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If we want to regain the respect of the world, we should begin by announcing that children have no business expressing opinions on anything except “Do you have enough room in the toes?”
— Florence King
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Today is Monday, October 24th, the 297th day of 2022. There are 68 days left in the year. It is Take Back Your Time Day, National Bologna Day, National Crazy Day, World Polio Day, and World Tripe Day.
On This Day
In 1851, William Lassell discovered two moons orbiting Uranus.
In 1871, an estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants were lynched in Los Angeles.
In 1900, the United States government announced plans to buy the Danish West Indies for $7 million.
In 1901, Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
In 1929, “Black Thursday” occurred on the New York Stock Exchange, beginning the “Great Crash” of 1929.
In 1931, the George Washington Bridge opened to public traffic over the Hudson River.
In 1945, the United Nations Charter went into effect.
In 1946, a camera on board V-2 No. 13, a rocket launched from the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico, took the first photograph of Earth from space.
In 1960, a ballistic missile exploded on the launch pad in the Soviet Union, killing over 100 people.
In 2008, “Bloody Friday” saw many of the world’s stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10 percent in most indices.
Today's Birthdays
Actor F. Murray Abraham is 83. Actor Kevin Kline is 75. Michelle Lujan Grisham, in all likelihood the worst governor in New Mexico history, is 63. Actor BD Wong is 62. Chess grandmaster Ding Liren is 30.
The Links
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word (Brownstone Institute)
“Faced with enormous failure, the machinery that did this to us has generally refused to say the simple word. It’s the hardest thing for people with power to admit their fallibility. Even though the whole world knows what they did and vast and increasing numbers are aware of the utter failure, the political class still insists on living in a fantasy land of its own creation.”
The CDC will lose even more public trust if it puts COVID jab on the kids’ immunization schedule (Karol Markowicz)
“The COVID mortality risk of a non-vaccinated child is statistically zero. The vaccine simply can’t reduce it any further. So why is the CDC pushing it as if kids have been dying en masse from COVID? The result of forcing this vaccine onto the regular schedule is that parents will look at the other vaccines on the schedule with suspicion.”
More voters trust Republicans on economy as interest in midterms hits high, polls say (POLITICO)
“On both the economy and gas prices, 36 percent of Americans trust Republicans more than Democrats —12 and 14 points higher than the percentage of people who trust Democrats on those issues, respectively.”
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