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TODAY'S NEWS, December 25-30, 2024, Back From the Dead Edition
About this Episode
IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) Probably the biggest political news of the week involved a pseudo-spat between the anti=H1B visa cadre in Team Trump (J.D. Vance most notably) and the pro-H1B faction led by Musk and Ramaswamy. Before anyone could get too worked up, Musk softened his stance and said the H1B program needed serious reform. My guess is that it will be greatly curtailed, with only a fraction of the current H1Bs issued. Even then, those may come with proof of companies hiring 10:1 native born for every foreign born they hire.
2) Trump blasted payoffs to celebs as illegal, which it is. Vote-buying.
3) This is rich. Supposedly Rutabaga wanted the Department of INJustice to go after Trump sooner and regretted naming Grand Moff Garland as AG---a "ponderous judge.' Dear spoogie Rutabaga: if you had gone after Trump sooner he would have been cleared sooner and you would have lost worst.
4) A pilot study to make a road out of radioactive material received approval to start in Florida. What could go wrong?
5) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at age 100.
6) Wait, I thought the left was going to bankrupt him? President Trump's net worth grew by $3.6 billion last year.
7) A ninth U.S. telecom firm was breached in a ChiCom hack.
8) The National Archives deliberately sat on just-released pictures of Rutabaga and the ChiComs with Hunter to protect him.
9) Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne of Texas said you can "shoot a cannon" and not hit anyone in empty federal office buildings.
10) Peaceful and tranquil Kinshasa-on-the-Delaware (Philadelphia) had a mere 1,000 shootings in its most recent brotherly year.
11) Louisiana's educational performances rose as new school choice and accountability reforms kicked in.
IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS
12) Tom Homan, the border czar, will reinstate family detention.
13) Texas secured a major immigration win, blocking Rutabaga's attempt to sell off materials for the Wall.
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
14) Not good: here are 11 signs the economy is in worse shape than we think.
15) Groomer City housing prices fell back to 2019 levels as people flee SF.
16) Broke-ass New York is going to try to charge companies $75 billion for carbon emissions. Good luck. Say goodbye to the few companies still doing business there.
17) A court upheld a blockade of a ChiCom telecom company looking to enter the U.S. market.
18) Since 2021, only 6% of all jobs have gone to white males. And you wonder why they are dropping out of society.
18) Another EV company, Canoo, bites the dust.
19) Oh, and this study says EVs have a larger "carbon footprint" than gas vehicles.
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
20) An Azerbaijan passenger get was reportedly hit by a Russkie missile and crashed, killing nearly half of the passengers and crew, while in South Korea an airliner crashed attempting to land, killing 179.
21) The ChiComs unveiled two new stealth planes in a single day.
22) About 42% of German teens are foreigners. Yeah, "Muh Diversity."
23) There is definitely a "Farmer's Revolt" going on in Europe. It is big. Is it big enough to force the environmental lunatoids to back down?
24) Oops. There is 26% MORE ice in the arctic than in 2012.
25) Canada's EV industry is collapsing too, as Lion Electric, the major EV maker, has seen its shares lose A85% and a Belgian company set to build a big battery plant there says "Nah."
26) Big warning here, however, from this former GM exec, who says the reason all the Euro, Canadian, and many US EV companies not named Tesla are failing is that the ChiComs are kicking their butts and taking over the rest of the world market.
27) The global progressive moment is over says the Wall Street Journal. Funny, I said the same thing last Feb. 20 in my book, A Patriot's History of Globalism: Its Rise and Decline.
IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
28) At least one "mega millions" winner was found with a jackpot of portentially $1.6 billion in Kollyfornia, which, of course will immediately take half in taxes.
29) Charles Dolan, founder of Home Box Office and Cablevision, dead at 98.
30) Magnus Carlson was disqualified from the World Rapid Chess Championship after refusing to abide by the dress code and change out of his jeans. Hey, if you're the best and know it, you have nothing more to prove.
31) "Squidgame 2" just broke a Netflix record of being the first series to ever open simultaneously #1 in all 93 markets. I've never seen "Squidgame 1" . . . so . . .
IN CHINA VIRUS NEWS
32) The case fatality rate from Pfizer shows that the vaxxed were 14 times more likely to die from the China Virus as the unvaxxed.
33) A new Wall Street Journal article says that the evidence of the Wuhan Lab Leak version of the China Virus story is soon forthcoming. "Three scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, part of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, conducted a scientific study that concluded that Covid-19 was manipulated in a laboratory in a risky research effort. But that analysis was at odds with the assessment of their parent agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and wasn't incorporated in the report presented to Biden"
AND FINALLY . . .
34) George MIlls, born in Alabama, was a fabulous musician. My band, "Rampage," had just come off opening for "Steppenwolf" and "Savoy Brown" when our guitarist abruptly quit. Through keyboardist Aundra Browne, we found George. I'll never forget going into Longfellow House at Bellevue, Mississippi. George was all dressed up and playing piano and singing top 40 tunes. When he saw us, he was singing "Feelings." Now, you have to understand that George would completely make up words. Only he---or you, once you hung out with him---knew what they meant. For example, he had a saying "OTIS!" which was an exclamation like "OMG!" But he would also say, "Otis is FED!" meaning that was really good. Anyway, when he saw us, instead of "Feelings' George sang . . .
"Yeeeblings. Nothing more than Yeeeblings. Running up and down . . . all over my face." People in the audience thought he was insane, and we cackled like maniacs. George had just a few weeks previously played bass guitar on the short-lived "Howard Cosell Show" when George appeared with the crazy Cajun Fiddler, "Doug Kershaw" who did his famous song, "Louisiana Man."
George could play anything---keyboards, guitars, I think some horns. He was an great singer with a range like Edgar Winter. He played on two of our songs in the studio, "Saturday Night in Jamaica" (by Doug Mays) and "Shake it if You Got It" by Rampage. You can hear George in background vocals as well as guitar on "Shake it" but "Saturday Night in Jamaica" with him on lead vocals is not on the iTunes "Rockin' the Wall Motion Picture Soundtrack." So far I can't get it to load, although I have a copy.
George Mills, whom I only really knew for a year, died on December 26. I'll remember him always.
Larry Schweikart
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