Odds and Ends — 28 September 2024

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Consumer Sentiment Rises to Five-Month High

U.S. consumer sentiment continued to rise in late September, reaching a five-month high on more optimism about the economy…

Binance founder CZ walks free from US prison

A Sure Sign That I’m Getting Old:

In the grocery store yesterday, they were playing The Psychedelic Furs.

In my own personal hell, a few decades from now as the health aide robot is wiping at my drool, The Clash will be playing in the halls of the nursing home.

Just shoot me now.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Boris Johnson: we considered ‘aquatic raid’ on Netherlands to seize Covid vaccine

Politics:


Vance to Appear with ‘Prophet’ Who Says Harris Is a Witch

J.D. Vance will speak at an event on Saturday hosted by the self-styled prophet and political extremist Lance Wallnau, who has claimed Kamala Harris practices witchcraft and has written that the U.S. is headed toward bloody internal conflict.

RFK Jr. Says Dems Spent Millions to Make Him Look Crazy

Um, no. That’s all on you. It cost zero to make you look crazy.

Special Counsel Wants to Make More Evidence Public

The special counsel, Jack Smith, has asked a federal judge to make public a substantial amount of the evidence that he and his deputies have collected during nearly two years of investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
In the filing, Mr. Smith described the sorts of information about Mr. Trump that he would like to reveal in a public version of a lengthy secret brief that he submitted under seal on Thursday evening to Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the election interference case in Federal District Court in Washington.

Harris, at the Border, Shows Democrats’ Hard-Line Evolution on Immigration

On her first trip to the southern border as the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered one of her party’s toughest speeches on immigration and border policy in a generation. Even as she did, she tried to paint former President Donald Trump as a feckless chaos agent without the ability to deliver the hard-line results he has promise.

Trump Admits He Has No Proof for Border Claims

…Mr. Trump acknowledged that he has made some of his immigration claims — including his continued insistence that other countries are deliberately sending prisoners and the mentally ill across the southern border — without evidence, then maintained that he had not needed it anyway.
Said Trump: “They’re dumping them in our country, and I never had proof.”
He added: “You know why? It’s common sense….

Serendipity:

Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?

The company is in trouble, and anyone who has spit into one of the company’s test tubes should be concerned.

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