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PETTY and Out of Touch: 'Kamala's Wins' Twitter/X Account Attacks the McDonald's Trump Visited
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PETTY and Out of Touch: 'Kamala's Wins' Twitter/X Account Attacks the McDonald's Trump Visited

Still seething from Trump's masterful PR campaign stop at a Philadelphia McDonald's, the 'Kamala's Wins' Twitter/X thought it was a bright idea to attack the local McDonald's franchise that was the focus…
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Reaching the Common Folks: Lizzo Boards Her Private Jet With a Message for the Ho's
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Reaching the Common Folks: Lizzo Boards Her Private Jet With a Message for the Ho's

The recent push by the Harris-Walz campaign to reach voters in the final days of the 2024 presidential campaign included calling in Lizzo and Usher to pump up the VP. Advertisement Lizzo shows off her…
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Israel strikes Hezbollah in Beirut
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Israel strikes Hezbollah in Beirut

Israel said it struck Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Sunday, a massive explosion was seen in the city. Joe Biden makes a quick trip to Germany and the race between…
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The Elites Don’t Want You To Know THIS! Freedom Of Speech Is Under Attack!!
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The Elites Don’t Want You To Know THIS! Freedom Of Speech Is Under Attack!!

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“Like race car drivers covered in hundreds of logos”: When Tom Waits rallied against the commodification of music
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“Like race car drivers covered in hundreds of logos”: When Tom Waits rallied against the commodification of music

The fight for artistic integrity The post “Like race car drivers covered in hundreds of logos”: When Tom Waits rallied against the commodification of music first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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In Georgia GOP Districts Dominate Early Voting
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In Georgia GOP Districts Dominate Early Voting

In January of 2022, Vice President Kamala Harris denounced Georgia’s 2021 election integrity law as part of a vast GOP conspiracy to make it difficult to vote: “I have met with voters in Georgia.  I have heard your outrage about the anti-voter law here.” No amount of demagoguery …  will distract the voters from the direction in which the country is headed under the Biden-Harris regime. This was robotically reported by the corporate media, of course, but the “anti-voter” claim was soundly refuted by early voters in the Peach State last week. In addition to the record-shattering first day turnout (313,383), Saturday’s turnout (162,966) was the largest ever in a general election. The number of ballots cast during the first five days of early voting totaled 1,377,371, according to data provided by the Georgia Secretary of State’s office. These robust turnout numbers were no shock to anyone familiar with the 2021 statute, but there was one major surprise. As the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports, “Already, early voting turnout in about a dozen rural Georgia counties has far surpassed totals for this point in the 2020 election. By contrast, early voting rates in deep-blue metro Atlanta counties is lagging behind where it was at that stage in the campaign.” Historically, rural Republicans have eschewed early voting, and waited for Election Day to cast their ballots. But this year GOP leaders — including former President Trump — have encouraged Republicans to “make a plan to vote” and do it early. And, as the following suggests, it’s working in Georgia.                                                                        How 2024 Early Voters Voted in 2020 District PVI       Voted Early 2020        Voted ED 2020      Didn’t Vote 2020 GA-1 R+9                   73,423                   6,263                    17,729 GA-3 R+18                   87,923                   8,388                    16,823 GA-6 R+11                   88,770                   3,147                    16,279 GA-8 R+16                   74,217                   6,858                    13,451 GA-9 R+22                   83,339                   5,918                    18,076 GA-10 R+15                   84,667                   6,184                    15,129 GA-11 R+11                   65,133                   5,179                    14,699 GA-12 R+8                   76,610                   6,460                      9,439 GA-14 R+22                   75,106                   4,602                    14,637 Total                709,188                52,999                 136,262 Georgia has 14 congressional districts. This table lists the nine in which Republicans dominate. The “PVI” column indicates the partisan lean of each according to the Cook Political Report. The next column shows the 2024 early voters who also voted early in 2020. The following column indicates the number of 2024 early voters who cast their ballots on Election Day in 2020. The last column on the right shows the 2024 early voters who did not bother to vote in 2020. The number of voters who cast ballots in these districts during the first week of early voting totaled 898,449 — 65 percent of all ballots cast. The most important number on the table is at the foot of the last column. It represents the crucial low propensity voters. Georgia’s Low Propensity Voters Low propensity voters, as the label suggests, have little in common with the readers of this column. They don’t follow politics closely, their knowledge of specific candidates tends to be superficial, and they certainly don’t pore over election polls. Very few of them could tell you what Nate Silver or Allan Lichtman do for a living. That does not, however, mean that they never vote. They are much more likely to vote in presidential elections than in midterm congressional contests and, as the above table suggests, they can be motivated by circumstances and candidates. It is all but certain that these voters played a crucial role in Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton. As Philip Bump suggested in the Washington Post: One of the factors that drove Trump’s success in 2016 was that he managed to motivate low-frequency voters — largely Whites without college educations — to come out and support his candidacy. The Equis data suggest that he did something similar in 2020, spurring much more enthusiasm for voting among conservative Latinos, including both conservative Republicans (about 14 percent of the Latino voting population) and conservative Democrats (11 percent). Those groups were not only more motivated to vote but also became more approving of Trump’s presidency from 2019 to 2020 (though only modestly in the case of those Democrats). Considering that fully 15 percent of the people who cast ballots last week in Georgia’s red districts were low propensity voters — about twice as many as voted in blue districts — it’s a good bet they will play a major role in deciding who wins the state. Nor is it difficult to divine what has motivated them to get off their posteriors and exercise the franchise. Many of these people are asking themselves, “Am I better off now than I was four years ago?” The answer to that question is just as clear as it was when Ronald Reagan asked it in 1980 during his debate with the feckless Democrat he was running against. The obvious answer is, of course, “Hell no!” This is why Georgia’s Republican districts are dominating early voting. It’s probable that similar dynamics are at work in Pennsylvania. This is why Kamala Harris’s poll numbers are heading southward nationally and in the battle ground states. She is right when she says it’s time to “turn the page” politically. No amount of demagoguery about voter suppression in Georgia will distract the voters from the direction in which the country is headed under the Biden-Harris regime. Early voting in the Peach State suggests that it is indeed time for a new chapter in which Kamala Harris is written out of the plot. READ MORE from David Catron: How Democrat Lawfare Launched Trump’s Comeback Kamala Harris Is Melting The post In Georgia GOP Districts Dominate Early Voting appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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To Be or Not to Be America — After Election Day
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To Be or Not to Be America — After Election Day

Twenty years from now, historians will look at the election of November 5th, 2024 as either the end of America or its salvation. Of course, should the Democrats win, real historians won’t be able to chronicle the former. They’ll be banned on any public medium. Because the last best hope for free speech, Elon Musk’s X, will be as censorious as its previous incarnation, Jack Dorsey’s Twitter. Then every other venue, including Fox News, will celebrate the “evolution” of the nation into a one-party Democratic state. And Musk himself will be in prison or broke. Conservatives and patriots protested on their lone medium, X. But then the platform was shut down for hate speech and misinformation. But somewhere and on something, perhaps an old school notebook, some brave historian will record the truth. How easy it was for the deep state to terminate the 250-year-old Republic. Certainly the key element was in place well before Election Day: a mass of ignorant people brainwashed by the anti-American education system and the mainstream media. They first had to embitter lonely less attractive women into blaming men for their misery, minorities into hating white men, and losers to despise heroes. With enough numbers, it became simple to spread wide the disdain. Mothers saw their unborn children as soulless leeches on their career-oriented bodies. Black scumbag criminals were victims of a white-supremacist police force. The Founding Fathers were slaveholders, making the Constitution an illicit parchment. And once the Constitution was neutralized, so too its anti-government safeguards: the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Electoral College, the Supreme Court. All of them were summarily removed or altered. Did none oppose this? Yes, Republicans did. Their party, although now a symbolic joke, once boasted half the country. But they stood no chance after the Harris-Walz Administration citizenized more than 20-million illegal aliens, turning every battleground state blue almost overnight. Not for nothing had the Biden-Harris Administration opened the border to a vast inflow of immigrants, offering them welfare benefits denied many Americans. Naturally, the Supreme Court ruled the Citizenship Act unconstitutional by a 6-3 margin. The ruling delayed the act for two years until the midterm election, when the resulting confusion increased the Democratic majority in the Senate. That body promptly overruled the filibuster, allowing President Harris to add four new SCOTUS justices. They reversed the previous decision to find the Citizenship Act constitutional — yet the First Amendment, Second Amendment, and the electoral college unconstitutional. Conservatives and patriots protested on their lone medium, X. But then the platform was shut down for hate speech and misinformation. When people took to the streets, they were arrested for insurrection. They futilely cited their rights under the First Amendment, which no longer existed. Neither did the Second. Hence guns were confiscated from formerly law-abiding citizens, leaving only armed criminals. Many resistors were arrested or shot. The above scenario is not Orwellian fiction. Prominent Democrats have stated on the record their desire to implement such measures. Ex-Secretary of State, John Kerry, recently blasted the First Amendment as an obstacle, in his view, to benevolent government censorship. “If people only go to one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence,” Kerry said. “So what we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern, by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change.” And “border czarina” Kamala Harris not only enabled more border crossings, she wants to facilitate the illegals’ “pathway to citizenship.”. She told CNN, “The solution includes putting resources at the border to do what we can to process people effectively. And putting in place laws that actually allow for a meaningful, meaningful pathway to citizenship.” According to a September Pew Research Poll, eight-in-ten Democrats favor replacing the Electoral College. Which reflects the school system’s malfeasance in teaching youth about the Constitution, and what the Electoral College was sagely designed for — to keep the sane states of America from being ruled by the loons in California and New York. And Joe Biden did announce a commission to study mandatory changes to the Supreme Court, like expanding it by four justices. The Left is Loath to Elect Trump The nation-ending stakes of the election are ignored by far too many Americans, mostly on the Left. Their hatred of Donald Trump blinds even the more patriotic old-school Democrats. But Trump is all that’s standing between the fanatics’ dreams of destruction and the right path for the country. And it’s driving them insane. Enough to try to hit Trump where it doesn’t hurt by questioning his manhood. Wannabe action star Dave Bautista — with two post Guardians of the Galaxy movie bombs on his resume — beclowned himself attempting this on video last week. In the latest desperate Hollywoke attempt to decrease Trump’s appeal to men, Bautista appears wearing boxing gloves in a ring, looking slightly more convincing than the White Dudes for Harris. “Fellas, we gotta talk,” Bautista begins. “A lot of men seem to think that Donald Trump is some kind of tough guy. He’s not … The guy’s afraid of birds … ” But not of real bullets, Bautista forgot. As did most leftists, from whom the image of a bloody Trump standing up after being shot in the head has been erased by their preferred media. But we didn’t forget. We’ll pull the lever for Trump on November 5th. And with God’s grace, November 6th will bring morning in America once again. READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: The Hysterical Attempt to ‘Woo’ Real Men for Harris A Woman Underground Is A Great Book Looking for the ideal mystery book for Christmas? Read my new political thriller novel The Washington Trail. Because in a turbulent election year, politics can be murder. The post To Be or Not to Be America — After Election Day appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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Après Sinwar
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Après Sinwar

In some Democratic circles it would be unseemly to celebrate the death of Yahya Sinwar, the military leader of Hamas. But let’s give three cheers for the Israeli soldier who fired the shot that emptied Sinwar’s brain pan. The world is a better place for it. There is no genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza or anywhere else. We have to begin our analysis of Sinwar’s death with the fact that both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris repeatedly told the Israelis to not go into the city of Rafah in southern Gaza where the Israeli forces bagged Sinwar. In March, Harris said, “Any major military operation in Gaza would be a huge mistake … I have studied the maps; there’s nowhere for those folks to go, and we’re looking at about a million and a half people in Rafah who are there because they were told to go there.” Whether she can read a map without help is questionable but it’s a very good thing that the Israelis are ignoring her and Biden. The long and short of it is that Sinwar would still be alive — and Hamas preparing to resume its government of Gaza — if Israel had followed Kamala’s advice. She must believe that her genius in tactics and strategy — scratch that; in diplomacy — qualifies her to be our commander-in-chief for the next four years. The Significance of Sinwar’s Death The death of Sinwar hasn’t brought about the end of a round of war Hamas started on October 7, 2023, nor will it. It is a tactical achievement, not a strategic one. That’s easily demonstrated by two statements. First, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “To the Hamas terrorists I say — your leaders are running away and they will be eliminated. I call on everyone who holds our hostages: whoever lays down his arms and returns our hostages — we will allow him to leave and live. Whoever harms our hostages — there will be blood on his head and we will hold him accountable.” Netanyahu is not Winston Churchill but he stands in a Churchillian moment. It is only because of his courage that Israel stands against Biden’s and Harris’s absurd cease-fire demands and keeps fighting in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and against Iran. His courage has sustained Israel in this war: he shows no sign of faltering. Netanyahu’s offer of amnesty to those who aid in releasing hostages may yet help the hostages be released or rescued. All but the most fanatical of Hamas members have to understand the significance of Sinwar’s death. The second proof (and there are others) was the answer to Netanyahu’s statement by Khalil al-Hayya, reportedly a senior Hamas leader. (They have to be running out of them at this point). He said on Friday, “These prisoners will not return unless the aggression on Gaza stops, the occupiers withdraw, and our heroic prisoners are released from Zionist prisons.” Stop right there. The people Hamas holds aren’t prisoners, they’re hostages. Hamas, like all the Islamic terrorists, always seeks moral equivalence but there is none. Israel doesn’t take hostages and neither does any civilized country. Hostage-taking is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. (See Common Article 3 and the Fourth Convention. Hostage-taking is only one of the many war crimes Hamas has committed on and since October 7.) Al-Hayya may be following the orders of Khaled Mashal, Hamas’s political leader, who is living it up in a luxury hotel in Doha, Qatar.  Mashal is obeying the orders he gets from Iran. Mashal should be extradited to the U.S. or Israel or he should join the long list of terrorist leaders the Israelis have whacked in the past couple of months. The former would be a greater spectacle, but you can bet on the latter. The fact that Sinwar’s death is only a tactical victory is also demonstrated by the fact that Hizballah — Iran’s Lebanese proxy — is still firing missiles at Israeli civilians. There is no letup in the pressure they exert on Israel or on the pressure Israel is putting on Hizballah. Further demonstrating that fact, either Iran or Hizballah launched a drone attack on Netanyahu’s residence, attempting to kill him and his wife. If the Israelis wanted to, they could launch as strike intended to kill Ayatollah Khamenei. It’s unlikely they would but, for the attempt on Netanyahu and the October missile barrage from Iran, Khamenei is on the long list of targets Israel could strike in retaliation. Hamas still holds about one hundred hostages out of the 240 taken which included seven Americans. Biden and Harris have done absolutely nothing to get the Americans released. Three of the seven Americans are believed to still be alive. The other four were murdered in captivity by Hamas. As this column has said several times, the Israeli special forces don’t need — and probably don’t want — help from our Navy SEALs or the Delta Force in rescuing hostages. They’re probably on scene advising the Israelis. The Israelis have been at it for a year now, they know the ground and have mapped most of the tunnels where the hostages are probably being kept. But there is a lot more Biden can do to get our people home. The Biden-Harris Failure As I’ve also written before, Biden-Harris never utter a discouraging word to Hamas or Hizballah, both of which are Iranian proxies. It is long past time for Biden-Harris to condemn them in the harshest terms, hold them responsible for the tens of thousands of deaths in Gaza and tell our diplo-dunces to do the same in every place they can go, especially the UN. But that won’t happen because Harris — and to whatever degree Biden is conscious of the world around him — they are consumed by election politics. According to a Fox News report on Saturday, a panel of Arab-American voters on MSNBC said they refused to vote for Harris. One, who said she’d vote for Trump, added that she would do so because, “my main goal is to get someone who is actively funding a genocide out of office.” There is no genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza or anywhere else. But if that person votes for Trump and the rest don’t vote for Harris, that would be a good enough result. READ MORE from Jed Babbin: The Real Forever War One Year Since Oct. 7, Iran Is in Israel’s Crosshairs The post Après Sinwar appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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Do Republicans Have a Problem in Nebraska?
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Do Republicans Have a Problem in Nebraska?

The 2024 General election is less than a month away, meaning campaigns nationwide have zero hours. Republicans are seeing momentum in their favor, as the presidential election is a statistical tie, and polling shows Republicans poised to retake the U.S. Senate. Surprisingly, the state of Nebraska could foil the Republicans’ plan to take back the upper chamber despite a Democrat not running for Senate.  “This race is more competitive than it should be,” said political science professor Randy Adkins. Incumbent Republican Senator Deb Fischer is fighting off a challenge from Union boss Dan Osborn, an independent candidate with populist overtones. His campaign is bringing in millions of dollars from outside political PACS, forcing the NRSC to spend half a million dollars on campaign advertisements in a safe state rather than spend money in swing states to take back the majority in the Senate.  The polling for the race is varied, adding an element of suspense to the campaign. The latest poll from Impact Research shows Osborn with a slim lead over Fischer, 48 percent to 46 percent. By contrast, an internal poll from the Fischer campaign shows her ahead of Osborn by 48 percent to 42 percent, but 10 percent are still unsure. “This race is more competitive than it should be,” said political science professor Randy Adkins of the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He says an independent taking on a Republican is a “novel phenomenon” in today’s politics. The last time Nebraska voters elected a U.S. Senator who was not a Republican was the 2006 midterm with a deeply unpopular Republican President in George W. Bush. In 2012, Deb Fischer defeated former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey by 12 points and then won reelection in 2018 by nearly 20 points. Democrats did not bother to recruit a candidate this cycle, which opened the door for an independent candidacy. For Nebraskans, Dan Osborn became a household name when he led a union workers’ strike against Omaha’s Kellogg plant in 2021. He gained national notoriety when he organized a strike as president of the local Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union. With the strike ending after two months and workers agreeing on a new contract, National Democrats, including President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders, took notice. Since his run for the Senate, Osborn has distanced himself from both Republicans and Democrats and has not received any backing from the DSCC or Nebraska Democrats. His refusal to take corporate handouts is a significant aspect of his campaign, as it aligns with his pro-union stance. Even though he has refused to take corporate handouts, Osborn is receiving campaign contributions from pro-union organizations as well as Soros-linked dark money organizations.  To their credit, the Fischer campaign is working to portray Mr. Osborn as a Democrat pretending to be an Independent with his liberal stances on abortion, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and vowing to eliminate the Senate filibuster. The campaign just recently released a TV ad portraying Osborn as a “Trojan Horse” as his win would likely mean Democrats remain in control of the Senate. Senator Fischer is taking this Senate race seriously. To help blunt Mr. Osborn’s momentum, she came out with the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, who referred to Osborn as a “Bernie Sanders Democrat” who does not stand for Nebraska values. “This move is significant considering Trump won Nebraska in 2020 by 19 points. What is even more important for Republicans in Nebraska is that Donald Trump will win the Great Plains state again, and it will be a landslide. Three state-wide polls from both campaigns show Trump ahead by 20 points. Republicans outnumber Democrats by a 2-1 margin in the state, and no GOP senator lost a race where Trump prevailed in the state for the past two election cycles. Senator Pete Ricketts is running in a special election to finish out Ben Sasse’s Senate term since he left office. Ricketts is beating his opponent by the same margin as Trump, so it doesn’t add up to vote for Trump and Ricketts and then vote for a candidate who is a Bernie Sanders admirer.  While Osborn’s campaign has appealed to Nebraska’s blue-collar, independent voters, he has not said who he would caucus with in the Senate. It is essential for an independent to caucus with one of the two main parties in order to get committee assignments, and every independent Senator currently caucuses with the Democrats. By contrast, Senator Fischer has delivered results for the people of Nebraska through appropriations and infrastructure as a member of the Armed Services and Agriculture committees. She was a reliable voter during Trump’s first term in office and was described as a “workhorse” during her two terms in Washington. Republicans will not need to worry about this race as long as they hammer out the message that Dan Osborn is too liberal for Nebraska.  READ MORE from Alex Adkins: Montana Might Be the Only Flip for Senate Republicans In Defense of Our Defense: Senator Wicker’s Plan The post Do Republicans Have a Problem in Nebraska? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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Entrepreneurship Survives Vicious Milton
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Entrepreneurship Survives Vicious Milton

TAMPA — Is America a great country or what? There’s still room in the last best hope on Earth for the alert and fast-acting entrepreneur. I’ve just learned that one can purchase on Amazon, and doubtless elsewhere, a stylish T-shirt that says, “I survived Hurricane Milton,” and featuring a likeness of the state with the gruesome Milton bearing down on it. Normal is on the way after the Helene/Milton one-two punches. But it hasn’t overtaken us yet. We Americans do love our T-shirts. There seems to be one for every purpose or cause. As is the case with bumper-strips, there’s hardly a philosophy, political candidate, product, athletic team, rock band, town, saloon, or organization with more than three members, that’s not celebrated on somebody’s T-shirt. Next time one of your Democrat friends comes out with some leftist delusion, you can leave him in doubt by replying: “That must be true — I read it on a T-shirt once.” T-shirts have become a cheap form of advertising. Mobile bill-boards. Not free of the entrepreneurial spirit myself, I’m thinking of having one made up that says: “This space available.” Perhaps my chest could generate a little cash flow. It’s not doing anything else just now. Bumper strips are a similar medium, with the same variety of messages. Some of them downright exotic. The late Southern novelist, Walker Percy, enjoyed running across oddball strips. He had a life-list of them, sort of like birders do. His favorite was: “Goat ropers need love too.” That one is indeed splendid. I’m sure it would brighten my day to spot one of these on the back bumper of an F-150. As a Milton survivor myself, I’d rather forget than celebrate this destructive storm from Hell, as I’m sure millions of other Floridians would. But I’m sure this item will enjoy brisk sales. Hats off to the entrepreneurs who found a way to turn a buck from the storm without approving of it, or ignoring the death, destruction, and heartache it brought with it. It can be seen as a celebration of the toughness of Floridians. Even without hurricanes, Florida summers are not for sissies. They’re long, hot, humid, and often have stormy finishes. And Milton was a finish for the ages. The Helene/Milton One-Two Punch It was a hairy Wednesday night for my wife and me. But we escaped without damage to our persons or to our 100+ year-old Tampa home. We didn’t even lose power, which tells me the Age of Miracles is not over. (Millions across the peninsula weren’t so lucky.) Thursday morning, however, we couldn’t help but notice that one of our neighbor’s trees had taken up residence against the side of our house. It’s been removed and is now part of the endless sea of tree debris across the city which will be a long time being removed. I’m not sure where it will go. If we sent it all to Minnesota for fire wood there’s enough of it to keep that state warm throughout its long winter.  Power is back now in most Tampa precincts. Normal is on the way after the Helene/Milton one-two punches. But it hasn’t overtaken us yet. In hopes that Milton has put paid to this storm season, Floridians are keeping up with tropical weather reports. A storm-weary friend told me that if he learned in the coming days that there was something else cooking in the Gulf of Mexico he might jump off the Skyway Bridge. I fear he might have to stand in line for the privilege. I tried to reassure him by saying that as well as all good things, all bad things also come to an end. This must be true. I read it on a T-shirt once. Or was it a bumper-strip? READ MORE from Larry Thornberry: RIP Pete Rose — Few Played the Game Even Remotely Like Him Venice Is Still in Good Hands — With Detective Guido Brunetti and His Team The post Entrepreneurship Survives Vicious Milton appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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