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Post by t-bob on Aug 20, 2022 22:28:54 GMT -5
A picture is worth a thousand words  and three omelettes - bacon bits, cheddar cheese, green onions and few milk chocolate bars/whole milk |
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Post by t-bob on Aug 20, 2022 9:31:46 GMT -5
A song with changes & transitions
Wherever I Go - Mark Knopfler
Maybe I'm bound to wander
From one place to the next
Heaven knows why
But in the wild blue yonder
Your star is fixed
In my sky
Just another bar, at a cross roads
So far from home
But that's alright
Whenever I'm going down the dark road
I don't feel alone in the night
There's a place in my heart
Though we're far apart
May you always know?
No matter how long since I saw you
I keep the flame there for you
Wherever I go
They're looking too close up in here
Pulling down the blinds
But they'll let you stay a while
And I'm going, in a while
Now I've got leave you, brother
So this round's mine
Just looking at you, anyhow
You can go on and have another
You wouldn't, call time
I'm gonna say my goodbye's now
There's a place in my heart
Though we're far apart
May you always, know?
No matter how long since I saw you
I keep the flame there for you
Wherever I go
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Post by t-bob on Aug 14, 2022 12:25:32 GMT -5
I just wake up at about 9 AM
I just did my prayers and my reflections.
I like where I live. I’m still lucky vertical and more. This is a incredibly weird place. There’s damaged people and dementia. There are some normal people. And there’s no violence and it’s usually quiet.
I like Sunday & the newspaper. Solitude and MUSIC
I don’t have the flu19 now
And it’s Halle Berry’s birthday!
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Post by t-bob on Aug 13, 2022 16:41:45 GMT -5
August 13, 2022
Vol. 11, No. 1782
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The Trump Files: Materials seized under warrant from Donald trump’s Florida estate included documents marked Top Secret intended to be viewed only in secure government facilities, according to the warrant.
The warrant had authorized the agents involved to investigate possible violations of the Espionage Act which makes it illegal to have unauthorized possession of national security information that could harm the US or help a foreign adversary, also a federal law that makes it a crime to destroy or conceal a document to obstruct a government investigation, as well as a statute associated with unlawful removal of government materials.
Trump claimed in a statement that he had personally declassified everything he had.
The seizure included 11 sets of documents including some marked as “classified/TS/SCI” documents — shorthand for “top secret/sensitive compartmented information,” according to the report.
Among the documents seized are some related to the pardon of Trump’s friend, Roger Stone.
Evidently not embarrassed to have had those documents in his possession, Trump had encouraged the opening of the warrant that led to their seizure, revealing what he had done. However, the document with the most detailed information, the “probable cause” presented to a judge to apply for the warrant might never be released.
Rusdhie Stabbed: Author Salman Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after Iranian officials had called for his death, was severely stabbed yesterday while speaking at the Chautaqua Institute, an arts and intellectual community in upstate New York.
His representative says Rushdie is on a ventilator, in danger of losing an eye, and might have liver damage. The assailant is identified as a 24-year-old New Jersey man.
Witnesses said Rushdie was stabbed several times and at least once in the neck. Rita Landman, an endocrinologist who was in the audience, told the NY Times that there was a pool of blood under Rushdie’s body, but he appeared to be alive. “People were saying, ‘He has a pulse, he has a pulse, he has a pulse,’” Landman said.
Linda Abrams, from the Buffalo area, told the Times that the attacker kept trying to get to Rushdie even after he was restrained. “It took like five men to pull him away and he was still stabbing,” she said. “He was just furious, furious. Like intensely strong and just fast.”
Rushdie spent about 10 years under guard and in hiding after the publication of his novel “The Satanic Verses” was considered offensive to Islam, and the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, called for his execution in 1989.
Rushdie had just come onstage to deliver the morning lecture at the 4,000 seat Chautauqua amphitheater where he was to the United States as a safe haven for exiled writers and artists under the threat of persecution.
Money, Money: The stock market is rising as severe inflation seems to be easing. The S&P 500 is up more than 16 percent from its low in June, although it’s still 10 percent lower for the year. The bad times aren’t over yet.
Water, Water: With the West in the midst of an historic drought and Nevada’s Lake Mead down by 160 feet in the last two years, California Gov. Gavin Newsom yesterday released a plan for future water supply based on an estimate that current sources will be down by 10 percent by the year 2040.
His plan calls for capturing and storing more water, recycling wastewater, as well as desalinating seawater and salty groundwater.
Newsom called it “an aggressive plan to rebuild the way we source, store and deliver water.”
“The hots are getting a lot hotter. The dries are getting a lot drier,” Newsom said. “We have to adapt to that new reality, and we have to change our approach.”
The Obit Page: Bill Pitman, a guitarist who was backup Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and countless others from the late 1950s to the ’70s, and who picked on the soundtracks of movies and television shows, died in La Quinta, California at age 102.
Pitman was part of the loose association freelance musicians known as The Wrecking Crew. In their prime, they spent days jumping from session to session for the likes of the Beach Boys, Sonny and Cher, the Monkees, the Mamas and the Papas, Simon and Garfunkel … you name the act.
Pitman said in a documentary, The Wrecking Crew, “You leave the house at 7 in the morning, and you’re at Universal at 9 till noon. Now you’re at Capitol Records at 1. You just got time to get there, then you got a jingle at 4, then we’re on a date with somebody at 8, then the Beach Boys at midnight, and you do that five days a week.”
The Spin Rack: The House passed the Biden administration’s sweeping climate, tax, and healthcare bill passed by the Senate last week. --- Actress Anne Heche has been declared legally dead of burns and a brain injury suffered in the car wreck that left her vehicle and the house she hit in flames. She was 52. Her heart is being kept beating while there’s a determination of whether any of her organs are good for transplant. --- Idaho’s Supreme Court voted 3-2 to allow the state’s new abortion law to criminalize nearly all abortions in that state. The law will allow for abortion only in cases of rape, incest, or to prevent the death of the pregnant woman. --- CNN’s Chief Legal Analyst Jeffery Toobin is leaving the network after 20 years. He’s writing a book about the Oklahoma City bombing. Toobin was fired by The New Yorker in 2020 when he was caught masturbating during a video conference. We’ll leave it at that for the day.
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Post by t-bob on Aug 12, 2022 19:07:13 GMT -5
I listen YouTube with solo piano and harmonious guitar pieces Chopin C# minor Nocturne - I'm practicing this piece. It will almost play this almost piece for six months. youtu.be/-tIdhz35tcUI play this Chopin Em Prelude almost perfect - (two measures can be difficult) youtu.be/CU9RgI9j7Do |
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Post by t-bob on Aug 12, 2022 18:49:54 GMT -5
I had a great deal meal. 4:30pm
it’s lunch because I wake up late.
I had a huge lean beef - cheese hamburger, potato chips w/o salt.
Now I’m watching the Yankees and the other team are losing- woohoo
It’s early - 2nd inning
So some dessert - I need some milk chocolate kisses
Enjoy your professional baseball team
I don’t think anybody is going to be happy about Boston Stinkin’ Red Sox. Last place!!!
But the BRS fans happy now at least they got a game.
August - when players injured
I better get another burger & French fries & salad - avacado, heirloom tomato iceberg lettuce vinaigrette dressing
I’m probably have to drink a coffee ice cream shake.
Adios
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Post by t-bob on Aug 12, 2022 15:49:11 GMT -5
3 Things We Learned About Social Media from Netflix’s “The Social Dilemma”
November 2, 2020
This blog was originally published by Jay McGinley on mysatellites.com.
People are starting to wake up to the ills of modern social networking sites, thanks in large part to Netflix’s new documentary “The Social Dilemma.” The film features interviews with former employees from today’s largest social media platforms. Many of whom were integral to the early development of these companies.
In the documentary, they sound the alarm about the many ways in which social media controls and manipulates us.
Here are our three biggest takeaways:
1. Our Attention is the Product
“The Social Dilemma” tells us that many social media companies succeed by capturing as much of our attention as they can, then selling that attention to the highest bidders. As the saying goes, if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.
So, is that necessarily a bad thing?
According to Tim Wu, Columbia Law School Professor and author of the book The Attention Merchants, it can be. In an interview with Vox, Tim Wu defines the attention merchants as businesses whose model is selling access to people’s minds. “The attention industry needs people who are in a distracted state, or who are perpetually distractible, and thus open to advertising,” he says.
Long term, this along with other factors, has led to an epidemic of “distraction sickness.” This is where you are unable to concentrate and you constantly lose your attention and your time. An epidemic “where you lose hours of the day clicking on random nothingness” according to Wu.
Have you ever picked up your phone with one task in mind and an hour later realized you spent the whole time scrolling through various social media sites having completely forgotten why you picked up your phone in the first place? That’s what he’s talking about.
In the article, Wu quotes American philosopher and psychologist William James, “Your life experience is what you choose to pay attention to.” If companies are capturing and manipulating our attention, how in control of our lives can we be?
2. Addiction is Built into the Design of Social Networking Sites
“The Social Dilemma” points out that many social networks exploit human weakness by designing with something called positive intermittent reinforcement in mind.
Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist and one of the experts interviewed in the film, compares it to a Vegas slot machine. When we check our phones hoping that we have a notification, it’s like we are pulling the lever of a slot machine hoping we hit the jackpot.
According to Mike Brooks, Ph.D., in an article written for Psychology Today, we have a difficult time resisting our screens because of this “Vegas effect.” Because we occasionally hit the jackpot, so to speak, when we check and there are notifications on our phone, we continue to check and check and check.
“Like a box of chocolate, we never know what we are going to get. Who posted to Facebook? Who commented on my post? Let me check my news feed just one more time… the moment our smartphones buzz or chime, this dopamine reward system is activated,” Brooks says.
And it is affecting our health.
One study from California State University found that individuals who visited a social media site at least 58 times per week were 3x more likely to feel socially isolated and depressed.
3. Social Media Platforms are Not a Tool
We think of our social media platforms as a tool for keeping in touch with our friends and family. But according to Tristan Harris, that’s not true. He claims a tool is something that sits there patiently waiting to be of use.
Think of a hammer in a toolbox. When we haven’t used it in a while, it doesn’t knock on the lid of the toolbox every couple of hours begging to be used, manipulating us into using it. It waits. It’s patient. It’s a tool.
As much as social media would like us to believe it’s a tool, it’s not. It nags us by sending a steady stream of notifications and emails. It seduces us, it manipulates us. As Harris says in “The Social Dilemma”, “It has its own goals and it has its own way of pursuing them by using your psychology against you.”
Can Social Media Be Fixed?
So, social media, in its current state, has some major flaws. What can we do to protect ourselves from its manipulation? What can we do to fix it?
First off, you can do your part to protect yourself and your family by developing healthy social media habits. What do we mean by that? Do things like limit your screen time. Turn off notifications. Know what task you want to complete on social media and don’t get sucked into an infinite scroll. And when social media is making you feel anxious or depressed, take a break.
Secondly, call for social media regulations. Right now, there are a few recent regulations focused on data privacy. It’s a start. But according to Kristina Podnar, a cybersecurity expert, we need to go further.
In an interview with Bustle, Podnar says that we should also address “addiction to platforms, manipulation of humans, impersonations and identity hijacking, truth in content, as well as the ethical measures that need to be in place in order for platforms to function with integrity.”
Finally, demand humane design from social media platforms. The Center for Humane Design (co-founded by Tristan Harris) outlines the principles of humane design. They include obsessing over values rather than engagement metrics, nurturing mindfulness instead of vying for attention, and binding growth with responsibility instead of just maximizing growth.
There is work to be done. But it’s possible to save the social media landscape. Jaron Lanier, who was featured in “The Social Dilemma,” is one of the leading voices for redesigning the way the internet and social networks work for us. He believes that social media can be fixed.
In an interview on the podcast, Too Embarrassed To Ask, Lanier says, “I very strongly feel that we can isolate the good parts of social media which are very real and very true and just cut off and incinerate the bad parts, and the bad parts can be described very clearly as a manipulation engine… And that’s the thing that needs to be shut down.”
We can wait for social media companies to incinerate their bad parts–the parts that make them the most money–or we can take collective action to re-capture our attention. It starts with us.
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Post by t-bob on Aug 12, 2022 12:46:16 GMT -5
August 12, 2022
Vol. 11, No. 1781
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Trumped Up: Attorney General Merrick Garland has moved to unseal the warrant used for the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home because of “substantial public interest in this matter.” Garland also said he personally approved the warrant, which would be expected for something this sensitive.
Trump said in a statement that he will not oppose opening the warrant that he has claimed was politically motivated.
The Washington Post reports that, “Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought.”
Trump said on his Truth Social website that, "Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a Hoax, the Mueller investigation was a Hoax, and much more. Same sleazy people involved.”
Garland said in a two-minute statement that the warrant was executed after “less intrusive” attempts to retrieve documents Trump took from the White House. Trump said on Truth Social that “They could have had whatever they wanted, if we had it.”
The government is not looking to reveal the most sensitive legal papers involving the Trump search. They want to open the warrant itself, not what’s called the “affidavit,” the document put before a judge that would have laid out what the government was looking for, why it was important, why they could not get it by other means, and in what way Trump may have been committing a crime.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally, is demanding that everything be revealed. He said, in a statement, “I am urging, actually insisting, the D.O.J. and the F.B.I. lay their cards on the table as to why this course of action was necessary.”
Covid Relaxation: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has loosened many of its guidelines for fighting Covid as the fatality rate falls in a highly vaccinated population. The shift of strategy puts more of the prevention burden on individuals rather than schools, businesses, and other institutions.
Schools and other institutions will no longer need to screen apparently healthy students and employees. The new guidance has dropped the “six foot” standard for social distancing. The agency is shifting its focus to highly vulnerable populations and away from the majority who now have some immunity against the virus.
The War Zone: Russia and Ukraine are accusing each other of shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power complex and the head of the UN is proposing making it a demilitarized to avoid a catastrophe.
Ukraine's Energoatom agency said the complex was hit five times yesterday, some of the shells dropping where radioactive materials are stored. Russian-appointed officials said Ukraine shelled the plant twice.
Meanwhile, the Ukraine Ministry of Internal Affairs is claiming that the death toll in that attack on a Russian air base in Crimea is much higher than the Russians have admitted. Anton Geraschenko, an adviser to the minister of internal affairs, said that based on video evidence and intelligence data, 60 pilots and technicians were killed and 100 people wounded in the series of explosions rocked the Saki field.
That seems to be inflated. The only thing clear from released satellite photos is that aircraft were destroyed.
Getting Warmer: Rapid warming of the Arctic is happening even faster than scientists previously said, according to researchers in Finland. It’s a red flag for global warming.
For 40 years the Arctic has been warming as much as four times faster than the global average, not the two to three times previously reported. The Barents Sea north of Norway and Russia is warming up to seven times faster, the researchers report. The warming and ice melt also causes extreme rainfall and heat waves in North America and other areas south of the Arctic.
The Obit Page: Roger Mosley, the appealing actor who played tough with a sense of humor rising to stardom on the 1980s television series “Magnum, P.I.,” died on Sunday in Los Angeles at 83.
His daughter Ch-a Mosley, said her father died of injuries sustained in a car accident in Lynwood, California last month that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down.
In “Magnum,” Mosely played the helicopter pilot always ready for action as a sidekick to Tom Selleck. In the movies, he portrayed Sonny Liston and Leadbelly, also appearing on dozens of television shows over the years.
Patriot Games: Ricky Shiffer, a man who had ties to extremist groups, tried to break into the FBI office in Cincinnati yesterday armed with an assault rifle and later was killed in a standoff with police agencies near a stop on Interstate 71.
The NY Times reports that, “The day after former President Donald J. Trump’s private residence in Florida was searched by the F.B.I., someone with an account bearing Mr. Shiffer’s name posted messages on Mr. Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, recommending that ‘patriots’ go to Florida and kill federal agents.”
The Spin Rack: An explosion that levelled a home in Evansville, Indiana, killed three people and damaged 39 other homes. The cause has not been determined. --- Actress Anne Heche is in a coma and not expected to survive after her flaming car wreck, her family says. She is on life support to determine whether any of her organs can be donated. The LAPD found cocaine and fentanyl in her bloodstream. --- The NBA has decided to retire Bill Russell’s uniform No. 6 throughout the league so “Bill’s transcendent career will always be recognized,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. Current players wearing No. 6, including the Lakers’ Lebron James, can wear the number until they retire.
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Post by t-bob on Aug 12, 2022 12:42:44 GMT -5
Good morning pickers, strummers
I just woke up - I only had two hours
I'm going to go another C19 test
Did I forget anything? My mask my sanitizer my glasses my keys
How about those Yankees?
How about those Stinkin’ Smelly Red Sox? They won …..
Enjoy your days
It's Mark Knopfler' 73 birthday and Dustin Hoffman' 80 birthday
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Post by t-bob on Aug 11, 2022 21:32:10 GMT -5
"Somebody Feed Phil" - in Netflix
A different cooking series in Mexico - family.
This world cooking travelogue series.
"The Chef Show"
"Anthony Bourdain's Show"
"The Chef" 2014 movie as southern United States travelogue. It's a beautiful story. The actors are great. I was a chef myself I also appreciate is it isn't all doom and gloom and negativity.
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Post by t-bob on Aug 11, 2022 13:32:57 GMT -5
I just wake up. I slept for eight hours.
I try to be positive when I wake up that's the first thing that I think about the world and my friends
I checked out the old news - Rooney Report
Last Wednesday
I did some piano - Bach, Chopin, Satie, Schumann, Lean on Me, and a smidge Beethoven.
I watched a old movie - Woman in Gold 2015 -
Sixty years after fleeing Vienna, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), an elderly Jewish woman, attempts to reclaim family possessions that were seized by the Nazis -
The next thing...... how about enjoy your days?
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Post by t-bob on Aug 11, 2022 13:08:21 GMT -5
The Fifth: Former President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination in his interview with the New York State Attorney general’s office yesterday. Reports say he did it as many as 400 times.
Trump released a statement that was largely an attack on New York Attorney General Letitia James in which he said he’s done nothing wrong. The former President said, “I once asked, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?’ Now I know the answer to that question. When your family, your company, and all the people in your orbit have become the targets of an unfounded, politically motivated Witch Hunt supported by lawyers, prosecutors, and the Fake News Media, you have no choice.”
The former president has previously castigated people who invoke the Fifth. He once said at a rally, “You see the mob takes the Fifth.”
The attorney general’s investigation into Trump’s property valuations and money borrowing is a civil one … she can’t bring criminal charges … but anything Trump says could be used against him in the criminal investigation being conducted by the Manhattan District Attorney.
Unlike a criminal procedure, if the state attorney general takes Trump to trial in a civil case, the jury would be allowed to weigh his taking of the Fifth Amendment as a strike against him.
Whatever happens, one thing is certain. If he runs for president again, he’ll be a candidate who’s taken the Fifth.
Inside Line: The Wall Street Journal reports that a Trump insider tipped the Justice Department to the existence of classified documents that still held in his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, leading to the recent raid.
Procedural Differences: Eric Trump may have accidentally revealed how things worked in his father’s White House when he tweeted about the search of his father’s Florida home. He said, “I know the White House as well as anyone. I know the system. This did not happen without Joe Biden's explicit approval.”
Probably not so. Most if not all presidents have insisted on the Justice Department being independent. Biden said he learned of the Trump search when the rest of the world did.
So it’s possible that Eric Trump revealed that his father used the Justice Department for political purposes.
Muslim Murders Arrest: Authorities have arrested 51-year-old Muhammad Syed as a suspect in the killings of two Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico and investigators say he may be linked to two more murders. Syed was driving to Texas when he was stopped. He told police officers he was looking for a new place for his family to live because with the recent killings, things were “bad” in Albuquerque.
Police said they found a handgun and bullet casing in Syed’s car that matched those found at one of four crime scenes around the city. They also found a gun in his home that may have been used in two of the killings.
Police officials in a press conference said they consider Syed to be the “most likely” suspect in the November 2021 killing of Mohammad Ahmadi, 62, as well as that of 25-year-old Naeem Hussain last Friday. They say they do not know a motive.
The War Zone: Satellite images show that at least eight Russian warplanes were destroyed by explosions at an air base in Crimea. A Ukrainian military official said destruction was the result of an attack by Ukrainian forces and partisan fighters.
Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelensky in his nightly address said the number of lost Russian warplanes destroyed in that attack was nine, plus another in a different attack. “In just one day, the occupiers lost 10 combat aircraft: nine in Crimea and one more in the direction of Zaporizhzhia,” he said last night.
The before and after satellite images clearly show that planes were destroyed. Russia’s Defense Ministry says that a munitions blast didn’t injure anyone and that no equipment had been lost.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Russia is struggling to replenish its personnel losses in Ukraine, even offering to grant amnesty to prisoners in a penal colony if they agree to sign up for the war.
The Russians are conducting advertising campaigns with the slogan, “This is the job.” The British military says Russia has formed a new ground force called the 3rd Army Corps out of “volunteer battalions,” seeking men up to age 50 and requiring only a middle-school education.
The Obit Page: Raymond Briggs, the children’s author and cartoonist who created the wordless yet emotionally loaded escapades of “The Snowman,” died on Tuesday in Brighton, England. He was 88.
“The Snowman” (1978), which was adapted into one of England’s most popular Christmas films, focused on a fleeting friendship between a boy and a snowman.
The Spin Rack: The Labor Department reported that inflation in July dropped to an annualized rate of 8.5 percent from 9.1 percent in June, largely because of a steep drop in the price of gasoline. The national average price of a gallon of regular gasoline is now $3.99, according to AAA. --- Elon Musk has sold $7 billion worth of Tesla stock in case he is forced to complete a purchase of Twitter. --- The Justice Department charged a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards with planning to assassinate former national security adviser John Bolton as revenge for the killing of a senior Iranian official. The suspect is in Iran and won’t be able to leave the country if he doesn’t want to get grabbed. --- The Denver Broncos football franchise has sold for $4.65 billion, more than doubling the previous record high for a football team when the Carolina Panthers went for $2.28 billion in 2018.
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Post by t-bob on Aug 10, 2022 21:56:21 GMT -5
The Fed funds rate, which is the rate banks charge each other for overnight loans, hit 20 percent in 1980, and 21 percent in June 1981. The cause was an inflationary spiral brought on by rising oil prices, government overspending and rising wages.
By 1981, inflation had risen to 9.5%. The Federal Reserve combated inflation by increasing the federal funds rate, an overnight benchmark rate that banks charge each other. Continued hikes in the fed funds rate pushed mortgage rates to an all-time high of 18.45% in early 1980s
Mortgage rates are likely to continue to rise in 2022. Many factors influence mortgage rates, including inflation, world events, economic crises, personal factors, the Federal Reserve and even bond prices. Even though mortgage interest rates increase, they will still be lower than historical mortgage rates.
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Post by t-bob on Aug 10, 2022 12:04:27 GMT -5
On the Grill: Former President Donald Trump faces questioning today by the New York Attorney General as the investigation into his family business nears its end.
Of course, he’s not happy. He wrote on his Truth Social account, “In New York City tonight. Seeing racist N.Y.S. Attorney General tomorrow, for a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. history!” He said, “My great company, and myself, are being attacked from all sides. Banana Republic!”
Attorney General Letitia James and her lawyers are investigating whether Trump and his company inflated the value of his hotels, golf clubs, and other assets in order to obtain loans. Lawyers have already questioned Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
Republicans Object: Republican politicians are screaming “foul” after the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Florida home.
New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, a rising power in the party, accused the Biden administration of “weaponizing” the Justice Department against a political opponent.
Ohio Rep. Mike Turner and the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, demanded “an immediate briefing” by FBI Director Christopher Wray “regarding the national security risk that allegedly rose to the level of ordering a raid on the residence of a former president.” Others also condemned the FBI and Justice Department action.
FBI agents searching at Mar-a-Lago were looking for classified documents Trump may have taken from The White House when he left. The law says all records must be left for preservation at the National Archives. Trump reluctantly returned 15 boxes in January, but evidently there were more.
Andrew McCarthy theorizes in The New York Post, a pro-Trump publication, that, “The Justice Department obviously used the storage of what may be classified information as a pretext to obtain a warrant so it could search for what it is really looking for: evidence that would tie Trump to a Capitol riot offense – either a violent crime, such as seditious conspiracy to forcibly attack a government installation (which is highly unlikely), or a non-violent crime, such as conspiracy to obstruct the January 6 joint session of Congress to count electoral votes, or conspiracy to defraud the government.”
The War Zone: In fighting around a Ukrainian nuclear power plant that’s become a Russian fortress, a missile barrage killed at least 13 Ukrainian civilians and wounded 11 others. The Russians are reported to have fired 80 Grad rockets on a residential neighborhood and administrative buildings leaving 1,000 people without gas.
In another action, one person was killed and others were injured when large explosions rocked the area of a Russian military airbase in the annexed Crimean peninsula. The Russian defense ministry said the blasts were caused by detonated aviation ammunition. They didn’t make clear whether it was an accident, or the result of a Ukrainian attack.
Meanwhile, Russia has taken control of the internet in occupied territories, The NY Times reports. The Russians have blocked access to Ukrainian news sites as well as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. All internet traffic in those areas is being routed through Russian web hubs. Ukrainians in occupied areas are now cut off from any independent news as well as normal social connections with the outside.
Net Ball: Tennis star Serena Williams says she plans to retire from professional sport after the US Open. Williams is about to turn 41 and said she wants another child. She has one daughter and won a title while pregnant.
Williams has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most for players both male and female. She was just 17 when she won her first at the US Open in 1999. She said in her announcement on the Vogue website, “I’ve been reluctant to admit that I have to move on from playing tennis. It’s like a taboo topic. It comes up, and I start to cry.”
The Obit Page: Judith Durham, the lead vocalist of the 1960s Australian band The Seekers, whose soprano voice rang out the hit singles “Georgy Girl” and “I’ll Never Find Another You,” has died in Melbourne. She was 79. --- Lamont Dozier, the songwriter crucial to driving the 1960 hits of Motown Records as part of the Holland-Dozier-Holland writing and production team, has died at 81. Together, the trio created as many as 80 hits that reached the top 40. They include Martha and the Vandellas (“Heat Wave,” “Jimmy Mack”), the Four Tops (“Bernadette,” “I Can’t Help Myself”) and the Supremes (“You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Baby Love”).
The Spin Rack: A Massachusetts truck driver who killed seven motorcyclists in a 2019 collision after taking heroin, fentanyl and cocaine was acquitted of manslaughter by a jury that took three hours to deliberate. Lawyers for Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, argued that the lead biker, Albert “Woody” Mazza Jr., was drunk and lost control of his motorcycle, sliding in front of Zhukovskyy’s truck. --- Three weeks after their marriage and just days after the end of their honeymoon, actor Ben Affleck and singing star Jennifer Lopez announced that they are spending less time together. According to Hollywood Life, they say they believe separating for periods will strengthen their bond.
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Post by t-bob on Aug 9, 2022 21:24:12 GMT -5
This is almost the end of my day not really.....
I've been listening music - piano and guitar - a lot of writing
I did make Razzatazz smoothie - and three rare hamburgers - whole milk. I'm going to have to eat some more but I don't know.
And I'm thinking about coming to go see the Yankees/Mariners game - if there's no people.
(there's a large room with a big TV)
I still have a little problem with the old positive result with flu19. I don't seem to have much side effects.
I'm listening to a Dana Cunningham's "It is Well" solo piano - beautiful harmonious
I'm not sure the next topic......
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Post by t-bob on Aug 9, 2022 16:09:04 GMT -5
It's amazing Marty Reynolds helped me - he was the guy that helped - he was the "........" when he was in hospital almost dead
He found me to get money so I could live for a two month ( hostels, motels, food, Uber, taxis) - 10 people - Mr Alphabet, Don P, Dennis, Steve, Jeff, James and more (I can't remember all the names) but you remembered the thoughts and a wave.
I also have a lot of friends that help me as well not the Soundholians - I have friends too! Chris, Frank, Warren, Alison, Chance and more.
Late 2019 and early 2020 - it's amazing that I lived - I was almost dead - 3 infections and more illnesses.
Actually I was very better quickly but janitor stole my passport, keys, blue jeans, black new jacket - the hospital. I wanted to just go back to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico but it took me for two months.
I'm just say "hello again" for my friends
(more more more)
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Post by t-bob on Aug 9, 2022 14:45:42 GMT -5
some of my snytax......
I'm just down talking to people text an email and trying to figure out how am I going to get a negative result (c19) so I can be out to the world.
I guess today it's going to be solo in my room
I may walk and I'll make sure my mask is tight and I'll have some sanitizer.
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Post by t-bob on Aug 9, 2022 14:25:04 GMT -5
Marty
"You need a way of making them not touch you."
There was a woman was touching me and was talking to me and that's when I got my flu19.
I've asked people to not touch me please..... It's because some of these older people. they don't understand because they have dementia
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Post by t-bob on Aug 9, 2022 13:31:36 GMT -5
SARS-COV-2 which causes COVID 19 is an airborne virus. Rather than being spread by physical contact, it is typically transmitted through sharing the air in an inadequately ventilated room/space for too long with an infected person. I'm glad you are feeling somewhat better. I know it's transmitted airborne C19 virus. The infected old woman was talking to me with her mouth and she doesn't have a mask and she touched me. That's when I got the flu19 I am a little better but it's gonna take probably two weeks...... Thanks for your thoughts - James |
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Post by t-bob on Aug 9, 2022 12:25:17 GMT -5
I was sitting in a chair - SOLO. One dementia person started my flu19 - I was by myself but she had to touch me. That really pissed me off. I know I said it two times but I was really pissed off and I’m still upset about it because I was a lot better and then that dementia old(soul) hag
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