Q-and-A

 1.  This photo floating around with Senator Fetterman and his wife (taken in the past two days)....is it fake?

What you see is a Fetterman who has lost weight (I'd suggest 20 pounds), smiling (first ever picture I've seen him grin) and he almost seems normal.  Some people suggest it's fake.

I think what they did at this clinic or the past six-odd weeks....was get him off all the various drugs he was taking....having a daily dose of exercise....control his diet....and this is the real Fetterman.  

Can he stay this way?  I'd question that.  People who have strokes usually don't go back to a 40-hour work-week.  

So it's not fake....as much as you'd like to believe that.

2.  Remaining banks all fine....after those three failures?

Well....banks are borrowing money at hefty levels to suggest to you that they are fine.  I'd say they are simply pushing the limit, and hope to survive this era.  Whatever issues they have....will just slightly disappear and wait until the next crisis period.

3.  Who is the best fact-checker?

You.

4.  Ukraine-Russia going into a odd stage?

Russians in the Crimea area (far south) are packing up and leaving. Some belief that a spring offensive will occur, and that the Crimea might be taken by Ukraine.

5. Did the prosecutor in NY City actually 'help' Trump by these actions to push charges?

Well....Trump went out and asked for campaign funds, and got a good bit.  Same thing will help with the fed prosecutor pushing secret document charges, and with the Atlanta folks working on their charges for Trump.  I don't think they've grasped this angle of them helping Trump.

6.  FAA guy that Biden nominated for chief's job....dropping out?

Yeah, during the Senate hearings....over and over, he showed limited knowledge of the FAA, travel requirements and the airline business.  If anything, I suspect the Senators were surprised just unqualified the guy was.  So he's out and Biden will have push another candidate (hopefully a female, or minority).

7.  Is $100,000 not of the value of $100,000?

Someone did a cost survey for NY City.  If you make $100,000.....it merely feels like $36,000.  So if you were making $50,000 in the city...it'd feel like $18,000.  

My advice....if you lived in NYC, this merely adds another reason to pack up and leave. 

8.  Lot more people with 'bad' teeth?

I'll just say over the past five years of watching TV news chatter with protest activists (up close and with my big screen TV).....one out of every three has awful bad teeth.  I almost wish the TV folks could create a filter to fake-up the teeth issue.  It's like they are anti-toothpaste as well as activist.

9.  People having an on-going mid-life crisis?

I have this theory that since Covid....people are creating wave after wave of mid-life crisis eras, with each peaking and within a couple of months....restarting again.  

No idea why....but it's just odd to observe this behavior from mature adults.

10.  Just seems like a lot of Twitter feed now includes black women fighting other black women?

I don't know what Elon did to the Twitter magic 'formula', but I probably get forty-odd fight sequences now via Twitter.

So of these even black women whooping up on their BF or husband.

11.  Is it simple to define Misinformation and Disinformation?

Yes.

When someone is giving 'facts', and things don't make sense (bogus or incorrect).....thats plain old Misinformation.  Once you tell them this is bogus or fake, and they continue without correcting themselves....that's Disinformation.  

Anyone....even a 11-year old kid....can produce Misinformation.  On a daily basis....you probably get a minimum of 20 bits of Misinformation.  Just watching some local news at 6 AM....you probably get two or three bits of Misinformation.  

12.  Time to review the Salem witchcraft trials?

Mass hysteria has taken over and a lot of people seem to believe in things without any facts or reality.