Coming Up 4's and 6's

 The Schloss-Blog is coming up 4's and 6's this weekend. Sort of...

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Sixes, you know, like the number of false identities that George Santos has. Uh, I mean Anthony Devolder. No, Anthony Zabrovsky. No, wait, I mean drag queen Kitara Ravache.

It's almost easier to name the people he hasn't been, the schools from which he hasn't graduated - with honors - or at which he's been a volleyball All-American - or the fortunes he has made, or the places his mother died and the places from where his parents fled persecution.

And eventually died.

Or, as Stephen Colbert said, the movie bio of his life will start with, "Based on a false story..."

Then again, he's almost a perfect mascot for the Republican party.

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Then there were 4's, or the number of homes of Democratic politicians that would-be New Mexico Republican state representative Solomon Pena hired four shooters to take aim at.

Pena, a Trump supporter and election denier, is accused of actually hiring four people to shoot at the homes of four Democrats in the Land of Enchantment.

He could have had them killed if the people he hired had been better shots.

The problem is that this is where we're going in America. Political disagreement among Republican radicals - or should I say irrationals(?) - has caused actual violence across the country. At FBI offices. At the U.S. Capitol on Jan.6, 2021. At Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home. And now at the homes of Democrats in New Mexico.

Donald Trump has brought us into the era of - "If you don't like the results, kill 'em."

So they're trying.

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Is it just me or does every time the Republicans control Congress and/or the White House, they spend like proverbial drunken sailors. Trump ran up the deficit by $8 trillion in 4 years after promising to eliminate it altogether

But when Democrats engage in deficit spending, Republicans balk and try to shut down the government.

The Social Security Trust Fund, upon which so many of us depend, is already $3 trillion in the hole as part of the national debt. How long before entitlement-killing Republicans come for what's left of it?

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This headline caught my eye: Unexpected snowstorms cost communities billions of dollars.

Someone help me out here: what's an "unexpected snowstorm?" 

Can't weather forecasters accurately predict snowfall? Maybe not to the exact inch, but close enough, huh? Around Chicagoland, forecasters on TV traditionally try to sell you on massive amounts of snow coming so you'll stay tuned in to find out it's only 1-3 inches.

Are you trying to tell me that weathermen in Atlanta, Dallas, Memphis, Nashville, St. Louis and/or Kansas City can't predict "snowstorms" with precision?

Has climate change, in and of itself, made weather forecasting that unpredictable? Or are weathermen just that bad?

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And now, your Fast Company tip of the week, as selected by our Schloss-Blog editors:

• Did you know ... there are six mistakes you can make that sabotage your likeability in a job interview?

I'm thinking not shaving, not combing your hair, wearing pajama bottoms to the interview, forgetting to floss your teeth, wearing the same shirt you wore to the bar the night before and using phrases like WTF in response to interviewer questions.

But I'm sure you have your own six.

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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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