My Security Clearance Review Story

 From the early 1980s....to around 2009....I was in the clearance-required situation, and a review had to occur every five years.  

Other than spending near three hours filling out the form papers....I didn't ever think it was a big deal.

You'd wrap up the paperwork....some security guy would validate the first step, and then six to nine months would pass....with the review 'stamped' and a new five-year period approved.

At some point around 2006, I submitted my papers three months before it ran out.  The security guy processed it and it went on.   

Around six months....near the end of 2006, I asked for a status.  Nothing came.  

Two months passed, I asked for another status (now into Feb 2007).  Nothing came.  

By mid-summer, I was up to eleven months since submission (the longest ever for me).  I asked....any problems?  No.  

Around four more month pass....so I'm up to 15 months since submission.  Now they kinda admit.....they lost my paperwork.  So everything had to be re-generated from scratch.  I was at this point of a full year 'late'.  The security folks basically wrote a waiver form (not wanting to discuss how they lost the paperwork).

Toward the very end of 2008....it finally came back approved.  

Where my original paperwork went?  Anyone's guess.  

Movie Review: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

 I basically had to break this viewing up (via Netflix) into around twenty to twenty-five bite-size 'pieces'....over seven days.  

It is a very weird script.....basically a science fiction piece....where you have to stop about every five to eight minutes and reconcile what you saw.

Yeah, it's one of those movies that you'd probably start with four shots of booze, and slip another shot every 15 minutes.  

How the movie won the Oscar for best movie?  There's just no logical reason.

Recommendation...if you aren't into science fiction....skip it.  

Five Questions I've Started To Ask Recently

 1.  Just odd....why are there so many young people who are objecting to who they are, and trying to portray themselves as something else?

2.  Aren't the TikTok generation overly dramatic in everything they do?

3.  You ever noticed the number of people 'talking' with their hands/gestures....is at a all-time record?

4.  If people are so fragile to criticism....should they be let loose upon the world at age 18?

5. Who started this trend where wearing pajamas in public....was acceptable?  

Q-and-A

 1. Coming to an end for Fox News?

First, remember when newspapers in the 1980s started to tremble and admit they couldn't compete with TV news?

Second, remember when talk-0radio came to a point where reality said....only Rush Limbaugh moves ahead....everyone else is regulated to 'average' numbers.

Third, remember when Time and Newsweak were deemed insignificant?

Fourth, remember when CNN was deemed failing?

I would suggest that we are looking at the two to four year disconnection of Fox News to society.....where they will be like MSNBC/CNN.

2.  What happens to Tucker Carlson?

His contract was supposed to be renewed (probably in excess of $25-M a year). 

I would suggest some deal will be worked out....whatever the current contract has....he'll get bulk of that.  Then he'll sit and probably write a book over the remainder of 2023.  And I suspect he'll end up with a on-line program like Joe Rogan....where you pay $8 a month for view of things.  

3.  All this hype over no debates for Biden in the primary, or Trump in the primary?

Look...back in the 1800s....you went to institutions of higher learning and gained the skill of debate.  At some point in the past fifty years....colleges lessened the idea of debates.

Look around....out of 100 Senators....there might be ten of them with some ability to debate on a topic.  

I don't see a great loss here.