Nov 20 in an earlier century
Both Grandma’s and 1st girlfriend’s birthday.
Both long lost but happy birthday, granny and Debbi
DTNovember 21, 2024, 4:18 PM
Oh well, I was hoping to start something without politics. Didn’t work … and then I violated my own desire (see below 🙂 )
AnonymousNovember 20, 2024, 5:08 PM
Let us see if congress has the cajones to block this.
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) – The Biden administration has moved to forgive about $4.7 billion in U.S. loans to Ukraine, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday, as outgoing officials seek to do what they can before leaving office to bolster Ukraine in its war against Russia.
A funding bill passed by the U.S. Congress in April included just over $9.4 billion of forgivable loans for economic and budgetary support to Ukraine’s government, half of which the president could cancel after Nov. 15. The bill appropriated a total of $61 billion to help Ukraine fight the full-scale invasion Moscow launched in February 2022.
“We have taken the step that was outlined in the law to cancel those loans,” Miller told a press briefing, adding that the step was taken in recent days.
Congress could still block the move, Miller said.
AnneNovember 21, 2024, 9:45 AM
Before Biden credit card interest rates for this family were at 13%. For more than 14 years there has not been one missed or late payment. Today, that rate is 28% and will be 29% January 1.
Question: Has my family been paying for the war in Israel? How about the war in the Ukraine?
azlibertarianNovember 21, 2024, 11:48 AM
Remember just yesterday when I predicted that Gaetz’ nomination would go through? Never mind. Gaetz has withdrawn his name.
So, what do I think now?
a) I think that I should stop making predictions.
b) I think that the reader should take my predictions with all the salt in the room.
c) I think that, in a perverse way, this may make things easier for Trump. There is only so much political capital to go around and with Gaetz’ withdrawal, the Left and the GOPe have claimed their scalp (mixed metaphor alert). Regardless of the objections they may have against the remaining and future nominees, they can’t keep rejecting name-after-name because they still don’t like Trump, or his agenda.
d) In that regard, I think that the cleaning of the DOJ (to include the FBI) now becomes easier. Trump will now name an AG who can get confirmed, but the second and third levels below the AG will be where the bulldogs are put.
e) See a) and b).
DTNovember 21, 2024, 4:16 PM
Don’t know who that might be but perhaps someone can be selected that would make the Gaetz deniers regret their decision.
As far as the other selections go, recall that Trump also had the House and Senate in his first term. That didn’t go well either. Just because some congress-critter carries an R after their name doesn’t make them a Trump supporter (Romney, etc). And those critters don’t really care what the voters want anyway, the elections over. The evil among us doesn’t have a party affiliation.
azlibertarianNovember 21, 2024, 7:17 PM
Pam Bondi. Former Florida AG and one of Trump’s defense attorneys for his first impeachment.
Snakepit KansasNovember 22, 2024, 5:19 AM
Nominating Gaetz was probably a bridge too far.
AnneNovember 21, 2024, 1:17 PM
Can someone here do a search to find what the average credit card rate was just before Biden took office? I don’t seem to have the right key words!
azlibertarianNovember 21, 2024, 2:12 PM
The Federal Reserve publishes tons and tons of economic data on all sorts of things. This looks like the chart which will support your views here. BTW, “FRED”=”Federal Reserve Economic Data”.
AnneNovember 22, 2024, 2:55 PM
Thank you so much for this website. It is very helpful in proving what I was thinking. The insane increase in credit card fees begins on Biden’s watch. There was a small steady increase during the last two years of Trump, but the real climb begins with Biden. Probably an appeasement to the WEF’s plan to wipe out middle America.
azlibertarianNovember 22, 2024, 9:48 PM
I’m glad to help. The miracle of the internet is that every possible nugget of information that ever existed can be found somewhere on the internet…you just have to know where to find it.
With regard to blaming Biden for the interest rate that you’re enduring, I think that you’re stitching together several things that might be better kept separate. The Federal Reserve sets the interest rates that banks pay when they borrow their money. From those monies, the banks lend out mortgages, car loans, and credit card purchases, each at different rates. Ostensibly, the Fed, and their actions are independent of the President, and I do think that that’s generally the case. The President’s biggest role here is in spending the .gov’s money, and in this respect, Biden has been very bad. By the way, Jay Powell, the chairman of the Fed, was named to the Fed’s Board of Governors by Obama and then elevated to the Chair by Trump. Biden renominated him to that position.
Casey KlahnNovember 21, 2024, 6:14 PM
It seems to me that Mark Levin is the rightest guy for the AG. Gaetz is probably better as an Fla senator.
In an ironic turn, washed up actor Richard Gere said today that to avoid Trump’s tenure, he’s going to move to actually the closest country to a fascist state: Spain! Adios!
azlibertarianNovember 21, 2024, 7:30 PM
“…Gaetz is probably better as an Fla senator….”
I’ve changed my mind on Gaetz. Not that I don’t like the guy….I do. He took down McCarthy basically single-handedly, and YouTube has dozens of examples of those who found themselves on his bad side and he cut them off at the knees. This has made him the enemy of all the right people and IMO, that is a feather in his cap.
But he’s also got that list of Venmo payments to some young-ish single ladies, which is an issue that isn’t going away. Fair or not, that suggests an ethics issue that will only resurface if DeSantis names him to the open Florida Senate seat. Gaetz is probably done with elective office.
Snakepit KansasNovember 22, 2024, 5:21 AM
Run gerbils, run!
azlibertarianNovember 21, 2024, 8:25 PM
I need to restate this up front: 60% of what I read on the internet is incomplete, premature, fake, biased, presented with an agenda, a straight up lie, or some combination thereof.
Gerard’s book came in the mail. Thanks Neo. I’ve been thumbing through it. It’s like meeting again long-lost friends, I read most of the essays when they were first published on American Digest.
I hadn’t noticed it before. Gerard has a distinctive voice. His stories are as if you and he are sharing a conversation, and he goes into telling a story. It’s not a written-down story, it’s a story recorded live as it’s being told to friends. They are living stories, they have in-the-moment immediacy.
I’m reading these, and in a couple of places I want to butt into the story and start getting some more explanation from him, to make it a two-way conversation, to bring the story first told years ago up to date. Alas, not to be.
It’s like the old storytellers around the campfire and the bar-room and the social hour after the official meeting has ended. We all like to hear the good stories multiple times over, picking up the new nuances from the slightly different tellings and the mood of the speaker.
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
Green Pants Interior by Klahn
Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Gerard Van der Leun
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Nov 20 in an earlier century
Both Grandma’s and 1st girlfriend’s birthday.
Both long lost but happy birthday, granny and Debbi
Oh well, I was hoping to start something without politics. Didn’t work … and then I violated my own desire (see below 🙂 )
Let us see if congress has the cajones to block this.
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) – The Biden administration has moved to forgive about $4.7 billion in U.S. loans to Ukraine, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday, as outgoing officials seek to do what they can before leaving office to bolster Ukraine in its war against Russia.
A funding bill passed by the U.S. Congress in April included just over $9.4 billion of forgivable loans for economic and budgetary support to Ukraine’s government, half of which the president could cancel after Nov. 15. The bill appropriated a total of $61 billion to help Ukraine fight the full-scale invasion Moscow launched in February 2022.
“We have taken the step that was outlined in the law to cancel those loans,” Miller told a press briefing, adding that the step was taken in recent days.
Congress could still block the move, Miller said.
Before Biden credit card interest rates for this family were at 13%. For more than 14 years there has not been one missed or late payment. Today, that rate is 28% and will be 29% January 1.
Question: Has my family been paying for the war in Israel? How about the war in the Ukraine?
Remember just yesterday when I predicted that Gaetz’ nomination would go through? Never mind. Gaetz has withdrawn his name.
So, what do I think now?
a) I think that I should stop making predictions.
b) I think that the reader should take my predictions with all the salt in the room.
c) I think that, in a perverse way, this may make things easier for Trump. There is only so much political capital to go around and with Gaetz’ withdrawal, the Left and the GOPe have claimed their scalp (mixed metaphor alert). Regardless of the objections they may have against the remaining and future nominees, they can’t keep rejecting name-after-name because they still don’t like Trump, or his agenda.
d) In that regard, I think that the cleaning of the DOJ (to include the FBI) now becomes easier. Trump will now name an AG who can get confirmed, but the second and third levels below the AG will be where the bulldogs are put.
e) See a) and b).
Don’t know who that might be but perhaps someone can be selected that would make the Gaetz deniers regret their decision.
As far as the other selections go, recall that Trump also had the House and Senate in his first term. That didn’t go well either. Just because some congress-critter carries an R after their name doesn’t make them a Trump supporter (Romney, etc). And those critters don’t really care what the voters want anyway, the elections over. The evil among us doesn’t have a party affiliation.
Pam Bondi. Former Florida AG and one of Trump’s defense attorneys for his first impeachment.
Nominating Gaetz was probably a bridge too far.
Can someone here do a search to find what the average credit card rate was just before Biden took office? I don’t seem to have the right key words!
The Federal Reserve publishes tons and tons of economic data on all sorts of things. This looks like the chart which will support your views here. BTW, “FRED”=”Federal Reserve Economic Data”.
Thank you so much for this website. It is very helpful in proving what I was thinking. The insane increase in credit card fees begins on Biden’s watch. There was a small steady increase during the last two years of Trump, but the real climb begins with Biden. Probably an appeasement to the WEF’s plan to wipe out middle America.
I’m glad to help. The miracle of the internet is that every possible nugget of information that ever existed can be found somewhere on the internet…you just have to know where to find it.
With regard to blaming Biden for the interest rate that you’re enduring, I think that you’re stitching together several things that might be better kept separate. The Federal Reserve sets the interest rates that banks pay when they borrow their money. From those monies, the banks lend out mortgages, car loans, and credit card purchases, each at different rates. Ostensibly, the Fed, and their actions are independent of the President, and I do think that that’s generally the case. The President’s biggest role here is in spending the .gov’s money, and in this respect, Biden has been very bad. By the way, Jay Powell, the chairman of the Fed, was named to the Fed’s Board of Governors by Obama and then elevated to the Chair by Trump. Biden renominated him to that position.
It seems to me that Mark Levin is the rightest guy for the AG. Gaetz is probably better as an Fla senator.
In an ironic turn, washed up actor Richard Gere said today that to avoid Trump’s tenure, he’s going to move to actually the closest country to a fascist state: Spain! Adios!
“…Gaetz is probably better as an Fla senator….”
I’ve changed my mind on Gaetz. Not that I don’t like the guy….I do. He took down McCarthy basically single-handedly, and YouTube has dozens of examples of those who found themselves on his bad side and he cut them off at the knees. This has made him the enemy of all the right people and IMO, that is a feather in his cap.
But he’s also got that list of Venmo payments to some young-ish single ladies, which is an issue that isn’t going away. Fair or not, that suggests an ethics issue that will only resurface if DeSantis names him to the open Florida Senate seat. Gaetz is probably done with elective office.
Run gerbils, run!
I need to restate this up front: 60% of what I read on the internet is incomplete, premature, fake, biased, presented with an agenda, a straight up lie, or some combination thereof.
With that out of the way, take a few minutes with Matt Gaetz: What Actually Happened.
Gerard’s book came in the mail. Thanks Neo. I’ve been thumbing through it. It’s like meeting again long-lost friends, I read most of the essays when they were first published on American Digest.
I hadn’t noticed it before. Gerard has a distinctive voice. His stories are as if you and he are sharing a conversation, and he goes into telling a story. It’s not a written-down story, it’s a story recorded live as it’s being told to friends. They are living stories, they have in-the-moment immediacy.
I’m reading these, and in a couple of places I want to butt into the story and start getting some more explanation from him, to make it a two-way conversation, to bring the story first told years ago up to date. Alas, not to be.
It’s like the old storytellers around the campfire and the bar-room and the social hour after the official meeting has ended. We all like to hear the good stories multiple times over, picking up the new nuances from the slightly different tellings and the mood of the speaker.
Will his book of poetry have the “Howl” parody?