Tuesday 21 April 2020

Simply Observations

1.  Did a Harvard law professor actually suggest that homeschooling and hanging around parents 24 hours a day.....is a disaster-in-the-making? 

Well, her chatter was that it was just a plain disaster.....not a disaster-in-the-making.  She'd rather for you to dump the kid off with the school system, and let the kids hang out with teachers instead. 

I would view it this way.  If your dad was Einstein, and your mom was Madam Curie.....it'd be pure-hell to hang out with them all day, and get lectured constantly.  However, if your dad was a rodeo-rider, and your mom was a part-time banjo-player, part-time Briggs and Stratton mechanic, and part-time lecturer on Plato....you might come out ahead with them instead of the teacher deal.

2.  Did a British newspaper find a doctor who says the Coronavirus can be spread by farts?

Well....yeah. 

Back in the 1990s....I had to fly into central England in the early AM, and ended up at 7:30 at a local pub which featured breakfast.  The lovely gal served up a huge plate of sausages, extremely greasy hash browns, beans (more than an ample supply), and some very buttery pieces of toast.  By 10 AM, I hit maximum overdrive on farts.  With this type of diet, I might go worrying about my work-associates and the possibility that the farts might be contaminated.

3.  Mr Kim of North Korea in danger?

Yep.  Some type of surgical procedure, and it's a 50-50 situation presently.  If he passes on, it'll be curious how things proceed.

4.  Any truth that Joe Biden is putting a White House transition team together?

It's chatter....just plain ordinary chatter.  Someone called someone, and hinted something, and a week into this.....some Biden people think there is a transition team being staged.  If you dig into the story.....you'd probably find two Russian guys creating a fake transition gimmick, and no one bothered to ask questions.

5.  Did some top level journalist actually say: "Controlling what people think 'is our job'"?

Yeah, but it's not worth getting all huffy about.  The same journalist would probably go into a fit if they found out that 40-percent of their viewers are listening to her only because she's blonde and 'lusty'.

6.  How many people exist with a job-title of 'fact-checker'?

Statistically, it's an unanswerable situation.  Some are not full-time fact-checkers.  Some are not anything beyond their first job after college.  Some are doing fact-checking as their number four job.  And some are asking for the facts to present to their boss as the facts (think about that for a minute).

7.  Is Pelosi $13 per pint ice cream worth it?

Lets be honest.....50-cent per pint ice cream from Piggly Wiggly is crap.  The $6 a pint Haagen-Dazs ice cream is worth every penny.  However, I can't imagine anything topping that level, and being worth $13 a pint....not unless you mixed some fine bourbon and fresh Louisiana-grown strawberries.

8.  Did Katie Couric actually say that carrying the Presidential press conferences 'unfiltered' is "irresponsible"?

Yes.  Don't worry.....no one has listened to her since 2006 when she left the Today Show and became a pretender-journalist.  Some folks would suggest that listening to nightly news via CNN 'unfiltered' is also "irresponsible".

9.  The odds that Congressman Dan Crenshaw will be one of the final three folks in the GOP Presidential primary in 2024?

Right now.....it's a 99-percent probability on my 'scale'.  For the fake-Republican crowd.....this is a disaster, with another Trump-style guy.

10.  This Canada mass shooting.....a bit unusual?

Well....first, the news media isn't hyped.  Second, the guy was fully dressed in a police uniform, carrying police weapons and had a police-type car.  This guy had this planned out in weeks, perhaps even months. 

The guy simply pulling people over and shooting them on the side of the road?  Something that no one has ever seen before.

The guys occupation?  He built dentures....a fairly low stress job. 

In my mind, he's not the typical paranoid schizophrenic.....he's a psycho-killer type.  I think if they do the investigation correctly.....they will find that he's done this a few dozen times before.....just one at a time. 

11.  How many Kremlin moles are within the Trump administration?

It's anyone's guess....maybe a dozen.  How many Kremlin moles exist within the Senate and House?  Probably a dozen.  How many Kremlin moles exist within CNN?  Probably a dozen.  There's probably even people out there who 'think' they are Kremlin moles but are just physiologically unbalanced (nice term to mean nutcases).

12.  Could you be a racist bigot and not know it?

Yes.  You could also be thinking you are a brilliant intellectual and not grasp that you have the brain-power of a 5-grade kid.  You could also be thinking that by non-participation in politics....you are doing a positive thing, and years later realize that you are mostly governed by inferior and incompetent people.  You could also think you've gotten all this fantastic wisdom via college, and then discover that your cousin Marvin (the one who sets up tomb-stones at graveyards) secretly studies Plato nightly, and appears to be a bit more wiser than you. 

So it matters what you know, and don't know. 

13.  With all the video shot in San Francisco and L A.....doesn't the image represent some third-world pretender country in Africa?

It's a reflection of a lost society....don't let it bother you (just get the moving van loaded up and get the hell out of the state).

14.  Any truth to the rumor that 20 big-tankers from Saudi Arabia are nearing the Gulf coast to dump off more oil, at roughly $20 a barrel?

Yes.  To be honest, there's no profit being made, and you have to question why they don't just halt full production for three months. 

Added to this.....no airline on the face of the Earth is operating at even 50-percent of their normal capability. 

15.  Any truth to the story that medication for anxiety, stress and sleep disorders are way up?

Well, the NY Post says yes.  34-percent increase over this same period last year.

I would imagine if you went to Colorado weed shops....they'd tell you that consumer visits are up by twenty to forty percent. 

No need to worry though....just people unable to cope with 'doom' and despair. These are the people who didn't go to gin and cheap booze. 

Trump and the 'Kids'

In the early 1960s....Donald Trump went off to two years of university at Fordham (Penn).  Not much is really said about Fordham, but it's a private college run by the Jesuits. 

Here's the two key things about this college.  First....it's designed as a research college, where you develop reasoning and analysis (key skills for people in life).  Second, they don't produce losers.....just about everyone who comes out of this college....goes onto a remarkable career.

But here's the thing....Trump only stays there two years, and then transfers over to the Wharton School of Business (under the University of Penn).

During this two-year period, he's there for education over finance and economics.  This is another private school, which produces only 'winners'.  Wharton, in today's world?  Once you graduate, you can virtually guarantee yourself a starting salary of $160k a year.  It's one of those places where the tuition is a 'killer' ($74k a year), but you can probably pay it back in five years, and guarantee yourself to a millionaire status by age thirty-five.

So when these journalists walk into the conference room and think they can bully Tump (like Bush or Obama).....they are at a serious disadvantage.  He's able to remember facts, presentations, and assemble data....to 'out-reason' the 'kids'.  The 'kids' may think they have college education and are at his level, but they really aren't.  They can't reason, or perform analysis....at his level.

It's not that he's smarter.....he's simply got the skills and tools to grasp things, and move on. 

As you watch the conferences live and view the 'kids' at work....remember, they are in the room with a guy who is thinking at a level above them, and their antics or bully-chat basically have no affect on him.  He's not just embarrassing them.....but he's forcing them to either improve their skill level or reasoning ability.....or be let-go.