Bits & Bytes

BARRON TRUMP: Well, this was fun! Barron Trump “liked” my comment! 🙂 If you’re not familiar with the Sydney Sweeney thing, click the link below.

• https://fortune.com/2025/07/30/why-sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-jeans-ad-controversial-explainer/

DOGE: Over the last 5 days, agencies terminated 122 wasteful contracts saving We the Taxpayers another $388 million. One of the contracts was $1.17 million for a “merit review experience study” for the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The NSF uses a “merit review” to decide which greedy hands get what piece of the taxpayer money pie. A “merit review experience” would refer to how the owners of said greedy hands felt about the merit review system. E.g., were the guidelines easy to follow, was the process fair and transparent.

The NSF, for reasons that escape me, decided it was a good idea to blow $1.17 million of that taxpayer money pie to hire an outside contractor to survey said merit review experiences and suggest possible revisions to the merit review process. Our health care provider does the same thing by emailing us a “Let us know how we’re doing” survey after every visit.

• https://x.com/DOGE/status/1951489401214599611

HAPPINESS: A teacher gave a balloon to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it, and throw it out into the room. The teacher then mixed all the balloons and gave the students 5 minutes to find their own balloons. Despite a hectic search, no one found their balloon.

At that point, the teacher told the students to take the first balloon that they found and hand it to the person whose name was written on it. Within 5 minutes, everyone had their own balloon. The teacher said to the students: “These balloons are like happiness. We will never find it if everyone is looking for their own. But if we care about other people’s happiness, we’ll find ours too.”

KAMALA: CLICK https://x.com/WesleyHuntTX/status/1951282525193547822 to hear Harris blame her decision not to run for governor of California on a “broken system.” The system to which she refers is the corruptocracy funded by billionaires like George Soros who want to establish medieval feudalism on a global scale … with them in charge of all the wealth and power, of course. In the Middle Ages, feudal lords were absolute rulers of their fiefdoms. They owned the land, made the laws, and commanded the military. The majority who did the work and paid the taxes were not allowed to own weapons or move elsewhere. Any of that sound familiar?

ORDINARY HEROES: In June 2022, Hailey Ann Smith was on her way home from playing her harp at a wedding when a car accident blocked traffic on Interstate 85 in Atlanta. She posted on her Facebook page “I got the harp out and parked myself in the very middle of the Interstate and played a few songs for everybody! What you can’t see is the ppl that gathered around to video and enjoy the music and the trucker that drove past me when we were all moving again and yelled “You were awesome!” There are clips someone recorded of her playing at the Facebook link below. 🙂

• https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/interstate-instrument-woman-plays-harp-traffic-jam-i-85-atlanta/85-43fecefd-a719-4dd1-b9b2-397e21bee8c2
• https://www.macon.com/news/state/georgia/article263004868.html
• https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0FYWakHEMSXohkoWfPJuNth47jjT64hV2tpWfzUuUfyjAPFU53mKci2DXhRDaPfTJl&id=100009068937058

RUSSIA COLLUSION: CLICK https://x.com/WesleyHuntTX/status/1951051483220246732 [:18] to hear former FBI Director James Comey say he never told President Trump that the Steele Dossier had been paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.

GRAMMY NOTES: My 12-years-older brother and his pals were playing darts. One of the pals stuck his hand out and covered the board. He crowed, “Now you can’t win!” My brother put his dart through the dope’s palm. This may be why I don’t recall there ever being a dart board in our house.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1257028732501055 for a giggle.