Author: Tom Faranda
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Rand Paul’s son in drunken altercation with Rep. Mike Lawler
Numerous witnesses as William Paul starts a drunken tirade. He says some pretty vile stuff. Lawler is my congressman. Here is an apology from Wiliam –
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WSJ: China thinking they are on the rise and USA sinking?
Maybe not. Xi Jinping likes the Greek analogy because he thinks China is the rising power and the U.S. in decline. He might think twice about that. “His real point was warning Mr. Trump not to risk a war by interfering with China’s designs to retake Taiwan—by force if necessary.” ************** Thucydides was the great…
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Saturday wordle – another miss!
Double rats. Having failed on Thursday – now two misses in three days.
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The Preakness – official cocktail!
The 2nd leg of the Triple Crown is this evening at 7PM. There is an official cocktail – called the Black-eyed Susan. Of course there are numerous renditions of the cocktail and three are in the video below. I will put the “official” official Pimlico Cocktail (thank you Gemini AI…) below and it’s the one…
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Friday (cocktail?) IPA – Fiddlehead!
A detour from a cocktail (very rare!) This brought on by a trip to Vermont this past week – no cocktails but Fiddlehead IPA (stands for India Pale Ale, originally brewed in Britain and exported to India “with high hop content and alcohol levels acting as preservatives to survive the long hot voyage from Britain”)…
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Thursday wordle: Rats! A miss…
Going for my 70th in a row, approaching my all time 77 in a row record. So it’s back to square one. Sour misfortune as I was of to a good start. Correct answer – WAVER
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Two miracles attributed to Lebanese Saint Charbel this year.
One in South Bend, Indiana and one in Lebanon. Pope Leo visited his tomb on his visit to Lebanon. Hit the link for the full story. St. Charbel was a 19th century Maronite Catholic monk and priest renowned for his austerity, unceasing prayer, heroic virtue, but particularly numerous miracles attributed to his intercession during his…
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Bono (founder of rock band U2) on Jesus
The interviewer can’t believe it… Bono is a nondenominational Christian. Married when he was 22 and has only had one wife!!