tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1124276399028985142024-03-18T20:06:17.682-07:00Reunite GondwanalandDon't know what Gondwanaland was? About 600 million years ago, Austraila, Africa, South America, India and Antarctica coalesced into a mega continent that began to break up about 180 million years ago. Australia remained about where it was, but the others drifted to their present positionsEverett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.comBlogger1198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-62401760431022723332020-07-12T15:00:00.000-07:002020-07-12T15:00:10.397-07:00ROGER STONE LATEST TRUMP ALLY TO AVOID JAIL TIMEThe latest Trump ally, Roger Stone, escapes jail time because Trump commutes his jail time. Commutes mean he admits no crime, in contrast with a pardon that retains guilt, although he was convicted He does remain convicted, however.
It almost makes you sorry for the few that have served or are serving jail time..Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-16013029819230911332020-07-11T12:15:00.002-07:002020-07-11T12:16:14.204-07:00CHEATING HIS WAY THROUGH LIFESo in college, Donald Trump had his sister do his homework and hired someone to take his exams. How about high school? I can see how he could get someone to do his homework. but I think it is harder to get someone to do your exams unless he hired someone to attend school for him. I suspect that is not out of the question. I don't know about grade school. I suspect that he Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-85836774727644209002020-07-08T08:51:00.002-07:002020-07-08T09:06:29.434-07:00OUR PRESIDENT IS FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATEI know that our president is now functionally illiterate and who cannot seem to read even a page, but wondered how he got through college that way. The answer is that he cheated. His lessons were read to him and his sister did his homework. He paid someone to take his exams. An imposter would actually go into an exam room and take his tests. I guess class sizes were Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-34398152069453579052020-07-05T12:51:00.002-07:002020-07-05T12:51:11.854-07:00OUT OF THE LOOPThe first politician I heard say he was "out of the loop" was George H.S. Bush.* During the Reagan administration, there was a program called the "Iran-Contra" affair. This affair illegally planned to ship arms to Iran even though such transactions were embargoed.** It occurred during the second term of Ronald Reagan when Bush was the vice president.
Well, now the Trump Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-14466516585589295392020-06-27T12:04:00.000-07:002020-07-05T12:31:44.110-07:00AT LEAST THEY SPENT SOME TIME IN JAILAmong all the crooks in the Trump organization, only Paul Manafort and Michael Cohn have spent any time in jail. Both of these I believe are home under house arrest because of the coronavirus.
Roger Stone and Michael Flynn have never served any jail time.
Papadopoulos, 31, spent 10 days in jail which was his sentence.
Apparently, Rick Gates spent some weekends in jail, but he too has beenEverett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-63421554294858188552020-06-21T12:53:00.003-07:002020-06-21T12:53:43.455-07:00CORONAVIRUSSome epidemiologists say that the Coronavirus will stay around until 60-70% of Americans have had it, at which point we will have developed "herd" immunity.
If so, we are only 10% of the way there ( about 2 million cases whereas the U.S. population is about 330 million. Furthermore, they say that the coronavirus will not be seasonal like the flue. It is more like wildfire.
Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-11989378962572697652020-06-20T11:40:00.000-07:002020-06-20T11:51:56.525-07:00JOHN BOLTONI've never been a fan of John Bolton. He was what was called a Neo-Con (New Conservative). I think he never saw a war he didn't like and wanted regime change in Vietnam Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen, and North Korea* He didn't like international organizations such as the UN. I was afraid when he joined Trump's administration, we would go to Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-83186111313813338472020-06-19T11:22:00.002-07:002020-06-19T11:22:14.593-07:00CHOKE HOLDI agree that the chokehold is a dangerous technique. I have never had a strong arm strength even though I used to lift weights. Three times in my life, I've had bullies come after me. I would get them turned so their back was against my left hip, I would then lift them so their feet were off the ground by bending the opposite direction, and I would give them the chokehold. Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-2087237659110681632020-06-19T11:12:00.001-07:002020-06-19T11:12:39.372-07:00I'M BACKUnfortunately, I had a bout of A-Fib and spent 5 days in the hospital. Everything is back to "normal," but I frail. I believe I am slowly recording and strengthening.Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-81019038462025142252020-05-27T12:56:00.001-07:002020-05-27T12:58:02.554-07:00FEDERAL AND STATE AIDFederal Aid So far as I know, the SARS COVAD-19 problem is the first in which the Federal government has been involved.
After the famous San Francisco Earthquake, the Federal Government gave no money to the city for rebuilding. Eisenhower had a hard time getting the Interstate road program through congress until he said it was for military defense purposes
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The item appealed to for the Federal Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-50498980799481730862020-05-23T16:32:00.001-07:002020-05-23T16:44:51.027-07:00REAL MEN DO NOT WEAR FACE MASKSI suppose in this time of politicalization, even wearing masks to prevent getting and given the coronavirus disease to others is politics.
Not long ago, there were the red straws with the president's name on them.* You got 10 of these for $15 or $1.5 ea when bendable compostable straws were about $0.9 ex:.
The straws as advertised are nine inches long and bright red — the same shade as Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-33784824601393122042020-05-19T15:37:00.001-07:002020-05-26T14:34:58.257-07:00OK, I DO HOPE THE ECONOMY STAYS BADPresident Trump says “I think some people don’t want it [economy] really to come back, for political reasons, which is sick,” Trump continued, offering no evidence to support his claim. “But the people — the real people, the people that want this country to be great, and great again — we can say they want to get back.”*
OK, I confess. I'm one of those who would like to see unemployment Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-38266038504094641642020-05-17T14:45:00.002-07:002020-05-17T14:45:58.792-07:00DOES VICE-PRESIDENT PENCE HAVE CORONAVIRUS DISEASE?There was this curious announcement that Vice President Pence and President Trump would be keeping their distance from each other for a while. The last time I saw a picture of Mike Pence he was wearing a mask. So far as I know of, the last time Mike Pence has been seen in public was May 7th.
Supposedly Pence has been tested for coronavirus with a negative result.
Just what is the Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-53285436491913042452020-05-07T15:34:00.000-07:002020-05-09T13:55:00.310-07:00INFRASTRUCTUREThere are 32 million people out of work now. It would be a good time to have a major infrastructure program as costs would be inexpensive. Well, there is talk about a $2 trillion infrastructure bill,* but Republicans don't do infrastructure** so my guess is that nothing will become of it. In this age of coronavirus, could a major infrastructure program be done safely? But Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-75168143139278792242020-05-01T12:53:00.000-07:002020-05-09T14:33:57.001-07:00EIGHTY-NINE YEARS ON THIS PLANET (Biographical)Today April 24th is my 89th birthday which means that I have been out of my mother's womb for 89 yrs., so I have begun my 90th year of living. How is it?
As for me, I'm doing all right. I say I am still kicking, just not very high. Though I might walk around my apartment at Penick Village continuing care facility, I am spending more and more time in an electric wheelchair as a Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-19156334893977929382020-04-30T15:44:00.001-07:002020-04-30T15:46:44.085-07:00PROFESSIONAL SPORTS AND CORONOVIRUSEven if pro-sports should open to an empty stadium, some sports are more prone to coronavirus than others. But there are places where payers get in close proximity with other members, such as in rooming (two to a room) and meals. Nearly all pro-sports events have been canceled.
Perhaps the lest safe sport is professional Football. You not only have 22 players on the field, Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-22364588561289054162020-04-20T12:42:00.000-07:002020-05-20T16:14:05.629-07:00CONFESSIONS OF A LIFE-LONG PESSIMIST (Biographical)I have been a pessimist from early life. I recall when I was six year's old in 1937, I worried about the Chinese which I had been told in Sunday school are nice people and hard workers, carrying heavy loads upon their heads.* Gen. Chiang Kai-shek was already a hero. The Japanese were threatening to invade China, there had already been skirmishes, and I didn't want to hear the Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-69090480500585882952020-04-19T09:57:00.001-07:002020-04-19T10:07:29.090-07:00CORONOVIRUS SUMMER PAUSE?It appears that new admissions to hospitals for coronavirus are decreasing in New York and maybe Michigan.* If this is the case, we may be going into a summer pause as the flu season is over and in the summer pause already. Deaths will continue to be high for a while yet because of cases already in the system.
I am unable to confirm drops for other centers.
* https://Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-33503535807424292622020-04-18T11:38:00.001-07:002020-04-18T11:38:29.981-07:00CAN TRUMP TAKE CREDIT FOR OPENING THE STATES AND BLAME THE CONSEQUENCES ON THE GOVERNORS?While millions are sick and thousands are dying of coronavirus, Trump is playing serious politics. He recently claimed he had total power over the governors and was thinking about telling them to open up business in spite of coronavirus. As he does not have this power, I wondered how he was going to escape this one. Well, it turned out to be easy. He did it in two steps, Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-83337331714294802912020-04-11T14:25:00.002-07:002020-04-11T14:37:07.189-07:00CORONAVIRUS: INFECTIONS/DEATHS PARADOXWe are told that the death rate from coronavirus is about 1%. In case you wonder what is behind this "guesstimate," there is nothing behind it.
Consider, the official counts as of April 8 were 426,300 cases and 14,622 deaths. Normally I would consider the death rate to be the more accurate figure, but we should remember that the death count is only for those hospitalized and does notEverett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-6914169279600736212020-03-28T12:00:00.001-07:002020-03-28T12:02:24.097-07:00BUY ON THE RUMOR, SELL ON THE NEWSThere is a lot of lore in the stock markets. One is "Sell In May and Go Away." In this case, selling stocks in May and rebuying after Halloween results in a 10% gain over "Buy and Hold."
We have just witnessed the application of another old adage which is" BUY ON THE RUMOR, SELL ON THE NEWS" In the runup to the approval of the $2 Trillion Corononavirus Relief Bill (FridayEverett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-75183609161106523132020-03-26T08:41:00.001-07:002020-03-30T11:25:29.493-07:00THERE WILL BE A WOMAN PRESIDENT WHEN WOMEN WANT ONEThough many women would like to see a woman president, when it comes to picking one, however, they back off. Ok, so you want a woman president but not this woman (Hillary Clinton). It turns out that more women voted for Trump than for Hillary.
But what about the current group? Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Tulsi Gabbard, Marianne WilliamsonEverett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-20912796671476683362020-03-21T12:13:00.002-07:002020-04-11T14:47:00.745-07:00TRUMP IS LIKE DEER CAUGHT IN THE CAR LIGHTSPresident Trump has made some half-way progress toward becoming a President by announcing a National Emergency (and it is not about Mexicans crossing our Southern border), but he has to keep spoiling it with things like saying that the government is not a purchasing agent in the corona(Chinese)virus. Yet that is exactly what is needed instead to leave it up to each governor. And it isEverett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-3083911508020183972020-03-17T13:12:00.002-07:002020-03-17T14:15:32.111-07:00CORONAVIRUS: ACTIONS AND INACTIONSSo the Fed has dropped the short-term interest rate to near zero. Well, I suppose that saving 1 percent on your loans may be of some help, but it is mainly "feel good" help.
It looks like Moscow Mitch has torpedoed the House financial bill that was aimed to help the working poor. So it looks like millions of Americans are just going to have to suck it up. Will food banks Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112427639902898514.post-75286151278338194962020-03-14T11:34:00.000-07:002020-03-14T11:56:55.601-07:00CORONAVIRUS AND THE STOCK MARKETS
The Alex Witt program on MSNBC (March 14, 2020) had an unexpected speech by President Trump that was actually very uplifting. Not only do we now have emergency relief money, but the White House/House of Representatives have come to an agreement on a package that addressees people being put out of work or staying home because of school closings, etc.* (Moscow Mitch sounds as if he will Everett Estes Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03653746617228982347noreply@blogger.com0