TRUMP INDICTED AGAIN: Now What?

TRUMP INDICTED AGAIN: Now What? [OPINION, ANALYSIS, some even serious & TUNES]   NOTES Trump has been charged with 37 felonies relating to obstruction of justice and keeping classified documents.  Most folks who at least semi-regularly watch the news are probably not surprised that he was charged with something, however 37 felonies is probably a Read More …

FEDERAL DEFAULT: GOP Catastrophe?

[OPINION and ANALYSIS] According to “FRED” , the acronym for Federal Reserve Economic Data, the Federal Reserve Bank’s on-line data source, and keeper of important economic statistics, the amount of total federal debt as a percentage of GDP (gross domestic product) of the United States has actually decreased since the last year of Donald Trump’s Read More …

WHAT TO  BELIEVE? ONE IMPORTANT TOOL

[Analysis  and Opinion.] We’ve previously written about the ease with which pictures and videos can be “doctored”. .  See our post of October 27, 2021.  Now we have ChatGPT which can sound and write like a human.  To add to all of this their thieves, malcontents and even foreign actors of all descriptions writing, posting Read More …

TTnT’s VIEW: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

[ANALYSIS, OPINION and FUN]   [Unless otherwise noted, nothing on our site is or was written or knowingly influenced by any artificially intelligent software. It’s just we humans writing this stuff. Imagine, a few of us still do that!]   NOTES   Lest there be any doubt please know that we assume that most of Read More …

Chat GPT: Danger and Disruption

[OPINION, ANALYSIS and FUN.]   NOTES   Aside from perhaps the war in Ukraine and the classified document issues facing Trump, Biden and Pence etc., the biggest thing in the news is probably the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT which is now being made widely available to the general public.  ChatGPT is, of course, can do Read More …

BIDEN v TRUMP CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS

[ANALYSIS, OPINION & FUN]   NOTES:   The biggest news recently is the discovery of classified documents at President Biden’s residence and at one of his old offices.  Apparently the documents date back to the days of the Obama administration when Biden was Vice President.  Former President Trump jumped on this development to demand  an Read More …

TNnT: McCarthy Elected to Speaker

ANALYSIS, OPINION and FUN   NOTES As this is being written, Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy, after 14 unsuccessful attempts, finally hit the jackpot on his 15th try  and was elected Speaker of the House of  Representatives. Up to that point, about 15 to 20 recalcitrant and very conservative (if that’s the right word for them) Read More …

2022 WRAP UP TNnT

ANALYSIS, OPINION and FUN We hope everyone’s 2022 was prosperous and happy. In no particular order here’s how we size up 2022. This may surprise some but first we will mention ChatGPT. In what to us is the perhaps the scariest story we’ve heard in a long time, a college philosophy professor in the Carolinas Read More …

TNnT: Nuclear Consequences, Fusion, Martial Law in America

  [ANALYSIS, OPINION and FUN] Notes: CBS News has reported that .1.  The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday a monumental milestone in nuclear fusion research: a “net energy gain” was achieved for the first time in history by scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. In other words, total input to make Read More …

TRUMP’s CONSTITUTION SUSPENSION CALL

OPINION ANALYSIS and FUN:                         12/07/22   TOP NEWS STORIES   Several news sources have reported that Democrat Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican Herschel Walker for  a Senate seat in Georgia.  This means that Democrats will have a clear majority in the Senate and theoretically will not have to rely on tie breaking votes of Vice Read More …