Sunday, February 02, 2025
Cover-up of Joe Biden’s senility finally getting some play
Cover-up of Joe Biden’s senility finally getting some play - American Thinker https://t.co/rQmGPm7dDs
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) February 2, 2025
It took too long, but some in the media are admitting what we all knew: President Biden’s elevator didn’t go all the way up to the top floor. This is what we are hearing now:
The unprecedented cover-up of Joe Biden is finally seeing sunlight.
Critics of the legacy media have long accused news organizations of shielding the 46th president from bad press, particularly when it came to revelations of his family’s shady financial dealings as well as his cognitive decline, which was put on full display at last year’s CNN debate resulting in his exit from the 2024 presidential race.
Efforts to cover up for Biden began as early as May 2019 as the primary race for the 2020 Democratic nomination was underway. Last week, former Politico reporter Marc Caputo shed light on a report he had written at the time that stemmed from opposition research from the campaign by one of Biden’s Democratic rivals. The report involved a “tax lien” on Biden’s son Hunter pertaining to his work at Ukrainian energy company Burisma. At the time, the former vice president held a substantial lead over Democratic candidates in the polls.
Yes, it started in 2019 and ended with that Biden-Trump performance in June 2024. We saw on the TV screen that night what we had suspected: that the president of the U.S. was not up for the job.
Many of us suspected why then-V.P. Biden ran a campaign from his basement. We were told that it was COVID, but he didn’t even do a virtual press conference. His campaign was reduced to a weekly trip to buy ice cream, an interview with a friendly reporter, and letting the media continue obsessing with everything Trump.
It continued as president, with little press access or just reading from a script. It couldn’t go on after that fateful debate with Trump.
Why did so many reporters go along with it? That’s the cover-up, we say. However, this effort to deny Trump’s election ended up hurting the media beyond repair. Just ask Jorge Ramos, Jim Acosta, and Chuck Todd.
Maybe Woodward and Bernstein will write a book called All the President’s Men in the Media. Maybe they’ll make a movie out of it.
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1978: The Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" was # 1 this week
They sent a few songs to Robert Stigwood who was working on a movie about young people and New York City dance clubs.
The movie was a smash and so was the soundtrack now available in a digital format.
It featured 3 of the biggest hits of the 1970's: "How deep is your love", "Night fever" and "Stayin' Alive".
As I've posted before, the movie was OK but the soundtrack had us dancing!
Baseball and memories of Cuba
Let me share two childhood memories of growing up Cuba.
The first one is the political turmoil and upheaval that turned Cuba upside down in the early 60's. It finally led to our departure in '64.
My second memory is more pleasant or baseball.
It seems that my dad took my brother and I to the baseball doubleheader every Sunday.
I don't remember a lot but I do recall Orestes "Minnie" Minoso getting booed because the fans did not think that he was running out a ground ball.
My favorite player was Camilo Pascual, who would go on to win 174 games in the majors with the Senators/Twins.
There were many young Cuban players who who were destined for the majors----Cookie Rojas, Leo Cardenas, Pedro Ramos, Mike Cuellar, Tony Gonzalez, etc. I remember watching them before they left the island and pursued careers in the majors.
Before Castro, great players like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and Satchel Paige played in the island.
The Yankees played spring exhibitions. The Negro League teams were very popular because many Cubans were on the rosters.
In the 50's, Tommy Lasorda, Willie Mays, "Rifleman" Connors and Brooks Robinson played winter ball in Cuba.
Every Cuban baseball fan should check out this great book about the history of Cuban baseball. Better than that, buy your Cuban mom or dad an "Almendares" or "Habana" baseball cap!
“Ricky Ricardo” and growing up in Wisconsin
It was fun playing football in snowstorms and answering questions about “Ricky Ricardo”, or the only Cuban that any of my friends knew anything about.
Saturday, February 01, 2025
A new leader like the last one?
A new leader like the last one? - American Thinker https://t.co/SEEOq87Ya9
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) February 1, 2025
It’s time for the Democrats to look for a party leader. That’s what happens every time a party loses an election. It’s a great opportunity to turn a losing franchise around, as they do in sports. So far it does not appear that the Democrats understand why they lost everything between San Francisco and Washington D.C.
Let’s see what’s happening. This is the story:
A fresh start under a new leader could help turn the floundering Democrats’ fortunes around, insiders fervently hope.
But that’s not likely, whoever wins the battle — be it Wisconsin state chair Ben Wikler, Minnesota state chair Ken Martin or one of their long-shot rivals — because the party’s problems are ideological, not technical.
The DNC, like its Republican counterpart, sounds more important than it is. It does not select candidates for office, establish the party’s platform or set legislative priorities at any level of government.
The national committee isn’t even the leading campaign fundraising entity in presidential, federal or state races.
While the DNC raised an impressive $652 million during the 2024 campaign cycle, the Kamala Harris campaign alone raised over $1 billion.
The race for DNC chair could matter if the party’s woes were purely a matter of campaign mechanics: The central party helps to maintain voter contact databases and provides technological infrastructure that all its candidates can access.
If the Democrats’ November defeats were due to poorly maintained databases or outdated voter modeling software, the new chair could fix those and propel the party to victory.
On immigration, they still think that the solution is immigration reform, or something that fell off the charts when the border was opened under the Biden administration. Reform won’t change a thing when the problem is people across the border.
On education, the party is too close to the teachers unions rather than the parents. On cultural issues. they are out of the mainstream, whether it’s men playing on women’s sports or late-term abortions.
So who will be the new party leader? We will see, but the party has a message problem and I don’t think that they understand yet.
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A word about February 1
We remember Don Everly who was born in Kentucky on this day in 1937. He died in August 2021 at the age of 84. Don and, his late brother Phil were the legendary The Everly Brothers. Along the way, the brothers became one of the greatest rock acts and their tight 2-part harmonies influenced The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, The Bee Gees, The Hollies and others. They had many hits, such as "Wake up little Susie".
We remember Paul Blair born in Oklahoma on this day in 1944. Blair played center field for the Orioles, a team that won 2 World Series championships, 4 AL pennants, and 2 division titles. He was traded to the Yankees and played on the 1977 & 1978 teams that won the World Series. Blair hit .250 over 17 seasons and won 8 Gold Gloves. His best season was 1969: .285, 26 HR & 76 RBI. Blair died in 2013. He left us with a lot of memories chasing down those fly balls in center field. He was great!
"La Boheme" made its debut on this day in 1896. And we've been watching the story and listening to the music ever since.
We remember Don Everly (1937-2021)
We remember Don Everly who was born in Kentucky on this day in 1937. He died in August 2021 at the age of 84.
Don and, his late brother Phil were the legendary The Everly Brothers. Along the way, the brothers became one of the greatest rock acts and their tight 2-part harmonies influenced The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, The Bee Gees, The Hollies and others.
They had many hits, such as "Wake up little Susie".
1979: Most painful Super Bowl loss or Pittsburgh beat Dallas in SB 13!
Let’s remember Super Bowl 13 or Dallas vs Pittsburgh or Roger Staubach vs. Terry Bradshaw or Coach Landry vs Coach Knoll.