Yup, it arrived. When I ordered it I was worried I was getting some hodgepodge of varies online articles thrown together by the instructor. It said loose leaf, no used books available, not rentable. What I did get was a full-blown text book, only in loose leaf pages. It’s in a binder now. I’m looking forward to starting class on September 9th!
iPhone Camera Problems
Well, it seems that WordPress and the iPhone Camera don’t communicate well. In fact, not at all. I like to switch from Portrait to Landscape (you know, turn the phone sideways) when taking picturtes. Unfortunately, it seems WordPress doesn’t, or can’t, read the orientation information that is embedded in the photo. So, all the pictures I took sideways are showing up sideways. Anyway, instead of posting a ton of pictures all at once here on my blog, I just posted them all directly on Facebook.
I’d rather post them here. But, until I figure out how to get WordPress to show them properly, I guess it’s to Facebook I go.
Still, let me show you one.
Huh?
It’s August. It’s the middle of summer. It’s 60 degrees. Tina and I are going to Brainerd for her grandsons’ birthdays. The high there is 63 degrees. Where the hell did summer go?
Already Bored?
Trump has always struck me as a hyper active kid who gets bored with the game he’s playing before it is even half-way over. This statement in an article I’ve been reading about the new C.E.O. of his campaign seems to indicate he’s already bored with running for POTUS.
(HIVE) As smart and capable as he is, Bannon is still a political novice and thus an odd choice to run a campaign badly in need of message and organizational discipline. (He might make more sense as an executive producer of the media empire that Sarah Ellison reports Trump is eyeing as his next move, after the election.)
“Trump is eyeing as his next move, after the election.”
Explain to me again about just how serious he is in wanting to be president? He abandons most of his business enterprises just before they head south, when he can reap the most financial benefit. Just think of all the campaign contributions he is garnering. And since his financial disclosures keep changing, I’m pretty confident in saying he’s not afraid to circumvent the rules to keep money. So, any campaign finance laws in place are probably no more a barrier to him than all the other finance laws he appears to worm his way around.
Say What?
Best Made Plans
Left work early to enjoy the afternoon and by the time I got home I had a headache. Think I’m going to go lay down. Don’t wreck the place while I’m sleeping.
Bad Day
All things considered, today was a sucky day. I couldn’t muster up my usual exuberance during a lecture the second half of the day. Then there was the phone message first thing in the morning at work telling me the job I interveiwed for down in Stillwater Prison was given to someone else. No amount of positive self-talk can really take away the hurt of being passed over for a job. Rejection sucks, period.
Another Lying Meme
There’s a picture going around the internet claiming that the United States is 3rd in the world for homicides. Once again Snopes.com is our friend:
(Snopes.com) Statistics compiled by the World Bank for the most recent year available (2012) placed the United States well down the list, behind dozens of other countries, in the rate of intentional homicides. Likewise, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNDOC) study on intentional homicides places the United States as 110th on a list of countries ranked (from highest to lowest) by intentional homicide rate. If we considered only the absolute number of murders (and not the murder rate), the United States would rank somewhat high among all the countries in the world, but the U.S. would still only be eighth (not third) on that list, and using an absolute number for this form of comparison is a very poor metric. (The United States is the world’s third-largest country in terms of population, so all other factors being equal, one would expect the U.S. to have the third-highest number of murders for that reason alone.)
Broadly, the ten countries with the highest murder rates in the world are Honduras, Venezuela, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Swaziland, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Africa, and Colombia, while the United States doesn’t crack the top hundred.
But, but, but……. it’s on the internet, it fits my world view, so it must be true! It’s just gots to be true.
Bleach Sales Are Going Up
It seems that there have been several statues of Donald Trump naked, with no balls, and a small penis going up in several states. As a result many blogs and web sites have pictures of said statue. I can see why bleach sales have gone up. I saw the pictures. I’m going to go buy myself a bottle to clean out my eyes right after finishing this post.
No, I won’t post the pictures. I want my readers – what few there are – to be able to continue to read my blog.
However, I will post this:
Rimshot!
I wonder if this will start a sub-genre of election erection humor.
They Really Do Eat There Own
Earlier today, Nancy wrote: Trump’s hiring of [Stephen] Bannon and [Kellyanne] Conway isn’t just a signal to Republicans – it sends a message to all of us who have been watching this one closely. We’re not going to see anything new from Donald Trump. What we’ve been seeing is what we’ll continue to get. I…
via Trump Going Full Breitbart is Bad News for the GOP — Washington Monthly
From all I read, and I did read it all, the plan is for Trump to continue to attack the Republican establishment in Washington while also attempting to go to the left of Clinton on loss of jobs to overseas and immigration.