What Joe Said

 President Biden said yesterday....that we needed to increase federal spending on education....when asked how to END gas shortage in the SE of the US.

Quote: “I think that this shows that I think we have to make a greater investment in education as it relates to being able to train and graduate more people proficient in cybersecurity.” 

If you sit and think about it...it'd be like us spending more money on teaching people how to grow roses....instead of shooting people on the streets of Chicago.

Or it'd be like us teaching the horseshoe business, in order to prevent homelessness.

Or it'd be like giving free WI-FI to prevent teenage assaults.

I spent around ten minutes pondering over this, but it's hard to rationalize what Joe said, and what he meant.  For the CNN crowd....this would require an entire hour of 'splaining', and most viewers would have hit mute by the 5th minute.

The thing about this....off in Russia....some kid probably marginally finished up the ninth-grade and just quit school.....to be a full-time ransom software expert.  He's probably making $100k a month.  

If you 'splained' this to President Biden....he'd probably say we ought to hire that Russian kid for cyber-security.

The Odds of the Oakland A's MLB Team Moving to Nashville?

 Well....there are four ways to view this discussion topic.

First, the Oakland A's have finally said....here's the new stadium plan for the bay area of Oakland, and we want the city council to approve it.  The city council?  If you follow this story....they don't seem that hyped-up and it's almost like they were expecting some cash flow to their campaign 'bucket'.  

Second, the Nashville city population for 2021 is figured at 1.27-million, and if you did a boundary drawing (25 mile circle), you can probably add another million.  If you drew the 100 mile circle....there's probably another million minimum.  They have the population to support a team.

Third, there's this odd trend going on with folks from California and NY.....moving to Tennessee (state population this year will likely top 7-million).  

Finally, you come to the general sports attitude of the state and it wouldn't take much to get folks hyped for the A's.

My bet?  At the end of this crappy 2021 season.....I see the team disenchanted with the city council, and just saying the 2022 season is the final season in Oakland.

This Hype Over Liz Cheney

 It's basically a one-to-two-star story, which shocks me how long it lingered as a top-ten political story.

You have the daughter of a ex-VP....who got into political hype in 2016, and won a seat for Wyoming.  She had lingered around in various government jobs from the 1990s on.  

If you had sat a decade ago and engaged her on positions....she was simply pretending to be a right-wing conservative and doing a pretty lousy job of explaining details.  It was like pretending to be a Baptist, while hanging out at honky-tonks on Saturday evening and only being able to name three of the Disciples.  

Taking up a anti-Trump position....while representing Wyoming?  I'm guessing that 70-percent of the GOP-typical voters in Wyoming just stood there and asked questions over her real political stance.  

So, it kinda looks like she's get a primary situation in the spring of 2022, and will be unable to win the primary....thus heading home in January of 2023.  My suggestion here....just quit the Republicans entirely and run as a Democrat.  Course, if she did lousy at explaining that position....it'd mean you really are a fake politician and better suited at selling laundry detergent or magazine subscriptions.

Government Warning You Not to Put Gas into Plastic Bags?

 I sat yesterday and read over this 20-line story.  Basically, the federal folks put out a warning, in this gas crisis period....NOT to buy gas and try to 'store' it in plastic bags.  You know....like shopping bags or garbage bags.

I pondered upon this for a while.

Out of Alabama, I would suggest that 99.9-percent of the population already knew this and it was mostly kids under the age of 12 might have attempted this.

Even out of Florida....it was probably 99.9-percent of the population.

In California?  I'm not that sure.  It might be 90-percent.

Now, if you'd suggested putting gas into milk bottles or wine bottles?  I'm guessing that three-percent of people have done that in their life....mostly for their mower situations.

The thing that gets me....the federal folks feel the need to warn you.  If you counted up the various warnings you get in an average year.....there's probably 3,000 different warnings that you now get.  Even if you buy a container of bean dip....there's probably some kind of governmental warning on that.  

Folks showing up with a 30-gallon plastic barrel and trying to fill it up?  That wouldn't surprise me.