Monday, August 31, 2020

They got Big!

So I crushed them

Sunday, August 30, 2020

Your attention please! The Joe Biden Campaign has an Announcement! Joe will be somewhere west of Philadelphia on Monday! Time & place will be determined later...

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Joe Biden to Deliver Remarks in Pennsylvania on Monday, August 31, 2020

Joe Biden to Deliver Remarks in Pennsylvania on Monday, August 31, 2020

On Monday, August 31, Joe Biden will travel to southwestern Pennsylvania to lay out a core question voters face in this election: are you safe in Donald Trump's America?

COVID runs unchecked throughout the country, killing thousands of Americans a week and turning our economy upside down. Parents around the country are struggling to send their kids to school safely. And Donald Trump continues to fan the flames of division and encourage chaos in our cities, rather than trying to calm tensions and heal this country.

On Monday, Joe Biden will offer a different vision for a better future in Joe Biden's America.

MONDAY, AUGUST 31
Remarks by Joe Biden in Southwestern Pen

We don't know exactly where in southwestern Pa Joe will be, or what time Joe will be there...we don't know what core questions Joe will respond to other than Trump's America is not safe!

As a voter back on the fence, I look forward to hearing Joe's remarks wherever & whenever he shows up somewhere in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

I'm also wondering if Kamala will be joining Joe on the campaign trail?

...just wondering, 'cause I'm so excited...!

'cause I love the song, like John Mayer,

know nothing about Keith Urban (other than who he is married to) I own a guitar
and can't do nothing even near the Planet that these guys are on!!

Plus, it reminds me of when Michael sometimes covered a line or two for me during our
recording sessions & nobody was the Wiser...(inside baseball info there)

Saturday, August 29, 2020

Dad Advice...

We used to do skits for our mother's sisters & the one with the rich husband! They (she) would
hand us a nickel, dime or sometimes a quarter!

Eventually, Michael & Eddie got pretty good at it & our Dad advised them that after they open
their Act with The Kingston Trio & The Brothers' Four stuff, they should Hit their audience with some Mills Brothers!

If you have seen Michael & Eddie perform over their many years together you
may have heard some of their Mills Brothers sounds...rooted in 'Dad advice'.

Friday, August 28, 2020

No doubt about it...

PAYDAY is the best...

It was a 70 minute acceptance speech from President Trump...

I watched some of the after speech commentary on MSNBC,

Joy Reid did not like it...

The final night of the Republican National Convention completely sent MSNBC’s Joy Reid over the edge. The host melted down after Donald Trump closed out night four of the RNC Convention, fuming that the address was a “repugnant crime” possibly heralding the “end of America.”

No invective was too much for Reid as she snarled: “All I have to say is as I'm watching this, I'm thinking Fidel Castro, Julius Caesar, Mobutu Sese Seko. That was not an American President giving an acceptance speech.”

Castro

Caesar

Mobutu Sese Seko

me thinks Joy may need a "time out"

Oh well...

Thursday, August 27, 2020

Has anyone in the media ever interviewed you about your job?

A hurricane hunter describes what it feels like to fly inside Hurricane Laura's eye

"Electric" and very turbulent: Hurricane hunter Garrett Black on the experience of being aloft inside a hurricane

https://www.salon.com/2020/08/27/a-hurricane-hunter-describes-what-it-felt-like-flying-inside-hurricane-lauras-eye/

Bette Midler has Trump Derangement Syndrom & a Twitter Addiction...

Taryn Ryder

·Writer, Yahoo Entertainment

August 26, 2020, 6:57 PM EDT·4 mins read

Bette Midler addressed her controversial tweets about First Lady Melania Trump on Wednesday.

Midler took aim at President Donald Trump's wife during the second night of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday.

While live tweeting the First Lady’s speech, the 74-year-old entertainer called Melania an “illegal alien” who “can’t speak English” (among other jabs). While Midler was initially unapologetic, it appears she had a change of heart.

“I was wrong to make fun of her accent. America is made up people who speak with all kinds of accents, and they are all welcomed always,” the Hocus Pocus star tweeted on Wednesday.

But that's not all Bette said or tweeted about

our Fist Lady...

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bette-midler-responds-backlash-melania-trump-illegal-alien-cant-speak-english-225742714.html

Twitter is a sewer that so many celebrities fall into!

They must think we cherish their opinion.

I'm just a Blogger. I have never tweeted anything...

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

weather people are saying Hurricane

Laura... could be the strongest storm to ever hit the coast of Louisiana...A category 4 storm, some are predicting!

New Orleans will not be the epicenter they say,

but...

Category	Sustained Winds	Types of Damage Due to Hurricane Winds
1	74-95 mph 64-82 kt 119-153 km/h	Very dangerous winds will produce some damage: Well-constructed frame homes could have damage to roof, shingles, vinyl siding and gutters. Large branches of trees will snap and shallowly rooted trees may be toppled. Extensive damage to power lines and poles likely will result in power outages that could last a few to several days.
2	96-110 mph 83-95 kt 154-177 km/h	Extremely dangerous winds will cause extensive damage: Well-constructed frame homes could sustain major roof and siding damage. Many shallowly rooted trees will be snapped or uprooted and block numerous roads. Near-total power loss is expected with outages that could last from several days to weeks.
3 (major)	111-129 mph 96-112 kt 178-208 km/h	Devastating damage will occur: Well-built framed homes may incur major damage or removal of roof decking and gable ends. Many trees will be snapped or uprooted, blocking numerous roads. Electricity and water will be unavailable for several days to weeks after the storm passes.
4 (major)	130-156 mph 113-136 kt 209-251 km/h	Catastrophic damage will occur: Well-built framed homes can sustain severe damage with loss of most of the roof structure and/or some exterior walls. Most trees will be snapped or uprooted and power poles downed. Fallen trees and power poles will isolate residential areas. Power outages will last weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.
5 (major)	157 mph or higher 137 kt or higher 252 km/h or higher	Catastrophic damage will occur: A high percentage of framed homes will be destroyed, with total roof failure and wall collapse. Fallen trees and power poles will isolate residential areas. Power outages will last for weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama - 7/2/1977 - Oakland Coliseum Stadiu...

This concert was held about six months before my son Jason was born... I was 31...

Will the youth of today ever get back to having fun?

You are only given one run to be young & crazy! Choose a Fun & Crazy Run! Fun being the operative word...

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

This is some stuff I have read about the Post Office takeover by Trump & that Louis DeJoy guy...

Only time I complained about the Post Office was when I moved to Blossom Hill nine years ago & asked,

"where are all the mail boxes?"

I had come from Roxborough, Phila where they had a blue mail box on every other block.

Louis actually knows Logistics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_DeJoy

So, he is not someone that got the job because he sent the Trump campaign a lot of money?

It did put him on the map though...

Maybe he just thought he liked what Trump was doing?

OPINION | 2020

5 Myths About the Postal Crisis

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/20/5-myths-about-the-postal-crisis-399584

Also, take note...a President has not appointed a Postmaster General since 1969! It is done by a Board of Directors.

2020 High School Player of the Year

Going to U Conn...

Here's a really good Final Section Game...March 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0xqa4KU9k&feature=emb_rel_end

Because of

they never got to play the state championship game.

Hopkins High's season ended with a 62 game winning streak.

Monday, August 24, 2020

I look at this stuff in awe...

...think about those people that figured out how to fly a plane. To communicate via radio signals.
Flaps up/flaps down. The air controllers. The coordination necessary to take us where we want to go.

It happens thousands of times a day all over the world & we don't give it a thought.

Plus! A plane wash when you least expect it!

Amazing stuff...calm and cool operation all around...!

Sunday, August 23, 2020

Is it feasible that there will be a covid-19 vaccine anytime soon?

I looked some stuff up... in their history, the FDA has approved 24 vaccines that combat a myriad of viruses. Look (click) at this:

Of those 24, the vaccine that got approval the fastest was the vaccine for the mumps. And that took four years!

So, what do you think?

Should we all keep masking up & distancing

'til who knows when? Or what?

Friday, August 21, 2020

Does this former Green Beret look like a Russian spy, or....

...does this guy look like a Russian spy?

Federal prosecutors have charged a former army green beret with spying for Russia. A 45-year-old Peter Debbins of Gainesville Virginia is accused of working with Moscow as far back as 1996. Prosecutors say he periodically met Russian intelligence and was even assigned a code name by Russian agents. Authorities say Debbins was arrested today.

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2020/08/21/russia-obsessed-nets-ignore-former-green-beret-charged-spying

They also caught another spy earlier this week!

Now , does this guy look like a Chinese spy, or...

does this guy look like a spy for China?

https://hardnoxandfriends.com/2020/08/18/hawaii-spy-arrested-and-charged-with-espionage/

How many spys did Obama ever catch in one week?

LOL!

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Pondering...

WE HAVE A PROBLEM: This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve...

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!

I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague." #pleaseshare

*tip of the Hat to Kevbo...