News from the Northwoods

I saw Tim Scott on TV today, doing his acceptance speech. He is officially in the presidential race now.  I was impressed.  This guy gives a good speech, had his audience cheering on the applau...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/05/new-republican-presidential-candidate.html

We have one.  It says that the US cannot borrow money above the debt limit.  US Treasury is saying that they will need to borrow more to pay the government’s bills starting in June. Speaker M...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-federal-debt-limit.html

Slow Joe Biden wants to put our lights out.  He wants his Environmental Pollution Agency to require that fuel burning electric power plants reduce their emission by 95%.  Wow. That is like orde...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/05/biden-wants-to-put-our-lights-out.html

California ought to become amusing.  They have promised “reparations” of $1.2 million (per individual? per family? Per extended family?)_to not well defined groups.  California is $8 millio...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/05/reparations-in-california.html

 California is going to ban the sale of diesel trucks as of 2036.  Was I a trucking company or a mere owner-operator, I would start thinking about relocating out of California.  Reregister all...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/05/keep-on-trucking-anywhere-but-california.html

 Three people were killed and a fourth injured.  They haven’t said when the accident occurred.  If it occurred after dark, did the helicopters have their running lights burning? They should ...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/04/did-army-helicopter-accident-in-alaska.html

You can bring your children’s reading, arithmetic, science and other subject’s grades up to par. Start out by getting your kids teacher to give you the kid’s test scores.  This will give y...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/04/you-can-bring-your-kids-reading-up-to.html

    The movie starts out with Lincoln in an army camp, talking to enlisted soldiers, both black and white.  All the soldiers finish up talking by reciting passages from Lincoln’s Gettysburg...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/04/lincoln-2023.html

 Congratulations, Space X, The main stage got the whole thing off the launch pad and 18 miles up into the air. Something went wrong with the main stage separation, we could see the whole rocket ...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/04/good-work-space-x.html

It is frightfully expensive.  A four year degree can cost you $100,000, new house money.   Is it worth it? If you flunk out and don’t graduate, you get nothing for your money.  There is n...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/04/thoughts-on-going-to-college.html

Meh.  Not as good as the old Top Gun.  Very long.  A lot of chit chat between unnamed and unknown characters standing around the bar.  Little of interest was said.  Navy brass was bearing do...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/04/top-gun-maverick-2023.html

  Biden inflation. Irving just filled my furnace oil tank. 172 gallons. $4.49 a gallon. $767.77 over all. Ouch. Biden deliberately caused this rip off when he canceled the Keystone XL pipeline...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/04/biden-inflation.html

                                   How? Why?  Does an Airman First Class in the Massachusetts Air National Guard get access to so many Top Secret documents? ...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/04/need-to-know.html

 The massive leak of classified documents to an internet gamer’s site has convinced all America’s friends to never share anything with the Americans because it will be leaked all over the wo...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/04/security-rules-for.html

I am dong my income tax, using TurboTax.  I get to end, TurboTax tells me I have not made any mistakes, and my chance of getting audited is low.  So I print out my tax return.  I don’t efile...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/04/hardcopy.html

I don’t use, or even have TikTok, so all I know is what I see on the web.  I see a lot of bad stuff about TikTok and little to no good stuff.  So I am fine with banning it.     This migh...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/04/banning-tiktok.html

New York DA Alvin Bragg finally got around to doing it, after threatening to do it for weeks.  I hear some TV newsies decrying it for charging a president with a crime. I hear other TV newsies c...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/03/trump-is-indicted.html

The shooter is clearly guilty of first degree murder.  That used to deserve the death penalty years ago, but Democrats and lawyers have almost eliminated the death penalty in America.  Why conf...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/03/does-it-matter-if-nashville-massacre-is.html

    The Nashville school shooting was horrible.  Three nine year olds are dead, shot by the shooter.  That is too terrible for words.  Three adult school staff members are dead, also shot b...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/03/it-isnt-guns-its-homicidal-maniacs.html

Does it train its students to become real practicing lawyers out in the real world?  In the real world everyone, especially the lawyers, treat the judge with courtesy and respect.  A lawyer tha...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/03/is-stanford-real-law-school.html

I see TV ads many times a day.  The medicine always have a strange name, a made up word.  The TV doesn’t say what the magic medicine might cure.  They are not sold in stores, you have to ord...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/03/marketing-medicine.html

Meh.  Two simple old fashioned techniques fail in The Batman.  The scenes are not lighted.  They are so dark the only character I could recognize was Batman himself, when he was wearing his co...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-batman-movie-2022.html

 $32 million for a drone??? The TV says the USAF drone lost over the black sea cost $32 million.  You can buy a low end Russian jet fighter for that.  Gold plate much?? 

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/03/million-for-drone-tv-says-usaf-drone.html

This bank had $200 billion plus in deposits, mostly from companies.  It had companies that deposited $20 billion apiece.  Sooner of later any half way competent company can find far more profit...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/03/silicon-valley-bank.html

 We are approaching it.  It should hit sometime in September.  Last time, maybe ten years ago, the newsies cried and wailed that the US was going to default on its debts.  Not true. Never hap...

http://newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-federal-debt-limit.html