Another Morning In America

I was working on my blog this morning when suddenly I was presented with a sign on my computer screen that said, “Your server is undergoing maintenance for the next few minutes so do not touch your browser for a few minutes.” Well, folks, I have never ever seen that notice in all the 12 years that I have been computing, but apparently it was harmless because it is now gone and everything is working normally again.

Somebody told me yesterday that the U.S. Treasury Department has officially announced— although the main stream media seems to be ignoring it — that the United States is now insolvent …bankrupt… broke financially. I am beginning to wonder if all the massive spending the “Fiscal Conservatives” in Washington have been doing have had anything to do with it or if it is all Biden’s fault by one hook or the other? Also, I cannot help but wonder if it is true at all.

Then there are the horror stories coming out all over the media now about how atrocious the living conditions aboard the American aircraft carrier, Abraham Lincoln have been during her more than two hundred day deployment (without a single port call) ….The Secretary of Defense apparently is telling the media that there is no truth to the stories about short rations and living conditions (to include plumbing that doesn’t work). I had a thought even though I have no idea of whether my thought has any merit to it at all ….. My thought was this: “I wonder if, when that ship eventually docks, all the sailors will be required to sign some kind of oath of silence and be forbidden to talk about their experiences aboard ship during this particular development?

I was pleased to hear, this morning, that President Trump has declared that The United States is now very close to the end of the war with Iran and that he is considering proclaiming the Hormuz Strait a territory of The United States. I am thinking that declaring the Hormuz area a territory of the United States would solve a whole host of problems including the ever increasing prices at the grocery store and the gas pump. I feel grateful and privileged to know that we have a president who is on top of everything and who is smart enough to come up with the very ideas that are needed to keep us all safe and on course in world affairs. Oh by the way, did you hear anything about Texas Governor Abbot “Reviewing” a proposition in his state government that would forbid installation of Islamic foot washing stations in Texas airport facilities? I don’t understand the need for foot washing stations in airports. The last time I had to wash my feet at an airport, I used the toilet in the bathroom. Of course I am lying right now because I rarely ever wash my feet and that is probably the reason that I am treating all my toenails for fungus right now. LOL.

Trump ⁠urged Americans to accept slightly higher gasoline prices while the conflict with Iran continues.

He told a political rally in Garden City, New York, on Friday that paying “a tiny little bit more for your gasoline” ​is worth the cost of ensuring “a very evil country” could not have a nuclear weapon, one of the president’s stated rationales for the war.

You can read all about the quote I put above here if you want to:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-urges-americans-accept-higher-gas-prices-he-escalates-iran-rhetoric-2026-08-14/

Somehow I had begun to wonder what happened because as I recall, our president was going to bring all kinds of prices…at the pump and at the grocery store ..etc… down the first day or two in office ….maybe I remember that and maybe that is nothing but wet-dreaming on my part — besides, the president is only human…..possibly even a little bit super-human considering all the massively wonderful things he has already accomplished in his short time in office —- I am sure that a little higher price at the gas pump or a few more dollars for a loaf of bread at the grocery store is small enough price to pay to insure than an evil nation that apparently hates America does not get their hands on a functional nuclear weapon of some kind.

Sometimes it blows my mind when I hear people complaining about how high the prices of everything is becoming these days ….When I was a small child, more than 70 years ago now, my parents were trumpetiing the same complaint, “The poor man can’t make a living under these high prices.” But the fact is, we never went hungry, always had a roof over our heads and clothes on our bodies and we muddled through and made it alright and grew up and starting to trumpet the same complaints as our parents …”Things are getting so high anymore that a working man or woman can hardly make it.” This shit has been going on for as long as I can remember and even my Grandfather who lived and worked in the 1920s through to the 1940s remembered getting paid Fifty Cents for a day’s labor and still complaining because a cigar cost Five Cents.

I was entertained yesterday by finding an old menu from the Howard Johnson Restaurant chain of long long ago now….where you could get a complete dinner of Roast Prime Ribs of Beef, Pan Gravy, Potatoes and Green Beans for a total cost of $1.95 (One dollar and Ninety-Five cents.) — Today, a rather skimpy-looking New York Strip steak in the meat case at my local super market can cost as much as Thirty Dollars ….and you have to be very careful because many times the store has packaged the meat to show the fresh side to the customer while hiding any defects in the meat on the bottom, well out of view of the prospective purchaser. I am so sick and tired of going to the grocery store that guarantees freshness on everything they sell, buying a sack of onions, getting home to discover that half the onions at the bottom of the sack are half rotted. Or to buy a supposedly fresh pear from the fruit case that looks absolutely cosmetically perfect but when i cut it in half, the interior is solid black with rot of some kind rendering the pear inedible.

I could bitch all day long but writing a blog is work and I am sure there are not that many people interested in anything that I have to say. So I will cut it off for now and hope that something else interesting happens in the near future.