Trump has been quick to bash NFL players. However, he hasn’t talked about the great work done by retired player Warrick Dunn who is still helping families get homes.
Dunn uses his charity to help people, not do things like Trump’s charity did such as buy pictures of Trump.
Watt and the other finalists for the Walter Payton award, Benjamin Watson and Greg Olsen, are doing great things for people. Trump could learn from them. Sad!
I agree with Trump that we should protect American jobs. However, the proposed tariff on foreign solar panels is short-sighted and will cost jobs in solar installation, a growing industry.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Trump would damage the solar industry since he supports their competitors in fossil fuels. He is trying to take the US back into the past instead of leading us into the future. Trump also doesn’t believe in climate change so he doesn’t care about clean energy. Sad!
This analysis shows that the job gains in the US are occurring in the major metropolitan areas that voted against Trump rather than in the areas that supported him. This is an ongoing trend that will continue because of digital technology that is creating jobs in urban areas. Growth has been slower in jobs in Trump-supporting areas like manufacturing, oil and gas, and agriculture.
An earlier analysis soon after the election noted:
“The less-than-500 counties that Hillary Clinton carried nationwide encompassed a massive 64 percent of America’s economic activity as measured by total output in 2015. By contrast, the more-than-2,600 counties that Donald Trump won generated just 36 percent of the country’s output—just a little more than one-third of the nation’s economic activity.”
In spite of this, the areas with lowest growth and production control the White House and Congress. Sad!
“Poor Jenny” was originally released by the Everly Brothers in 1959.
Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds covered it in 1980 on an EP of four Everly Brothers songs that were later included as bonus tracks on the CD of Rockpile’s Seconds of Pleasure.
Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, falls asleep during meetings and drools! (This is according to multiple articles citing several unnamed sources.) Sad!
Cannon’s Jug Stompers from Memphis recorded the original version on January 30, 1928.
The Grateful Dead, which had jug band roots, released a live version in 1971. It’s electric, louder and somewhat faster but respects the original recording. They also played it on their 1972 tour of Europe. Here is one example from 1972 (Copenhagen, April 17, 1972). I prefer the 1972 version because of the addition of the piano. There are other Grateful Dead versions on YouTube.
Bo Diddley’s “I’m Sorry” is an atypical slow song with a conventional beat. It was released as a single in February 1959.
Los Lobos, famous for their later cover of another 1950’s song “La Bamba”, recorded a live version in 1984.
The Oracle of Baseball enables you to find the link between two players using the “six degrees” concept of who they played with.
Here’s how to connect Babe Ruth to Manny Machado, for example, through five other players.
Retrosheet also has cool baseball information – decades of box scores. Here‘s the box score for the first game I saw in person when the New York Yankees defeated the Kansas City Athletics in 1961. There were only 17,000 people at Yankee Stadium on a Sunday afternoon.
Confidence in the US President has fallen from 64% to 22% under Trump. No confidence has risen from 23% to 74%. Those figures are from a Pew report in July.
A new Gallup survey shows worldwide approval of US leadership is at a new low of 30%.
“America First” was used as a slogan by a group opposed to US entry into World War II. The phrase has an anti-Semitic history in addition to its isolationist background. I’m sure Trump knew the history of the phrase and correctly figured it would appeal to the bigoted part of his base. Sad!
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court gave the General Assembly until February 9, 2018 to come up with a new map. The court ruled that the current map discriminated against Democrats. Voters are split almost evenly between the two parties but Republicans generally win 13 of the 18 congressional races. Sad!
Sad! 