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CELEBRATION OF SQUALOR: 30 Blocks Of Squalor And Government Incompetence

Avalon was able to track down another 30 Blocks of Squalor rant from 2015, posted by David Stockman on his website. This one centers on the incompetence of Philly government drones and corrupt politicians.

There were two accidents on the Schuylkill Expressway last Monday morning. You know what this meant. I had the pleasure of traveling to work on the scenic 30 Blocks of Squalor. The 30 blocks from 69th Street in Upper Darby to 39th Street in West Philly is a tribute to government incompetence, failed government policies, shoddy union labor practices and fiscal mismanagement.

This entire thirty block trek could be completed in 5 to 10 minutes if the hundreds of union government drones in the Philadelphia Streets Department would get off their fat asses and time the lights. The blocks are identical in distance. They don’t need advanced degrees in physics or calculus to set the lights to go green every ten seconds in order. They were timed in the 1970s and 1980s. Would smoothly flowing traffic be such a bad thing? Do they not care or are they really this incompetent? The first light at 61st Street was red when I arrived. It turned green and before you could touch the gas, it immediately turned yellow and red again. I wondered how long they’d allow this to go on. My guess would be days.

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CELEBRATION OF SQUALOR: 30 Blocks of Squalor – Summer Edition

Avalon was able to track down another 30 Blocks of Squalor classic from July 2010 on the Seeking Alpha website. It was only the third 30 Blocks article I had written, to be followed by over a hundred more from 2010 through 2019.

Today there was a crane broken down in the construction zone on the Blue Route. I was forced to take my alternative route into the city through the 30 blocks of squalor for the first time in 3 months. You may find this shocking but I actually have something good to say. It appears that a few bucks of the stimulus money was spent well. All of Chestnut Street from 69th street to 39th street has been repaved. It is as smooth as a baby’s bottom. No more potholes the size of Jim Cramer’s head.

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30 BLOCKS DOCUMENTARY

My one and only video documentary of parts of the 30 Blocks of Squalor. I tried to channel my inner Quentin Tarantino. I can’t believe I didn’t win an Oscar. This was in early 2019, shortly before I ended my 30 Blocks trek.

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MUST BE AN ELECTION YEAR

I hear Pfizer already has a vaccine and the government has already bought a billion doses. But voting will have to be by mail. Carry on.

FDA Preparing For Possible Bird Flu Spread Among Humans: Commissioner

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf in Washington in a file image. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing for a scenario in which the highly pathogenic avian influenza starts spreading among humans, the agency’s commissioner said on May 8.

“This virus, like all viruses, is mutating. We need to continue to prepare for the possibility that it might jump to humans,” Dr. Robert Califf, the commissioner, told senators during a hearing in Washington.

The influenza, also known as the bird flu or H5N1, has recently started spreading among cattle and other species. One person in Texas has had a confirmed case this year.

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You’re an “Anti”!

Guest Post by Eric Peters

When a Leftist or a Rightist wants you to shut up he tries to make you ashamed. He will accuse you of being “anti” whatever it isn’t.

“Anti” meaning opposed to, of course.

Except not really.

The political meaning of this prefix encompasses other meanings. If, for example, you are opposed to a policy (any policy) or action (any action) of the government of Israel, then you are “anti-Semitic” in the eyes of the Right, which has become what you might call philo-Semitic – that is to say, an unconditional lover of the policies and actions of the Israeli government and its willing accomplices embedded in the government of the United States.

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Dog Gone: Kristi Noem Cuts Short Book Tour Citing ‘Bad Weather’

Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClear Wire,

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has cut short a disastrous book tour after receiving withering criticism for her story of shooting an ill-behaved puppy and unverified claims of meeting North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, RealClearPolitics is first to report. The book, released Tuesday, is titled “No Going Back.”

Noem sat for a series of in-person interviews in New York and was scheduled to travel later in the week to Washington, D.C., before canceling the tour, citing inclement weather.

“Gov. Noem has sold a lot of books on this tour and is back in South Dakota to be prepared for some potential emerging bad weather systems,” spokesman Ian Fury told RCP. Tornadoes touched down in the state Monday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Noem sat for interviews Monday and Tuesday in New York before returning home.

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David Stockman on Why There is No Noticeable Benefit from the Fed’s Policies

Guest Post by David Stockman

Here is the only noticeable “benefit” from the Fed’s pro-inflation policies since Greenspan’s arrival at the Eccles Building. To wit, these policies have pleasured the tippy top of the economic ladder with massive wealth gains owing to the relentless inflation of financial assets. During the 34 years since 1989, therefore, net worth has increased as follows:

Aggregate Net Worth Gain, Q4 1989 to Q3 2023

  • Top 0.1% or 131,000 households (purple area): +$18.2 trillion or 11.4X.
  • Top 1.0% or 1.34 million households (black area): +$40.0 trillion or 9.5X.
  • Bottom 50% or 65.7 million households (blue area): +$3.7 trillion or 5.1X.

For want of doubt, the corresponding net worth gains on a per household basis are as follows:

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RFK Jr. Says He Supports A Mother’s Right To Drown Her Newborn At Chappaquiddick

Via The Babylon Bee

U.S. — In a recent podcast interview, presidential candidate RFK Jr. confirmed his official position that every woman should be free to choose to drown her newborn in the Chappaquiddick River.

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Carnival Rides

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

“These agencies are not trusted because they are not trustworthy.” — El Gato Malo on “X”

The miasma of anxiety befogging so many brains in our troubled land begins to lift as every narrative served up by the US fascist intel blob goes annoyingly stale and impotent. The worst media meme — that a vicious officialdom is “defending our democracy” — gets laughed out of the room now when repeated incessantly by such shills as Jen Psaki and Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC. Everybody understands they want to “defend our democracy” by cancelling your freedom of speech, pounding you into bankruptcy, and stealing whatever remains of your stuff.

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Putin’s Remarks At The 79th Victory Parade

Via Western Rifle Shooters

Speech by the President of Russia at the military parade

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia,

Dear veterans,

Comrade soldiers and sailors, sergeants and sergeant majors midshipmen and warrant officers,

Comrade officers, generals and admirals,

Soldiers and commanders, frontline personnel participating in the special military operation,

I congratulate you on Victory Day! This is our main, truly national sacred holiday.

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The Congressional Religious Fanatics Have Gone Stark Raving Mad

Via State of the Nation

Editor’s Note: Honestly, you just can’t make this stuff up.

Here we have the biggest Bible-beaters in Congress crafting legislation that literally criminalizes whole passages in the New Testament.  H O L Y  C O W !

And the great majority of these modern religious zealots were born and raised in the Baptist Church, or similar fundamentalist Christian churches where every word is sacred and law and irrefutable and don’t even try to deny their truth or reality.

WOW!!! Oh, the irony of it all.

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West ‘trying to distort’ history of WW2 – Putin

Via RT

The US-led bloc is using “hypocrisy and lies” to drive a false narrative, the Russian president has said at Moscow’s Victory Day parade

Russian President Vladimir Putin has used his address at the military parade in Moscow celebrating the 79th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany to accuse the West of “distorting the history” of the conflict.

He also accused the US-led bloc of wielding “colonial policies” aimed at elevating a few nations by restraining the development of other sovereign states.

According to Putin, Western nations “would like to forget the lessons of World War II.”

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