My Five Fixes For Voting

 1.  You close the poll station at 6 PM and start counting Presidential votes.  At precisely midnight....the count stops.  Either you finished the count....or the votes for President fail to be counted.  

The rest of the situations (governor, Senator, etc)....get counted after the Presidential count.

2.  Absentee ballots?  They have to be arriving three days prior to election day, or they will not be counted.  The will be counted 48 hours prior to the polling stations being opened.  That sum of votes will be announced by mid-day of the vote by the county judge.  

3.  ID required.  If you can't provide a state or federal ID (or passport), then you probably have a problem.

4.  Been in jail?  Once released, you get your vote back.  While in jail or prison....no vote.

5.  If you double-voted in some way?  Just one single extra vote?  You get taken to the state prison system for two years, or you pay the county 'offended' a sum of $25,000 per vote.  

Aren't Misinformation and Disinformation The Same Thing?

 NO.

So, to make this simple....MISinformation occurs daily and it's a pretty routine thing.  

This is where false information comes out and it's just mixed with various facts to make you buy something or avoid something.

It's like your teacher telling you to avoid fatty food for x-reason.  X-reason might only be half-right....but she mixed the facts with some premise that she believed.

Or it's like the teacher having the schoolbook text to evolution and just finding forty reasons to skip that part of the lesson plan.

DISinformation is typically propaganda, where you are told facts, which are absolutely designed to bring you to one conclusion.  

It's always intentional when disinformation is handed out and geared to make you react in a certain way.  

Up until the last decade or two....disinformation was just occasionally occurring.  Today?  You probably get around forty bits of disinformation on a daily basis....handed out by news organizations who may or may not realize what the source is doing.

You could receive disinformation from your minister, your professor, or even your kid's teacher.  

I Tried To Make Sense Out Of This

 Up in Ohio, in some small town....the police have a mounted patrol situation....at least with a couple of horses.  For whatever reason, they decided that they'd get into the Halloween spirit and dress the horses up.

The chosen attire?  Well....they were supposed to be ghosts.

What came across to just about everyone except the police.....the horses appeared to be Klan horses (you know....KKK-wise).

I spent several minutes gazing at the picture, and frankly....whoever picked this attire....has to be just awful simple-minded or a person who knew what they were picking....wanting the KKK-image to stand out.

The horses?  They probably just stood there.....shaking their head....wondering who was responsible for this.  

Just Something To Think About

 

Joe Biden's Southern Accent

 What President Biden tried to do....was a 20-second chat with his best southern accent.  You can observe this at Rumble....here.

On a one-to-ten fake southern accent rating....I'd give the guy a five.  It's not as bad as Hillary's fake southern accent, or Obama's poor attempt.  

What Would I Have Done At 3 AM If a Hammer-Dude Entered?

 Because of my level of bad hearing....I probably would have not heard much of the entry.  My wife?  She would have heard the glass break and hauled ass out of bed to direct me to the 'problem'.

Being in the US....I would have had a choice of a shotgun with buckshot, or a 9-mil pistol.  About 30 seconds would have been spent considering the situation, lack of knowledge, and me being only 50-percent awake at this point. Shotgun and buckshot....the pick.

I would have proceeded down the hall....encountered the Hammer-Dude....giving one single warning, then seeing no positive reaction.....fired one round into him.

With him in pretty good pain from the buckshot....I would have lingered there...asking him if he were 'right-with-Jesus', a registered Democrat, the last time he voted, and his preference for Star Wars.  Then I would have called the police, and ambulance.  

Based on his answers....I would have told the cops that he was mentally lacking, and probably a nutcase.  Then the cops would have admired my shotgun and asked where I bought it.  

By 4:30 AM, the situation would have closed out.  I would have told the wife that I was fully awake and probably deserved a full-up breakfast.  She would have given me a 30 minute lecture then about the hazards of living in America and how it just wasn't right to shoot people.  I would have gotten dressed up then and gone off to the local Waffle-House....to have a $20 plate of heaping hash browns with five sausages, with overly buttered toast.    

Returning home by 6:30 AM....I would have encountered the Channel Nine news team, and given a 3-minute interview.  

Biden's Union Station Speech

 I watched the video of the speech and will offer these six observations:

1.  The lighting for this episode was twice as good as the 'demon-speech' from two months ago.  

2.  Roughly 21 minutes long....I'd say I lost interest at the 8-minute point, but lingered on.

3.  More or less nothing said about inflation, the border, energy costs, gas, or crime.....which would have been the top subjects of the mid-term.  Just odd, but if you can't cite positive things....you avoid talking about them.

4.  Trump bad.....for the 300th time since becoming President.....Biden uttered the slogan of his administration.  

5.  Some weird slip on talking about 'ballot box' and instead uttering 'battle box'.  

6.  Sorry, but it just came across as more of a 'lecture' than a actual campaign speech.  

To be blunt, on lecture-negativity....I'm pretty much burned-out and can't take that much anymore.  

If this is a massive loss next week in the mid-term....then someone really needs to go out and find a new face for the Democratic Party and haul them for most of 2023 out to the general public....instead of Joe and Kam.  

One Odd Thing Over Twitter Chatter About A $8 A Month Fee

 Lot of liberal folks whining about the Elon talk of a $8 a month fee for Twitter 'service'.

I sat there pondering this.

To be honest, if you walk into a Starbucks and select a premium type of coffee (super-sized)....it typically runs (with tax) around $10.  

Oddly, these same folks don't have a problem in pay $10 for that ultra-class coffee, which will be gulped down in 30 minutes.

A ticket for a crappy movie at the local theater?  Typically running $10 to $12 these days.  No problem in paying for that.

I can list off more than fifty different things that these whiners get negative about Elon's price-tag....but they easily pay for it.

San Bernardino County Wants To Leave California?

 There's a ballot measure on the voting business next week for San Bernardino County.....to leave the state of California.

So if you were wondering....it stretches from the Nevada border over to the edge of LA, and up to the edge of Death Valley.  In simple terms....it's about one-third the size of Alabama.  Roughly 2.1-million people live in this one single county.

They are basically fed up with California regulations, and want an exit path....either to leave and join Nevada, or to have their own state.  

No one says how this appears to locals.  My humble belief is that it'll marginally cross the 50-percent point.  

The point of this discussion is that across the whole state of California....there's probably three different 'we-want-to-leave' movements being discussed.  At some point, I expect the DC to discuss the matter and rig up some type forbidden-to-discuss regulation.  

About The Damage To Nord Stream Pipes

 I watched a news piece on N-TV this AM....talking over damage to the Nord Stream I pipe.

What they say?  

Nord Stream I has several hundred meters of damage (figure at least 1,000 feet), and the crater business is 3 to 5 meters (figure 12 to 16 feet).

Beyond that?  They just say it was an explosion....not detailing what was used.  

This being on Swedish territory?  Yeah....under the water.

Observations

 1.  Over the past couple of months....I've heard the comment 'the Carter-Economy' probably forty times.  If you are over the age of sixty....you probably remember various details of the 1970 and how crappy things were for about 18 months.  

The idea that Biden is following the script and presenting the 'Carter-Economy' all over again?  Well....you'd think that he was there and in the middle of it.  He ought to have remembered the period.

2.  Obama helping out much in this election period?  Well....he is showing up almost daily for the past two weeks, but I can't see much improvement with him on the campaign trail for a couple dozen folks. 

3.  Someone added it up....kid from age six to eighteen spends around 15,000 hours in school, or traveling to/from school.  They didn't suggest the real pay-back.....some kids are marginally educated by the end of 15,000 hours....some probably peaked around 8,000 hours.....and some probably would have been ready to move by 12,000 hours.  Just something to think about.

4.  This speech to be done by Biden at Union Station in DC?  Shaking my head over the pick of the location.

Around 2011....I spent an afternoon walking around the station interior and the neighborhood.  The city subway system passes through there.  On a grade of crappiness....one to ten.....I'd give the station area a '5'.  Lot of homeless folks around.....lot of dope-dealers there.  It's a place that I'd exit my train and get to the city subway system quickly.  

If you were asking me about standing there for 20 minutes to hear the President speak?  No....wrong place to hang out.

5.  If you haven't paid any attention in the past month.....whole bunch of Chinese folks who were industry-production types....packed up bags and started their walk 'home'.  It's reached a point where Covid regulation has screwed-up production and you are going to see a major problem in getting products on the shelf of your US store in 90 to 150 days.  

6.  CDC has replaced the 'term' woman.....with the term 'pregnant-person'.  Makes as much sense as addressing your housecat as a 'miniature lion-creature'.  

7.  Biden has claimed he spoke to the inventor guy of insulin in his youth.  Just one problem.....Biden was born a year after the guy died.  

So either it didn't happen.....or that some bogus guy just came up to Biden-the-kid and claimed he was this insulin dude, or it was a ghost.

(personally, I like the third possibility)

8.  Dose of reality: disinformation has probably been around for more than 8,000 years.