Observations

 1.  Who is Neil Young?

Well....not anyone who has been on the top 100 music charts for at least thirty years.  

Should we mention that by leaving Spotify....that contract deal was paying him around $750k a year, it'll take a while to find a new service, and they probably will offer only half that amount?

2.  If your politician (mayor, governor, House Member, Senator) says they won't meet you face-to-face, if you are non-vax.....does your opinion radically change?

3.  Trump's chatter that he will re-instate the military folks who've been kicked out for refusing the vax?

It puts the Pentagon in a lousy position....if this occurs....what about back-pay?  The discharge just up and disappearing entirely?  

4.  This attempt to re-make the Robin Hood story into a different gender/ethnic character?

Canadian TV company at work.  Maybe it'll make it through a dozen episodes of production, but I doubt if it survives the first year.

5.  If you got Shingles....should you read up on vitamin D, and be tested?

Yes....there's a fair amount of studies out there and you might want to understand the relationship to vitamin D shortfalls.

6.  If the Russians invade the Ukraine, and US troops are captured......just how will President Biden handle the POW crisis?  

When in the Presence of a 5th-Grade 'Kid'

 

It's kinda like when you are engaged in a conversation with a 5th-grade know-it-all kid who wants to explain evolution, IP addresses, the way that water-towers function, orbits of satellites, mercury thermometers, string theory, Wi-Fi, Pi, or cryptocurrency.  After a while, you tell the fifth-grade kid to scram.

Maybe fifty years ago...some idiot politician could say something and six months later....we'd just forget about what the guy said.  

Today, all this gibberish that was said in 2019/2020....is just laying there.  You pick up a piece and then you remember.....oh yeah, he did say that crap two years ago.

The truth is....if the 5th-grade kid would just limit himself and talk over Gilligan's Island and what the castaways should have done, it'd be OK.  If the kid would just discuss fumes put off by scented candles for three lousy minutes.....it'd be OK.  If the kid would just limit himself to discussing the starting pitchers of the Braves....I'd be willing to sit and talk about their upcoming season pitching staff.

But if you got a 80-year old talkative guy who is acting like a 5th-grader and just jabbering away with nonsense....well....you'd like to ask him to get off the porch, and just go home.  

This Trump-DeSantis-Dem 2024 Scenario?

 This past weekend, I read this lengthily piece on the idea that Trump might skip the GOP primary entirely....run as an independent, and he'd be pitted against DeSantis (the likely Republican primary winner) and some Democratic player (likely to be Joe Biden or Mayor-Pete, or Governor Newsom of California).

After a fair amount of pondering, I just grinned....it's a remarkable fantasy.

There are four issues to this:

1.  For the news media.....it's utter disaster for them to paint both Trump and DeSantis as 'evil' or destructive.  Basically, it'd be proving the point that the news groups are corrupted and can't be trusted.

2.  The odds that none of the three would cross the 270-line for the Electoral College?  I'd say it's a 99-percent case.  So the House would receive the situation in 2024, and have three candidates to pick from....from fifty different state groups.  You could screw up the state by state votes in a hundred ways, and it wouldn't matter....it'd be a House delegation that mattered in the end. 

Countering any illegal vote activity?  It'd break that whole fantasy apart.  

The fact that more than half of the House Republicans will owe their position/winning....to Trump in 2022, and stand by him?  I think in some weird way....this would be an interesting thing to watch unfold.

3.  Trump wasting time or capital on the primary system which is screwed up (most of us would admit that)?  It'd give him six months to avoid stress and waste of funds.

4.  Making January of 2025 a heightened state of conflict....with far-left groups arriving in DC and threatening civil conflict?  More than likely.  In the midst of this early January 2025 violence?  Well...President Joe Biden.  

I really doubt this scenario but it is an intriguing discussion.