Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Steve’s Barking; Patel in locker room of American Hockey team, much ado about nothing

 

 There are too many critics of FBI director Patel being in the locker room of American hockey after the gold medal win over Canada. This blogger says so what. Is it kind of jealousy? Is it what ever a person from this administration does is wrong? Would ninety percent of those critics do the same thing if they had the chance? The team let him in the locker room as far as I can tell. To this blogger there is nothing wrong with that. 

 Stop ragging on zero sense.

Steve’s Barking; Last night 2/24/26 I saw a fantasy

 


Last night 2/24/26 I saw a fantasy on the television. On Netflix they had Conan the destroyer.
What do you think I meant, the president’s state of the union?

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Steve’s Barking; How do I know …inflation and recession

 How do I know if this inflation. I know if there’s inflation I’m going to the grocery store and if the prices have gone up, I kind of suspect that this inflation. If I want to buy a car that three years ago cost $30,000 and the new model this year cost $50,000. I kind of know that there’s an inflation.

How do I know if there’s a recession. I know there’s a recession if several of my neighbors have been laid off. I know there’s a recession if some of my neighbors children who just got out of high school and college are having a hard time finding jobs.

I don’t count on government statistics because a lot of of them are screwed to what the politicians and the bureaucrats want.

Monday, February 23, 2026

Steve’s Barking; 3 Weeks military training?

  

I keep reading that the soldiers in the Russian Army have only 3 weeks of military training. If that is true a reasonable person can understand why Russia is doing so badly in their war with Ukraine. Take it from a soldier in the sixties 8 weeks basic training and 8 to 10 weeks individual training. Can do me reasonably compare Russian soldiers to American soldiers.

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Steve’s Barking; Mom said, put your money in the bank

 

Mom said, put your money in the bank and don’t invest it because you might lose it and the bank gives you interest and is insured.
 Mom came through the depression and that was the thinking of many a person who lived through the depression.
 One of my uncles on the other hand said invest, it gives you better returns. Look at the balance sheet, it should tell you if it’s going to go out of business. Also most of the stocks I ( meaning himself) invest in pay dividends that are greater then the interest you will get from the savings account from the bank.
 Being a good son I took and are to the present day  is taking my mom’s advice, because of this I’m sure I missed out on many a great opportunity ( in the present day) too make oodles and oodles of money..
 I may also have lost out to loose my shirt if the other investors decided to pull out.



Saturday, February 21, 2026

Steve’s Barking; Nothing blog



I recently sent a blog that had zero on it. This only goes to prove that this blogger is just like the recent  presidents of the United States I’m senile.

 The real reason this blog had nothing on it was I was trying to take a  picture of a children’s book that with the help of my family I wrote, If We had no letters.

 I am truly sorry to the two people who saw this nothing blog. Yes I better be careful that I don’t publish nothing ever again, even though some one who reads my blog maybe believe everything I write is about nothing.

Friday, February 20, 2026

 

Steve’s Barking; Can AI save itself?

 


Wtf can AI save itself?
Why would anybody say such a stupid thing?
Well AI needs plenty of water and the Hubs are running out of water.
 AI also needs electricity and at least in the United States electricity were the hubs are electricity is becoming scarce.
So this not to bright blogger is wondering can the smartest man made invention think of a way of saving itself and mankind living near those hubs.

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Steve’s Barking; Texas , no water anywhere

 I understand many a person are or are considering to move to Texas because it’s a cheap place to live because of a low tax rate. Now I also understand there is a major drought in Texas. I also understand that Texas is encouraging AI data center to come on down even though these AI data centers need a Stupendous amount of water. 💧 

There are two things that bewilder me. (1) Were in Texas are these AI centers going to get all the water that it’s going to need. (2) Are the people whom go to Texas because of Taxes willing to dehydrate for the lack of water 💧🤔 to not pay high taxes?

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 Are those companies making a mistake to relocating factories to Texas with the lack of water and a collapsing electrical grid.

Monday, February 16, 2026

Steve’s Barking; To sum, cut back in income is the same as inflation

 


 Most of us don’t think of it, especially those who just look at the price of goods and service, but to many of us the cutting of income, weather it’s from the pay, your pension, Social Security, or even mentally the loss of value of investments ( mentally) your ability to purchase and or save is reduced. This is the same as  if the price of goods  and services rises, this to the consumer is the same as inflation.

 The reason I’m writing this is because us retires in the not to distant future will be hurt by the reduction in the moneys we get from Social Security and this will be the same as the cost of goods and services rise.


Steve’s Barking; AI …..Predator or dud?

 


I keep hearing that AI ( artificial intelligence)  in robots and computers can out think humans and actually do things only animals can do and that is reasoning and thinking. These things ( I don’t know what else to call them ) can out think us humans and if we’re not careful they will take over the world, kind of like the movie predator ( The Arnold Schwarzenegger movie) and we humans will become obsolete.

 Now I understand that there is a minority train of thought that AI can only go so far and then it will soon reach it capacity that it will just be able to calculate faster us humans and help us manipulate are thinking by movies and photos. That in the next couple of years this will hit a stone wall.

 Now this blogger is bright enough to figure what is next and I’m one of those who use AI only to look up facts that may or may not be manipulated by humans and or machines.

Friday, February 13, 2026

Steve Barking Do ya really trust US government statistics?

 


Do you really trust statistics by a group of people who would lose their jobs if they gave lousy figures.??
There are an awful lot of fools out there who believe what ever the government says, even though those giving  the reports would lose their jobs if it shows too much negative numbers.
 The current U.S. labor statistics seems to this old fool like the numbers that came out of the old Soviet Union,



Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Steve’s barking; Don’t care about Super Bowl Half time show

 

This idiot couldn’t care less about the Super Bowl halftime show. I turn in to watch a football game and the damn halftime show is way way too long, no matter who the entertainer is. 

 If I wanted to see a musical performance I’ll go to U Tube music. The half time show takes away from the game. The half time show twice or more then normal halftime and it seems to me it interferes with the mindset of some of the teams.

Monday, February 9, 2026

Steve’s Barking; Is Donald Trump a Republican Socialist?

 Wtf, Donald Trump a Republican Socialist. First of all how can one be a Republican and a Socialist at the same time. Well Mr. Trump says put a cap on credit card interest rates, that’s kind of like what a Democratic Socialist would say. Donald says that drug companies charge too much so let’s pressure the drug companies to drop the price of drugs, now isn’t that what a democratic socialist would say? 

 Hold on, is this blogger saying that the president of America is a socialist and not really a Republican or is the President of the United States trying to turn the Republican Party, which I’m told he represents from a Conservative Party to a populist party.

 Nah this bloggers is just making fun of ( not very good I might add)  what we call socialist, populist and sometimes conservative is crazy.

 Good thing this blogger doesn’t have too many followers, because what he just wrote is kind of hard to understand.

Saturday, February 7, 2026

Steve’s Barking; Is it Commuism - Socialism that retards growth or something else


 Ah… I keep reading and hearing on the idiot box that Communist and Socialism makes a country poorer. They tend to talk ( write) about the Soviet Union and Cuba and for some reason they don’t talk about The People’s Republic of China. They also don’t seem to remember Haiti under Papa Doc and a very robust economy of Argentina before Juan Perrone  and the collapse of  Argentina’s economy. The 10 top countries with the highest GDP, most of them Germany, Italy United Kingdom,  Canada ext, with non socialist counties US of A and India (?) Japan (?)industrial power houses in the top 10 ten. ( I’m really not sure we’re to place Australia). 

 In the fog of my writing, I’m saying that you can be a country with communist/ socialist tendencies and be an economic powerhouse while you can be a strong capitalist country and be an economic dud,

 “I” believe that the most effective countries economically are countries that have mixed socialist capitalist  tendencies.

Friday, February 6, 2026

Steve’s Barking; Were is the money coming from???

 Oh this dumb blogger has a problem, he just doesn’t understand were the  money is coming from to finance “AI” computing. I keep hearing that companies like Amazon, Meta and Google are going to spend 2 Trillion dollars in the next year. Now I keep hearing that most of this money is going to be borrowed. Ok where the heck are they supposed to borrow this money from. Now as I do recall from one of my economics classes that would create higher interest rates. Hmm would this hurt the debt of governments, making it more expensive to borrow? While I’m at it, would this raise the cost of borrowing for housing? Now my feeble brain seems to think that the money in circulation is shrinking because of layoffs and consumer spending is slowing. 

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I keep hearing of national debt and how will these countries pay off there debt, yet some of these same people don’t worry about company debt. 🤔

Thursday, February 5, 2026

Steve’s Barking; Question of the day is a person who has $100,000 in liquid assets richer then a multi billionaire?

 Sounds like an idiotic question, how can a person who only 100,000 dollars in a checking account be richer then some one who is supposed to be worth billions of dollars. Well if the person who has $100,000 and has no debt except living expenses and has income that more then covers his living expenses then his net worth is over $100,000. 
 A so called billionaire who has his money tied up stocks and Real estate and his income which may be huge doesn’t cover expenses, so he borrows against his holdings really richer then the person who has liquid $100,000.
 Don’t forget gross value of stocks and real estate fluctuates and some even collapse.
 What happens to the person if he can’t borrow against his holdings? Is he bankrupt?
 If the holdings go down greater then his debt, is his net worth negative, especially compared to the person who has $100,000 liquid.

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 If the person who has $100,000 liquid in the bank and the bank loans money to billionaires is the person with money in the bank third party holder of the billionaire’s debt?

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Steve’s Barking; If you have money in the American market and it goes up can you still lose money


 If you have money in the American stock market and it goes up, can you still lose money? Sounds like a stupid question, if the stock you own goes up of cause you’re wealthier, unless the dollar does down against other currencies. Is it possible that that lets say the Euro goes  way up against the dollar in reality you wealth is going down. Is it possible that if inflation is greater then the growth of your stock, then therefore the value of your stocks even though it went up in dollar terms is actually losing value?