Friday - early
Leaving for the CT scan in 25 minutes. Gives me enough time to get there, get parked, get into the place, deal with whatever paperwork and still be before the appointment time. It's a 30 minute drive by Interstate, which is actually out of the way compared to Highway 80 - but that takes significantly longer. I pretty much feel another visit to IHOP coming after I get done with that scan. I've had one of those before, it doesn't take long and that's the only thing I need to do. Get the scan, leave. I've still got something going on "down there" and it's been over 3 weeks now. So yes, despite the fact it's going to cost $800, I want to find out what it is for my own peace of mind if nothing else.
Kamala has dropped a portion of her plan for "economic recovery" out. It's a Communist Manifesto plan as far as I'm concerned. I've been calling her a communist for a while, this so-called plan is nothing short of far left progressive nonsense. They blame corporations for price gouging by corporations so they want to put price controls on things like groceries.
Do you remember the gas lines in the early 70's? I faintly remember it, I was pretty young at the time. Price controls resulted in fuel rationing. Gas stations had X amount of fuel and when that was gone, many of them simply closed down for the day, leading people to become even more panicked over the availability of gasoline. I can only imagine this kind of nonsense going on at a truckstop and having trucks lined up on the road outside of the stations.
Can you imagine that happening with food? I hope the left media outlets start expounding on this s*** and actually tell the truth of what a plan like that will actually create instead of the normal, glossed over, fact-eliminated "reporting" that they always do. I'll tell you this: If Harris wins and this is the result? I'll be filling out the freezers with fresh meat regardless of cost. We went through empty grocery store shelves during Covid, our house had plenty of frozen meat. That didn't count for the toilet paper fiasc, where you had to drive around town to find even a few rolls of tp, that was the beginning of it and then pretty much everything disappeared off of grocery store shelves.
They looked like a Cuban version of a grocery store.
BTW, 87% of Americans still think the border situation is a problem. Guess who is the Border Czar that did absolutely nothing about the border and didn't even visit the border? It's become a greater problem in the public view now since all of these murders and rapes have been reported that were done at the hands of illegals. What I love is the left saying that she was never the "border czar" despite the fact checking that has occurred now that the left is attempting to gaslight everyone into believing their version of revisionist history.
Well whatever. I was watching the news and saw them drop this intended price gouging legislation that Kamala wants. If republicans keep control of the house, it will never happen. In my view, there are no guarantees about Congress or the WH and who is going to end up in control.
Meanwhile, the folks are leaving this morning, I believe, for their anniversary, the kids will be coming home to - not them being here, lol. They won't mind for I am not going to put up with the whining about dinner and what is being served, I will simply go to McDonald's, get them the chicken nuggets they love and that will be the end of that. They can play their games and basically do whatever makes them happy. Although we went on vacation recently, it was all of us and a large crowd of people. That wasn't alone time for them. They did spend an extra night down there after everyone left, but down time away from everyone is necessary, IMO, for a healthy relationship.
I wouldn't know for sure, I am twice divorced so there is no level of expertise coming from me. But I do remember the first marriage, getting away was always fun and relaxing. I have no plans of ever getting married again, I am not even interested in any kind of relationship, at least not at the moment. That can change of course, but marriage? Let's be in a relationship for several years and then we can talk about that. I have no prospects and those that I have had I have simply brushed off. Not interested. Politely conveyed, but still spoken in a way that makes it clear I am not looking for relationships and I don't want freinds with benefits. I am trying to follow after the Lord so that kind of eliminates sexual encounters outside of marriage.
If you are doing that, I am not judging you, this is solely my take of it on biblical structure.
Anyway, I need to leave.
G'day.
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The gas lines in the early 70s had nothing whatever to do with price controls. The US supported Israel during the Yom Kippur war and the arabs embargoed their fuel deliveries to this country. That shortage caused the long lines, odd/even sales dates, limits on the amount you could get and what I called "rich man short lines" which did exist for those willing and able to pay double the price of those waiting in line. (Source, co-pilot)
“We’ve seen this dance before,” writes historian Meg Jacobs, author of Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and The Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s, for CNN. “If you are of a certain age, you surely recall sitting in the back of your family’s station wagon (with no seatbelts of course) waiting hours on end in the 1970s to get a gallon of gas.”
Per the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, the first of the 1970s gas panics began in October 1973, when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) raised the price of crude oil by 70 percent. That move, together with an embargo on the U.S., was part of Arab countries’ response to the start of the Yom Kippur War (a weeks-long conflict that pitted Egypt and Syria against Israel), but it also reflected simmering tensions between OPEC and U.S. oil companies.
In the three months after the embargo began, History.com explains, local and national leaders called for people to reduce their energy consumption, even suggesting not hanging Christmas lights.
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Too many people filling up at once led to widespread panic. David Falconer / U.S. National Archives
The oil crisis affected everything from home heating to business costs that were passed on to consumers in a range of industries. But the impact was most obvious on the roads. As Greg Myre wrote for NPR in 2012, gas station lines wrapped around blocks. Some stations posted flags—green if they had gas, red if they didn’t and yellow if they were rationing. Some businesses limited how much each customer could buy. Others used odd-even rationing: If the last digit of a car’s license plate was odd, it could only fill up on odd-numbered days.
“The notion that Americans were going run out of gas was both new and completely terrifying,” Jacobs tells the Washington Post’s Reis Thebault. “It came on so suddenly.”
By February 1974, according to the Baltimore Sun’s Mike Klingaman, drivers in Maryland found themselves waiting in five-mile lines. Some stations illegally sold to regular customers only, while others let nurses and doctors jump the line. Fights broke out, and some station owners began carrying guns for self-protection. One man, John Wanken of Cockeysville, described spending a whole morning driving around the city looking for gas but only managing to buy $2 worth—just enough to replenish the half-tank he’d burned during the four hours of driving.
“It’s turning us into animals,” Wanken said. “It’s back to the cavemen.”
Per the U.S. State Department, apparent progress in negotiations between Israel and Syria convinced OPEC to lift the embargo in March 1974. But as Lucas Downey notes for Investopedia, the Iranian Revolution sparked a new oil shock five years later, in 1979. Gas lines, panic buying and rationing returned. According to Jacobs, residents of Levittown, Pennsylvania, rioted, throwing rocks and beer bottles at police and setting two cars on fire while chanting “More gas! More gas!”
“Americans’ fear turned a small interruption in supply into a major crisis,” explains Jacobs. “In truth, the major oil companies were able to shift around distribution in ways that should have minimized the impact in the 1970s. But panic took hold, and the rush to tank up compounded the situation.”
Also: "Prior to the oil embargo, oil and gasoline markets were already stressed. The MOIP reduced oil imports, and President Nixon instituted price controls for oil beginning in 1971 as part of a large program controlling prices. These actions led to oil shortages in 1971 and 1972 and long lines for gasoline in 1972."
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