Monday Musings - January 27, 2025

 

1. Already, the last Monday of January has arrived. This then is the fourth Monday of 2025 and there are 48 Mondays remaining in the year. 

2. Family NFL Report. One family team remains and is playing for its third consecutive Super Bowl championship: the Kansas City Chiefs! The Commanders fell short in valiant effort against the Eagles. The Super Bowl scheduled for February 9th will be the Chiefs vs the Eagles. 

Mango Tree in Bloom
Tequesta, FL
January 26, 2025

3. Spring is arriving in South Florida. As I was cruising the neighborhoods on my bike yesterday, I noticed that the mango trees were in bloom. Now, mind you, mango trees are not the prettiest trees when they bloom, but they bloom prolifically. 

4. It has been a week since the inauguration and I have to say, the newly reinstalled president is living up to his word. Chaos and confusion reigns. Amid the actions, individual human rights are being obliterated. I read in the news the deportees being flown in military aircraft to their destinations are handcuffed and not being given water or allowed to use restroom facilities. That is what the President of Colombia objected to and was soundly thumped by the administration with sanctions and tariffs. We can remain decent people and treat people humanely even when deporting them.

5. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII. Wow!

6. Look out--it is likely to be a blood bath in the stock market today. 

7. Today in History. On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops enter Auschwitz, Poland, freeing the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally revealing to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.

Auschwitz was really a group of camps, designated I, II, and III. There were also 40 smaller “satellite” camps. It was at Auschwitz II, at Birkenau, established in October 1941, that the SS created a complex, monstrously orchestrated killing ground: 300 prison barracks; four “bathhouses” in which prisoners were gassed; corpse cellars; and cremating ovens. Thousands of prisoners were also used for medical experiments overseen and performed by the camp doctor, Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death.”

After forcing Colombia to back down, White House claims America is respected again - CNN

‘Nothing will be easy about returning:’ Survivors mark 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation - CNN

A shocking Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending US stocks plunging - CNN

Gaza residents stream home to the north after hostage breakthrough - Reuters

Thirty-seven suspected terrorists arrested in East Africa, says Interpol - Reuters

Putin says he and Trump should meet to discuss Ukraine and energy prices - Reuters

Ukraine says it hit Russian oil refinery in big drone attack - Reuters

-- Bob Doan, Tequesta, FL