Ten Things That Surprise Me By Not Happening Yet

 This is a list of ten things (randomly done) which probably should occur, but haven't done so yet.

1.  A TV show on Fox based entirely on fake news.  

2.  A complete SEC investigation of all 535 Senators and House members, their spouses, and particular investment deals that got them rich.

3.  College basketball involving actual contracts to play for college teams.  

4.  A cable channel with only 1940s movies, and a second channel for only 1930s movies.

5.  A reality show based on some unknown guy running against a fake Republican insider.

6.  Outlawing all TV westerns (going back to the 1950s) which had some bad guy shot/killed in the show.

7.  This mental eval chatter for gun control....would have to go to the full complete step....having US Army/Marines mental eval'ed to handle a weapon, and to have all law enforcement (local, state and federal) also on the eval group.  

8.  Having one Senator as a absolute Marxist-Leninist.

9.  A test to confirm that most all kids (since spring of 2020) have around 35-percent of the knowledge level from school that they should have. 

10.  At some point, Russian journalists will be handed 300 hours of taped conversations between Hunter Biden and some Chinese folks.....with details how x-amount of their money (going into the tens of millions) was paying the 'big guy'.  The House and Senate will then dig into a messy episode where Joe won't resign.  

What Was the Arrest of Myanmar's President About?

 Over the past week, I've chatted some over Myanmar and it's coup.  One of the chief events from Monday was the arrest of the President of the country (Aung San Suu Kyi).  

So what was the crime?

If you go and dig through all the chatter....it comes down to military authorities arriving at her house (Presidential residence) and conducting a raid.  The find?  Six walkie-talkies.

That's it?  Yeah.

Illegally imported walkie talkies?  Yep.

She basically broke the import-export law of Myanmar.

The sentence if convicted?  Three years.  

Were these even professional types or just the cheapo Radio Shack type?  Unknown....no one talks about the exact brand.

Can you imagine this scene for the impeachment of Trump.....finding six walkie-talkies in his closet and dragging him up or impeachment over that?  These Myanmar guys?  Once you inject this into the discussion....these coup guys look like comedians to some degree.  

How'd the President even use the walkie talkies?  Unknown.  Maybe she directed her gardener in the yard.....maybe she was yelling at the cook over the choice of dinner for the evening....maybe she had some kids over at the house who played 'secret-spy' games in the backyard and these were theirs.

Kind of comical if you think about it.

A Military Story

 Around 15 years ago, I worked as a retired military guy....in contractor work.  

I worked in an office with five or six NCOs.  

One day....one of them got temp duty orders for the Balkans....six months.  He went over to the organizational deployment NCO, and Sergeant 'X' signed the supply paperwork to get issued around a dozen things for the deployment.  This was a cold-weather region, and part of this set-up involved a winter-parka.  Once issued out....it was supposed to be an item you kept (it wasn't going to be turned back in).

Then my associate left for the deployment.  

Well...about three months into this....some Major in the organization started up an audit, and the deployment NCO got called in....he'd signed off on this parka business several times, and the Major spoke up that this was not a required item (he had a Air Force listing) and then a bunch of crap started to develop.  

This NCO that I worked with?  He returned to find some investigation being carried out and this was going end up with paperwork that he'd asked for something that was not allowed.  

So this funny thing happened.

Among the things on the list that he was supposed to get....was long underwear.  But at the time, they didn't have his size (he was a fairly robust guy).  So it was on back-order (figure seven months minimum).  Phone call came from supply....it'd come.  

The NCO asked me if I had time to go over and pick this up.  Fine....I went over and like a hundred-thousand times in my career....I had a chat with people.  This time with the supply kid.

So the topic of allowances came up, and Airman 'Snuffy' pulls out the binder.  Operations such-and-such listed out...twenty-odd situations in Europe for deployments.  

Then he shows the message which talks to Command 'such-and-such' (not the Air Force).  If deployed for this area (the Balkans), under this mission....you get these items, and they are paid for by the special command created.  Yes, the parka was listed, along with five or six items that my guy hadn't asked for.  

I ask for a copy, and took the long underwear/message back to this guy.

He spends two minutes reading the message, and looks at me....all that wasted time doing legal defense and frustrated over treatment by the organization...gone.  

He scans the document and sends it up the chain.  He basically says....what he signed is now voided, and he wants a real correction.  He passes it to the deployment NCO....same deal for him as well.  The idiot Major who started all of this, listed as a courtesy copy.

To fix this....they had to throw out every single mention of the audit/investigation. Then they arranged for the deployment NCO to get Sergeant-of-the-Quarter, and three months later....my association was arranged to get Sergeant-of-the-Quarter (there was no competition allowed).  

There were various times in dealing with the military that I came to realize that you always had 10-to-20 percent of the leadership working against you.  Whether it was just incompetence or just stupid guidance....it didn't matter. You eventually learned to identify the traits....recognize the characters, and create resolutions to downsize their incompetence.  

This Florida 'Deal'

 It came out yesterday that in Florida....it's arranged now that Publix, Winn-Dixie Groceries, and Wal-Mart....will be doing the Covid-19 vaccine business.

From my observations, this should have been laid out as part of the big plan nationally....back in the fall.

If you had some Winn-Dixie operation going on, with three full-up nurses, and a dozen nurses in training....you could probably 20,000 people a week easily.  It simply makes sense.  A month or two in Florida, and the infection rate/death rate...is rapidly going to slide down.