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Over and out.

April 10, 2025

The Chicago White Sox were about to tie the game on a bases loaded single in the 9th inning today against the Cleveland Guardians. And then runner Mike Tauchman injured himself running around third and couldn’t make it to the plate. This might be one of the most White Sox losses ever.

Meanwhile, Mike Yastremski, who hit a three run home run to help SF Giants win 5-4 on Sunday, said at the time, his 3 year old Quinley asked me for a home run,” Yastrzemski said over the weekend.

Today Yaz admitted “Well, she asked me specifically for a triple, a home run and a splash hit.”

And he won the game with a 2-run splash hit in the 10th.

Maybe the SF Giants need to buy that girl a pony. Or something.

Meanwhile in Colorado, 11 games in the 2-9 Rockies have a -33 run differential. Which means not only are they losing, they are losing by an average of 3 runs per game. Ouch.

Wonder if any journalists were included on a SIGNAL chat about fake tariffs in order to manipulate the market.

If so, would be nice if they’d come out with it now instead of waiting to write a book.


It’s not just that the rich got richer. But many working class people sold at a loss because they were terrified of losing what was left of their retirement savings.

Trump’s wants the IRS’s division to go after rich tax cheats eliminated. But he wants the IRS to turn over confidential information to go after, for now, immigrants. How long until he tries to go after those who donate to liberal causes?

Please folks. Forget 4D chess. Could some reporter on camera just ask Trump to name every piece on a chessboard?

Trump White House to NBC News -they will not release list of countries that have so far reached out to start negotiating with U.S. over Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs. Translation – the list doesn’t exist.

Trump is the arsonist who shows up to help firefighters and wants to be declared a hero.

“President Trump is doing a masterful job of negotiating with other countries!?””

New Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno on Senate floor today. Ohio, not only did you vote out a great man in Sherrod Brown but you elected a sycophantic buffoon.

Could some of this insanity with tariffs and changing on a daily basis be because Velveeta Voldemort was tired of his co-President Musk getting all the headlines?

As a Democrat I can say I think Nancy Pelosi was wrong not to outlaw Congressional stock trading. But think most Democrats now would vote to do it. Your move, Mike Johnson.

Boys of summer?

June 5, 2024

The NHL and NBA playoffs start June 6,

NHL Game Seven would be June 24. NBA Game Seven would be June 23

How long until they stretch these postseasons out to overlap with the NFL?

(They already overlap the Canadian football league)

And you think your team is having a bad month. The Chicago White Sox, 15-47, have now lost 13 in a row.

Begging the question – how did they ever win 15 games.

We interrupt all the controversy around the WNBA right now to remind sports fans there are some very good teams playing very good basketball. The Las Vegas Aces led by A’Ja Wilson and coached by Becky Hammon for example. Who just knocked off a solid Dallas WIngs team 95-81.

Headline in San JoseMercury News

“VP Kamala Harris’ quiet stops in Bay Area met w/ Gaza ceasefire protest Demonstrations were latest sign many in Bay Area’s most progressive corners have soured on Harris & President Biden.

Spare me. “Progressives” have hated Joe since he beat Bernie. Actually they hated him as Obama’s VP. They didn’t think Obama was liberal enough either.

As Hunter Biden is on trial for buying a gun while an addict, shouldn’t GOP be lauding him on gun rights?? Remember, this is GOP trying to make it easier for vets with mental illness to get guns & would cheer if SCOTUS rules domestic abuses w/ restraining orders can buy firearms.

John Cornyn insists right to contraception is not under any jeopardy & “this afternoon’s vote is a show vote.”

And as GOP is now pretending they aren’t going after contraception. Amy Klobuchar points out only 14 states protect right to contraception. While many “extremists are racing to State capitols to see who can be 1st to take women’s rights away”

She’s not kidding. And SCOTUS will help them

Uh, does he listen to the man he endorsed for President “things really have a lot to do with the states & some states are going to have different policies than others.”

Donald Trump has apparently sent vetting materials to some on his VP list. Uh, since being a convicted felon charged with countless other felonies isn’t disqualifying, what exactly is he vetting for?

Lawrence O’Donnell makes great point. Almost all Americans believe in right to contraception. Would have been so easy for GOP to take issue off table in Nov. by voting for bill. (which has nothing to do with abortion.) They couldn’t even do that. I

It’s. A. Cult.

What’s the over-under?

June 5, 2024

MLB suspended four players for betting, and permanently banned Tucupita Marcano after determining that the Padres’ infield bet on baseball.

So will there be a documentary about the investigation sponsored by Fan Duel or Draft Kings?

Whatever you think about the current controversies in the WNBA, at least people are talking about women’s basketball. Let’s hope they keep talking and turning in. (Btw, the Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty are especially good teams with superstars…

GOP’s latest lie is that DOJ is completely weaponized against Republicans. So how do they explain indictments against Democrats Bob Menendez and Henry Cuellar? Not to mention the Special Counsel instigated case against Hunter Biden.

I’m waiting.

Trump WTF fundraising email today. Encouraging supporters to donate to win a private trip with him

: “Want to take a trip together? Just the 2 of us. We’ll talk about my rigged conviction, we’ll have amazing dinner & at end of it all we’ll take a picture so we can remember this day FOREVER!”

Has anyone ever seen anything, even in conservative media, about a “lucky winner?”

Democrats aren’t posturing or pontificating outside Hunter Biden’s trial in hopes of currying favor with his father. The people actually supporting Hunter at his trial are his family who love him.

What a concept.

Pres. Biden urges Congress to pass bipartisan border legislation.

GOP Senators scuttle bipartisan border bill on Trump’s orders & say Biden has authority to fix border himself. Biden issues executive order on border. GOP attacks him for doing it.

GOP WANTS border to be a problem.

What a POS. Florida Governor Ron Desantis, attacking Washington DC and President Biden.

“We don’t typically depend on federal government.. Hurricane recovery is a bottoms-up thing. You don’t want Washington directing anything.”

Ron, he didn’t mention more than $9 billion Washington pumped into Florida following Hurricane Ian in 2022.. not to mention other disaster relief.

Progressives are not happy with President Biden’s executive order on the border and immigration. I get it, the situation is complicated. But I’ve been an active LIBERAL Democratic volunteer for decades.

Progressives are rarely happy about anything Democrats do, period.

Worth the price?

February 9, 2024

There are some tickets going for really high prices on Sunday.

Not just that game in Las Vegas. But when Iowa’s women’s basketball plays Nebraska on Sunday, Caitlin Clark is only 39 points away from the all-time women’s college basketball scoring record.

Ticket prices range from about $150 to over $1000…

No guarantees. Clark might not break the record until Iowa’s home game February 15 against Michigan. But unlike the Super Bowl, when she does, it won’t be an event repeated next year.

We’re less than a week from “Pitchers and catchers report.” Here’s the question, however, for many big name free agents ”Report where?

Maybe if we can make it a fantasy betting game more people will pay attention to this election. Thanks to Stephen Colbert and his team for the graphics.

Arizona Senator Mark Kelly “When you come back to my state to do TV interviews at the border , you better be ready to explain why you chose politics over addressing this crisis that’s staring you in the face. This a shameful week for the U.S. Senate” . He’s right.

Lindsey Graham says, trying to justify “This has been a half-assed effort to deal with border security.”

What an insult to Senator James Lankford, Krysten Sinema & Chris Murphy, along w/ many others who spent months including nights & weekends working on bill. How much effort did Graham put in?

Another WTF media moment. Have seen a few headlines about Trump’s “big win” in the GOP caucuses in the US VIrgin Islands

The vote total, 182 to 64.

Yes that is a big percentage win. But 250 total votes? More people vote for homecoming king-queen in small high schools.

As national media goes after Biden on potential memory issues… moe GOP “I don’t recall” history

I can post these all night.

October 2021: Jim Jordan: “I ‘Don’t Recall’ Number of Times Trump and I Spoke on Jan. 6.

April 2022. Marge Three Names responded, “I don’t remember”—to every single question about who she talked to before during and after Jan. 6. Or if she made threatening statements and/or discussed possible violence.

2018: Amy Klobuchar questioning now SCOTUS Justice Kavanaugh if he ever “drank so much you didn’t remember what happened night before, or part of what happened?”

“You’re asking about a blackout? I don’t know, have you?”

Forget theater:

The biggest political story of week SHOULD be: GOP, after claiming border is USA top priority crisis, tanked decent bipartisan solution co-written by conservative Senator James Lankford. Because Trump wants people to suffer to make Biden look bad. Period.

Over one billion to serve.

December 22, 2023

And yes, tell me again how billionaire sports owners need tax cuts.

Best thing about the Los Angeles Dodgers signing Yamamoto.

In 2024, fans of 28 other teams will join SF Giants fans in considering the Dodgers the most hated team in Major League Baseball.

And we all know, if some team like the Giants or the Astros or the Mariners had pulled off this deal for the deferred contracts etc, that MLB would try to invalidate the deal. Manfred wants a Dodgers-Yankees World Series.

On the other hand, It’s all going to be worth it when the Dodgers flame out in the NLDS or NLCS…

Is there a team in the NFL that has done a better or I should say worse, job week after week of “messing” with their fans’ emotions than the New Orleans Saints? Never count them as winners, never count them out.

(Bad game, got down over 20 points, and still came within 8 points with about 4 minutes to go…)

Fox News headline “Pete Buttigieg runs up tens of thousands of dollars on taxpayers’ tab flying on jets.”

Actual story says Buttigieg spent $59,000 on government planes from Aug 2021 to June 2023 per IG audit. And the DOT says these were times when schedule/security made that that less expensive option.

Fox had no issues when Elaine Chao spent over $93,000 in 2017 ALONE

Florida AG Ashley Moody claiming state’s public school libraries are “forum for government speech” & “not a forum for free expression.” State now “leads”with more than 40 percent of banned books in USA. Flori-DUH jokes are funny, but what’s happening to Florida education isn’t.

How do some of these would be Presidents in GOP primary expect us to think they’d stand up to our enemies? They can’t even stand up to loser Donald Trump.

Not that long ago Rudy Giuliani,despite his many flaws, was a wealthy man with a very comfortable life. Even if Joe Biden did say all Rudy’s sentences have a “noun, a verb and 9-11.” And he threw it all away. #ETTD

Remember if you have MAGA friends/family screaming about Colorado: “Six Republican & unaffiliated Colorado voters filed a lawsuit in Sept. alleging that Trump’s actions in relation to the Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol disqualify him from office under 14th Amendment.”

Know many people of various ages, genders, races, who are quite happy they voted for President Biden & will vote for Joe again. Some admit he’s exceeded expectations. Why can’t media ever interview people like that? Or more to the point, show or write about THOSE interviews?

Didn’t realize Barry Manilow is also 80 years old. Add him to the list of musicians – Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson etc, who should perform at President Biden’s second inauguation.

Here we go again CNN. President Biden gets a complicated foreign policy success with prisoner swap with Venezuela, bringing 10 Americans home. And part of CNN story is complaints Joe isn’t also making a deal to bring home someone from Russia.

GOP now saying “let the voters decide” about Trump on a ballot. But when the voters decide… for reproductive rights, for voting rights, for gun laws… GOP wants to take it to the courts. Make it make sense.

Got a fundraising request from California Democrats for the race for Kevin McCarthy’s seat. Uh, district is R+16!. My late Aunt who lived in Ridgecrest, part of that district, used to say “There are 50 Democrats in town, I know them all, how many friends do you need? Make your donations wisely.

Great unknowns

December 19, 2023

So the SF Giants signed another free agent – catcher Tom Murphy with an $8 million 2 year contract.

All together now – who?-

Wait, there have already been 8 NCAA bowl games? Wonder how many fans can name more than 1?

White House said Joe Biden plans one more Ukraine military aid package this month, but further assistance to Kyiv will require agreement in Congress.

Since GOP rallying behind man who both says he’ll be dictator AND Presidents have immunity, why not just do it by executive order?

GOP’s John Cornyn on bill for Ukraine aid & immigration reform “Not just Senate & president agreeing to something, we need something that can actually pass House & be signed into law.” W/ all due respect, Sen. Cornyn, today’s GOP led house couldn’t pass a bipartisan kidney stone

Remember, Russia has term limits, similar to USA, two terms for a President.

Vladimir Putin has been in power since 1999 & just signed law he convived to say his previous terms do not count. So he basically has appointed himself President for Life..

Velveeta Voldemort plans to get back to White House & never leave.

Southwest Airlines will pay a $35 million fine as part of a $140 million settlement to resolve a federal investigation into last Christmas’s canceled flights debacle. So how long until the airline adds a “fine” surcharge?

As we approach Christmas, remember, today’s MAGA would absolutely try to deport Mary and Joseph and their “anchor baby” Jesus.

At this point Trump could say he wanted to do a daily real life version of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and feels like many of his cult members would start filling their pockets with stones.

Apparently a lot of Republican Senators didn’t bother to show up Monday.

Majority leader Chuck Schumer put a number of nominations and procedures through by voice vote. Didn’t see any Senators on the floor besides Schumer and Minnesota’s Tina Smith. This was fun.

Stephen Colbert on the former Senate staffer who was fired for posting a video of himself having sex with another man in a Senate hearing room- which turns out to be the room where Senators grill nominees to the Supreme Court:

“They were doing in the room where they pick the Supreme Court. So in a ways, we’ve all been screwed there.

Jen Psaki reminds us Biden was first sworn into Senate at the hospital bedsides of his 3 & 4 yr old sons, Beau & Hunter, after they were critically injured in the accident killed his wife & daughter.

On top of everything else Joe Biden is a great dad. And GOP should be HONORING him for that.