Five Observations

 1.  FBI kinda says they took various boxes from the Biden residence of 'notes'.  It would appear....from some of the classified material....someone (maybe not even Joe) read through the material and written classified notes.  Under general security rules, if the classified still appeared in your notes.....you had to protect it, and mark it in appropriate ways.  

If Joe didn't write the notes....it begs more questions....who did?

2.  National Intelligence 'boss' says there's too much over-classifying going on.  

People have been saying this for more than 50 years.

3.  About 90-percent of the people walking around and claiming trauma.....are mostly just screwed-up in the head.

4.  Some theaters in Canada (very limited number) are testing the idea of blacks-only nights.  Yeah, some kind of pro-segregation gimmick.  I'll predict by 2024, some restaurants go and build extra toilets....for blacks, and non-blacks.  

5.  I noticed the Captain Crunch folks have gone to make a pancake mix, and offer up a blue-looking maple syrup.  Was that really necessary?

Is There Trump-Derangement-Syndrome?

 Yes, and there is also CNN-Derangement-Syndrome, FDR-Derangement-Syndrome, Fauci-Derangement-Syndrome, Pelosi-Derangement-Syndrome, NCAA-Football-Derangement-Syndrome, and Woke-or-Anti-Woke-Derangement-Syndrome.

What this amounts to....you've been conditioned in different ways to object or see things in some rational way.  It's like Hunter Biden-Derangement-Syndrome or Joe Biden-Derangement-Syndrome.  Both gentlemen are seen 'demons' and need some kind of exorcism performed.

Part of the blame is social media, but a fair amount goes back to news cycles and the constant bombardment of BS/propaganda.  

I can think of around twenty-five individuals now....if they should appear on the TV, my initial reaction is to mute the TV until it's done.  I can think of three sports figures that have made it to my mute-list.

Here's the thing....this feeling is not going away or lessening.  If anything, you have teenagers and juveniles now....acting out on derangement syndrome problems, and unable to present anything but a fragile understanding of reality.

Five General Reasons Why People Aren't Well Off By Age 60

 1.  People get into a habit early on.....saving is a more important philosophy....instead of earning (or improving your salary).  Every two to three years, your salary ought to be going up a notch.

2.  Getting into the habit of always spending more than you earn.

3.  Letting your career be guided by your parents or society.  You ought to own your destiny.

4.  Too scared to take opportunity and make something out of it.  Even if you fail in 20-percent of your efforts....you have to take risks.

5.  Even by age forty, you have no financial goals, and don't feel bad about it.  

2024 Senate Elections in Play?

 1.  Arizona, with Sinema to be challenged in the Democratic primary, and seriously challenged by a GOP contender.

2.  Michigan.  Incumbent retiring.  

3.  Montana.  Currently near 50-50 split. Tester (D) might face a serious challenge this time.  

4.  Nevada.  Rosen (D) to be openly challenged. Near 50-50 split.

5.  Ohio.  Brown (D) to be fairly challenged.  Near a 50-50 split.

The rest would all likely be won by incumbents. Roughest race is Arizona, with Sinema (D) likely defeated by the Democratic challenger in the primary.  Maricopa County would be unable to repeat the gimmicks of 2022, with printers 'acting up'.   

I would guess two Republican wins in the five states...giving a slight edge to the Republicans.  

Ten Observations

 1.  Just seems to be a lot of police walking around/patrolling....dressed in 'Green-Zone' (Iraq War) 'soldiers-attire', and not as regular police.  What would happen if regular people went to Green-Zone attire?  

2.  You might as well accept it....Artificial Intelligence (AI) will reach a point in ten years where you step into a cubical....get diagnosed with whatever health issue....and get a prescription given to you by AI (not the actual doctor).  Then you walk to the pharmacy....where the next AI will issue you your drug.  Then on the way home, your personal AI sends out a automatic update via Meta/Twitter to your friends of your condition, without consulting you on the hemorrhoid's issue.  

3.  Being censored by someone with the mentality of a 12-year old kid....usually doesn't make sense.

4.  Some people reach maturity by age fourteen......some at age sixty...have yet to reach maturity.  Don't go rushing folks. 

5.  Overthinking....usually doesn't get you into trouble.  Underthinking might.

6.  There are people around who generally hate you....if they cannot control you.

7.  There's an agenda going on to trim the spaces after a '.' to just one, instead of the universal two spaces after '.'.   Don't fall into the one-space cult.

8.  Generally, if you bring up the term 'gain of function'....probably 98-percent of Americans think it has something to do with NFL football, instead of Covid.

9.  Being rational....shouldn't require any rocket science.

10.  It used to be...if you were out-of-touch....you were employed by Burger King or Wendys.  Today, it's possible you might even get hired-up to be President of the United States.  

Movie Review: The Great Wall

 I sat last night and watched the 2016 movie 'The Great Wall'.

I have to admit....it was a lousy movie....marginal script....and if I were in a theater, I would have walked out by the 30th minute.  

Basically, they wanted to sell you on some invasion of China by monster-dog-creatures, and the Great Wall was what was protecting society.  Along come these two European guys, and one of them (the Matt Damon character) saves the day.  

Chicago Chatter

 There's a state draft 'bill' going around, where the Illinois would have the power to mandate...for cities having a population of 2-million or more....if you were a gas station, bank, pawn shop or grocery store....you'd hire up armed-guards.  

Note, cities less than 2-million?  No such requirement.

First, the odds of passage?  I'm guessing while being pushed by a Democrat....it'd be awful hard to get general support among the rest of the state legislature.

Then you come to a cost factor?  If you were a pawn shop or gas station.....that's a added $100k a year on cost....to have a full-time guy around....Monday through Saturday.  

Then you'd come to actual use of weapons.  Armed guards, with Army training?  Any hint of trouble....they'd shoot.  So you'd have at least forty new shootings each day, with problem-folks wounded or dead.

Even legal?  It's aimed strictly at Chicago.  I would imagine it'd go to the Supreme Court over fairness. 

Then finally, I come to the manpower issue.  If you counted up pawn shops, gas stations, grocery stores, and banks....within Chicago....it's probably in the range of 5,000 establishments.  Go figure shifts, and you probably need to find a minimum of 15,000 guys/gals to be armed guards.  If you say former felons or criminal record folks can't be armed guards.....you will require 15,000 Hispanic folks (probably illegals) to do the job required....for the low pay situation.

Observations

 1.  After watching the Memphis police department video of Tyre Nichols getting the crap beat out of him (dying later) by the five cops....I would suggest all five of the cops were high on something.  They showed a lot of energy for the beating, which would normally not be there.

2.  After watching the SF video of Paul Pelosi, I would suggest Paul seems pretty cool and collected.  Hammer dude?  For about 8 seconds....he's OK, then the cop shines the flashlight into his face, and he turns into some kind of demon.  There's no buddy-buddy stuff here.....just a nutcase in the living room with a hammer.

3.  Odds of additional classified documents to be found beyond just Trump and Biden?  I'd now give it 99-percent chance that every President since FDR....has classified in their private papers, and a 50-50 shot that most VP's had classified.

Trump In 2023 And Biden-Heartburn

 For the remainder of 2023, it's a unique year.  

President Biden is mostly in a defensive position on classified documents....fielding answers to questions which a quarter of the time....make no sense....and some belief that he might not be around at the end of 2023. 

Trump?  He's probably going to be seen a dozen times before the end of the year.....in Iowa, South Carolina and a few southern states.  He'll turn on his Meta/Twitter accounts and probably have five or six comments daily....which a normal Democrat opposing guy/gal would make a blunt counter-attack.  But Biden is that guy for the job.

If you ask most independents....they seem to have heartburn over Biden at this point.

Added problem?  Well....between 2020 and 2022.....a lot of the rigged-up stuff (particularly in Arizona with printers) has been shown and it's unlikely to be a repeatable gimmick.

So, in these five states that Trump lost....I'd say it can't be repeated.  

I'd also suggest that just bringing in Gov Newsom as the carrier of the party....isn't that brilliant because there's so many negatives within California today.  

This being a circus show?  Absolutely, but neither party seems to have any corrective actions to present anything 'better'.  It'll be like a Friday night TV battle....'Dukes of Hazard' versus 'Maury Povich'.  

Five Facts About This Atlanta Riot Crap

 1.  The main driving part of this is a site which the regional folks signed up to be a commercial training site for police (going way beyond just Atlanta or the state of Georgia).

2.  The site has never been in protected status.  Originally, it was a plantation site, and after WW I, it was a state prison property.  Total acreage?  85.

3.  Atlanta City is charging this 'company' $10 a year for leasing of the property.

4.  Built into the training site?  A city park, a night-club, a shooting range, and a fake downtown area.

5.  The claim that the site is on a protected watershed area?  BS.  It is just beyond that protected area.  

Observations

 1.  Judge ordered the release of the Pelosi-hammer episode in SF....caught on the police cam when they arrived.

What I expect....mostly two guys in underwear...maybe showing some signs of booze or drugs....chatting in some incoherent fashion.  Nothing exciting.

2.  Putin says he wants to buy left-over US Army equipment that was dropped in Afghanistan. 

Experts claim something like 7-billion dollars worth....left there.  

Whoever is managing this deal.....middle-guy...probably is taking home $50-million for his work, and buying ten cargo planes of mostly 'junk'.  

3.  Some Biden-agenda item to have national 'rent-control'?  

There's rumors to that effect.  It'll be dragged to the Supreme Court, and eventually, the Justices will ask....where did you get this 'power' and there's not going to be a qualified answer to this. 

I'll suggest damages coming out of this...into the tens of billions for trying to implement the goal.

4.  Having a mental illness is almost like a personal goal of Americans now.  Day by day....folks are training themselves to be irrational and qualified for funny-farm entry.

5.  Adam Schiff running for Feinstein's Senate seat?

First, he's a district guy for what is the Burbank area (NE LA), and has been Democrat since 1964 (28-percent Hispanic).  For the state? He has some name recognition. 

However, if you mention London Breed (mayor of SF)....everyone knows her name as well.  Same for Katie Porter....everyone knows her.

Here's my prediction....Schiff ends up spending more 100 days in California this year....making speeches and traveling around the state....spending as little time in DC as possible.  By early 2024,  I think he will realize that Porter and Breed are ten points ahead of him, and he drops this whole election gimmick. 

Just Observations

 1.  It's just an awful lot of irrational, incoherent, and unsound people walking around....trying to inject themselves and their woes into your landscape.

2.  You get the impression that four years of college presently....gets you to the level of the 8th grade of high school from the 1970s.  People are actually paying tens of thousands to lessen their intelligence, and see no shame in this spiral.

3.  Any day now....English is going to be proclaimed 'white-sin' and everyone is going to run off to re-learn their original homeland's (six generations ago) language.  

4.  After Google gave the 'termination' notice to several thousand folks....those folks stood up and said they need 'physiological safety' now.  It's not clear what they mean, but it sounds like they want several weeks of mental rehab....to get over being laid off.  I would imagine after they've been hired by lesser companies....more physiological safety will be needed because they aren't employed at the big 'G' anymore.

5.  The only thing today that is pure entertainment?  Pro-wrestling.  

Quote Story

 “We didn’t understand that it’s a fairly low fatality rate & that it’s a disease mainly in the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that.” 

- Quote by Bill Gates

You know, it's the kind of quote you'd expect from a 12-year old kid in a science class....trying to explain Covid to other kids.

The problem is.....several million people often quoted stuff that Gates said in 2020 and 2021 over Covid.

UK: 3k Extra Brits Die Weekly Now For No Good Reason

Probably some dynamic one-of-a-kind problem triggering this situation. 

Maybe it's something in the water?

Maybe it's something in the ale?

Maybe it's too much sex?

Maybe it's too much extra fatty food.

Maybe it's just people falling off cliffs?

Maybe, well...no, it can't be Covid-related.  

I think the true way to calculate this....God 'bumped' the death list up a notch, and just said 'I wonder if they will notice'.  

Just Odd

Three mass shootings in California in recent days....against the Asian community.

So, all three folks responsible....identified.  

Ages?  72, 68, and 67.

If you go to normal mass shooters....typically people in their 20s/30s.  A few in their 40s. 

So far, no one can state motivation of the three guys.  And for the record....one was Vietnamese, and the other two were Chinese.  

Who/What Is Antifa?

 Well....early in the 1920s....you had fascism start up in Italy....National Socialism start up in Germany, and Francoism start up in Spain.  

Oddly enough....to counter this...at the left side of the spectrum...various social political parties start 'clubs'.  Its safe to say both the SPD Party and Communist Party of Germany had elements that were developed as 'thugs'....who were supposed to oppose the bad evil Nazis.  

There is a belief as 1932 came along and the Nazis were in charge of the government....this element of both the SPD and Communists....left Germany and spent the next decade in the USSR.  After the war, they were set in various ways to return to Germany....as the face of Antifa.

As you go through the 1950s/1960s of Germany, there was class warfare going on, with university students brought into the 'club' of Antifa.

There were various upstarts in France, Italy and across most of Europe in the 1970s and 1980s.....bringing violence as a tool for the 'common working man who was suffering'.  

In this era of 2008 to 2020?  In a number of cases, the US Antifa attached itself to black inner city, and this puzzled blacks because it was mostly a bunch of educated white intellectual kids....who were into destroying communities.  In some odd way, they resembled intellectual klan groups.

Do they have leadership?  No.  If you find a group of a dozen.....there might one leader of the group, who seems to have cash flow.  So far, no one connects the dots....to say a foundation or authority exists.

Interest within the US Marshalls or FBI?  That seems odd too.....like they are simply refuse to view them....while spending a lot of time with the Proud Boys.

Final word?  As long as they operate in urbanized communities where weapons are frowned upon in open use....they probably will get their strategy done. If they appear in southern communities where weapon use is encouraged....their strategy is doomed.  

Whoever brought them to Atlanta....probably isn't from the state of Georgia....just my humble guess.  

Q-and-A

 1.  When talking up about the Russian Orthodox Church....just how close are they to the Russian government?

If Putin called the 'boss' of the church up and said a verse out of the Bible needs editing.....they'd hop right on it.  To be honest, it's less a church, and more of a Kremlin-cult group.

2.  Did AG Garland really utter: "We do not have different rules for Democrats or Republicans, different rules for the powerful or the powerless, different rules for the rich or the poor."

Yes, and virtually no believes him.

3.  Did the Energy Secretary (Jennifer Granholm) really utter that Biden says he "would veto" any bill from House that limits his ability to deplete the Strategic Petroleum Reserve....without any plan to refill it?

Yes.  There probably needs to be some type of law in effect that says the minute you sell x-amount of oil, the clock starts ticking and you have six to nine months to replenish the reserve used up.  

4.  What will the Washington Post bring here in 2023, as Bezos says he'll sell it?

2013 price that he paid....$250-million.  Presently, it'll be hard to convince anyone that it has a value of half the 2013 price (figure $125-million).  In cash....I suspect the first guy to come up with $100-million gets the newspaper and it's woes.

I suspect that a hundred big-wigs knew what Bezos was thinking back in October (selling the paper) and have cash ready to buy it.  No one will be paying full 2013 price for it.  

5.  Is Antifa a domestic terror organization?

Well....my thing is that they cross state lines, which means the feds have to be involved.  Once you encounter a group like this, and the feds won't do anything....you need a special gimmick in place.

In the same fashion that you charge out-of-state tuition at a higher rate at colleges....if you have a out-of-state criminal in your possession....the sentence factor should go up by 30-percent, as well as the fines doubling in nature.  

6.  Local Catholic Church 'leadership' in SF now says that Pelosi never called them to perform some exorcism over her house.....with the hammer-event and her husband?

Yeah, that's what's said.  So either it never occurred, or she got someone dressed in priest outfits (fake guys) to come out and do a chant....to make Paul happy?  

Something about the whole story just doesn't fit.

7.  This dead guy in Atlanta (the guy who fired at cops first) connected to the Antifa stuff.....has a pronoun thing?

Well...Antifa says in some official message that if you talk about him....use certain pronouns (they/it).  Course he is stone-cold dead.  Seems like past-tense usage should outrank pronouns, but that's just the logical side of me saying that.

8.  Ever get the impression that 10-percent of American society is walking around in some form of outrage?

Just getting a half-cooked burger is enough now to set some folks off, and they wreck some burger-joint.  

9.  When some intellectual says they are 'elite'....are they really 'elite'?

With enough whiskey or cannabis....anything is possible.

10.  If someone projects themselves as a 'woman' but has a moustache of sorts.....should you say anything?  

No...just imagine the moustache as being marker drawn, and skip introductions.

11.  Isn't life about a bunch of people feeling under-classified and a bunch of people feeling over-classified?

Yeah, more or less.

12.  Is there talk in the UK about a tax on unused bedrooms in a house?

The chatter is....if you own a 2-bedroom place (or 3-bedroom place), and you only use one for yourself (and your partner)....you ought to pay some yearly fee/tax.  Otherwise, you ought to be forced to move to a smaller place.  Those folks in palaces (16 bedrooms for example) are the ones who will freak out over this.

About Them Lions

Someone pointed out this Noah's ark picture....I've probably seen it a hundred times in my life.

If the picture were true....the lions would be extinct....because if you pushed two male lions (with the hair)...onto the ark.....they wouldn't reproduce.

Not that I really care....it's just a artist rendition, and probably used in several hundred publications.  

For the record, male and female lions are among the few animals on Earth.....that you can note from several hundred yards away on their sex. 
 

Yacht-Girls?

 I had this term thrown at me over the weekend.

So a yacht-girl is some model-gal type (perhaps not that bright) who has found a guy (usually over the age of forty), who owns a yacht.  He might park it in the Bahamas, or Greece, or Italy.   She goes for weeks or months at a time....to hang out on the yacht....doing everything possible to make the owner happy, and living a dream-lifestyle on the yacht.

Yacht-girls tend to have a limit....by age mid 30's...their career has to lead onto marriage or lifestyle ends.  

How All This Teacher-Trans-Pronoun Stuff Comes Across

 Just an odd way to present the 'brand'.  You start as the new teacher, and emphasize that the class-unit is separate from the family-unit.  

So as days/weeks go by.....you use psychological tools to turn a kid away from the family....that they aren't looking out for your best interest.  

Then you suggest that the family doesn't understand them.

Some of the families will realize the intent, and yank the kid out of the school.   By the time that the administrator or board realizes the impact....it's too late to do much.

Somewhere in the next decade....the public school system in various states will reach a point where they don't have the numbers to keep a 1,500 kid school open, and closures will start up.  

Meeting Topic

 I was watching N-TV this AM, and a piece came on....getting into the value/lack of value....for team meetings.

So someone in the German business world sat down and analyzed the cost of these meetings....saying that one such meeting with an average number of a dozen members....wasted around 1,000 Euro (per hour).  

For a number of years in my early life....these team meetings (in the American atmosphere) were never more than 10 minutes, Somewhere in the mid-1990s....the trend shifted, and a 45-minute meeting became the norm for at least once a week.

Toward the very end of my work career....if I counted all of the weekly meetings I had to attend....it amounted to four a week and around an hour for each.  Value of these?  There was always one or two little items in the mix...giving it some value....the rest were a total waste.

My wife (German in nature) whines about team meetings a good bit, and simply sees it as another Covid-spread opportunity.

I had a boss once (for a brief period) who organized his team meetings around the 'smoker's pit'.  We'd gather there for the smokers to have a chance for a smoke, standing, and getting a simple 8-minute you-need-to-know-this chat.  It was one of the few times that I enjoyed the office meeting business.  

Will this German discovery of 1,000 Euro of man-hours bother people?  I'm guessing there will be some office meetings where the issue is discussed.  But it's not likely to evolve into anything to dismantle office meetings.  

Five Books I'll Recommend for 2023 Reading

 1.  Bubble in the Sun (Knowlton).  If you ever wanted to grasp 1920s capitalism running amok....this goes into great detail about the Florida land boom/bust.  Very colorful....rich in history, and explains a lot over the first quarter of the century.

2.  A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century (Heying, Weinstein).  If it's been 20 years since you went to college...this lays out a lot of cultural development and how the Hunter-crowd died out and got replaced.  I will admit....it's a book that you read 10 pages and have to put it down for a day or two....thinking about implications.  Lot of science chatter.

3.  Hitler's First Hundred Days (Fritzsche).  Covers the election period to bring Hitler in, and how laws were modified in that early period.  

4.  Blue Latitudes (Horwitz). Long historical look at the Pacific region.  Been out for 20 years but worth a read.

5.  Last Call (Okrent).  Discusses at length the American booze era before 1920, and the Prohibition 'failure'.  If you knew nothing of the 1920s....this would take you along the historical side of things.  

When People Are Fragile

 If you'd asked me in 1978 about the fragility of people....I would said that 99-percent of people were remarkably anti-fragile.  

If you asked me in 2023 about the fragility of people....I'd say we are at a point where 5-to-8 percent of population are in some form of being fragile.  They can't handle bad news...multi-tasking...a bad score on some test....a confrontation with their spouse or co-worker....people who oppose their political view....or the nightly news.

Your 15-year old kid might be fragile enough....that one sign of disrespect from a class-mate....might be enough to set them off....clobbering the friend in the hallway, and getting suspended from school for a week.

Your wife might be fragile enough....to be asking for medication to keep her doped-up most of the day....because she can't handle the stress of normal life.

Your boss might be holding 2-hour team meetings each day because he's awful fragile over the results and work produced.  

It's to the point now where you (the non-fragile person) have to contend with the situation and try to protect the fragile person.  After a while, you start to notice at least ten folks in this landscape.....all non-fragile....gathered up and acting in some way as a team for the fragile guy/gal to survive.  

I would suggest....sooner or later....the teams out there, will wake up and say 'enough', dumping their fragile associate.  It'll be like the zombie-movies that we often imagine....just filled with fragile people running amok and asking people to return to their sworn 'duty'.  

Some Advice for the ANTIFA Guys In Atlanta

 1.  Whoever sponsored you to set up a Portland operation....doesn't really know much about Atlanta or Georgia itself.

2.  When these Atlanta cops show up....they won't kid around.

3.  Just a single stupid conviction could get you easily six months in a state prison, and your acceptance won't be violent-free.

4.  The mere fact that ANTIFA is normally 99-percent white-college-educated will simply come across to the black population of Atlanta as Klan-Intellectuals.  

5.  Sit down and read for an hour about carpetbaggers, note how their trend came and went after the Civil War.

The Thing About Classified Documents

 Over my military life, I've probably read through a thousand classified 'documents', and three-hundred thousand 'reports'.  

So you can divide these into six categories...on reading value/impact:

1.  You had 20 page white-paper 'documents' written by some PhD guy who analyzed a thousand-odd pages of material....to come to some conclusion.  I'd describe it as a thesis-like situation.

The problem was....depending on who this was....it could be awful 'dry' material and other than the summary page (1 single page)....the whole thing was unreadable.  

2.  You had a five-line single topic report over one single event underway, and it could be conflicting in a dozen different ways.  Typically, you just read it to grasp what was going on, and wait three hours for a better organized dispatch..

3.  You'd have a 5-topic 4 page morning report.  You'd spend 10 minutes reading this....usually causing you to go back refresh all of your vast knowledge on X, Y and Z, wasting another hour of your time.  

4.  You'd have a 150-page report which blended in a thousand facts, and often left you confused on the topic.  These were the ones written by three guys.....that you felt were differing on the outcome of the whole report. If any of this dealt with economics....it'd bring tears to your eyes about the vast nature of information dumped upon you.  

5.  You'd have a new technology report.....which rarely could get the technology in some understandable way.  

6.  Finally, you'd have some physiological report on how so-and-so thinks, and by the end....you'd be suddenly thinking....man, that's the way my Uncle Felix thinks and reacts....or how your 2nd wife Belinda acts when she gets drunk.

So then I come to the three obvious problems: (1) reading these consumed a fair amount of time, (2) half the time....your skeptical nature clicked-on, or (3) report X, Y and Z (by differing groups) had each a different view of things.  

I worked once with a Colonel who had a understanding about how you'd present things to Generals....it had to be drafted and presented in the fashion that a 10-year old kid could understand.  It took me several months to adapt and understand that people just don't receive information in the fashion you'd assume.  Pictures and graphic charts are absolutely necessary to get points across.

So I look at this effort by Joe Biden, and generally think....it can only go one of three ways: either he had lobbyist-friends that wanted to read what he was reading in the office (as Senator, VP, or President), or the only reading time he had...was at home.....or he was giving Hunter a chance to read the stuff he was reading.  

Then it brings in this problem....if this is old stuff from 2005....did he not ever clean his garage or office area?  

Teacher Discussion

 I sat and watched a video of a teacher (probably in her 20s) hyping up how she was so open with her relationship (with another woman) and lifestyle with her fifth grade kids.  After about four minutes of this chatter, I turned it off.  This has been on my mind for about three weeks now.

Growing up in the rural south of the 1960s/1970s, you basically got two elements of information out about your teachers: (1) they were mildly Christian (lite view of evolution) or extreme Christian (evolution could not be openly discussed), (2) they were married, but never mentioned the name of their spouse.  

Beyond that, you knew nothing of their politics, their past twenty years, or their social life.  Most would openly share their vacation from the past summer....where they went off to the Rocky Mountains, or camped out in some state park in Mississippi.  

Personally, the political, religious or social views of the teacher ought to rank with their position on NCAA football, Snickers versus Mars Bars, or best episode of Get Smart.

If you've got some dim-witted teacher who is wasting eight hours a month talking about sexuality or fantasy-sex stuff....it just begs questions.  Do they even know anything about the topic they've been hired to teach?

Where this is going to lead to?  You set some trend through high school and college....to arrive at your first real job....to discover that sexual chatter and lifestyle stuff....just isn't that approved in regular society.  You will start to imagine that they are 'stuck-up' and not your peers. 

It just begs the question....how will this trend-out in twenty years and if mental help will be required for some of these kids?

Three Bull-Shit Things

 1.  I read this AM....both CBS and NBC are in talks with Prince Harry.....if he's not invited to the King Charles Coronation (6 May)....that they'd cover this Coronation (live) and Harry would be the commentator.  

First, this would occur around noon (UK time), and be at 3 AM California time.  My guess....fewer than 1-million Americans would be watching on this Saturday morning.

2.  It just appears that with outside influence....Atlanta is on the verge of some type of civil war, with Antifa in the middle of this.  The comical thing....Antifa is purely white guys in modern black hoodies resembling a polar-opposite Klan 'klub'.  

3.  Some kind of secret documents got found in Joe's house in Delaware....that appear 'aged', and going back prior to 2008 (his VP start-date).  It won't surprise me if they eventually get to some secret document dating to the 1990s.  

Yet....no one goes to jail?   

Five Realizations in the New Year

 1.  I've come to realize every time that VP Harris speaks....I continually think of myself with above average IQ...maybe even in the 120 range.

2.  There's hardly a day that goes by in 2023, where I don't see cult-like behavior on TV or in social media.

3.  I truly believe that the Philippines can conduct a better election than the state of Arizona.

4.  I generally believe by the end of 2023....a Bible will be produced with gender-neutral pronouns, and God as a female (she).

5.  Alec Baldwin probably will get convicted, and sent off to a year in prison....later saying it was the best experience in his life, and he lost 25 pounds during the 'stay'.  

People Who Intentionally Develop Mental Illness

 Many years ago, I lived in a barracks that had some kind of bug problem, to which the Air Force sprayed down the place with some new and fairly odd smelling scent (I'd describe it as ultra citrus....to the extreme...like you squeezed a lemon over your upper lip every 3 minutes).  

Then they brought us all into a TV room and explained it was ultra safe and nothing unsafe at all.  Over the next six hours....probably five guys presented themselves at the base emergency room and hyped-up that they were about to collapse or faint.

I should note...whatever it was...marginally took care of the bug problem, and we thought the five guys were aiming for some disability situation later on in their career.

So today, I noted some report from Comprehensive Psychiatry (a monthly medical journal)....where "social contagion” through prolonged social media use can explain why some teens, mostly adolescent females, self-diagnose their purported rare mental illnesses and personality disorders online. “

In simple terms...teens were getting some type of information via social media, discussing it with other teens....then doing a self-diagnosing session over a mental illness invention. 

Yeah, they were making themselves mentally unbalanced.

So when you think about this...after they were artificially reaching a stage of unbalanced....then they had to go over to a mental health clinic....to recover from their personality disorder  that they invented.

Social media bombarding them constantly?  More or less.

You could easily be convinced by age fifteen that you were heavily into bondage or some real kinky stuff, and need serious intervention to reach reality.

What's interesting here....for those of us over sixty.....the worse you usually worried about was acne, crappy food at the school cafe, or some kid throwing up in a classroom.  A whole new world of being mentally unbalanced opens up.  

Another VP Harris Quote

 "The issues that are present in the climate crisis are varied and it requires us to be present and to be in front of each of the iterations and variations that include extreme weather that produces a lot of water and extreme weather that produces drought."

In other words....some days it rains, and some days it's awful dry.....you ought to stand and appreciate either/or.  

Explaining Peru's Recent Chaos

 Over the past three months, Peru's stability situation has moved from a page six story....to page one.  There's a lot of news chatter....which seems to be BS....so a moment of introduction:

1.  Peru for the past hundred years, economically and politically....has revolved around mining and bulk agriculture production.  Those key groups maintain the economic stability (control) and whatever political power developed...was 'blessed' by the 'boys-in-the-back-room'.

2.  In modern history....the 'new' Peru came about in 1968 with a coup d'état organized by a number of military officers, led by General Juan Velasco Alvarado.  Their label?  Well....they were going to bring "social progress and integral development".  

To pay for the benefits gained?  The General dumped the owner of the oil industry, and the state took over....using the cash flow for improvements.  It was during this era that major ownership of farm-land ceased, and the gov't started to hand out individual plots to farmers.  

3.  During the 1980s, economic chaos was a daily thing.  The currency reached a point where it was necessary to dump the Sol, and going to the Inti.  At some point...the Inti was going into failure....so they invented another currency out of thin air....called the Neuvo Sol.  In simple terms....nothing much that the government did....resulted in economic stability.

4.  To fix the 1980s issues....the military stepped in again, and drafted up more 'control' measures.  Censorship and a mandated economy (run by the military officers) became the solution.  Behind this....came the 'Shining Path' terrorist organization, which was a big deal for most of a decade.

5.  In the early 1990s...Fujimora came to be the President, and introduced more control measures....favored by the military.  If you were in some opposition group and raising 'hell'....you probably got a visit by the police.  Judges?  They were routinely put into place or 'fired'.  There's hardly a day in this era when you didn't hear about some Shining Path terror action going on.  

6.  Peru goes through the 2000 to 2010 period....with a series of new political figures....who are mostly retreads of the 1990s, and simply re-inventing themselves.  By 2009, the corruption trial over Fujimora has concluded....deciding he was pretty 'bad', and giving the guy 25 years in prison.  The true side to his case?  His police were involved in kidnappings and murder....sponsored by the state.  It was an effort to clear the slate and say that the government could clean up its mess.

7.  In 2011, you had the case where the President came from one party and the congress were Fujimorists in nature.  Impeachment chatter often came up.  They had a unique feature in their Constitution....where you could impeach a President without cause. Yes....nothing illegal or such....or even incompetence.  Based on this threat....President Humala left office (just the threat was enough to clear the house).

8.  The Covid era (2020 on)?  Well....politics ends up as a front page story....day after day.  President Vizcarra....walking in with marginal support in 2021....was 'fired' a week later.  Some folks say it was a coup by Congress, but it really doesn't matter.

9.  So we come to President Castillo.  He was the clear winner of the July 2021 election....no argument.  His party's control in the Peruivan House?  Around 25-percent....so nothing much was being passed, and it was mostly political theatrics for months leading up to December.

Then Castillo does something unique.....he's decided he will 'fire' the House and run the control by mandates from his office.  This set off alarms in the capital, and on the 7th of December....the House removed Castillo.  

What's generally laid out by news media sources is that Castillo is left-wing and the House is right-wing.  

It's safe to say the Castillo appeals to the bulk of lower-class voters (probably 20-to-30 percent of the country), and his promises rely upon a lot of 'gifts' coming down for this society of Peru.

The House vote to remove Castillo?  101-to-6.  

Who became President then?  Well....the VP....a woman by the name of Boluarte.

Castillo?  He's now been arrested/detained....on charges of rebellion.  Yeah....if it sounds like the 6th of January stuff in DC....you might be grinning.

Castillo like a charged-up and thrills-guy, who is anti-capitalist....a bit Trump-like character?  Some Peruvians would gleefully suggest that.  

Where things stand since mid-December?  Boluarte is basically running the country with the support of a right-of-center House and the full support of the military.  On the negative side....if you were to poll the public....probably half the country is shaking its head and in some state of anti-Boluarte behavior (meaning riots are occurring nightly).

A lot of this anger resulting from Castillo's promises?  That's the odd factor....he was absolutely a Marxist and doubling down on nationalist 'gifts' to the public.  He did actually promise a new tax on the rich of Peru....his big aim was to finally nationalize Peru’s mining industry (the real money-maker for the country presently), and there was that idea of writing a whole new constitution.

For reference, the Constitution presently....is the 5th since 1900....freshly drawn up in 1993.  Oddly enough, the key feature delivered out of this....the old Congress (made up of 240 folks) was reduced to 120.  

If you start at 1823....there's been a dozen Constitutions....most barely lasting a decade.  So it'd be truthful to say....things are always evolving there.

If you were looking for a great example how politics is a 'show'....Peru is the place to review things.  

Fires in the capital city, and riot police out in the past week?  Yeah....that's the action going on.  A lot of this is simply Castillo-supporters...disturbed that he didn't get a chance to fire the House and run things on his own.  

The odds that President Boluarte will be gone in three years?  Pretty much guaranteed.  Odds of another Marxist political gimmick already in the works?  Pretty much guaranteed.  

My advice....if you were a high school civics teacher and wanted a project for class development....assign a week of reading over Peru, spend a day talking about the value or lack of value in having a Constitution, and the chaos attached to politics.  

20 Things I Think Of

 1.  Every time I see a FBI official speak....I sit and contemplate....what's the odds of a false narrative that might fit into his 'talk'.

2.  Each time I see any politician promise something....I'm wondering how many lobbyists paid to influence him.

3.  Each time I see George Bush, I tend to wonder if he was ever fit to run a Burger King.

4.  Each time I hear Benghazi mentioned....I wonder....why would there be forty-odd CIA guys/contractors....sitting less than two miles away from the Ambassador's house?

5. Every time I see Bill and Hillary Clinton, I contemplate how many women 'serviced' Bill (BJ-wise) over the past forty years, and if Bill was given the 'green-light' back at year one of the marriage.

6.  Every time some PhD guy/gal indicates to me their position in life.....I kinda feel sorry for them, and contemplate offering them a coffee or a shot of cheap whiskey.

7.  When I get moral lectures from Christian folks (ever since age 12)....I tend to sit there imagine if Moses got these lectures over and over, and he walked off into the desert mostly because he was tired of the lectures.

8.  When I tend to see four policeman at the same time...standing there.....I size up the guys and figure the donut count to reach 250 pounds each.

9.  When I watch CNN (ever so rarely)....I'm continually counting the seconds before I either mute the sound or change the channel.

10.  When I (rarely) fly these days...I tend to sit and count the folks in the aisle yet to come....who are fifty to one-hundred pounds over their weight and require 1.3 seats to really sit comfortably, and hope none of them sit by me.

11. When I notice a gal wearing a pair of pants that are two sizes too small for her 'build'....I often wonder if she's so poor....she can't afford to buy the correct size.

12.  When I'm talking to a college graduate (four-year degree) and they seem to be eighth-grade high school material.....I'm wondering if I should recommend they seek part of their tuition back.

13.  When I'm in conversation with someone who seems to have paranoid schizophrenia (they actually describe imaginary people).....I tend to view and develop an escape plan.

14.  After I get home with a new TV these days...it's around day two that I realize there's around 600 extra functions....I didn't ask for....and contemplate if I should read further into the manual, or just stick with the dozen things I really asked for.

15.  I've come to realize that any conversation on the porch in 1975....centered on a dozen simple topics and you could engage without being embarrassed or put on the spot.  Today, there's likely 3,000 different subjects, and a quarter of them are pretty hot-topics that you'd rather not discuss....even with your barber, your wife, or the landscaper guy (Pedro).

16.  When I'm sitting in a ultra-modern car, it pains me to admit that there's probably six hours of training required to use all of the functions within the car.

17.  When I pull into any gas station in a highly urbanized city....I'm evaluating the lighting, security and my safety situation.

18.  When VP Harris speaks....I tend to wonder how she made it past the 8th grade.

19.  When I'm at a doctor's office and they hand me some interview-letter...asking me my feelings over X, Y and Z.....I tend to want to write that I feel great since I developed a relationship with my invisible friend (Marvin).  

20.  When I board a plane....I'm often wondering....from the 300 folks who are doing their best to make sure it runs perfect.....the movie mechanism works, the bag is there, and that the drink cart is full.....will any of them fail on their one vital task?

When Tolerance Fails

 "Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the fools."

- Dostoevsky

I am reminded of this...every time that VP Harris speaks.  

Nine Observations

 1.  Why all this hype over the visitor logs to President Biden's personal home in Delaware?

Well...I suspect that with each weekend trip....a doctor came by, and it might be interesting what his expertise is in.

2.  What's this HUD talk about 'equality plans'?

Basically, the Biden team is writing a regulation that each community/town/city....has to have some equality plan to ensure equal 'stuff' to blacks, Latinos, Asians and whites. 

However, once you get into these low-cost neighborhoods built (some in the 1960s)....it'll be obvious that it's mostly a black cheapo home landscape.  So the gimmick will be that you need to either force more whites into these neighborhoods, or somehow build new neighborhoods with more black inclusion.

3.  This White House press spokesperson (KJP).....having trouble with the classified documents story?

Well....the story changes day to day, and the White House (really Biden himself) can't really tell her much of anything.  There would appear to be more than a dozen document 'bosses' handling various pieces and parts of this....with marginal coordination.  

4.  University of Pennsylvania in the hot-seat?

House Oversight Committee has asked just how much they are getting in Chinese funds.   They want the answer under 'oath', and I doubt if anyone at the University wants to play this game.  

5.  Has recycling become cult-like or a religion?

Yeah, and the fact that the news media just skips over this should bother people.

6.  This Alec Baldwin voluntary manslaughter charge?

The prosecutor of the county has gotten the charge approved and is proceeding forward.  My guess....it'll be assigned to some junior guy with minimum experience in handling cases like this, and give Baldwin a fighting chance of winning (not-guilty).  

The problem here....the lady armorer is up for the same charge, and she won't have the same legal representation. 

7.  Why was the CIA director in Kiev?

Anyone's guess....but Ukraine is probably asking for more assessments and information that would normally not be given to a non-NATO member.  

8.  This Santos guy (NY's new House member) was a former drag queen (in Brazil)?

Yeah...pictures out there....maybe ten years ago.  And the NY news journalists didn't figure this out until now?

9.  Some BS story that Putin is dead, and a actor is filling his shoes?

Yeah, the rumor is out there....probably a solid '10' on the BS-meter.  

NZ's Prime Resigns?

 Anything to take out of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern resigning?

Well....back in 2017....her party won the election and she entered as the new PM.  When Covid arrived in early 2020....she hyped-up a lot of harsh mandates.  

From Jan 2021....on her party was sitting in polls at 48-percent, and leading over all other parties (the number two party was around 27-percent in polling).

By Jan 2022....her party had fallen to 40-percent in polling (mostly angry voters over Covid mandates)..

By this month (2023)....her party sits in 2nd place at 32-percent.  Based on trends....had she stayed and kept the theme going....they would have been near 25-percent when the election comes up in the fall. 

The opposition party (the National Party) has a 8-point lead.  

What you can say is that what good will that Arden had.....diminished month by month, and she really could not grasp the negative effect, with it all leading back to Covid practices.  

Trump, Facebook/Meta, and Twitter

 If you follow the news....Trump now says he wants his old FB account turned on.  Basically, all of the reasons given to dump him off FB originally....are now problems because of the FBI allegations and fake chatter stirred up.  

I'm guessing to please the tech employees (more of a cult group than actual employees)....the Z-man will say no, and some court case will develop.  My guess is that it'll revolve around Florida courts, and end up at the Supreme Court by late fall.  It'll be hard for FB to win this.

As for the idea that he'll return to Twitter?  His team will take on the account and speak for him....via Twitter. 

Going toward spring of 2024 and primary season?  I'd say three obvious things:

1.  Biden needs to be out of the picture entirely....his brand/message....even if he's not running will be a problem each day for the Democratic candidate (likely Newsom) to handle.  

2.  If you thought 2016 and 2020 were hyped-up....you haven't seen anything yet.

3.  All of the 'tricks' used in the five 'bitter' states in 2020?  Well...they've been seen and noted....so repeating the same 'tricks' is going to be next to impossible.  

Social media in 2024....will matter.  

Just a Stupid Hunter Question

 Joe's house, was rented to Hunter for a period, and the monthly rent was $49,000.  

If you draw a circle of 2 miles around the house....looking for similar qualities (value of $2-mil)...there are various houses that rent for around $5k to $6k.  

Why would you rent X-house for a whole year, and pay $45,000 more each month?  

(unless you were money-laundering)

Ten Things I Tend To Believe

 1.  If you did crank up a reparations 'check' for blacks over the slavery issue....of $100,000 each, the massive bulk of this money....into the hundreds of billions....would be consumed into the US economy over a one-year period.  I would suggest fewer than 1-perent would still have half of the money by the end of two years.  

2.  None of the private lawyers that Joe Biden hired to do the document search.....probably have clearances for the documents to be found.  Maybe I'm wrong on this....but I doubt it.  

3.  I suspect if visitor logs did exist for President Biden's home visits.....it would show for each single weekend visit....a medical doctor was in the mix.

4.  I think if you 'tested' President Biden and asked him to name ten capitals of ten US states...other than Delaware....he'd fail.

5.  I suspect if you uttered the term 'whore' in a group of college students....you would be censored right away, and a dozen of the hundred would be fragile enough to seek 'help'.  Yet, if you asked the same group to 'define' whore.....they'd mostly be unable to do so.

6.  I think ever since the Pentagon went and said 'yeah....UFOs are real'.....the general public is still at the same rate of UFO-belief (roughly two out of three).  The admittance hasn't really changed the belief numbers in any sort of way.

7.  I think by 2030....ten-percent of the bars in America....will be non-alcoholic bars....meaning that no alcohol of any sort will be sold.  

8.  Some idiot by 2030 will have figured out a DNA way to reproduce Mammoth elephants, and started a herd in Idaho.  

9.  Someone in the next ten years, in Detroit....will have started a local political party under the Taliban platform.  At least one member of the city council of Detroit will come from the group.

10.  A illegal drug will be marketed/sold in the US in the near future, which will put you to sleep for five consecutive days (to be called '120-hour surge').  A IV will have to be applied by your dealer, but it will knock you out for 120 hours.  

My List of the Seven Most Over-Hyped TV Shows

 1.  Suits.  I've tried on two occasions to catch onto the series.  The storyline and text....crap.  

2.  Stranger Things.  I've watched all of the episodes.  I'll just say there was some 'flame' or interest there in season one....but from that point on....it's a teenage series with some soap opera crap and light science fiction.

3.  It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.  Presently, I've watched around ten episodes, and will just say that character-wise....it's just awful weak, for people who seemed hyped-up over the series.

4.  Dukes of Hazard.  In my military barracks years....the TV room crowd would demand that the channel be set to this...if it was on.  At some point, we had a drinking game set-up....when character X said 'this' or 'that'.  I had the impression that a 12-year old kid wrote the weekly script.

5.  Moonlighting.  It was hyped because of the two key actors....beyond that....there just wasn't a real script.

6.  3rd Rock From The Sun.  I think I've watched around forty episodes of the series.  The talent was always there, but half the scripts just never delivered.

7.  Walker, Texas Ranger.  Basically, there was 3 minutes of kick-ass routine....mingled around with a introduction of some bad guy, and forty minutes of BS soap opera cop-routine. 

Classified Material

 At some point in my military years, I got 'drafted' into a classified document search.  There were three of us in this 'search-team'.  

So, here's the odd thing....there were three lost documents, based on the original audit.  None of the three of us....worked in this 'vault' or had any relationship to the crew which were working there.  

So we walked in and immediately realized the scope of the mess.  This was a vault with around twenty-five file cabinets.  To go through each drawer....searching for the documents or the message lost....among what was literally thousands and thousands of documents or messages?  

I immediately asked for destruction records.  Looking at the age and description of two of the documents....I knew they had replacement documents arrive in the past year.  It took 15 minutes to find the first document (already destroyed) and five more minutes to find the second destroyed document.  

These people had simply failed to grasp the destruction records.  

The third one?  It had fallen in some drawer and was underneath several folders....but it would take the rest of the day to settle upon this finding.

Nothing was lost.  

Classified documents don't get lost....unless you remove them from a vaulted area or safe.  

So I look at the White House 'mess' and it's the reality that people want these documents in open areas....which aren't really treated as vaults or secure.  

Someone will go and ask for such-and-such....to read.....but the reality is....they pretend to read it and discuss it, when all they did was read the sixty-line initial summary.  The thirty-odd page real report?  Ninety percent of folks will just skip that because of the dry material.  

Four Bits of Advice

 1.  If the government says you need something.....you probably don't need it.

2.  If the government says they want to 'help' you....it's probably not the kind of help that you or I imagine.

3.  If the government makes a statement....hyping up that it's factual....there's probably enough reasons to be skeptical and disbelieve some part of the statement.

4.  If the government says it's position on something is 'safe' (actually using the word SAFE)....then it's probably 50-50 odds that it's not safe (like you or I imagine).  

Three Fascinating Facts On Charles Manson

 1.  His mother was Kathleen Manson-Bower-Cavender, (originally Maddox) (born in 1919, and died in 1973) who was fifteen-years-old at the birth, but very likely to be 14 when she got pregnant.   

The father was Colonel Walker Henderson Scott Sr. (born in 1910 and died in 1954).  I should note.....he did not serve in WW I.  The 'Colonel' rank was something he invented for himself, and had convinced Kathleen Maddox that he was distinguished.  

After the birth, Kathleen did use the court system to sue, and get some type of marginal settlement (in 1937).

Upon telling Colonel Scott of the pregnancy....the 'Colonel' announced he had Army business to attend to, and left (in the permanent sense).  He died of alcoholism at age 44.  

Scott's two primary occupations in life?  Working in a flour mill, and noted as a local con-artist.  There's some stuff there to suggest he was marginally educated, and probably serious alcoholic from his teen years on.  

2.  While in reform school in his younger years....he developed a technique that he referred to as 'the insane game'.  What he learned was....if you act insane....people don't screw with you.  

3.  In 1968, Manson found employment in a SF hospital, which happened to have a funded research project....to see how the effects of LSD worked on the human mind.  He (along with several lady friends) would sign up and get paid for their involvement in the LSD treatment.  

Coaches

 This past week, I was reading through my home-state news (Alabama) and found this interesting story over the state finding funding....to hire up 'math coaches'.  Note, we aren't talking about math teachers....we are talking about extra folks out there, who apparently will be hired to better handle crappy math education within the state of Alabama.  

Yeah, they aren't replacing math teachers....it's just that they will show up and lecture kids in some different manner....than the math teacher can present.  

Bogus situation?  Well....I will tell this story of my ninth-grade math situation from early 1970s.

We started the school year in the math class....with a new teacher.  I would say that the first four weeks were mostly a refresher episode....where half the class had forgotten most everything from the previous math 'year'.

Along about mid-September....we come to a chapter of mathematical equations....vastly different from anything of the previous year.  

There's supposed to be around 3 weeks on this chapter, with a test, and then we move onto the next chapter.

At this end-point, out of 24 students....I would estimate that five people grasp the subject, with another five who marginally understand it (me in this group), and the rest in failure mode.  The test result?  If I remember correctly....one person scored in the 90 range....two in the 80 range...two in the 70 range....the rest all in the zero to sixty range.  

The teacher basically threw out the results, then went onto roughly seven additional class days of refresher on the same subject, with another test.  That improved things slightly....there were six kids to now to get 70 or above.

The teacher threw out that result, and went to another full week of the same subject (you can figure 27 days used for a chapter that should take 15 days).  

At this point, the day prior to the test....he gave out a test (lesser in terms of problems) and we went step by step over the each of six problems. 

The next day....as the real test was handed out....it was noted quickly that it was the same test as the previous day.  I would guess out of the 24 students there....six folks still got sixty or less....the rest of us mostly got in the 70-to-80 range.  

In getting the concept across?  Neither the book or the teacher could accomplish this.  At some point, some kid asked.....how would we ever use this in regular life.  It was a pretty accurate question to ask, and the teacher (new at the profession) simply said you needed math ability in life.  

My humble belief is that these math 'coaches' will fill in this mess, and maybe make sense out of the rocket science of math.  

My Documents 'Scenario'

 Yesterday, a piece of paper came from Hunter Biden....his document for a gun purchase....where he gave his address.  Oddly, it's the property that Joe/Jill Biden own themselves, but in some funny fashion....Hunter says for the record....he is the owner, and that he pays a 'rent' of $49,000 per month.  Course, it's not what you would call real rent....this was the funnel where Hunter's cash flow to 'dad' occurred.  

Money-laundering?  Yeah, and you see the end of this whole situation.  

So this is my 'script' to what occurred and will be the end:

1.  Someone (rogue agent or whatever) planted document #1 at the Biden-Center to draw some bait.  The Center people reacted, and called up Joe's insider team.  The reaction was....we better send people over to investigate....BUT lets not alert the AG, the FBI, the House/Senate.  So a couple of Biden lawyers went to the Biden-Center.  

2.  This investigation details out various classified documents, a couple of weeks prior to the election.  But now, the insiders are worried....what if there's more documents?  So they review records and know two additional deliveries took place (home in Delaware, and this garage). So the lawyers will venture there.

3.  At some point in early January, the AG is now alerted.  Whether Joe told him, or the team told him.....might be interesting to know.

4.  What the AG intention is....to keep the entire documents 'drama' controlled, without the House investigating.....so a special prosecutor is appointed.  While this guy spends two years investigating....nothing via the House can be done on the documents.

5.  So we turn now to the document where Hunter suggests a rent paid of $49,000.  The AG can't cover that.  The House can. 

6.  The money-laundering angle?  Enough for impeachment.  

7.  The rogue folks?  This impeachment will likely drag forward, and they already have the script fixed up....Harris will be sworn in....probably by mid-summer.  The new VP?  Governor Newsom of California.

8.  We will have around six months of President Harris....then oddly enough...she will 'pass on suddenly' from a heart attack (having gotten a Covid vax the month prior).  

9.  VP Newsom now moves up....becoming President.  Anyone's guess on the new VP....but I'm suggesting AOC.  

2024's dream team?  Yeah.  

All of this being handled by rogue agents of some weird group?  These folks had to know Joe's connections to the Biden-Center, the Hunter relationship with the Chinese, the rent money, the money-laundering angle, etc.  

The necessity of hiding this as long as possible from the AG?  He's stuck now with limited knowledge over Joe's money-laundering and how this whole thing was designed to function.  

My Gut Feeling Over The Biden Secret/Top Secret Documents

 Three observations:

1.  Joe Biden hasn't packed a single box in the last thirty years of his life.  He has people paid....who pack for him.  I feel about 98-percent confident that none of these documents got to their two destinations (the Biden-think-tank and the Biden corvette garage)....with him involved.

2.  It begs questions....why now....to send lawyers (his lawyers) to the two destinations?  Them knowing the think-tank mess days prior to the election?  It just looks very suspicious....like they were told X, Y and Z would happen.  

3.  Finally, no one missed the documents?  Not in 2016, 2017 and so on?  Really?  

Something about this whole story doesn't make sense, unless these were there (planted months or longer) to be there for some magical moment to occur....where Joe would have to go. 

I will also offer this....if you had picked the 'right' lawyers....they would have found the documents....then burned on the site (end of the problem).  They weren't told to find them and then clean up the mess.  Why?  It just leads onto more mystery problems.  

Just a odd note.....one thing noted about Bush II....that he required weekly intelligence briefings.  One of the reasons given for the presentations....he didn't read the 'dry' material and grasp things that well.  

The 16-Year Old Idea To Vote

 Draft bill going around with the Democrats....allowing a 16-year old the right to vote in federal and state elections.

Odds of passing?  Zero.  

My view?  If you added text, and said high school ended at 16....or at the ten-year point....yes, I'd probably agree.  

If you added marriage age across the US was then 'mandated' at sixteen....without parental consent...yes, I'd probably agree.

If you added more text....to say that a 16-year old could purchase a rifle, cigarettes', booze or beer, and drive long-haul rigs....yes, I'd probably agree.

But none of these will be added by the Democrats....they just want to pretend you are x-amount of mature, and that's enough for voting.

So using this logic, why 16?  I'd even be willing to listen and go to the idea that a 13-year old kid should be able to vote....because they KNOW just as much as a forty-year old....across half of America.  

With this chatter and stupidity....why not lessen the Presidential age thing as well....allowing a 21-year old to be President of the United States?  

You might as well start asking yourself this....would sixteen year olds even be willing to vote for some 60-year old Democratic Senator, or 75-year old President?  This might not go the way you think....if you got the votes and adapted to this situation. 

Just my humble view.

Besides the Classified Biden Documents Next to the Corvette

 (Parody)

Lawyers for President Biden were shocked as they surveyed to view the garage, where the classified documents were found....to discover:

1.  Joe's collection of Hustler magazines from 1978 to 1989.....all in pristine condition.

2.  A six-pack of 1994 Tab sodas.

3.  A lotto ticket from 2004 worth $15,000....but not longer valid in terms of value.

4.  A hunting license in Joe's name for Montana, for 1983.

5.  A box of DVDs on some Venezuelan soap opera series from 1988. 

6.  A can of something labeled 'AJ's Rocket Fuel'.

7.  A box of 1988 Twinkies.

8.  A box of fake IDs from his high school years.

9.  A Micky Mantle baseball bat...valued at $88,000.

10.  A Chinese worded 'get-out-of-jail' card for a Monopoly game.

My View Of Biden And the Classified Documents

 First, I don't think he's some intellectual guy (even in 2008) who sat and read intelligence documents like this.  In fact...I doubt if Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Ford, Bush or Carter sat around and read stuff like this.

Second, I think this stuff got mentioned....with some aide (helper) who requested it to be brought to the White House, and the documents sat around in some bookcase for the most part.

Third, I think as the 'boys' packed up.....they shipped various classified materials off....to the Biden-Center or this garage in Delaware.

Fourth, you could probably visit Obama's library and find 200 classified documents like this.

Is it poor security?  If you were in the Navy or Air Force....you'd be charged up, and spend at least a month or two in some jail....for just one single document.  

If it was shipped like Trump did it....to a SCIF room?  Well....it's all legal.  But in Biden's case....no, none of the two spaces were a SCIF.  

Just Something To Think About

Just a silly thing.  People studying IQ levels of high school kids, college folks, and graduate crowd (going back to 1960s) found this odd trend.

About every ten years....the IQ level drops a point or two for each group.  

Even for a graduate level person....they are around 10-percent less intelligent today....than in the 1960s.

Cause?  No one says much.

The least drop?  From the 1970s on.....high school kids haven't dropped that much.  For undergrads......more so.

Would beg the question....if you were putting $80,000 down for a plain undergraduate degree and not really moving the IQ level much....is it worth the money?  Probably more so a problem, if you stayed two more years and went for the master's degree.  

The Thing About Podcasts

 Back in 2020....as Covid started up and I didn't go out traveling in central Germany....I started to listen/watch podcasts.  I probably averaged around six podcasts a week....some were for an hour....some for 90 minutes.  

It's a curious habit....it became more interesting than using Netflix or a streaming service, and I found that they started to substitute for what I'd consider regular news.  In fact....several were more competent or developed...than what CNN could offer.  

The added feature....I could get my knowledge level up on climate change, science in general, historical events, and understanding a lot of weird stuff (thanks to Joe Rogan).  

In the past six months?  I'm up to two to three hours a day.....I figure around 15 podcasts a week now.  

The thing that gets me.....cable or regular TV networks can't match up.  The TV networks have become like dinosaurs now, and on a lot of topics.....they just can't openly discuss matters.  You also can't have a product (a show) where some guy can spend three hours asking a lot of intense but insightful questions.  None of the networks will dare sign up to that.   

I'm not saying podcasts are going to destroy the networks.....but I've got a list of twenty-five podcast 'bosses' and I can find something almost daily....that one of them have done....that interests me.  I counted today....probably 4.5 hours spent on three podcasts.  

Brazil

 Back on 2 October....Brazil had an election.  You had two basic candidates.

You had a Trump-like character in Bolsonaro.  In opposition, you had a leftist guy by the name of da Silva.  

If the name da Silva sounds familiar?  He was the president of Brazil from 2003 to 2011.  When he left in 2011....this major corruption mess came up.  It's safe to say it involved literary dozens of big-name politicians.  Eventually, the court system cranked up a case and convicted da Silva on three significant charges...getting 9.5 years in jail.

So, oddly enough....while appealing....he decided to run again in 2018 for President.  This was hindered when the standing gov't said enough, and placed the guy in jail.  He sat there for roughly 500 days, and then the Brazilian Supreme Court system released him.  The chief reason?  The three convictions were from a district where they didn't have jurisdiction for the case.  

Yeah.....they didn't say he was innocent.....it was more of the case that you could have convicted him in the right district, but you failed to do that.

The difference in the vote?  Well....da Silva won, but with 1-percent of the vote (around 2-million votes).

Discrepancies?  The Supreme Court, and the bulk of journalists in the country say zero discrepancies.  If you look at some of the mentions for problems.....there's probably some crappy situations but the question would be.....is it amounting to more than a million votes?  

The military?  They had an opportunity, via the unique way the Constitution is written...to say it was a fraudulent election.  At the end of the review.....they stood to the side and refused to do anything.  Oddly enough, the vow by da Silva is that leadership within the military will be changed out once in office. 

So over the past weekend.....trouble started up.  It's safe to say anti-da Silva folks are aggravated and acting.  

Police to oppose them....like you saw on 6 Jan 2021 in the US....bringing the coup potential back down?  Well....if you go and look at what Brazilians on the street say.....the cops aren't that interested in getting into the middle of this. 

Military to oppose the protest crowd?  Again, if you view what Brazilians on the street say.....there's a limited group who seem to be pro-da Silva.

The attempt off CNN to say that the protest movement will be settled?  It's difficult to compare what occurred in the US to Brazil, or vice-versa.  

If the military reaches a stage where they think da Silva is unable to control things?  Oh, in that scenario.....I think they will just say stability (without da Silva) is the priority.....meaning he and the Supreme Court there.....exit, and a year of 'quietness' occurs....before another election occurs.  

My View On Term Limits

 First, if you want to apply this....across the board, fine.  Senators, House members, Supreme Court Justices, VP, and President.  I would even suggest that a cabinet member ought to be limited to one term  (max of four years).  

But then, what amount of years do you apply?  Two Senate terms (12 years)?  Six House terms (12 years)?  Supreme Court Justice (12 years)?

I'd even be willing to apply an age limit and say by age 68...you have to give your final notice and retire by age 69.  

Same view at state level?  Yeah.  Even for a city mayor or city council guy....twelve years max, and final notice of retirement in your 68th year of life.

The problem is....once you bring this up....more than 75-percent of Senators/House members....aren't that likely to vote for it, or will rig it to fail with the court system.

Five Observations

 1.  It's just odd....with the crypto folks at FTX in bankruptcy.....around 100 parties have lined up and want 'buy' them (I'm assuming for a ultra cheap price), and revamp them or re-invent things.  

What idiot customer would trust the group?  Unknown.

2.  Just amusing....at the El Paso area where President Biden did his walk....they spent around three days cleaning up the area (local authorities).  So Joe didn't get the view landscape view of homeless folks camped out.  

3.  I sat this morning watching Brit news early on....live camera team at a major bookstore in the downtown London area.  This was opening day for Prince Harry's new book.  

ONE single person at the door at 8 AM who was a non-journalist.  The other forty to fifty folks.....all journalists.  

There's just zero interest from the general public.

4.  Those documents in Biden's think-tank?  Top Secret.  Now confirmed.  On a sh*t-scale....1 to 10....it's a '9'.  The place was not a TS vault.  So someone is going to have explain how they were held for six years....in this non-secure area.  On the crap system.....it's bad.

5.  It just begs questions as you gaze at FB/Meta/Twitter.....how did all these geeky guys/gals....get some moralistic and want to control free speech?  Were they that easily brain-washed?  It's almost like a cult group....focused on an agenda and not technology itself.   

The Problem With Biden's Secret Documents

 I have read through a dozen accounts of the secret documents found in his 'Biden-Center', and will suggest these five observations:

1.  It does not appear that the Biden-Center has a classified material storage area.

2.  As VP, he had zero authority to declassify any classified document.

3.  It's not clear if these are Secret or TS (Top Secret).  If they were TS.....there is gross violation of security.

4.  At this point, I'd have to order the National Achieve people to audit the JFK, Johnson, Carter, Nixon, Ford, Bush I/II, Reagan, Obama and Clinton collections.

5. Then I come to a weird issue....some element of the China contributed a fair amount of money to the Biden-Center.....did they get access to the document?  

Whichever idiot in the White House that suggested to raid Trump's place.....really didn't anticipate Biden's crew in 2016 was this stupid.  

This being enough to fire the guy?  I'm pretty sure he himself....didn't throw the document into the box.....so it begs the question....who did pack up the box?

Pilot Chatter

 American Airlines came this weekend to announce that they were cutting flights to Columbus, Georgia; Del Rio, Texas; and Long Beach, California.  Chief reason?  Well....it wasn't the passenger flow or lack of planes.  It was a lack of pilots.  There simply aren't enough around.

Back around 2012, I worked in the Arlington, VA region and had a 30 minute chat one day at a pub around the corner of my apartment building with a guy who was a 25-year old pilot.  

Around age 19....some relative had passed on and left him around $100,000....to which he used to get a pilot license for a particular type of plane (a 40-pax type).  

He found the employment not a big deal....but they weren't going to pay him anything substantial (even in his 3rd year of employment...he was still in the $32,000 level).  It marginally paid for his studio apartment, and marginalized lifestyle.

He had some deal with the airline....after five years of work, they'd pay for some upgrade on a bigger frame plane, and increased pay would come.  At the pace he was going?  He probably wouldn't be making the $80,000 a year rate until he got up around 40 years old.

He wasn't disgruntled but he wasn't thrilled over the limits.  

The problem is....all of these smaller airports have  a limited number of people who need to out to the 'hubs'.  So there's a lot of these 20 to 40 passenger planes out there, and most all of these pilots are making a pretty low wage.

Over the next decade....I suspect more than forty US airports operating today (the small operations) are going to get the message....flights will be curtailed or lessened.  What that means for the normal American?  Well...if you live in some small town of 40,000....your local airport with ten flights a day to Houston or St. Louis.....probably isn't going to be around.  You will add another hour to driving to the next bigger town and flying out from there.

That's the long term landscape to prepare for.  

Brain-Washing

 One of my more favorite podcast folks is Dr Peterson.....the Canadian who dumps out tons of logical advice.

In the past week, if you follow Peterson....he got a registered letter.  The Canadian College of Psychologists of Ontario (they hold his official license) has said he has a problem involving social media.....so he needs to come to a re-education camp to straighten out his 'bad-boy' behavior (mostly over critical comments of the Trudeau kid who is the President of Canada). 

What this re-education 'camp' is about?  Basically, the crew of psychologists of Canada figure that he (Peterson) needs straightening out.  Yeah.....some sort of lecture deal.  No one has said if it's a half-day deal....two or thee days....etc.

Scott Adams of Dilbert fame.....thought about the event, and made up a new cartoon.....officially to be released at the end of January.   Adams lays out the chief issue here....maybe the Ontario group of psychologists....might themselves have a mental disorder.

I thought about this from a military intelligence prospective, in the way that you'd brain-wash or counter-brain-wash a 'prisoner'. 

Typically, the guy who is the boss of the brain-wash session....is supposed to take the lead and not allow the prisoner to counter-process the session.  If you lose this prospective.....then the prisoner will counter-brain-wash you.  At this point, the crew (usually watching) has to call the guy into another room....get washer dude #2 prepped-up and send him into action.

My advice for the Ontario group of psychologists....if you did access to any of the Nazi guys left from 1945.....you might want to consult with them before you start things.  

Also, because of the vast amount of knowledge with Doc Peterson....you would be advised to figure a minimum of 15 days before he breaks down....with a minimum of five brain-wash 'bosses' necessary to keep the pressure on Peterson.

My advice?  I would suggest for the Ontario crew review five movies: Manchurian Candidate (1962), Sleeper (Woody Allen, 1973), Naked Gun (1988), Zoolander (2001), and the Bourne Identity (2002).  

I'd also crank up a plan 'B' if Peterson counter-brain-washes your crew, and you might need to look for North Korean experts.  

Observations:

 1.  This past week, I probably watched or read through four hours of 'Prince-Harry' BS.  My conclusion at this point with all the Harry garbage uttered over his book?  He basically gave all the information required for a 4-star divorce lawyer to hang you out to 'dry'.  In simple terms.....once his lady ('M') reaches the point of dumping him....it's all there in black and white.  

For a guy to be this stupid and give a divorce lawyer the info?  You have to have the mentality of a 7-year old kid.

2.  I suspect around 2-percent of people walking around today.....will be wearing some kind of air 'tank' device (fresh air) because of their irrational fear of virus bugs in the air.  

Some engineer idiot will develop a $1,200 scuba-like tank that you carry around with you, and refill at home via some vacuum device.  

All of this....because of your fears.

3.  Ever noticed how this 6 Jan stuff evolves into a WWE-wrestling scenario of sorts?  

In forty years, folks will be laughing because their entire image of 6 Jan revolves around the buffalo head guy, and by that point....he's a cult figure for hundreds of thousands of Americans.

4.    Ever noticed the number of people around you who continually chat over emotional 'ups and downs'?  

It's like a quarter of the people you bump into....will admit this was a stressful day, and they want to confess their 'membership' in some up-and-down club.

5.  Just odd....you could be in some breakfast diner in 2023....sitting next to a stranger with conversation starting up, then you discover of a hundred topics you two might discuss.....he has an opinion on like 95-percent. 1980s....you might have talked over traffic, weather, and sports.  Today, even if you drifted over to forty-odd topics involving Biden's wife, son or relatives....everyone now has an opinion. 

6.  It's mostly a fact that rarely gets mentioned with historians.....but in the medieval period (500-1500)....most 'peasants' worked around 150 days a year. Various fests, holiday celebrations, religious retreats were held to make them 'happy'.  The Catholic Church in this era had the idea that people who were in off-time, and usually boozing-up....were less critical or negative about their woes in life.  I should add....witchcraft trials were popular and part of the entertainment for the general public.

7.  Not that it's a big deal, but I noticed a news item where certain airlines had a rule in place to have their wastewater from the incoming plane tested for Covid, and the vast majority of planes....had detected Covid (almost every single flight). 

Not that I'd worry about it, but if you were fearful of Covid....you'd best avoid that toilet onboard.

8.  If you handed a map of the US to President Biden.....could he mark the actual border?  

I think at least three aides would quickly run up and try to hold Biden from the map and marker....in fear that he'd mark only the border of Delaware and Maryland.  

9.  I've viewed this video of Alabama Rep Mike Rogers approaching Rep Gaetz about twenty times.  

What I'll say is that Rogers appears in some violent way, and I'd suggest that he had some alcohol 'rage' building up (more than a shot or two).  If the Roger's 'friend' hadn't held him back.....he would have kicked-ass (as we say in Alabama) on Gaetz.  

Course, for WWE wrestling scenarios....it's all done in good humor.

10.  General rule on shooting intruders in your home, or some public situation...if the idiot brandished his gun and threatened folks....you get one fair/good shot to take him down.  If you generally fire a second shot....you might still be ok in terms of police approval.  If you fired five rounds into the guy.....don't count on the judge being friendly about your extra shots.  

Where This Church-Committee Business Will Lead Onto?

 First, for those who don't remember the Church hearings in the 1970s....a brief note or two.  Frank Church was a Democratic Senator who came up in 1975 to run a full inquisition of the CIA.  This was a full Republican and Democratic approved hearing.  It's virtually impossible to find anyone in the Senate at the time....who stood up against having the open hearing. 

At the end....no one really got sent off to jail.  What Church and the group proved in public hearings....a number of CIA folks were running rogue, with occasional approval by Presidents (from 1945 on), and CIA directors.  No one was sent to jail, but a fair number of folks were just given 'papers' and they left the CIA.  Some rule changes occurred, and the directors were put on a short rope....continually hindered by the House/Senate.  

All of this....a clean-up from the JFK era?  Some people would argue that it should have been done in 1964, and this was just a decade late.  

Second, if you get a bunch of BS by CNN or WaPo....remember, this was 1975 for the Church hearings, and you'd have to be 70 or older to remember what happened.  So the bulk of experts talking to you now.....don't really know much or have marginally read maybe forty pages of material over a weekend.

Third....what the House committee is going to review....is rogue agents/bosses mostly within the FBI, and probably to a lesser degree....the CIA and NSA.  

Fourth....part of the protection in the Church hearings....was that the CIA director was only supposed to brief....and NOT testify under oath.  The Ford Administration demanded this.  I expect the Biden Administration to do the same.....saying no one will testify under oath before the House committee.  

Fifth....this ending in 2023 (by December)?  No....I wouldn't bet on that.  It'll continue through most of 2024, and the report will be issued by election-time in November 2024.  

Results being one of the top three issues for the campaign?  Yeah.

Sixth....a lot of stuff involving Twitter?  Yes, and that information might lead to civil court business....putting people at jeopardy for cash fines....not jail-time.

Seventh....all of this leading to some break-up of the FBI?  I'd say a 99-percent chance that the campaign of 2024 will center on this as a top five issue.  

Eighth....discovery that the FBI has around 250-odd agents in undercover jobs with various left and right wing groups around the US?  I might suggest that this shock will be laid out.  At some point, I expect a comparison to come up....over Agent Oswald (for the CIA) and how it oddly fits the late-1950s mentality of the CIA.

I'll even suggest that one or two agents were embedded with the Trump campaign, and could possibly even be embedded with the Twitter staff (even today, after Elon bought them).  

Ninth, and final....most of the 6 Jan legend stuff will dissolve, and agent-provocateurs will be a term that Americans learn about, and openly criticize.  

The sad thing here?  Here is probably the biggest opportunity that CNN could ever ask for....getting creditability back, and they limit their coverage daily to six minutes or less.  

'Is' Versus 'Identifies As'

 I sat and read a simple commentary by a Seerut K. Chawla over at Twitter....where the statement was "I find it absurd that ‘identifies as’ has replaced ‘is.’

It's a simple thought.....your kid "Wilson" gets up one day (at age 7) and announces that he is no longer human.  Then Wilson says....he will identify as a robot.  So Wilson starts doing this herky-jerky motions and speech patterns of a 1980s TV show robot.....which you think is cute.  Eight hours later....he is still herky-jerky and talking like a robot.  Four days later....he still does it.

Two weeks into this, you confront Wilson and suggest that modern robots (like you see in all these Alien movies).....lack the herky-jerky stuff and all speak like human beings.  In blunt talk....you tell Wilson to give up the act.

Wilson counters this....saying he is analog robot....not as advanced as these fake modern robots.  Wilson is blunt.....he's not returning to normal.  

After two months of this....you take Wilson to a mental clinic....concerned that he's a bit nuts over this behavior.  An hour into this.....the PhD guy says Wilson's ok.....that he has the 'right' to identify as something else.  

You walk out into the parking lot....pulling out a cigarette and doing a long 'drag' on it.  'This-ain't-right' is in your mind.  

As you return home....your wife comes up to you....announcing that she now identifies as a tramp/whore/slut/harlot.  She's dressed in some $20 blouse from Wal-Mart that displays all her assets.  As the days pass, she utters whorish comments throughout the day....continually winking at you....acting bizarre at times (even at Piggly Wiggly while shopping).

After a month of this....you ask her to go over to the mental clinic.  The PhD guy examines her and says to you....she has the 'right' to identify as something else. 

You confront the PhD guy this time and counter....you are a sane, balanced, rational, and logical human.  You then state the fact....you don't need to identify or classify yourself.....you simple 'ARE'.

It is a complex society developing where people are identifying left and right....using little to no logic or reasoning for their transformation.  

People could identify as 'Elvis' by simply putting on a $90 shirt, applying grease to their hair, and singing a Elvis-tune.  

You could have a boss who identifies as a full-time golfer and part-time worker....showing up in the office in golf attire and carrying his clubs each day.  Every team meeting would be limited to 15 minutes because he's always hyped-up on tee-time.  

The only sane one around you?  Your dog....who seems to still be a dog, and hasn't done much to 'identify as'....except demand the extra-expensive dog treats.

Here's the thing.....society or mankind....can only function with a certain small percentage who walk around in this 'identify-as' stage.  When you reach a point that more than 50-percent of people are 'identify-as'.....you can't rationally deal with this on a daily basis.  It's like saying half of mankind are mildly to serious insane, and they can drive heavy equipment, run nuclear plants, or handle serious life conditions.

After a while....all of these robot-kids and slut-wives....will have to return to normal, or the whole system fails.