Monday, October 28
Deranged Trump Syndrome
Sick of the ELECTION
For the last several months, we have been forced to watch and listen, if we daily watch the NEWS, one side make negative comments about the other side... and then have the counter argument from the other side.
Then in the month of October, there is an escalation of those comments and both sides have become even more hateful towards their opponents.
Are we listening to the truth or are we listening to LIES... my guess is the latter.
At this point in time, I don't give a damn who wins because I think our country is heading in the wrong direction and even if another direction was taken for four years, it will swing back to the wrong approach.
This is what Americans typically do, they elect Democrats for 4-8 years, then elect Republicans for 4-8 years. Each time that happens, the USA moves in one direction then moves in another direction and NOTHING GETS ACCOMPLISHED.
I have NO FAITH IN POLITICIANS.
I have NO FAITH IN THE CHOICES AMERICANS MAKE.
This leaves me with making sure, I just always do what is BEST FOR MY WIFE AND ME.
I am sick of elections...
EVs and the US Power Grid
Over half of all new cars sold in the U.S. by 2030 are expected to be electric vehicles. That could put a major strain on our nation’s electric grid, an aging system built for a world that runs on fossil fuels.
Domestic electricity demand in 2022 is expected to increase up to 18% by 2030 and 38% by 2035, according to an analysis by the Rapid Energy Policy Evaluation and Analysis Toolkit, or REPEAT, an energy policy project out of Princeton University. That’s a big change over the roughly 5% increase we saw in the past decade.
“So we’ve got a lot of power demand coming to this country when we really didn’t have any for the last, like, 25 years,” said Rob Gramlich, founder and president of Grid Strategies, a transmission policy group.
While many parts of the economy are moving away from fossil fuels toward electrification — think household appliances such as stoves, and space heating for homes and offices — the transportation sector is driving the increase. Light-duty vehicles, a segment that excludes large trucks and aviation, are projected to use up to 3,360% more electricity by 2035 than they do today, according to Princeton’s data. READ MORE...
Sunday, October 27
2024 Election
Several months ago, when I was talking to my wife about the 2024 Presidential Campaign, sharing how dirty the Democrats had been towards Donald Trump since he began President in 2016, she said the following:
ONE DAY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL REALIZE HOW FAR THE LIBERALS HAVE GONE AND TURN ON THEM...
I remember looking over at her, not really sure or confident about what she had said, thinking her ideas were PIE IN THE SKY and that none of that would happen because the Democrats had the mainstream media, woke companies, tech companies, Hollywood celebrities, the DOJ, and the FBI supporting them.
NOW...
with only a few days left until the election, it is becoming amazingly clear that my wife MIGHT HAVE BEEN RIGHT and that the climate in this country is finally changing.
Instead of promoting her record while in office for over three and a half years, Kamala Harris and her proxies are doing nothing but saying HOW HORRIBLE TRUMP IS... along with the people that are supporting him.
- Joe Biden says he is a loser
- Michele Obama says he is in mental decline
- Kamala Harris says he is Hitler like
- Hillary Clinton says he will destroy democracy
On Being Born Again
I have lived for more than 10 years in Virginia (specifically 8 miles south of Washington, DC), North Carolina (specifically the piedmont), and Tennessee (specifically East TN)...
While I am sure that NC and TN are considered to be in the BIBLE BELT, I am not that sure about Virginia.
It was not until I moved to East TN, I came into contact with the term BORN-AGAIN. It was odd at first as people around me began asking me if I had been born again. At first, I just shook my head no, then I started mentioning that my parents had me baptized at a very early age in the Methodist Church.
It appeared quite clear to me that Baptists, especially Southern Baptists, did not think much of other religions, especially Methodists since they said Methodists were religiously and spiritually liberal in their think and behaving.
I found it best to ignore those comments.
Later on, in my tenure with the great state of TN, I discovered that many adults who had become BORN-AGAIN, returned to the way they were before they were BORN-AGAIN, which including consuming alcohol like it was rainwater, and fornicating with married women as if they only had 72 hours to live.
In 1990, I moved from NC to TN and in 2010, my research led me to discover that the divorce rate in the USA was 50% and the divorce rate in the BIBLE BELT of TN was also 50%.
This just goes to show that BORN-AGAIN BAPTISTS did not do any better with their marriages than NON BORN-AGAIN AMERICANS.
In The NEWS
Japanese voters head to polls tomorrow in Japan's snap elections.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's ruling Liberal Democratic Party faces its most significant electoral challenge for the first time since 2009 amid corruption scandals and declining public support. Analysts predict the opposition, particularly the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, may gain ground. Ishiba called the parliamentary elections after taking office Oct. 1 following the resignation of Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Robotaxi developer Waymo raises record $5.6B in funding.
The funding round is the largest for Alphabet's autonomous vehicle division, Waymo, as it looks to expand its robotaxi services across more cities. The round—led by Alphabet and joined by venture firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, and T. Rowe Price—brings Waymo's total capital raised to more than $11B. Waymo operates in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, and plans to expand to Austin and Atlanta as part of a partnership with Uber.
Grateful Dead cofounder and bassist Phil Lesh dies at 84.
Lesh played for the Grateful Dead for its entire 30-year history and also cowrote some of the band’s most noteworthy songs, including “St. Stephen," “Dark Star,” “Cumberland Blues,” and “Box of Rain.” The Grateful Dead was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and disbanded in 1995 after the death of the group's leader, Jerry Garcia. Lesh had faced health challenges later in life, including battles with prostate and bladder cancer. No cause of death was made public.
'Well Man' identified from 800-year-old Norse saga.
Researchers have linked ancient DNA from skeletal remains found in a well at Sverresborg Castle in Norway to the "well man" mentioned in the medieval Sverris Saga. The research indicates the remains likely belong to a man who died during a 1197 raid and was thrown into the well to poison the water supply, corroborating the historical narrative. The finding represents the first instance of physically identifying an individual described in historical texts through genomic analysis.
India, China begin implementing Himalayan border pact.
India and China have begun withdrawing their troops from an undefined 2,100-mile-long disputed Himalayan border, marking a step toward deescalating a four-year military standoff (see background). The withdrawal follows a recent agreement between the two nations to resume military patrols along the border, which had been a source of tension since deadly clashes in July 2020 that killed 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese soldiers.
Boeing reportedly exploring sale of parts of it space business.
The aerospace company's space business up for sale includes its troubled Starliner vehicle and operations that support the International Space Station. The sale exploration is reportedly at an early stage and may not result in a deal. The report comes after a SpaceX capsule carried four astronauts from the space station back to Earth after their return was delayed due to problems with Boeing's capsule and Hurricane Milton.
In Our Likeness & Image
Genesis 1:26-27
New International Version
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So, God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Forging of Stars & Planets
New insights into the formation of gas streams that propel the growth of infant stars have been unveiled by astronomers with help from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, revealing deeper insights into how they feed on material from their surrounding disks.
The new findings are offering astronomers unprecedented new details about young stars and planets, and the processes that give rise to their formation and evolution over time.
The new research focused on investigations into the structure of gas flows in protoplanetary disks, which are the massive, dusty clouds of gas surrounding newly formed stars. Based on recent Webb telescope data, researchers involved were able to confirm the existence of a previously “hidden” mechanism that astronomers have long suspected to be behind what allows stars to gain mass as they grow.
Detailed in a new paper in Nature Astronomy, the new research, led by scientists from the University of Arizona and supported by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, reveals that magnetic winds play a key role in transporting material that helps stars grow, along with shaping the mass present in their surrounding disk into a planetary system. READ MORE...
Saturday, October 26
Good for Me
I have been giving a lot of thought to this presidential election, more than it really deserves. I have convinced myself that this election represents a turning point for the USA, maybe the world, but that just might be an exaggeration because, no one really wants a nuclear war.
The USA is on the verge of perhaps the biggest change it has ever made since 1776 when it became a sovereign nation. That is to say, it might be changing from a Democratic Republic to a Socialistic Democracy that depends on CAPITALISM to pay its bills.
But is that ALL BAD?
If you look at our economy, it is slow growing and on the verge of having problems as it tries to transition to green energy. Initially, I thought that was bad because the rest of the world IS NOT REALLY GOING GREEN due to the expense of doing so...
BUT... a slow growing economy means that the banks and credit unions will be offering CDs with a higher-than-normal interest rate. For those of us who have saved money, we can invest in those CDs and generate about $4,000-$5,000 each month on interest alone.
My wife and I could just about double our income without putting forth any additional effort or work... and while others are struggling to get by, we would be in good shape financially.
Going green is not going to happen overnight and since there are so many people in the middle and lower classes in the USA, the odds are this transition might take a decade or more.
20% of the American population is financially in GOOD SHAPE and can pretty much weather any financial storm, but 80% of the population is NOT SO LUCKY.
When labor strikes for higher wages and gets those higher wages, all that means is that prices will continue to go up which mean INFLATION will continue.
While inflation is bad for 80% of Americans, it is good for me and my wife because CD interest rates will remain high.
IF TRUMP WINS THE WHITE HOUSE, there is a good possibility he will reduce inflation and build a strong economy... when that happens, CD interest rates WILL GO DOWN.
It is nothing personal, but I have to think about what is right for my wife and I and not really care what happens to this country. Of course, you must understand that I am 77 years old, my wife is 72 and neither one of us have a long future ahead of us.