Things to Muddle Over

I want to make one thing very, very clear: no matter who gets elected, if the CV19 bug returns next fall, as I think it will along with the usual seasonal flu, and possibly again in 2022, whoever is in the Oval Office will get blamed for it, especially if the economy gets worse.  A couple of financial analysts think the economy is going to tank by then, as well, and that will also become the fault of whoever is in the Oval Office, period.  So who do you want getting blamed for all that? Biden? Sanders? Or Trump? Just sayin’.

Remember, the government has no control over the markets; they are only indicators of economic stability.

Herbert Hoover was President when the stock market teetered, tottered, and then crashed in October 1929. President Hoover and Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon led the way with optimistic predictions that business was “fundamentally sound” and that a great revival of prosperity was “just around the corner.” Although the Dow nearly reached the 300 mark again in 1930, it sank rapidly in May 1930. Another 20 years would pass before the Dow regained enough momentum to surpass the 200-point level. – Encyclopedia Britannica

Oil is losing ground. Nobody wants to buy it. Refineries aren’t lagging or lacking for crude to work on, but no one is buying gas at the pump, despite its cheap price, so the oil companies are having to pay for storage now, until things pick up. If I see a gas station with gas at 1964 prices, I will get a photo of it, fer sure. It is getting that bad. They can sell the coffee, popcorn, and gimcrackery in the gas station store, but gas at the pump? Not so much.

The local “truck” farmers (people who grow fresh produce) are already putting in their crops in the shelter of “grow houses” (canopied land to cut the cold and wind) and are wondering if they’ll have enough patrons to break even this year, never mind make a profit. And the few around here who farm corn and soybeans for the commodities markets are just as worried as the farmers further away from the Big Cities.

A company in Illinois is using empty shipping containers as places to sterilize used PPE masks (the N95s) with a gas technique, and return them to use. Cost is about $0.85/mask. Recycling works, and they are using a tried, tested, and correct technique. So far, they’ve returned 80,000 per day to hospitals and first responders.

Someone please tell me why a toddler in NYC thinks it’s okay to drink hand sanitizer, or some dim bulb on the East Coast thinks she should cook her food in a combination of bleach, vinegar and hot water????  The sheer stupidity of people is astonishing, and yes, I know that kids like to put stuff in their mouths, but can we get it out of reach of the little ones?

My neighbor to the north decided he’d had just about enough of being cooped up and sat in his yard with a bottle of water. When it started raining, he just pulled the hood of his jacket over his head and sat there smiling. I had the window open a bit. The fresh air smelled really good.

Since Hubble can’t see any further than the “red blob limit” (13 billion light years), does this mean the Universe is infinitely infinite, or infinitely small?

What if we really ARE the only ones like us anywhere in the Universe? Who will we talk to when we get out there? (Jabba the Hutt was a thug and a drunk, so he doesn’t count.)

Sunsets on Mars are blue. Not enough O2 in the atmosphere to provide a red effect.

Just to let you know, I calculated the escape velocity (Delta Vee) for the Sun.  It is as follows:

618 kps

60 secs = 37,080.00 kpm

60 min = 2,224,800.00 kph

One km equals 0.62137119 of 1 mile.  100 kilometers equal 62 miles.

I did that all by hand, no calculator. No wonder I hate math.

1,382,426.62 MPH ESCAPE VELOCITY FROM THE SUN.

It explains why Oumuamua (Space Needle) made a left turn and left the solar system, at 250,000 MPH. Not enough Delta Vee.

So far, at least 6 comets have impacted on the Sun, with the outer icy layers exploding when the comet hits the Sun’s atmosphere. The rocky center just keeps on keeping on. NASA has videos online.

A black hole has been found that has such an effect on its surrounding space that it alters the space-time continuum by creating a drag around the black hole.

I will never give up chocolate, Wagner’s and Tchaikovsky’s music, or bacon, or cats.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", 2020 Election