Random News and Notes 17 July
There was a 7.3 earthquake off the coast of Alaska yesterday. The epicenter was about 50 miles off the town of Sand Point on the Alaska Peninsula.
The quake triggered tsunami warnings along the coast, but they were soon cancelled. The wave height for the resulting tsunami was a tiny .2 feet. Still, better safe than sorry.
The Steve Miller band was set to go out on tour this summer. The band had 31 dates lined up, including one near this editor, starting in August. Well, Steve decided he was gonna cancel the whole shebang. Why? Weather. And yes, I’m being serious, The band announced they were cancelling because of the weather.
According to Variety, ticket sales were less than spectacular. That said, it was still more than a month out from the first date. To be fair, Steve is 81. . .
The rescission bill I told you about the other day passed the Senate and is on its way to the House. The bill claws back more than $9 billion from previously allocated foreign aid and public broadcasting. Two major programs survived, PEPFAR – Bush 43’s AIDS relief program kept nearly $400 m , and funding for tribal radio stations was transferred to the Department of the Interior.
I do not expect much wrangling over this bill in the House.
I know most, if not all, of you won’t care a lick about this next piece, but I don’t care. There is a live action Legend of Zelda movie being made. The game it is based on dates back to the OG Nintendo Entertainment System. The casting for the major characters – Link and Zelda – has been announced and the leftoids are going nuts. You see, they wanted some autoparts to play Princess Zelda. However, an actual female was cast instead.
I’ll be honest, I have no idea who Bo is, but she is a she and she’s fairly cute so. . . For the record, this is the troon they wanted, Hunter Schaffer. Yes, that’s a dude.Re
Yeah, no.
The high-speed rail boondoggle in Commiefornia took a huge hit yesterday. President Trump announced that all federal funding for the project would end. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy made it official.
As of this writing more than $77 billion has been spent and not a single mile of actual high-speed rail has been laid. The project was initially approved in 2008 with a $33 billion price tag and a 2020 completion date. The price has ballooned to more than $125 billion with no firm date for completion.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller went on Fox News last night. Among the topics he discussed was the number of self-deportations. According to him, that number is somewhere around 1 million.
That number is only going to continue to grow.
There is a sad note to pass along. Singer Connie Francis has passed. Connie was a bit before this editor’s time, but he still enjoyed her work. She had 3 #1 hits, “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” “My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own,” and “Don’t Break the Heart That Loves You.”
Connie Francis was 87. Requiescat in Pace
