Politics, Religion & Money – Page 57 – Prattling before the Pratfall

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.

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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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2022/trump-tapes-bob-woodward-interviews-audiobook/

Let Them Eat Debt

Republicans continue their efforts to dissolve the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They apparently see it as a Socialist/Communist institution. I assume because the bureau, which is under the self-funded Federal Reserve, was originally proposed by Elizabeth Warren.

Republican attorneys have attempted to dismantle the CFPB from the moment Congress created it in response to the 2008 financial crash. The agency protects consumers against exploitative fraud and deceit in home mortgages, credit cards, consumer loans, and retail banking.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/trumpiest-federal-appeals-court-kills-cfpb-fifth-circuit.html

Holy Synchronicity, Batman! I'd laugh if it weren't so chilling!

Last week I added Targets to my collection.

Filmed at 30 fps, so no conversion from 24 fps was needed for a telecine video transfer.

Probably the best of all r&h screen versions, originally shown in 70mm todd -ao, and the corn really was as…

Mccay and frazetta nice way to start my day. Thanks.??