Five Signs A Guy Is Bluffing His Military Service Chatter

 1.  He keeps bringing up his service time, and one day....you ask what his MOS (duty or job description), and he can't answer you.

2.  He talks about being in x-battle, but can't tell you which unit he was part of.

3.  You ask the guy when he started/finished boot-camp, and he avoids the answer.

4.  The guy keeps talking about military service but can't cite things because it was all classified.

5.  Almost every single story that he tells....connects to the CIA or special operations like the SEALs.  

I worked with a guy who retired in the 1990s, and upon retirement....joined up with some local VFW group.  About three months into this participation (mostly drinking at their local bar), he came to establish that several guys who were VFW members were either total frauds, or were kicked out of boot-camp.  

The 2 Plus 2 Equaling 5 Reality (Non-Reality)

 I spent about an hour today reading over Twitter comments of a person trying to impress upon people that 2 plus 2 can possibly equal 5.

The sales pitch here?  Measurement uncertainty, and limits of casual intervention.   Yeah, more or less BS.

The chief problem here....if you can't make two and two to come to the same conclusion each time....modern technology fails. There has to be a consistent path on physical reality, and a way that a mathematical form presents that reality.  

Why this mindset that two and two might relate to five?  The only way that this comes up....might be the idea the idea that nothing much can make sense, and if they can set you to think two and two might not equal four....maybe a lot of other things would fall into place.

You know....like dogs might be viewed as cats?  Or that a one-dollar bill might be worth $1.01?  Or that a speed limit of 65 mph....might really mean 67 mph?  

My chief issue?  If you walked into a bank to deposit a $1,000 check into an account with $2,000 already in it.....then it has to equal $3,000 in the end.  Using this 'not-5' logic.....the bank might say my $1,000 check came to equal $900 upon the final details.  

This is where I think we need to dispatch some stupid people to digging ditches for a living, or shoveling snow.....anything that avoids math.  

Other Things To Ban

 Over the past year, gas-grills/gas-stoves have been projected as unhealthy and various laws are being drafted to prevent them in the future.  Lot of hype and criticism over how this has been handled.  I sat and pondered over where things are going, and this is my list of the next eight things to be banned:

1.  Condiments of ketchup, with sugar.  Non-sugar ketchup will be forced upon people....with most saying it has no flavor/taste.

2.  Plastic silverware.

3.  Lipstick.

4.  Toilet paper on rolls.  You use too much, so the gov't will suggest that it only come in 1-ply sheets, singles.

5.  Car speakers are too loud, and only half-power speakers will be installed on new cars.

6.  The word and use of 'demons' in the Bible will be deemed inappropriate.

7.  Tight fitting jeans will be deemed a health hazard.

8.  Sodas in aluminum cans will be deemed as unhealthy for consumption.

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.