Micron says most of next year's supply is already committed, and market trackers see prices rising into 2027.
President Donald Trump touted Korean funding for a long-stalled pipeline project in Alaska. The Korean government said they haven't promised the money.
Please note that before Trump put RFK in charge of infectious disease in America, there were zero measles deaths most years. One of the deaths this year in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania was a 6-week-old infant, who was too young to be vaccinated and whose life depended upon herd immunity. Measles, one of the most easily spread diseases has an R-naught of 12 to 18. The U.S. has enjoyed elimination status for measles for more than two decades. In a November there will be a review of that status and most experts believe the U.S. will officially lose it. read more
Five weeks before Election Day, Democratic enthusiasm is reaching a fever pitch. With Republicans struggling to overcome President Donald Trump's low standing, Democrats are on the offensive in Republican strongholds like Texas and Florida, and even eyeing contests in deeper-red Kansas and Mississippi. Many Democratic leaders predict that the House majority is all but theirs, and that the Senate majority, almost unthinkable a year ago, is nearly in their grasp as well.
President Trump on Wednesday went after Fox News over hosting Democrats on its network, with the president saying "MAGA, and REAL Patriots will never like Fox!" read more
Found this ...
Pa. Democrats have had enough of Fetterman | Morning Scrapple poll (September 28, 2026)
www.pennlive.com
... If you thought Sen. John Fetterman's standing among fellow Pennsylvania Democrats couldn't get any worse, well, think again.
In the newest PennLive/Bravo Group Morning Scrapple poll, 77% of Democratic voters disapprove of Fetterman compared to 71% who felt that way in last month's survey.
Among all voters, Gov. Josh Shapiro still enjoys a comfortable lead over Republican challenger Stacy Garrity, the state treasurer, and President Donald Trump's approval rating continues to hover below 40%. ...
@#7 ... Is ol' stinkerbell complaining or bragging? ...
Good question.
Around here, it seems to be the GOP politicians who want to constantly reduce the funding for public schools and, instead, try to use public funds to finance their entry-limited private schools.
And, don't get me started on the dollars-per-student spent on public schools in wealthy towns vs the same stat in the less wealthy towns.
I mean, just go to Wilton, CT (a wealthy town here in CT) and look at their high school on US RT7. It looks more like a college campus than a high school.
Wilton, Connecticut
en.wikipedia.org
... The median income for a household in the town was $197,428, and the median income for a family was $217,415. Males had a median income of $190,000 versus $71,611 for females. ...
@#1
Well, that's not a problem for me because I don't buy memory chips.
Oh wait ...
Why Your Next Phone and Laptop Cost More in 2026: The AI Memory Crunch
techjournal.org
Rising Memory Costs Dampen Consumer PC Demand, UBS Says
finwires.com
etc., etc., ...
Then there are TVs that use memory chips, refrigerators, streaming devices, etc. ...
Trump Rally Schedule: Upcoming Events and Speeches (2026)
www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com
...
Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026
[CAMPAIGN RALLY] President Trump Holds Midterm Rally in Durant, Oklahoma
Where: Choctaw Event Center in Durant, OK
Friday, Oct. 2, 2026
[CAMPAIGN RALLY] President Trump Holds Midterm Rally in Mobile, Alabama
Where: The Mitchell Center in Mobile, AL
Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026
[CAMPAIGN RALLY] President Trump Holds Midterm Rally in Vandalia, Ohio
Where: Butler-Vandalia Student Activity Center in Vandalia, OH
...
Is this Korean investment going to turn out to be similar to the FoxConn "Eighth Wonder of the World" investment in Wisconsin?
What happened to Foxconn plant in Wisconsin? A look at the $1.2 billion spent and where it all went
www.nbcmiami.com
... It was supposed to be a giant manufacturing plant that would spur the growth of "Wis-con Valley." Instead, it's a mostly-abandoned stretch of four lane roads and barren fields.
In 2018, President Donald Trump came to southeast Wisconsin to proclaim the coming of "the eighth wonder of the world."
He was standing on a plot of land near Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin -- a mostly-rural village of 27,000 people nestled between Racine to the east, and Interstate 94 to the west.
That "eighth wonder" was a sprawling new manufacturing plant, to be built in Mount Pleasant by a giant Taiwanese tech company called Foxconn, which promised to hire more than 13,000 local people to build high-definition TV screens.
Local and state officials said it would be the beginning of a technological renaissance in the area, which they planned to call "Wis-con Valley."
It never happened.
But, over the past seven years, the toll it took on Mount Pleasant residents, the billions of dollars it sucked from state and local coffers and the virtually-barren land that's been left in its wake are a painful lesson on what can happen when public officials jump on an opportunity without really studying a company's history and listening to citizens, before committing more than $1 billion of those citizens' money on a project that didn't make a lot of sense in the first place. ...
@#9
2026 Credit Card Debt Statistics
www.lendingtree.com
... Americans have a record level of credit card debt " $1.263 trillion, to be exact. ...
Credit card debt rose steadily until the Great Recession, then declined from $866 billion in Q4 2008 to $660 billion in Q1 2013 before resuming its upward trajectory.
When the pandemic took hold in 2020, credit card balances plunged again -- from $927 billion in Q4 2019 to $770 billion in Q1 2021.
Balances then rebounded sharply, beginning with a significant increase in Q4 2021 and reaching new highs in subsequent years. ...
@#40 ... Cruel and unusual indeed. ...
Eighth Amendment Cruel and Unusual Punishment
www.britannica.com
... What is the purpose of the Eighth Amendment?
How does the Eighth Amendment address cruel and unusual punishment?
The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, leaving it to the courts to determine what is permissible, ensuring punishment is proportional to the crime. ...
@#30 ... "Where is this suppression I keep hearing about?" ...
Maybe also, things such as this ...
U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org
...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."[emphasis mine]
The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."
The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....
@#5
Hey, great to see your comment(s) again.
:)