All this stuff piled up in the Schloss-Blog's notebook. Not anymore.
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Some 60 million Americans, about 1 in 4 of those eligible, remain unvaccinated against COVID.
They are leading the nation in hospitalizations and deaths from COVID.
They come from Red States for the most part and will vote for Trump and/or even further rightwing Republicans.
Freedom of choice is a beautiful thing, huh?
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In Arizona, candidates competing for the Republican nomination for Senate against Mark Kelly, are running despicable ads.
Against each other.
They focus almost exclusively on border control and what they term to be illegal immigration, blame Biden for everything but beat each other up anyway.
None of them talk about education, taxes, budgets or telling the truth.
Virtually all avoid mentioning Trump.
Has the orange-skinned one lost his stranglehold grip on the party? Is he poison? Look what Glenn Youngkin did in Virginia as an indication.
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Serena Williams took the NY Times to task for a story it ran about her and a new venture fund she has founded.
Seems the Times used a picture of Venus in the story instead of Serena.
All the news that's fit to print, but apparently not the pictures.
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I have some favorite and not-so-favorite ads running now.
One ad that continually puts a lump in my throat and makes me well up is the Colgate ad with Caleb, the young, visually-impaired boy, who boards a school bus and smiles his way into a conversation with a young girl named Grace.
His attitude in the ad is amazing. He deserves treatment, a procedure maybe a transplant if appropriate to fix his condition.
His heart is better than most people's vision.
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Jimmy Kimmel managed to put obnoxious congresswomen Lauren Boebart and Marjorie Taylor Greene in their respective place.
After the pair of gun-toting (Boebert), foul-mouthed idiots (both) heckled Biden during his State of the Union address, Kimmel pointed out that Boebert's husband was convicted of exposing himself to a high school kid in a bowling alley and Greene spoke at a far-right, pro-Putin's white-nationalist conference.
Trump loves them. Both are conspiracy theorists extraordinaire. Shocker, right?
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Hold on to to your old car. It is valuable for its chip.
It appears the war in Ukraine has caused Ukraine-based Cryoin to shut down. It is a leading maker of neon gas, which is key to making computer chips.
Cryoin is responsible for about half the world's chip-making possibilities.
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Flying Jet Blue anytime soon?
A pilot of theirs was yanked from his assignment when he showed up measuring a reported four times the legal limit for alcohol in his system.
Almost makes you want to fly Spirit or Frontier or whatever that merger is called now.
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Hello, Michelob Light.
Please finish the Superior Bowl ad, y'know the one with Peyton Manning, Alex Morgan, Jimmy Butler and Brooks Koepka, and the whole room stops when Serena walks in at the end.
Love Steve Buscemi as the bowling alley manager and shoe distributor.
Does Serena kick everybody's ass on the lanes? Wouldn't surprise me.
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The 'Underwear Olympics" were this week, otherwise known as the NFL Combine.
It has become "must-see" TV on the NFL Network, watching guys high jump, sprint 40 yards and make believe they're agile.
Hey NFL, skip this and cut to the draft already.
But no, next year the NFL Combine will be in the city that bids best for it.
I'm rooting for London.
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Zion Williamson, the freight train with skills disguised as a basketball player, has hardly played a minute for the New Orleans Pelicans.
Injury notwithstanding, what is the most-exciting player to come out of college basketball in a decade doing wasting away in the league's smallest market when it should've been "arranged" in the lottery that he wound up in big-ticket TV markets LA or New York?
Oh yeah, because LeBron wanted to steal Anthony Davis from New Orleans.
GM LeBron ain't doing too well.
See Westbrook, Russell.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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