Scams, Swamps and Sinkholes

Our Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson recently stated, “All nations should take a strong public stance against North Korea by maintaining and strengthening U.N. sanctions to ensure North Korea will face consequences for its relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.” He also confirmed that it is now possible that North Korea can launch a missile that would put our mainland at risk.  Too bad previous leaders did not take North Korea as seriously before this! Since the 90's, our leadership has kicked the can down the road. Bill Clinton, G. W. Bush, and Barack Obama provided A LOT of taxpayer dollars to keep the North Korean regime happy, while they went along their merry way trying to achieve the capability to commit Armageddon. This has led to a situation where our very homeland is at risk today.  BUT who ORIGINALLY enabled the despots in North Korea to obtain nuclear technology? Most of the nuclear technology that rogue and unstabl

There is no doubt that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a very interesting politician. The problem is that she is also one of the premier examples of a bonafide "Swamp Creature" in what has become a sewer called Washington. After getting caught fixing the election for Hillary in the primaries at the expense of a much more popular Bernie Sanders -- Debbie fell from the powerful post of DNC Chairwoman.  While I am not a Bernie supporter, he was treated unfairly (and very dishonestly) by Wasserman Schultz and the DNC. This is the United States of America and we should be able to expect that certain standards are met in our electoral process. Wasserman Schultz is a Democrat -- and it never ceases to amaze me -- that she and her colleagues from this party keep calling for the impeachment of President Trump -- when there is no actual proof he ever did anything wrong. In fact, she recently went after Jared Kushner's security clearance , when there is also no actual proof

Update 03/05/2018: A more official study suggesting that my calculations regarding how much a Lyft driver actually makes were correct: http://start.att.net/news/read/article/fortune-heres_how_much_uber_and_lyft_drivers_make_per_hour-rtime/category/finance Sad that the people at Lyft and Uber are able to get away with this.The rates they advertise to attract drivers are at the very least "flawed if not outright dishonest!" With all the bad publicity Uber has received recently, Lyft  is trying to position themselves with the public as a better option and a good citizen in the techie community. They claim all over the internet that a driver can make up to $35 an hour/$1500 a week, which sounds great, but is it too good to be true? I decided to find out! To begin my adventure, I signed up and ultimately chose to use their new "Express Drive program." where a rental car is provided for a fee. To calculate what the costs would be if I used my own vehicle, I