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Monday, December 15, 2025

How True was this Article for 2025?

As I write this post on Monday, 12-16-2024, I presume that Future prhmusic will still follow the pro wrestling companies WWE and, to a much lesser extent, AEW, which is why I am future dating this post for a year from now to check in on how correct this article with predictions about who the top WWE and AEW superstars will be.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10146943-early-projections-on-who-will-be-wwe-and-aews-top-stars-of-2025 - Early Projections on Who Will Be WWE and AEW's Top Stars of 2025

For the record, prior to posting this article, I have 787 posts tagged with "pro wrestling" and 660 posts tagged with "WWE."
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I anticipate that by 12-15-2025, I will have ... oh, let's say 900 posts tagged with "Pro Wrestling" and 800 posts tagged with "WWE." See? I can make predictions as well!

Monday, February 21, 2022

What's happening today?

Back on 2/22/2021, I had my second vaccine shot scheduled for Sunday, 2/28/2021 at 2 PM at UIHC. Also, on that same day, when Luka Garza became the all-time leading scorer on the Iowa Hawkeye basketball team, this article was published in which Dr. Anthony Fauci declared that it is possible that people will be wearing a mask up to a year from 2-21-2021 - refresh your memory, if you want: Dr. Anthony Fauci talks about wearing a mask in the future. I plan to remember this post prior to its automatic publish on 2/22/2022 so that I may update it with what is actually happening in February 2022:
Update on 2-21-2022: Yes, we are all wearing masks.

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

This is a Snapshot

As I begin the next 10,000 posts on this blog, I want to capture what is a hot issue today, Tuesday, August 3, 2021: COVID-19. My sincere hope that if it takes 13 years (4748 days) to write the next 10,000 posts, it will be, roughly, Thursday, August 3, 2034. God-willing, I will still be able to write words on a blog when I am 64 years, 7 months, 4 weeks, 2 days (23618 days) old. Outside of my own life, and presuming that the 'every 4 years' pattern for electing a president will not change, American will be in the middle of the term of the third president after Joe Biden. Today, in 2021, my sincere prayer is that COVID-19 is like the other viruses Americans have dealt with over the years. Against Masking, which I am including below in case that is a broken link:

I was reasonable when COVID came out. I masked up and encouraged others to mask up. The virus was new, there was much we didn’t know, and there was a lot of data that showed if an infected person put on a mask, it could help at the margins to reduce the spread of COVID. At a time hospitals were filling up, we needed to improve the margins. It should be noted that part of the issue as well was we discovered asymptomatic people could spread COVID and not know they were infected. So if everybody put on a mask, we could reduce the numbers to keep hospitals overflowing.

A lot of people still argue with all of that and dispute it despite a mass of data. In fact, I await the people in the comments bickering over it. They can’t let it go. But now there is a vaccine and public health officials cannot let go of masks.

Here’s what we know now too.

Overwhelmingly, infections spread at small events where people were naturally not masking — gatherings in homes and small parties. And out in the wild, half the people never wore their masks properly.

The solution here in 2021 is not more masking, but vaccines and amazingly 168 million Americans are vaccinated.

It is now the choice of others. Governments should not impose mask mandates anymore. Schools should drop the mask demands. Even with the Delta variant, teenagers are not vectors for spreading COVID.

On top of that, it turns out the panic from the CDC that got cities across America to reimpose mask mandates turns out to be highly misguided. It turns out the data from Provincetown, MA is strikingly good for vaccinated Americans. The CDC overreacted. This piece has been endorsed by lots of major, reputable members of the medical community who take COVID seriously.

There were 60,000 visitors to Provincetown during the period in question. That would translate to 57,000 vaccinated folks and 3,000 unvaccinated folks.

How many tested positive for Covid? Current reports say about 750 vaccinated folks and 250 unvaccinated.

This means that 750/57000 vaccinated folks tested positive, or 1.3%. 250/3000 unvaccinated folks tested positive, or 8.3%. Being vaccinated gave you a more than 6-fold protection against Covid than being unvaccinated. This is similar to the protection figures published in the early spring of 2021, before the Delta variant had any impact in this country.

What about the hospitalizations? 6 vaccinated cases were hospitalized, out of 950 cases. That’s 0.6% of cases. Historically, 5% of Covid cases have resulted in hospitalization in the US. That’s a nine-fold improvement!

It’s worth also noting the author adds this data point about the CDC report:

This is a report from a period of time when 60,000 mostly gay men descended on a resort town to pack themselves into poorly-ventilated bars and clubs every day for several days. Virtually no one was wearing a face mask. A couple of clubs were requiring proof of vaccination for entry, but most were not. It rained a lot those two weeks, driving the hordes indoors even more than usual. How do I know all this? I was there! (I spent 99% of my public time outdoors, and wore a mask the few times I had to go indoors.)

For more perspective, consider this synopsis of the data from The Dispatch focusing on the fear porn headlines in the press of 125,000 vaccinated Americans getting COVID.

Let’s start with the 125,000 figure. What’s conveniently missing from that tweet-length snippet is a denominator: the total number of Americans who are fully vaccinated. According to the CDC, it’s currently 164,757,423. NBC’s tally of so-called “breakthrough cases” is likely an undercount, both because a few states didn’t provide updated data and some vaccinated people have likely been infected with COVID without being tested because they experienced no symptoms. But if we use their 125,000 figure as a baseline, that would mean 0.076 percent of fully vaccinated Americans (or 1 in 1,316) have experienced a breakthrough infection. As of July 26, per CDC data, 6,239 fully vaccinated Americans (0.004 percent) have been hospitalized with COVID-19, and 1,263 fully vaccinated Americans (0.001 percent) have died from it. 

Friends, mask mandates and muddled messages just take away incentives to get vaccinated.

The data does not bear out that schools need mask mandates. The data does not bear out that mask mandates are needed across the country. Republican leaders should lead on this issue.

At this point, the burden is on the unvaccinated. They have made a choice for various reasons from natural immunity due to previous infection to religious objections to whatever. It does not matter. It should not matter. What matters is masking up again is nonsensical based on overhyped data distorted by the American press.

Go live your life, folks. Get the vaccine or not, folks. And stand up against nanny state masking demands.


Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Received This Yesterday

This came to my Inbox yesterday and I thought it was worth sharing. I vaguely remember this being mentioned at this time in 2020, but freely admit that I don't think I knew about it in 2019 or earlier in my life. 

I didn't realize that, in 1921 that there were "private aircraft" available in 1921. Interesting to think about.


When was the first air attack on American soil? 9/11? Where was the worst race riot in American History? Watts? Detroit? Newark?

Answer to all…..TULSA 1921….history books might omit this but society should never forget.

[snip] May 31-June 1 marks 100 years since the thriving Tulsa community of Black Wall Street was burned down and many of its residents were killed in what became known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. The Tulsa race massacre (known alternatively as the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, the Black Wall Street Massacre, the Tulsa pogrom, or the Tulsa Massacre) took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has been called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history". The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district—at that time the wealthiest Black community in the United States, known as "Black Wall Street”. To learn more please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA8t8PW-OkA or https://vimeo.com/504899928

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Words to Ponder

Today's Erick Erickson column is stellar:
You either forgive or you do not. If you forgive, you move on. Clinging to the hurt, the anger, the rage, or the tribal perception of infidelity may make one feel powerful, in control, or protected, but it is actually signaling a desire to not be Christ like. It is a desire for more than Christ allows for those who chose to become Christ like. Forgiveness is essential in politics, religion, and life. Forgiveness does not mean many things. But it does mean forgiveness and that, in turn, means one must choose to move on and not linger. Christ Jesus, after moving on from forgiving, no longer lingered on the cross, but died and conquered death. For too many, lingering and refusing to forgive makes us feel alive and powerful. But we have to die to sleights and rage to fully live as we are meant by Christ to live.

Source: To A Conscience Pricked More Than Christ's On the Cross