Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

We have a new Presidential candidate to support. The fact that she was the VP and has a certain reputation established is a good beginning. Who is to be her running mate, or do we know yet? There are some definite plusses in this change age and gender being at the top of the list.
The nation needs younger people in the driver’s seat. The days of the old men hopefully are over. Age is supposed to come with wisdom, but often it does not. Take the current older person that wants to be re-elected. This has got to be screwing with the Trump game plan because they were going to keep on about Biden’s age and mental capacity Now his acid tongue and septic personality have to shift gears to address the new threat.
Speaking of threats the Trump campaign was the target of a threat, a shooting that missed but it was an attempt. Now it seems that the followers of the great leader are upset because there have been comments about this event that were not supportive. The people that made those comments are using their 1st amendment right to express an opinion that the cult members find unacceptable. The cult now is tracking down these people and harassing them for not worshiping in the temple of Trump.
The cult is pressuring the employers of these folks to fire them, and threats are being lodged against the person, the families and the employers of the person. All this effort to cause harm and to create discord needs to stop. Members of the cult have made bold statements about how the enemies of Trump could end up dead. Has anyone gone to the trouble of tracking that person’s information out and then having them fired from their jobs. If that has happened it has not made the news.
Expressing an opinion is protected regardless of the comment. You are not to threaten people but an opinion of the outcome of an incident is hardly a threat. Back channeling to cause harm to anyone who stated an opinion should be treated as a threat and dealt with accordingly. Treat others as you would be treated.
We all do not like the same things or people. We express either positive or negative opinions in a million different ways. If in this case the response is negative, remember that it is just an opinion and you are expressing yours by threatening (an illegal act) that person’s well being. Let’s hear it for the rule of law and start punishing the one breaking the law.
Business leaders should take the stance that what an employee says regarding this incident has nothing to do with them. In the same breath they should say they protect the right of the person to state their opinion and that is the end of it. Our employee base has people that will vote for Trump and others that will not, we don’t ask nor hire or fire on the basis of race, religion, or political party and we are not going to be the scapegoat for anyone’s bias.
The bully gets his way if you let him. This is the tactic that is being used and the media is reporting it. The people who are caring about this nonsense should be named as well as the person that made a negative comment, to be fair. Then we should go back to that person’s employer and see if they are going to dismiss that person for being loyal to the cult.
Civility seems to be what is expected at this time, and yet, the request is now coming from the people who have shown zero civility since 2015 when their leader began his campaign for office. Decency, honor, civility and kindness are traits that have not been demonstrated by the cult so why does the cult expect to be given any of those things? Again you reap what you sew.

Myth: The Vikings Wore Horned Helmets

As with many historical myths, we can thank Hollywood for this particular misconception, as popular films helped perpetuate the image of horned-helmet-clad Vikings looting and pillaging their way across Europe. And yet the common depiction of these seafaring Scandinavian troublemakers goes back even further, to the initial staged performances of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen operas in the late 19th century. In reality, the only extant helmet found in Scandinavia and confirmed to be from the Viking era, which covered the ninth through 11th centuries, has no protuberances. Two other horned helmets, unearthed from a bog in Denmark in 1942, have since been found to predate the Vikings by two millennia, and were more likely used for ceremonial purposes than for protection in combat.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

So its only been days since Joe Biden decided not to seek re-election and endorsed his VP Kamala Harris and the GOP are crapping their pants. Donald wants a refund on all the campaigning they have done targeting Joe Biden, and his minions are crying fowl because there was no nomination process. I am sure this will be their first argument before the court when they lose, that and the cry’s that it’s fixed. Funny how its always fixed and not that they don’t have any ideas to move the country forward but then I remember that [R] in my car stands for reverse.

The right wing media is already attacking Harris’s laugh as a cackle and I am sure that won’t be the extent of their misogynistic, I recall they said the same thing about Hillary. The GOP noise machine is no doubt loading their cannons with every sexist, racist slur that they are able to broadcast and their mouthpieces that aren’t regulated by the FCC will be vomiting vile lies that won’t end with just racist and anti-feminist rhetoric.

Harris has a history of Firsts ;

A career of ‘firsts’

In 1982, Harris enrolled at Howard University, a historically Black university in the heart of Washington, DC. There, she joined Alpha Kappa Alpha, the country’s oldest Black sorority, and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics.

First Black Female 2 term Attorney General of CA

Kamala Harris was sworn in as Vice President – the first woman, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American to be elected to this position.

Hopefully the first Female President

With all her accolades the right wing won’t focus on facts and accomplishments they, in their usual fashion, will aim their sites on the fact that ‘she’ is female… patriarchy in action, the ‘she’ is black… racism in action… they will say she has no experience, that her record, both state, senatorial, and VP do not qualify ‘her’ effaces on ‘her’ to be Commander in Chief.

I myself am looking forward to a seasoned Prosecutor debate a Convicted Felon.

VOTE BLUE… not a cultist just enjoy Democracy.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

It seems like it has taken a long time and more than a little disgust to finally go after the Supreme Court. At least two of the members of that panel really need to find out what it is like to sit in a jail cell. They have accepted bribes, maybe in the form of trips and treats, rather than cash but bribery nonetheless. They have engaged in activities that support the activities of overthrowing the government. Have shown support for that cause and then granted immunity to the architect of that insurrection.
One of the judges in the case of missing documents has finally gotten her robes tied into the revolving door. One time too often she gave Trump a free pass when she should not have done so all in the belief that she could not be challenged. They have cut her off at the knees and the next thing they need to do is make sure she never hears another case and that her license to practice law is revoked.
That judge was appointed by Trump and I guess she feels that she owes him something and she can not pay it off with sex or just with sex, whichever. So Trump being the biggest snake oil salesman since PT Barnum and his followers being the target of his favorite saying, “There is a sucker born every minute,” provides the rope that hangs all this together.
He is the defiant one and all that follow are likewise pushing back against something that they think the government should not be doing. Regulating the tobacco and booze industries. Stop the taxing and let us have our vices for less. Keep the streets safe by not allowing guns to be openly carried everywhere. Can not take our guns and we need protection from, oh I don’t, the black kid wearing the hoodie, or the old person with a cane, or the really dangerous person walking is toy poodle, it could attack me. The government is keeping secrets from us about UFO’s or they are teaching the wrong thing in school and I don’t agree. The list is much longer I am sure for the justification to be defiant but defiant enough to fight your neighbor over it because an idiot loses an election?
Keep supporting that idea and you will be forced to go back to school to learn Russian because Mr. Wonderful plans on turning the country over to Putin for a tidy little profit all to go into his pocket. Your loyalty is being used like pawns in a chess game. You are the first to be sacrificed but your demise means the master gets to live another day and make another buck, possibly sleep with another woman, bragging rights. The only support you are going to get in this “blood spilling” is a mouth urging you on, the coward ain’t going to raise a hand to help and you will not find him in the fray. THINK ABOUT THAT

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

There was an announcement of what is on the agenda for the first 100 days of his next term if re-elected by President Biden. It is quite the list and hopefully he will be given the opportunity needed to accomplish those things.
On the republican side of the election no positive items have been put forward. The rounding up and deporting people and prosecuting those that he feels are his enemies. The bills that have been proposed are to have Trump’s picture put on the $500 dollar bill, rename our international waters after him and other basic kiss his ass nonsense items.
The convention was not well received or watched according to the polls; less than 20,000 people tuned in out of 33 million. Not what you could call super interest. With that being the case we can hope the voting goes the same way.
It is time we put that episode behind us and move forward without having the disruption of daily life hearing about Trump and his broken ego because he lost. It is better that he loses than we lose. His is a personal crisis and ours would be a national one.
Even though he has not been in office for the last 3 plus years his choice of Supreme Court Justices, and I use the term loosely, have created a massive amount of problems. They are supposed to be there to make sure that the laws of the land are in conjunction with the Constitution and that has not been done. As at least two of them have gone out of their way to accept gifts or take bribes to change or manipulate laws to give favor to one big business or another the court has been corrupt.
Six of the people on the court are of one faith and that faith has a leader in Rome. When JFK was running for President that was one of the issues that he faced, his religious leader was in Rome and people feared he would do Romeo’s bidding not ours. Our current President is also of that faith, yet his stand on issues is pretty much supportive of the American people not the Pope.
A member of Congress that supposedly was once an army sniper has put forward the information that the failure of the secret service is because they divided their resources to cover and event with Jill Biden. This, of course, put this entire matter back in the lap of the democrats because it is convenient to do so. It makes as much sense as saying the entire thing was staged. Does anyone truly believe that the combover idiot would allow someone, especially a 20 year old inexperienced shooter, to take a shot at him with a high powered rifle just to create a publicity stunt? How damn dumb would you have to be to do such a thing? How about the person that got killed, was that just necessary stage dressing to prove that it was not a stunt? Tell that to his family.
The point is that this kind of thing is unacceptable regardless of whether you like Trump or hate him. Violence is not the answer even if Trump is constantly encouraging it from his followers and claiming a blood bath if he does not win. If you are one of the ones that will answer that call, ask yourself, will he be there are your trial or funeral if you get caught or killed? The answer is absolutely NO.His claim to pay legal fees etc for those involved in Jan 6 didn’t happen so what makes you think this will be different. The most important part of all this crap is his ego. Nothing else matters, if he wins it will be all about how great he is, and if he loses it will be how he is a victim and that you all let him down.

Some coins have ridges around their edges because of “coin clipping.”

Run your fingers along the edge of a dime and you’ll notice the coin has a crimped edge. If you were to count those tiny grooves and valleys, you’d find 118 ridges, one less than is found on a quarter. But not all American coins have ridges, and here’s why. Rippled edges on larger-denomination coins have been a part of American currency since the U.S. Mint’s early days, and they were a clever solution to a massive currency conundrum: counterfeiting and fraud. Around the 1700s, coins were an easy target for money-generating schemes, including coin clipping: People would clip or shave off slim portions of a coin’s outer edge, cashing in the scraps of precious silver and gold. In Great Britain, coin clipping was so common that the crown deemed it a form of treason. In early North American settlements, “coining” — the actual production of fake coins — was equally problematic.

Knowing this, American coin makers added grooved bands — called reeded edges — to the thin sides of dimes, quarters, and larger coins then made from silver, in order to prevent shaving and make fraud more difficult. (Pennies and nickels remained smooth-sided since they were pressed from less-valuable copper and nickel.) But reeded edges lost some of their utility when the Coinage Act of 1965 changed the composition of dimes and quarters from silver to a copper-nickel blend. Reeded edges remain today as a design choice, and because they help people with visual impairments differentiate among coins.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

I am so over the patriarchal DNA donors asserting dominion over a woman’s body and rights.

In a perfect world every pregnancy is planned and or wanted and is the result an event that both parties involved wanted to happen. That is not the world we live in, not every pregnancy is wanted and even if it is may not result in a healthy baby. Pregnancy in itself can be life threatening to the person carrying the life inside her, no pregnancy is life threatening to the sperm donor ever.

So men realize that a moment where one of your little idiots just happened to hit the target does not give you authority over the target it just happened to hit.

I continue to hear men quote religious texts that abortion was banned or that, Jesus ever said anything about abortion are completely false.

Men want to scream about women taking responsibility for their actions when none of them or many of them are unwilling to take responsibility for their part in producing the pregnancy. So my opinion is that if you do not have a uterus, then you don’t get to make the call.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Inflation?

Among the report’s key findings: From April to September 2023, corporate profits drove 53% of inflation. Comparatively, over guy the 40 years prior to the pandemic, profits drove just 11% of price growth.

It’s Not Just Inflation — It’s Price Gouging

Corporations across industries, from housing to groceries and used cars, are juicing their profit margins even as the cost of doing business goes down. And they’re not hiding the ball.

Before-tax corporate profits rose by the most since the second quarter of 2022, up $133 billion following a $109 billion advance.

The progressive advocacy group Groundwork Collaborative recently argued that corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the second and third quarters of 2023. That report found corporate profits were to blame for 34% of inflation since the start of Covid-19.

This is only a small sampling of the information available so let’s stop screaming inflation if we were experiencing inflation corporations would be feeling the pinch just like everyone else.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

It is reasonable to assume that we all like variety. Look around and you see all sorts of things that support that idea. We have a number of manufacturers of cars, we have all kinds of places to eat and all sorts of foods. We do not all look for the same things in our relationships with others. The list is too long to attempt to mention all of the things that are different because we do not tend to all go for the same things.
The government has broken up monopolies so that more than one of any service we need is not controlled by one company, the phone, tv, gas and again the list is long. Yet for all of that we seem to be headed toward having one news source because a man is buying up newspapers and smaller radio and tv stations and changing their focus of putting out news, for the sake of news, to promote his ideas and ideals.
He has major outlets in all our bigger cities and even in London. His brand of propaganda is spouted as truth and he is doing his best to get his will to be the direction we will vote and ultimately travel as a nation. No one seems to be bothered by this assault on view point, you either believe or you don’t.
Each time we decide to go to a store we make a choice, each time you go to church you have a choice, each time you pick up a newspaper you should have confidence that what you read is actually a factual article. When the independence of the media is taken away for the sake of one man’s personal values the story gets changed.
Just like the government broke up the Bell Telephone monopoly they need to break up the media monopoly. The combining of grocery stores is not dangerous but the single man control of the media is. Without scrutiny bias becomes the name of the game. Don’t believe it, look at the Supreme Court which went from an honorable panel of justices to a corrupt group of people in black robes that feel they can usurp the power of the people for personal gains.
If thinking for yourself is important and all you want is the facts in our current world you are being fed the facts according to one man. Others have managed to get followers and in most cases these leaders have brought their followers to a deadly end. The man behind the media manipulation may not be feeding anyone kool-aid but he is still leading those that follow to a destructive end.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

As we move forward from this incident of the shooting and all the accusations about how it was brought about by the democrats and their negative remarks about Trump, keep in mind that this has given him a new tune to play in the game of being a victim. The actions, attitudes and speeches that caused this incident are very much his own words coming back to bite him. He is using the photo of him bleeding to make money for his campaign(?) or his pocket.
He has refused to contact the widow of the man that died at that rally, no doubt offering prayers instead. It would mean something if he in fact had a faith other than self. The convention was much more important than any death unless the death had been his. If his son or wife paid the price for being on that stage he would have milked that cow for all it was worth.
If all the press he is getting puts him in the lead or worse gets him reelected we will have to blame ourselves for being total idiots. This election has to be viewed as a selfish act, not one of denying votes to Biden because you don’t like some of his policies, Trump doesn;t have any so that idea is out the window. It is about where you want to go in this life and in this country.
Do you believe in Global Warming, or Reproductive Health, or taking care of Aged People, or adequate education for all children. If any of those or a hundred other issues are on your radar then you have to view this election as a journey and the candidates as busses. Which bus will get you closer to your goal? Keep in mind that the other bus will never get there as it is going the wrong way and is subject to diversions at any time.
Democracy and the rule of law was the course set by our founders. They had some bumps in the road as well but the majority of the country never gave in to the temptation of having one class rule. After the invention of the Cotton Gin and the Civil War the south was making efforts to allow only the rich and landed to be the voice of all. They were eventually stopped in that pursuit but today we have the ultra rich once again believing that they know best for all of us and if they don’t the religious right does. This is a dangerous view because that path will destroy our democracy and our nation and leave us open to the exploitation of nations that seek power over all else.