major upswing in college enrollments (thanks to late blooming boomers) and rising student debt. Many of them became eligible to purchase homes around 2020-21 as prices skyrocketed thanks to low interest and the pandemic. From the story https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/business/economy/33-year-olds-millennials.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU0.oxHI.R6Fax_wnGfX6&smid=url-share Basically, I'm wondering how many of that age bracket are the ones that feel whatever economic pinch there is perceived to be. How many have become agnostic to the campaigns believing that whomever gets elected is going to do a ****ty job. Or in other words "A pox on both houses"

This...

Also wages. Just a reminder under Trump last time the rich got rich and the poor poorer.

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Are any of the top 10 picks in the 2020 draft having decent MLB seasons. If anyone of you had to redo the draft, who is your choice

I long for the days when all we had to worry about was the Trilateral Commission

I'm confused, didn't these people just recently argue in front of the Supreme Court that the President had unlimited immunity, and Trump was indeed allowed to use that power when he was in office?

That drive wouldn’t be so bad if Ohio wasn’t in the way. Me every time I make the trip from Detroit to Roanoke, Va

Some good stuff from JVL especially on the Fortson killing https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-killing-of-roger-fortson?utm_source=substack&publication_id=87281&post_id=144801506&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=45wcm&triedRedirect=true Notable quotes

TBH it seems the phrase was in circulation at least since the Civil War, both Confederate and Union Troops used the phrase. So I really can't blame the elder Graham solely responsible for convincing Pres Eisenhower and Congress. I do hold Franklin on the same evangelistic level as the Falwell family, Pat Robertson and Oral Roberts.

Thanks to evangelist Billy Graham

When you work for a dishonest guy... it was a commission...

It was only about 250 years ago that the Royal Governor of the Virginia Colony dissolved the House of Burgess for declaring a day of prayer in support of the Massachusetts Colony. "Only the King (or his designated representative) has the power to declare a day of prayer"

We were in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago and happened to drive past the old Tropicana Hotel. Site of the proposed ballpark for the Philadelphia/Kansas City/Oakland Athletics. What a horrible location. Just something else to clog traffic on the strip during game nights. Especially since there seems to be vacant property not far off the strip that may have room for ample parking unlike the Tropicana site. Do they really expect tourists to attend games, especially in the hot Vegas Summer months?