Just Observations

1.  Someone brought this up today....on smog/pollution checks with the yearly car inspection business.  In California, it's $85 and 25 minutes being hooked up to the machine.  In Tennessee, it's $8 and two minutes hooked up to the machine.  It's the same basic test, and I would dare anyone to show that there is any legit difference in the inspection of car A....if taken from one state to another.

2.  If you approach working-class democrats (the ones who pay taxes and work)....then tell them that you not only want to get rid of guns, but you want less police (defunding the police)....about fifty-percent of them will just start laughing.  They marginally might listen to the first argument, but the less police gimmick?  That merely pushes them to vote for Trump. 

3.  So, imagine this....a public housing complex in Melbourne, Australia.....tower-type building.  3,000 residents in the complex.  500 cops surrounding it.  No one enters....no one leaves.  Covid-19 situation, and the whole population of the building is on lock-down.  Testing is being conducted, but everyone is forced to participate for a five-day period of self-quarantine. 

4.  The key question that Trump will throw at Biden throughout the three debates?  Why do you hate America?  Over and over.  Joe will deny he hates America but he'll stumble through this theme, and each debate will be won by Trump....solely on the 'hate America' theme.  If you had brought up this discussion three years ago, most everyone would have laughed at the mere suggestion of 'hating America'.  Yet, here we are.

5.  It's an odd story that has developed over George Floyd (the dead black guy from Minneapolis).  One of the key parts of the story which is never discussed....the reason for the phone call to the cops from the store....was the $20 counterfeit bill.  No one seems to be asking anything about the bill or how Floyd came to have it.

Oddly, Floyd and this choker-policeman....worked at the same restaurant, for years.  So it gets brought up....this is a restaurant which is owned by a guy who originally came out of Jordan, and is known as a developer.  No one asks questions over the money for the developments though.    Some chatter has started up about the restaurant (El Nuevo Rodeo), and there is this belief that behind the operations....they had some type of money-laundering and counterfeit-money operation going on.

Floyd is choked to death on 25 May....a full month into the Corona period, and virtually everything is shutdown.  This $20 counterfeit bill?  It's probably some cash flow that Floyd stumbled upon and it's what paid his daily cost of living.  When the idiot cop arrives and stumbles upon the fact that it's Floyd (his associate)?  This whole path leading back to the restaurant comes up.  Whether it's thought out much, I think the cop couldn't let this counterfeit $20 start a massive investigation. 

The read, I would suggest?  Regional news source.  The problem I see....this restaurant and whole background....leads to various political characters from Minneapolis, and none of them want the 'rest' of the story told. 

6.  Chief Justice Roberts stumbles at home, and gets taken off to the hospital?  Cause?  The statement is....shortness of breath.  A bit odd, but maybe he was walking around with a mask on?