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- Quote of the Week: The difference between humans and animals is that animals never allow a fool to lead the pack. – Unknown
Have you ever been part of a business or sports team with the team leader in way over their head? Is it plausible that incompetency and leading an organization, at any level, can align? Whether by ownership, election, promotion, or irrevocable ego, some people have found themselves in a situation involving leadership – and they have neither the skill, experience, or most importantly, the desire to lead.
Animals pick their leaders (a.k.a. The leader of the pack) in a few different ways. While some fight to be the leader, most animals choose their leader based on experience, wisdom, bravery, strength, and empathy. For the most part, animals choose a leader who keeps them engaged while keeping them safe. Maybe humans can learn more from animals regarding honesty, communication, transparency, and intelligence. “Maybe” being the operative word.
The Quote of the Week resonates with me, and I assume many of you.
Things I think on August 9, 2026
- The war with Iran is now in month six. The United States has spent approximately $40 billion dollars on this war effort. The U.S. has temporarily stopped Iran from nuclear proliferation…but the U.S. failure to neutralize Iran’s threat to Gulf partners has both reduced American influence over key international players and negatively impacted their economic growth. Then there is the Strait of Hormuz debacle. Does anyone want to provide what the U.S. off-ramp can be since military options continue to have limited results?
- SpaceX has tested the resiliency of the moon’s surface. The test was conducted by a bad actor – a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket hit the moon at 5,000 mph as it ran out of fuel that is required to direct a controlled descent back to Earth. Planning gone wrong to say the least.
- Football is back. Enough said.
- Puerto Rico – dire straits again. Not a power issue this time, but water rationing due to a severe drought. I have been to Puerto Rico numerous times, and it is beautiful. Hopefully, hurricane season brings the island some much needed water without the damaging winds.
- Restaurant Dive reports that fast food giant Burger King’s sales of the Whopper hamburger have increased 20% year-over-year (YOY). When is the last time you had a Whopper? For that matter, when is the last time you ordered food from a Burger King?
- Regarding fast food burger restaurants, there were one hundred people lined up waiting for Orlando, Florida’s first Whataburger restaurant to open last week. Seriously?
- Switzerland often brings to mind snow-capped Alps and chocolate, but few would expect this neutral country to have 370,000 nuclear bunkers. Under the Civil Protection Act, civilian safety is a priority for its nine million residents. The Cold War is to blame for this unprecedented level of protection offered to all Swiss citizens.
- I never want anyone to be injured or killed. What I do want is for humans to stop bothering animals, including bison. How many times this summer have we watched people stray too close to bison, who roam THEIR land as part of their daily routine? Yellowstone National Park has five thousand bison – some of them weighing up to 2,800 lbs. and able to run at speeds up to 40 mph. An average human sprints at 12-15 mph with the fastest human recorded speed at 27 mph. Why, for any reason, would people encroach in a bison’s space…especially considering their size and speed?
Bisons roam vast prairies. As stated above, their daily schedule involves two-hour periods of grazing and resting, then moving to a new location to graze again. There is no reason that people need to have up-close experiences with a bison and this video shows us why. I am not being sarcastic, but it has reached the point that I am cheering for the bison.
Last week’s Question of the Week asked about your take on where and how the Covid-19 virus started. This question followed Anthony Fauci’s Senate hearing where he took the 5th Amendment one-hundred eleven times. Thank you for your answers:
- A serious flu…no more no less, we were led by others.
- I think it was manufactured – originally for medical research and then for financial gain.
- It started (Covid) in my backyard as I was roasting garlic – not sure how that caused it.
- “Origin was in Wuhan…where there is the virology lab and the Hunan wet market….Rule #39 There is no such thing as a coincidence…Jethro Gibbs…”
- The wuhan institute of virology (WIV) was funded by eco health alliance to conduct corona virus gain of function research. eco Health received its funding ($600k) from the NIH (Dr. Fauci). WIV received another $1.1M over 10 years from USAID. We don’t have direct proof that the virus came out of the Wuhan’s lab because it has been covered up by both Fauci (his diary revealed all his contemporaries believed it was from WIV)and the CCP (no confirmed deaths of workers, etc). Per Jon Stewart, It’s not a stretch of the imagination to believe the virus was released by the WIV. https://youtu.be/v_IEC-0Yj6w?is=JFw6U47BpEeROCOI .
- I am taking the 5th. Let’s see what others say!
This week’s Question of the Week: If you won last night’s PowerBall lottery, what is the first thing you would purchase?
- Pure Talent. Something magical happened in the late seventies and early eighties that will never be replicated. The funk, the groove, the energy, and the party atmosphere of that era’s music cannot be competed with – no way, no how. This is Atlanta’s SOS Band – musicians and singers who gave it their all to produce and perform great songs. The SOS Band was Pure Talent.