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Modern day Ironies

 Feb 14 - a made up celebration day for love.  Valentine's day.  

But get this - Vlad has other plans.  He might just send a torpedo or a missile to his closest neighbor's front yard as his sign of love.  

Ponder the Russia invades Ukraine headline on Valentine day as a sign of undying love.

Gen Z rooting for our planet to not get hot and avoid global warming..  Yet daily headlines of this same generation mining for crypto.  The largest energy suck this side of Los Angeles at night.  Even the Kardashians cannot compete with this excess.

Education - students rack up debt to go to college and end up paying it off while making no use of their degrees whatsoever.  Then we try to subsidize this very education so we as taxpayers can keep paying for bogus college time.

California can spend $5B and complete the football stadium in Inglewood near Los Angeles, which is great for entertaining the denizens but when it comes to actually providing transit it basically dropped a huge turd on its super fast train track.

The wheels came off the rails on a $100 B (after several cost overruns) project called High Speed Rail.  The democrats really really failed.  Reasons include gross mismanagement, corruption, back scratching, special interest groups and most of all inept project management and planning.  Maybe people with degrees in art history or sports medicine .. who might have been better off working on the football stadium.


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