Dumb Money

 Well, it's Friday.  The weather's supposed to be overcast and gloomy.  Humidity is supposed to increase during the day leading to possible thunderstorms, and then... temps drop.  Originally the forecast had them falling into the mid 50s (F), but that forecast has been revised to the warmer side with them only dropping down into the mid 60s (F).  September was the warmest on record and, I suspect, October's will not be changing the surprises much.  

My contractor is here for her final day sanding down the seams of drywall mud so they'll be ready to paint.  Joy of joys.  I did make another trip to the orange retailer I work for this morning to pick up more Pex tubing.  The cold water line has a leak in the basement that needs to be fixed.  I should actually replace the entire line, and I will, but not until the kitchen is complete.  The leak will be fixed, but the rest will have to wait until next spring.

I went to the movies last night to see Dumb Money.  And I liked watching the little guy stand up to the monster that is Wall Street.  Paul Dano was very good as Roaring Kitty, aka Keith Gill.  One thing I found intriguing was that it's not only a story about Gill and his like for  Gamestop stock, but also shows how a number of very small investors helped to take down a small section of Wall Street.  It details the machinations of people who use big money to manipulate the lives of so man, and how greed has no limits.  This is really a story for the little people.  

Of course, the de-evolution of the Republican party continues.  Tiny Jimmy Jordan wants to be Speaker of the House, so does Steve Scalise.  Some duffer called them conservatives.  That is so far from the truth.  They, and their cabal of ultra-right wingers, are authoritarians who dream nightly of controlling America.  They are the bringers of Chaos.  Pundits, conservative and liberal, are laughing at them because they fired the McCarthy without putting a single thought into who was going to replace him, and now they will need to vote for an individual who's not going to get enough votes, unless they get democrats to side with them.  Ouch!  Some want the Orange Anus to run for the opinion, however these losers passed a rule that said no one with and indictment that holds a penalty of 2 or more years can be Speaker of the House... and they're going to need Democratic votes to change that rule.  Yes, you know where I'm going... these people are that damn stupid.