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vxbush
4/7/2025 5:46:36 AM
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Apparently people are upset that Russia didn't get any tariffs, despite the fact that we are negotiating to end a war. I get the feeling that such people have never had to negotiate for anything. Am I wrong?
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JCM
4/7/2025 7:14:23 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 1: Exactly. Putin is prickly as all get out, and wouldn't react well. Also prioritize. I think a war with people dying is slightly more important. The whole tariff news cycle is just nuts. No one mention that all those countries.... tariff our goods they import. The media acts as if tariffs are not a thing until Trump showed up.
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JCM
4/7/2025 7:30:18 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 5: I can remember the end of US passenger service. I was about 5 and mom and I took the Union Pacific train from Chicago to Boise to visit grandma. The stewards walking down the little 3 note xylophone hitting the notes and announcing dinner service. UP passenger service ended soon after that.
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vxbush
4/7/2025 8:15:31 AM
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In #7 JCM said: I can remember the end of US passenger service. I was about 5 and mom and I took the Union Pacific train from Chicago to Boise to visit grandma. The stewards walking down the little 3 note xylophone hitting the notes and announcing dinner service. UP passenger service ended soon after that. When was this? 1972 or something?
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JCM
4/7/2025 9:10:04 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 4: I'm glad my are out of school we got so disgusted we pulled them out and did online / home school.
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JCM
4/7/2025 1:20:11 PM
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Reply to vxbush in 2: House plows ahead on Trump agenda after Johnson strikes deal with GOP rebels who paralyzed House "Speaker Johnson and I have reached an agreement to bring back a procedure called live/dead pairing, which dates back to the 1800s. It will be open for the entire conference to use when unable to vote (e.g., new parents, bereaved, emergencies, etc.)," Luna wrote on X Sunday evening. The compromise they agreed to invokes an old congressional custom that essentially cancels out an absent new mother's vote by "pairing" it with a vote by someone on the other side of the issue. Neither vote would count, but their stances on the issue would be noted in the Congressional Record.
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vxbush
4/7/2025 1:47:38 PM
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In #10 JCM said: I'm glad my are out of school we got so disgusted we pulled them out and did online / home school. We did the same after seeing how my daughter's teacher was teaching way below the ability of the students in the class.
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vxbush
4/7/2025 1:49:39 PM
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In #11 JCM said: House plows ahead on Trump agenda after Johnson strikes deal with GOP rebels who paralyzed House I don't know what to think of the angst over this issue. Rarely have I seen the Republicans go to the lengths that they have for this issue. Nothing for their constituents, but by God, new parents will be taken care of. (I don't disagree with that policy, but the persona of being in the house to protect the people and then seemingly just worrying about self doesn't look very good.)
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JCM
4/7/2025 2:21:05 PM
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Reply to vxbush in 13: I didn't follow up but I remember the vote pairing. A representative talked about in an interview I heard a long time ago. The context then was if a Rep was in their district campaigning or other duties, they would match with an opposing vote and both would abstain, or get marked absent. IIRC at the time there was a controversy over "absent" votes. The practice must have fallen into disuse... or a certain party decided to abuse the collegial practice.
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buzzsawmonkey
4/7/2025 4:43:21 PM
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In #6 JCM said: The media acts as if tariffs are not a thing until Trump showed up.
There's a fellow I know---a fellow-congregant---who apparently "writes about financial matters." This is, it seems, his job. He asked me the other day "why Nixon took us off the gold standard." I explained to him that it was FDR who took us off the gold standard, and introduced "silver certificates," which were the currency until Lyndon Johnson took us off the silver standard in 1964, when we stopped using "silver certificates" and abandoned silver currency for the current base-metal "clad coins." I also pointed out that the movie musical "Golddiggers of 1933" opens with a well-known song, "We're in the Money," celebrating the switch from the gold to the silver standard. Of course, Ginger Rogers sings the song over again in "pig Latin," the backwards lyrics meaning that it is, of course, all BS, and in the middle of the number's rehearsal the sheriff's men arrive to seize the scenery and costumes because the bills are unpaid, closing the show. You'd think someone who "writes on financial matters" would know stuff like this.
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