After my father’s death five years ago, I gave serious consideration to paying my siblings to buy our parents’ retirement home in Arizona. I am very glad I decided against it. First, the pandemic would have made it extremely difficult to look after the property, and now there is the insanity of AZ political candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden. Mark Finchem is either seriously self-deluded or he’s flat-out lying with a straight face.
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
Rep Pushback
Jim McGovern is my representative in the United States House. Although I am loath to embed a Tweet, especially now that Twitter is under control of the crazy rich guy from South Africa, McGovern has something to say to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
YOU called for Nancy Pelosi to be executed, @RepMTG.
YOU said she should be hung for treason.
And now that someone listened, you're making Paul Pelosi's attack about YOU.
This is what Republicans stand for, America. It’s sick. https://t.co/Nrfbcj4eXI
— Rep. Jim McGovern (@RepMcGovern) October 29, 2022
Postwar Candydates
The first Halloween after VJ Day. Nancy Pelosi was 5, Bernie Sanders was 4, and Mitch McConnell was 3. So don’t call them Boomers! I can imagine Mitch, Alabama-born and raised, wearing one of those spook costumes when he was a kid. Joe Biden? Halloween, 1945, he was three weeks away from turning 3.
The One, True GPS
Somebody I know needs a GPS for a trip, but doesn’t want to use phone navigation software. Do I have something that works directly with the Global Positioning System satellites? Why, yes I do. A now-idle Garmin nüvi 58 that I bought six years ago, along with a nice beanbag dashboard mount, for getting around greater Phoenix.
After repurposing a 32 GB microSD card to make it possible to update the maps, the Garmin is now ready to go.
Fun fact: The Internet and the Global Positioning System were both created with American taxpayer dollars, under the auspices of the Defense Department, formerly the War Department. Reminding you and all Americans to take the right route and DON’T BE A SUCKER!
How Much is Free Advice Worth?
I don’t follow personal finance gurus, like PBS favorite Suze Orman, and not because her sales pitch is directed mostly at women. The inspirational self-help tone, with its “pay yourself first” catchphrase advice, isn’t for me. Here’s an Orman podcast with another cutesy slogan.
The Freakonomics podcast has a related discussion. What do academic economists think about personal financial advice? After all, the spending decisions made by consumers, in the aggregate, are what drive 70% the economy.
Blabbermouth
“Everything is mine,” he said. Except his failed handling of the pandemic, and the resulting loss of the 2020 election, which he refuses to own.