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Not What I Voted For
Great words from EE
First, prayers for President Joe Biden. In a statement yesterday, the former President announced he has prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bone. Keep him in your prayers. Should he attempt treatment, instead of palliative care, it would be an ordeal for anyone, particularly an 82-year-old. One does not just get prostate cancer that metastases to the bone and the President of the United States, whose health is routinely monitored, certainly does not. It is extremely unlikely that between January 20, 2025, and now, President Biden suddenly developed an extremely aggressive cancer. It certainly calls into question this from 2022:  The lack of truthfulness about President Biden's condition extended to more than just his cognitive decline and raises even more alarming questions about his wife, family, and close team encouraging him to run for re-election. All that, however, should not distract from a focus on praying for the man. But those prayers should not give way to the latest Democrat talking point, which is that the news of Biden's cancer means we should stop talking about the cover-up. If anything, the American press corps, which was completely complicit in the cover-up, now has license to say they were kept in the dark on this serious matter and the press should seize on this for more coverage of the cover-up and who was involved. President Biden has opened the door for the press to never have to say sorry because of the amount of zealous coverage this portion of the cover up could create — a portion where the press could, with a straight face, say they were not complicit in the cover up. The President's own doctor certified in the past year that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the man. Again, the idea that Biden's cancer is so rare it went from not registering on the common prostate cancer blood test to reaching his bones in a few months is all but impossible. Likewise, given the rest of the cover-up, we cannot trust what we are being told now. The odds are very likely Biden has known for some time he had cancer and Jill and Joe Biden conspired with others to keep it a secret to push him into a re-election bid he was not mentally fit, nor physically fit, to win. This diagnosis raises many more questions than those we were first contending with. I will not be surprised, however, if the press yet again collaborates with the Democrats and moves on in the name of compassion and "old news." The difference between the Christian and the pagan in politics on the right is on full display during times like these. The Christian announces he will pray for the President. The pagan declares the President did bad things the pagan hates, so he will not waste time being kind in return. The post-Christian will announce he will pray, but only in select ways that make the post-Christian feel committed to the commandment to love one's enemies and pray for them, without actually fulfilling what the scripture actually means. In eternity, the pagan will wind up in a more comfortable place than the post-Christian. Second, there are lots of things about the Trump Administration I appreciate and many policies I am glad to see. But the President of the United States attacking Walmart for raising prices in response to tariffs is no better than and no different than Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the progressive left attacking businesses for raising prices due to inflation. They lied about "shrinkflation" and "greedflation." President Trump is no better than them and engaged in socialist bullying of the private sector attempting to respond to the logical, obvious, and predictable fallout of his failed tariff policies. Walmart, despite the hype of billions in revenue, only makes a 3% profit. Absorbing the cost of tariffs on a 3% profit would harm shareholders, employees, retirement plans, etc. The President and his team attacked and threatened Amazon for a rumor they would show a line item in items documenting the tariff cost. Walmart is not going to do that but merely will raise prices to deal with the increasing prices of goods it purchases. Still, this Administration is engaged in bullying and threats. It is an unacceptably socialist response from the President of the United States. He enacted the tariffs. He should own the consequences that every person with common sense said would happen. He, after all, told us there'd be short-term pain for long-term gain and told us to sacrifice. The pain is here and he'd prefer no one talk about it. It is sad and damning that we pivoted from the high prices of Bidenomics to the high prices of Trumponomics. The sooner the President abandons the failures of 19th-century mercantilism, the sooner the nation's economy will recover and the fortunes of the GOP will rebound.
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Wisconsin Judge Pleads Not Guilty To Helping A Man Evade Federal Immigration Agents | HuffPost Latest News
Of course she's not guilty! She's standing up for illegal people being kept in America... oh, wait... illegal... words are inconvenient...
Wrong Prediction
Apocalyptic Predictions About Trump's Trade Wars Never Came True. Here's Why.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/apocalyptic-predictions-about-trumps-trade-wars-never-came-true-heres-why
https://www.dailywire.com/news/apocalyptic-predictions-about-trumps-trade-wars-never-came-true-heres-why
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Keni Richards was Murdered
This story was published 8 years ago and it was how I learned that the drummer for Autograph, whose most popular tune was called Turn up the Radio, (released on September 27, 1984) was actually murdered. I was really sad when I read about his death. No, of course, I didn't know him or anything like that. I was sad when I read the final paragraphs of the story:
So, here's the tune that I first heard with Keni Richards' drumming.
Keni was a great guy. He was dealing with depression. He was going to come out here and move, and you know, this happened and there are no answers. Keni wanted me to post something on Facebook and I never did. He wanted to know if the fans really cared about him and loved him. He said that he didn’t really think that he made a difference in people’s lives. He was struggling with that and wanted me to find out how many people really cared about him and what he meant to them. He shared with me some great stories about the Motley Crue tour and David Lee Roth, and you know, he had done a lot of things after Autograph. I miss my friend all the time. I have so many messages [from him that] I still listen to today. I pray every day that they will find the people who did this. He was doing a painting for me before this happened. Miss you Keni! R.I.P. my friend. Much love to you and your family.”
So, here's the tune that I first heard with Keni Richards' drumming.
But here's the deal. While that tune is the one that everyone knows, the best tune on their debut album Sign in Please is called My Girlfriend's Boyfriend Isn't Me. There's something about the title of this tune, the actual guitars and drums of this tune, and, of course, the lyrics of this tune that make it an absolute gem. It is track 6 on the album which, on a cassette tape, probably meant it would be the first tune on Side B. I will never forget what I felt when I saw him playing drums for the first time. He had a double bass set with only one tom between the bass drums - I couldn't see how many floor toms he had but I always assumed there were at least 2 floor toms. It was a radical idea, in 1984-ish, to only have a single rack tom and it made his set unique from, say, Tommy Lee in Motley Crue. His set during the Shout at the Devil era (that album was released on September 23, 1983) was a double bass, but with two rack toms with his two bass drums and had been released nearly a year earlier than Autograph's debut album.
Here's the link to the article: https://sleazeroxx.com/ex-autograph-drummer-keni-richards-murdered-homicide-investigation-pending/ - Ex-Autograph drummer Keni Richards murdered — homicide investigation pending - Sleaze Roxx
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