This week’s Bygone Relics will be much like the news, all over the place. In last week’s LBLF we briefly hinted at the coming federal job cuts. Up to 200,000 federal jobs are to be cut and that is just the start. If we go to dailyjobcuts.com we can see just how extensive this layoff …
Bygone Relics
The new Secretary of Defense has changed the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. Ice cream eating Joe Biden changed the name in 2023 due to Bragg being named after a confederate general named Braxton Bragg, but the new one will be named after Roland Bragg a World War II paratrooper from Maine. …
So, I am a little confused by the Trump fan boys that are saying that Trump sure showed them, Canada and Mexico bent the knee, and Trump is the master. Aren’t the tariffs supposed to be on? How are we doing away with the income tax if the tariffs got taken off? I knew Canada’s …
I was thinking that there might be some time to analyze Trump’s moves and see where his team is going before having to wildly speculate about Trump’s black swans. I have said before that I think he is walking into a stacked deck against him. I am also not confident in his ability to maneuver …
The proverb ”keep your friends close but your enemies closer” comes from the Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli but is also attributed to Sun Tzu. As Don Trump begins his second term, I can’t believe how chummy he is with his former enemies. His new frenemies include Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Don …
I’d like to begin by reading a piece of dialogue between Capt. Louis Renault and Rick Blaine. “What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca.” “My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters. “The waters. What waters? We’re in a desert.” “I was misinformed.” I am beginning to wonder if Don Trump is going …
“Politicians, old buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” Noah Cross in Chinatown The death of Jimmy Carter at 100 years old this week reminds me of what Noah Cross said, the evil rich villain played by John Houston, said to J.J Gettes while eating fish with the heads still on. …
We start a fresh, anew if you will. New Year they say. Well, I don’t think much has changed. What I do know though is that China has hacked into our Treasury Department. That’s right. They hacked in, snooped around, and then left. American authorities are not happy. Some so this is payback for supporting …
There are few things I despise more than nepotism. The best thing about America is that originally most wealth and standing had to be earned. As our country gets fatter, dumber, and more socialist we have lost the earned part and seem to have embraced the taking over the family business. There are many examples …
Today I want to talk about a disappearing phenomenon before it is gone, your dollar’s purchasing power. The dollar is the world’s reserve currency and the current arrangement was set up at Bretton Woods in 1944 as the US was set to help the rest of the world after the war. America had all the …