Shopping today and the past week in Chicago my impression is people are shocked at prices.

Many seemed like they were dazed. In multiple stores lots of people with half-full carts slowly picked among and put back meats and other products doubled in price.

To make matters worse, lots of items are out of stock. Random empty shelves in different stores—not all out of the same products like when there was a bleach shortage for instance.

Normally stores are fully stocked to sell as much as possible with known higher first-of-the-month demand. Today they weren’t.

As I wrapped up my rounds I went to a local independent store for the Townhouse crackers I couldn’t find. They had the crackers along with a sign for 36 rolls of TP for $29.99 (!!!).

It all made me think about all those who reject voting because they don’t think it matters. Not sure what it’s going to take before they understand it does.

Posted by live love laugh | Wed Feb 2, 2022, 02:28 AM (32 replies)

All Biden has to do is get every Democrat to vote for Breyer's replacement.

That’s what ABC newz just said.

SineMan will block his best nominees.

Hang on to your hats.

Posted by live love laugh | Wed Jan 26, 2022, 01:35 PM (10 replies)

Carl Sagan's prediction of an America he never lived to see

Prediction starts at 2:24

What is alarming to me is how quickly, relatively speaking, the progress of the industrial revolution is unraveling.

It reminds me of this passage from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous though I am not an alcoholic (my dad was).

This world of ours has made more material progress in the last century than in all the millenniums which went before. Almost everyone knows the reason. Students of ancient history tell us that the intellect of men in those days was equal to the best of today. Yet in ancient times material progress was painfully slow. The spirit of modern scientific inquiry, research and invention was almost unknown. In the realm of the material, men's minds were fettered by superstition, tradition, and all sorts of fixed ideas. Some of the contemporaries of Columbus thought a round earth preposterous. Others came near putting Galileo to death for his astronomical heresies.

… Even in the present century [1900s], American newspapers were afraid to print an account of the Wright brothers' first successful flight at Kitty Hawk. …

Posted by live love laugh | Wed Jan 19, 2022, 08:15 AM (33 replies)

Did you order your free home Covid tests yet? I just did.

You can order free rapid COVID-19 test kits through the government at the following website www.covidtests.gov.

A total of four test kits can be ordered per household.

Feel free to share this information with your family members, relatives and friends.

www.covidtests.gov

Posted by live love laugh | Tue Jan 18, 2022, 02:53 PM (30 replies)

MLKs granddaughter calls out Manchin and Synema on voting rights

*If this is a dupe I’ll delete.

Posted by live love laugh | Mon Jan 17, 2022, 08:05 PM (1 replies)

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