ON this date in 1924 - The 1st Winter Olympic Games were inaugurated in Chamonix in the French Alps.

Bun Man, representing the USA, ran so fast in winning the 100m sprint that writers accused him of using performance-enhancing drugs.

Mr. Purple, his trainer, quickly came to his defense and stated the performance was due to the French chanteuse, Dominique...

Strange, but Bun had this shit-eatin' grin on his face the entire time.

excerpt from the book This is Water - David Foster Wallace

And the world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the world of men and money and power hums along quite nicely on the fuel of fear and contempt and frustration and craving and the worship of self.

I keep seeing these wild reports on our former President, the just previous one...

Drugs, Threats, Incoherence, Blacklists...

The US DumDum Don...

ON this date in 1999 - In Louisville, KY, a man received the first hand transplant in the United States.

Bun Man and Mr. Purple, the man's family physicians, had told him since he was a teenager that if he kept doing what he was doing so much of, he would go blind.

His hand actually gave out before his eyes--sad, sad story.

Morning Peeps,

The GOP, again...

Living UP to their principles

Then they would break them for their personal use, or sell them at market. After a roundup, a group of horses remained in the corral. Over the following days, they perished of thirst, with the Colorado River a 2,000 foot drop below them. The name “Dead Horse” was given to the area as a reminder of the tragedy that occurred there.

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According to legend, the park got its name in the late 1800s when cowboys used the plateau as a natural corral for wild mustangs. The plateau made for a natural corral, and a narrow 30-yard fenced stretch of land made the only escape. Cowboys corralled the wild mustangs through the narrow passage.

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From BING

Dead Horse State Park is a state park located in Utah, United States. The park is named after a plateau called Dead Horse Point which offers a dramatic overlook of the Colorado River and Canyonlands National Park 1. The park was publicly announced as a state park in 1959 and has since grown in popularity due to its Dead Horse Point vista 2.

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Didn't take the pic...

DEAD HORSE STATE PARK UTAH

Visit here, if you get the chance.

The incredibly high standard of entries for Travel Photographer of the Year continued in 2023, and we would like thank all our entrants for supporting us, together with our fantastic judging panel, who gave so much of their time to select the winners.

https://www.tpoty.com/galleries/2023-winners/

CHANGE OFTEN, AND THEN CHANGE SOME MORE

Historybook: Actress Sharon Tate born (1943); Winston Churchill dies (1965); Ted Bundy executed (1989); Thurgood Marshall dies (1993); Department of Homeland Security opens (2003).

"To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often."

- Winston Churchill

#cosoconfessions

I JUST DROPPED IN TO SEE WHAT CONDITION MY CONDITION WAS IN...

I'm good.

#cosomusic

Closing time

https://youtu.be/xGytDsqkQY8

Later Peeps,

Headed to my Gym...

Stopped into VASA Fitness yesterday as I haven't been there in 2 years, just to see if my Silver Sneakers membership was still valid.

It is...so, I scheduled a training session so I can have their trainer develop a mobility training package for me.

Can you say SWEET?

USA DEMOCRACY...Oligarchy by another name

Judd Legum on Child Tax Credit and gift to Corporations

More tax breaks for companies that already pay very little in taxes
The proposed expansion of the CTC has been paired with extensions to business tax cuts established in 2017 that had expired or were close to expiring.

The tax breaks expand tax deductions for corporations.

https://popular.info/p/the-least-we-can-do

Walt Disney

Shrek

Katharine Hepburn won four times (one was a tie with Barbra Streisand in 1969).

Daniel Day-Lewis won three times.

Ben Affleck was 25 when he won the award for Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon, who is two years older than Affleck.

It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and The Silence of the Lambs

The actress with the most best actress wins
The actor with the most best actor wins
The youngest winner of best original screenplay
Three films have won the Big Five Academy Awards (best picture, director, actor, actress, and screenplay). Can you name one of them?

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S: Morning Brew

Oscars trivia

How can you resist a little Academy Awards trivia, especially the day after the nominations were announced?

Here are six clues about the Oscars. If you go 6/6, you probably watch too many movies.

The individual who’s won the most Oscars (hint: He died in 1966.)
The first film to win best animated feature when the category debuted in 2001

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Thousands of companies have directors either older than 123 or younger than five. Others registered their addresses at the Egyptian pyramids. Though many shell companies run legitimate businesses, Moody’s says that cracking down on these improprieties would help cut into the $1.6 trillion that’s laundered annually.

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s: Morning Brew

WHO DOES YOUR LAUNDERING?

Stat: If your company’s director is old enough to have hung out with William the Conqueror, that’s probably a red flag for regulators. In a study of 472 million shell companies, Moody’s Analytics found 21 million “red flags” that are potentially being used to commit financial crimes. One company listed its director at a spry 942 years old. Another reported over $2 billion in revenue in 2019 despite only having one employee.

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