NPR and Diets

 In the past week, I listened to a NPR podcast.  To be honest, maybe around the 1990 to 2000 era....I caught three hours of NPR a week, and lately....in an average year...it's about two hours (for the whole year).  

So this podcast was an odd piece.  This was a diet-authority person.....being interviewed, and basically telling people to take a stand....refuse to be weighed at the doctor's office....refuse to give them your weight....and refuse to confirm or deny your current nutrition situation.

It was a rather shocking 'stand' to take, with NPR more or less validating the idea.

Far left agenda?  Well....back in the 1990 to 2000 era....that was the weekly problem I had with their news program.  

This anti-diet agenda?  Well....I could sign up for something like this, and be a full-fledged member.  The odds that this was a one-time mistake and some intern with the NPR-club screwed up?  Well.....yeah, that's probably a 80-percent chance.

An indicator that NPR is changing into something else?  Maybe.  

Just Something To Think About

 I noticed this fact the other day and it's been on my mind.

As of October 2020.....5.1-million Americans (over the age of 18) had a felony in their background.  It comes out to near one person out of every forty-four.

I sat there pondering over this.

Over my entire Air Force career and the twenty years since then....I've known around eight individuals who were brought up on charges and convicted of a felony situation.  In each single case....the guy made one stupid decision and couldn't alter his path from that moment on.

Are the 5.1-million mostly guys?  No one breaks the numbers down, and I would make a humble guess that of this group....probably 98-percent are men.  Women are more unlikely to commit a felony situation. 

How you should view this?  Once you leave the house in the morning....the odds are from that moment at 7 AM, until 7 PM when you likely return....you've come across at least one or two people who have felony convictions in their past.  

Just something to think about.  

What VP Kamala Harris Reminds Me Of?

 Throughout high school, and even college....I'd come across these people who did next to nothing on study/projects....marginally got a 'C' (you'd always ask how they deserved that), and would score just enough to pass onto the next level.  

By age 25, you could measure their intelligence level, and they were remarkably at the age 13 level of knowledge and capability.  

I knew people in the Air Force....who bluffed their way through basic and some tech school, and five years later....were near 'zero' on knowledge about their field of expertise.  Some would go on and wrap up a twenty-year career....lacking any real intelligence or capability.  

VP Harris reminds me of those people.  Because she was a female, and black.....she got a four-star bluff card, and was never challenged to prove her value.  Now?  Well....she's screwed because she'd have to study, and she simply doesn't have that capability.

The new folks hired to be on her staff?  Most, I think....will be gone by December....realizing that she's not capable of putting in effort to improve.  

Any lessons learned?  I doubt it.  

And I will suggest this....she's not the only one in Biden's group who has a problem like this.