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Labor is a widget. And like any other widget it has a value that’s either higher or lower then what’s being paid for it. When you artificially change that value based on nothing more than “I think it should be $15” it drives up the cost of everything that comes after. That $15 minimum wage is not going to be paid by employers. It will be paid by consumers. The end-user pays all costs. Or maybe they won’t. Maybe they’ll decide they don’t want pay $20 for a hamburger or something. in the meantime I think I’m going to invest in companies that make automated sales kiosks and robot hamburger flippers in all actuality I really don’t care. I enjoy discussing it because discussions are enjoyable. But I’m not really invested in the outcome anymore. The economic arguments have been heard and rejected. Sound financial management lost. On one hand I almost almost like to see Biden go absolutely hogwild just to see what the outcome would be. Knowing it would only affect me minimally.

Not really. When a “store” was closed in the USSR there was no alternative. Here stores are closing because it’s more convenient to order online and have it shipped to you. This Russia/Soviet union fascination you have is very difficult to understand. For me at least

It’s a government operation. Incompetence is just expected

I’ve never gotten three years out of one of the real ones. But that percolator was my dad‘s and he bought it in the 60s.

My Keurig broke. Second one now. Those things don’t last long do they? Oh well, time to break the old percolator pot out of the camping gear

South Carolina school principal takes night job at Walmart to help students in need. It’s easy to forget there really are a lot of decent people out there

Happy birthday to the National League. It’s 145 years old today.

Well there was a real good shot he was going to be reelected. He had pretty good popularity going into the 1964 election. How well his second term went would depend a lot on congressional outcomes as well as the size of his victory. But it wasn’t a gimme. It’s conceivable he could’ve lost. What effect that might’ve had it’s hard to say. If he came out of the 64 election with a big win it’s most likely he could’ve weathered any of the storms that blew up after the Apollo one fire. to tell you the truth I think the assassination of Robert Kennedy was probably more significant in terms of its impact on the future. The Democratic Party back then was separating into two very different groups. The Kennedy wing on one side and the McGovern wing on the other. Without RFK McGovern became the standard bearer. The Democrat party lurched to the left and it was a move the country was not ready to follow. That led to Nixon being elected and to tell you the truth probably led to Reagan being elected 12 years later. If RFK survives and wins in 68 it’s conceivable Nixon never becomes president. If that’s the case Ford would never have become president. If Ford never runs Reagan never has his opportunity which stemmed largely from primary challenges to Ford. The assassination of Robert Kennedy set a lot of things into motion that are still happening to this day.

Another thing that might not of happened had Kennedy not been assassinated was the Apollo program. I don’t know how much you guys remember or know about it but after the Apollo 1 accident the knives were out from a lot of people in Congress who thought the whole thing was a waste of money anyway. One of the biggest opponents to Apollo was Walter Mondale who would one day run for president. Despite being from Kennedy’s own party. Sympathy for Kennedy went a long way towards saving the moon program.

I hate to say this but had it not been for Kennedy being murdered there’s a good chance the civil rights act doesn’t pass. It was facing a lot of opposition and a good deal of that was from his own party.

Just stay away from that weird pepper sauce they use in kimchi. I always gave me heartburn.

My situation with work is finalized as of today. My last day will be February 26. But the state does not buy back vacation days so I am on vacation effective immediately. so, that’s it.

The deep state collected toddler faces in the pantry of a Marxist pizzeria. I knew it!

Remember guys the war ended five months after Truman took office. Yes he’s not going to make any big changes to plans that were already in motion. But he very much followed Roosevelts lead in the postwar years. Including into his own term starting in ‘49. I cannot think of anything Truman did that FDR would not have done or at least approved of. Had he wanted to go in a different direction in the post war policy area he certainly could have. another thought. I don’t know how big a player Truman was in the Roosevelt administration. Some vice president‘s are called on to do a lot some of them are never called at all. Maybe Grom or Hurlshot would know better about that one than I do. But if he were intricately involved it certainly makes sense that he would follow the course he himself helped lay out. If he were not then they were just of like mind.

It's hardly unheard of for a VP to radically change direction once they take over. Johnson & Johnson (Lyndon and Andrew) pursued a very different agenda than the President's they took over for. Tyler doesn't really count because he was already the opposite party and Harrison croaked so soon Tyler might as well have won the election. Ditto with Arthur although he did a decent job with what he had to work with. IMO he was a model of the efficient bureaucrat caretaker. Teddy Roosevelt was MUCH more aggressive than McKinley although they were mostly of like mind IIRC. Coolidge was one of our best POTUS ever in my opinion especially following an idiot like Harding. He cleaned up huge mess and did it by changing nearly every domestic policy position and going much more "hand off". Ford spent so much of his two years of Nixon's term in damage control so who knows. But he was a very different man than Nixon in his own term and had a much friendlier relationship with Congress have served so long there. Plus, he never wanted to be President. Truman and FDR were both of like minds and Truman is the first example that comes to mind when people think of a Vice President taking over. He is likely the only example of a vice President carrying out the plans of the man he took over for rather than going a different direction.

I was just looking at the trade between the lions in the Rams for Matthew Stafford. The Rams really got screwed didn’t they? No I mean really they were bent over the pinball machine publicly gang raped then hit over the head with a brick and left for dead in an alley. That trade was that bad

RBG was replaced by a body double The pedophiliac lizard people will be furious! Another brilliant scheme of theirs has been uncovered by the intrepid posters at QAnon or something

I sold my bitcoin today. Thank you Elon Musk https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.coindesk.com/elon-musk-prompted-bitcoin-price-surge-causes-liquidation-of-387m-in-shorts%3famp=1

I never went fishing yesterday. That 8 Hour Dr. and all the packing just seemed like a pain in the ass. Still here at home.

The patricians really don’t like it when the plebs forget their station do they?

If you want to understand what short selling really is you watch Trading Places with Eddie Murphy and Dan Akaroyd. Plus it was a funny and good movie

Today I’m packing up, setting up the chicken feeder, loading Sunny into the truck and heading south. It’s cold. It’s wet. It’s depressing. Going to Florida for camping and fishing on the Gulf Coast. Maybe Shired Island. Maybe farther south. Somewhere there are no people. See you guys later