The Daily Dose/May 6, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is the Libertarian Party’s nominee for the US House from Colorado’s 2nd District.
GAYLON FOR CONGRESS – VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN: A recent video we posted to the Gaylon For Congress website had a couple of lines we’d like to share with you.
Leading Off: The first concerns the gridlock and dysfunction in our country, both in our government and amongst us citizens:
America is hamstrung and dysfunctional right now, a partisan, fractured, and bickering mess unable to respond to any great change and unable to commit to any great project. We were unable to produce a competent response to COVID, and we we haven’t done anything great since Apollo.
Dry, Technical Matter: Boy, or boy, no one looking at America objectively right now can dispute this. We believe a competent COVID response would have prevented 90% of the 1.2 million US deaths, meaning roughly a million Americans died needlessly.
One Small Step/Don’t Get Us Started: Longtime readers know our feelings: Apollo was mankind’s finest hour, and we could’ve had humans on Mars in the 1980s had we wanted to. We didn’t, though, and America has been paying the price in an utter lack of national will ever since.
And In This Corner: The other line is one we’ve used from time to time on the campaign trail:
America is now halfway between the prominence we once had and the oblivion that awaits us.
Gee, Aren’t We Little Mary Sunshine Today?: This is true, too. The American Century is over. Nobody looks to America for leadership anymore, merely to see how we will interfere and muck things up. No nation has survived perpetual war, and America will not be the exception.
The Bottom Line: History’s scrap heap is littered with countries that once held great sway on our planet – the Roman Empire and the Soviet Union among others – and the US is in a strong position to join them, perhaps before this half-century is out. The biggest obstacle between us and the America we want looks us in the mirror every morning. We must overcome ourselves and it starts with you and me on November 5.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow discusses the vital matter of paperclip placement on a stack of currency. Today’s Diary.
Here is a Sparrow ProTip from me to you: you want the paperclip to be a fifth of the way up from the bottom – not a tenth of the way and certainly not a third of the way – to make the bills easier to count, should that become necessary…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 2013 – Three women kidnapped by Ariel Castro beginning in 2002 are released in Cleveland. Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus had been kidnapped in consecutive years and held in the top floor of Castro’s home where they were tortured, raped, and beaten. Their release came after Castro left the house and left a door open, enabling Knight to communicate with neighbors. Castro pled guilty to over 900 charges, was sentenced to life plus 1,000 years, and killed himself in jail in September.
In 1954 – Roger Bannister of England becomes the first person to run the mile in less than four minutes, running it in 3:59.4 at a meet in Oxford, England. Bannister, who only decided to run right before the race after the wind died down, broke the world record by two seconds, and his world record lasted until June when Australia’s John Landy ran it at 3:58.0. The world record for the mile – now seldom run – is held by Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj who ran it in 3:43.13 in 1999.
In 2006 – Daniel Powter is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the fifth and final consecutive week with Bad Day. The song went to #1 in four other countries, including the Czech Republic and Scotland, and was Billboard’s #1 song of the year. Though Powter later placed songs on other Billboard charts and has had hits in other countries, this remains his only Hot 100 appearance, making him one of 17 ultimate one-hot wonders: acts whose only chart single went to #1.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Secretariat was trained by Lucien Laurin.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who was the last American to hold the world record in the mile run? – Answer next time!
