Five Things

 1.  Does being the 'Czar' of anything in the White House mean anything?

Look....it's a BS-creation (Frankenstein-like) with a pay-situation, but no office to really manage.  You show up on Sunday political-talk shows to hype some special project that the President supports.

It'd be like getting the 'Herpes-Czar' position, and your job is just to hype herpes across America.  

If I could have a Czar position?  I'd like to be a beer-Czar....to talk, drink and converse daily about beer.  

2.  Kam covering up Joe's mental decline?

Someone did a national poll, and three out of five folks say 'yeah'.  The longer that Joe hangs around....saying goofy stuff....the more this number will grow.  Just odd how things are now arranged for the election.

3.  What does root-cause really mean?

I had finished high-school and gone off to the Air Force in 1977....when I heard this term first used (root-cause).  This was in a class (mandated) where they were doing a 'brain-dump' and wanted me to be impressed by the stuff they defined as 'root-cause'.

They went around the group of fifteen-odd people at the end...wanting us to say how 'wonderful' it was to be enlightened.  I said something to the effect....there's a root-to-the-root-cause, and inferred their perception of where the problem started...was wrong.  I tried to be kind and treated them as respectful as I could...but I got the impression that my perception of 'root' went further down some 'rabbit-hole' that they weren't willing to discuss.

4. If you whored-up and your 'daddy-lover' gave you a BMW and Mercedes (1990s)....then you probably didn't report the value of the gifts to the IRS.  You can guess who I'm talking about.

5.  Someone did a chart of 'value' on Ford....if you'd gone out in 1999 and spent $10,000 on stock.  You'd have (with dividends)....$8,014 today.  Meaning?  You lost big-time.