Tuesday 23 June 2020

Resolving the Rhode Island Problem

In the last couple of days, folks have come to realize some slavery connection with 'Rhode' and there's talk of a necessity of changing the state name.

I felt it my duty to offer some advice here.  So my ten suggestions:

1.  Gotham (yeah like in Batman).  Has a noble thing to it.

2.  East California.

3.  East Germany (since it doesn't exist anymore, you don't need to ask permission).

4.  Ding-Dong (just has a good ring to it).

5.  Hogwarts (like in Harry Potter).

6.  Troy (like in the classics).

7.  Liberty.

8.  New Trump.

9.  New Delaware (you have to ask permission though).

10.  Damnation.

If I Ran Trump and Biden's Debates

3 debates total.

1.  Deck of USS Intrepid (parked in NY City)...no audience allowed on the vessel, just the two, five to ten guests of each, and one moderator chosen by each. Questions?  Same for each guy. 

2.  Deck of USS Midway, parked in San Diego. Same rules on guests and moderators, with no audience.

3.  Deck of USS Alabama (parked in Mobile, Alabama). Same rules on guests, moderator, and audience).

This Photo of Pelosi and 'Team' Kneeling

For two weeks, this image of Pelosi and 'crew' kneeling has been on my mind.

So I'll ask you.....have you ever seen any group of political figures in some kneeling position, other than at some memorial service or such?

No.

As ridiculous as the whole thing was.....to stage a mass kneeling?

Historically, kneelers in some leadership position...meant that they'd lost and given up.....honoring the victors of the campaign.  So ask yourself, who exactly are the victors?

MLB 'Mess'

Discussion going on for baseball to occur this summer....but odds look dismal at this point.

So the owners put down several things, and one of them really stood out.

If you've ever been to baseball games....you know around about the ninth inning....things should conclude unless it's tied.  So at that point, it'd go to extra innings.

Sometimes....it's just one or two extra innings.  Sometimes....it does to eight or nine extra innings.  You could be sitting that at midnight....with the game still going on.

So the owners offered up this unique idea....if things are tied in the ninth, then you start the tenth inning with a runner sitting on second base.  The odds?  Statistically, it's pretty good odds that something will happen in the tenth inning, with team A or team B, and conclude with the tenth inning.  Odds of going to an 11th inning or beyond?  I'd say less than a 10-percent chance.  It'd be the virtual end of games ever going beyond 15 innings. 

Chances of this being accepted?  When you look at the whole package......players have marginal interest, and I'd suggest that it's less than a 10-percent chance of any baseball occurring this season. 

New contract chatter to start at conclusion of the 2021 season?  Yeah.  It doesn't look very good at this point. 

Just Observations

1.  You ever noticed how close the 2009 to 2013 'Arab Spring' movement (with ISIS) compares closely to the 2020 Antifa and BLM situation?

It's just odd....statues coming down, riots, looting, etc.....all matching the script of 'Arab Spring'. 

Same agenda....same people?

2.  Isn't it a bit odd....you have a fair number of elitist and snobby-type intellectual white 'kids' assuming roles as knowing everything about blacks and running their riot planning for them?  Isn't it odd that blacks just let them do this?

3.  People doing full-time riot and protest work?  It just makes you wonder....what their cash flow is and how you can play this game?

4.  Someone urged yesterday that from the seven or eight nightly show 'comedians'....none are female, or black. 

Course, looking around....at the top ten black comedians, I don't think any of them want a full-time job like this.  Can't speak for female comedians.

5.  AOC came out yesterday and said....."Latinos are black".  Yes, trying to associate Latinos all into the same movement.

I don't think she's ever been friends or associated with a Latino in her life. 

6.  Trump apparently has asked for more than three debates with Joe Biden.  Joe kinda says (from his camp) that won't happen.  I could say a hundred things, but it's best to just leave things as they are.

7.  If you just sat working-class people down at a patio (with a beer in their hand), about 98-percent would say that we need police....but it's just that so many poor quality guys and gals have been accepted into the police system, that we've created massive problem with 'bad' police.

Defund the police?  No, but if you got a 30-year old policeman with attitude or anger problems....he's in the wrong profession. 

The same crowd, if told that social services people (unarmed) will make up half the police positions in the future?  They'd just start laughing, and wondering what idiot would volunteer to be a 'fake' cop.

8.  There is a Chinese phrase that you need to become accustomed to.....the word is 'Baizuo'.

Baizuo means....very negative slang description of a fake educated white person, who seems to get joy advocating for peace and equality, ONLY to pursue their personal feeling of moral superiority.

In the eyes of a Chinese guy....the fool practicing Baizuo....is ignorant, un-educated, and not capable of preserving society or culture.   

So if you are sharing a beer or Coke with a Chinese guy, and he points someone out as being Baizuo....rest assured, it's not a compliment....it's a five-star insult toward the worthless character that he's pointing at. 

9.  The CHOP zone in Seattle?  Being dismantled?

Yes.  Basically, after two wounded (in some gunfight), and a dead black dude....some fog lifted over the situation. 

The mayor and the thugs are working out the rest of the script.....cops probably will be allowed in and some recovery will begin to take place.  Great script for a movie, I think.

10.  Just some advice on getting 'cancelled' (the new trend with educated intellectual folks).  If you don't give a 'sh*t' in the first place....then the regret or fear of getting cancelled doesn't exist. 

If you don't give a sh*t about Minneapolis being looted or burned, or Atlanta, or Philly....then the rest of this theatrical production doesn't matter. 

BLM Agenda

The BLM folks came out with their six-point agenda for the organization....so it bears some review and assessment.

First, end the war on black people.  You can't be sure over how they refer to the 'war'.  Maybe they mean as targets of the police.  Maybe they mean the shootings in Chicago or Detroit.  I think it's more of a mystical term, and only the internal bigwigs of the movement can be the ones deciding the outcome.

Second, reparations for past and continuing harms.  If the Civil War had concluded forty years ago, this might be accomplished in some fashion.  Being over 150 years since the conclusion....it's more or less impractical to accomplish today. 

You'd also have the problem of individuals who are 50-percent black, or 12-percent black, and how they fit into the 'deal'. 

The rise of taxes to accomplish this?  I'm pretty sure that Latinos and Asians, along with various other groups would have heartburn. 

Third, divestment from the institutions that criminalize, cage and harm black people; and investment in the education, health and safety of black people.

Here, we'd need to create special causes to fit only for blacks, and behind this....another special cause for Latinos, and another special cause for Japanese-Americans, and another special cause for Puerto Ricans, and another special cause for Italian-Americans, and on, and on, and on.

Oh, I do agree....this stupid law from the 1990s that Joe Biden sponsored...has screwed the justice system up, and done more wrong to blacks, than to any other group.  That could be resolved, but no Congress (Democrats included) has acted.

Fourth, economic justice for all and a reconstruction of the economy to ensure our communities have collective ownership, not merely access.

Yes, basically Marxism....pure and simple.  For the NBA and NFL, the teams would be a locally owned 'thing' and fair wages forced upon all players....meaning the unfairness scale would be thrown out and each player paid one single sum.  See how far this goes.

If you want Marxism....go find the right country, and be a part of their success (or failure).

Fifth, community control of the laws, institutions and policies that most impact us.

Basically, you'd create South African 'townships' and put a fence up around them....with control ceded to the 'township' members.  In addition, the Latinos should have their 'township', the Italian-Americans should have their 'township', and so on.

Sixth, independent black political power and black self-determination in all areas of society. 

Another 'township' suggestion....going nowhere.