I’m not particularly superstitious, so today’s Friday the 13th date doesn’t cause me to curl up in the fetal position and suck my thumb, something popular these days with the pro-abortion crowd.
The good news if you do fear this date is today is the only Friday the 13th for 2022, the next coming in January 2023.
By then, Clueless Joe Biden and his progressive acolytes should have gas prices at $7 a gallon or so, this nation’s economy in a recession if not a depression, and personal freedoms here at a low level last experienced by Germans when a guy named Hitler was running that country.
It’s not too early to worry on all those counts and more. That’s why I’m anything but sanguine today, but not due to the calendar date.
Glance at the headlines with an open mind and you will share my concern.
ITEM: A twin spin. OPEC missed its daily production target coming up 2.7 million barrels per day short of the number. And a billionaire owner of refineries forecasts diesel fuel may need to be rationed on the east coast of these United States this summer.
We may hit the $7 a gallon even before the next Friday the 13th.
ITEM: Jerome Powell, chief button pusher for the Federal Reserve, is the guy you may recall assuring us month after month that inflation was “transitory.” It was going to pass quickly, which has since been proven all too wrong as we hit inflation levels last witnessed in this country in 1980. More recently, Powell has assured that despite Fed actions of raising interest rates and withdrawing liquidity from the system, the whole thing would produce a “soft landing” for the economy and, by extension, investment markets. Now Powell is out with comments taken to mean we should forget the promise of a soft landing.
I’m reminded of the axiom; Fool me once, shame on you, but fool me twice, shame on me.
ITEM: A United Kingdom professor, an ivory tower type who pushed for draconian lockdowns to combat COVID-19, including the admittedly mild Omicron variation, now concedes he and his ilk were mistaken and the lockdowns created more problems than they supposedly avoided. This comes in the wake of a Johns Hopkins study earlier this year that found global lockdowns came up short in the cost-benefit analysis.
Reality intrudes, but after the metaphorical horse has left the barn.
ITEM: Still on the COVID-19 train of thought, a report estimates that Tony Fauci and National Institutes for Health cronies received an estimated $350 million in “royalty” payments from drug firms and other private firms between 2020 and 2020.
When the watchdogs are being fed by the people they’re supposed to be keeping an eye on, a rational man screams conflict of interest.
ITEM: Clueless Joe Biden and his clueless supporters among the electorate might want to try explaining why, in a time of drastically rising oil prices, their brainless leader would chose this precise moment to cancel lease sales in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, claiming lack of interest for the first and legal challenges for the second.
While driving in my alley the other day I noticed one of the Biden supporters on my block had their Biden campaign sign tucked away in their garage. I keep my Trump/Pence campaign sign in my yard as a lasting tribute to those of us who made the right decision in the last presidential election.
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