Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

   Perspective is how different issues and items are viewed by different individuals and causes each of us to form an opinion of the issue of the viewed item or incident. 

   The view that most rich people have of themselves is that they are the cream of the crop. They have risen above the chaff of society and are therefore endowed with some sort of privilege to decide how things should be done and all that sort of thing. Many of the wealthy of this country are praised because they have attained that wealth by a talent they possessed or a knowledge they have and have shared with the rest of us. There are others that are wealthy that have gained that wealth by the  deeds of those before them and they are the recipient of the riches of generations ahead of them. 

   Some of these people do admirable things with their wealth and others do some despicable things with theirs. One thing that comes to mind is to try and change an entire nations way of life so that they can get out of paying taxes, or having to pay from earnings money to help those that may work for them. These are the wealthy that should not be viewed as cream of the crop but more like the slag that comes to the surface of the cauldron when making the steel that founded and has protected this nation. It is the useless part that gets discarded when the process is complete. 

   That slag is currently funding the reelection campaign of another bit of slag. If that slag is the result of burning coal it is called a clinker, no one has found a use for a clinker except Hogan’s Hero’s and clink was the name of the office in charge of the prison camp, total idiot. Which brings us back to the bit of slag being promoted in this campaign, total idiot. That is my perspective, what is yours?

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  The Supreme Court does have a check, it is call the Senate. The Senate has the duty and responsibility to oversee the court. For the time being we have a one sided system with no checks of anything except Democrats, this is to keep his highness happy. So now the court has proven its mental by taking charge of the nations agencies that see to things like clean water and safe food and all the rest, but have given Congress the power to grant immunity.

   This has allowed a Republican Congress that is either scared of or beholden to Trump to give him the get out of jail card he wanted. What it really means in terms of our Constitution is that every justice and every congress person that voted to allow this is in violation of their oath to uphold the Constitution and should immediately be stripped of their position and tried as traitors to the United States. 

   So more than ever it is time to show where you stand on the issue of Democracy. If you are of the mind set that living under a dictatorship is going to be okay then do nothing and allow this to happen. If on the other hand you are sure that will be a very unacceptable way of life make sure you vote and vote not to put one single Republican back in office. 

    A dictatorship will force the nation to be transformed back to a time when rights were given as whoever was in power at the local level felt you should have a right. If you are wealthy then you will have privilege, if not you won’t. If you are anything but white figure your lot in life is going to be very poor there will be no right in your world. 

   More than likely all social service functions except debtors’ prisons and workhouses will go away. The sick, the disabled and the old will have no place in society because if you cannot support yourself your usefulness has ceased to exist. The only older people you will encounter are those that are holders of great wealth . 

    No need to plan for that trip to wherever as there will be no ends to meet that desire. No doubt our national parks will be consumed by the lust for mineral riches and the resources that are not consumed in pursuit of riches will be used to build more golf courses for the wealthy. Life will have very little meaning for the majority of us and future will be a figment of your imagination. 

    The current batch of bozzoes that reside on the Supreme Court, at least 6 of them, are thinking only of their futures and are not considering what they are leaving behind as a legacy. The members of congress that have voted for this package are also not considering what they are doing to even the members of their own families of the future. Each of these individuals had parents that cared enough about them to give them the best they could, or so it would seem, and yet , their attitude toward their prodigy is f_ckem, I got mine and that is all that counts. 

   Do we want people like that running the country?

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

We never know how much time we have… nothing is promised so don’t take anything for granted.

I was informed that a cousin who was only in his early 50’s left us last night leaving a wife and a 10 year old son. Even though we weren’t geographically close and I haven’t seen him in person since we were kids I still acknowledge to loss. Above is one of many unique pieces of art and in his memory I am posting it… You will be missed Lee.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

The 3 branches of our government are meant to be checks and balances against one another so that there is balanced power, and one branch doesn’t supersede. The House, Senate and the Executive have to answer directly to the American Voting populist every 2,4, and 6 years, we are their boss, I know they don’t act like it be we are. Now the Supreme Court… no one elects these individuals, and they have a lifetime appointment… 9 people that don’t answer to anyone but themselves… seem a bit contradictory to our democratic system.

The court’s job is to interpret a 250year old document and determine if a case before them is supported by the document written in 1789 or not. Seems like a crazy notion, right? Let’s see if a document that was written by slave owners, who thought women were property, truly believed that they had manifest destiny over a continent that was inhabited before they arrived is attributable to a much different world than the one they lived in. Yes, it is true that we have amended the document 27 times and the first 10 were before the Constitution could be ratified, so that leaves 17 changes over 233 years… How much has changed over the past 233 years? How much has changed in the past 50 years?

In 1920 the 19^th Amendment was passed giving women the right to vote, 104 years ago, yet we still haven’t passed and Equal Rights Amendment… Sadly the only way that the Supreme Court can’t technically change a law is if it has been written into the Constitution as an Amendment. Roe was just a ruling in 1973 based on the 14^th Amendment right to privacy, it was challenged multiple times but won out, until recently after a 6/3 loaded court decided that the 1973 ruling wasn’t good enough for women to have sovereignty over their own bodies.

This court has recently decided that gifting elected or appointed officials after a ruling isn’t a bribe, it is a gratuity. Wow that is an amazing twisting of language by a 6/3 conservative court. They have also declared the government experts on pollution and climate science know far less than the corporations that want to continue to extract resources for profit, that Jan 6 rioters can’t be labeled harshly, even those who beat capitol police. They will also be putting forward a ruling if the President has universal immunity… I am sure with this 6/3 count would really want to put forward ruling that Presidents are immune but the caveat is that it only applies to Presidents elected before 2020, and of coarse if Donald were to win in 2024 the court ruling would be amended to only exclude Presidents that weren’t named Trump.

Our Calendar

Most of the world now uses the Gregorian calendar, first introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII. But credit for the modern calendar should really be given to the Romans. The Gregorian calendar is based on the much earlier Julian calendar (which itself owed a lot to the Egyptian solar calendar), introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE. The calendars share many similarities, though one of the main differences is the treatment of those pesky leap years. The Gregorian calendar handles them more precisely, resulting in a discrepancy between the two calendars that is currently 13 days, and will become 14 days in 2100.