Don't mind me, I'm just talking to myself

This quote is from the OnTech newsletter from the New York Times: That’s true. It is, however, hard to ignore that the fortunes of the country and its leading corporate citizens are currently going in opposite directions. Continue reading the main story We learned on Thursday that the United States  wiped out five years of economic growth in a matter of months , as my colleague Ben Casselman put it. During that period, Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook  mostly raked in money hand over fist . Mostly, this makes sense. During a pandemic, we have needed the products and services these companies provide. That does not, however, guarantee them financial success. Corporate citizenship is a fallacy. They aren’t citizens, they’re a legal fiction promulgated to shield the owners of the corporations from the misdeeds which should be borne by the shareholders. Then the courts have turned around and granted them legal protections that should only accrue to na...

Well, somebody finally stated the obvious, Congress and the rest of the Federal government condones  anti-competitive behavior of large corporations. Wired’s Steven Levy said: Still, even though most of the legislators prepared well for their five-minute interrogations, I found something deeply hypocritical about the spectacle. By and large, big tech companies push the boundaries of acceptable practice because that’s the way Congress allows business to operate. Consolidation of power and merging with competitors seems to be the American way. Why would you expect tech to be different from  airlines ,  media companies , and  concert ticketing ? well said. The large majority of huge corporations are trying their best to eliminate any kind of competition. They eliminate competition and then the American public has no choice but to either submit to their monopolistic behaviors including no practical customer services and outrageous price increases that are largely spe...

Personally, I was hoping the Orange Nazi went forward with plans for the Republican Convention in Jacksonville. What better way to spread Covid-19 among a group of people that deserve the absolute worst fate? The vermin that are the Republican faithful are the worst of the worst, I hesitate to call them human beings, because they’re all spawn of the Devil 👿. Hate and fear are their main motivation in life, and hell is their ultimate goal.

This is the review I posted on the FedEx site: I don’t know how you can advertise fedex overnight shipping when it takes up to two days for the package to arrive. Sounds like false advertising to me. Pickup time at the store was 3:00 pm. Considering that the service says ”Overnight”, maybe you should provide the service you advertise. I’ll be taking my business elsewhere. Always a bad experience when dealing with FedEx. Besides, at least 80% of deliveries are days late, you can’t even deliver on your advertising promises. They can’t seem to deliver on the premise that you only advertise a service when you can deliver on it. Charging for Overnight service when you only commit to 2 day delivery is misleading to downright lying. Good old American business, and you wonder why “Buy American” is a con job?

Paul Krugman posted an opinion at the New York Times today. In it he said: When Chris Wallace  asked  Donald Trump, “How will you regard your years as President of the United States?” Trump didn’t cite a single achievement. Instead, he went immediately into grievance mode, declaring that “I’ve been very unfairly treated, and I don’t say that as paranoid.” Actually, Mr. President, that  is  paranoid. But while Trump couldn’t cite any achievements, one thing he has achieved is defining paranoia down. Amen, Trump is a paranoid narcissist.

No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of governmental power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.   --   Edmund A. Opitz ,  The Freeman  [March 1965]