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“I don't think I was trying to change the governor's mind,” Allen said. “It was a general conversation about the economic challenges of a smoking ban and the impact it would have” if one were enacted.

“We operate in many states where smoking is not allowed,” Allen said. “When you look at markets where smoking has been banned, there have been significant double-digit declines” in casino revenue.

Anti-smoking advocates say the casinos are overstating the potential economic impacts of banning smoking, predicting that customers and revenues will return after an initial adjustment period.

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Date Line:  June 4th, 1968 -Ambassador Hotel,  Los Angeles,CA 

RFK was mysteriously shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in  California's Democratic primary in the  Ambassador Hotel by a Middle Eastern emigrant, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was arrested on the scene

Requiescat in pace RFK

Former President Donald Trump has signaled he will announce his presidential intentions after the November midterm …

by Victor Davis Hanson

 

The disaster that is the Biden Administration has been a godsend for Trump. Had President Joe Biden simply plagiarized the successful Trump agenda, there would have followed no border disaster, no energy crisis, no hyperinflation, and no disastrous flight from Afghanistan.

Had Biden followed through on his "unity"rhetoric, he could have lorded over Trump’s successful record as his own, while contrasting his Uncle-Joe ecumenicalism with supposed Trump’s polarization.

Of course, serious people knew from the start that was utterly impossible. A cognitively challenged Biden was a captive of ideologues. Thus, he was bound to pursue an extremist agenda that could only end as it now has — in disaster and record low polls.

Still, how ironic that the Biden catastrophe revived a Trump candidacy. Biden likely will cause the Democrats to lose Congress. His pick of a dismal Kamala Harris as vice president has likely ensured, for now, fewer viable Democratic presidential candidates in 2024.

Another volatile month for the markets is in the books. With the recent stock upturn, unemployment staying low, inflation possibly peaking, and corporate profitability continuing strong (Walmart & Target excepted), some may ask whether the markets are now making a bottom? As we discuss in the attached report it is too inconclusive to tell, but we venture to think we are closer to the bottom than to much more downside distress. We all wish inflation did not hit us as hard at stores and the gas pump, yet indications are consumers are undaunted and we expect a robust summer travel season as people cut loose after 2+ years of fear and lockdowns of one kind or another. Everyone’s grown tired of not seeing the grandkids, not taking vacations, and not living normal lives…all of which means getting out and spending money.

 

We aren’t totally sanguine, and worries still abound – the Russian aggression in Ukraine and its global oil market impacts, continued inflation and supply chain problems (try to get a refrigerator delivered lately), and housing becoming even more unaffordable as interest rates rise. Time will tell the direction of the markets and economy as these opposing forces battle it out.

 

We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge the terrible event in Uvalde Texas. Our hearts go out to the community, but especially the parents of the innocent young children murdered senselessly, in yet another tragedy. Treasure what you have every day.

~MG

Queen Elizabeth 11 Coronation June 2, 1953

Consecrated Queen of United Kingdom and a true beauty

WW 11 Army service

God Bless

JUNE 1ST, 1813

The heroically wounded commander of the SS Chesapeake, Captain James Lawrence gave the order "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with the out gunned British frigate HMS Shannon in the War of 1812. 

Estimated American combat male deaths:

 

American Revolution War 1775 -1783  combat deaths = 25,000

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Northwest Indian War 1785-1795 = 1,000

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War of 1812 1812 - 1815 = 20,00

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Spanish - American War = 13,000

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Civil War (tragedy) 1661-1865 = 625,000

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Great Sioux War 1876-1877 = 300

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Philippine - American War 1898-1902 = 4,200

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World War 1 1917-1918= 17,000

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World War 11 1941-1945 =407,000

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Cold War 1947-1991= 32

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Korean War 1950-1853 = 37,000

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Vietnam War 1964-1973 = 58,000

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Beirut  1982-1984 = 266

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Grenada 1983 = 19

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Panama 1989 =23

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Persian Gulf War 1991= 269

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Somalia Intervention 1992-1995 =43

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Iraq2003-2011 =4,50

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Afghanistan 2001- 2021 = 2,448

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God Bess America

May 29th, 1914

The Canadian Ocean Liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the Saint Lawrence River in Eastern Quebec after colliding with  the Norwegian

cargo ship SS Storstad of the 1,477 people on board the Empress of Ireland  1,012 died  :-(

R.I.P.

1959

US ARMY Launches Jupiter missile with Able, a rhesus monkey and Baker, a squirrel aboard for a suborbital flight in which both primates survived 

MAY 28th,1863

 The 54TH Massachusetts's  Volunteer infantry Regiment infantry, made up of freed black American men   left Boston, saw extensive  fighting for the Union.

1936 

England's Pride, the Royal Mail Ship Queen Mary begins her successful maiden voyage from from Southampton,England across the wide Atlantic Ocean to New York City  :-)

 

Nota Bene

Not only a luxury sea liner breaking travel speed records, The Queen her duty during WW11 by becoming an active troop carrier across the oceans  :-)

December 17, 1944

According to various verified accounts, the Germans opened deadly fire on the unarmed prisoners in a field, a barbarous retaliation killing of more than 84 in what came to be known as the Malmedy Massacre, which was outside of the International  Geneva accords

This  Malmedy massacre was a German war crime committed by soldiers of the Waffen-SS on 17 December 1944, at the Baugnez crossroads near the city of Malmedy, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge. Soldiers of Kampfgruppe Peiper summarily killed eighty-four U.S. Army prisoners of war who had surrendered after a brief battle. The Waffen-SS soldiers had grouped the  U.S. POWs in a farmer's field, where they used machine guns to shoot and kill the grouped POWs; the prisoners of war who survived the g

....... :-(

 

Requiem en pace +

Unsealed FBI warrant: IS operative planned to smuggle assassins across the Mexican Border to Dallas to murder the former president saying Bush "was responsible  for killing Iraqis and destabilizing the country after (Allied) invasion."