August 8, 2017

Who is travelling to Watch the Total Solar Eclipse?

I driving from NJ to Tennesse/ North Carolina Border. I hope there are no clouds to spoil the party.

August 7, 2017

Breaking News

August 4, 2017

I think we need to we need to put some regulation on weed while legalizing it.

It cant be sold willy nilly

I am an occasional toker.

I lit up one day couple months ago .. Just one joint and 10 minutes I was totally blown.. A little while later i started having panic attacks .. I imagined that the weed was laced with some crazy shit.. My heart was pounding so hard that I could hear it whooshing past my corotid arteries. I managed to get to bed and measure my blood pressure .. It was crazy high .. I then did what I had to ..call 911... The responders came ..my mind was still very crazy but i managed to explain.. They saw my blood pressure was out of whack and decided to take me ER immediately .. They also took my stash to have it tested.

The next hour is a blur..I think they gave me an injection to calm me down ..

That helped me get my shit together. Once I woke up, the nurse came back and and explained the weed was not laced.. It was however a potent strain known to cause paranoia. The stash was handed to the cops ( my name wasnt given to them)

I had no clue that pot could do this to you. I think we need rules around what can be sold.


I personally have sworn off it. Sad but true.

August 3, 2017

We need to restrict the pardon powers of a president

He should not be able to Pardon

1) himself
2) Any Family or Friend
3) anyone connected to a campaign to elect him/her president ( including campaign contributors/ staff)
4) Political Apointees


This is common sense and I wonder why these restrictions werent put in place already. Any reason why we shouldnt do this?

August 1, 2017

What us fucking purpose of the Electoral college if it cant keep guys like TRUMP out of

The whitehouse.

The EC is supposed to have kept Trump out EVEN if he had won popular vote. The fact that they voted him in regardless shows the utter futility of that body.

Its way past time to get rid of the useless electoral college.

July 31, 2017

Is the United States like a headless chicken that runs around crazily before it dies?

Or does it have Mad Cow disease?

Or are we beyond analogies at this point to figure out - What in the name of the HOLY FUCK is going on in the great land of ours.

Whatever it is - I hope we can find a quick cure.

While daily chaos at the White House might be great comedy .. It is becoming more and more tragic each day to see what is happening to our country.

On edit:

Found some good news upon googling : apparently a headless chicken lived for a fair bit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

July 31, 2017

Trump only hires the 'Best People'

Who are the people still supporting this idiot? I bet it must be people who watch "As seen on TV" and actually buy crap ..

July 30, 2017

Japanese post offices provides banking service. Why cant we do it as well?

Most customers need just basic banking services.. Deposit and withdraw cash.

Post offices exist everywhere .. And can easily add retail banking service with little overhead.

Post offices can invest the money in long term treasury bonds.

Food stamps / Unemployment insurance etc now use bank issued debit cards ..This can be replaced with postal debit card.


NJ uses bank of America debit cards..( yeah fuck the banks.. We dont need the bastards to profit from unemployment)

It all makes so much sense..but I guess it threatens easy profits..

July 28, 2017

BREAKING NEWS: President Trump has pushed out Reince Priebus, his chief of staff. He'll be replaced

Source: NYTIMES

WASHINGTON — Reince Priebus, the establishment Republican-turned-loyalist to President Trump who served as his White House chief of staff for the last six months, was pushed out on Friday in the latest convulsion in a chaos-wracked West Wing to which he had repeatedly failed to bring some semblance of order.

Convinced that Mr. Priebus was not strong enough, Mr. Trump has been talking about bringing in “a general” as chief of staff and chose John F. Kelly, the retired Marine four-star general serving as secretary of homeland security. But some of his advisers oppose that idea, arguing that Mr. Trump needs someone more in tune with the nationalist political movement that helped propel him to the White House.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/us/politics/reince-priebus-white-house-trump.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=65632791&pgtype=Homepage

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July 28, 2017

In the absense of a single payer...

can we not make it a law that there will be a single negotiator for all the plans in a state. Any health care provider who wants insured clients has to negotiate with this body/organization. The only difference between the various insurance companies will their administrative markup ( upto 15% cap)

Btw - the body should negotiate rates for employer covered plans too. This will be give the body serious negotiating power.

Although AMA will hate it