Arthur_Frain
Arthur_Frain's JournalIt will be interesting to see if I have some crow to eat.
I am not a religious man. Not a Christian, though brought up as one.
It occurs to me that if god was going to send Jesus back to earth like they all say he’s going to, considering everything that’s gone on in the Middle East, (shit, maybe the world) this would be the week it happens.
About that $16 McDonalds meal story.
It’s one of the very big reasons that a “booming economy” message isn’t resonating. I stepped into a McDonalds last week with a craving for French fries. Small fries were $2.75. That’s insane, when maybe a decade ago the value menu had them for less than a dollar.
The value menu has disappeared, suspiciously in my view, at the same time that all those self ordering kiosks (that no one uses, and don’t work when I try to use them) were installed.
There was an article awhile back that said the profit margins are all the same to the corporation whether it sells 3000 burgers at $2 each, or 1000 burgers at $6 each, but at the six dollar price point they don’t have to support as many workers, so that’s actually what they’re aiming for.
Or you could go to your local airport where the burger alone now runs about $20.
The optics right now are horrible for that message on the street level.
Since we usually start a new category every presidential election year specifically for those OPs,
and that time is coming around soon, may I request we get another one specifically for the Israel/Palestine content?
Balm to my soul
(On edit) classic picture of Obama seated just before going to address a gathering of Scool shooting survivors and relatives. Haven’t mastered to new DU 4 techniques on this. Apologies.
We once had a man such as this. Agonizing over moments that would become his legacy, not because he was concerned about that legacy, but because he knew that how you behave in moments like this, the face you show the world, defines the success of your administration.
Joe knows this because Barack knows this, taking the hit for Afghanistan withdrawal, raising the fed interest rates because zero percent for so long isn’t good for the economy, stepping forward to speak truth to power in the face of the RW propaganda onslaught.
I find that I like this Joe Biden. He doesn’t fear what needs to be done, and he’s wiser than I am, he’s seen more. I’m going to trust him in this ME conflict that’s been raging, the one that’s seemed so utterly futile for all of my life.
A bit of doggerel for you on the occasion of the nomination for speaker
With apologies to Guy Fawkes, the bard, and all others who appreciate fine verse…
I’ll never get over
The twenty fourth of October
Sedition, treason and plot
I see no reason
Why maga bred treason
Should inordinately be forgot
McCarthy and jordan, emmer and johnson
Traitors to oath one and all
A house without guidance
Chaotic and strident
The constitution is backed to the wall
A powder keg leaking, a match to a flame
The path ahead mined past all knowing
A party of bomb throwers bent on destruction
Democracy stretched thin and bowing
The nexus awaits the will of the people
This election is one we’ll take pride in
Get out the vote, hold their feet to the fire
There is no other vote ‘cept for Biden
On edit: got so caught up in reworking the original I lost all track of time! October doesn’t rhyme as well, making it true doggerel I suppose.
Another test, no reply necessary.
Will my iPad mini post a new thread while my iPhone SE won’t?
Anyone check if the pen in the Boebert incident contained cannabis?
Test her immediately. If she tests positive, then try her and Hunter together?
Same crime except tons more guns in her locker, amirite?
So I don't get it. Did we win, or did we lose?
It seems so obvious to me that the mug shot distributed for public consumption was contrived. How many takes did he get? How many takes would you or I get?
We still don’t have his actual weight. 215? Puh-lease.
Height? Not 6’ 3”.
But there’s been no official release.
Rules for thee, but not for me?
Going to support the writers on this one.
Tomorrow I cancel all the streaming services I’ve been accumulating during the “emancipation” from cable. If given the opportunity I’ll tell them I support the writers.
Need to cull my profile anyway, seems like a good time to encourage anyone who supports unions to do likewise.
Well, after the Fox/Dominion debacle,
I’d suggest to those hoping tfg gets held accountable for his crimes in any meaningful way, now might be a good time to lower your expectations.
Two Americas. Several different sets of justice, apparently.
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