What do you listen to while you work?
I listen to political talk radio all day, Stephanie Miller, or podcast like pod save America, Bob Cesca, the Midas touch
Comfort Food…
Dwain Northey (Gen X)
I realize this is supposed to be a nonconfrontational question that makes the respondent think of a culinary delight that makes them feel happy and evokes fond memories, but my brain didn’t go there when I read the question.
My first thought is that this question comes from a seat of privilege. In this country many live to eat not the reason that our ancestors had to eat to live. There are people in this country that are hungry and children that go to bed with empty stomachs that disregards that nations that go without regularly.
We have a cable network that is all about food and cooking and I am as guilty as anyone for watching it. Has anyone ever thought about these cooking competitions where multiple chefs cook a meal to be judged. These chefs make just enough food to present a composed dish for judging and the judges eat one or two bites from each plate they are presented to judge. The amount of effort and wasted food is obscene.
The Food Network is just one travesty in the absurd food wasting culture we have in the United State… we sponsor gluttony competitions where a person is challenged to consume an obscene amount of food in one sitting.
So in answer to Comfort Foods, if you are eating your feeling you have a problem, if food evokes fond memories that is great… but everyone please remember that this nation alone wastes enough food every day to feed a nation of hungry people.
Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)
At least one state is going to take the fake electors to task. If these people get jail time for the attempted effort of keeping Trump in office then he should also be facing charges in this endeavor as the man behind the plan. His name is mile a way as always and you can not pin anything on me, they did this on their own. Some of the charges are worth 14 years in prison, I can not believe that these very influential people ever thought that they may face that kind of punishment for being involved in political activity.
It only proves that we have a class of citizens that is truly ignorant as to the law but oh so sure of their rightful place at the table making decisions for the little people that are all too stupid to think for themselves.
He is on the campaign trail and talking shit about how he is winning, beating everyone, way ahead of Biden and all that. The truth is he couldn’t beat a horse turd on a good day so how is he going to beat all of the opposition? As per usual he does not ever lose so of course he has to win. Will he have another run at the capitol if not elected, probably. Will he be in jail by election time, hopefully and disqualified to run for any public office, such as dog catcher or whatever.
Our system of government allows for people to have differences and to express those differences, it does not allow for the willful overthrowing of the seated government just to make the opposition happy. The charges that are being filed against the people involved and leading to the Jan 6 situation are pretty conclusive and encompass most of the possible defenses that might be dreamed up, so will we see prison time for a former President? The outcome is still in question but legal ramifications of such crimes should not be put aside for any of those involved.
Dwain Northey (Gen X)
So here we go again; Ron DeSantis is putting another nail in the coffin of real history of non-white people. His latest assault on the education system and his continued campaign against the ‘WOKE’ in his state is that in the fall curriculum it will be taught that slaves actually got an advantage by their enslavement because it provided them with a vocational skill. Also, that in race mass killings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that the black communities were committing violent acts that were as bad if not worse than the acts that caused the historical acts.
This retelling of history neglects to mention the hundreds of thousand if not millions of abducted Africans died before ever reaching the shores of North America and that their bodies were summarily discarded overboard without a second thought. Of course, the mere that slaves were experimented on to try and prove the white theory that black people were inferior would never be mentioned in the supposed ‘color blind’ curriculum. We wouldn’t want white children to feel uncomfortable with a truth about the atrocities that the white settlers of this nation committed.
This sad excuse for a person, much less a government official and one that is running for President, has stated his own crusade to ‘whitewash’ history as well as force anyone different from himself and his narrow beliefs back into the closet. He has already banned Drag Queen story time and removed books from libraries that even mention LGBTQ topics, I am sure anything that examines the Black experience is next. During the 2021-2022 school year, 566 books were banned across 21 school districts in Florida, according to data tracked by PEN America.
The ‘Moms for Liberty’ group are fanning out across the country going to public libraries trying to have certain titles removed from the shelves because they disagree with the content. Sadly, many of these concerned activists don’t even have children that they are professing to protect.
These narrow views and banning books that are found to be offensive or espouse view contrary to a political view are a very slippery slope to Fascism. Hitler banned books and subjugated an entire portion of the populist based on lies… Ron DeSantis (Death Sentence) is walking the same path, thankfully he has the charisma of day-old cheese spread. Unfortunately, Florida’s Governor isn’t the only wannbe dictator we have to deal with, Texas Governor Abbot is also a piece of work not to mention the leader of the Orange Mafia and his desire to re-attain the Presidency so that he can change to entire complexion of our government.
All this is really scary and I recommend that everyone find a banned book list and then go out and read every one of those titles that you can and have your children read them as well.
This now a call to action… and I hope that anyone who reads this takes it seriously.
Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)
Note: this should have been posted a couple months back but got temporally overlooked.
It is nearly the end of April and many people are probably digging into the records of the Ice Age to find the answer to how much did people pay in taxes back then to get the government to come and melt the ice. Straight from MTG, a stellar representative from the Georgia, was this the best you could find to put in office?
The marvelous Mr. T. is back at his usual efforts to create problems with people and within factions of people. He has a new name for Joe Biden and I am sure that it is not complementary. You would think that if you are going to have to ask that person for a pardon so that you don’t spend the rest of your life in prison that you would at least keep a civil tongue in your head. A bit too much as he has continued with his usual line to try and disrupt law and order in his court cases.
It is time for the judge to put T in a cell and restrict his movements, his voice and make sure he can not see his image. A small cell without windows, make it sound proof so that voices make no exit, and no mirrors,
Another mass shooting for no logical reason that anyone can think of, except maybe someone from Texas. The shooter entered his neighbors house and shot 4 adults and an 8 year old child because he was asked to stop firing his weapon in his back yard at 11:30 at night. This person deserves no trial, no hearing, no nothing just kill him the way he did the others. It is a shame that you can not hold the governor of the state as an accomplice to this crime as his ego and Texas frame of mind said he was going to defy the President because we do as we please and besides the President is a damned democrat. I am sure that prayers and condolences are on offer for these losses.
The fractured society that we live in at present is a gift from the political aspirations of one person and we are all suffering the rewards of the endless hate messages. The attitude that we can do anything we wish to include kill someone and nothing will be said is another example of the mind of Trump and all that follow his lead.
Trump is hoping that Biden will pardon him and that would be a big mistake for our democracy, not to mention our legal system. Every idiot that goes out and kills people or causes them to be killed will be asking to be pardoned on the grounds it worked for the top idiot why not them.
Suppose the latest is true and Trump is broke, he has been claiming that all of his expenses have been his own and he has paid for them. This is hard to believe as he has been raking in donations for years and paying his legal fee with those funds. He has made millions selling hats and coins and whatever that is all about him. He is also making money off of selling secrets to foreign powers. This is the kind of person we want to be our representative to the world, the one that will steal a kiss from a nice looking woman, even though that woman may be a member of some other nations political leaderships house.
Our other cultural giant has to be the governor of Texas. He continues to send buses of people to other cities that have enter the state of Texas via the border. He has not done anything to create a safer place for his citizens to live in by not doing anything to make is harder to get guns. The result tis that individuals that are just not wrapped to tight are shooting up malls and chirches and schools. The laws that were enacted in Texas are in direct opposition to what the national government asked for. The idea is to defy the federal government and at this time and place I think it is time to bring that governor into the spotlight and try him as an accomplice in these shootings.
In an English program a former soldier was asked if he had killed anyone. His answer was that he had, and the person asking wanted to know if it bothered him and how did he justifying such actions. He said it did bother him but sense he was the Queens employee and it was her weapon and her bullets and a war she had sent him to that made it right.
Is this the defense of Jan 6? The weapons were privately owned or created, the actions were encouraged by others and he result was messy.
Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)
We are now being fed a line about not recruiting white, christian, Patriot family members into the military. With recruiting being at a low point anyway the military does not have the latitude to be so picky. The problems with overweight and poor test scores is a bigger issue than all the racial and religious stuff that can be brought to the table.
As for Patriot family background, if these people coming into the service are of the mind set that they can swear allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and then participate in an insurrection at the behest of Donald J Trump, then they all need to either stay home or be ready to face a firing squad as traitors.
The on going crap about WOKE is an excuse to make problems. The principal goes back a long ways in history. For the personal need to keep the faith people built Priest Holes to hide Priest so they could practice their faith. Later people modified their homes to help slaves escape to freedom, poor idea by republican standards, loss of money. The same practice took place in Europe during the war to hide Jews and downed fliers or escapees. Every act of kindness of this nature came with big risks attached.
That history and those individuals that risked so much are a big part of what we as a nation are today. Take that attitude and turn it on it’s head and you have all the things that encouraged Henry VIII to destroy a religion, make people feel they had every right to hold others in bondage because their skin was dark, or herd people into gas chambers and murder them for being Jewish.
Take your MAGA and GAGA on it. Some people travel through life and leave a path of compassion and good, Danny Thomas. Others leave a scorched earth scene from a horror film. At this point in time the GOP seems bent on scorching as much of our world as possible.
Collude with tyrants, sell pardons, steal and sell national secrets, and claim the right to do so because you are you and everybody’s picking on you. Another example of why certain people should not be allowed to have children.
Now we have people that are oh so upset because their leader is being prosecuted for all kinds of crimes both against private parties and states and the nation. How do people get so easily sucked into nonsense. As stated before if you go back and listen to what he has said about most of the topics he is being prosecuted for he is proud of what he has done, would do it again and believes that he can get away with it.
Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)
Judging by the news the fans and followers were out in force for their favorite BS artist. How are people that proclaim themselves to be better than others because they are from Texas get so involved with a New Yorker slumlord? His speech about being a savior really tips the mark when you think about the religious event that happened in Waco 30 years ago, that one ended in tragedy as this one will.
A fairy tale begins :Once upon a time” a war story begins, “You ain’t going to believe this shit, but it’s true” a myth begins, “In the beginning” and a fallacy begins, “I am your Savior”. Put that in the current political makeup of our very troubled nation and where does it take you? Criminal charges against a former President, the majority party in the House of Representatives attempting to put themselves in a position to interfere with a state legal action, a Supreme Court top heavy with people of questionable moral standards as at least 2 of them lied to get seated. A governor that dictates laws about education and private business practices and also running for election to the highest office in the land.
Let us say that T makes it back into the WH, are we going to be saved from some horrible liberal plight? Chances are we’ll see more of the wealth of the nation pass into fewer hands, we may find that the nations we have been working with for decades will become our enemies and the despot governments will be our friends. States that fail to back him will most likely find punitive actions taken, funds for schools, roads, and everything you can think of will be canceled. Vengeance is mine, says the Savior.
If DeS makes the grade the first amendment will no longer exist. Education will have to follow certain guidelines and of course, in both cases, voting rights will be curtailed to suit the leaders limitations. How will this be possible, because the people that would put these “leaders” in office will continue to give up rights to make the leader happy. Look out 1850 here we come.
Desecration of the land to find wealth, be that oil or gold or whatever, it will make no difference as long as it can be added to the “Leaders’ ‘ bank account. We started the process rolling in the first seating of T and it will no doubt be on the agenda again should he make it back into office.
How have we gotten so far away from a government of the people, by the people and for the people? The efforts of Congress 60 years ago to take our, the citizens, rights to control what they get paid, have as a medical program, and the golden parachute when they leave service got removed. We the people just got screwed.
The founding fathers set the entire thing up so that we would not have a ruling class that was untouchable and they found a way to change that. Today we have a generation of legislators that was brought up in the age of “not my fault”. They have no conscience when it comes to blaming others as long as I get my way. The belief that they are smarter than those before them and that they have their children in check only demonstrates how wrong they really are.
How many people work on jobs that require drug tests? Does Congress or the Supreme Court get tested? How many people get paid if they play hookey and don’t come to work? Same question again.
Our government was designed to allow differing points of view to be heard and given due consideration. It has fostered cooperation for most of the time that it has been in operation, but today it is dysfunctional because the membership is dysfunctional. Our house is in trouble because we are only getting the message sent by the extreme ends of the polls, not the logically endowed center of the road folks that make the bulk of our nation. Will we ever be able to get that control back? That is very unlikely, the best we can hope for is that we can put people in office that are of the middle of the road mentality.
The efforts to fire up the base support, the constant bitterness against anyone and everyone that does not bow and kiss the ground he walks on is tragic and stupid. The constant use of victimhood arises at every turn in the road. If I don’t win the election it is because others cheated and stole my glory. If I am indicted it proves that the deep state exists and is out to ruin America and to jail your president and blah blah blah.
This setting the stage for why I have not come out on top is so much crap. Even the media center that appears to be his greatest fan talks of how if he is indicted Russia and China will be upset, as if they were our allies. The only reason they will be upset is because if he is put away they will have no contact in the states that are willing to sell us down the river like he is.
Claims to love America and be pro American and yet he admires the most brutal character currently living.