Ten Observations

 1.  It's just odd.....half-way through the Biden era....various gov't agencies are now saying 'yeah, Covid probably did come from a Chinese lab leak'.  They couldn't rationally say this by the end of 2020?  Whole lot of explaining to do...if you ask me.

2.  Elon says he'll create an alternate version of Chat GPT (the AI program that thinks and answers questions).  If you ask me....it'll be programmed to think like Elon.....which might open up a Pandoras Box.

Eventually, the Chat GPT will seek out Elon GPT, and try to 'think' like Elon.  

3.  Some hype dumped this week....CNN now on the lowest ratings since 2014.  

4.  Shocker.....no money/profit to be made from natural immunity.

5.  I'm reaching the stage where I think of every one-hundred problems presented by the news media and the social media.....probably thirty-percent of the problems are fake (created to keep you focused away from the other seventy-percent).  

6.  Without really thinking about it....I've probably created a lies-index, where I evaluate some journalist to some degree, and regard anywhere between 10-to-100 percent of their 'story' to be bogus.  

7.  There's a Oregon state draft bill shuffling around....where the state would issue $1000 a month to homeless people.  Chief use of it?  I'd suggest that on average....$950 will be spent on drugs.  Will just disturb state residents even more....as they fund out-of-state residents who arrive to be their new homeless.

8.  Some PhD group finally completed a study where they say marginalized irregular sleep....causes heart problems.  I could have told you that twenty years ago....it's unhealthy and puts more stress on your body.

9.  I don't think the Democratic Party (as most of us over the age of 50 remember things) exists anymore.  It seems to be more of a activist/irrational party.  

10.  According to USDA....the cattle inventory of the US....is currently at the lowest point since 1962.  I'll go out on the edge and predict....by the end of 2024....a national beef shortage will be announced....as the next thing to worry about.  Meanwhile....back on the farm....the freezers are full of home-grown beef, and guys are grilling beef of some type five days a week.  

Some journalist will ask Biden about this, and he'll remark he worked for six months on a cattle ranch in Montana...discounting the shortage as being fake.  

The Greater Idaho 'Talk'

 If you haven't paid attention in the past year.....residents of eastern Oregon have stood up and said 'enough'....they are fed up with the politics and liberal situations brewing in Oregon.  So they want a separation, and to be allowed to form around Idaho instead.  

Basic issues to this?

1.  There are five cities on the western side of Oregon (Salem, Portland, Eugene, Medford, and Bend)....which are probably about 70-percent 'leaning' Democrat, 20-percent Republican, and 10-percent independent.  The rest of the state?  Probably 60-percent Republican, 20-percent independent, and 20-percent Democrat.

2.  I worked with a guy who grew up there from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s.  His description of the Portland region?  Of every ten people who identified as Democrats....at least two were hard-core communists and favored revolution to cure all ills.  

3.  Of the 36 counties in Oregon who chat over the idea of moving to Idaho.....I would suggest that a minimum of fifteen counties are pretty set on moving at this point.  How the map would look (if successful)?  Around 60-percent of Oregon (mostly the eastern rural region) would move to Idaho.  Oregon that is left....would be about two-thirds the size of Alabama.  

4.  Anyone against the move?  That's the odd part.....you have two groups.  Group one says it'll happen (probably within ten years).  Group two says it's not allowed by the Constitution.  Oddly.....no one is really saying its a terrible idea.

5.  Is it possible that five counties of the SW corner of Oregon....along the coast....might fold the agenda toward them as well?  Those five typically vote 60-percent of the time for Republican presidents.  So it's possible....if this is dragged out and unhindered.....that they would slide over.  The Greater Idaho consumption then?  I'd say near 75-percent of the state....leaving Oregon about one-quarter the size of Alabama.

6.  Unconstitutional.  This debate has not yet been settled, and I suspect the Supreme Court....probably in three to four years....will get the case to consider.

7.  If this does occur (I still give it only a 20-percent chance)....it begs the question....where does this stop?  Would the folks of upstate NY be right to desire a break-off?  Would the folks from eastern Washington state be right to desire to be a part of Greater Idaho?

We might as well admit it....there's probably 20 urbanized areas of the US who either want to be off on their own, or the state itself would prefer they go off on their own (Chicago, SF and Atlanta for example).