Just Observations

1.  I was sitting there this morning and observing street video (Seattle, NY, Portland, etc), and then it just kinda hit me.....it just seems a lot of this is 'copy' of Dark Knight Rises (the last Batman movie, with Bane as the enemy).  The violence....the lack of any respect....the public waiting on someone to come and clear the streets.

2.  Someone put up pictures of Minneapolis in the last day of two of the damaged/looted structures, and comparing it to some degree to the destruction around Bosnia after their little civil war.  A lot of Bosnians would agree that recovery didn't really start to show for an entire decade after the war ended.  One might suspect the same thing in Minneapolis.

3. I sat and read through a piece on LA's City Council approving (at least in draft form) the division of 'labor' for the police in the future.  So, for any situation that seems to be of a non-violent nature....a 'community responder' (social worker type) will arrive and handle the situation.

If it appears violent (one assume that the 9-1-1 operator will be the person making the guess)....then the police get the 'nod'.

The odds of a 50-percent of non-violent situations reaching a stage where violence is invoked?  That's a curious scenario to wonder about.  One has to assume that some type of uniform will handed out to the 'community responder' and some type of emblem or badge will be part of the deal.  This being a call involving a doped-up guy and 'community responder' suddenly dealing with violence in trying to handle the guy?

Just my view, but twelve months into this 'community responder' experiment, I think that half the folks will have resigned or moved on....indicating that this isn't the type of work that they imagined.  After two or three years of this....the council will admit that it was a successful-failure, and dump it.

4.  After this shooting a couple of days ago in Seattle of the two black teens in the Jeep (one dead, one seriously wounded)...there's 3 odd things that stand out.

- The Chop 'police' (not the Seattle police) say that there are reports of the teens shooting at Chop 'village' from the Jeep.  Then they suggest that the two teens robbed people while holding a knife.  You'd think about this, then ask....if they had a gun and were shooting....why bother with the knife?

- Then after the event, via PR going out via social media....they proclaimed the event a great positive situation against fascism.  Yes, the two black teenagers were apparently fascists. From the one teen still alive....if you asked about being a fascist....he'd start off the conversation and ask what the hell is a fascist?

- While all of this goes on, with one dead black teen....BLM at the site does nothing.  You'd expect them as a minimum to burn down the Chop area, but they stand there in the background....like a landscape to some painting.

5.  The judge in this George Floyd case with the four cops up for serious charges?  Well, this week, he's now said that he's leaning toward moving the case.

My humble guess is that next five most populated cities (with mayors and city councils attached) in the state are worried.  They don't want it either.  Any city that he selects....will probably try to use the court system and remove their city from consideration.

Odds of Minnesota National Guardsmen called out to protect this town (when chosen)?  I'd give a 99-percent chance.

6.  Another poll now says that of the 38-percent of Americans who believe that Joe Biden has dementia....they can now show via the polling on people with this opinion, almost one out of five are Democrats.

That's a worrisome trend.  The one thing you don't need is three debates to occur with Trump and Biden, and another twenty-percent of Democrats agree....making this a screwed up campaign.

7.  Delta Airlines says that they will ask you....presumably at the check-in counter, about your Coronavirus status.  If you lie?  Well, this could get you on some permanent forbidden to fly Delta situation.  If you tell the truth but come up days later with the virus?  No one really says much how they will handle this.

It just makes you ponder upon any travel and settle upon driving to your destination.

8.  Netflix is making a six-part series about the youth years of Colin Kaepernick.  No, it won't go up to the NFL years.  It's hard to imagine the entertainment value, or just historical landscape.  One aspect they probably will skip....his real 'talent' throughout high school was baseball (as a pitcher).  He was offered various scholarship deals to play baseball.

The only college to offer a football scholarship?  University of Nevada-Reno.  A football powerhouse?  No.  You can't even rank them in the top one-hundred college teams over the past twenty years.  With maybe one or two exceptions, the bulk of their schedule are similar teams.

Did he screw up by selecting football over baseball?  Yes, there's no doubt.  He'd probably still be in MLB today, approaching age 33, and on a $15-million a year contract with some team as a number one or two starting pitcher.

9. Yesterday, Joe Biden did a decent press conference.  So at some point, he says that he is “constantly tested” for cognitive decline.

Constantly?  He didn't go into detail, but it just makes you wonder....are they now testing him once or twice a month?  Why word this in such a way?  Or did he mean constant testing with Covid-19?

It was at the very least....a stupid comment to make.  But again, he's Joe Biden and throughout his entire career....he's averaged probably a thousand stupid comments a year, and you just have to bear with Joe's way of explaining things.

10.  It doesn't make any sense.  Riot 'kids' (juveniles) go and make videos of their rampage, and flip it as a show of their fake-courage.  So the authorities get the stupid video off social media....review it....and get images to post on some 'wanted poster'.

'Randy' and 'Molly' get this gaggle of police at their doorstep a month later....they want to speak to 'Junior'.  They got an arrest warrant.

The lawyer gets a call, and he looks at everything and then asks the parents....is your kid that stupid to make a video of himself damaging a building or looting, and think that the police aren't going to view the same video?  Its incredible stupidity.