Sunday, January 31, 2021

Allentown Fair 2009





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Newspaper Clippings (Humor)





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Saturday, January 30, 2021

Obama/Reagan (Video I Made In 2008)


Two different parties.
Two different times.
Two different men.
One America!



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Help Save Social Security (Humor)

A video I made in January 2011




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Friday, January 29, 2021

Morning Joe Trashes Facebook


While I may agree with him on certain points, before he calls for it to be broken up because it's too big he needs to take a look in his own backyard.

MSNBC is owned by 'Comcast'. Comcast is a hellva' lot larger (it could be considered by some in itself a monopoly). HERE'S A HUGE LIST OF IT'S HOLDINGS. Among it's holdings is 'NBC Universal'. AMONG IT'S HOLDINGS include not only Universal film studios but six cable channels, several theme parks and the streaming service called 'Peacock' and another called 'Vudu' it bought shares into from Walmart. As well as expanding it's tentacles into Europe.

Granted Mark Zuckerberg, who owns 29.3% of Facebook (including Instagram) has greater control then any other single person over at 'Comcast'. This still doesn't mean he exerts near the influence 'Comcast' has over what people see and hear. Facebook's influence comes from the people who use it. Therein lies the problem. Who gets to control what people are exposed to?

I don't think the problem lies solely at the feet of Facebook as Joe would have you believe. According to Wikipedia Fox Corperation, is owned by the Murdoch family via a family trust with 39% interest.. Another behemoth able to influence people. They along with dozens of other social media sites and media companies who also had a hand in stirring the pot.

What I'm trying to say here is Facebook alone is not the boogieman. There's plenty of others to blame for getting people fired up. Thank some congressional members, other politicals and even Joe himself at times.

At this time it appears Twitter and Facebook are starting to suppress this by suspending numerous accounts or putting them in lockdown for a period of time till they meet guidelines. Maybe some of these other major media companies ought to try suspending some of their own for the crap they're putting out. Much of the very stuff ending up being posted on social media.

Seems to me some of this complaining is because the traditional big money players are now losing a bunch of ad revenue after these other players came along. It also seems to me if places like Twitter and Facebook wish to benefit themselves they should disallow all political commentary completely. There are plenty of other positive things going on in each.

Too bad things seemed to have gotten out of hand. As I see it the greater fault are the American people themselves rather then the design for which these services were intended to be used for. People have abused the privilege. These are the ones that should be punished by eliminating them from using these platforms. How we go about that is the challenge.



No ones suppressing peoples speech by kicking them off. They simply need to exercise their free speech somewhere else. The first amendment applies to government allowing the expression of free speech. No where does it say companies are forced to put up with it.

Don't like it go somewhere it will be more appreciated. Maybe like middle of the desert, a lake or the woods somewhere.

140 Officers Injured in Capitol Attack


The bad actors MUST be punished. Anything less would send a bad signal to future extremists who'd be emboldened by the lack of response thinking there would no consequences for their treachery.
 



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Thursday, January 28, 2021

Covid Tests Sneaky Way To Collect Your DNA


Just China?
Gotta make you wonder.
Maybe I watch too many TV shows like NCIS?

Philly Police Chief Outlaw Will Not Resign

whyy.org
Philly police chief Outlaw will not resign after report critical of her handling of protests
"Wednesday’s report from the City Controller’s Office determined there was a “lack of leadership at the highest levels” during last summer’s protests..."

Just what the hell is going on down there. Half the city screamed she left vandals and looters run roughshod over stores downtown by not sending enough police. A few weeks later screaming too many police where rough on protesters. What the hell? She's screwed either way.

Ever think what the real problem is? It ain't her committing several murders a week. It ain't her smashing stores and blocking the Vine Street Expressway on their way to block the Schuylkill Expressway. I'll tell you what the real problem is. It's these aholes. Why anyone would want to be police chief in that city is beyond me. They should be grateful to have her.

I'll tell what I would do if her. Call these jackasses into the office next time and let them handle it since they're so great at playing armchair quarterbacks. What a bunch of fools. She will never be able to make them happy.



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Why I Never Bought Stocks

WARNING: Foul Language
January 27, 2021

I'll admit I know next to nothing about trading stock, but I do know this. (1) Someone always makes out at the expense of another. (2) Flash trading occurs within milliseconds based on algorithms usually before these brokers process client's orders (stock manipulation). (3) Most savings plans are FDIC insured so even if your only getting .75% interest you'll never lose your money. Plus there's this...

WSJ.com
GameStop, AMC Stock Prices Tumble as Robinhood Blocks Trades
"Robinhood Markets and Interactive Brokers joined a growing group of firms restricting trading of stocks that have run up rapidly the last week. "

The short story is hedge fund mangers' investors were getting hammered because they bet against GameStop and AMC. Instead a bunch of people got together on social media and bought a bunch of stock artificially driving up their share prices causing professional hedge fund money men to take a shellacking. As people should know by now when you gamble (even on the stock market) the odds are stacked in favor of the house winning. Now we can't have that can we?


The lesson here is,
If you don't understand something don't dabble in it.




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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Joe Scarborough Seems A Bit Upset

01/27/2021

Today's White House Press Briefing

I'm certain very few have taken the time to watch these over the first week Biden's been in office. I have watched a few and been taken back by those we've experienced over the previous four years. The degree of professionalism and intelligence is like the difference between night and day. There's much more I could say but will save them for comments if anyone expresses further interest.

Briefing from 01/27/2021




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Bunch Of This And That From The Internet

SOURCE ON TWITTER
Uploaded 2013







This is only some of the stuff I came across today.




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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Climate Change

vox.com
How Joe Biden plans to use executive powers to fight climate change
"10 ways Biden plans to fight climate change, with or without Congress."

Hopefully we'll now get on the right track. This shouldn't be political.

Follow the science.




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Monday, January 25, 2021

Supreme Court Rules Trump Got Away With It

huffpost.com
Supreme Court Ends Trump Emoluments Lawsuits, Calling Them ‘Moot’
"The high court also ordered the lower court rulings thrown out as well and directed appeals courts in New York and Richmond, Virginia, to dismiss the suits as moot now that Trump is no longer in office."

So in other words there is no reason a "president" can't profit greatly while he/she holds office if they weren't held accountable while in office by stalling them in the appeals process. Course on the other hand the emoluments clause carries practically no penalty. Pardon me for not thinking this is how this is suppose to work.

Does this only apply to presidents or does it to congressional (federal/state) members, governors, county leaders and mayors as well if they get away with it while in office? 

Seems screwed up to me. What a country!



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Stopped By Border Patrol- Gabriel (Fluffy) Iglesias

Love watching this guy.
Almost 100% of his act consists of true stories

From 2011

CHECK OUT HIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOR DOZENS MORE. or HIS OFFICIAL WEBSITE for tickets.

'Fluffy' is schduled to appear at the Wind Creek Event Center, Bethlehem, Pa. on September 03, 2021 at 10:00 PM. Ticket prices rage from $49-$69. The next day at The Borgata in Atlantic City, Nj. for two shows.



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Sunday, January 24, 2021

Who's Your Man Depends On Your POV

How Conservative Media is Covering Biden

Trash Talking for fun and profit

Donald Trump's Guide to American History

FOX News main man

From my POV some are FOS. If you don't know the difference....



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Who Did It Better?


OR




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Saturday, January 23, 2021

Putin Having His Own Problems

Think our country is a mess?
It's nothing compared to what Russia is going through.

motherjones.com
Tens of Thousands Across Russia Are Protesting Alexei Navalny’s Arrest
"Large demonstrations in support of Alexei Navalny, the prominent Kremlin-critic who was jailed last week upon returning to Russia for the first time since he was poisoned in an August assassination plot, erupted across the country on Saturday, with police quickly turning violent against protesters demanding Navalny’s release."

Course it didn't help when Navalny exposed what is purported to be Putin's palace.

Looks like Russia is going through what could be another revolution. They seem to go through this problem every so many years. Wonder if it will be better for us and others in the world or not.



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60 Minutes Archive: Larry King

Larry died of complications from Convid at 87.

1992

RIP Mr. King




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Friday, January 22, 2021

Allentown State of the City Address







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Trump Administration Got Off On Wrong Foot 1st Full Day


Critics are complaining supposedly the press is coddling Biden in the briefing room. Maybe it's because Sean Spicer came out swinging on his first briefing January 21, 2017 taking no questions. Not exactly the way to endear yourselves with the press.

By trashing the press is about the worst way to start out any administration from the get go. He basically declared himself an adversary to the press. If he wanted the press to go easy on the new administration Sean sure had a funny way of showing it. For the next four years it only got worse from there. With each press secretary after press secretary each gotten more acrimonious then the previous.

Some say the aura of inside the briefing room is far different now. It sure is. It's called respect and professionalism. This starts with how the press secretary addresses the media from the podium. Whether things stay that way is a question, but Biden's surely didn't start right out of the shoot denigrating and provoking reporters.



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Thursday, January 21, 2021

2020 Was A Tough Year. Some Musical Pick-Me-Ups



Music has a uncanny abiity to unite

If it exist heaven must be something like this. A place where all have forgotten their differences and come together in harmony. Maybe.. just maybe from time to time the heavens gift earth allowing us a brief peek into what is possible the only way it knows how. Through music. The only form of expression which requires us to give up our many differences for that of greater harmony.




It's my hope we all pay more attention to music then the constant voices of chaotic chatter which all too many times fill our day.






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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

59th Inaugural Ceremonies at the U.S. Capitol

Never mind the networks The JCCIC did a fantasic job broadcasting the event entirely commercial free. You'll learn more with their commentary then you could ever imagine. Hat's off to a wonderful job they did.

I'm not sure YouTube will leave the following video up. If not you can CLICK HERE for various short clips.



We weren't going to watch it. Now that we did I'm glad we did. I learned so much and was immensely inspired. So too I think this would be a better way of doing these from now on.



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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

FOX News Case Of Mistaken Identity

Right words. Wrong guy.

You might say they were just several years too early reporting on the presidency. I imagine this is what we'll have to look forward to shortly again. They already reached back into their archives and started with the immigration caravans bullshit. Jeesh. At least try and be a little more creative. It's one thing to present alternate facts. Another reporting from entirely different universe.

Oh well that's show biz for ya. If you can't 'If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit (W.C Fields).



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They Say They Love America (Do They?)




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Monday, January 18, 2021

Trump Ain't Done Yet Here's His Latest EO

Executive Order on Building the National Garden of American Heroes
Issued on: January 18, 2021

In short, each individual has been chosen for embodying the American spirit of daring and defiance, excellence and adventure, courage and confidence, loyalty and love. Astounding the world by the sheer power of their example, each one of them has contributed indispensably to America’s noble history, the best chapters of which are still to come.

(b) Section 3(c)(i) of Executive Order 13934 is amended to read as follows: “The National Garden should be composed of statues, including statues of Ansel Adams, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Muhammad Ali, Luis Walter Alvarez, Susan B. Anthony, Hannah Arendt, Louis Armstrong, Neil Armstrong, Crispus Attucks, John James Audubon, Lauren Bacall, Clara Barton, Todd Beamer, Alexander Graham Bell, Roy Benavidez, Ingrid Bergman, Irving Berlin, Humphrey Bogart, Daniel Boone, Norman Borlaug, William Bradford, Herb Brooks, Kobe Bryant, William F. Buckley, Jr., Sitting Bull, Frank Capra, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Carroll, John Carroll, George Washington Carver, Johnny Cash, Joshua Chamberlain, Whittaker Chambers, Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman, Ray Charles, Julia Child, Gordon Chung-Hoon, William Clark, Henry Clay, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Roberto Clemente, Grover Cleveland, Red Cloud, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Nat King Cole, Samuel Colt, Christopher Columbus, Calvin Coolidge, James Fenimore Cooper, Davy Crockett, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Miles Davis, Dorothy Day, Joseph H. De Castro, Emily Dickinson, Walt Disney, William “Wild Bill” Donovan, Jimmy Doolittle, Desmond Doss, Frederick Douglass, Herbert Henry Dow, Katharine Drexel, Peter Drucker, Amelia Earhart, Thomas Edison, Jonathan Edwards, Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Duke Ellington, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Medgar Evers, David Farragut, the Marquis de La Fayette, Mary Fields, Henry Ford, George Fox, Aretha Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Milton Friedman, Robert Frost, Gabby Gabreski, Bernardo de Gálvez, Lou Gehrig, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Cass Gilbert, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Glenn, Barry Goldwater, Samuel Gompers, Alexander Goode, Carl Gorman, Billy Graham, Ulysses S. Grant, Nellie Gray, Nathanael Greene, Woody Guthrie, Nathan Hale, William Frederick “Bull” Halsey, Jr., Alexander Hamilton, Ira Hayes, Hans Christian Heg, Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Henry, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Billie Holiday, Bob Hope, Johns Hopkins, Grace Hopper, Sam Houston, Whitney Houston, Julia Ward Howe, Edwin Hubble, Daniel Inouye, Andrew Jackson, Robert H. Jackson, Mary Jackson, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Steve Jobs, Katherine Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Chief Joseph, Elia Kazan, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, Francis Scott Key, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr., Russell Kirk, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Henry Knox, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Harper Lee, Pierre Charles L’Enfant, Meriwether Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Vince Lombardi, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Clare Boothe Luce, Douglas MacArthur, Dolley Madison, James Madison, George Marshall, Thurgood Marshall, William Mayo, Christa McAuliffe, William McKinley, Louise McManus, Herman Melville, Thomas Merton, George P. Mitchell, Maria Mitchell, William “Billy” Mitchell, Samuel Morse, Lucretia Mott, John Muir, Audie Murphy, Edward Murrow, John Neumann, Annie Oakley, Jesse Owens, Rosa Parks, George S. Patton, Jr., Charles Willson Peale, William Penn, Oliver Hazard Perry, John J. Pershing, Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Poling, John Russell Pope, Elvis Presley, Jeannette Rankin, Ronald Reagan, Walter Reed, William Rehnquist, Paul Revere, Henry Hobson Richardson, Hyman Rickover, Sally Ride, Matthew Ridgway, Jackie Robinson, Norman Rockwell, Caesar Rodney, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Betsy Ross, Babe Ruth, Sacagawea, Jonas Salk, John Singer Sargent, Antonin Scalia, Norman Schwarzkopf, Junípero Serra, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Robert Gould Shaw, Fulton Sheen, Alan Shepard, Frank Sinatra, Margaret Chase Smith, Bessie Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jimmy Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gilbert Stuart, Anne Sullivan, William Howard Taft, Maria Tallchief, Maxwell Taylor, Tecumseh, Kateri Tekakwitha, Shirley Temple, Nikola Tesla, Jefferson Thomas, Henry David Thoreau, Jim Thorpe, Augustus Tolton, Alex Trebek, Harry S. Truman, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Dorothy Vaughan, C. T. Vivian, John von Neumann, Thomas Ustick Walter, Sam Walton, Booker T. Washington, George Washington, John Washington, John Wayne, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Roger Williams, John Winthrop, Frank Lloyd Wright, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Alvin C. York, Cy Young, and Lorenzo de Zavala.”



It was not mentioned how we'd pay for it. I assume any budgeted money would have to come from congress. Frankly I'd prefer Covid, infrastructure and several other items receive first priority. 



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MBGA

MBGA= Make Britain Great Again


I don't think a lot of Brits thought this out fully. I've been reading what it means to those who hold bank accounts in neighboring countries. Driver licenses may no longer be recognized when they cross the British border (a special problem for transport drivers).. Passports/visas may now be required. French fishing trawlers are being chased out of the English channel by Britain's military ships where they've always fished before. Cargo trucks are now inspected for new tariffs' on items. The British pound is no longer being accepted for purchases in other European nations. I assume the Euro will no longer be accepted inside Britain as well on purchased items. Drugs and food items will have to meet separate standards then they held in common as before. The NHS may no longer cover medical expenses for Brits when they travel outside the country. New trade agreements will have to be drawn up with the United States now that Britain is no longer part of the European Union. There are particular issues in Ireland. While it has it's own government Brits still control the Northern part. Meaning parts of Ireland are still in the European Union while the northern end is not.



These and probably dozens more I haven't run across.

A case of "be careful what you wish for".




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Mika Brzezinski Outraged With Facebook And Twitter


I don't agree with everything she said but why after years of allowing this crap to continue do it now? I think the answer is obvious. They're attempting to distance themselves after the wind has shifted having profited from it prior. Much like many of Trump's friends are trying to distance themselves now.

Ever hear of a guy named Judas?
Let's just call this what it is, 'The Judas Effect'. People (or companies) seek to cover their asses looking to preserve themselves whenever conditions turn unfavorable for them. Time and again it has worked successfully for both politicians and businesses to apologize by locking the doors after being warned the horses would get out. Course this doesn't repair the damage already done.


Sort of along the lines of a judge telling jury members to disregard a shrewd lawyer's previous remark. Yeah like that's going to happen.

Face it these guys are no dummies but they're hoping you are. 


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