Definition of Opinion:  A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof.

Please be respectful to others with differing opinions. 

Mary Powers (Evans)

Jim, thanks for the offer of forwarding to me the repair scenario, but I'm not very tech-y either, and would probably break something else on the way to fixing the problem.  I'll wait it out.  

Jim Coats

Mary......

You are velcome!

Bwahahahaha!!!

It is Halloween, uno.

Bwahahahaha!!!

Frank Wiley

I'm not techy either but maybe if you take a tablet of Viagra and rub it on your phone it will enlarge the type?

Lester Cox

Frank, that's a great idea. But I think you only get a maximum of 4 hours to read everything before the phone either erases it all or explodes. 

Lester Cox

Jim Coats

Frank and Lester.  I think you're both nuts!  Maybe that's why I feel such a kinship with you knotheads.

BTW, Frank's idea and Lester's meme were pretty good!!

Frank Wiley

Hi Bill Randall and Mike Wetzel, We missed you at the Beer Summit.  Is everything OK?  Thanks!

Jim Coats

I've decided to start working out again.  I exercise every morning starting with coughing in place followed by 10 minutes of CPR.

Went to the doctor.  Thought I had arthritis.  I don't.  I have early onset rigor mortis.

Frank Wiley

Hey Patty, The pic on the Home Page has a picture with snow in it.  Do you and Buzz have some up there?  If so, send some down here please!!

Bill RIHS

Jim, your humor cracks me up😂. Keep it coming!👍

Lester Cox

The contrast between Bush Jr., Obama, Biden, and Donald Trump is absolutely staggering. It exposes the difference between weak politicians who play games and a leader who actually takes decisive action. That’s why so many people can’t handle Trump — he breaks the political mold, refuses to play by their corrupt rules, and acts in the best interest of the country, not the political elite.

What infuriates me is how Republicans fail to drive home what Democrats are trying to pull. The Dems want to tack on another $1.4 TRILLION just to “keep the government open.” Do people even grasp what that means anymore? We’ve gone from being shocked at a million-dollar expense, to yawning at billions, to being numb to trillions — like it’s Monopoly money.

Let me spell it out: that extra $1.4 trillion equals more than $44,000 every single second — every minute, every hour, every day — for a full year. That’s your tax money being burned at a rate that defies comprehension. And if they just “print” the money to cover it, inflation explodes — so we still owe it, and we pay for it again with higher prices on gas, food, housing, and everything else we touch.

Democrats have successfully dumbed down America to the point where many people can’t even picture what a trillion dollars is. Republicans need to hit back with language that even a third grader understands. If you make $22 an hour — around $45,000 a year — that $1.4 trillion spending spree equals about $160 million every HOUR, nonstop, for 365 days straight. Even the average calculator cannot do these calculations. 

It’s insanity. It’s theft disguised as governance. And the worst part? They’re doing it with your money — the money of every hardworking American. These out-of-control politicians are spending like drunken sailors with a stolen credit card, and they expect you to pick up the tab.

At some point, someone needs to stand up and say enough is enough — because if not now, then when? What say YOU?

Patty Meyers (Anderson)

Frank, we don't have snow in the valley, it's been too warm but the ski areas are getting some.

Jim Coats

Lester.

100% AGREE!  In addition to your math problem (you're right....I don't think my old HP12C could handle that problem), I wish The Speaker and EVERY OTHER Republican politician would state, in front of any microphone, that the Democrats are using the government SHUT DOWN as leverage to get their $1.5trillion without debate or compromise.  

Voters cannot conceive of numbers like that.  They simply want to live safe and prosper to the extent possible.  The Democrats are clearly stating that the government does NOT work the way the Founders intended.....Respectful debate and reasonable compromise.  After all, Congress is supposed to represent We The People....and I thought that meant ALL of us.

Frankly Lester, I'm glad I'm not going to be around to see the end of this vicious battle for bragging rights and protection of the "feathered nest" that is government employment.

AMERICA FIRST!!  GOD HELP US!!

Lester Cox

Jim, 

You are right, my HP12C won't do those calculations either. Or I don't know how to do it with that little tool I probably have used for 40 years. But the math is fun to play with. If we lay $1.4 trillion in hundred dollar bills, end to end, they would circle the earth more than 50 times. I just don't think most people, especially a lot of dem voters grasp how much money they are talking about with no debate, no compromise. Hey by the way, if you need a hand in putting up your Christmas lights outside, let me know and I'll try to make that happen. My exterior lights now are minimal and goes pretty fast and no ladders involved. 

Lester Cox

Frank Wiley

Trillions in debt and we don't even know where it goes for sure.  The Democrats get bills passed for new money (I.E. the 1.2 trillion Infrastructure Bill) but pulled Billions out housing and feeding illegals, not to mention healthcare.  While the Democrats are more guilty, the Republicans aren't without guilt,  Both parties stole money from the Medicare Trust and the Social Security Trust.  I say stolen because they were claiming it was a loan but none of it has been paid back.  

Frank Wiley

I'm watching election coverage and no one has mentioned the effects of D.O.G.E. in Northern Virginia.  I'm betting almost everyone knows someone who was affected.  Just to clarify, I am 100% in favor of DOGE!!  It's a move to get our ridiculous spending under control.

Michael Kelly

Frank W. and et. al.  Yes, the Democrats are masters at word games. Social Security Benefits, are supposedly from a Trust that is paid into from your wages while you are an hourly emoployee, and held in Trust until age 62, when you can begin collecting your Trust Benefits. Lyndon Banes Johnson, changed this when he got a democratic majority to pass a law that allows the Federal Gubermint to "Borrow from our Social Security Trust ": but you know how prompt they are whoever they are in paying back our Trust moneys. So to fit this fundamental change in our Rights over our Earnings, they now call the payments "Entitlements" which goes with the language that says that Entitlements can be terminated for the time being. 20 million plus Illegals is the "Terminated for the time being" so that our payments can be partially divested to pay into Welfare of various and sundry uses. Nauseating is what it should be Termed. So, the current battle over a Budget and who will be paid, is over whether the Damned Democrats will once again be able to hijack the eitirety of the Economy for the benefit of some of  their Pay for Votes Program to the tune of 1.6 Trillion Dollars that Trump shit canned with the Big Beautiful Bill earlier this year. 

I saw on the News that Mandani won the Mayoral Race for New Your City. The Molsems must be snorting in the Hijabs over blowing up the Twin Towers in 2001, and having one of their own becoming Mayor of the same Target 24 years later. I cannot beleive New Yorkers are that Stupid.  I remember back then a law enforcement friend of mine, said that since the Moslems had taken down the Towers, they would do their afternoon Prayers by the thousands in the Street where the Towers had been brought down, and no one would tell them No, your Blocking Traffic. The election of the Moslem Mayor is another step in dominating a Target of what they believe their Jihad should be. Next, the United States. They would much rather Enslave us, than Nuke the Great Satan into Ruin. Having a bunch of Infidel Slaves running around doing their bidding, is easier than fighting to take what we have by battling in the Streets. My Opinion of course.

Frank Wiley

Interesting that "The Party of Peace" elected a Democrat Virginia Attorney General who called for the murder of a Republican opponent with two bullets to his head, and doubled down by even more outrageously calling for the murder of his children while in their Mothers arms.  The people who voted for him are sick slimeballs!!

Lester Cox

Well, at least as a group, we have this going for US. Not so much for children, grand children. I still go back to Paul Harvey's "If I were the Devil" radio broadcast and my sheep meme. 

Here’s a clear, U.S.-based breakdown at age 78 using the latest SSA 2022 period life table (the one used in the 2025 Trustees Report):

1-year mortality (age 78 → 79)

Men: ~4.98% (about 5 out of 100).  

Women: ~3.59% (about 4 out of 100).  

5-year mortality (age 78 → 83)

Men: ~27.1% (≈ 27 of 100 would be expected to die over 5 years). Computed from life-table survivors l_x: 53,125 at 78 down to 38,722 at 83 → survival ≈72.9%, mortality ≈27.1%.  

Women: ~20.4% (≈ 20 of 100). From 67,086 at 78 to 53,371 at 83 → survival ≈79.6%, mortality ≈20.4%.  

10-year mortality (age 78 → 88)

Men: ~57.4% (≈ 57 of 100). From 53,125 at 78 to 22,621 at 88 → survival ≈42.6%, mortality ≈57.4%.  

Women: ~47.0% (≈ 47 of 100). From 67,086 at 78 to 35,566 at 88 → survival ≈53.0%, mortality ≈47.0%.  

Remaining life expectancy at 78

Men: ~9.18 years

Women: ~10.71 years.  

Frank Wiley

I just heard that within the last 12 months Jeff Bezos moved from the State of Washington to Palm Beach Florida which saves him a BILLION dollars a year in taxes.  Voting with his feet.  I predict High Net Worth individuals will be leaving New York City in the near future.  

Jim Coats

Go to You Tube and look up Paul Harvey - Donald Trump 1987.  38 years ago.

It's very short, but the Trump Doctrine that we know today was clearly laid out by Mr. Harvey.  Trump had it right then and he has it right today. 

If that wasn't enough....You Tube by Mr. Harvey:  "And God Made Trump."

And that, my friends, is The Rest Of The Story.

Frank Wiley

Good one Jim!  Did you see one of Mamdani's friends at his celebration party last night who said, "It's too bad the United States defeated the Soviet Union!"  Bat Shit Crazy!!

Michael Kelly

DeWitt Bacon

Most of Tuesday's election results do not come as a surprise to me. I was hoping for better, but the results show just how far down and wicked some states are going. I know that many people may leave, but a large number of good people will stay because they 'Love New York'. The old   "INY" meme doesn't work anymore. I hope President Trump will withhold federal funds from New York City. Let's see how they thrive under Socialism without outside help.