News Media Propaganda

 When CBS produces propaganda....you know that it' a pretty weird world.

What Do Trigger Questions Really Mean?

 Well, if you ask a trigger question to a guy or gal under the age of twenty-five, it typically means aggravation, anxiety attacks, etc.  It means they have to think about the question, the possible answer, the path between the two, and a weight of stress (to be determined).  

In the old days, you'd drive up to some neighbor's house, sit on the deck or patio or front porch....then get to the sensitive question of whatever happened to 'Uncle Waylon', and there would be this sixteen minute story of how he got into law-trouble, did four weeks of county-jail, and left for Wichita.  

Then your associate would ask whatever happened to 'Aunt Olivia' and you'd respond that she ran off after getting all tangled up in some love affair between the a welder-guy and a county-commissioner who had a blue Ford pick-up.  

Trigger questions really didn't amount to much, at least thirty or more years ago.

Today?  Triger-questions might go more intensely.  You might be sitting at the porch of the neighbor and asking about his cousin Marvin....to discover that it's a forbidden topic, and triggers your neighbor to ask you to leave.  Only later do you find out that Marvin stole a gas grill, or got hired-up as a circus clown.  

If You Were Curious

 A Russian Ruble today cost 13 cents (US dollar).

November of last year, it was 14 US cents.

2018, it was 18 cents.

Around 2008, it was 43 cents.

Projection?  I read a piece this morning where they figure the rate will drop again by late March to a Ruble buying 10 cents (US dollar).  

Chinese coming in and buying natural gas contracts?  I'd be strongly encouraged to sign a couple of contracts, and pay at the declining value of the Ruble.  Russians buying literally anything outside of Russia?  Don't count on it