Ben Sasse, who I liked … a lot. Very solid, principled man who tangled with Trump. He is 53 and has stage 4 pancreatic cancer Ben Sasse, a Republican former senator from Nebraska and a former president of the University of Florida, announced on Tuesday that he had received a diagnosis of terminal Stage 4 … Read more
Hahaha. Trump manages to top this posting from yesterday – “7 Other Things Trump Is Naming After Himself “ The new vessels, which the president calls battleships, will be latest in what the White House envisions as a ‘Golden Fleet’ “We’re desperately in need of ships,” Trump said. “Some of them have gotten old and … Read more
Kevin Hassett (who I like) interviewed on CBS. Trump bamboozles the Democrats again – like with no taxes on tips who is going to vote against a reimbursement or rebate to non- high income earners with money from the tariffs? And according to Hassett (see below) the budget deficit is dropping. Director of the National … Read more
Even though I can’t stand all the coverage of Jeffrey Epstein – he’s dead, who cares – of course it’s politically motivated to find dirt on Trump – this article on his early years is amazing. A huge amount of digging went into it by the Times reporters. It is a long feature to read … Read more
If you want top quality healthcare – you can’t get it without someone paying – a lot. The cost goes up every year as more and more procedures and meds are developed. And professional staff is expensive – I have a young ICU nurse client in a major Westchester hospital. Not counting benefits her salary … Read more
Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years there have been many periodic climate crises – some of them literally threatening the destruction of humanity – but none of them due to human activity. We know that there was a climate change so rapid and dramatic about 62,000 years ago, that nothing grandparents could teach … Read more
The sort of thing Trump would do…? This is almost funny. The former president finds a new way to honor himself. Nobody runs for president without a robust ego, and winning two elections for the nation’s highest office is unlikely to lower anyone’s self-regard. Still, it takes a special kind of nerve to bulldoze local … Read more
These videos are triggered by the fact that the current CEO of Walmart (who started stocking shelves in 1983) is retiring after a successful 11 year run. Walmart takes care of their employees and they are very loyal. That’s the first video – 7 minutes long. The second is how the Founder Sam Walton’s three … Read more
And has doubled the S & P over past five years. It’s all about AI and quantum computing.
Karp (I love the guy) defends Palantir and their government contracts and their support for Ukraine and Israel. His rapid fire speechifying goes for less then 4 minutes. Below the video is a simplified explanation of what Palantir does. The explanation of Palantir’s mission is from Perplexity AI. The question I asked perplexity is in … Read more