I know you are just sittin around thinking about the difference between a Billion and a Million....
I heard one of these the other day and was kinda surprised.... so here goes.....
If you earned $11,100 Dollars - that's Eleven Thousand One Hundred Dollars - every day (EVERY DAY) since the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th 1776 - you would still not have earned a Billion dollars !!
A Million Minutes is just shy of 2 years ,
A Billion Minutes is nearly 2 thousand years !!
The Average modern container ship can carry 25,000 Tons
So, a Millions tons would need 40 ships,,, a Billion tons ?? 40 Thousand Ships!!
A mile of freight train is about 200 cars.... A Million Miles of train is 5,000 cars,,,,
a Billion Miles of train is 5 Million cars.
OK - you get the Idea.... that a guy like Elon Musk - who is worth ~$150 Billion dollars means he earned about $30 Billion a year since he was born !! and if you was wondering - there are over 2,000 billionaires in the world today...
You will know you died and went to heaven of you ever hear this !!
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Rump is not just burning bridges to the presidency,, he is napalming them,,, Nuking them into oblivion !
That's exactly what Donald Trump is doing in the final weeks of his presidency -- as he savages longtime allies,pardonscriminals solely because of their loyalty to him and threatens to rob the country of much-needed Covid-19 relief money just because he can.
"This is rotten to the core," Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse said Wednesday night in the wake of Trump's latest round of pardons that included his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his political svengali Roger Stone.
That is, of course, true. But, what Trump is doing in his last days is also utterly predictable. This was always how this story was going to end. Anyone expressing shock and amazement simply hasn't been paying attention.
From the earliest days of his presidency, Trump made clear that he would use the office to which he had been elected to simply further the work of his lifetime: Rewarding himself (and his friends) while punishing his enemies. Trump didn't act differently in office -- as he said he would if and when he was elected -- because he didn't (and doesn't) see the presidency any differently than any other job he's done in his life; it was simply a higher-profile way to make himself more famous and more powerful while continuing to seek vengeance on the ever-growing list of people who have wronged him in some way, shape or form over the years.
He lacked any sense that being president was about more than him, that there was, in theory, the need to look out for the collective good of the country.
And why he spent his entire term clashing with his attorneys generals --- whether it was Jeff Sessions or Bill Barr -- over their unwillingness to use the Department of Justice as his own personal police force. And why he has used his presidential pardoning power less as a way of righting wrongs and more as a way of wronging rights -- granting clemency to people, like former Reps. Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter, who clearly and knowingly violated the law.
And why he is refusing to sign a bill that would not only provide $900 billion in Covid-19 stimulus money but also keep the federal government running because of his personal pique with Republican members of Congress who refuse to support his fever dream that he won the 2020 election.
What's perhaps most remarkable about all of this, well, rottenness, is how none of it is ever enough for Trump. No matter how much he gets, he always wants more. No matter how loyal his sycophants are, it's never loyal enough.
Take Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Kemp ran unapologetically as a Trump acolyte in 2018 -- winning the praises of the President in the process. Kemp took his governing cues from Trump too -- particularly on Covid-19 as he waited (and waited) to issue a stay-at-home order in the spring to placate the President.
Didn't matter. None of it. Because when Kemp refused to aid Trump's extra-legal (at best) efforts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the Peach State, Trump savaged him. Repeatedly. And urged a primary challenge against him in 2022.
"Governor Kemp (@BrianKempGA) is down 18 points in a recent poll," tweeted Trump earlier this month. "Don't believe it, must be more!"
Then there's the case of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose ardent support of the President's agenda led to Trump's single-most lasting accomplishment: The confirmation of three new Supreme Court justices as well as hundreds of federal judges in lower courts around the country. Trump loved McConnell right up until he didn't. The Kentucky Republican's offense? Acknowledging, after the Electoral College vote earlier this month.
He turns on everyone. No one can ever be loyal enough. No one can do everything he asks of them. Because what he asks, in many cases, is either illegal or a dereliction of duty.
That approach to life -- and politics -- inevitably ends the way this presidency is drawing to a close: Trump bunkered in -- either at the White House or Mar-a-Lago -- with the last remaining dead-enders who will indulge his increasingly wild fantasies about staying in office. And using the remaining powers of the presidency for purely personal satisfaction -- whether in rewarding those last few loyalists who have traded dignity for the proximity to power or punishing his one-time allies who, he believes, have double-crossed him.
It's a sad image: A president backed into a corner by his own selfishness and bitterness, isolated from all but a few -- and not even necessarily trusting them to, ultimately, have his back.
It's also a scary moment: Trump retains considerable powers as president and now has only his personal whims to steer how and whether he uses them.
Anyone who spent five minutes watching how Trump has lived his life -- in and out of the White House -- could, of course, have seen all of this coming. This is how it was always going to end for Trump -- and the country. Which makes it all the more damning that so many Republicans have supported him for so long.
I'm certainly struggling with the face that we will see none of our Children or Grandchildren on Christmas ,.. Yea Yea,,, People say that "you should be thankful for what you have" - yup ok good,,, and once I get past that ,,,, I am thinkin FUCK THAT !
You can tell me that,,,, Christmas - Perhaps - doesn't come from a Store,.. Christmas , perhaps, means a Little bit more.... Well I would say that I am spiritual - not Religious - So there's that.... I will say this,,, - My thought was that I was going to need to live another 4 years if the current POTUS - yea that shithead - was reelected,, cause I dd not want to die knowing that RUMP was the President... Now I have shorter term goal - 1) to live another year - so that we can celebrate with me family once again,.,, and 2) I need say 3 - 5 more years to get Everyone to Disney World ! I just feel that we need to do something so that all the Children and Grand children can see each other in person,,,
Only - and I say only because of the 100 + and 75 + calls to the unemployment people,,, Tuesday took me just 37 calls to get thru....
I talk to person number #1 ,,,,, we go over all of my information - What is your name ? Social Security, , Address, DOB, Mothers maiden name & it's spelling Ok - she puts me on hold. Comes back 3 minutes later, and says that yes ,, my claim is still on hold at the Identification Department and this could take an additional Week to 2 Weeks to resolve. - Keep claiming your Benefits every Sunday so that when the claim is resolved and you are due money they will release the payments back to December 1st .... but,, she will transfer me to a LEVEL II technician that can provide additional support.... OK, GREAT - Humm,,,, here is what happens....he comes on the Line ... What is your name ? Social Security, , Address, DOB, Mothers maiden name & it's spelling... Ok - I can see that your Claim hold at the Identification Department and this could take an additional Week to 2 to 3 weeks to resolve. They are running a bit behind with all the Claims..... Do you have any other questions for me today ?? Keep claiming your Benefits every Sunday so that when the claim is resolved and if you are due money they will release the payments back to December 1st...
So the LEVEL II guy added a WEEK to the overall wait time at the Identification Department !!! I guess I should be thankful that I did not need to go to the LEVEL III support !!
When we saw John at the Egg in Albany,,,, someone asked for this song very early in the set and he said
"Hey - there has never been set in the past Decade or so that this song was not in it " but it's too early for it...... and then he ended the Set with "Have a Little Faith in me" about an hour and 1/2 later...
That each has and are still in the process of getting advanced educational degrees in their chosen fields. I kinda barely made it out of High-school,,, managed to get some College credits later in life, but no degree beyond that HS diploma.
That each has chosen a good partner, I hope that their relationships last.
It's too easy these days to walk away and leave a family with no mom or dad and that sucks,,, that they have been together for even this long says something positive.
That in these times of World wide pandemic, Political uncertainty,, come on there are reported discussions of a POTUS pulling out all possibilities - including Martial Law to stay in power ,,, that they all have now or are in the Midst of starting families. By Spring I will have 6 Grandchildren! Raising Children in any Climate is VERY DIFFICULT ! But this has to be just insane - Remote Learning, No social programs, hell no nothing for most of 2020, and what I think will be most of 2021...... Moms and Dads that are spose to keep a house hold together, Teach the Kids, Make meals, Hold down a Job ! are you serious ! What Stress , What craziness !!
That all my kids have invested in Homes. They see the Value in owning a piece of property. That is is long term commitment, a Mortgage,, a Home improvement loan. A place that you OWN.
All have moved to other areas of the country , One closer , others to farther locations,,, but as hard as that is for me/us - as a parent you have to let them go,,, they have to live their lives, not your Idea of their life - and if that means relocation - to improve their families quality of life, then that is what you as a parent need to support . That is in contrast to me who now lives less than a mile from where I grew up. It does give me a possibility in my mind that I could do the same - and relocate elsewhere to improve my (retired) life.
I'm not sure what kind music fits this subject,,, I have even worried about that before >???? What Video fits the BLOG subject - I think not !!!
Here is Morning Song - by the Avett Brothers
and Johnny Cash and Sunday Morning coming down.
this is from John's TV show..... and the Network agreed to have him sing this - Kris Kristofferson- song if he did not use the Lyric "Stoned" when he sang it,,, but the story is that Kris was in the audience for the TV show, and Johnny said afterwards he could not change the Lyric and the meaning of the song , especially knowing that Kris was there !! Cash was so big in those days the Network could really do nothing about it......
