lou norman

Im curious to know who you think the Powers That Be are?

A reading of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 suggests that the Right knows they can't eliminate Social Security. Instead, they seem to advocate for privatization. This raises the question: who do you trust? I've paid my contributions faithfully, and while it isn't a lot, what it provides helps keep the alligators at bay. I'm not sure I trust private-sector CEOs with their multimillion-dollar salaries to truly understand that.

Someone once said 'What happens in your house is more important than what is happening in the White House". My stock portfolio was up 26% in 2024. This year I am down 9%.

Here's a pretty good one. I think taking a pix of a moon landing site with Hubble would be a bit of a bitch.

Isn’t it amazing that with possibly several billion high quality cameras in the world alien images are always grey and blurry.

The account can now be accessed online and, although I have not requested it, an ATM card can be issued.

One of my favorites.

Good job Mr President! That should bring down the price of eggs.

All of these savings will end up in a massive tax cut for the fat cats.

Just one small problem... DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-musk-trump.html

were you listening to me or were you looking at the woman in the red dress

Use to be a pretty neat place. We did site surveys for comm towers back in the 80s. Chased wart hogs and elephants in an Army helicopter.

here's what they found!

All the arguments excusing Trump for the cutoff are reasonable until you realize that the money saved by depriving the poorest will go to finance Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken