Dwain Northey (Gen X)

I drive around all day long and see hundreds of accident attorney billboards. I don’t know if I believe in manifesting but I do believe if something is always on your mind it just might happen. So do you think there may be a plan with attorneys that if they keep showing us pictures of accidents or asking the public about accidents that we may just get into an accident?

I know crazy thought, but look at the world we live in.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

With all these numbers dear Donald is on track to double the deficit he created the first time he was sitting in the Oval Office but once again the American public refuses to accept provable facts.

He is on track to turn our Democracy into an autocracy and there isn’t an automatic government on the planet that is successful or effective in helping its citizens. The 2025 project, that this administration is implementing, will hand the power and treasure of America to a few at the sacrifice of many.

If we have fair elections in 2 or 4 years the Democrats will again be expected to fix the problems just as we have for the past 50+ years, that is if we have free and fair elections.

Lyndon B. Johnson led the nation in an untraditional manner at times, going so far as to conduct meetings with his advisers while seated on the toilet. The 36th U.S. president was known for a method of persuasion called the “Johnson treatment,” in which he won political victories either through flattery or bullying. One of LBJ’s most common tactics was inviting people into the bathroom and continuing the conversation, often leaving the door wide open and creating an awkward environment.

While some advisers would turn away in order to give the president privacy, Johnson would invite them to come closer so he could hear them better. One such instance saw national security adviser McGeorge Bundy nearly stumble and fall onto LBJ’s lap while he was seated on the toilet. Johnson treated other private facilities as meeting rooms as well — he was known to have aides stand just outside the shower, and he kept the conversation going while drying himself off afterward. Johnson even had telephones installed throughout various White House bathrooms, to ensure he’d never miss an important call. The president’s eccentricities weren’t limited to just the toilet, either. LBJ once completely stripped down while conducting an interview with reporters aboard Air Force One, continuing the conversation as normal. He also began many mornings by inviting aides into the White House bedroom to discuss official business while he was still in bed with his wife, Lady Bird Johnson.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

Where have we gone? The administration is using armed force to enter buildings and shutter offices that they have no business being in. The French want the Statue of Liberty returned becasue of Trump and his policies. The military is preparing plans for the takeover of the Panama Canal, Greenland is to be annexed by force if necessary and Canada is being targetted as the 51st State. That is just this side of the world what else besides Gaza does he have on his agenda? He has no plan for helping anyone unless they are rich, he plays golf most of the time and ignores the duties he was elected to fulfill and seeks to avenge every little slight or insult with the power of the federal government, and no one has called him unfit or tried to remove him from office. That may be because they have looked at what will take over, either an unelected foreign born egotistic rich boy, or another mentally defiencent idiot that once called Trump a Nazi and now kisses his ass. Now Putin and Trump are going to have a talk about ending the war in Ukraine without anyone from there being in the meeting. These two despots are going to decide what happens to another nation that was violated by one and has been abandoned by the other. This reminds me of the story of the flea climbing the elephants back leg with rape on its' mind. Both of these "rulers" need to have an awakening of their limitations even if it means a dramatic end to the capability to draw breath. The outcome of this meeting is no doubt going to be detrimental to Ukraine and its citzens and that is not a positive things for them or anyone else involved. We in the US are on the brink of having all this turmoil turn into open violence and we do not need to destroy our country for the sake of one mans ego. The Supreme Court has just decided that they are not going to roll over all the time, now they need to pull the immunity nonsense so the courts can take this idiot out. He has been classified as an insurrectionist by two states highest courts and found guilty of felony 34 times amoung other charges why he was ever allowed to run for office again is an insult to the rule of law. Everything the founders found to be repulsive in a monarch are present in this administration and the little ass wipe that is doing all the dirty work of destroying our nation. The time to stop this is about 4 years over due. Time to punch the ticket and make him pay for his crimes instead of making the citzens of the nation be his scape goats for his criminal prosecutions. The push to grab power over everything and everyone is very concerning. Those that have been named to positions of authority at the various agencies appear to have no conprehension of the damage they are doing, or they are just mental enough to enjoy being bullies on a fanominal scale. The goal to destroy so much of our structure, the principles we live by and the resources that allow us to live period, seems to have no positive outcome for any of us, the poor or the wealthy or anyone in between. If only one person profits from all this we can bet that person is named Trump. His ego, his vanity, his thirst for power will hopefully consume him in negative fashion before he has destroyed us.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The recent news indicates that there appear to be connecting channels between the magma chambers along the known volcanos of the cascade range. In one way this is very troubling as it means that there is a very present danger not just near the peaks the other side of that is that there is an opportunity to utilize that network for power generation. Most people do not want to have the national parks industrialized for any reason. With the channels connecting that means there is a way to tap the scource of heat without entering the parks.
So the idea is to place thermal operated equipments, steam engines, along those corridors and produce electric power by tapping into the heat source and injecting water into that system where it will create steam and power the engines. It should be possible to build a system that catches the expelled steam and condense the stean into water and recycle it so that fresh sourced water is kept to a minimum. That system could also provide the means to build a series of greenhouses to grow food crops on a year around basis.
Grown locally those crops would provide a source of food items for local use without high transportation costs. This would be great for schools, homes for the elderly and to help the needy. The system would provide work for a variety of skills, electrical, steam operators, gardeners and people to transport and distribute the production of the greenhouses. Utilizing the natural heat would help eliminate the use of fossil fuels in power generation and may provide an additional measure of bleeding off some of the heat that could result in lessing the danger of eruptions.
The water that would be recovered from such a process would be distilled and would need to be processed to replenish the water with minerals to help with the growing process. Mother nature does that by running water over mineral rich soils and by means of what takes place in storms, and we could create those conditions to enhance the water. After it has provided the plants with energy it could then again be reeturned to make steam and go through the process again, at least it seems possible. Not sure of what this would cost, but it seems like there would be a great deal of gains for the expense.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Arlington National Cemetery has purged its website of pages about notable Black, Hispanic and women veterans, as well as information about the Civil War and Black history, as the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to remove references to “diversity and inclusion” on government webpages.

The DOD has removed pictures of the Enola Gay The aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima because of the word, gay .

Women, Margaret Crosby who worked as a cryptographer for the OSS’ Greek Desk. Agnes Meyer Driscoll – broke the Japanese M-1 cipher machine. Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein – found the crucial break in the Japanese Purple cipher. Are being down played . As are the Tuskegee airmen because god forbid anyone who isn’t male or white gets recognized by this administration.

We, well most of us, knew that Donny was going to do damage but his a racist, misogynist ego is… it makes me so angry that I don’t have words.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

This issue of Presidential immunity says he can not be prosecuted for a crime committed while in office, it does not say that he has the power to fire people or target businesses just because he doesn't llike them or they represented someone he does not like. The first part of the sentence is far too much power to start with, the President should not be allowed to be above the law. It will be marvellous when he leaves office and travels to Scotland to play golf and he gets taken away to face crimes in the world court as the former president of the Phillipines in currently doing. His immunity does not impress anyone but the republican members of Congress. The CR was approved today and they gave Trump 6 more months to destroy our country. How this was possible as a lesser of evil moves has yet to be understood. What needs to be destroyed is the would be dictator and all that endorse his nonsense. This has become the worst possible outcome of an election, thank you all that voted to put a felon, sex preditor, morally backrupt idiot back in the White House. The simple act of turning pumps back on after a 3 day service stoppage gets a social media announcement of the Army doing this job to supply water to Southern California. The declaring of marshall law from the 1790's to do some other thing, and the lies just keep coming. Trump will stop lying, never. He will have a lie ready for when he tries to take over hell from Satan. Plans are supposed to be in thee works to take the Panama Canal by force if necessary. The wish is that we take Canada as the 51st state abd aquire Green Land any way possible. Manifest Destiny ended a long time ago, and all this empire building is not going to help us as a nation or make our citzens any better off. This is an ego trip of one demented, sick in the head old man that needs to retire to the porch and sit in a rocking chair while talking to himself. War is supposed to be approved by Congress, but we know at present, anything the idiot comes up with will be approved, no matter how stupid it is. It does not surprise me that there are people in the military that would go along with such orders as at least some of them turned their backs on the Constitution and voted for Trump, the enemy from within, or domestic, which ever suits. What is it about that the members of Congress and seemingly the public cannot figure out that the crap that is being pulled is to give the upper 1% a bigger tax break. Unless math has changed that means that 99% of us are on the other end of the stick and we should start beating the hell out of the 1%. Not violently but where it hurts tham most, in the pocket book. Musk is feeling the pain with his businesses, and things are getting a bit shaky at Amazon, so the others are involved in things that require selling and if they can't or don't sell it they lose. At present that should be the norm with all the layoffs and firings, business has got to be going down hill. More people are suffering and for no reason other than stupidity and revenge on the part of Trump. The 1% may need to raise personal armies to protect themselves, and that is going to cost big bucks. When the streets are not safe for them or their families to be on or threats of violence are a constant item in their lives is all the tax cuts going to make life better. Our nation was founded standing up to tyrants and we have not become docile yet. Many chose to get into a fight rather than have to discuss and option. If that is not the case why do so many own guns? Do most of us face angry mobs or gangs of thugs when we go to the store or on our way to work? Not sure where you live, but I don't encounter those problems so the point is just like a gookly number of people who have become famous they have found that they must become much more private in their lives, don't go out, limit gatherings, limit friends, and no matter how fancy the cell if you can never leave it is still a cell.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

So Donald is going to meet with Putin this week to negotiate the end of the Ukraine war that Putin started and Ukraine isn’t involved in the negotiations. This as fair as a crooked cop making a deal with robbers that broke into your house about how much of your property they get to keep.

I am sure that in the deal Putin will want a significant amount of Ukraines territory and probably some kind of restitution for Russian soldiers killed and injured. The rationale will be that Putin wanted the territory and Ukraine should have just given it to him …

This is a sign of the ridiculous times we are living in.