And Another One Misses the Shot

by on September 17, 2024 at 12:01 am
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So we had another assassination attempt on Trump. They couldn’t put him in jail with lawfare, they couldn’t kick him off the ballot, so now they try to take him out the old fashioned way. And unlike the 20 year old kid with no social media history and only encrypted communications, this nearly 60 year old has been telling people what he thinks for years on social media, in interviews, and other outlets. He appears to have recruited soldiers to fight in Ukraine, and wrote a book saying Iran had his permission to assassinate Trump. He has a Harris bumper sticker, and otherwise appears to be your standard Left Wing Democrat bomb thrower. And on the other side we have the secret service agent who walked forward to scan the next hole before Trump arrived. He saw the barrel of a long gun pointing through the fence, pulled out his handgun, and went rock and roll on the bad guy. It took some serious balls to do that. My hat’s off to that agent. He did good.

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Here We Go Again

by on September 16, 2024 at 12:01 am
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Here we go again with another assassination attempt. It seems the guy decided to camp out on the edge of the golf course at Mar-a-Lago, in some shrubbery, surrounded by some friends. Backpacks with ceramic armor. Some nice friends with barrels. One nice one with a scope that is really good for long range fun. And nobody stopped him. Nobody realized this guy was there, camped out for half a day, before a round of golf that was not on President Trump’s public itinerary. A member of his close in support team patrolled ahead of Trump to make sure the next hole was secure, and he noticed a barrel sticking out of the shrubbery. That’s how close we were to someone assassinating Trump. One eagle-eyed member of the secret service patrolling ahead of the group saw something that shouldn’t be there and went rock and roll on the bad guy. We’ve already had First Assassination. Now we’ve had Second Assassination. How many times makes it enemy action again?

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Another Attempt

by on September 15, 2024 at 3:10 pm
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It appears someone made another attempt to shoot President Trump. Someone else managed to get a long gun with a lot of bullets into within a couple football fields of Trump and fired rounds. And if early reports are accurate, the individual was trying to shoot Trump. How many times are the secret service going to let this happen? This is beyond ridiculous.

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Computers and Economics

by on September 14, 2024 at 12:01 am
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Computers are a quantum leap in our economic capability. Computers make it easier and quicker to write stories for authors, to do accounting for businesses, to calculate orders and final bills in EVERY business, artists use computers to save their art and transmit it to the web, and there are a host of other uses. Almost every business in the world has at least one desktop or laptop computer where they do their accounting. But access to a computer at home has never been total. It peaked at around 90% back in the teens and has dropped back down to around 80% in the 20s because some people only have phones now. And the increase in remote learning only schools in the last 4 years means that many students don’t even have access to what became a hallmark of American schools in the 90s. The computer lab. A significant number of students graduating from high school this year did not know how to use a computer. Had never used a computer. Had to be trained how to use a mouse and keyboard, how to start a program in windows, and a host of other things every single student learned in the past. I find that terrifying. I don’t think any of us realize the effect that is going to have on our economy moving forward.

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Never Forget

by on September 13, 2024 at 12:01 am
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Never forget what happened two months ago. A decade of hate and intolerance from the Left, of mock assassinations of Donald Trump, and attacks and sometimes killings of conservatives who dared to go to rallies or protests resulted in a kid shooting Donald Trump at a rally. A kid with no social media presence. A kid with multiple encrypted communications systems. A kid with explosives in his car. A kid who got onto a roof a hundred yards from the stage that nobody secured. Do we know why any of this is true? Who has been fired for allowing this to happen? We must demand justice. Never Forget what happened two months ago.

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