Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

In an interview Trump stated that it might be necessary to handle the dissenters from the radical left. He had already said that anyone that had contributed to the Harris campaign was going to be subjected to a long prison sentence.
It absolutely baffles me as to how he thinks he is going to get the military to follow those kinds of orders. Most of the top brass has already said he should not be elected and that he is a danger to the nation. On top of that is the business of following unlawful orders, which any order to attack citizens would be illegal.
With the nation divided the way it is, many families have people on opposing sides of this issue and some members are in the military. The first Civil War pitted brother against brother. I am not sure that this issue and protecting or elevating a wantabe dictator is going to have the same result, hopefully not.
Now we are hearing that Trump wants a military escort for his campaigning since there have been three attempts on his life. Since the supermarket episode and the coffee shop deal were staged do we believe these are real. The first one may have been real, the second has some issues. A sniper wearing a pink shirt, walking away from his hide leaving everything behind and the last one got nowhere near and the law officer is suspect as well, making up another story for attention. No publicity is bad publicity.
One possible reason for this request is to possibly identify a group of soldiers that will follow Trump without question. If the request is honored the squad should be made up of soldiers that are among his favorite target group. Let him piss off his security detail or learn to watch his mouth. He already has Secret Service and that should be enough, he can always withdraw from the election and go hide at a golf course.
Trump has something ??? touch his ear and it is the biggest deal going. Teddy R was shot in the gut and talked for over an hour without letting on that he was injured. Teddy also saved YellowStone as a national monument, Trump wants to destroy it for mineral wealth.
That is another thing to look forward to, the mantra of “drill baby drill “ which will make certain people happy but will ultimately destroy our country. Trump is old so he won’t notice if the land is messed up as he will not be here for long anyway.
The military has a job to do and looking after the person trying to get into the White House isn’t one of them. If he is that scared stay hom

Candy corn was originally called “Chicken Feed.”

Candy corn may be the most maligned confectionary — it’s rare that the tricolored treat ever tops the list of beloved Halloween candies. Yet somehow it returns with flair each fall, an unyielding symbol of the season. While the waxy, triangular kernels have essentially remained the same since their creation in the 1880s, one thing has changed about candy corn: its name. In its earliest years, candy corn was called “Chicken Feed,” a catchy name appealing to rural Americans during a time when nearly half the country’s population worked on farms.

Not much is known about candy corn’s origin, though credit for its creation often goes to the Wunderle Candy Company, a Philadelphia venture that first produced the candy during the 1880s. However, another manufacturer — the Goelitz Confectionary Company, which would grow into the modern Jelly Belly Candy Company — further popularized the treat around 1898, designing packaging featuring a rooster and the tagline “Something worth crowing for.” By then, the treat was called “candy corn.” At a time when most real corn was planted for animal feed, candy corn was a novelty play on the idea that corn could actually be enjoyable for humans.

Making the miniature kernels was a time- and labor-intensive processdone entirely by hand. Workers called “runners” walked backward along a conveyor belt packed with cornstarch molds, lugging buckets filled with a hot, sugary slurry that slowly dripped out through a hole. Each pass contributed one of the candy’s iconic yellow, orange, and white layers, which cooled into shape. Today, the process is nearly entirely mechanized and much faster, allowing candy corn factories to produce about 9 billion of the kernels each fall, just in time for seasonal snacking.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The constant lies are getting to the point that they will cause harm to someone. When that happens will the teller of the lie get off with no more than a warning. Guess it matters who tells the lie. If it were to be any democrat that tells a lie we would anticipate that the liar would be fined and jailed, if it is one of the Trumper crowd they will be let off with more locker room talk nonsense.
The media outlets that bemoan the poor coverage of things done by the republican party or members thereof does not come out and say that the media is biased because of who the owner supports. It is possible that would get you in trouble, but we are supposed to have a free and open press.
One day very soon things should get interesting as so many of the wealthy pushers of Donney dumb ass will be leaving this world. Maybe they have found a way to take the media outlets with them so they can screw up the next world they stop on. The brokers of malcontent all need to wake up and realize that the changes they are attempting to make are not going to make their lives better, shorter perhaps but not better.
The I wanna be king thinks that if he takes power again that he will have the military available to do his bidding because he will be Commander and Chief. The members of the military took an oath to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States. The articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice tells service members that they do not have to obey illegal orders, and any order to take up arms against other citizens that are not threatening them would be ignored.
Project 2025 may think they are going to replace a huge number of civil servants, but that may prove to be more of a challenge than they think. If they believe they will walk in, log on and take control they may be in for a big surprise.
Are there reasons to be dissatisfied with our government? Yes and that is normal as we can’t please everyone, however, the changes that need to be made need to start with getting rid of the obstructionists. The elected and appointed members that will not accept any view but their own. They block any effort to improve things if they feel there is political ammunition that can be used to gain an advantage for their party. When we need to be looking for the compromise that helps the majority these kinds of childish actions need to stop.
In order to have a successful government we need to have more than one view of all issues but the views need to be tempered with the ability to fix problems with the results benefitting the largest portion of our citizens. The name calling and constant calls for investigation of opponents is a waste of time and effort. The houses of Congress should not be treated like grade school and the bully taking someone’s lunch. To the members of Congress we ask “Are you adults now”? If so then act like reasonable conscientious people that have been elected to do your best work in support of our nation and the citizens therein.

The moon can produce a lunar rainbow known as a “moonbow.”

The sun is the most reliable way to create the gorgeous light display we call a rainbow, but it’s not the onlyway. After all, the moon illuminates the Earth, too — and rainbows are essentially an optical illusion caused when water droplets split light into its ROY G. BIV components. But seeing a “moonbow” isn’t exactly easy.

How rare is this nighttime meteorological phenomenon? Well, Aristotle wrote around 350 BCE in his treatise Meteorologica that “it was formerly thought that [rainbows] never appeared by night as a moon rainbow. This opinion was due to the rarity of the occurrence… we have only met with two instances of a moon rainbow in more than fifty years.” So, pretty rare. That’s because for a moonbow to form, you need a variety of conditions to be Goldilocks-level perfect. First, the moon must be low in the sky, and can’t exceed 42 degrees from the horizon. The moon must be full or near full, and you can’t be hanging around any artificial light — sorry, no moonbows in cities. Finally, just like rainbows, moonbows need water droplets in the atmosphere, so waterfalls are often a good spot to go hunting for moonbows. Just don’t expect to see the dazzling array of color typical of a daytime rainbow. Because the moon isn’t as bright as the sun, less light is refracted, and a moonbow usually looks white (at least to human eyes). But if you have a camera handy, long exposure photos will reveal a moonbow in all its colorful glory. 

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The election is getting very near and with it we have the rumor mill going like crazy. One hour the polls show one thing and the next hour everything is turned around. We will not know until the tally from the electoral college has been counted. That system is just a waste as it does not reflect the popular vote, and that is proven because every time a republican makes it into office they have lost the popular vote. Our biggest concern in that regard is that Trump will get elected not by the people but by the bidders in the back of the room.
We hope that Harris is the winner on all fronts with a majority in both houses. Provided that happens we need to clean the dead wood out of the legal system by firing some and putting others in jail. After that we need to change the laws to better represent the people, not the money that comes not from the swamp but rather from a cesspool.
For many that are currently in Congress the title of corrupt is far more telling than any name that is connected to redemption. So many of our current crop of representatives have shown themselves to be less than honorable.
The various duties of the different parts of our government are described in the Constitution. The Supreme Court and lower courts are allowed to retain their seats during good Behavior, it does not state for life. The Justices are recommended by the President and confirmed by the Senate and once in place are literally demigods. They make decisions that affect every person in the nation based on their personal interpretation of the law.
Many of the bills that are put forth to be considered by state legislators are put forward and they, the states, ask for signatures of citizens to say yes or no on these bills. The Supreme Court and Appellate Courts make no such effort, they decide with a few as three people and slam a law on the books. We claim the President is the most powerful person on earth and yet he has a limited time to serve and can be checked by the Senate or House on every move he makes. The Justices are allowed unfettered power to ram whatever twist of opinion they have on any issue down everyones neck without being checked.
Have we got this wrong? Do we need to have a referendum on any proposed law or change to any law that is proposed? Since these decisions affect everyone in the nation, it is logical to allow the citizens to have a voice in the enactment of laws. Will it slow the process? Yes and that may be a good thing because as it stands we seem to be getting the wishes of a very few made into laws that all have to live with or die by as the case may be.
If a referendum had been held Roe v Wade would still be in place, bump stocks would not be legal, and waterboarding would not have been allowed as an interrogation technique. It is well passed time to remove the privilege of the demigods and take them from their high seats back to the table of equality.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

We are only a few weeks away from the election and it is insane that the contest is as close as it is. Maybe I pay more attention or don’t suffer from memory loss, but I am absolutely dumbfounded that people still want to put Donald back into the White House… Do they not remember the 4 years that he sat in that seat, or do they just choose to live in an alternate universe where those years didn’t happen?

We don’t even need to talk about the horrific response to a worldwide pandemic that could have been avoided if he hadn’t removed all the CDC immunologist from Wuhan China or that fact that he would not even acknowledge the virus until it was too late.

He proclaims that he had the best economy ever, check the record he took a strong economy from Obama and before the Pandemic we were in a manufacturing recession. The self-professed builder didn’t build anything, all the manufacturing job he said he would save and grow moved offshore because of the incentives his administration gave corporations to do exactly what they did to increase their profits not to save American jobs.

Yes, he and Mitch McConnel were able to appoint a great number of ultra conservative Judges, not because Donald is a great legal mind but because McConnel blocked President Obama from filling those vacancies when he was in office. The Judges he appointed came right off the Heritage Foundations list of candidates that would follow their doctrine not necessarily the Constitution or past rulings by the court. Look where that has gotten us, now our daughters and grand daughters have lost rights that their mothers and grandmother fought for, and he’s proud of that.

He and his family made a substantial amount of money from his position that was supposed to be serving the people of this country not his own twisted ego. It is apparent that his desire is to be an Oligarch just based on the World Leaders he admires. The 2025 Project, that he now says he know nothing about, outlines the GOPs plan to upend our 250 experiment in Democracy and his stubbly little finger prints are all over it. I could go on and on listing lies and the transgressions of the 34-count convicted Felon, Adjudicated sexual offender that wants to once again get his grubby hands on the wheels of power, but no one has time to read all of that. We have a chance to keep this experiment going and keep from becoming another failed relic of history and if that is what you want you have to Vote and Vote Blue… this is my plea, you know what to do

Myth: The Declaration of Independence Was Signed on July 4

Every year, Americans celebrate Independence Day on the Fourth of July, and it’s commonly believed that July 4, 1776, marks the date the Declaration of Independence was signed. In reality, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence on July 2, and the Declaration of Independence was formally adopted two days later on July 4. (John Adams even predicted that July 2 would be celebrated as a national holiday for centuries to come.) The signing of the document, meanwhile, didn’t begin for another month; John Hancock was the first founding father to sign the declaration, on August 2, 1776. 

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The speaker of the House is in no hurry to recall anyone to get money approved to help the folk that are going to get hit with a second hurricane. Isn’t he precious? We will be back after the election, and wouldn’t he feel stupid if the election took all of the republican candidates off the rolls of elected. If they lose the majority he will not be speaker anymore. Maybe he is counting on that for a couple of reasons. One is so they can blame the democrats for failing to do their job and the other is that he is just too stupid to know what to do.
This is the type of situation that needs to have a backup plan as to how to handle it. Logic and common sense as well as the knowledge that people are in need of support should be all the reasons needed to come do your job.
We are, of course, forgetting that the republican party and the heritage foundation are hoping that they will win in Nov and then they can destroy the government altogether. Make it small enough to take it in the bathroom and drown it in the tub.
Careful for what you wish for. The French nobility thought they could run the country by having lavish parties and ignoring everything else. They literally lost their heads over that decision. Our rather arrogant 1% think that money will insure their place in the world. They too could lose their heads with project 2025 as the citizens will turn on them just as the French did.
Our various state legislators that have gone out of their way to put into law some very dragonian rules will end up paying a price for that as well. When there are some shake ups in the courts that make it easier to do so I would predict some wrongful death suits that will cost these ignorant bastards dearly. Even the federal courts need to be taken to task and be put on notice that laws are passed for the good of the populace not just a select group of individuals. The basic rule should be to do no harm, that is hardly the case with the abortion rules, bump stocks and some of the other crap that has been dumped on our society.
Term limits need to be put in place at all levels of elected and or appointed officials. If a candidate lies during a confirmation hearing, as in says they will not do something and then goes and does it, they should be removed and prosecuted like anyone else that lies under oath. The oath needs to be to uphold and protect the Constitution, never mind the bible, your faith is your business not the law of the land.
We need to roll back some laws that put the common citizen at a disadvantage. When it comes to running for office or holding office, intelligence, common sense, and decency should be the traits we look for, not how much money they have. The lack of integrity is aptly demonstrated by how many of our elected representatives become very wealthy in a short period of time, whether it is called a bribe, a gift, or a tip is meaningless, it still indicates bought and paid for.
Government has for a long time had a very bad reputation and that is because far too many of those that have managed to get elected are the ones with only self serving motivation as their goal, not doing what they were elected to do. They have given themselves golden parachutes so that if they lose and election they are set for life. The person on the street has no way to censure these people once they are in the system and that needs to change. Hopefully the next few years will see positive administrative goals not the death and destruction of our nation.