Sunday, October 23, 2022

Ohhh, the Reds!





 

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    1. It really is. 😞

      Maybe a juicy or interesting novel that gives you something to look forward to when you can't sleep?

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  2. It is said, Susan, that the best sleep occurs before midnight. We usually wake about four AM. If I wake during the night, I just start counting. The problem ,of course, is that we are not aware of falling asleep.

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  3. Btw, Howard was on MSNBC along with a prof from Harvard to talk about people-powered revolution. He's been on a couple of programs lately.

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    1. When did this interview take place? I'm pretty sure I read the Michael Moore quote some weeks ago. Is it still valid now? I'd like to think so. He makes some good points. But is anyone listening? My hope is that the Republicans get complacent and the rest of us realise we'd better get to the polls.

      BTW, The Guardian won't let me read unless I register. But I found the article on Yahoo News:
      Michael Moore: I'm deadly serious

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    1. Aside from corporate greed, inflation was bound to occur as a result of moving supply chains out of China (notably including to North America). [BTW: did you know that the backlog of unloaded container ships off Los Angeles has disappeared?] And I remember the inflation of the late 1960's and early 1970's. Cost of living adjustments were routine, and fixed rate mortgages went up to about 16.5%. Back in the late 50's and early 60's (as memory serves me) loan interest was typically 7% and savings accounts paid 3% interest. I figure that the effective cost of gasoline (per mile) in 1968 was six or seven 2022 dollars per gallon, and food was about three times as expensive as today (if you consider the same types of food). And the 60's were not hard times. None of that is meant to minimize the difficulties many people are having today.

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    2. Also, back in the '60's both major political parties had anti-monopoly planks in their platforms.

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    3. What happened was that "regulation" which was somehow touted as a restriction, was actually designed to trade data collection for protection from competitors. In fact, since corporations are state authorized enterprises, their establishment could be conditioned on meeting certain standards to satisfy the public interest.
      I did not cotton to this reality until Minnesota started stripping unions of their operational rights and Michigan started taking over municipal corporations tha defaulted on debt.
      Further reflection made it clear that NY state has standards which, if they violated can result a corporation (like Trump University) being dissolved.
      Of my knowledge, we have had seventy years of the commercial community touting the free market while sucking at the public teat.
      And what exactly is the difference between a corporation and a commune?

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    4. I see no reason why a commune could not organize as a (nonprofit) corporation.

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  6. There are multiple/numerous reports that Russian regular troops and collaborators are fleeing the Kherson area, burning records, and leaving behind recent conscripts with orders to fight a rearguard action without supplies, training, or officers. [Side note: if the Russians should blow up that big hydropower dam upstream from Kherson, it wouldn't be the first time. The Germans did it during WWII.]

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  7. [By Fresno standards] it's pretty cool here this morning. I may change to flannel pajamas next week.

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    1. We're expecting a couple of 70 degree days this week. Go figure.

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    1. Excellent news. If only DT were taking notes.

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  9. https://digbysblog.net/2022/10/22/more-food-for-thought-on-the-midterms/

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  10. They say this has been in the news for a while, but I hadn’t noticed it:
    Vermont water superintendent says he secretly lowered his town’s water fluoride for over a decade [Click] “Town manager says fluoride levels now restored and will be monitored monthly.”

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    1. This is why leadership needs oversight.

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  11. That guy should pay the dental bills of the kids under 15 for that decade and also apologize to them. I refused anesthesia paid for by my family. I couldn't refuse to go, but did tell him didn't like the way they made me feel. Truth is that my family was poor, with lots of kids, and the anesthesia was the only itemized charge.

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    1. I was thinking along those lines too.
      ---Anonymous Alan

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  12. listener, lost the email again. but the blog is back for a while, 007 is the DSL number and has no phone, 008 is the one that works. I *was* asleep. Usually up around seven.

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    1. That explains it. Thanks! TTY before too long! ❤️

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    2. GREAT to have you back on the Blog, meanwhile!!!!

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