Near all IPOs do this as the quick money takers bid up the stock for the rubes and once they spend their money on the higher stock price, the quick money takers sell, resulting in the stock going down. If you bought stock at the opening of the IPO it was pretty much a given once the hype was over you were going to lose money.

I simply just hit the Mute Button every time a commercial comes up,
and surf on my phone. Literally, the mute button is fast becoming
my favorite button on the remote..

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Which is exactly what I do. Commercials are irritating, stupid for the most part, and too many. When I go shopping, if a product has been advertised to me lately, I'll buy anything but that product. That's my get back for annoying me.

I've said it before but will say it again, both candidates are too dang old for re-election. Why only Biden is focused on for age but not Trump is beyond me. Seems every election we always have to pick between the lesser of two evils, not someone who would actually be great for the country and taking care of it.

If people got the pay and benefits of CEOs and board members they'd probably agree with needing a few more hours. However they don't and they are tired of putting in hours with little pay and benefits and even less appreciation for the work they do.

My commute was 200 miles. Since I worked a 7/7 schedule I didn't think it too bad. Most folk drive more than 200 miles locally a week.

They can have their shutdown. All they got to do is remove the speaker while these budget deals are coming up. Nothing gets done until a new speaker is elected.

The hypocrisy is just dripping with the so called Freedom Caucus. No problem whatever with budget restraints while they have the majority. They can spend, spend, spend, while at the same time reduce taxes on the rich. This idea of paying attention to spending is nothing but political theater until both parties get serious about it. As it is, the deficit is unlikely to ever be paid off.

On national news last night, it was mentioned that 1/4 of the voters don't want either of the present candidates. Whether they will change parties to vote, leave the presidential spaces blank, or just not vote and stay home, is anybodies guess at this point.

Trump has a lot of baggage he's carrying with him and it constantly spills over into the political. He's carrying a lot of financial problems, leaving him with little in the campaign war chest.

Both candidates are too old and its showing in memory lapses, speech, and physical. A large part of the electorate wants neither of them and are planning protest votes or setting this election out.

At this point, polls are useless.

When people look around at the economy, they see what hits their wallet/purse and how much is left for discretionary spending. Not the three or four months down the road where the latest economic figures finally show up at their level. What they see is everything costs more, sometimes considerably more, such as a vehicle, while their pay/wages have not increased to keep up.

Then they see the major corporations are seeming to do great at profit levels while the products they produce cost more or there is less for the same price. They realize they aren't getting any of that profit but instead are being gouged to support that profit.

It leaves average Joe thinking he's being lied to and he can't trust the media, the corporations, political parties, nor government, for the straight dope.

I would never, ever, rent a car from Hertz. Hertz has a record of claiming returned cars as being stolen due to poor record keeping.

Most people know when you see something falling from the sky, not to be where it lands. Failed cargo chutes happen. You have at least a few seconds to move out of the way but you have to be looking up and recognize the danger. May Wests and cigarette rolls are part of air drops with both personnel as well as cargo. They happen despite the best of care by chute packers. No one can account for loads bumping in the air, updrafts, nor tangled chutes during a drop. It is expected a reasonable amount of awareness taken by those on the ground.

Those border agents aren't just at the border. I see them about once every week or two, set up and waiting for the coyotes. Coyotes are the name given those smuggling in the illegals. I'm an hour or so travel time from the border. It is not uncommon for there to be high speed chases through our area, including through downtown, as well as back roads, and the interstates. Last week, they were working the interstate, where one was stopped and all the illegals bailed once the SUV came to a stop. A month or so ago, tire strips were put out within a block of downtown, to stop a running coyote.

Those border patrols are covering a lot more area than just at the border, by a large factor.

On the national news today it was said the choice Navalnaya faces is a private burial with no onlookers or they will bury Alexey at the prison graveyard.

In other words they don't want the world looking at the body nor an outside autopsy done, seems to be the underlying message. Along with the acknowledgement they've created a martyr and so want to keep everything hush hush. Either way, this stinks of murder and political influence.

If they are only lowering their draft age by 2 years, then those young people got a serious break. Yes, a draft is highly unpopular. I know by personal experience, having been drafted at the age of 19. It's a major life changer for the draftee. Everything you had going on or thought you did, suddenly means little as your life takes a major upheaval.

The nation's leaders have to make that decision, do they get more soldiers for this war or do they just let the rest die and give up? Is it important enough to fight for or is the alternative acceptable? Are they in favor of the nation or more in favor of their personal fortune as a law maker? In doing so, every family effected will be for the most part teed off.

Some of those soldiers will return home on leave, some will return home with parts missing and reliving the horrors of a war, some will come home in a box. That is after all the nature of war.

Trump would owe none of that had he followed the law. Instead he chose to break it, bend it, and cheat where he could. Now that he's been caught finally doing what he's done all his life and got away with, it don't sit so well.

He made his troubles the hard way, he earned them.

You know we are hearing from the government that everything is great, inflation is lowering, employment is up, the economy is coming back, etc. Yet all the majors seem to be laying off people. Something isn't right with the two different lines of thought. If it's doing fine, why the layoffs. Unless of course the majors are seeing a down turn in the future and are preparing for it now.

To me it's sort of unsettling that these majors are buckling down as it appears they are seeing hard times ahead and need to shed expenses in the line of wages to prepare.

Soon to be added to the list of business failures, Trump Tennis Shoes, being sold at $399.

It may be fun and games for a while but it won't take all that long before employers make a list of those no shows. At that point it won't be fun and games anymore. They'll be needing jobs when mom and pops basement doesn't work for them anymore and no one will bother with calling them for an interview when they bother to answer for being interested in one. Some aspiring individual will collect the names of all those who ghost and offer it as a service for sale to employers.

Which members of the GOP?

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The members of the GOP do not just exist at congressional level but also at state and local level. When SCOTUS turned it over to state level to have control of the laws over abortion, the red states went bananas with supporting the religious who were not in favor of abortion. While the GOP got most of the religious vote over that, it's not the majority of women voters. It starts at the local level and goes right on up through congressional level. It won't be just the congressional level GOP that will pay the price of supporting the ending of Roe vs Wade and the majority of women at teed over it.

With just a hair over 50% of the total US population being women, the GOP did itself no favors in banning or supporting the ban of abortion. They've managed to turn the majority of these voters against them and their policies. Add to it, they've beat the drum on migration to death for years and years, yet when it came time to actually go for what they demanded, they couldn't do it because Trump said don't. The issue of migration has steadily risen as to the amount of voters concerned about it. It has reached a point that it is even ahead of the concern over the economy and inflation. Another point where the GOP has lost ground with the voter.

That's a fair chunk of voters they've thrown out of their corner over policies they support. With a majority the GOP has near nothing they can point to, through out this election cycle of actually accomplishments in passing legislation, being one of the lowest in activity for actual passing of bills. It has instead been marred by drama and infighting that have left them with little in the line of getting things done.

The abortion issue is a strong one with women. It's not going to go away nor be swept under the rug. It threatens the health and well being of women and many of the laws that have been put into effect at state level are so vague that doctors are refusing to have anything to do with abortion until the laws are made clear.

You know, we have a pandemic of another nature. One no one talks about as being such. I'm talking about cancer. When you think about it, everyone knows someone.

In the pursuit of profit; our food, the air, the water and liquids we drink, the clothes we wear, the cloth we sleep on, how we get to work, all have been touched by cancer related materials. It seems that everything causing cancer is embedded in our life with no way to avoid it. Some we know of, the more obvious chemicals and substances have been banned from being used and yet the cancer pandemic continues on, telling us there's much that has either been ignored or hasn't been addressed.

I know it's of little reduction in the alarm over rising sea temps but there's one thing about hurricanes. When they come through, wherever they were on the ocean, that area has lowered surface sea temps where the hurricane fed off the warm water. This is one of the main reasons when you have hurricane season that usually the path of one hurricane does not overlay the path of another. Even with warmer water at depth, it usually takes a month or so for the temp to re-establish.

I've lived in the hurricane belt most of my life. Never wanted to be a coastal resident in part because of hurricanes, great place to visit at of time of your own choosing, not so great to be there when one comes through. Yet I find it alarming that we continue to allow those with money to build right down to the dunes on beaches. In part it's caused insurance rates to go through the roof if you live coastal and in some-places that are hurricane prone, you near can't get insurance anymore. In the process of building down to the water's edge, we've set ourselves up for yet more damage and tragedy.

Hurricanes are not going to go away. They and cyclones are a natural cycle of heat dissipation. It's been predicted that this change of surface temperature of the ocean will feed yet more extreme hurricanes. That the same alteration which the article touches on, will cause the deep Atlantic Current to cease to move heat north and cool water south. When it stops, the result in apparent temperature will make living in the northern latitudes all but impossible. Last time the Atlantic Current stopped, was when we had an ice age. Another ice age may well be in our future.

I once saw a Harrier Jump Jet coming in for a landing. We were taken up to Dahlonega, Ga. for adventure training to rappel off some cliffs along the Appalachian Trail, not too far from the small military base there. They had loaded us into a sort of portable building, lifted it with a CH54 Skyhook helicopter and taken us to a very small military airport. We were to walk from the landing pad, across the runway to the tower on the other side.

I'd never seen a Harrier Jump Jet before that. When we got near the runway, we had to wait as there was an aircraft approaching to land. As it got closer I recognized it to be a jet of some sort. I looked at the length of the runway and I thought I was going to see a jet in the trees. There was no way a jet coming in that fast was going to be able to land on a runway that short. You could imagine how my jaw dropped when this jet didn't even use 1/2 the runway. He was floating above the pavement at about 10 feet off the surface, did a 90 degree turn and headed for the maintenance building on the other side of the tower. You could have knocked me over with a feather.

When everything is said and done, at the rate things are going, Trump is going to be a much poorer man. He can forget his desire of being listed on the Fortune 400 list. He's finding things catching up to him like never before. Being in the White House put him under a microscope and he loves attention, just not that type.

He'll squall about how unfair he's been treated, about how it's all political, about how everyone has it in for him, develop pet names for those he sees as his personal enemies, and seek media attention to claim it's all a witch hunt to prevent him from being elected as POTUS once again.

It was telling that Judge Engoron made special note that during Trump's two times on the stand, under oath, he refused to answer questions and instead went on with his typical spiels. Why did it not ever occur to him that teeing off the judge, attacking his clerk, and being a general jackass, wasn't going to do him any favors? Most know those kinds of behaviors isn't going to endear you to the judge who will ultimately pass sentence. The judge had his get back at the end and it did not go well for Trump.

He's earned very bit of his sentence.