| And so goes the Bureau of Labor Statistics and its reliable data: With no basis in fact, Trump charged that Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, “rigged” the data “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” Then he ordered her fired and replaced with someone else — presumably someone whose data Trump will approve of, go figure. What is that famous Republican line? “We have our own reality.” Or some such. Own statistics? One reaction: “This is the act of somebody who is soft, weak and afraid to own up to the reality of the damage his chaos is inflicting on our economy,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement. And, “Bottom line, Trump wants to cook the books,” he said. Another reaction from a former Trumper: Trump’s Former Labor Statistics Chief Says There’s ‘No Way’ Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged.’ William Beach criticized the president for the shock firing of Erika McEntarfer, his successor at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. – Huffpost. ……………………………. Per Huffpost: The last six months of Biden’s presidency saw twice as many jobs added as the first six months of Trump’s second term. – Oh hell, Republicans don’t let facts get in the way. ……………………………… If you have a child who is learning table manners, here is a rhyme to help them remember to pass the salt and pepper at the same time: “Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper always travel round the table together!” ……………………….. Have you heard about the annual pony swim from Chincoteague Island? If this still works, here is video of it from this year, the 100th time this has been done (to thin the herd): https://www.wusa9.com/article/life/animals/wild-ponies-of-chincoteague-make-their-annual-swim-from-assateague-island/65-d79b5eb7-acb0-4c6a-a718-6b1739603662 ………………………………. From CNN: EPA chief defends move to repeal 2009 finding that pollution endangers human health What else? The earth is flat? There were crises actors at Sandy Hook Elementary? Moon landings were faked? …………………………………… Where did the name LEGO come from? Here: The Danish phrase “Leg Godt,” which translates to “play well,” is the origin of this brand’s acronym. …………………………………. President Donald Trump’s recent decision to reinvigorate the federal Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition and reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test, for kids, to me is a joke. This is a guy who brags about not exercising. He takes a golf cart everywhere. He lies about his weight. His biographer who ghost wrote The Art of the Deal, said Trump believes that one has a finite amount of energy in life, and when that is used up, you die. ………………………………. A tip for anyone reading a British spy novel for the first time (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a good one): MI5 in England is their interior agency, kinda like our FBI. MI6 is their foreign intelligence service, much like our CIA. A good book about a real WWII spy is: Spy/Counter Spy: The Autobiography of Dusko Popov (for some reason, copies of this are now expensive) – another one that incudes Popov is The Spies Who Never Were, by Haufler. There are other books with the same title, so be careful. Didja know that you cannot copyright a title? True. Popov was a double agent in WWII, working for the British. He met Ian Fleming, and it is widely accepted that he was the model for James Bond, in part because he travelled as a wealthy playboy type as his cover. …………………………. Bumper Sticker: “Just Because No One Understands You Doesn’t Mean You’re an Artist” …………………………………. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly bragged about how smart he is, apparently has trouble with basic arithmetic, having asserted a mystifying lie about drug prices several times now. “You know, we’ve cut drug prices by 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500%. I don’t mean 50%, I mean 1400, 1500%,” he told reporters. – Huffpost – Wow, so they are going to pay me to . . . wait, I took 6th grade math. ……………………………… Useless Fact of the Day: First Electric Traffic Light Is Installed (1914) This was in Cleveland, Ohio. …………………………….. Trump on undocumented farm workers: “People that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They’ve tried, we’ve tried, everybody tried. They don’t do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally … they don’t get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die.” Ok, got that? Your president talking. ………………………………… Useless trivia for today: A group of jellyfish is called a bloom, swarm, or smack. Provided by FactRetriever.com –why do they get three names? ………………………………. From InterestingFacts.com: To date, there has never been a single case of an “authentic” pirate map resulting in a treasure find. Yeah, so much of what we accept as pirate lore was in a Hollywood movie, most notably the 1950 Treasure Island. Repeat notice: There are NO records of anyone ever waking the plank. That was in a drawing in a magazine. If pirates were tired of you, they would just throw you overboard. ……………………………….. Didja know that Gloria Steinem, the activist/feminist, was once a Playboy bunny? Odd, but true. She wrote about it. …………………………….. And in baseball, on Aug. 9th: Baseball umpire Jen Pawol made history Saturday in Atlanta as she became the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball regular season game. Reviews were good and she did not throw anyone out of the game. ……………………………….. Sign outside of a vet clinic: Dogs prepare you for babies. Cats prepare you for teenagers. …………………………………. According to June estimates by Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, the president’s net worth has nearly doubled since 2023. In that time, he and his family have launched several cryptocurrency tokens, raked in millions by taking their social media platform, Truth Social, public and appear to have enticed investors in their real estate holdings with the promise of political influence. – Huffpost — And this does not include Trump’s $400 gold sneakers, his perfume, steaks, Bibles printed in China ($60.) etc. ………………………………. Too many people are cheating with phony “service dog” vests. More on that sometime, including how I got bitten by a one of those phonies. ……………………………….. All for now. All take care, Kevin |
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