The 'Stoned' Jury Foreman Story

 This interview....with Emily Kohrs (the Grand Jury foreman on the Trump stuff in Georgia)....was out in today's news. You can view yourself:

I ended up playing 3 times.

So 3 observations:

1.  She's lit up on something....high-THC cannabis or some pill form.  She gets hyper-active about half-way through the interview.

2.  Basically, with everything she laid out....the judge has to be shaking his head.  She violated some things he said, and made the prosecutor case near impossible to handle. 

3.  How they came to appoint her as the jury 'boss'?  I'd like to hear the judge explain this.  Did they have mostly dimwitted locals, and she was the only one with a community college background?

So the Georgia aim to bring Trump down.....dead in the water?  Yeah.  I'll add this....if you ever get brought to an interview and can't handle the pressure.....don't go and smoke high-THC weed.  

The Dozen Skills You Leave The Farm With

 Growing  up in the rural regions of Alabama in the 1970s.....you would eventually realize that you'd developed talents which were useful for the rest of your life.  For example.....

1.  When someone asks you how much space is taken up....you eyeball the situation and generally answer one-quarter, or double....the space of a Ford F-150 'bed'.  Truck beds seem to be a standard way of measurement.  

2.  Real 'characters' in life....always have nicknames.  If you don't have a nickname....you were never a 'character'.  The nickname crowd always seemed legendary....even forty years later after their demise....folks still remember them.  

3.  You generally assign a ranking on irrational people....with anything above a '5' requiring you to maintain a distance.  '5' usually means six feet.  '7' usually means a dozen feet.  

4.  Any movie held at a drive-in....had some action or arousing content....that made the drive-in experience worth the money.  Regular theaters were not that way.

5.  If it looks snakey....it probably is not a forest or woods that you should travel through.

6.  The minute some woman has gotten a community nickname of 'Jezebel', you probably shouldn't ought to hang out with her.

7.   There's no finer food to sample....than county-fair food.  

8.  If you had relatives who went 'off'....they are usually not talking about carnival crowd they hung out with, or the 30 days in county jail, or the year they spent in 'Nam'.  It's best not to discuss the 'off' period ever.

9.  If someone brings up 'books' they read....they typically don't mean Hemingway or Steinbeck.....they mean 'books' or chapters out of the Bible.

10.  You learned the route you took for some 3-hour travel experience....usually is important to remember because folks will ask how you got there and how you returned.  Later in life....skills like this matter.

11.   The people who got all hyped-up from the Baptist revival period....are usually people that you might want to avoid...for at least 90 days.  

12.  Chaos and tragedy often gets measured in different ways.  A fragile person might not be able to handle much on a problem.  Some rural guys might have a hundred times that amount of stress in their life, and show little.  You always need to assess who you are dealing with, and their irrational ranking in life.  

My Five Theories

 1.  My expenditure of thinking over things theory.  If you imagine a graphic chart where a cannon ball is fired into the air....there is an arch, and at the peak....it can go no higher, and the cannon ball will start a descent.  

Thinking is this way....as long as you still rising on the problem and solution....it's worth pondering.  Once you've hit the peak of the arch of thinking.....it's just wasted time and effort from that point on. 

Bottom line?  Don't think sixteen hours over a four hour problem.  

2.  The filtering of life theory.  Filtering issues is helpful.....but if you reach a point where there's more than five filters at work....the odds are that you will reach a end-point where nothing really fits or works.

3.  Artificial Intelligence is doomed.

All this BS chatter going on about how AI will take over and be smarter than people.....will reach a point where you realize the AI 'creature' is only as smart or clever as the code-writer who created it.  

4.  People who seem energized over some activist viewpoint....are easily manipulated and brain-washed.

If you ever sit down with folks who want to get you hyped-up or enthusiastic over some trendy topic....if you use simple skepticism....you will quietly walk out, and laugh over the attempted manipulation.

5.  I'm convinced that out of every one-hundred people who attend four years of college today....approximately 10-percent of them (minimum) are no brighter or more clever....than day one that they started the college adventure.

When the first college opened (1088, Italy)....the general idea was that you would leave and be a more independent and rational thinker....with the tools to assemble conclusions.  That's not what exists today in the bulk world of selling college.