Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

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.

For example, the Coca-Cola Company increased the price of its products by 11 percent over the course of 2022. The company’s chief executive said at the time that Coca-Cola had “earned the right” to hike prices for consumers. Coca-Cola’s rival, PepsiCo Inc., also significantly increased prices.

Please stop blaming the current administration for the prices. Biden and the current White House cannot control gas prices anymore than any other administration did. It’s all a matter of supply and demand and corporate greed and the supply is actually through the moon right now, but corporate greed is keeping the price is high.

President Biden is taking on corporate price gouging by banning hidden junk fees and calling on corporations to pass the savings from their reduced costs onto consumers. This is something the administration can do. Kroger raising grocery prices, Exxon increasing gas prices are things that are under corporate control and unfair to consumers but because we don’t live under an Authoritarian government can’t be regulated by the federal government. Maybe they should be but that isn’t the system we have.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Saw a bumper sticker this morning. (100% Not Liberal)

My first thought was bold claim, I wanted to pull the person over and ask them, so you’re against

Free Speach

The concept of Innocent till proven Guilty.

Having the right for legal counsel

Property Ownership

The list could go on and on… these are all liberal positions.

I am with JFK.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The courts have allowed Trump to continue his bully pulpit nonsense without holding him accountable. It is understood that he is a former President but at this point he is just another person of the nation. Is it fear of public opinion or what his followers might do that is keeping him on the streets and not behind bars? That is unclear, but if we take a look at history we find that at some point people reach a point where status does not matter. The Russians executed a Czar and all his family, the English beheaded a King and the French did the same to most of the Court of French Crown. When do we say enough is enough and require he pay for his crimes?
The general feeling probably is that we do not want to kill anyone but just remove them from the spotlight. If the result of the election allows him to move back into the White House, then execution of those he does not like is a very real possibility. There has been a call in Colorado for killing Joe Biden, and I would classify that as a threat and have that idiot locked up.
The Supreme Court is doing a lot of nothing about all this just finding ways to waste time and very possibly trying to let Trump off the hook which is just wrong. The method by which Justices are selected, the amount of time they remain in the job, and a code of ethics written by someone other than themselves that allows for termination of seats for violation of the code.
The other courts that are getting a bad wrap are the courts trying the Jan 6 participants. Everyday there is another tale of how badly they are being treated and that the message the Feds are sending is don’t challenge the government. The lesson these people should be taking away is not that they can’t challenge the government, that they cannot overthrow the government by means of violence on the whim of an idiot. Other candidates to the office have lost out by way of the vote of the Electoral College, not the vote of the people. They have not called for a riot or an insurrection they have accepted it and we the people have had to put up with Presidents like Bush and Trump that really should not have been in office.
They do not deserve to be treated worse than others that are held in jail, but they do not deserve to be treated better either. Attacking guards and attempting to interrupt an official proceeding does not get them a room at the Holiday Inn. It gets them a jail cell and all the luxury that comes with it. Remember most of you are the ones that were so keen to defund the police. Where did you think they were going to cut back first, no new cars, or more austere conditions in jail cells. You that are in those cells chose to rally behind a perpetual loser and do his bidding. So a choice was made, the outcome should have been obvious, and not the piper must be paid. Welcome to the adult world that has no room for the antics of a spoiled two year old.

Lightning can heat the air to 50,000° F — five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

“How hot is lightning?” is a bit of a trick question. Lightning itself doesn’t have a temperature, because it’s just the movement of electrical charges in the atmosphere. (You can think of it as one big spark of electricity that happens when positive and negative charges build up within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.) But that doesn’t stop lightning from heating up whatever it passes through — in this case, air. Air is a poor conductor of electricity, so it heats up tremendously when lightning strikes. In fact, lightning can heat the air to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

Suffice to say that the air stays extremely hot near Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, home of what’s been dubbed the “everlasting lightning storm.” Known locally as Relampago del Catatumbo, or the Lightning of Catatumbo (named for a nearby river that enters into the lake), the phenomenon has been recognizedby the Guinness Book of World Records as involving the most lightning strikes (250) per square kilometer of any spot in the world. Ten-hour lightning storms occur some 150 times per annum, and lightning itself can be seen up to 300 nights every year.

Efforts were made to remove Trump from state ballots based on his alleged criminal activity and the fact that many felt he is unfit to serve. Now we have two states that want to remove Biden from the ballot because of convention timing and little else. The first situation mentioned caused all kinds of calls of unconstitutional and election interference, the second situation has not yet seemingly caused a ripple in the pond.
Everything that has to do with the Trump campaign is a problem of huge consequence if it does not go well. An ad put out by the party members that are not Trumpers show that by Trump and his staff that you are either in all the way or you are out and the gates to “Heaven” have been locked. So much of what we are seeing from the GOP and the religious right is intolerance for any view, opinion, action that does not adhere to the dictates of the leaders, be that Trump or one of the equally fanatical religious leaders.
Please take a look at the world from a political perspective and note what nations are progressing and which are either stagnant or going backwards. Nations that have citizens that are encouraged to bring forth ideas and present different courses of action are progressing and growing, they are democratic nations. The ones that seem to be stuck in a time warp are the ones that only one view is accepted and that is the view of the leader.
Not all ideas that are presented are good or acceptable but we may well need to have them presented so that debate and compromise are possible. We must tolerate some things that may seem unnecessary or unfair in order to keep the wheels turning. Many believe that the use of alcohol is unacceptable, and in excess it is not good. However, it has been around for longer than anyone can remember and people are unwilling to stop using it so it is part of our social makeup. The same can be said of other practices, some that have been accepted in many nations but not all.
Our nation needs to keep all lines of communications open. We cannot afford to have any one person or group determine what is right for all of us. The efforts to subvert the rights of our citizens so that one element of society dictates what news you hear, what medical treatments you may have, who is allowed to be different or not, and the persecution of anyone that is critical of the state is not to be tolerated. The dictators of the world need to be put back into the cages they are building to house those that do not agree.
We have spent far to long being politically correct and allowing others to take advantage of the system. A segment of our population has been able to dominate by claiming they are the victims when they are in fact the perpetrators of the problems. Time to pin the tail back on the donkey.