Sunday, December 31, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Leavng NYC, the numbers don’t add up!

 According to the census over half a million people left NYC…The housing shortage in NYC is getting worse…The price of housing hasn’t dropped….
 Now if over a half a million people people left the city one can reasonably expect there to be more houses  and rental living space on the market…that doesn’t seem to be the case…Even if all the migrants were to get living space there are 5 times the amount of people who supposedly left the city then there are migrants…hmmm. 
 Well maybe landlords are hoarding livings space and losing money on Real estate taxes.. Mortgages and simple things like repairs …
 Maybe the landlords are turning these living spaces into Airbnb but there is a crack in NYC on Airbnbs…
 Perhaps there are even renters who are claiming to live in another state for lower tax purposes, but are really living in rent control apts…
 Perhaps ๐Ÿค” yes perhaps the census Bureau is messing up….

Friday, December 29, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Is USA ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ turning into a wuss nation

 They are picking on me, so says president 45 The election wasn’t fair! I have no real proof so I’ll make it up as all good wussies do. I have my trained wuss seals to chear me on. So says president wuss. President 45 is the only one, we now have trie and quadruple sexual persons ( what ever that is) complaining of because no picked on why a great majority couldn’t care less, just leave us alone and we will not bother you. Nooo ๐Ÿซจ these what ever sexual beings say, you must cater to us..Another sign ๐Ÿชง of wussifcation of  the US of A…

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Steve’s Barking; What if plagiarism is not plagiarism ๐Ÿค”

 ๐Ÿ˜ฑ what if plagiarism isn’t really plagiarism( WTF) . What if a writer writes something that another author wrote possibly even word for word and had no idea that other person had write it. 
 I know of a musician who wrote a piece and before he could record it some one else had recorded a similar almost exact melody, to my knowledge there was no way that this musician could have known what the other had composed.
 Getting a little more personal I wrote short children story about children who protected dragons ( I called it Hiding  the Dragon) it was very similar in idea ๐Ÿ’ก as the Children’s cartoon How To Train Your Dragon that came out several months after I had finish writing my story for my daughter.The ideas ๐Ÿ’ก of the two were similar.
 I was in the midst of writing a story about a retired man who had just lost his wife, as I was writing this story a movie came out about a retired man who just lost his wife. The last name of the character my character and the last name of the character in the movie was Schmitt. After seeing the movie ๐ŸŽฅ I was so disheartened I never completed the story.
 In one of my blogs I stated that it may not be wise to give reparations sighting the Country of Zimbabwe, little did I know that 3 years earlier Colman Hugh’s  said the same  thing. I used some of the same phrasing as Mr Hugh’s even though at the time I had never heard of him. Gee I thought I was so original.

 ***The point of this piece is to state that sometimes idea, and even exact phrasing can come out of different persons without the second person knowing or even realizing it…I imagine that one can even use the same phrasing and the same examples when writing ✍️ research paper without realizing that this has been done before…

Friday, December 22, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Brief history of modern day Israel

 In the late 1800s Jews n Europe faced hardship and death because of discrimination against their religion and what many in Europe believed being Jewish was part of a race..Out of this fear of programs and physical abuse that had been going on for centuries Zionism was born… There was a proposal that the Jews would have to find their own country…Even if that country was in Africa or some other continent ..As the looking for a country that the Jews could settle into and create a lace to call their own there was a discussion that the ottoman area called Palestine was sparsely populated ( Ottoman census and and Europeon and American visitors such as Mark Twain claimed it so) The start of the 20th century a small trickle of European Jews started to arrive along with a much larger contingent of Arabs. Now it’s my understanding that the European Jews bought up land from the Turks who owned much of the land..After World War 1 Great Britain was given the land as a protective..They had promised both the Jews and the Arabs the same land ( simplified by my part). There was great animosity on both the Arab and the Jews part..Even though there was a small population of both Jews and Arabs that lived in this land together even before the Romans conquered the land, and hadn’t left when the Romans left….There were riots in 1920 and 1929 for fear of Jewish ( Zionist) immigration (?) …..During the 20s and the 30s the Jewish population grew 6 times…There was attacks on Jews during this time as there was attacks on Arabs by Jews ( ?) …After WW II the immigration from Europe  by Jews increased 10 fold even as he British tried to hold down the immigration, but the Jews from Europe were desperate….Israel with the blessing of the United Nations became a nation in 1948… By all appearances the Arab nations didn’t want ( giving them the benefit of doubt) didn’t want what they proceeded as a European nation in there mist..

****Israel has changed in the 75 Years since it has become a nation…Many of the European Jews looked down on the Jews who were there. That has changed…Israel has opened its land to Ethiopian Jews though many of the European Israelis didn’t want them and even some called into question if the Ethiopian Jews were real Jews…that question has become mute..Even though there is still some discrimination against the Ethiopian Jews they are excepted…Israel was a a socialist state when it first came into existence but that changed with the great influx of Russians ( who might have been welcomed to bolster the non Arab population)…Jews from Arab nations flocked to Israel to run from the anti-Jewish Arab states… They just as their early European brethren needed an escape from injustice and murder…The Mizarchi Jews are more suspicious of the Palestinians the original ashkenazi ….

 Israel is no longer a European dominated socialist state but a capitalist mixed ethnic state ( though majority Jewish religion)  … One of the biggest problems with Israel is the orthodox sect that will not go to the army and is living on the states dime and there is a resentment.

 *****This blog is a shorten version of my thoughts…And it’s something that I don’t hear or read about, though I believe it’s the most honest about the state of Israel.



 

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Palestine PowerPlay

  This is another one of my blogs that is going against conventional wisdom….Most if not all those who claim to be protecting Palestinians are only just trying to show their superiority to all of their brothers…

(1) Let’s look at 1948 when the Arab league ( Syria, Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq) attacked the new state in the region, the question is where were the Palestinians? How many troops did they supply?

(2) Why are the various Muslims not joining forces to defeat Israel? Is it because they want to prove to there fellow Muslims that they are superior Muslims? *** This Muslim civil war is not just fighting Israel, it’s fighting among themselves, think of Al-Qaeda and Isis who are both Sunni Muslims but they both attacked their brother Sunnis and each other…This can be one of the reasons there is a Hamas and Islamic jihad in  the Gaza Strip, and it  who are self righteous and they seem to only help each other out only so far just for “show”. Now we have in the North of Israel in Lebanon Hezbollah to my understanding a mostly Shia backed strongly by Iran who believes that it is the holder of the true Muslim Shia…possibly because of the various distrust of one the Sunnis Iran will only go so far in helping Hamas ( my thoughts). There is an other party who believes that they are the rightful leader and conquerors of what they perceive as interlopers from Europe trying to colonize Arab land ( PLO). They at one time the projected themselves are the protectors of Arab sovereignty and nationalism even though the Palestinians had very few soldiers in the Arab League.

 It appears to this writer that none of these groups really care about the Palestinian people, but there actions are more about power and if a large part of their population is killed or maimed so be it..

 I’m not one of those people who believe that Iran is helping Hamas that much…If some one can prove that I’ll listen and apologize. 

 The optimum word is prove 

Sunday, December 17, 2023

Steve’s Barking; I’m a jelly donut and Dunkin isn’t real

 I’m a jelly donut and Dunkin’ Donuts aren’t real donuts ๐Ÿฉ. Have you seen Peter Potamus’s U Tube video of which I’m on?

 How many times have you seen someone proclaiming that there a doctor and that vaccines are bad for you, just the opposite, you would be an absolute idiot if you didn’t get your shots. How about the the one that proclaims that he or she is an EX CIA officer and that Russia is going to win the Ukraine Russo war in the next 3 days or that Russia is on the verge of collapse. What about those claiming to be Palestinians that proclaim the virtue of Israel. Or the ones claiming to be ex IDF officer stating the war crimes of Israel. We’re do they get some of these ex American ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ army officers who as I listen to them scare me ๐Ÿ˜ฑ half to death ☠️ for there ignorance is something to be hold and they are the ones who are supposed to be protecting me.

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Steve’s Barking; In the matter of Clarence Thomas

 Oh no ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ, there are sooo many people who say that Clarence Thomas is so not suited for the Supreme Court of the United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ…There are those who call him an Uncle Tom even though his name is Clarence and maybe ๐Ÿค” he has nieces and nephews there by he can be called an Uncle Clarence…Now I don’t like his decisions on the court as a majority of my fellow countrymen do…I will not attack his decisions for if I do I’m not just attacking him I’m attacking the whole judicial system of the United States…

 Now I’ve read that Justice Thomas was as radical a black man as there was when he was going to Yale Law…Now I understand that after receiving his law degree he had a difficult finding a job… I get the feeling that this was a rude awakening…I also get the feeling though I might be totally wrong that the black radical lawyers ignored him…I also get the feeling ( again And might be wrong) it was the white ( conservatives)  personage who showed him warmth and giving him a different prospective on life and the law…


*** Calling a black person an Uncle Tom or an Aunt Jemima by a black person is really a put down of one’s self in my opinion.

*** Does a one time dirt poor person who takes advantage of a wealthy person giving personal favors not understandable though it might be wrong, but who among us can cast the first stone….

Saturday, December 9, 2023

Steve’s Barking; The cost of health care๐Ÿคฎ

 The cost of healthcare in the ๐ŸŒ world is extremely expensive ๐Ÿ’ต. No matter what you hear the cost of healthcare percentage of GDP is not that much different in the good old USA then any other country, the difference between countries is if the money is front loaded (taxes and buying health insurance) or back loaded, co-pay percentage , or the percentage of the bill is out of pocket.

We n the States look at the expense of back cost not the whole cost…..

I myself would like to see a national health insurance plan modeled after congresses healthcare plus to take care of things like dental ๐Ÿฆท and eyesight ๐Ÿค“ back end cost on a sliding scale as to not make the impoverished more poor…

Friday, December 8, 2023

Steve’s Barking; We need people ( as much as money)

 What wrong with these people that are elected to represent us. All they do is talk about money… Crap it takes an eternity to get a new or renew your passport….Try getting a new seat Socal Security card . I can just imagine applying for Social Security. …The bureaucracy is broken in the United States…. I can just imagine if a person falls on hard time, I’m sure the money is there but I’m not to sure  the people who dole out the money is fully staffed…I see the roads in my home town that are so full of pot holes that the repair  people are are shouting out with glee…if the money is there, are the people there people to repair the roads?

 

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Steve’s Barking; We don’t need no stinken term limits

 With the whole sale leaving of members( Republicans )of the US House of  Representatives it seems to me we don’t need no stinken term limits. Oh did I state that there are an awful lot of old fart Democrats who will soon be dying out…. The shame of it all, we the people have no chance to vote them out of office….

Sunday, December 3, 2023

Steve’s Barking; “Why a whole lot of college students don’t need college”

 As I’ve been told college is very expensive…. Now I don’t understand why someone who knows everything needs to go college….. It seems to me that’s just a waste of money after all a lot of these students think that they know more then their professors….That. being the case the college administrators are stealing the know it alls money…..

Friday, December 1, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Is free speech a government thing only?

In my country everyone claims it their right to say what ever the F the want to say… but aha how dare you say what I don’t believe “I” must drown you out…How dare you insult me with different  set of facts that I know are wrong….So say the students who protest guest speakers, even though the speakers present an argument that does no harm…
 There were pictures placed in my city of what Hamas did to civilians that were ripped down by Pro Palestinian protesters…What would they say if a group of citizens tried to ban pictures of Gaza being destroyed and children dying …. “It’s my right to show the world” is in all likelihood the argument these self righteous persons would say…
 This is not a left wing phenomena… just look at the banning of almost noncontroversial books because in some one’s mind it will turn their children into g-d knows what…
 I wonder if I had enough followers would I be verbally attacked and someone say ban him Steve from Google.
The constitution of the United States say that there shall be no law in most cases banning the freedom of “expression” ( that’s paraphrasing the constitution) but it seems that it doesn’t stop people living here from destroying other peoples right to free expression….

Steve’s Barking; Pro American football not as good ๐Ÿ‘Ž

 Pro American football ๐Ÿˆ is not as good as in the olden days even though the football ๐Ÿˆ players are way more talented and athletic than in them days of yesteryears. WTF ๐Ÿ˜ณ if footballers are more talented and athletic then how can it be that the game is not as good as in way back when? Well….football is a game that has to be played every seven days. The players need time to heal…. The couches need time to prepare…There weren’t as many games…The amount of games takes a great toll upon the players even though there are only half the amount of preseason games ( that’s why I don’t take the first three weeks seriously ) .

**I know that football ๐Ÿˆ is a business and the networks get great ratings, it’s just that the games aren’t as good as yesteryear…..

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Hamas plays the fiddle

 Hamas plays the fiddle while Palestinians die….The strings of the fiddle is the Israel Army which everyone knew would strike hard and when an army strikes hard came civilians are going to die,,,,Also part of the fiddle is world opinion and how the IDF is the villain which is exactly what has happened….The more horrific the the IDF does to Palestinians the better for Hamas….

Sunday, November 26, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Where have you gone Walter Cronkite?

 Where have you gone Walter Cronkite,  our nation turns our lonely eyes to you.?
 In this crazy century there is no newscasters that the nation truly trust…
 Walter Cronkite was the person we all trusted to give the news straight and unbiased…
 With the retirement and death of Walter Cronkite the heart and soul eventually ended n the broadcast news business.

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Steve’s Barking; I feel guilty?

 In my area they food out  especially at thanksgiving (Turkeys and stuff to serve with the turkey) Every year when my wife was alive she made me stand on line to receive these goodies. My family really didn’t need any of these food supplies. Even though my wife would eventually give these food stuffs to neighbors who were shut in On realized that there are so many people who are food insecure I would feel guilty getting this food…I couldn’t help but wonder are there enough food pantries? Are there enough politicians who line up to give to all that my not have enough money to prepare for the holidays or for that matter everyday food needs.

Monday, November 20, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Do you really believe the polls๐Ÿคท‍♂️

 The polls show that Trump is going to crush ๐Ÿ˜ป Biden in the polls!
 The polls in the 2016 elections showed the Hillary Clinton was going to crush Trump on election night,
 Even the 2020 election the polls weren’t accurate!
 Why do normally intelligent people still take stock in the polls?๐Ÿค”

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Steve’s Barking; There are no fiscal conservatives in congress!!!

 There are no fiscal conservatives in congress! Oh there are many who say that we spend too much and that we are on the way to bankruptcy and we are putting are children in debt…. Of cause most of these so called “ fiscal conservatives” will give a hundred and one lame excuses not to raise taxes most of which have nothing to do with the complaint that the budget would be less or not balanced. Nooo that’s not why I’ m saying that there are no fiscal conservatives in congress…There are no fiscal conservatives in congress because most if not all spend spend millions to get a job whose salary is $175,000 a year…Now if you paying millions of dollars to get a job that only pays you $175,000 a year then there is no way that your a fiscal conservative period!!! 

**** I’m confused why does it cost over 500,000 dollars to run for a congressional seat …. And over a million dollars for a senate seat? 

**** The price for political consultants is just too damn high…..

Saturday, November 4, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Whose land is it anyway?

 There is much talk of whose land is it between Palestinians and Israel …I’m an American as is many of those who clam that Israel is an occupier of Palestinian land…if that holds true and the Jews of Israel should leave , should I and those who want the Jews to leave what they call Palestine then should we leave leave the land we  all call the United States? What about he House of Saudi, after all didn’t they take the land from The Hesimite  King Dom?  What about China and all their provinces ( like Tebet).. What about Russia and all its provinces.? Germany and Italy too, the weren’t countries 200 years ago…?Did the indigenous people of what we now call America, didn’t they take land from each other ? And whose land is Ukraine and Crimea anyway? Didn’t the great great  grands of  Abraham take land from the Canaanites?  
What about the tribes of Africa , didn’t they take land from each other? Great Britain and Ireland along with Scotland, whose land is it anyway? 
 Wars are constantly being fought over land, nothing new….Sooo whose land is it anyway…?

Friday, November 3, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Labor vs adp jobs report for Oct 2023

 Close but not quite!

Labor reported to 150,000,new jobs in Oct..ADPs job report 113,000 Job reports are almost close enough, but not quite to be called statistical the same….

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Banning of defecation ๐Ÿ™€

 The states of confusion and morality have decided that no one can go to the bathroom to defecate because defecating contributes to global warming. Sh** gives us Methane gas ….A major contributor to global warming…… Governors Fudd and Duffus  declared that we must stop the greenhouse affect at even n the smallest way…

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Do they really not take campaign contributions from the super rich?

 Here we go again…. There are certain politicians who swear up and down that they don’t take campaign contributions from the super rich, or even the rich because they can’t be bought….How do these politicians know…After all most super rich don’t have their names in the light like Musk and Zuckerberg The fact of the matter no matter how rich you are, you can’t give more then $2,300 and if you’re are a corporation you $5,000 Is the maximum amount you can give anyone candidate….So what is the maximum amount the Alexandria Ocasio- Cortes and the Elizabeth Warren’s take…Are their campaign pledges of they can’t be bought because they don’t take campaign contributions from the rich just a bunch of hokum…

Monday, October 23, 2023

Steve’s Barking; A different take on the Middle East

 I have a different take on the Middle East ( Israel and Palestinians). 

 By all indications there will never be any “peace” in the area called Israel or if you prefer Palestine and this being due to Muslim infighting. What you might say…I see it as the various Sunni factions trying to prove that they and they alone can chase the non Muslims ( including non believing  Muslims) to there way of being a Muslim…there are several faction of these group of Muslims the biggest being Hamas .. who is big enough to take on Israel….and in their minds they must take on Israel as the smaller I’m a better  Sunni Muslim groups take on Israel… Added to the mix is the Shite Muslims ( whom Iran feels that they are their  leader…They must prove that they are the leaders that will rid the land of non Muslims and Muslims should follow their lead…They want to prove that they are the strongest to take on Israel and follow them… Ever so often these groups will join forces… but that is rare ….none of the factions want to help each other to much… for they feel that they would lose the advantage…. 

*** The reason I wrote this piece is a rebuttal to a piece I read stating what we get wrong about this so called Hamas Israeli war….

*** I partially base my thinking on Muslim infighting’s on other parts of the region and globe…and I believe it’s all connected…

*** There is infighting in all religious groups…who’s the more righteous….

*** One unfortunate thing of us humans part of our DNA is cruelty…


Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Steve’s Barking; What economist don’t understand about the new economy

 Nowhere in the history of American economy has The job rate been so low 3 1/2 percent, even though there are firings at a high level. Never n the course of  history ( except n war) has there been so many jobs been unfulfilled as there is right now in the United States. Never in the course of history of economics has there been such a large Amount of retirees who do not need to work and have large discretionary income. When The economist look at the economy they don’t look at retirees. Maybe the percentage of retirees are not well off. But actual numbers there are great many retirees, who have a lodge discretionary income. And until the time of the economist start looking at retirees, who will not fill the jobs that are needed discretionary income, they will not understand the truth about the economy!!!

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Steve’s Barking; what do Palestinians want?

 What do Palestinians want? I’m not asking this question to self righteous, Europeans, Americans, or people who haven’t been living in the Middle East for decades? I’m really curious? What do Palestines really want? 
 Do they want a Sunni nation. Do they want a Shite nation? A non sectarian nation? It doesn’t matter as long as they are Muslim? Would they settle for separate states or must it be me state that prior to WWII was called Palestine that would include what is now Israel? What should happen to the non Muslims living there? Do a large minority want Jews dead? Can most of the Palestinians answer these questions freely or can they answer these questions at all?

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Hey Hey Hey Hamas how many Palestinians did you kill today?

When Hamas attacked Israel in horrible and terrible way with all due meanness they didn’t just kill Jews and Israelites they doomed Palestinians for a terrible retaliation meaning the killing and maiming of Palestinians in Gaza. This is something that Hamas knows or at least should know, for every time the make an excursion into Israel, the retaliation is ten fold. Because of how horrific this excursion was, you can expect many thousands of Palestinians to die. I’m stating that not only did Hamas kill Israelites they doomed tens of thousands of Palestinians to greater impoverishment and death.

Unfortunately there are many people in this world such as Hamas, Hezbolla ,    Isis who enjoy doing evil on their fellow human beings and they don’t care if their people are who are hurt or die.

I personally don’t think Iran was involved with this attack because they are Shia and Hamas is Sunni and they don’t like each other almost as they dislike Israelis….

 There are enablers all over the place…. There the ones who make excuses …. There the ones who encourage evil ( Oh your being terribly treated in this ( make believe) apartheid state, you must resist…

 

Friday, October 6, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Againt ADP and the department of labor doesn’t mesh.

 ADP 89000 jobs created…in Sept
 US labor reports 336000 jobs created … in Sept
 Go figure…
 

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Did governments create Google monopoly?

 I just can’t help but think ๐Ÿค” did government(s) help Google become almost monopolistic. Didn’t governments ( especially EU) hinder Microsoft internet endeavor because it was too much of vertical monopoly. The claim being that it stifled competition. Along came Google with a better search engine. All of a sudden even other search engines were using Google.  Perhaps ๐Ÿค” if governments were so hard on Microsoft there might be better search engines.

Now there are other search engines and unfortunately they don’t carry much weight. The fact of the matter for myself I use 4 different search engines. Duck Duck go for privacy, Bing for AI. Google which has been going down hill for lack of competition recently, until now, and IO ( which is really Google).

I remember first using AOL, then Yahoo until …. Google came along and wiped away the competition. . Perhaps ๐Ÿค” it was the fear of government or just poor leadership in other companies that their search engines lost it luster…

Now personally I believe in competition, it makes for better products… it’s up to the competition of Google to prove it had a better product…

 *** Another rambling blog by Steve’s Barking……




Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Steve Barking; American economics is in the perfect storm ⛈️

 Woe is me United States is in a perfect storm. There are strikes in the car ๐Ÿš— industry, congress ( House of Representatives) has no leader, the entertainment industry  ( movies , streaming and TV ) appears to be in the shi***, because of strikes….and the average consumer will have a hard time buying tickets…interest rates are rising at the fastest pace I can remember….the central banks are in a panic ๐Ÿ˜ฑ mode on inflation…..there are more jobs then there are workers….the civil service ( local and nationally) is in the ๐Ÿ’ฉ crapper because there aren’t enough workers doing  the jobs….Amazon and Google are both under fire ๐Ÿ”ฅ for being monopolies….our highway ๐Ÿ›ฃ️ and byways are in terrible ๐Ÿ˜ž shape, along with electrical grid, with inadequate people power to fix them ….so woe is my country…. Oh I almost forgot, colleges and universities are under ๐Ÿ”ฅ….. let’s not forget there is a housing shortage and mortgages are through the roof .

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Russia (Hold The line for Donald Trump triumph)

  Is Russia holding the line no matter how many of their soldier citizens die or are wounded. That appears to be what’s happening in the Russo Ukraine war. The disinformation war Russia appears to be kicking the West’s behind. It seems that Putin can pay his prostitute to due his bidding, forcing “Ukraine to sue for peace”.  It’s a strategy…… which maybe Russia’s way of thinking of maybe not….

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Taint my grand father’s economy.

 I just don’t understand it…Why oh why does the Fed or better known as the Federal Reserve think that they can control inflation? This is the first time in “modern history” that the population is aging, and those of us aged people ( a lot of us) have money coming in that cover our expenses and a good portion of us have a little discretionary income. Now because there aren’t as many people to do the jobs that need to be done because of the low birth rate of the U.S and many other countries we can’t look at the old formulas of inflation and productivity. Noooo we can’t look at the past to judge gross domestic product(?) and we definitely can’t look at the past to see how to fight inflation….

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Poppa was a rolling stone, prior to ADC

 I’ve been listening to so called conservative pundits who claim that black poverty and restlessness is due to the fact that there is no father in too many black homes and this wasn’t the case prior to Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty. Well at the same time I do believe that the easing of divorce in America. Maybe that’s the case that there aren’t as many black fathers in black house holds. Maybe there’s a myth about there were few single mothers prior to the 60s. After all there are songs and stories about fathers who disappeared way before the 60s.

Steve’s Barking; We ( counties ) are all thieves

 Going through my history books I made this astounding discovery, all lands were taken over by persons who weren’t indigenous to that land. They either made new counties or incorporated the lands into existing counties. This hold true for Russia , China Egypt,, the UK, the United States, and even the African tribes who were big enough so as I like to call them mini nations. 
 This is why I’m bewildered with Russian claims on Ukraine and those who squawk about Israel taking over land that didn’t belong to them if they don’t live in that area.

Friday, September 15, 2023

Steve’s Barking; What I don’t understand about UAW strike

 I understand that in America workers have the right to strike.
 I understand that there shouldn’t be be a tier system of pay.
 I understand that it’s the unions duty to fight for workers to get a living wage, for the worker to live comfortably.
 I understand it’s a union place to have a safe and comfortable workplace.
 I understand that American union autoworkers don’t make he same as their German counterparts.

*** Now comes the tricky part…..
 What I don’t understand….
 The union wants a 45 percent pay raise and a four day workweek. The union workers are hourly employees, so if what I read is true, that’s only a 24% pay raise (if my math is correct). (There’s a possibility the union wants compensation of a non hourly worker).
 The big three automakers appears to me, will have a tough time competing against non union Tesla in making EVS. They will also have a touch time competing against with cost with foreign auto makers who set up nonunion assembly plants in the United States. How will the big three compete on price against these none union American assembly plants?

*** This is what I don’t understand…..
 

Thursday, September 7, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Over, Under

  Nooo not weather my football team will cover this weekend! Under or over government regulations, what is the best amount of government regulations! Right now in my irrational opinion we in the western world are way over regulated. We have so many regulations too many of the important ones are overlooked and the not important and inane ones are over enforced. 

 What I’m saying to put it mildly we need regulations for health and safety. We need some regulations so that we can have competition as to grow innovation. Too much regulations tend to have the opposite effect. What I’m getting at is look before you regulate, or what you the intended result from the regulation might just have the opposite effect.

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Steve’s Barking; ADP and Labor statistics almost the same

 Oh my goodness ADP says 177,000 new jobs created in August Labor says 187,000 jobs created in Augus. That’s pretty much the same.

Monday, September 4, 2023

Steve’s barking;;Save the nation ( from default).

 Oh damn, here we go again. There is a new threat of the United States turning into Argentina and defaulting. Ok let’s compromise again, Democrats promise no new spending ( except in an emergency) till after the next presidential election and the Republicans vote to increase the budget till after the presidential election. Both side agree no bs ing legislation that involves financing. This should be with the majority of Republicans and Democrats in congress agreeing leaving the fringes of both party to vote against it so they can play up to their backers!


Another foolish idea by Steve’s Barking!

Sunday, September 3, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Movie Theaters need Taylor Swift to survive!

 Because of the actors and writers strike in Hollywood, there will be a dearth of movies later this year and early next year. In order to survive, it seems to me that movie theaters will have to provide some sort of different entertainment. Movie theater companies need concerts to replace the money that they will not be getting from movies. Possibly movie theaters can even show sporting events for those who can’t afford to have multiple streaming subscriptions. Now the motion picture industry should encourage movie theaters in this endeavor, because they will need in the future, a place to show there product and if there is very little product movie theaters will not survive. So in foresight movie companies should be exceedingly happy with movie theaters showing concerts like Taylor Swift. They should encourage the concerts.


Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Short Fiction story of the end of the world (That’s all folks)

 That’s all Folks

      By Stephen Werner


 We tried

 We failed

 The world is coming to an end.

 We thought that sucking the CO 2 out of the air was all we needed to do. Oh well flooding got worse, and the heat became unbearable. We of cause blamed each other.

Of cause the zillionaires and the lesser of the super rich the trillionaires,thought they could spend their way out of the end of the world. Ha,  Joe Baloney thought his minions could colonize Mars. He stole every idea that the Russian, Chines, and America had to offer, put it on several rocket ships only to find out that his engineers forgot to calibrate the rotation of the earth around the sun and the rotation of Mars around the Sun. When they took off the rockets kept going and going never to return to any planet to land and of this writing no one knows were the hell in space they are. Another of these Uber rich dudes thought he could colonize the moon. I for the life of me couldn’t figure out why the moon would be any better then just living the rest of his shortened life on Earth, but no one knows whether life on the moon would be any good, for some strange reasons the rocket that was carrying him and all that he believed was needed to have him survive on the moon blew up. Maybe it was sabotage by the worker who helped build the rocket. And then there was zillionaire Moe Fine who thought he could beat the end of the world scenario by storing water and other liquids in along with food supplies that would last a thousand years in an underground bunker. He was positive that the bunker was water proof. It was, only he didn’t count on shoddy construction and the bunker collapsed with him and what he thought would be his survivors.

 Now one would think that the world leaders who had all the knowledge and the ability to build what ever was needed to escape the end of the earth, but of cause they couldn’t agree on which course to take and then it became too late and they were stuck here on this doomed planet just like the rest of us peons.

 Now we all know that we are going to die, especially when food supplies started dwindling, and electricity became scarce. Who could of figure that too much wind would destroy the wind turbines and rip solar panels from their moorings. The heat became too much for the electric grids making even the existing fossil fuel and nuclear  power useless.

 Now you would think that lawlessness would skyrocket, and it did in the very beginning when it became known that the end of the human race was in sight, but the rioting were stores were broken into and computers, televisions and smart that were stollen were actually useless as electricity started to shut down so no one wanted to steal those items because they were useless.Stealing gems and clothing seemed like fun but in a short period of time the trill of having those items was gone. 

 You would think that rapes and assaults would become out of hand, but just the opposite happened. Perhaps the heat tired all the would be rapist and assailants out. The part of the world that was cold it was too cold to do anything.

 I thought that most of us when we confronted with the end would commit suicide, but I was wrong, we were all dying from global change, either from starvation,  heat frying us or cold freezing us to death.

 As I look at my wife ,children and dog I see that I’m the only one left of my family and soon I’ll be gone.  I’m writing this the old fashioned way pen and paper in case there is any humanity that survived and in a thousand years they will know the conditions of climate change.

Sunday, August 27, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Who’s going to do the job?

 There are those in government who claim that we need to spend 45 billion dollars for caregiving to children who’s parents work. There is a major problem with that, who is going to do the job. If the argument is we have to pay higher wages to the caregivers, what about the working parents, are we going to pay the caregiver more then those who go to do other jobs to attract more caregivers? The problem of lack of workers isn’t just caregivers, this country lacks skilled workers such as teachers, We don’t have enough doctors, nurses and technicians. We probably don’t have enough dock workers and truck drivers. Yea we need 45 billion dollars, probably 450 billion dollars for all our needs, but we need works even more……

**** The purpose of this short paragraph exercise is to say the money isn’t everything without workers to do the job……

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Steve Barking; Musings about when dinosaurs ๐Ÿฆ• ruled the Earth

 I was just thinking ๐Ÿค” what if the earth ๐ŸŒ atmosphere was poisonous ☠️ for man ( too much methane) . We humans couldn’t take a Time Machine without a space suit ๐Ÿ‘ฉ‍๐Ÿš€ or sort of protection. What if us humans were poisonous ☠️ to the animals that roamed the earth ๐ŸŒ. Would they not eat us? Would they think ๐Ÿค” of us as nuisance bugs? Would our smell chase them away? What was the average temperature ๐ŸŒก️.Would it be too hot ๐Ÿฅต for us to live on earth ๐ŸŒ at that time. What if climate heating (change) brings on a new  dinosaur ๐Ÿฆ• age ( I don’t know the correct terminology for the dinosaur ๐Ÿฆ• age). 

Steve’s Barking; What happened to companies complaining about government borrowing?

 I remember not too long ago when companies who had to sell bonds to raise capital complained about too much borrowing by the federal government. The cost of the borrowing would go up, because if the bonds of the federal because of borrowing, we’re high, the corporate interest  would have to be much higher. Now not too long ago this was considered terrible. What happened to the corporate economist who would complain that this was the end for many businesses, or they would complain that this was so damn inflationary.  And the corporate lobbyists trying to stop the government from borrowing.Maybe I’m getting deaf because I don’t hear that  in this current economic climate with government borrowing with high interest rates.


*** Government needs to borrow if we are going to survive economically in the future. Now I understand that most people happen to come across. This blog will have no idea what I’m writing about. 

Sunday, August 6, 2023

Steve’s Barking; What if the laws of physics are different in different galaxies? Ask this space cadet

 I was just wondering what if the speed of light is different in each galaxy. What if what we know as gravity is not the same in every galaxy. Even in our galaxy is laws of physics equal in every place? I know that so far our space explorations haven’t found any differences but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t does it? 

I know that I must be a space cadet ( not all there) with this question.

Steve’s Barking; The kail diet ๐Ÿคฎ

 There’s a new diet sweeping ๐Ÿงน the nation. It’s called the Kail diet. It was discovered on the mystical island of Kail . It seems that the inhabitants of this have no heart attacks. No problem ๐Ÿ˜‰ with cholesterol, and it appears they have a life expectancy of 85. Oh I didn’t mention there is no pain from arthritis or information in the body of any kind. Now all a person has to do is eat mud and drink sewage from this and it will clear away all the toxins that this country previous fade diets this country’s nutritionist have concocted.

Friday, August 4, 2023

Steve’s Barking; I worry about a company that that’s profits go up in a straight line ๐Ÿ“ˆ

 I worry when I see that a company’s profit keep going up… Why you might ask….? Nothing in life goes in a straight line…. Not the weather…. Not job creation…. Maybe salaries…..but that’s a different story…. Oh yea,Social Security, though in some years salaries and Social Security is flat…..Now getting to the real reason that I worry about profits going up in a straight line…. But in real life profits don’t go up in a straight line…A company has to invest to make improvements to its product or the competition will overtake it….The consumer of the products will not need the product on a continuing basis……. Many of the consumers of the products if the prices go up, would not be able to afford the product….. The consumer of the products can look for alternatives to the products……
In the past, there have been accounting irregularities to show that profits of a company has gone up.
I worry that about false numbers…..I worry about the shareholders being fleeced….I worry about government regulation based lied profits…. I worry that we may have another Enron because of CEOs of corporations compensation is based on profits….even if those profits aren’t real….

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Steve’s Barking; The good and bad about electric stoves๐Ÿค” taking the place of gas stoves

 New York and the rest of America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ is turning away from gas stoves and turning to electric stoves because it is believed that a by product of a gas stove is methane gas.. Now Like I said before I’m not too sure about the study that shows that methane gas is produced from a gas stove ( even when the gas is turned off?) Another study suggests that gas stoves produce asthma.
 Ok now let’s look ๐Ÿ‘€ at having an electric stove in stead of a gas stove that has nothing to do with methane and asthma. There are no gas leaks that can make living space unlivable. No one can kill themselves by putting their head in the oven. There can’t be any natural gas explosions.
 Ok now let’s look ๐Ÿ‘€ at the negative. One has to be careful of not overloading the circuit ( not so bad if it’s just in the house ๐Ÿก). What happens if there is a black out? No warm food for a period of time. ( mom can’t warm up formula for her baby). Black out in the winter ๐Ÿฅถ no heat, no light ๐Ÿ’ก except for candle light ๐Ÿ’ก.  ?????

 *** Was a blind test done comparing gas to electric stoves?
 *** Was there an asthma study done that ruled out the placebo effect….?
 *** How minute does burning natural gas put methane into the atmosphere?
 *** How much will all electric stoves put pressure on the grid?

Monday, July 17, 2023

Steve’s barking; Does Russia want to be a war with the rest of the world?

 Russia appears to want to fight a global war because of food. Russia on July 17 decided not to allow food shipments ( wheat) to go through the Black Sea. This will cause food insecurity and food inflation all over the world ( as if heat waves and floods and drought wasn’t enough).
 Most wars are caused by much less. The need for cheap resources. Strict nationalism. The need for land. The insidious secret wars of ideology ( economic, religious and form of government). 
 It is my uneducated view that holding food as a hostage is a strong reason to go to war against the hostage  taker.

* I really don’t want to go to war. I’m hoping for a negotiated end of hostilities between Russia and Ukrainian, even if it’s similar to the end of hostilities between North and South Korea.

Saturday, July 15, 2023

Steve’s Barking; More trouble in economic paradise….stikes

 Those Blue States California, and New York, and Georgia face a big downturn because of the movie and television writers and actors strike. Hopefully these places are prepared for the downturn in tax revenues and the uptick in unemployment….if not ๐Ÿค”. Now in the couple of weeks there is a possibility of a strike against United Parcel ๐Ÿ“ฆ, this could very easily hurt E -commerce, even though the postal service and Fed X will pick up some of the slack.

**** I personally think ๐Ÿค” it’s the right for writes, actors and delivery drivers to strike. Too many of the union members are barely getting by. It is also a way of letting those in charge No reduction in compensation in the future. ( computer generated acting and writing and residuals coming in on streaming as they used to come in on repeats of former programs in television).  
 Delivery personnel, who are part time striking for a decent wage.

****I have the feeling that if these strikes hurts or inconveniences too many people, there are a group who will claim about those greedy workers.  ( especially those millionaire actors with not realizing that the great majority of actors and writer don’t make a living at their craft). 

### Yep another uneven blog….I didn’t mention enough about United Parcel ๐Ÿ“ฆ drivers… nor did I mention the economics the celluloid entertainment industry.

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Deflated income for the upper middle class ( huh)

 It has come to my attention that there are many people being laid off in the tech industry, and these people are upper middle class. Now it’s also come to my attention that it appears that most of those who are laid off are getting new positions at lower pay. It is also come to my attention that those who have student loans well start to have to repay them, taking a bite out of their income? Now this might be all right but a major problem for the economy is that this is a large group that has a larger discretionary income, then those in the bottom and in the middle of a middle class. Now just maybe people going on trips who are on the upper middle class will have to hold back. Those in this group who intended to buy homes in all likelihood, will have to hold back and possibly those in this group. They have to hold back on goin to fine dining restaurants.(hmm) Will this to a crimp in the economy? Will this have a trickle down effect with lay offs  coming to the lower middle of income people? And if the lower middle income people have less or no disposable income it will it in all probability hurt the poor worker.

* The top dogs CEOs and owners are not effected and will not be effected for some times ( Though they may be later next year). And in fact appears to that there income ( or just there net worth appears to be going up.

** The poor workers income is going up but unfortunately there discretionary income has gone down or has stayed the same.

*** Why you have to look past the jobs report to see how the economy is doing for it doesn’t tell the whole story.

****  I know I don’t like calling any body middle class , but middle income…

Saturday, July 8, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Here we go again Adp vs labor department jobs report

 ADP reported non farm payroll was in increased by 497000 new jobs in June.! The Labor department reported 209000 new jobs in non farm payroll reports n June! What gives?

Thursday, July 6, 2023

Steve’s Barking; It’s a matter of the m s ( money supply)

 With all the talk of hiring no one talks of the money these workers are making. Many of these workers were fired from the tech industry with high paying jobs, they are then hired into lower paying jobs( opps less money going into the system). There was a surge of money during the pandemic going into t people hands, that money is now drying up as witnessing the surge of travel a spend down of that money? We are coming to the point that the debt of college loans is now in the next few months to s coming into play.Less money in the hands of those debtors. Because of failed banks and higher interest rates loans become more expensive, meaning less volume in the movement of money. (Perhaps because of higher interest rates and higher scrutiny some of those companies that just higher the laid off tech workers will not be around in 2024). In my unlearned opinion we are in danger of hard economic times.

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Steve’s Barking; War, few people needed!

 Oh my goodness, is it possible that in the near  future that there will be very few true combatants. Right now we’re using drones to do what airplanes used to do. We’re using smart rockets more and more. I can see that soon we’ll be using smart tanks and smart artillery driven by robots who have operators far from the battle field making human soldiers  on the battle so endangered that they will become obsolete. Unfortunately you can’t make civilians in the war zone obsolete and they will take the brunt of war with many casualties.

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Steve’s Barking; More signs ๐Ÿชง the end of days is coming!

 There’s a mortgage crisis in Great Britain ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง.  
  US President 45 show’s secret ๐Ÿคซ papers to anybody in the room.
  Russia’s ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ private military marched on Moscow.
  What next? The Peoples Republic of China ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ declares it’s no longer a communist state!

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Will the U.S. head the way of Zimbabwe?

 What the hell๐Ÿ‘น ? Well to put it  this way Robert Mugabe saw that the whites in his country had most of the good farm  land. Now this wasn’t fair after after all the whites in Zimbabwe were interlopers who took the land from the native country tribes. Sooo, he in his wisdom decided to take over the fertile farmland and give it back to the original people. Now getting on with this story Zimbabwe was self sufficient. It was so self sufficient that it was known as the bread, basket of Africa. Now getting on with this story, the new farmers didn’t do a very good job at farming, in fact they were so bad at farming they couldn’t feed the people of people of Zimbabwe. Hmmm ๐Ÿค” what happens when the “needs”of the people aren’t met.My interpretation is that that you get run away inflation. So there you have it in a nutshell just giving something that’s may be  justifiable correct can do unbelievable harm to those who should be the beneficiaries of what should be benefiting the most………………………………………………………….

Now wtf ๐Ÿ˜ณ has this morality  tale have anything to do with the United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ? Well there is talk ( or in some cases more then talk) of reparations for the descendants of African slaves. Now on the surface there is nothing wrong ๐Ÿ˜‘ with this, except that the giving of money ๐Ÿ’ฐ for restitution for descendants of an evil ๐Ÿ‘ฟ that happened over 150 years ago is not a sound economic idea ๐Ÿ’ก. In fact it’s a terrible ๐Ÿ˜ฃ idea ๐Ÿ’ก. (1) It doesn’t add any value of goods and services. ( 2) Because it doesn’t add any value to goods and service. (3) The flooding of money ๐Ÿ’ฐ into the economy would be highly inflationary. (4) The resentment of the rest of country very possible turn the economy into a barter system or worse were the American dollar ๐Ÿ’ต would not buy anything but bitcoin type of currency or even a foreign currency would be used.(Long live the Yuen).


***I’m one who believes that printing money ๐Ÿ’ฐ by the Fed isn’t necessarily inflationary as long as goods and services is being produced. Giving money ๐Ÿ’ฐ were the is no additional value or additional value in the future is a bad idea ๐Ÿ‘Ž in my simplistic opinion. 



Saturday, June 24, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Why doesn’t businesses pay FICA? ๐Ÿ˜‰

 This is an American  story.

 According to the Supreme Court, a company is a person, as if all the judges went to business school. Now, if a business is a person, they should pay FICA taxes just like every person who has a job in this country pays FICA. If a company is like a person and  can have freedom of speech then they must pay their FICA tax as if they were self employed. ๐Ÿ˜‰

 I’m only partially serious, just making fun of citizens United.๐Ÿคฃ


Friday, June 16, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Who built America?

 There seems to be a discussion that slaves from Africa built America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ.
 Hmmm. I was under the impression that greedy ba###ds built America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ . Of course they had help from the poor, unfortunate souls who volunteered to come to America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ to escape their miserable ๐Ÿ˜ฉ conditions were ever the hell they came from. Weather it was from Western Europe or Eastern Europe, Asia or even free Africans from Africa. 
 Now of cause after the the war between the state many of the freed African Americans went to other parts of the country applying some of the crafts they had learned while they were in bondage. Why it is even estimated that one third of American cowboys were black. 
 Just as those Europeans some of those who came from bondage showed that great ๐Ÿ˜Š American ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ trait, greed. Helping to build America the old fashion way with greed. Some of those ex slaves help build America with imagination inventing things like  stop lights ๐Ÿšฆand helping those greedy entrepreneurs like Edison.
 Hmmm ๐Ÿค” my impression that those greedy bastards like the Astors and Rockefellers plus the foreign greedy persons the Carnegies were the most important personages that helped build America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ into that greedy country that it is today paving way for those new greedy person, Jobs, Bezos and that really greedy foreigner Musk.

* One can make the case that those greedy slave holders held back the south’s industrialization….


 

Sunday, June 11, 2023

Steve’s Barking;Composting in New York City, the devils๐Ÿ˜ˆ in the details

 As read by me, New York City by the end of next year will demand that separation of food stuff from the rest of the garbage. There will be separate bins for food stuff, plastic and regular garbage. These bins will be on the curbs in the street. So far s good. Now what I haven’t read is when I separate the food garbage for compost in my apartment and for those own a home do we put it n a special plastic bag or do we have a bin in our homes. If you live in an apartment will there be a special place for these food particles to be stored. And it’s especially daunting, how do we keep the vermin, the mice and the rats from being attracted to the thrown out food?

Friday, June 9, 2023

Steve’s Barking; The luck of Tesla ๐Ÿ€

 Tesla the car company just caught the greatest luck ๐Ÿ€any car company could possibly have. First the government is giving it seven billion๐Ÿ’ฐ dollars to open up its charging  ๐Ÿ”Œ⛽️station to all. Then oh my goodness Ford and GM is paying Tesla to open up its charging ๐Ÿ”Œ⛽️stations to their EVS ( something I really don’t get if the government is paying Tesla to open up its charging station to all) there by allowing Tesla to under price other car companies for its electric vehicles and still make a profit. Will wonders never cease.




Thursday, June 8, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Be careful of the new silent majority !

 Remember in the old days when Spiro Agnew called out to the country’s so called silent majority, those who were angry at the anti government left. Well the new, new Republican Party better be careful of the new silent majority who’s getting angry at the anti government right.

Sunday, June 4, 2023

Steve’s Barking; To bring equity to NYC schools you need inequality

 Oh no, not again. Stuyvesant high school is again in equity with so few black and Latino students coming into the incoming class. Now I’m saying that we of New York City should not look at the immediate future. Stop trying to integrate greater numbers, black, and Latino students into the elite high schools next year or in the next 5 to 10 years. We have to train all the students to be able to pass the stringent entrance exams that the schools require. The way to do this is by not having all school districts in New York City get the same amount of money. We should use much of our monetary resources for tutoring those who want the tutoring. We cannot, in all likelihood tutor, every student who wants it. We can tutor on a select basis of income. How do you even that might not be equal. There might be more students or at least their parents who want their child to be tutored. Because we of New York City have a finite budget, we cannot tutor all those who are deserving of tutoring. We might just have to have a lottery for tutoring. Now part of the tutoring would be how to take entrance exams for select high schools. Hopefully, in less than five years, this would bring equality to elite schools, where the percentage of black and Latino students would equal to the percentage of the population that they represent in the city school system. The New York City school system cannot continue. It’s foolish chasing of integration of the city school system by legislation. This has been one of the biggest failures that the city school system has been doing for over 60 years. This is what is known as insanity, doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.

The purpose of any school system is to teach and bring out the best in the students. Now I’m not naรฏve enough to believe that every student is going to achieve an education that brings out the best of their ability.  I do believe that in order to achieve a higher level of equity in the school system we have to treat students on an unequal footing. Giving more emphasis to those who are from a depressed household.

The Tudors would if they have student debt, the city, and possibly the federal government would help relieve that debt.

Monday, May 29, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Seeing a sun that not there.

 I know it’s true but it still boggles my mind. We see a sun that was in a spot 100,000,000 light years a way, through a telescope such as Web, but that sun is no longer in the same spot in the universe and we see  it in an instant that we want to see. I know that there is a scientific explanation to this, but even if you explain this to me how this is possible, I would still be bewildered in my punny mind.

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Steve’s Barking; The good, bad and ugly of immigration (illegal)

 Because of war and very harsh living conditions in many countries, immigrants are flooding the borders of more stable countries. Now this may seem like a terrible thing for the countries that are being inundated by these refugees. Countries don’t have the means to house, feed and give basic necessities to these refugees. There is also the ( irrational?) threat that many of these refugees will bring with them gangsterism disease, drugs, and other bad stuff. In the United States at the Mexican border there are 10s of thousands of these migrants. The fact of the matter the United States may need these migrants. (1) There seems to be a lack of workers to help on the farms. (2) There is a shortage of workers that are willing to do low paying jobs. (3) The work force is getting older and there aren’t enough worker to replenish Social Security and Medicare. In the Eurozone, they’re already enough new workers to replenish their pensions, and therefore their pensions are under attack. We keep hearing of the birth rate bomb, well one can assume that the refugees can fix that.

In New York in the short run the refugee problem is scary ( lack of money and space)but in the short term future the benefits to the city by having a larger work force and larger population that would bring in more federal dollars and in tens years even more representation in congress. Every day I keep reading of the losing of population well the refugees add to the population (chuckle).

* The United States had a history of being anti-refugee ( Think of the exclusion of acts of Asians. Think of  the limiting of Eastern Europeans , Italians and German Jews just before World War II. All these refugees who did come added greatly to the United States.

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Steve’s Barking; What happened to the end of colossal computers? ๐Ÿคท‍♀️

 Now as I recall , not to long ago, maybe a decade ago a simple laptop ๐Ÿ’ป  was taking the place of  colossal computers that was taking the place in memory and computer ๐Ÿ–ฅ️ power that would take up a whole room. Holy moly suddenly we have cloud ☁️ computing.. My goodness how many city ๐ŸŒ† blocks do those storage bins for memory take up. Holy ๐Ÿ’ฉ how large do digital currency computers have to be? And now we have a thing called artificial intelligence and how huge do those computers have to be I seen pictures and it looks like those computers take up more space then my whole apartment complex. What happened to the dream of smaller computing is better.?

Saturday, May 20, 2023

Steve’s Barking; A one word answer to integration in New York City public schools

 New York City public schools we’re pretty much segregated when I was going to high school over 60 years ago. Every five or so years the “reformers” have tried every trick in the book, except one and have failed miserably. The one thing the “reformers” haven’t tried is gentrification. 

Monday, May 15, 2023

Steve’s Barking; “Think” exercise and thank you!

I’m going to try to do an exercise in thinking!

Let’s assume that a very Prestigious university has 2000 students in it’s incoming class. Of Those 2000 students 250 are ( white) Legacy students or 1/8 of of the incoming class. According to statistics this holds pretty much true for the past 20 years that these statistics were being kept. This Prestigious university wants a diversified university therefore of the 1,750 the standards were lowered for some students to get a more diverse student body.The first question one should ask oneself are these standards lowered for the legacy student. If they were would that negate the complaints of lowering the standards for some of the students that aren’t legacy students.

It has come to the attention that those who graduate this Prestigious university make on the average 40% more then those who graduate most other universities. The next question being do the legacy students bring the amount of money that graduates of this University make? Would many of these legacy students be making the same if they didn’t go to this Prestigious University?

It has come to the attention by statistics that a majority of those of those in this University who were brought in to diversify the University are making 30% less then those who weren’t brought in to diversify the University. The next question did those who came to this University as diverse students mingle with the legacy students, and did  those who mingled with the legacy students make more money then those who didn’t?

This is a test my thinking ! I could very easily say that this university should do away with legacy students to have a more diverse student body, but I would have to ask myself would this diminish this University by having more seats, and the possibility that the income of those graduating would go down. I have to ask myself is the university really diverse if student’s don’t mingle with one another. Are those students who were there to diversify the university really helping themselves by not mingling. Do we rely to much on statistical and not delve into the reasons why? Are we lazy?


Monday, May 8, 2023

Steve’s Barking; An idea ๐Ÿ’ก to put back America’s debt crisis.

 Democrats promise not to propose any new financial incentives for at least seven months with the exception of emergency measures, including fixing America’s infrastructure. The Republicans promise not  to hold up financial bill for those seven months. The leadership of the Democratic Party allows those who demand new spending to up to a third of there members to vote no, and the same for the Republicans to vote no because there are members set in their ways. I’m ๐Ÿ‘€ at this as a compromise that I ( foolishly) believe is workable. We can therefore pay our bills.

Sunday, May 7, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Why is there so much “my” right in America

 We the citizens of the United States have unimaginable rights that other countries don’t have.But these RIGHTS are not unlimited. A drunk should not have the right to carry a gun in the street, and shouldn’t say you can’t take my gun, it’s “ my “ right. A transgender woman doesn’t have the right to compete n women’s sports because of the huge advantage, this women shouldn’t say you can’t stop me from competing as a women, it’s “my” right. A person driving a car can’t drive on the sidewalk claiming that it’s “ my” right to get out of traffic. A person shouldn’t stop an other person just because they believe that person shouldn’t be there, and then claim it’s “my” right to stop that person. Why when an officer stop some person one and frisks them and are asked why, they say it’s “my” right as an officer of the law. A person who is walking a dog and the dog does its thing in the street and doesn’t pick up, that person can’t say it’s “my” right to walk my dog anywhere I choose, and it’s “my dog’s” right to do his business anywhere he chooses. A person can’t park by a fire hydrant and say “we’ll I’m only making a delivery” It’s “my” right so I better not get a ticket. A person doesn’t have the right to drive without a license, and that person can’t claim well it’s “my” right to drive..

What I’m complaining about, there’s to much me ( my) in claiming rights.

When claiming rights to often “my” tramples “ “ your” rights

Thursday, May 4, 2023

Steve’s Barking; No Glass Siegel would not have prevented present-day been crisis

The present day bank crisis in America would not have been prevented the bank crises. Glass Siegel legislation was commercial and investment banks should be separate. The crisis came about because there wasn’t enough money to pay deposits. What banks were doing was there reserves were in government securities that the banks couldn’t sell because the interest rates were too low. First it was one bank, then another. It appears that there is a run on several banks because of fear, too many depositors with over $250,000 deposits are fearful they will lose their money. What is happening well financed institutions are buying assets of shaky banks. America can only hope that the buying of assets by the well financed institutions will settle in the minds of depositors that their money is safe. If not the Federal Reserve will have to step in and and put out the fire that they in all likelihood started.

No the old regulations would not have stopped a run on the banks!

The banking crisis in America brought on by ourselves could become a problem that America’s enemies couldn’t have done as hard as they might try!

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Moscow hit by drones!

 What do you know Moscow was hit in a drone attack!
 Moscow claims that these drones came from the Ukrainian!
 Is the Russian air defense that bad that it can’t stop a slow moving drone?
 Is it a false flag to gain sympathy?
 Is it disgruntled Russians?
 Is it Ukraine sabotage?
 Could it even be an angered Russian military.
 Maybe it’s an excuse for Putin to stay out of town ( to get medical treatment) and not to show weakness.
 What ever the reason it doesn’t appear good for the Kremlin!

Steve’s Barking; America’s fast moving freight train the Fed

 It appears to me that the Federal reserve is like a freight train once you get started on something is very hard to stop, it is very hard for them to stop quantitive easing now it’s very hard for them to stop raising interest rates. It’s like a moving freight train.

Friday, April 28, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Thr price of oil should go up , maybe maybe not๐Ÿคท‍♂️

 OPEC said that they are cutting production of oil. China is back after Covid lock down. India is gearing up for larger industrial ๐Ÿญ production, and the West is all but boycotting Russian oil. Oh did I forget to mention that India and China is buying that Russian oil at a discount and they therefore don’t need OPEC oil that much. Hummm do ya think maybe ๐Ÿค” just maybe because to big oil markets don’t need OPEC oil that much and the US and North Sea oil is still producing the same amount of oil, the price of oil just might not go over the 80 dollar mark!

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Steve’s Barking; And they killed Aesop didn’t they?

 Oh my they fired Don Lemon from CNN! They fired Tucker Carlson from FOX News! These two modern fable makers got fired ( the modern day death sentence) from their respective TV networks for pissing off some powerful people. They killed the great story teller Aesop in Ancient Greece because the powers that be didn’t like one of his fables!

I guess I’m lucky, no one reads my my blog but……., and there are too few to even worry about being killed. 

Sunday, April 23, 2023

Steve’s Barking; A possible helpful solution to NYC housing crisis ๐Ÿคท‍♀️

 I been thinking ๐Ÿค” there are reports that more and more New Yorkers are leaving New York City in records yet there seems to be less and less housing . WTF ๐Ÿคฌ! Perhaps ๐Ÿค” it’s retires for tax purposes. I have a crazy ๐Ÿ˜œ idea, Perhaps ๐Ÿค” NYC should have a bureaucracy that matches those who claim they live a an untaxed state for 180 or more days with rent stabilized apartment. The tenant then loses his or her right to rent stabilization. 

 Now another crazy ๐Ÿ˜œ idea ๐Ÿ’ก is those who use there apartment’s for airbnb can only use their apartments for airbnb for less then 30 days with the landlord getting cut ๐Ÿ’ฐof the proceeds. *** I don’t know the legality of airbnb in NYC. It just an idea ๐Ÿ’ก I pulled out of my **s. 

 **** No way will these idea ๐Ÿ’ก end the housing crisis in my beloved city ๐Ÿ™️ but it just might help a little.

Friday, April 21, 2023

Steve's Barking; The big squeeze in New York City's rent stabilized apartments

 The owners of rent stabilized apartments in NYC in most cases can't afford the upkeep on their buildings  because of humongous inflation unless they have fantastic rent increases. The problem with rent increases is that too many of the tenants can barely pay the rents they are paying now. The city and the state can help this situation by rent and or building subsidies but unfortunately neither the state nor the city has the ability (money) to subsidies neither the landlords nor tenants. It's just a bad situations that this blogger has no answer for!

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Is race and racism real or is it just a form of tribalism?

 This is a very hard post for me to write, for I’m going against all conventional wisdom!
 My observation is that the conventional wisdom on race is not strictly by the color of one’s skin but more on the tribe one comes from! Think of the Nazis calling the Jews and Slavs inferior races. Thing of the Japanese call person of Chinese descent inferior by reason of race. ( Think of Japan in the present day not letting foreigners settle in Japan even though they will need foreigners as the population gets older. As far as skin color look,to Europe, as one goes father south in Europe the general pigment of the skin tends to get darker. Take a look at Africa the pigment of the indigenous people of the is lighter then the indigenous people of the central parts of Africa. This also seems to be true of the southern part of Africa before the migration of Africans from the middle of Africa. ( The lightness of the Northern and Southern Africans seemed in most cases to predate the Europeans coming to Africa).Africans from different tribes come in all different sizes and shapes. One can look at the Asian continent and draw the same conclusions as the African continent. Even the faces are from one region to the next as this is also true in Europe. It has been noted that this maybe due to the fact of adaptability.
 **Now why would I say that racism is a form of tribalism?
 Human beings tend to form groups that are closely associated with themselves. So that facial features and and pigmentation that are closely aligned forms a tribe. To protect themselves from other tribes these tribes form bigger tribes. As these tribes become larger they become city states and eventually turn into countries. Now these countries often do terrible thing and in order to justify these things they use the physical differences by saying it’s alright these races (tribes) are inferior. Now one can say that the smaller tribes ( sub tribes ) of the main tribe starts believing that those who look different then there members are subhuman. This goes down to the individual members of the tribe. They don’t want to mix with those of what they consider an  inferior tribe( race ) and in many a case even force the larger  tribe to treat the different looking persons of the other tribes as inferior including denying work and a place to live near them. 

 Tribes tend to have different cultural background that co-mingle  when tribes come together.


***** This is just a theory of mine that I got through observation.

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Bad behavior by powerful Countries blame United States

 Russia, China, North Korea, and other aggressive countries are blaming the United States. After all didn’t the U.S. force out the Duly elected Prime Minister of Iran, play sing sure enjoyed your of the duly elected Prime Minister of Iran, play, placing the Sha in charge of the country. Didn’t the  United States use a terrible excuse of we were attacked by North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin to go full throttle into Vietnam. And didn’t we use the flimsiest excuse to go into Iraq, and dispose of the dictator Husain. When these aggressive countries use there aggressive behavior and the United States objects they point there finger at us and say we’re just Copying you. 



Thursday, March 30, 2023

Steve’s Barking; ๐Ÿ˜€ Breaking news , Happy face for DeSantis and other Trump challengers

 ๐Ÿ˜€ The New, New Republicans who want to be president are as happy ๐Ÿ˜ƒ as a ๐Ÿ– in mud. They can fain how terrible ๐Ÿ˜ž it is that Trump will be fighting (?) an unjust indictment while believing that this will prevent Trump fraud running a campaign or even better still stop ๐Ÿ›‘ him from running at all.They will pretend how unfair the so called liberals and the so called left elites. Oh it could be a win ๐Ÿ… win those Trump challengers could be thinking ๐Ÿค” to themselves, getting the votes from the Trumpers and the votes from the not Trump lovers. Oh they can be part of the victim society…. Poor Trump, the knives will be out to ๐Ÿ”ช him in the back…. Those who claim their his Allie’s, only to really want his fan base plus.

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Monday, March 27, 2023

Steve’s Barking; TikTok fake espionage

 Oh man here we go again some bozo or is it bozos actually think because TikTok that has partial Chinese state sponsorship, so there fore it’s going to steal US state secrets. Of course, these people don’t exactly know how they’re going to do that, they they say they do but they don’t. If we were really worried about stealing our state secrets from private companies, going to foreign and hostile states, we would not allow companies like Apple to manufacture, phones and other electronics in these foreign countries. Just think about it they could easily place teeny weenie, weenie, small microphones in our electronics. But of course, we really don’t worry about these things. The chances of actually spying on citizens of the United States defined out how mentally depraved we are he’s quite small. One of the main problems is that there will  be too much information. When you have too much information, it’s exceedingly difficult to digest the important stuff from the garbage.

There are things wrong with picking on one company, the chance of monopolist power of for other social media companies becomes greater. The signaling out of a Chinese company makes it easier for China to be more aggressive against the United States. We are making it easier for China to say that their losses in case of a aggressive action will not be that great.

There are others who say that Tik Tok is rotting the brains of our youths as if instagram isn’t. Oh that’s right if it’s free m Tik Tok it’s state sponsored and instagram  wouldn’t be state sponsored rot. 

Friday, March 24, 2023

Steve’s Barking; The U.S.has more criminals then any other country!

 The U.S. has more criminals then any other country. How do I Know? The incarceration rate according to statistics is far and way above any other country! So it must be true. Of cause one might say that the U.S. has a way better enforcement system than any other country! Of course, there are those who insist that the United States is overly aggressive in its enforcement of criminal activity! There are those who claim that America incarcerates too many people for minor in fractions!

* This is another example of the misuses of statistics.None of these statements are true or possibly all of them are true!

Friday, March 17, 2023

Steve’s Barking; The end of Russia?

 The population of Russia is decreasing! Hundreds of thousands of Russian men in their primary baby making years are dying or wounded so that they can’t produce children. Exceedingly bad sign for Russia. This isn’t like the end of World War II with the end a world wide population explosion.

Sunday, March 12, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Don’t throw the baby out with bath water!

 Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater! A lot of people well, some people anyway Are complaining that the response to Covid 19 sent to much money to people who don’t deserve it, and companies stole from the Covid 19. This is true, but the overwhelming majority of those who received money for Covid 19 it was put to good use.It saved many a company from going bankrupt. There are strong indications that it actually  brought a majority. Of poor people out of poverty for that short period of time. If is another crisis, such as another pandemic, we have to do the same thing spending a stupendous amount of money to keep the  economy of this country going. Though we can prosecute those who took the money and shouldn’t have, we should not scrap pandemic relief programs, even though it seems like a lot of money that was wasted.
 There are those who complain about super rich multibillionaires. Many of these multibillionaires are billionaires because of rise of prices in the stock market. Taxing those billionaires on paper gains that are not realize is actually attacks on the middle class pensioners, and those who have insurance policies.
 President Obama complained that 529 was a way for the rich to save on taxes. Well it is also a way for us lower middle income people to save for our children’s higher education. Personal experience.
 There are reports of Hundreds of billions of dollars being squandered by Medicare and Medicaid thieves of providers. Personal experience it sometimes difficult to get medical equipment that should be provided by Medicare providers. While those steal should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, I only pray that we don’t we have too much regulations as too make it difficult for those who need medical equipment to get it.
 * Just because there are many who game system, we should not throw the baby out with the bath water.

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Steve’s Barking; The Fed raising rates isn’t………

 The federal reserve raising rates isn’t…..
 Going to bring about one more egg
 Going to produce more grain
 Going to build one more house
 Going to have one more truck driver
 Going to unclog crowded ports
 Going to have one more ounce of oil
 Produce one more car
 Lower the price of land

* In our economic society if goods and services are diminished, you are going to have inflation. The feds raising rates isn’t gonna do a damn thing to stop inflation. What will the demand be there with less money? You betcha! In my opinion raising rates make a bad situation worse.
 

Saturday, March 4, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Pssss greed is good When it comes to fossil fuel

Now you might not understand this,  but for those who are worried about the co2 in the atmosphere, the rise of the price of oil is a good thing? If we the people find that the price of gas is too high, well us middle class peoples will drive less, if we drive less there will be less carbon pollution. Now how you might ask has that anything to do with the greed of oil companies making record profits? Oil companies price their gasoline against the price of oil and refining turning a profit. Well the government is telling us no we can’t lease lands to explore for oil. The companies are also looking at the use of gas that will be declining in the future, therefore there is no need to invest in search for oil and new refineries. Sooo, if you take a hard look at the record profits of oil companies it’s not as bad as those whining people would have you believe.Buy back and dividends, what else should here profits go?…..

Thursday, March 2, 2023

Steve’s Barking; It seems that politicians need the blame game

Those who progresses, blame the corporations, and those who they call conservatives for all the inflation, and all the evils in the United States. Those phony people who call themselves conservative blame the people they call socialist and liberals for all the problems in the United States, including the rise of crime and falling down a society. Even Russia is getting into their act of the blame game, blaming all the evils that have befallen the country and the setbacks in Ukraine on what they call Western and especially the United States for all its problem. They even called the United States and its western allies for starting the war in Ukraine. No one seems to take responsibility for themselves. After all, that’s not how you stay in power and that’s not how you get power. You must have some evil persons to blame and you’ll take care that those evils persons.

Wicked

The Nazis blamed the Jews, the southern states blamed the negro, the English blamed the Irish claiming that these people  were evil and inferior!

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Tesla and Elon Musk, The new corporate welfare cheats!

 Elon Musk the man who got 700 million from New York State, and didn’t deliver the goods. Now I doubt  Mr. Musk and his stellar company would still be in business if it wasn’t for US government and the buying of credits from companies that had to bring down its carbon footprint. Now Tesla is going to get $7.5 billion dollars to that others besides Tesla use it’s charging stations. Nice work if you can get it and tesla got it. Now I believe that it might’ve been better if the US government had built its own charging stations enough to charge electrical vehicles pretty much all over the country. It would then either sell them or charge the owners of electrical vehicles enough to pay for them, and help with the grid, you could even possibly have private enterprise either buy or help subsidize the building of these charging stations. It may even help with the producing electricity and the electrical grid. But what do I know it might be just easier to lose money and give it to a company that already has charging stations.

* Something I don’t know is where the charging stations are getting their electricity from.? 

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Steve’s Barking; The biggest threat to economic theories is human nature

 Why doesn’t communism work? From my point of view, communism can’t work because of human nature If one looks at places we’re one can’t be fired too many workers slack off creating the rotten apple effect, we’re co-workers say that person is getting the same pay as me yet I’m working ten times as hard, so I might as well do less. That’s only human nature.

 Why doesn’t socialism work? One can say that many people who feel that they work hard, and the government is taking their are hard earned money and giving it to people who don’t work as hard as them making a resentful worker. In the European socialist economy, there appears to be too many rules and regulations that make no sense, creating a resentful entrepreneur class. That’s only human nature.

 I  the capitalist Economic system too much emphasis is placed on the here and now. That’s one of the reasons that in a strictly capitalist sense, you have pollution and Worker dissatisfaction With the money they are paid from their  companies. That’s human nature. The shortsightedness can be very detrimental, but that doesn’t matter what matters is the profits here and now. The bigger, the profits, the better, the company appears to the capitalist class. That human nature.

Monday, February 20, 2023

Steve’s Barking; It’s time for a new chat service

 Ok ๐Ÿ‘ all you twitter and Facebook fans, it’s time to start looking ๐Ÿ‘€ for a new chat ๐Ÿ’ฌ and friends internet service. Twit and Facebook just admitted that there not going to keep it’s brand safe unless you all pay for it. I myself get at least once a month get a bogus friends request from someone I’m already a friend on Facebook. I’m sure that my Facebook, friends get bogus requests from me. Piss me right off. Now that Twit and Meta  has laid off A good ๐Ÿ˜Š portion of their staff perhaps ๐Ÿค” they should join together and start a competing company. Perhaps ๐Ÿค” I and also those angry ๐Ÿ˜ก uses of these services should look ๐Ÿ‘€ at Chinese companies as being more safe then these good ๐Ÿ‘ old U S companies and not as annoying. Now is the time for free market capitalism to show itself.


Steve’s Barking; Is being part of a Professional sports team a form of slavery

 WTF! How can these rich jocks be considered a slave? After all they are over paid people playing a game. Now let’s look at it this way a team holds the player to a contract, now the team he or she in most cases can have that contract traded to another team in no other business would this be permissible. I’d love to hear that Dell computer traded a system engineer to , Hewlett-Packard for a systems analysis to be named later. It just wouldn’t happen. Now I know that some players force trades which in real world business would not be allowed.  In fact in some businesses top talent can’t work for rivals for a period of time or they would be sued. Hmm maybe that’s a form of slavery of the well off kind of like professional team athletes only in a kind of reverse.

Now I know that no one is forcing the athlete to work at being an athlete and they can leave playing there particular sport any time they chose. Not like what we think of slavery before 1865 were a human is actually owned by another human. Yea I know that’s still going on in the world today. That of what my tongue and cheek is all about.

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Washington rule, leave your brain at the door ๐Ÿšช

 Not too long ago I visited Washington to see the seat ๐Ÿ’บ of my government and every were I went there were signs ๐Ÿชง to leave your brains ๐Ÿง  at the door. And I’ve noticed that our law makers, our chief executives and judges take these signs very serious.

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Sunday, February 5, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Whose afraid ๐Ÿ˜ฑ of the big bad ๐Ÿป bear when climate change is the thing

 Oh man Russia ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ is threatening the whole world at least the western countries! Oh those nuclear ☢️ bombs ๐Ÿ’ฃ! Now we all know or don’t know that climate change is going to kill us all and n less then ๐Ÿ’ฏ years! So the ๐Ÿ’ฃ and it’s nuclear ☢️ waste my not.be so scary ๐Ÿ˜ง.   Ow hold on I’ve just read that the earth ๐ŸŒ and its middle core had stopped, meaning (.?) immediate doom. Maybe ๐Ÿค” maybe ๐Ÿค” not. It depends. Oh of course, we’re going to have to worry about the reversal of the polls. Now I just read the reversals other polls is speeding up, and that means immediate doom!!! So with all these other worries that are on the verge of happening sooner than later(?) what me worry about what Russia ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ is going to do.

Friday, February 3, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Jobs report ADP vs US labor department

 ADP reported only 105,000 new jobs in January but the US department of labor reported over 500,000 new jobs, a discrepancy of over 400,000. As I stated before there something strange when they both get there statistic by calling employers. 

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Remember Arthur Anderson ?

 Mark Zuckerberg not too long ago said that Meta was not performing up to expectations.
 Elon Musk complained about high interest rates and had a cut prices on his Tesla vehicles so that they would sell.
 Meta had excellent returns beating Wall Street expectations.
 Tesla sold a record number of cars and had record profits.
 If the leaders of these two companies a month ago are complaining about the profits of there companies and not too long afterwards the profits are high, one has to think ๐Ÿค” that there is some sort of shenanigans going on. Are the books being cooked by the accounting firms( remember author Anderson) to lift the stock prices of these two firms or are the heads of these two firms in some sort of fog at what is going on are their firms?

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Did Russia learn it’s lesson from WWII

 The Question is did Russia learn it’s lesson from WWII? Germany, attack Russia and Russia was at it’s lower depths. The attack on Russia brought the Russian people together with determination that to Defeat, it’s enemy at any cost. The allies supplied Russia whom they felt was a Threat to themselves because of communism. Unfortunately, Russia didn’t learn these lessons and is behaving like Nazi Germany making the Ukrainians into the Russian patriots and the Russians, into the Nazis by the cruelty making it very easy for the outside world to help Ukrainians. No, the Russians didn’t learn the correct lessons from World War II.

Monday, January 23, 2023

Steve’s barking; the price of a big Mac ๐Ÿ”versus the US budget deficit ๐Ÿ’ธ

 Now being curious ๐Ÿง and not being o a cat ๐Ÿฑ I wanted to know how much difference the budget deficit is from 1972 compared to 2022 which is the period of 50 years. Now I discovered that the Big Mac was about 50 cents then and it’s $ 3.99 in 2022 ( learning this from the great truth teller Google(?). Now I also learned from this great truths teller that the budget deficit in 1972 was 23 billion as in dollars. Now the budget deficit for 2022 was $82 billion dollars. Now if you take the statistics of the cost of a big Mac compared to the budget deficit of those two years. The big Mac went up  800% in 50 years.Now if you take the budget deficit of the United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ it went up ⬆️ about 350% if my math ๐Ÿงฎ is correct. But hold on now in 1972 the government only owed $427 billion according to the great swami google and now it $31 trillion that’s trillion with a big T. Now again, if my math is correct and it might not be that 725 times today what the country owes today compared to 1972. Now-if you look at it that way the big Mac is a fantastic bargain and what the government owes is too my chicken ๐Ÿ“ little friends is scarier than any horror movie. Damn you statistics, you can never tell the truth.

Sunday, January 22, 2023

Steve’s BarkingThe biggest threat to (verbal ) free speech is verbal free speech

Go to a political event and there are protesters they drown out on speaker. It’s there right. But it’s also the right of the speaker to be heard if one drowns out the other one they’re taking the right of the speaker. This could be true non-political events were one person or a group of people take up the floor and don’t let anyone else speak they are taking the rights of everybody else who are at this event. Everyone has a right to speak, but time is precious and those who are drowning out or taking up to the time of the discussions are actually destroying others rights to free speech.

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Steve’s Barking; Washington is run by Cartoon characters!

 It seems to this writer ✍️ that Washington has turned into the funny pages of the newspaper ๐Ÿ—ž️. We don’t have real people running the country but cartoon characters. They can’t be real people. My congresswoman AOC is a caricature excess exaggeration of policies. Oh my goodness Marjorie Taylor, Green, Congresswomen Boebet seem t be made up by Al Capp ( of Little Abner fame) and Gary Trudeau couldn’t make up exaggerated characters like those too. Let’s not forget the buffoons in the Freedom caucus run by Scooby Doo and friends. Oh I’m not forgetting the Anti Federalist caucus ( I know they call call themselves federalist not anti federalist) run by Deputy Dog and friends. Let’s not forget the speaker of the house run by Dagwood Bumstead who boss Mr. Dithers ( better known as Donald Trump) keeps kicking him in the seat of his pants. Lease I forget the the Fred Flintstone Partied governing on yesteryear politics (that could be both parties). Least we forget Daffy Duck and friends caucus ( the progressive caucus). Casper and friends running the Supreme Court.Some time I think this country is run by commander in chief Beavis.