Back in the days when I wrote for a living (this blog is just for fun) I had a column format Answer Man, in which I invented questions prompting answers that I also provided to make my points.
Today, no answers, just 20 questions, not to be mistaken with the deductive reasoning game in which a player has 20 yes or no questions to identify correctly a person, place or thing.
Here goes:
- Has anyone heard official attendance/economic impact numbers from this year’s Thunder in the Valley?
- If not, why not?
- Who is responsible for the booming real estate market in the Greater Johnstown area in view of the area’s general economic malaise, 30-year mortgage rates in excess of 7 percent, and the area demographics of an aged population, traditionally downsizing rather than home-buying years?
- Does anyone who is not totally in the tank for the leftists accept the lack of a explanation for how cocaine can just show up in the White House, arguably one of the most secure places in these United States?
- And are we expected to swallow the talking point, already floated by left-wing house organ Politico, that in all likelihood the person who brought the drug in never will be identified, sort of like that Supreme Court leaker of the abortion decision just couldn’t be identified?
- If cocaine had been discovered in the White House during Donald Trump’s presidency, how long would it have taken for him to be charged, tried and convicted, just for living there?
- Will the stock market investors who had the incredible foresight or good luck to ride outsized first-half gains, let it ride in the second half, or begin cashing out?
- Along that line, can we trust that market history will be rewritten and jacked up interest rates by the Federal Reserve, a long-running inversion of the yield curve, and other classic indicators of approaching economic problems will prove to be invalid?
- Why do Clueless Joe Biden, Veep Kamala Harris and Biden’s press secretary hack all resort to laughing when asked tough questions instead of, say, trying to provide answers?
- Is there a more representative example of the modern day Democratic Party than former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who tried to turn his mediocre performance in that post into a presidential run, and now has gone public to note that he and his former (and perhaps soon to be again) lesbian wife are separating to date others, but will continue to live together?
- Does anyone else reading about de Blasio and his wife hear a background of the Statler Brothers singing “You Can’t Have Your Kate And Edith, Too”?
- Should we be concerned that our inept PR types of the Navy’s Pacific Fleet tweeted out a July 4 tribute to the forces with a solider saluting a surface ship and five planes in flight, odd in view of the fact that the ship and planes were Russian?
- Is it wise to think that the more the Democrats take pot shots at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and demean his presidential campaign, the more attention we should pay to the guy?
- While that rumored cage match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg seems to have been typical social media blather, can we agree that watching the two exchange barbs is probably as entertaining as the match would have been?
- Did you ever witness a sporting competition in which you wished both sides could lose?
- Can we really expect Mother Hubbard (Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen) to make any headway in relations during her trip to China?
- Will the Greenies who point to Formula One and its hybrid racers (internal combustion and electric propulsion) as proof of the viability of electric cars everywhere, concede that Formula One cars also are finicky, high-strung thoroughbreds that require pit crews of 20 to 25 members, not to mention copious amounts of other support personnel to make it through a race with a minimum length of 190 miles?
- Do you understand that if the inflation rate is 10 percent in Year A and 5 percent in Year B, yes, the inflation rate has slowed, but prices still are going up and are 15.5-percent higher after Year B? (NOTE: It’s 15.5 percent higher because the 5 percent rise in Year B is calculated on a 110 base – 100 percent plus the 10 percent increase in Year A)
- Is it possible the Republicans could just wait for the cell door to slam shut on the Democratic scofflaw of the moment before crowing that they got him or her or it?
- Are things soggy enough now that the area’s We Need Rain! people can take a break?
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