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For years, many of us have known, or at least suspected, that the government cooks the books on statistics to make things look rosier than they are. Tons of government data is either known, or at least suspected to be, unreliable. A great example is the now widespread knowledge that Joe Biden’s mental decline was hidden by government officials and their accomplices in the MSM. A report is out by the Walls Street Journal, indicating that economic data published by the government can no longer be relied upon for its accuracy. There is no pravda in Isvestia, and there is no isvestia in Pravda. Of course, the government workers are blaming Trump and his budget cuts, claiming that they don’t have enough personnel to do their jobs.

A great example of realistic stats was the website shadowstats.com. I don’t know if they still publish. I like to use the Denny’s grand slam breakfast as my marker. Why? That breakfast has 2 strips of bacon, two link sausages, two eggs, and two pancakes. A good cross section of food products. The best thing is that I have been using the price of this breakfast in the same Denny’s location since 1997 as an indication of costs.

• In 1997, that breakfast cost $1.99
• In 2009, it cost $4.99
• In 2021, it cost $9.29
• Just a year later in 2022, it was $11.59
• In 2023, the rate slowed a bit. The breakfast was $11.99 in April
• By November of 2023, the price was up again, to $12.99
• Here we are in 2025, and the cost of that breakfast is now $14.19.

I don’t know how long we can continue to use this bellwether, since Denny’s filed bankruptcy earlier this year.

Ten states and the District of Columbia are violating the Constitutional rights of their citizens by banning so-called “assault weapons” and the majority of SCOTUS doesn’t care. The 4th Circuit concluded that assault weapons are not protected by the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms at all “because, in essence, they are military-style weapons designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defense.”  But even if the Second Amendment does protect the right to have assault rifles, the court continued, the law is still constitutional because it “fits comfortably within our nation’s tradition of firearms regulation. It is but another example of a state regulating excessively dangerous weapons once their incompatibility with a lawful and safe society becomes apparent, while nonetheless preserving avenues for armed self-defense.” 

Where do the words “self defense” appear in the Second Amendment? The continued inventing of phrases by our courts that is done to justify whatever violation is popular that day is a travesty. That travesty is compounded by the fact that leftist Comey-Barret is again siding with the Democrats, and that Kavanaugh is again showing that they have photos of him at Epstein island or at a Diddy party, because his occasional lapses seem like he is being controlled. No matter the reason, out courts are displaying the total lack of regard for anything but political Kabuki.

To clear out some tabs, here are some news stories from around Central Florida:

A new Florida law will allow people to pay some bills with gold and silver coins. People who do so will not have to pay sales tax. This really doesn’t help anything. Let me explain. Silver’s melt value is $33.60, but one ounce coins cost $43.24, a 29% markup. The sales tax is only 7% to 8%, so you are losing out. On top of that, you would owe capital gains taxes to the Feds on any increase in the value of the coin between buying it and when you used it to pay a bill.

A man in Polk County, Florida was swimming in a Lake when he was bitten by an alligator. When police arrived, he grabbed a pair of garden shears and attempted to break into a police cruiser to steal a firearm before being shot by deputies.

People in Tavares are leaving guns in their unlocked cars, and thieves are stealing them. This is the time of year for car break ins, because high school students are out of school, bored, and looking for things to do. Don’t leave a gun in your vehicle, especially an unlocked one.

The local press is breathlessly posting that ride share drivers like Uber and the like are sometimes carrying guns. Note that the police ticketed and towed the car, not because of the gun, which was returned to him, but because he didn’t have permission to pick up fares at the airport. The left wing media is more concerned with a man carrying a gun with a permit and operating a ride service without a permit than they are for people entering the US illegally.

Now that the new pope is from Chicago, a few changes are coming:

• The newest TV show to be added to the Chicago lineup of Chicago PD, Chicago Fire, and Chicago Med will be Chicago Pope
• Communion wafers will henceforth be deep dish
• Mike Ditka will be canonized. Saint Mike, patron Saint of Da Bears, and Da Bulls
• It is now a mortal sin to put ketchup on a hot dog
• All parishes will now wish peace and love upon America, except for those jerks in Green Bay

All kidding aside, here are a couple of Tweets made by this man, before he was elevated to the top post in the church. His entire account seems to be an Anti-Trump woke stream of consciousness:

As usual, the head of the Catholic church is a giant hypocrite, just as all liberals are. He can change my mind by immediately allowing anyone who wishes to enter Vatican city and stay there as a “dreamer” to do so. Until then, he is just a liberal to be ignored.

Filming things for views. In this case, the range should never have allowed it. It’s this sort of attention seeking behavior that gets people hurt. They are lucky in this case that no one was.

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— Gun Lovers Club (@GunloverClub1) April 30, 2025

Since we are talking about religion so much this week, I was reminded of something. I mentioned that I spent several years in a Christian private school. One of the things that always fascinated me was how so many things in that book captured the human condition.

Nuclear power is the power of the stars. The Chernobyl reactor melted down in 1986. The area, even aquafers with a formation period measured in decades, was heavily contaminated with radionuclides, in some cases more than 100,000 times higher than background radiation.

There is a connection to that in the Christian bible. Let me explain:

The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water—  the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

The Ukrainian word for the common wormwood plant (Artemisia vulgaris) is “Чорнобиль” (chornóbyl).

Striking, isn’t it?

Antifa in Portland posted flyers around the city stating that if you don’t wear a mask you are being “violent,” and suggesting that they have the right to attack you in “self-defense.”

Feminist Karen

Her boyfriend David

I am going to warn my readers that blog posts may be short and sporadic for the next couple of weeks. I am studying for a new board certification. I am looking to add a board certification in a nursing specialty. Boards are a bitch. (The title is a play on words)

I recently had in depth conversations with a couple of my patients. They were quite topical. The first one was a conversation that I had with a retired Army Warrant Officer whose job it was to fly Blackhawk helicopters. One of his postings was to the same unit that the helicopter that was involved in the recent collision between an Army helicopter and a civilian airliner.

His thoughts were that the crew was wearing NODs while flying the aircraft. If you have ever worn those devices, you know two things- you lose depth perception, and any lights you see tend to look like any other lights that you see. This area, according to him, is very busy airspace with a lot of things going on, lots of lights on the ground, and lots of aircraft with lights flying around. The helicopter was flying higher than it was supposed to, and for these reasons, the oncoming airliner’s lights likely blended into the background.

My thoughts on this, is that if this airspace is that dangerous, the military either needs to no longer be permitted to fly in that area, or if it is determined that national security requires them to still fly there, then the airport needs to be shut down so civilians no longer fly in the area. It’s the only way to be sure this won’t happen again.

The second person I spoke with is a poultry farmer from Kentucky who told me that he hasn’t had any problems with avian flu. He has over 20,000 egg laying birds, and not one case of any sickness.

My opinion here is that this was a problem created by the outgoing Biden administration to screw with Trump. This is another fake pandemic.