In simple terms:
1. Joe would fit into a 1970s/1980s situation, where union labor, middle-class working Democrats, and rural votes would fit into the agenda (which doesn't work today).
2. On the thinking-man's scale....giving Joe a ninth-grade 20-question math or geography quiz....Joe probably wouldn't be able to pass (even with 60 minutes allocated for the quiz).
3. Joe doesn't fit into the Bernie-crowd agenda.
4. Joe is mostly known for saying a lot of stuff, and only meaning half of it. We are talking about forty years of that type of behavior.
5. Joe has a 'soiled' reputation for helping relatives with insider deals. We aren't talking about once or twice.....we are talking about thirty-odd years of deals. Corruption-wise, he never saw an issue....ever.
6. In terms of an older-white-guy pretending to be buddy-buddy with Latinos and blacks.....Joe ranks a '5' on the big scale. Mayor Pete, sadly, only ranks a '3'.
7. Joe's entire life has been about looking 'middle-classish', but working for the wealthy and VIPish.
8. In a debate situation.....even with a pint of whiskey in him.....Senator Reed from Rhode Island could probably out-argue Joe.
9. Joe has never been known as an ideas-guy....ever.
10. Joe was ranked for the VP job for President Obama....because he wasn't going to ever be much of a contributor to the inside crew. That should stand out at this point.
Thursday, 2 April 2020
NPR-Early 1970s versus NPR-2020
It's a rough topic to bring up.
I grew up in rural Alabama with NPR, which premiered around 1971, and I probably became attached to it around 1972/1973 timeframe.
In those days, it featured classical music, jazz, opera stuff, and had a literature side to it. News? You have have gotten three hours over the entire day.....it wasn't something you noticed.
Around the early 1990s....I came to note some transition....less jazz, less classical, and less literature/poetry.
Over the past twenty years? It's mostly all news....maybe adding up to twelve hours a day. If you wanted literature, classical music or jazz.....you rarely will find it.
I've become one of those people who'd like some harsh action done on NPR. My primary five suggestions?
1. Move the entire 'team' out of the DC area....preferably to place like Macon, Georgia, Tulsa, Oklahoma, or rural Ohio.
2. Lessen the news coverage.....a lot. Allow a max of five hours a day of news, with one hour of that being state news itself. A full-hour each weekend ought to be devoted to agricultural news or development.
3. Mandate that eight hours of the twenty-four hour cycle has to be classical music, opera, or jazz.
4. Mandate that four hours of the day has to be readings of classical literature (Moby Dick, Tom Sawyer, or the Great Gatsby).
5. Mandate that no employee can be salary-wise more than $80,000 a year and work your way down from there.
I grew up in rural Alabama with NPR, which premiered around 1971, and I probably became attached to it around 1972/1973 timeframe.
In those days, it featured classical music, jazz, opera stuff, and had a literature side to it. News? You have have gotten three hours over the entire day.....it wasn't something you noticed.
Around the early 1990s....I came to note some transition....less jazz, less classical, and less literature/poetry.
Over the past twenty years? It's mostly all news....maybe adding up to twelve hours a day. If you wanted literature, classical music or jazz.....you rarely will find it.
I've become one of those people who'd like some harsh action done on NPR. My primary five suggestions?
1. Move the entire 'team' out of the DC area....preferably to place like Macon, Georgia, Tulsa, Oklahoma, or rural Ohio.
2. Lessen the news coverage.....a lot. Allow a max of five hours a day of news, with one hour of that being state news itself. A full-hour each weekend ought to be devoted to agricultural news or development.
3. Mandate that eight hours of the twenty-four hour cycle has to be classical music, opera, or jazz.
4. Mandate that four hours of the day has to be readings of classical literature (Moby Dick, Tom Sawyer, or the Great Gatsby).
5. Mandate that no employee can be salary-wise more than $80,000 a year and work your way down from there.
Just Ten Observations
1. It's odd....virtually 90-percent of the news folks are hyped up and all chatty about the worst-possible scenario, and they repeat this over and over. You might as well get all chatty and suggest that the Hoover Dam could collapse tomorrow and wipe out 10,000 Democrats downstream, or that a study reveals that Meth kills all users within ten years of day one, or that it's possible that quarterback Tom Brady might go transgender and win the Super Bowl with his new team.
2. Gun sales in the middle of this chaos has almost doubled. In various areas, the gun shops are barely able to keep up with customer traffic. All in fear of some chaos from the virus? Really?
3. If you were stupid enough in early March to board a cruise boat for a four-week cruise....the odds are that you will still be on the boat in early May, and maybe even into early June. You think that food choices will remain the same or the open-bar deal will stay at the same level....get real.
4. Some liquor shops are reporting sales 50-percent higher than normal. So are these folks just sitting on the patio, and guzzling Whiskey Sours.....hour by hour?
5. Eight out of ten Americans are watching the Trump news conferences. It doesn't matter if CNN and MSNBC refuse to carry it.....YouTube and the alternate site will do it.
6. What happened after the disastrous Spanish Flu era (1917-1919)? The 1920s were a BOOM-period....way beyond the belief of most economical experts.
7. If you live in Israel and leave your house.....you wear a mask. Failure? Cops come looking for you.
8. Some kids allegedly (probably more of a rumor) are getting smarter at home than what school would have offered. It begs questions, and probably is fake news.
9. The CDC admitted that roughly one in four people don't show much of anything for symptoms. They can't explain why. Something in the DNA...the amount of booze they consume.....the daily bacon for breakfast.....unfiltered smokes? It would seem that you'd go hire forty PhD dudes and get this answered in a hurry.
10. I'll predict NO real Democratic Convention....just a Skype-situation. A month after that...Joe Biden steps to the side, and the VP (either Hillary or Stacey Abrams) moves up to compete against Trump. One-third of all Democrats will just start laughing....ordering up booze and beer, and staging a no-vote rebellion against the Democratic Party in November. Joe Biden passes away in late 2022 from Alzheimer's. People will ask for years.....how the Party could stand there and allow this to happen.
2. Gun sales in the middle of this chaos has almost doubled. In various areas, the gun shops are barely able to keep up with customer traffic. All in fear of some chaos from the virus? Really?
3. If you were stupid enough in early March to board a cruise boat for a four-week cruise....the odds are that you will still be on the boat in early May, and maybe even into early June. You think that food choices will remain the same or the open-bar deal will stay at the same level....get real.
4. Some liquor shops are reporting sales 50-percent higher than normal. So are these folks just sitting on the patio, and guzzling Whiskey Sours.....hour by hour?
5. Eight out of ten Americans are watching the Trump news conferences. It doesn't matter if CNN and MSNBC refuse to carry it.....YouTube and the alternate site will do it.
6. What happened after the disastrous Spanish Flu era (1917-1919)? The 1920s were a BOOM-period....way beyond the belief of most economical experts.
7. If you live in Israel and leave your house.....you wear a mask. Failure? Cops come looking for you.
8. Some kids allegedly (probably more of a rumor) are getting smarter at home than what school would have offered. It begs questions, and probably is fake news.
9. The CDC admitted that roughly one in four people don't show much of anything for symptoms. They can't explain why. Something in the DNA...the amount of booze they consume.....the daily bacon for breakfast.....unfiltered smokes? It would seem that you'd go hire forty PhD dudes and get this answered in a hurry.
10. I'll predict NO real Democratic Convention....just a Skype-situation. A month after that...Joe Biden steps to the side, and the VP (either Hillary or Stacey Abrams) moves up to compete against Trump. One-third of all Democrats will just start laughing....ordering up booze and beer, and staging a no-vote rebellion against the Democratic Party in November. Joe Biden passes away in late 2022 from Alzheimer's. People will ask for years.....how the Party could stand there and allow this to happen.
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