• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
Yes I am compiling a Blog about the great pandemic of 2020 and how my country stupidly shut down the economy. We will have opinions, political and cultural highlights, my personal experience, social media details, even TV reviews since I watch so much TV while in my home jail. We shall, as always, end with a smile.
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MAJOR POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(another update)
The DNC Convention
And so, yon descendants, this week of 8/20/20 includes the dates of various aspects of the Democratic National Convention. I don't know how it will be when yon descendants have political conventions in an undefined future. I have a suspicion that all gatherings of many people might be stopped, or greatly curtailed, such is the fear we now have of virus thingies about to come out of our mouths in droplets to kill us all.
But this year of the great pandemic of 2020, there will be no national political conventions and Lord I must laugh, I must laugh, I must laugh until I finally cry. Next week will include the dates of the Republican national convention, let us hope it's not as terrible as the convention of Biden.
I shall start with the funniest scene of all, the day , below is a link to that horrible scene with confetti and balloons falling in some sort of school........yon descendants shall laugh.
Oh and the speeches! First, through no fault of the speakers, it just didn't have the verve needed to be a real political convention. Many of the speeches were recorded ahead of time and that only made it worse. Michelle Obama was one such pre-recorded speech. She never once mentioned Kamala Harris, the VP pick of nominee Joe Biden.
Heh.
Bill Clinton looked like he died and someone brought him back to life with a raspy voice. Colin Powell, supposed to be a Democrat but a guy who will sell his soul to the highest bidder, emitted no sign of strength or leadership. Hillary Clinton complained, as always, that she really won the election in 2016 that President Trump stole from her.
The WORST, the absolute WORST speech ever given at a "political convention", was given by who I hope yon descendants will ever recall as once being the VP of the United States.....she who lies with melodrama.....KAMALA HARRIS!!!
I wanted to slap that woman after every sentence. Whoever wrote her speech was evidently a writer for soap operas. It was boo hoo, look at me, great mother who is dead....boo hoo, boo hoo.
Add to this nothing speech, again, the fact that it in no way resembled a political convention, and it was awful. A re-run of "Love of Life" would have been better.
Next week I shall watch the Republican convention. I am sure it will be better. First, the Republicans have the benefit of learning from the horrible DNC fiasco. Second, the Republicans will talk about policies and plans for the future instead of mothers, godchildren, and bashing the current president.
As of this writing I did not see Joe Biden's final acceptance speech. I will watch and give report later.
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MAJOR CULTURE EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(one more update)
MAJOR CULTURE EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(one more update)
Apple and the stock market
Yon descendants! I am quite sure when you read this y'all will likely have an Iphone.
This past week, yon descendants, Apple rose to the largest, wealthiest company on the planet earth.
It was started in 1976 and as of this writing a share of Apple stock is over $450. Steve Jobs, the original founder, died of cancer but the company goes on, based in California. The company brings in over $55 billion a year.
Could there be any better name for such a successful American company than APPLE?
I have an Iphone, an Ipad and soon will have a MAC computer.
Apple products ain't cheap, yon descendants, but they are revolutionary, long-lasting and well-designed.
Which makes me mention here that the stock market and NASDQ are all up this past week. Amazing. Even during a pandemic.
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OVER THE INTERNET
(social media explains so much)
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REVIEWS TV SHOWS
(since I watch so much TV, not for my descendants)
America's Got Talent
(since I watch so much TV, not for my descendants)
America's Got Talent
https://www.nbc.com/americas-got-talent
"America's Got Talent" is currently in the throes of a competition and wow, what a year this show is having. First, they are trying to run this show with difficulties in finding places for the acts to perform due to the virus. Second, Simon Cowell fell off his bike and broke his back. Third, like the Democratic National Convention they have no audience but they are using Zoom and considering the circumstances the show is doing fine.
"America's Got Talent" is currently in the throes of a competition and wow, what a year this show is having. First, they are trying to run this show with difficulties in finding places for the acts to perform due to the virus. Second, Simon Cowell fell off his bike and broke his back. Third, like the Democratic National Convention they have no audience but they are using Zoom and considering the circumstances the show is doing fine.
As of this writing we are arriving at the quarter-finals. The week I am reviewing here as the second quarter final, featuring 11 acts with five to go through to the quarter-finals.
For many years I've quite liked "America's Got Talent", as it illustrates the amazing talents people possess. And evidently entrants are not restricted to being American.
-Kelvin Dukes, singer-good dancer, good singer but not all that exceptional
-The Shape Dance team, practice on roof somewhere, acrobats-kinda fun to watch but not million dollar winners
-Kamaron Ross- he's gay, do we need to know that? Singer, not all that great
-Bad Salsa Indian dancers-what's this INDIA'S got talent?
-Vincent Marcus-imitates rap singers-I hated his act
-9 yr old alexis Brownley-trained dogs....well I love dogs.....Alexis and the puppy pals She is quite talented with those pups.
-Bonavega....Brandon...not sure what he does, dresses like a woman-didn't like his act at all, sings, crazy outfits, stage effects
-Spyros Brothers, use some kind of instrument called diablo.-from Philipines This act needs to go.
-14 yr old singer Daneliya-from Kazakistan-she sings okay
-Jonathan Goodwin-does scary act-got covered with gasoline, locked head into a grate, and in a very limited time he needed to get out before he burned up alive.
America's Got Talent is very entertaining and they are doing a darn good job of putting on a show with sick judges and no audience with performers sometimes doing their acts of a roof top.
But why are so many of the acts NOT from America?
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EDITORIAL
(My opinion for my descendants)
About the Post Office
By the time yon descendants read this, it's quite possible there won't be a United States Post Office. But first allow me to explain the origin of my thinking. For today the Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, testified before the U.S. Senate.
I don't know why this guy, only on the job for a few months, was called to testify but I'm pretty sure that it's because the Democrats want to have voting by mail this year, the better to steal the election.
Now about this concept of what we call "snail mail" in this era of today. Through a shift in technology, such as finding paper, pen or pencil, envelope, sitting down and writing a letter, getting a stamp, folding and stamping and finding a post office or mail box, is just not the norm in today's multi-tasking world. Instead we sit down at our computers and send email.
Nobody gets government checks anymore. If you are eligible for social security or disability payments, you MUST have a checking account for direct deposit. If you don't already have one the government will assign you one. You don't even have to mail in bill payments for the most part as banks will do direct transfers or send it to money recipients directly.
Mail going through the U.S. Post service has been reduced, using my fairly average usage through the years as a guide through the years, down to about 20% of what it used to be.
The Post Office does mail packages and in this day of shopping online and virus' that confine us indoors, such as ordering online has increased. However, UPS and other private businesses have a large percentage of that growing business.
So no matter how one feels about a US Postal Service which is late or drops our envelopes or doesn't deliver properly, it's more about a change in our culture and technology has brought the postal service money received down. It's normal; it's a new business cycle, it's doesn't reflect badly on the service of the postal service.
I once worked for a company that put the curl in the cords that carried our phone conversations but guess what? After 15 years I lost that job because some smart alec invented cell phones and now we carry the whole planet in our pockets.
But the Democrats want to conduct an entire election over the US postal service, which is not, NOT, prepared to handle such a huge job.
So they called in Mr. DeJoy and grilled him so unfairly that I was embarrassed for my elected senators. Have they no pride? Do they get pleasure from beating on a guy who is being accused of taking off the books instructions from President Trump as Trump does not want election by snail mail?
No, Trump does not want election by snail mail. Nor do most American citizens. There's no need. We can go to Walmart. We can riot in the streets. We can go to the beach and ride our bicycles, we can go to our polling place, wearing our masks, standing six feet apart, and go into the booth and vote.
Yeah it makes it harder for the Democrats to steal an election and that's a pity.
Let's stop beating up the Post Office and its employees and have people go to the polls, show their identification and pull the lever for the candidate of their choice.
My mother-in-law is approaching 90 and can't go to the polling place. She has, as do most states, the ability to request voting by mail, which she did by the way. She had to request a ballot, produce some sort of identification. Point being, it's okay for folks to vote by snail mail if they are unable to get to that voting booth in person.
But to expect the US Post Office to handle some estimated almost 200 million ballots by mail, count and sort and report....all things it was not designed to do, defies logic.
I will report back to yon descendants how this all comes down and warn them to fix their futures should the Democrats mess it up.
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TIME FOR A SMILE
