For this Memorial Day weekend, as we honor America's veterans and those around the world protecting our freedoms now, the Schloss-Blog wants to chime in.
My father-in-law, 95, lives in a veterans facility in Mt. Vernon, Mo., They take very good care of him. He can hardly walk anymore, so they lift him in and out of his wheelchair, help him dress, make sure he eats.
And he deserves it. As do all veterans.
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Meanwhile, do you know who Jeremy Fragrance is? He smells for a living.
Fragrances, that is. Yeah, he smells and rates various fragrances and is the biggest influencer in the genre.
Not kidding.
Has almost 9 million TikTok followers, another million on Facebook, 3 million on Instagram.
Has his own line of fragrances. He makes a lot of money. He's 35.
Eat your heart out, Kim Kardashian.
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Know what else smells? Joe Biden's campaign.
He's trailing a soon-to-be convicted felon in the polls who's already liable for sexual assault, financial fraud and defamation.
Is it time for Biden to get down and dirty on the campaign, do something like remind America that Trump killed 1 million Americans with his denial of COVID and left a disastrous economy behind?
Yes, it is.
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At OpenAI, it's getting smelly.
Two of its biggest executives have stepped down, citing that its "...safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products," or, artificial intelligence will soon take over the world if OpenAI doesn't do what it has to do to make sure it doesn't.
So, you know all those movies you've watched warning us about the dangers of AI, "Ex Machina," "Blade Runner" and "I, Robot," to name a few?
Were they ahead of their time? Former OpenAI executives Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike might say 'no" to that.
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Speaking of smelly, attempting to top a Guinness Book of World Records mark, the town of Kyle, Texas, recently had 706 "Kyles" gather there, or the most Kyles in Kyle ever. In other words, a gathering of the most people with the same name in the same place.
It didn't work. The record, set in 2017, is 2,325 people named "Ivan," somewhere in Bosnia.
Yes, Ivans in Bosnia out-gathered Kyles in Kyle.
News you can use.
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Gunpowder is smelly and so is this about it: 47 million Americans live within a 5-minute walk of a place where a fatal shooting happened between 2020-2023.
Does that include your neighborhood?
Probably.
Four years ago, it was only 39 million Americans who lived within a 5-minute walk of a fatal shooting during 2020-2023.
In Columbus, Ohio, 41% of residents now live within a quarter-mile of where a fatal shooting occurred, contrasted to 28% before the pandemic. In Atlanta, those numbers are 58% versus 36%.
Ouch, America!
It's the same from sea to shining sea.
And that's the problem. And it smells.
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Abe Fortas stepped down from the Supreme Court in 1970 when it was learned he'd accepted $20,000 from a financier who was being investigated for insider trading.
Fifty-four years ago.
Today, it's de rigueur for Supreme Court justices to accept gifts, donations or whatever you want to call them, some from people who have issues before or are working their way through the courts.
When it comes to the law, American juris prudence is for sale at the highest level.
And that smells.
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A video that depicts the horrors and depravities suffered by female hostages taken by Hamas during the Oct. 7 raid has been released by the families of hostages.
It will turn your stomach.
As Hamas continues to reject cease-fire terms in negotiation, more bodies of dead hostages are recovered by Israeli forces.
Hamas will never release what hostages it still has because most or all of them after all this time are likely dead. And when the truth of that comes out, the point of all the pro-Palestinian protests here will be blunted.
And that video, by the way, should be required viewing for all the student protesters when they return to school in the fall.
Trust me, at the very least, they'll find it smelly.
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Famed drivers Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kyle Busch got into a smelly fist fight at the NASCAR All-Star Race at the North Wilkesboro Speedway.
Busch appeared to deliberately wreck Stenhouse on the second lap after they had seemed to tangle on the first lap.
So, in other words, you went to a NASCAR event and a hockey game broke out, huh?
Stenhouse was fined $75,000 and his father, who joined the fight, was suspended indefinitely.
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Quick takes:
- Conspiracy theorists are claiming that the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to dull the impact of inflation in part, do not include the price of coffee in configuring the Consumer Price Index. This is FALSE.
- Avril Lavigne is dead. This is FALSE.
- Justice Alito has blamed his wife for a second flag discovered hanging from his house that shows allegiance to the Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Well, not yet.
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Hope you're having a heck of a Memorial Day weekend. Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you. Avril Lavigne.
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