The $4.99 Thing

 I sat today and spent an hour looking at this new news vehicle.....CNN-Plus.

So here's the deal.....to get this streaming news 'stuff'.....you sign up and pay $4.99.  

There's the suggestion that you could see 'other' stuff via CNN-Plus that you wouldn't see on regular CNN, but I sat and pondered.....what 'other' stuff?  Would there be conversations with Donald Trump?  Would they tear loose with real investigative journalism?  Would they really give me something that doesn't exist on regular CNN?

I'm pretty skeptical.

I really don't care to hear about Cuomo talking about his brother.  I don't want any more Hollywood news.  Frankly, I'm not interested in fashion or trump Hollywood women.  If you drag another animal doctor out to talk over Ivermectin as a horse-dewormer....I'd just turn the whole thing off.

I'm just at a loss to figure how people would get themselves hyped up to watch CNN-Plus, and pay $4.99 for it.  If you offered up some deal where some naughty-clothed French gal read the news and some bumbling Brit would throw custard pies at her, or something really comical in the delivery of the news?  Yeah, I might try that for a month.  

Comment by Brian Williams

 This past week....Brian Williams (NBC News) left/retired-out....of his 11 PM MSNBC show.  You could say that they were looking for a fresh new guy, and he'd run out of 'gas' here in the final five years.

So his quote at the end of the show was: "The reality is though, I will wake up tomorrow in the America of the year 2021, a nation unrecognizable to those who came before us and fought to protect it, which is what you must do now."

An 'unrecognizable country'?  

Well....back in 1975 to 1977....my final two years on the farm....I have this vivid image of rural NW Alabama, what little urbanization I'd come across in life (mostly Huntsville, Birmingham, Nashville, etc), and a general feeling of safety.  

Today?  It's a place where you aren't sure about your safety, your level of society, the continual surveillance you have to maintain (being vigilant), news-propagandists, worry over the twelve paranoid-schizophrenics that you will encounter today, and some juvenile-acting politician acting like a 4th-grade kid.

Depending on your daily travels....at least ten people will want to talk about Covid, either in a constructive way, or a lecture-type situation, or just admit some Jesus-like situation has reshaped their view of society in the middle of a pandemic.

You have relatives that you try to avoid....mostly because they want you to convert over this such-and-such religious political persuasion.  They feel you need 'healing' or that you've got too much Trumpism in your behavior.

You turn on the local news to have some marginally qualified journalist trying to hype you up or giving some 3rd-grade behavioral 'fit'.  

You find about 90-percent of whatever comes on TV....to be a 'joke', and for some reason can accept watching the 1971 episode of Bonanza....'The Night Virginia City Died' as being acceptable.  Even the episodes of Gilligan's Island....which you've seen forty times each....seem agreeable.

You've reached a level that 'Doctor Doom' guy for the government comes on, and you don't even hesitate on the mute-button.

Brian Williams is correct, but it's mostly too late to wise-up or resolve the path ahead.  He should have said something thirty years ago.

Short Piece on Ivermectin

 Every week, I read around twenty-odd medical studies.  So this week, I came to the topic of Ivermectin (you know.....the horse-dewormer or miracle drug for Covid).

So back in 2014, the US government went to study the idea of Ivermectin for another purpose. The idea?  Using it for alcohol addiction.  Logically, at least in the studies.....if you used the stuff for seriously addicted folks....it lessened your 'need'.  

It was apparently a successful study....but went nowhere.  Why?  No explanation, but the fact that its so cheap.....it's not a money-maker for the drug-industry.