Brian Logue

Notoriously bad at small talk...

[Brian Logue @BJordanLogue]

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[William E. (Bill) Smith @WESmith91]

@NikolovScience Zeller and Nikolov, who have doctorate degrees and years of experience in physical sciences, found that the mean surface temperature on Earth is NOT controlled by humans pumping greenhouse gases into the air but rather by solar radiation and atmospheric pressure.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Sunlight on skin makes vitamin D out of cholesterol.

Sunlight on skin releases nitric oxide and drops your blood pressure.

Sunlight at dawn sets the clock running your sleep and your mood.

Sunlight in a child's eye slows the elongation that becomes short-sightedness.

Every living thing on this planet is downstream of that star, without exception.

It has arrived free every morning for four billion years.

The eye was built specifically to receive it.

And somewhere in the last forty years we were taught to be afraid of it.

Afraid of the sun.

We check an index before we go outside.

We coat children in chemicals before school, every two hours.

When the regulator finally tested those chemicals, all six crossed into the blood after one application.

The star that made every calorie you have ever eaten is now something you buy a product to avoid.

Vitamin D deficiency went from a slum disease to a routine blood result.

No animal has ever needed protecting from its own star.

Every other creature on earth still moves toward it.

One species checks an app first.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

On September 20, 1980, Ken Osmond chased a suspected car thief through Los Angeles until the man turned and fired.

Two bullets struck his protective vest.

A third hit his belt buckle and ricocheted away. America knew him as Eddie Haskell, the smiling teenage troublemaker with perfect manners.

The man on the pavement was now a real police officer whose uniform had nearly become his burial clothes.

Most people knew him as Eddie Haskell.

The role began when 14-year-old Ken auditioned for what was supposed to be a single episode of *Leave It to Beaver*.

Instead, Eddie became unforgettable.

Ken returned for nearly 100 episodes, turning a small role into one of television's most recognizable characters.

Eddie knew exactly how to fool adults.

He praised Mrs. Cleaver, called Mr. Cleaver "sir," and acted like the perfect teenager.

The moment they walked away, another scheme was already beginning.

Tony Dow later said Ken truly created the character.

The performance became so famous that "Eddie Haskell" entered everyday language.

But success came with a price.

Casting directors stopped seeing Ken.

They only saw Eddie.

After the series ended, he found a few roles in *The Munsters* and *Petticoat Junction*, but steady work became difficult.

Ken never hid the truth.

He called typecasting a "death sentence," even while admitting Eddie had given him everything.

By 1969, he had married Sandra Purdy.

They wanted a family.

Hollywood couldn't promise steady work.

So in 1970, Ken traded scripts for a badge and joined the LAPD.

He even grew a mustache to become less recognizable.

As a motorcycle officer, he faced dangers no television set could recreate.

Then came September 20, 1980.

A suspect opened fire.

His protective vest stopped two bullets.

His belt buckle deflected a third.

Ken survived.

Afterward, he urged fellow officers to wear body armour.

As he often said, sweat was far better than blood.

The shooting eventually ended his police career.

After years of legal battles, he retired in 1988 following an eighteen-year career with the LAPD.

Later, he returned as Eddie in *Still the Beaver* and *The New Leave It to Beaver*.

But by then, Eddie was only one chapter of his life.

Ken had built a lasting marriage, raised two sons, served his city, and survived what could have been his final day.

He died on May 18, 2020, at the age of 76.

His son remembered him as a kind and wonderful father.

The world remembered Eddie Haskell.

The people who knew him best remembered Ken Osmond.

[Aubrey Huff @aubrey_huff]

Today’s @MLB hitter’s have access to too much information. Every hitter has a so-called “hitting guru” they work with exclusively. Most of these guys never played past high school, & in order for these guys to sound credible they harp on the importance of exit velocity, & launch angle.

If these guys could just keep it simple. Play the game to win. Move guys over, get guys in from 3rd with less than 2 outs. Have better 2 strike approaches…& their stats will be there at the end of the year.

[Brian Logue @BJordanLogue]

@Chug_A_Lugg @MarkLucasUSA That’s what I don’t understand.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“The United States had free immigration throughout the nineteenth century, and up until World War I, really. But that was possible because the United States was not a welfare state.”

— Milton Friedman

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

After surviving the 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash, drummer Artimus Pyle walked through the woods to find help. When he reached a nearby farmhouse, the homeowner mistook him for an intruder and shot him before realizing he was a crash survivor.

In the early morning of October 20, 1977, the plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd ran out of fuel and crashed into a wooded swamp near Gillsburg, Mississippi.

The crashed k*lled lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, his sister and backing vocalist Cassie Gaines, road manager Dean Kilpatrick, and both pilots.

Drummer Artimus Pyle, badly injured with torn chest cartilage, pulled other survivors from the wreckage before stumbling for miles through swamp and forest to find help.

When he finally reached a farmhouse, the young farmer inside, startled by a bloodied stranger emerging from the woods at night, fired a warning shot that grazed Pyle's shoulder before realizing what had actually happened.

Pyle survived, recovered, and continued performing Skynyrd's music for decades afterward.

[Free To Choose @FreeToChooseNet]

Economist Walter E. Williams makes a distinction worth sitting with: there's a difference between funding the constitutional functions of the federal government and funding everything else it has since taken on. Williams raises a pointed question about the nature of consent when it comes to taxation, and what happens when government spending drifts far from its original constitutional limits.

[Brian Logue @BJordanLogue]

@laurentboyd1981 License to move merchandise and prepare paperwork is silly.

[Brian Logue @BJordanLogue]

@JustineBateman The fallacy of the whole thing is actual practicing doctors weren’t consulted.

[Handre @Handre]

On a Sunday evening, August 15, 1971, Richard Nixon interrupted the broadcast of Bonanza to inform Americans that the dollar they held was now backed by nothing but his word. He called it "temporary." Fifty-plus years later, you are still waiting for the temporary part to end.

Understand what actually happened. Under Bretton Woods, foreign governments could exchange their dollars for gold at $35 an ounce. The dollar was a receipt. Gold was the money. Washington printed receipts far faster than it dug gold out of the ground, financing Vietnam and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society with the same press. De Gaulle noticed. So did others. France sent a warship to collect its gold, and the run was on.

Nixon had two honest choices: stop spending, or admit the dollar was overissued. He chose a third option. He defaulted, then blamed "international speculators" for the mess his own Treasury created. Classic.

Notice the language he used. He promised the dollar's action would "stabilize" prices. Consumer prices roughly quadrupled over the next forty years. A 1971 dollar buys you about fourteen cents of goods today. That is confiscation in slow motion, and it hit wage earners and savers hardest, the people holding cash rather than assets that float upward on the new tide of credit.

Here is the mechanism sound money advocates warned about for a century: Sever money from a physical anchor and you hand politicians an unlimited overdraft. Every deficit, every bailout, every war since 1971 rode on that Sunday broadcast. Ludwig von Mises died in 1973, having spent decades explaining exactly this.

Nixon called it "protecting" the dollar. He meant emptying it. You have been paying the invoice ever since.

[Brian Logue @BJordanLogue]

@Chug_A_Lugg If he lied to the President it’s a problem.

[MAHA Action @MAHA_Action]

RFK Jr. says the Fauci Diaries vindicate those who spoke out during COVID.

“We had to trust the experts and… he was the expert that they elevated.”

“Anybody who did not give complete blind faith to these expert opinions, which we now know were lies, was marginalized, vilified, demonized, and censored.”

“My Instagram was canceled with a million followers for misinformation.”

“I never put any misinformation up.”

“I put up all the things that we now know are true.”

“The press was part of this collaboration.”

“It was corrupt, and it did tremendous damage to the media in this country.”

“It also did incalculable damage to public health.”

[Brian Logue @BJordanLogue]

@crousselle @mary_pezzulo They’ve no clue how they wrecked society.

[Brian Logue @BJordanLogue]

@RobertaFresque2 “Classical Gas”

[Brian Logue @BJordanLogue]

@Conservative2TX He’s the best option but has a better chance being King of England.

[Brian Logue @BJordanLogue]

@DineshDSouza Nixon is worthy of study and some admiration.
He was no conservative.

[Brian Logue @BJordanLogue]

Dr. Fauci had a boss.

[Handre @Handre]

Mayor Mamdani wants New York City to run five grocery stores selling food at 30% below market price, and you already know how this ends because Ludwig von Mises told you in 1944.

Consider the man who runs a private grocery. He watches his shelves. When cabbage rots and steak sells out, he learns something: prices, profits, and losses feed him a constant stream of information about what New Yorkers actually want. He adjusts. He hates waste because waste comes out of his own pocket. That discipline keeps millions of stores and supermarkets across the globe stocked with everything from plantains to kosher salt.

Now hand the store to a municipal manager. What guides him?

Nothing does. Mises identified the core problem precisely: "The paradox of 'planning' is that it cannot plan, because of the absence of economic calculation." "What is called a planned economy is no economy at all. It is just a system of groping about in the dark." A city clerk selling milk below cost has no profit signal telling him whether he stocked too much or too little. He has a budget and a rulebook.

The 30% discount is the tell. Wholesalers charge the city the same as they charge Gristedes. Rent in Brooklyn does not fall because the landlord is renting to a bureaucrat. Refrigeration, labor, spoilage, theft: all real, all paid. So the missing 30% comes from your taxes. You subsidize your own groceries and pay a middleman salaried by the Department of Whatever to hand them back to you at a loss. Efficient?

Mises again: "The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations." Watch what happens when tomatoes run short. The private grocer raises the price a nickel and orders more. The city store keeps the mandated price, sells out by noon, and posts a handwritten sign: OUT OF STOCK. Shortages stem directly from price controls.

Venezuela tried this with Mercal. Cuba runs it now with ration books and empty shelves. The USSR perfected the queue.

New York will get the queue too. I will be getting out the popcorn to watch this monumental disaster unfold in real time.

[Friar Mario Conte @FriarMario]

On this Tuesday, day particularly dedicated to St Anthony, I’ll pray for you, your personal intentions and world peace at St Anthony's Tomb. I'll remember you again at 11am during the Holy Mass I'll celebrate in the Basilica. Have a great week! Blessings from Padua 🤗

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

I still think it's hilarious that the NBA is practically ballet while the WNBA is apparently 15 teams' worth of the 89-90 Pistons.