WE’VE DELIVERED ON OUR PROMISES 

THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN

Just six weeks into his presidency, Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan to jumpstart our economy and change the course of the pandemic. The American Rescue Plan funded our national vaccination campaign and helped safely reopen America’s schools.

THE BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW

President Biden worked across the aisle to deliver what decades of presidents promised and failed to do: rebuild our nation’s roads and bridges, upgrade our public transit, clean up pollution, and provide high-speed internet to every American.

CONFIRMATION OF JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON

President Biden appointed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to ever serve on the Supreme Court. She is also the first public defender to serve on our nation’s highest court.

THE BIPARTISAN SAFER COMMUNITIES ACT

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act is the most significant gun violence prevention legislation in 30 years. It will help keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, narrow the “boyfriend loophole,” and expand mental health and safety services in schools.

THE CHIPS AND SCIENCE ACT

The CHIPS Act will bring back manufacturing from overseas and create good-paying union jobs here at home. Since President Biden signed it into law, companies have already announced almost $300 billion in new American manufacturing investments.

EXPANDING HEALTH CARE FOR VETERANS THROUGH THE PACT ACT

President Biden signed into law the most significant expansion of benefits and services for toxic-exposed veterans in more than 30 years. 

SIGNED MARRIAGE EQUALITY INTO LAW

President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act to enshrine marriage equality for same-sex and interracial couples into federal law. 

THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT 

President Biden signed landmark legislation to bring down costs for families, lower prescription drug prices, and make historic investments in American clean energy jobs and manufacturing. Every single Republican in Congress voted against it. 

CHANGING OUR FAILED APPROACH ON MARIJUANA 

President Biden pardoned all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, removing a burden to employment, housing, and educational opportunities for thousands of Americans

PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and strip a constitutional right from the American people, President Biden issued executive orders to preserve access to reproductive care and protect the right to travel across state lines to receive care.

HISTORIC CLIMATE ACTION 

President Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Accords on his first day in office. He is delivering on the most aggressive climate agenda in American history through historic investments in clean energy.

RALLYING THE WORLD IN SUPPORT OF UKRAINE

Since the start of Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, President Biden has rallied the world to stand with Ukraine, defend democracy, and stand up to autocracy. 

PROTECTING THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

President Biden has worked to protect and strengthen the Affordable Care Act. Now, millions of Americans are saving $800 per year on their health insurance and 4-in-5 Americans can find coverage for $10 a month or less through the ACA. 

CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

President Biden signed a landmark executive order to promote safe and accountable policing, ban chokeholds, restrict no-knock entries by police, create a national police accountability database, and prohibit the transfer of military equipment to local police departments.

STUDENT DEBT RELIEF

President Biden has approved the cancellation of billions in student loan debt for millions of Americans, as well as the largest increase in Pell Grants in over a decade.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Tonight is the first of 2 scheduled debates in this Presidential race and the world is already making bets on the outcome. Will Joe Biden stutter or misspeak ? Will Donald Trump interrupt and lie? I can almost guarantee that Donald will be a disruptive petulant toddler that he always is but unfortunately the press and his loyal sycophants won’t acknowledge the obvious failing.I honestly hope Joe is the man he has been at the State of the Union addresses and completely ignores the orange blowhard that will be on the left side of the stage.

Fox and right wing media will only focus on any missteps that Joe Biden makes, and they will project all the problems that their candidate has brought to the stage onto their opponent. I don’t believe that this debate will make anybody change their minds if they are in the pocket of, the Republican GOP because they’ve made up their mind. there will be no substantive policy discussions because Donald Trump doesn’t know anything about policy. He only has grievance.

The projection will be evident tomorrow in the right wing media of how well they think their candidate did against Joe Biden, even if their candidate fell on his face.

Palm trees are not native to Los Angeles.

There are an estimated 75,000 palm trees in Los Angeles, all of which have one thing in common: They aren’t native there. Despite being an L.A. icon on par with the Hollywood sign and Dodger Stadium, the tropical tree is no more a native Angeleno than, well, the Dodgers. Not unlike the Hollywood sign, palms were originally a marketing technique for developers hoping to attract newcomers to the area in the late 19th century. They got the idea from the French Riviera — another area palms aren’t actually native to — where like-minded developers had successfully used them just a few decades before to cultivate an image of glitz and glamour. In addition to being beautiful, palms are surprisingly easy to uproot and transport from their native tropical and subtropical environments in the Middle East, Mexico, and elsewhere, so tens of thousands of them were planted all across the California city that had once been desert scrubland.

It seems fitting that one of Los Angeles’ most enduring symbols was essentially a branding strategy chosen for its aesthetic appeal, doubly so because palm trees’ association with the city was (and is) further cemented by their ubiquity in the many films shot there. After all, most of the directors, actors, and studio executives who made Hollywood what it is today weren’t originally from the City of Angels either.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

Since the 1980’s the middle class in America has declined in size because of the special privilege given to the rich to make them richer. This is all based on the “trickle down” theory which we know does not work. Now that we have reached the 2020’s we are being informed of another issue to reduce the middle class even more.
That issue is AI. All of these various industries want to implement AI so that they can cut back on human employment. This means less of a payroll bill, much smaller contributions to health insurance and social security. Maybe it might be possible to get rid of those items all together and we can put more money in our pockets.
Great theory but the question that comes to mind is if no one is working and all this stuff is being produced by robots that do not require breaks or meals or insurance or retirement benefits, who is going to buy the stuff you are producing? When all is automated then the factory will do the work and humans will have little or nothing to do with it and no income either.
Unemployment is very low at present, but should change when AI hits with the impact that is predicted. There are dangerous jobs that make robotic workers very attractive but that technology can not replace everything. The hopes that reductions in human staff may be running around in the brains of some is just not entirely possible. Even AI will require human interface as no man made system is perfect, at least not yet.
We were supposed to be flying to work by the 1960, that did not happen. This technology is like all the rest, it will have problems and that is going to require thinking beings to repair it. The hope of the very rich to get richer will have to depend on the usual lying, cheating, and manipulating that continues to happen in the political and financial arenas by our not so honest political and banking executives.
It is in our people’s best interest to be well informed and very concerned about who gets elected and stays in office. Term limits need to be standard on all aspects so that we do not have the same people making decisions for 30 or 40 years as they age and get cynical or go crazy.
The politics of today will no doubt play the introduction of AI as a plot by a certain group of people. This will bring the directed anger at the given group rather than the greedy business men behind the implementation. Just another way to use hate to mask the pursuit of wealth as the fault of someone with a difference from mainstream society.
Hate crimes have been on the rise since 2015. The campaign for the Presidency became the venue for hate to be spewed like never before. The winning of the election put the fountain of hate clearly in the center of the picture and he gave all the people with problems the green light to exercise their hate. Even though he lost the next election he has still been stirring the pot and the news media and the court system continue to allow it to happen. It is time to muzzle the dog and reestablish civility and the rule of law in this country.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

I wanted to compare Donny Dumb Ass’s behavior to a toddler but that would be insulting to the intellectual and emotional development of a toddler. I really can’t think of a psychosocial developmental stage that adequately describes the walking waste of skin that feels he deserves to occupy the White House again after his abysmal performance last time.

Let’s go over the score card:

• Swore he knew more about the war in Iraq/Afghanistan than any of the Generals
  • His administration brokered the release of 5,000 Taliban fighters
  • Promise to withdraw all troops for Afghanistan
    • Had no plan to accomplish but promised withdrawal date
      • Did not follow through
      • Joe Bidens Administration did follow through on departure of ground forces promised by Trump
        • Was in reality a positive exit from a 20-year occupation but Trump and his acolytes blamed Biden for unforeseen mistakes.
• Gave huge tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy putting the U.S. government in trillions of dollars of debt.
  • Trump added $7.8 trillion to the debt in one term
    • In comparison Reagan raised the debt $1.6 trillion in 8 years
• One of his administration first actions was to throw out the Obama/Biden pandemic preparedness playbook and remove NIH scientist from labs in China.
  • Claimed that the COVID19 virus would fade into nothing
  • Urged people to gather for Easter Services in the beginning of the pandemic
  • Again, swore he knew more about the virus than the scientific and medical community
    • Said we should inject or ingest bleach, or use light to kill the virus
  • 400,000 Americans did in the last year of his Administration due to his incompetence.
• Refused to admit that he lost the 2020 election.
  • Actively tried to change the results
  • Insisted the January 6 insurrection
• Removed and Concealed sensitive documents that pertained to National Security.

Ok this is just crap he did while in the White House and immediately after and still people what him in the seat of power again.

His latest Fight Club, Hunger Games flight of fancy is Immigrant/Undocumented Fights, I presume on pay per view. So, we really have entered the fall of Rome times (Give the masses bread and circus,) that’s so that the power base can rob the treasury and go unnoticed.

There is a debate on Thursday and choice story will be policy and compliance or buffoonery and grievance. Yes, the clown show, and that outrage are more entertaining but at some point, we can’t all stand back and just watch the train wreck. Trump and his moronic minions effectively lit the house in fire while he was in charge, Biden has done his absolute best, with lost of obstruction, to put the flames out and rebuild the house, if we let Donald and his ilk in control again the Chicago fire of 1871 will look like a one year olds birthday cake by comparison.   

The Egyptian pyramids were originally polished white.

WORLD HISTORY

Today, the famous pyramids of Giza are known as sand-colored monuments that seem to blend into the surrounding desert, but they were originally built to stand out in spectacular fashion. When the pyramids were first erected about 4,500 years ago to mark the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs, they were covered with a polished white limestone that would have sparkled in the sun and made the already-imposing structures even more dazzling. 

According to ancient papyrus scrolls written by people who actually participated in the construction of the pyramids, workers transported boats filled with limestone up the Nile River to the building site in Giza. The limestone casing stones were thoroughly polished in order to increase their luster, and each one weighed upwards of 15 tons. The fact that these massive polished stones were used to encase the entirety of each pyramid, fitted together perfectly to create a nearly seamless white exterior, is a testament to the engineering genius of the ancient Egyptians. Over the centuries, most of the limestone exterior of the pyramids has been destroyed, worn away, or stripped for use in other construction projects, but faint remnants of weathered white limestone can be seen toward the top of Giza’s Pyramid of Khafre — the last remaining architectural evidence of what pyramids looked like in the days of the pharaohs.

If you know one thing about Daniel Boone, it’s probably that he wore a raccoon-skin fur cap. But alas, it turns out you might know zero things about the legendary frontiersman, as Boone never wore such a head covering at all. “My father, Daniel Boone, always despised the raccoon fur caps and did not wear one himself,”  his son Nathan Boone said in an 1851 interview with historian Lyman Draper. The elder Boone instead preferred a wide-brimmed, Quaker-style hat made of felt or beaver fur, which would have offered better protection from the elements and shielded his eyes from the sun during his many long hunting trips.

We may have an actor named Noah Ludlow (1795–1886) to thank for the myth of Boone’s raccoon-skin cap. He was hired to make frames for prints of a portrait of Boone first painted by artist Chester Harding in 1820. Later, he played a character in a performance called “The Hunters of Kentucky” and drew inspiration from Boone to create his look, which included the cap we now associate with the storied frontiersman. The performances were a hit, which was good for Ludlow, but not so much for historical accuracy.

Earth was on the other side of the galaxy when the dinosaurs were alive.

That dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago is pretty common knowledge. Not as well known, but just as fascinating, is the fact that Earth was on the other side of the galaxy when most of them were alive. It takes the sun (and thus the rest of the solar system) around 250 million years to orbit the center of the Milky Way. The first dinosaurs appeared at the dawn of the Triassic Period around 250 million years ago, and for most of their very long reign — namely the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods — our humble planet was in a completely different neighborhood of the galaxy. That means, of course, that the stars the dinosaurs saw in the sky would have looked different from the view we have today. Though not new information, this knowledge made something of a splash a few years ago when NASA astronomer Dr. Jessie Christiansen created an animation showing which part of the Milky Way our prehistoric predecessors resided in. Perhaps the most intriguing part of the video is its ending, which asks what our planet might be like the next time we complete a trip through the Milky Way. Fortunately, our solar system stays far, far away from the inhospitable galactic center (and its supermassive black hole) as it moves through space. If it didn’t, there’d be no life on Earth whatsoever — human, dinosaur, or otherwise.