Viewing the 6th of January a Year Later

 There are three issues that I see:

1.  The person responsible for security in the capital building....is Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  On carrying out her function....it's a zero.  I don't think she even grasped that she's the person accountable for the make-up of the security for the building.  

I generally believe the time has come to make the Speaker position into a full-time non-voted individual, and hold them accountable for the functionality of the capital building.

2.  It's just odd....out of three-hundred-odd people who stormed the building....there's just one single person who seems dead because of actions on that day, and it's a Air Force vet gal.  That's it.  The one cop who died?  That's hours later, via a heart attack.

3.  Finally, from the three-hundred characters that the FBI put on wanted posters....three individuals who were leaders of this posse-group or Oath-Keeper crowd....who churned up the crowd to enter.....aren't arrested or charged-up.  The appearance that they might be agent-provocateurs?  Well....the longer this goes on and the fed prosecutors refuse to charge them....it just looks like a made-up operation to get folks hyped up....to commit a crime.  

How things will end?  In spring of 2023, I expect some House committee (Republican led) to go and investigate the whole thing, and bring the three 'leaders' in for questions.  Connections back to the FBI?  Probably, and at that point....all of the charged-up folks will be given some type of release, and civil suits will follow.  It wouldn't even shock me if the FBI ends being disbanded to some degree because of the lack of trust going on.  At that point....'agent-provocateurs' will be on our mind a good bit.  

Observations

 1.  This I-95 'stranded business' in Virginia.  If you went and reviewed regional weather forecasts....around six hours prior to the 'delivery' of the snow business to I-95....the weather guys were already chatting over the extent of the problem.  Responsible people (including truckers) should have taken the warning, and simply picked a quiet safe spot to hunker down for 36 hours and then proceed on.  That didn't happen.  

Around 25 years ago, I was on a base where they made a ice-call at 11 AM....saying everyone that lived more than 30 minutes away from base needed to leave by 1:30 PM.  I had a project and didn't leave until 2:30 PM.....clearly running into the mess as they had predicted.  I didn't get home until 7:00 PM that evening.  So my advice....listen to the weather guys and act accordingly.

2.  The odds of Ghislaine Maxwell's case now being dumped?  Since two jurors stood up in the talk-phase and mentioned their situation with abuse in their life....I'd give Maxwell a 90-percent chance now of having the case thrown out.  The prosecution folks?  They have to be furious about what happened and the idea of a whole repeat.  

3. 'Don't get tested'.  The Florida surgeon general had to go out and urge people.....if you don't have Covid symptoms....don't go and get line to be tested for Covid.  

No one says the numbers but I remember the initial period in 2020 in Germany where doctors absolutely refused to administer the test unless you confessed to one of four key symptoms.  They kept that stance up for at least three months.  People are just inclined to think they have something....when they don't have anything.

4.  NY Times and Omicron.  Well....in simple terms, they more or less compare it to regular flu.  I never thought this day would come.  I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now.