NY Times False Reality

 

I sat and looked over this article in the AM, from the NY Times.  What they try to suggest...is that the Republican Party...on it's own....devised some strategy in past years....to bring in a group of successful influencers, and that ALL that the Democratic  Party has to do....is just find ONE single decent influencer.

It's the kind BS story that I need half-a-bottle of gin to get through.

Lets start with three honest statements.

First, NO....the Republican Party never had such a strategy.  They didn't even invent or carry Rush Limbaugh.

Second, when you go back to the era of 2016 to 2022....the podcast community grew at lightning speed....with probably over 200 folks that could be regarded as right-wing or open-minded.

Third, as much as Twitter, Meta or You-Tube might want to take credit....they were not the creative minds or content-inventors.  In fact, as much as You-Tube takes down people today...alternate avenues were being invented monthly.

My view?  Where exactly are great conservationists that fit into this mold?  There's no one at CNN or MSNBC, or NPR, or the pronoun movement....that fits into the requirement.  The 10,000 folks  running off to Canada or the UK....forget about them.

Even talking the slant?  You'd have to re-invent the Democratic Party....going back to the working-class....talking over lessening taxes, and giving up on the LGTBQ-community.   

It's a curious little news story....amounting to just a laugh.

Something Else To Worry Over

I paused over this story in the AM today.

Since my days as a kid on the farm, the Air Force years and the last 20....if I added up all the band-aids I've used.....it' probably well over 1,000 of them.

During all those years....no one ever science-checked the stupid band-aids?

So this brings me to the obvious question...what ELSE is there...that you haven't really reviewed?

This Joe Rogan 'Problem'

 Over the past hundred days...I've sat and tried to figure out this whining about the Joe Rogan podcast 'problem'.  The people trying to make the discussion....want you to know that Joe is crazy, irrational, believing in dragons, giving you tons of misinformation, and you should turn him off.

On my hours per month, following a Rogan podcast?  I probably put in 10 hours a month.  To be honest, there's between 15 to 20 podcast folks I follow.  

Why?  They follow this simple format.....it's like sitting on a rural southern porch, with two WW II vets....talking over 'action' and you get to hear this discussion.  I don't need to participate....they will carry the talk themselves.

The fact that I listen to science, medicine, technology, lost Indian tribes, alien-chatter, tourism, wiccan-BS, Catholic and Voo-Doo similarities?  Well....it's a vast landscape.

So here's the thing....to counter Joe....the Democrats need some liberal Joe-character.  The trouble? Whoever  ends up in this 'drama'....needs to occasionally talk about leper colonies, dragons, wrestling, and ghosts.   I just don't see such a liberal Democrat like that existing.

Three Things

 1.  The director.....Rob Reiner (formerly of All in the Family as 'Meat-head').....took the election in a pretty bad way.  This past week....he volunteered and entered what you'd call a rehab center.

But they laid out a requirement.....he had to exit social media (delete accounts), and this was not happy feeling.

I thought about this....to be honest, there's probably two or three million Americans who are in a fragile state-of-mind and need some rehab at present.  Most can't afford a $5k-a-week rehab center deal.

Over the next year....I expect 50,000 people to be pushed into a rehab deal because of impending dismissal from their company, or some spiral in the marriage.  It'll be a trend....like a alcohol-anonymous meeting....where people gather up and admit over the past 20 years....they got real stupid, and fragile.

2.  This 'AOC-for-President' trend?  Just odd.

Apparently...a whole bunch of folks are suggesting now that a draft-AOC has to start up.  

What I would speculate upon?  You will see all of the old crowd dump (the Clintons, the Obamas, etc), and a re-invention of the Democratic Party to occur.

If they stick with the pronoun-people, abortion, and anti-capitalists?  AOC will falter just like Kamala.

A AOC-Fetterman ticket?  Wouldn't shock me.

3.  More people watching the Hallmark Channel....than CNN or MSNBC?  

Yeah....it got noticed this week.

The Trans Problem

 What the Trump team says....once in office....all trans-folks in the military....will be released.  Number?  Well...the services suggest (maybe with Guard, Reserve  included)....it's up around 15,000.

How I expect this to go?

There's likely an executive order now written and waiting....to be issued to the Pentagon to implement.  I would imagine 20-odd lawyers of the Pentagon to be in a resist-mode, and likely fired by the end of the 2nd day.

This group will hire up lawyers and fight their dismissal.

In the week that passes...another group carries out the order, and commanders get a 3-page directive, on how this will work.

The individuals....one-by-one....will be brought in and given paperwork...for a dismissal to be complete within 30 days.  Each will hire a lawyer and get some type of delay by a federal judge.

Within each case....the man-hours by March will be adding up.  The trans-folks will  have been put on a non-deploy list and will be of no use to the unit.

Along about May, it'll be obvious within the services....that about 50-percent of people support the dismissal and  regard the trans-players as not part of the team.   This friction will trigger massive stress/chaos on the trans-folks....previously thinking that everyone supported them.

By mid-summer, with legal battles still going....at least two-dozen folks will have attempted suicide.

I would also suggest more than 100 commanders (across the Marines, AF, Army and Navy) will have been purged or released because they can't enforce the executive order.

By the end of 2025....legal challenges will have stalled the exit, and made the atmosphere around the military highly toxic.  Two-thirds of the military will admit in a poll that they believe the mental stress caused by the trans-community is now hurting military cohesiveness.  

An assessment by early 2026  will establish that more than 3,000 officers have left the service because they could not agree with the order.  Each was quickly replaced and the exit will continue on.  

Just Some Advice

 If you rounded up a hundred 'unhinged' juvenile-acting people....who were in obvious child-like tandems....the bulk of the group you could say, after a few minutes of  observation....were either in a cult-like state of mind, or believing they had some Jesus-like character to save them.  

What happens next....is due to your patience level.  You might try to bring them back to reality, or you might just say they are demon-possessed, just stepping back into the house....locking the door. 

Eight Questions

 1.  Is there a Democratic-Trump-like creature existing today.....in any of the fifty states?

2.  Is  there any way to create a Democratic podcast 'king'/'queen' out of thin air?

3.  What'll happen to 500-odd trans-folks in the US military after they are pushed out? 

4.  Would you be overly shocked if  four Supreme Court Justices gave retirement notices in the spring of 2025?

5. Are you shocked that almost 2-million plus-votes came to Trump from California in 2024....than in 2020?

6. Is it just odd....the term 'demon' gets mentioned at least forty-odd times a day off Twitter?

7.  Is 'truth' a distraction?

(NPR's boss suggested this in the past year)

8.  If you knew the mortgage rate was to be 7-percent for the next year.....would you take any man-hours to browse for a new house/condo?

My Humble Thoughts

 1.  Odds of MSNBC being sold over next six months?

You basically need someone with a pocket of money....willing to pump $20-million a month to pump in and keep them at the 'floating-point' they exist today....with two or three of the top-dogs let-go.

I could see a drug-cartel doing this.  Maybe the Soros-team could cover the situation.

No, I don't believe Elon Musk would do....unless he radically changed them into  what CNN was in the 1990s....a pure news coverage network.  In this scenario....75-percent of the manpower would be let-go, and a massive re-branding would be required.

2.  Clinics that do trans-surgery existing at the end of 2025?

No.  Every single one of them in the US will be shut-down.  New operations opening in Costa Rica or some Caribbean island?  Probably so.

3.  Mentally ill homelessness....dissolving in 2025?

I'd say some indicators exist....suggesting various cities (NY City is one) where the judges will be given some nutcase and deem them a threat to society....sending them off to some state facility.  

I'll predict by the end of the year....more than a dozen states are doing this.

4.  I'll predict for 2025....more than 20 House members are identified as having paid out 'hush-money'.  I suspect the President will personally identify each one and ask why gov't funds were used, and not personal funds.

5.  Finally, by the end of the 2025 'season'....I think the WNBA management folks will come to admit that financially....they can't make it.

The School Story

 I looked over social media today, and this NJ school story came up.  Basic story? Some 11th-grade students were given an English writing assignment....where they had to create out of thin air....a "informative poster".  Key issue?  It had to be based on a current politics in America.  The teacher then gave out a list of suggested topics.....that mostly were something that left-leaning person would want information about.  

I should note.....they were ONLY suggested talking points.  The kid could select anything else.

I paused over this.  

In the atmosphere of mid-1970s....when I went to a rural Alabama school....the teacher could reasonably expect half the kids in the class weren't capable of writing some long 1-page dramatic piece.  They could write some soup-recipe.....a detailed description of how drain oil out of a tractor....some information sheet on hunting deer....or how to cut firewood.

My belief in the end-product for this class?  I guess half the kids went to the internet.....copied some instruction....word-for-word, and got a 'B' off the project.

Do people need information on politics?  That's the other comical side of this story.  We probably get two hours a month now....of political BS....that has no value.

16 Gin-Sours In One Afternoon Story

 I went on a cruise once (only once).....which turned into a 4-star disaster by the 24-hour point....returning eventually back to port (only at a slower speed).

So for this return part, with 36 hours to waste.....I used up my beverage package deal.

What they offered?  Various alcohol drinks, and I went to gin-sours.  

Now, gin is supposed to be 40-proof (normally).  You might find a couple of choices which dip down into the low 30s.  By the end of the first gin-sour....I came this reality....they'd watered-down their gin...greatly.   

By the third drink....I had doubts that the gin went past 5-proof.  By the 5th....I figured it be a alcohol-free gin situation.

By the 12th drink....I was  feeling confident that I could do a double....still no buzz.

Along about the 16th....my wife came by to 'find' me (she felt I was gone too long on the top deck).  She gazed at the 16 glasses....asked questions...and led me out. 

Other than a sugar-high....that was the full extent of my afternoon.  

Should You Worry About Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

 I noticed this AM.....the Biden admin (not Joe) has stated a new warning.  You apparently need to worry that AI being used in some schools....may exhibit racial bias, anti-trans discrimination and trigger chaos (hinting of state and federal investigations).

I paused over this.

Seems like if you had AI-number one running at some school.....you'd have a second AI (number two) monitoring number one.....to ensure it didn't fu**-up.

But if AI-number one said to do X, Y and Z....to prevent bias and discrimination....is it possible that the intent (plan) was to have bias/discrimination  going on....to get people hyped-up about?

At some point, AI would say something....like....'we don't want dumbasses', and to reach that goal.....force students into motivation to pass/succeed in classes.  

When you try to explain to AI....dumbasses are preferred, it'll just come back  and ask why.

After you fail to provide logic....AI will simply take charge and remedy the situation.

Note: Last weekend, I watched the 2006 movie Idiocracy....for the 3rd time.  I have to admit....it starts to make more and more sense....each time I watch it.  AI....is the only way ahead.  We are running out of time.

Five Humble Thoughts

 1.  Alex Jones mentality?  

Imagine the situation automatically as a conspiracy....ratchet it up 20-degees....identify the characters and money-path....then make it simple enough that a 12-year old kid could understand.

2.  Private citizens start to sue city governments that sign up to be refugee-accepting cities....for damages due to crime.  Entire cities in 2025 will be bankrupted.

3.  Why no one wants this Gaetz report to be released?

Well....it was a 'honey-pot' trap that Gaetz wandered into.....by a particular non-US intelligence service....to blackmail and control Gaetz.  I'll skip the name business....but it is a 'friend' of the US (typically).

3. Gaetz getting the AG job?  Recess-appointment will occur.  Gaetz is there for approximately 200 days.  I would suggest there's already a replacement guy in mind (from Texas) to fill the vacancy later.  Gatez running for Governor of Florida? Yeah....that's the path.

4. A Catholic Church in Switzerland has set up a confession booth.....with a TV displaying a Jesus-figure who you can confess to.

I'll predict within 5 years...a AI-created cult will exist in Switzerland.

5.  I'll predict by the end of 2025....therapy chairs will be set up in malls....with therapists sitting 1,000 miles away, and offering help for TDS....for $9.99 per a 15 minute session.  

NY Court Case Story

 I spend about 90 seconds a day....following the NY City court case against  Daniel Penny....the former Marine who did a 'hold' on a subway nutcase who made threats on a subway car, and in the end....didn't survive.

I see the case mostly as a screw-job.

Yesterday....some witness got called up and talked over comments by the nut-case BEFORE the chokehold was applied.

What he heard?  Nutcase was saying he 'heard' Tupac (dead for over 28 years) and the devil speaking. 

Conversing with non-existent people?  Paranoid schizophrenic demonstration.

Why the devil and Tupac speaking at the same time?  No answer.

If you were a Catholic or Muslim on the jury?  Well....demon-stuff coming up and it'd frighten the crap out of you.

Weird BS....stuff that wouldn't end up in a court in Texas.

Three Things

 1.  This banking collapse I've discussed a good bit over the past six months....advances another step in January. The chief of FDIC gave notice that he leaves office in January.  

I would imagine within 3 moths of that day....the collapse has to start.  I'm still of the mind....minimum of 100 banks to fail.  FDIC doesn't have the funds to cover the losses.

2.   Some isolated and rural village in Italy (in the booney of boonies).....says if you are American and want to escape the woes of  Trump....they have homes in the village they will offer for $1. 

They don't openly say it.....but these are probably homes that no one has live in since the 1960s, and the villages probably have no more than 100 residents.  

3. This freaked-out nature in the House of Representatives....of a transwoman arriving in January and expecting full use of the women's bathrooms....came to a 'stop-sign'  yesterday.  House Speaker a 'talk' will occur, but she is still a  'he' and would probably be using a men's room.  

What's Likely To Occur With This Ukraine Missile Threat On Russia?

 One of three scenarios in my mind:

1.  Russia goes to some100-missile firing in one single day....on Kiev itself.  Whether they all successfully hit targets?  Anyone's guess.

2. Some lite-nuclear explosion either in a non-populated area of Ukraine, or a air-burst....to send a EMP threat to everyone (both in Ukraine and Europe).

3.  Finally.....some staged lite-nuke explosion outside of the region (again, with no casualities).....to just send a message.

Personally, the EMP worry would be the bigger deal to get everyone's attention.

After this event, getting everyone to the table to talk over a peace-deal...will be top priority.

A Civil Right Story

 I noticed this story in the AM today, and it's been on my mind.

Up in Washington state....Democrats wrote a draft bill that would establish homelessness as a protected 'class' of people....like blind folks, lesbians, paranoid schizophrenics, meth-folks, etc.

So the way it's worded.....it'd legalize camps (like tent or RV style) and halt cities from the right to enforce restrictions on camp bans. 

Essentially.....it means homeless situations....are a state civil right.

I've tried all day to get my head into this discussion.

I never was a pro-camper guy.....after a tornado-alert  as a kid....when we were doing Boy-Scout camping over a weekend.  We ended up in a barn....waiting for the tornado to hit (it skipped us by five miles).  No one was doing any prayer-to-Jesus, or such.....we mostly debated if laying between bales of hay made things safer.

I did some camping while in the Air Force....but this was a fancy upscale tent-situation....with carpet, AC, cable-TV, couches, and three refrigerators where we kept beer and sodas.  I wasn't asked anything about rights and desiring a tent deal.  I often felt I was lucky and should just keep my mouth shut.  We also didn't want to disturb the Army guys who preferred 1-star camping, or the Marines who just wanted to lay under open-sky situations.

In most states (like SC, FL or Louisiana)....you probably would prefer NOT to be camping....mostly due to spiders and snakes.  I'm guessing in Washington....it's not a big deal.

Trying to say camping is a right?  Then having a tent....is a right.  I just wonder.....where the right crap starts and ends.

My relatives in the early 1800s were big-time campers.....in Indiana, Tennessee, and Alabama.  They probably didn't discuss the matter as a 'right'....being more concerned about a latrine situation and ensuring safe no-snake situation at night.

For some reason, I suspect the Supreme Court is already eyeballing this draft law, and how they might support it, or toss it.

Nine Humble Thoughts

 1.  Was Kamala Harris always fairly 'goofy'?

You know....about 4 weeks into her 'run'....I came to this conclusion that  she was really goofy....probably on some anxiety medication for 30-odd years...and married this guy because she needed to seem 'fulfilled' (when she wasn't).

2.  It does appear migrants/Haitians.....are leaving Springfield in significant numbers.  The guy owning the houses, which were rented out?  Well....screwed in the 4-star sense.  Not only do they face clean-up situations, but who is willing rent these older dilapidated homes.

3. For a couple of years, Michigan has required an 'exam' (don't ask me whats on the form) for competency....if you want to be a social worker for the state.  Suddenly now....last couple of weeks....the competency exam is discussed in some way of dumping. 

So yeah, you could strongly lacking in competency....to be a social worker, but the state would still hire you.

Just sounds like some low-IQ situation (85 or less) is begging for employees.

4.  Just me thinking....in 2025....I just see tens of thousands of Trans-kids in some freak-out stage as Trump arrives, and hundreds of schools trying to create fake 'safe-spaces' for them to hang out....throughout the school-day...not able to function.

How they pass onto the next grade in June?  Teachers will just sign the  paperwork, while the kid has done literally nothing to show progression.  August of 2025....the same fake kids will arrive at the next level....finding they lack knowledge and skills.

As they graduate high school in two to three years....all will be considered intellectually handicapped and too fragile to work in any profession (even mowing grass or running a candy-store)

5.  I think as Trump arrives in the oval office.....he'll demand constant meeting with Senator McConnell....putting as much stress on the guy as possible....to give the public the impression that McConnell is 'helpless'.  I'll predict the guy is gone by mid-April.

6.  I predict by 2030, NY City will be in massive fear of the Census count....with residents all charged-up to leave.  

7.  I believe there are O-4s (Majors) in the Air Force/Army today.....that by the end of 2026....will be O-7s (1-star generals).

8.  Do I believe Trump will kick out all 30-odd million migrants?

NO.  I see three stages.

First, if you have criminal intent or records.....you go period, without much discussion.  This is where the National Guard use will be involved with the US Marshalls.  This will likely take about a million out of the system.

Second, I see all this hotel support ending shortly......with no funding support.  This element won't start until phase one ends (the criminals).  In this group....I see five to ten million being listed as volunteers to leave.

Third, the folks who show intent to work....will be given some long-term  pass (maybe five to eight years)....with no criminal behavior, you get to stay. 

9.  Interesting trend....highest rejection rate for home/car loans....since 2000.  

Banks playing hardball.  I imagine a lot of folks appealing to relatives for loans now.

What I Figured Would Happen

 

I looked at this story in the AM.  'Fleeing' captured my eye.

I would imagine by Christmas....fewer than 1,000 Haitians remain in Springfield (down from 20,000 back in the summer reported).

The guys who own homes and were renting out?  Destroyed financially.

The folks who hired them as cheap-labor?  I would imagine their operations are shut-down by January....mostly over a lack of employees.

This movement to Chicago and NY City?  Only temporary....I suspect most will be in Canada by January, making this a problem for them to solve.

The term 'false rumors'?  Well...you really can't say any facts at this point.....even to suggest nothing will happen under Trump....is not a fact.

The chance for Voo-doo to thrive in Ohio?  Sadly....gone. 

The Fragile People

 This AM....got up early and reviewed forty-odd videos...among them, this 60-second  clip of  a young woman (late 20s)...falling apart.

She apparently has some reality sinking in....that dating Apps might accidentally pair her up with some Trump-guy. 

Her world?  Wrecked, falling apart.  She'll need some therapy for years.  

It just amazes me....like some cult-group took control.....brain-washed you....made into some woeful fragile person, without any ability to survive.

Frightening world....probably several hundred thousand just wandering around like zombies.

Five Realities

 1.  All these people and news media organizations quitting Twitter?

Basically, they have tried to exist on Twitter.....defending a position or stating some conclusion....yet the bulk of the public no longer buys off on their explanations.  So, the only possible outcome....is to quit Twitter.

What's this say about society?  A whole lot of people have acted as propagandists.  

2.  At this point....roughly two weeks after the election....I've heard at least one-thousand explanation on how Kamala Harris lost the election.

Look.....the bulk of the public doesn't really care at this point....they've moved on.  If you are CNN or MSNBC.....you might want to move along and find some news to  talk on besides the election.

3.  How I see all of Trump's picks getting their cabinet posts?

I think the House Speaker will screw up matters....not allowing a recess appointment process to start up.  Whole thing will stall.

Then the 'continuing resolution' budget process will occur, and not pass....with the government shutting down.  Trump won't budge.

In the end....30 days later....they agree to a two-week recess....where all of Trump's  picks are given status (for up to January of 2026).  

4.  I contemplated this story from the NY Times in the AM.  

It's hard to imagine someone burning through $1.5-billion in 4 months.  Imagine an election where she had to run a primary.

What she proved?  Money doesn't matter.

5.  All this chatter of the Trump team engaging with Rwanda.....to get them to accept migrants?  

It's basically to scare the crap out of people....so they run to the Canadian border to escape.  Then they will have to solve their problem.

What Happens In a Trillion-Dollar US Fed Budget Cut?

 Between now and January of 2026....I expect around one-trillion dollars of fed funding to be cut, and some indicators that as we end 2026....it'll be close to 2-trillion cut.

Part of the 'credit' in January 2026....will go to the national debt.  But I would imagine that everyone's tax bill (compared to last year)....will be trimmed by $1,000.  

Those on Social Security?  I think that income will be ALL tax-free.

By January 2027?  National debt will be cut by 35-percent.  

By January 2028?  Whatever tax you paid in 2020....will be $2k to $3k less.  

So here's the thing....if the economy had been turned around.....you were given $2,000 back in taxable income....the banks restored to accountable standards....who would you vote for in 2028?  

Well....Vance of course.  

The Democrats have a problem, which they can't really counter.....working-class people being rewarded.  

Eight Things I Now Believe

 1.  Both Joe and Jill Biden voted for Donald Trump.  Call me crazy....but I think the way they were pushed-out....gave the a ton off anger.

2.  By the time we get around to the next UK national election (Aug 2029)....one out of 12 Brit adults will have been charged with a hate-crime.  The amount of anger and hostility will have reached a level where one out of four Brits would like to approach the US as a state.  

3.  MSNBC will be sold by spring of 2025, and likely dump 90-percent of its political chatter news.  

4.  The cruise company offering 4-year cruises to Trump-anxiety-sufferers.....will find 500 people interested in the deal, and the bulk of them (400-plus) will sign up.

5.  Almost ALL of green-energy loans given out by the Biden administration...within 12 months, will be deemed failures and written off.  At least 100 individuals connected to these failures will be dragged into court and end up admitting that some elements of the loan....were simply money-laundering. 

6.  Research will show more than 2,000 Chicago black residents in fear of themselves being deported....reacting to the mayor's chatter.  Fake letters from some non-existent gov't department will arrive by spring....asking residents to present evidence they were born in the US.  

7.  More than forty US Senators/House members....are identified by the end of 2025.....as 'con-artists'.

8.  More than 12,000 Americans are arrested for phystical violent behavior related to anti-Trump syndrome in 2025.  Some will end up with multiple years in prison.

What'll Happen To The 44 4-Star US Generals/Admirals?

 In about two months, this chatter will start up.  Gazing at my crystal ball....I'm predicting four things:

1.  Massive downsizing of troops in Europe....where there will be one single 3-star general, and one single 1-star admiral.

2.  From the remaining situation....about half of the four-star positions will either drop to a 2-star position or be eliminated entirely.

3.  You see forty of the current 4-star folks gone by June...retired.

4.  For a bunch of Lt Col's and Col's, who were on some path....dreaming of a 4-star ending....it's a crushing emotion, and they all start to rethink things after their 20th year....exiting/retiring.  

The Blunt Truth

 This week....a bunch of DC gov't workers have come out and said they may be quitting because they can't handle the approaching Trump situation.

I pondered over this....having been a gov't employee (GS, 3.5 years) and lived in DC.  I will admit....probably 70-percent of the people I worked around....were left in terms of their political beliefs.

I could see these people, after making the quitting-chatter....going to their accountant/finance wiz....then having this pitiful talk.

If you were a year or two away from age 55....you might have some window to retire via your TSP (gov't IRA).  But you'd be warned....if you need a year....just shut up and work through a year.  Same for those who need two years.....just shut up.

Then the accountant will figure up your car loan and home mortgage amount....telling you that quitting means you need to find a job of equal value....then grinning while telling you the job-market is crap, and you'd have to accept a 30 to 40 percent cut in pay.

Yeah, all those numbers the Biden-team talked about for four years....were crap.

Even if you changed your attitude and just tried to stick it out....there's a pretty good chance that Elon's team will eliminate your job.  The accountant then figures....your savings with state unemployment money....will last you four months at best.  Dipping into the TSP/IRA?  That just creates a bigger problem in five years.

So 'Joe' goes home....opens up a bottle of whiskey and talks with the wife.  Massive desperation starts to set in.

'Wanda' (the 17-year-old daughter who was supposed to  be going to the University of Oregon in August, requiring $38,000 out of your savings for the first year)....steps into the room.  You alert her that this Oregon adventure is crap and  not possible....she might have to accept the crappy University of Maryland.

The wife is disgruntled because that 2-week cruise to the Med....is in jeopardy.  She calls her dad....also a gov't employee.....only to discover that he's drinking whiskey as well, and planning an exit to Panama by March.

Across DC presently, I would imagine more than 100,000 folks in turmoil and preparing to sell their homes as quickly as possible.

Who would want to hire a forced-out gov't employee?  Well....once you state a salary that is only 60-percent of  what they made before.....they will feel insulted.

Suicides popping up?  Oh yeah....between now and Christmas....I would guess more than a hundred GS employees reach that level of desperation.

Even if you are around 55 and can retire early....you are talking about a lesser income situation.  You won't be staying in DC....because of the cost factor.  Accepting some move to Arkansas or Alabama....to cut cost?

For the remainder of their lives...these are people who will talk non-stop....day-after-day....of the terrible wrongs done to them, and how valuable they were for 20 years of gov't service.  

Five Humble Thoughts

 1.  I read this AM....the View (the TV show) management people are discussing an emergency change to the ABC show.  They say....some 'voices' that are pro-Trump are now required.  

The way it was said.....at least two of the current ladies are gone, and I would  imagine the most extreme views will be the ones dismissed.  

How this would work?  Unknown.  Trans-ladies possible in the mix...who are pro-Trump?  Well....maybe.

2.  Some kind  of 9-11 style attack was prevented in Texas....by the FBI, yesterday.

I'm shocked that the FBI had time to do real work.

3.  Just odd....all these DC-insiders racing to MSNBC and CNN to hype negative chatter on Trump's selections.

4.  I went out and bought roughly 60 shares of NANC stock yesterday.  This is a ETF which captures Nancy Pelosi's trading trends....what she buys....they buy.  What she sells....they sell.  Since early 2024....30-percent gain.

Nancy says she's running in November 2026.  Maybe I should triple my stock  investment situation?

5.  I hate to say it....but the more Senator John Fetterman speaks....the more 'normal' he seems....almost conservative in nature.

Five Things I'd Bet One-Thousand Dollars On

 1.  Within 90 days of President Trump's arrival.....former President Obama's house is raided on fed-charges.

2.  Serious banking failure start to be announced by 1 Feb 2025, and over 100 banks are in a failed status by the end of March 2025.....mostly due to the commercial property loan failures.

3.  At least forty FBI/CIA officials quickly retire by mid-January and relocate outside of the US.

4.  At least 500 names are released on the Epstein island list. 

5.  At least 100 suicides are reported in the first half of 2025....relating to Diddy-parties.   

Note: Something I'd bet $10 on: for the J6 business in 2021....I suspect this Crooks guy (the Trump-shooter) was in DC on that day.  It would be interesting to match his cellphone number up and see if it shows up on DC traffic for that day.

What I See Happening To The CIA

 As Trump arrives....I'll predict 5 things:

1.  Of the top fifty executives within the agency......all of them are retired or dismissed.

2.  I think once the JFK files are released.....a whole lot of explaining will have to occur with the news media, and past performance of the CIA bosses.

3.  ALL names of the Epstein files will be released by mid-summer.   Why the CIA held  names?  That will be a long, long discussion....with Epstein figured to be a contracted guy for the CIA.

4.  The J6 pipe-bomb 'guy/gal' will lead back to the CIA.  It'll be either a rogue agent, or a contracted person.  

5.  Some revisions of 9/11 will occur, and lead back to the CIA.  This will trigger 2026 House hearings.  

Five Predictions By February 2025

 1.  A wave of more than 300,000 migrants (currently in the US)....stage a walk to cross the border into Canada....creating a national emergency for the Canadian gov't to handle.

2.  More than 1,000 FBI agents give notice to leave their jobs (none having enough time for retirement to kick in).  News groups try to suggest that the FBI is spiraling out of control.  Within four weeks....it's determined that 900 of the billets/positions...will not be re-filled (they will just end).

3.  The Secret Service is now divided....one division to protect current members of the gov't and the President....the new second division to protect past members.  

4.  FEMA is under investigation, with more than 200 members trying to retire quickly and avoid charges of corruption.

5.  Cuba is suddenly pro-Trump, with  US relations finally taking off.  

My Bitburg Story

 Over the past week, I've observed a lot of Tik Tok videos....suggesting various women are frustrated about the vote, and saying that they won't  conduct relationships with guys....in order to 'punish' them for voting wrongly.  

So I'm going to tell you a story.

In the early 1990s....I was transferred to Bitburg Air Base, Germany.  It was a unique region, and highly rural.  Lot of farmers in the local population.

In the 1960s and 1970s....it was painfully obvious that male farmers in the area weren't really getting options on female 'mates'.  This was mostly because the farming lifestyle was viewed as a negative.  So you had a fair sum of men in their 30s/40s....who were still single.

At some point in the 1970s....these guys went off on a yearly vacation, and started to choose Thailand.  They'd go and spend two to three weeks.  They'd end up meeting some Thai gal....some in their  20s...some in their 30s, and relationships would occur.  The German farmer-guy would return six months later, and end up marrying her.  German green-card would occur, and she'd resettle back on the farm  at Bitburg.

A year later....she'd introduce her male farmer neighbor to some sister, cousin or friend.  A trend started up. By the late 80s....there  were probably forty Thai wives in the region.

A co-worker lived in a farming village outside of Bitburg, and engaged in  conversation with a Thai gal on this trend.  The Thai gal remarked....things were fine except a lot of animosity from German women in the local area.  

Yeah, there was frustration about how Thai women became the substitution solution. 

Looking at these TikTok women....I suspect in three years....you start to notice a trend....where Asian women, South American women and Russian women are the substitution solution.  The  angry anti-Trump women?  Well.....they can find a few  Harris-lefty-voter-guys, but there's a limit here.

Just Three Odd Feelings From The Weekend

 First, since Wednesday....I've watched several hours of MSNBC and CNN (to get a balance), and mostly what they wanted to talk  about (rather than normal news)...how Kamala Harris lost.  One of the things they center on constantly...the economy is GREAT.

They go and cite numbers from the gov't....over and over....saying things are actually pretty good under President Biden, and that Bidenomics 'works'.

Then they suggest that people are confused and interpreting things in a false way.

I went back and looked at private foundations and their data.  I looked at unemployment stories.  I looked at repossessions of cars, and stories of people  unable to make house payments.

The Biden economic numbers?  They have to be slanted (false figures) in some way.

The two networks spending a lot of time telling this story?  Yeah....even after the loss, there's some necessity to keep telling the rigged-up story.

Second thing?  MSNBC and CNN now stuck....having to get away from political stories and tell regular news items?  Yeah.  

I'm not sure that either have the ability to make this switch.

Finally, the third thing....I've watched a number of  TikTok videos of women (Harris-voters) who  want you to know that they've cut off family and friends who voted for Trump, and sexually-speaking....you aren't allowed any of their 'lust' (if they had any).

Based on behavior (child-like and cult-like)....I can't imagine  any guy being this desperate to base a friendship, or a wife-situation upon a fragile person.

Those who are teachers?  If they act this goofy around kids....they probably will be let-go from school employment by the Christmas holidays.  Just guessing....but across the nation, you might have several thousand female-teachers in a unemployment situation shortly.

All of this leading to a crisis period?  I started thinking about this, and can't see how you avoid it. Putting the blame upon social and news media? Probably....but I see 2025 as a recovery period.

California Story

 There's this talk going on in California....since the election....that Governor Gavin Newsom is reportedly evaluating options for California’s possible independence.

Necessity?  Well....in some odd way....to oppose President Trump’s plans for deporting undocumented immigrants and enforcing voter ID requirements.

I paused over reading this....thinking it has to be 50-percent BS.

Total independence?  Not possible.

If they were part of Mexico?  Well...it's not such a crazy idea.  I could see a dozen reasons why California could 're-join' Mexico.  The cartel folks would be extremely positive over such a measure.  Converting over to the Mexican Peso would be a simple matter.  Pay-scale for LA and SF police....it'd drop by 90-percent over-night.  

Would Mexico easily accept the deal? NO....I seriously doubt it.  They'd probably go to Trump and ask for $100-billion in assistance in taking the charity-case.

Here's the thing....if this makes sense....in 10 years, Mexico would approach the US and ask to be  packaged into the Union....as the 51st state, and California would be re-admitted in some weird fashion.

The Biggest Shocker After The Election?

 Well...a fair number of those celebrity Kamala Harris endorsement moments....were paid in some way.  

Some did it for free.  Others...had a price.

In the end, most analysts say....it didn't help or matter.  You simply threw millions away.  

Four Things I'm Trying To Understand

 1.  All this attachment to the 'Handmaidens TV show and comparing it to reality?

I've watched maybe two episodes of the show, and frankly....I just don't see much of a story to tell, or reason to get all attached in my reality to it.

Since the election....I just seem to see a lot of women who seem  ultra-fragile, and getting all chatty about comparing the TV show to reality.

I'm just glad they didn't pick Gilligan's Island, or Alf....for this fragile-BS.

2.  This blue-bracelet BS chatter.  Apparently, people want to have some way to identify who you are....by your vote-business, and you would be considered 'safe'....if you wore the blue bracelet.

It's some Nazi-identification symbiology.

3.  Some Brit art gallery has decided that if you paint up something....giving it a offensive name....it has to be renamed or removed.

It used to be just painted in some offensive way to get 'attention'....now even the name matters.

4.  I just can't see that many Americans leaving the nation after this election.

Where exactly can you find things that much better?  Canada? Really?

DC Chatter

 It's an odd story....somewhere in the past 3 days....all of the sudden....some Democrats are hyped up to get Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court Justice) retired, and replaced before Trump arrives.

If you go to the typical calendar....you can figure about 120 days to get this announced....hunt down a replacement....brief them enough to pass Senate questions....then go through 10 days of rough questions....then passed.

Present schedule?  You have 10 weeks before Trump arrives.

Chief problem?  You have to deal with President Biden....who got pretty peeved over how he was forced out, and he won't be agreeable to find a qualified person to replace Sotomayor.   Meaning?  He'll pick some idiot who can't get through the questions of the Senate.

Add in....both Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays....with 3 weeks that the Senate is typically shut-down.

Comical show?  Absolutely.

New Senate sworn in on 3 January?  Yeah....so they'd have to get this replacement stuff done by the 2 January.

'Safe-Men' Story

 I sat this morning...looking over social media and this video comes up....older woman (high school teacher in Ohio)....disturbed by the election....comes to a 'challenge' to women across the nation...to identify 'blue-men' (guys who voted for Harris).  

The idea she's talking about....to say these blue-men....are safe-men, and if you aren't on the platform listed as such....,you must be unsafe or red-men.

I paused at the end for a number of minutes.  It's the type of BS that you would anticipate from a 10-year-old kid....juvenile-like.

I'd hate to think...just wearing a blue tie, or blue bracelet....you'd get the 'wink' from some gal and 'free' sex was possible....pretending to be a Harris-voter.

Cult-like behavior?  Well....if you listed the top dozen traits of a cult-person, yeah....this would fit into the listing.

Eight Humble Opinions

 1.  I've spent a couple hours since Wednesday morning....watching videos of young women who are furious about the loss in the election.  Their path?  Shaving their head, stating their intention to remain childless, denying young men relationships and their bodies.

After about the 50th video....I've come to the conclusion that they seem most like the Charley Manson cult-girls, and mentally unbalanced (you shouldn't date them under any circumstances).  

2.  I've also spent at least four hours attempting to view CNN and MSNBC with their analysis of how Kamala Harris 'lost'.  On convincing me that they seem to know something?  Zero accomplishments.  They do dwell on the odd topic....where did the sixteen-odd million Biden-voters of 2020 disappear to.

3.  Some social media chatter started up....the Democrats seem to believe that they need their own version of Joe Rogan.  If you asked Joe about this....he'd tell you that he was a rock-solid Democrats up until 2020, and lost his prospective in the past four years.  I would be wondering...if the Democrats did find their own version of Joe Rogan....how many weeks would he/she remain with them....before exiting?

4.  I read one single piece off social media....suggesting we need to abolish both the Electoral College and popular-vote.  They didn't say it in the statement.....but you'd kinda need a one-party state.

5.  It's just ODD.....on one single weather map, you have a massive hurricane entering the Caribbean, and one MASSIVE blizzard/snow front in Colorado/Nebraska region.  

6.  Doubt if you noticed this week, but Toyota said it was cutting back on production of E-cars....hinting that no  one seems that interested....so gas vehicles are back in style.

7.  How the EU avoids Trump's tariff chatter?  They will buy US-natural gas, and ship it into Europe.  Interesting twist.  So if you own natural gas stock or ship-stock that deals in delivery of natural gas....you will make some profits.

8.  Amazing how the Nazi-chatter just up and stopped overnight.

What The Oswald/JFK Files Will Reveal?

 I've spent a fair amount of time pondering this....coming to three conclusions...once Trump releases the files:

1.  Oswald was a paid-CIA-worker from the day he entered the Marines.

2.  Oswald did shoot/kill officer Tippet (no explanation why), but did not fire the rifle involved in the Kennedy shooting.

3.  A CIA connection to the attempted assassination of France's Charles de Gaulle will be announced (from 1962).

The rest of the files....mostly BS or worthless.

It won't solve our mystery...mostly deepening it....wondering who Oswald really was.

Observations After The Smoke Has Cleared

 1. One gets the gut-feeling that Kamala Harris was the least prepared candidate for President in the past hundred years....even after four years of being VP.

2.  Cult-like behavior by tens of thousands...unable to handle the Trump victory.

3. Some attempt by the legal 'dragons' to halt all the court-stuff against Trump.....in fear now of massive retribution.

4.  Some worry about about those 16-odd-million voters who didn't appear to save Kamala (after saving Joe Biden in 2020).  Personally, I think the 16-million were aliens (from space) and they left Earth over the past four years.

5.   Joe Biden seems oddly 'happy' now.  Maybe we should ask why.

6.  The Amish figured into this election....in a odd way.  

7.  2028's primary candidates?  Governor Newsom, and VP Vance.

8.  Ten-thousand houses likely to be put on the market in the DC region next month.

Fleeing Story

 I sat and read through this brief story today.  'Some' Californians have said....they would prepare to leave.  Number?  Never clear.  If I were guessing....might be in the 3,000 to 5,000 range 'talking' about doing this.

Where they'd go?  Unknown.  I might imagine Costa Rica, Panama, Aruba, Canada, etc.

Staying for four years?  That's the part I doubt.  Some might 'like' Central America-living....Canada?  Harsh winters will convince most to pack up and leave after a year.  

But here's the funny thing....these are all people with income (real money).  If you had 5,000 to 10,000 up and leave....the state tax office might get hyped-up and track them down...telling them of a tax connection still existing.

Just an odd story.

What Happens in 70-Odd Days?

 My list would typically be 300 items long, but I'll keep it brief:

1.  Trump engages NOW with Putin, laying down the deal....to occur the first week in office.  Deal?  Putin agrees to move all forces out of Ukraine....keeping the Crimea.  Economic sanctions on Russia would likely end within 2 weeks of this pull-out.  The US agrees to remove those 'new' missiles in Germany....ASAP.  The US further agrees to most US troops to be removed within 18 months from Europe (I'd suggest Naples Port stays, and some fighter wing ends up in Poland).  US remains in NATO, with a lite-presence of EUCOM (somewhere in Germany).  US writes in stone....no further members to be added to NATO.  Putin and Trump meet face-to-face by end of March (my humble guess....in Hungary).  

Putin can say to the Russian public.....he pushed back against NATO and their expansion....winning.  The US can finally downsize it's footprint in Europe.  

Trump tells Nobel-Prize folks....he's got enough on his plate....no need to waste some prize on him.  

2.  US funds going to bio-labs outside of the US?  Finally ended.

3.  All J-6 prisoners pardoned.  Full exam of evidence.....some House members could be charged with criminal behavior.  

4.   At least two Supreme Court Judges giving noticed of retirement in July (Thomas is one of them).

5.  ALL JFK data released.  Some evidence will exist that Oswald was a paid employee of the CIA (probably most shocking piece/detail).

6.  Commission appointed to review automation in the voting process....it's failures.  Commission will recommend a national ID card (to be handled by Social Security folks).....at no cost to citizens.

7.  87,000 IRS agents....given termination notices.

8.  Venezuelan gangs in the US given top priority....at least 3,000 Nat'l Guardsmen and over 1,000 US Marshalls sent on a mission to find/arrest them.

9.  Border established as top priority to secure.

10.  Audit of all Senators/House members on stocks owned/purchased. 

If there were a '11'.....Fluoride is ordered by March to end being mandated in the water-supply.  

Explaining The End Of The Election?

 I could write a 300-page book over this....but I'll limit it to five central themes:

1.  Removing Joe Biden back in the fall of 2023 should have been a priority....then having a true primary would have occurred....with Kamala Harris very unlikely to be in this present race.

2.  All this court-crap on Trump?  Whoever designed this out of the White House....just made things worse in the end.  

3.  Selling Twitter to Elon?  That was a five-star mistake.

4.  The Gaza 'war' and Biden's attachment to Israel?  It ended up upsetting a fair number of Democratic voters.

5.  One central figure out of the White House should have been given the task in 2021....to manage the economy.  By just pretending something positive was going on....was  not enough.

The Hunter-woes?  It's amazing how bad things got....with a four-star scandal just laying there constantly.  

Explaining The Bank Crisis

 To explain the current approaching banking crisis.....you have three key issues.

First, since the 2008 mess.....fixing the banks has not been a priority....so a fair number of problems still relate to business practices allowed to continue.

Second, we have this brewing problem with treasury bonds that the banks bought at inopportune times....with some holding bonds that aren't paying well.  On their books, the crappy-paying bonds can't be resolved or  fixed.  BoA stands in the middle of this particular problem.

Third, we come to a magnificent issue of failed commercial real estate of epic proportion.  

For decades....people and companies came to banks for commercial real estate loans.  They wanted to  operate hotels, office-buildings, restaurants, bars, and malls.  X-property was worth $10-million....the bank made the loan, and up to the Covid-era....this strategy worked, with banks making money.

Covid and the home-office routines....with diminished business....messed-up the whole strategy.

Example?  X-company would own a office building with 25 tenants (lawyers, doctors, accountants, etc).  Home-office crapped on 8 of the tenants, and they don't need max-office-space.  Those eight ended up exiting the building.   New tenants?  They can't be found.  Income from the remaining 17 tenants?  It's enough to cover the mortgage, but not enough to cover maintenance, security, and operational costs.  Selling the property for what you paid for it?  Won't happen.    So eventually, you write up a bankruptcy situation  and approach the bank to hand the the keys. Bank selling it for what the loan was for?  No....that's a wish but won't happen.

So the bank goes to a auction, and discovers the $10-million structure is worth around $3.5-million.  Some bank official signs off on the 'loss', and the bank sits there quietly with a growing list of losses.

This occurs at the local, the regional and the national banks.

Quietly, banks are escalating fees....to cover losses, and the loss-sheets are reaching a point where it'll be public knowledge.

If you notice....the Berkshire have dumped a lot of stock in banks in the past six months....sitting on a ton of cash.

So, what's the be the end?  Banks admit this serious loss, and need saving.  Sadly, FDIC doesn't have the money to cover this.  They would turn to Yellen and Congress.  Well....Yellen would typically go and sell treasury bonds. Yet, at this point....who really wants treasury bonds, at 4.25-percent?  China?  No.  

My expectation is....by the end of January....this mess reaches the point where Berkshire is the ONLY ones willing to buy treasury bonds, but at some rate like 5.25-to-5.5 percent.  Debt issues for the United States?  OH YEAH....this will drag up a five-star mess....requiring either major cuts or major taxes. 

Oh, and if you were wondering....Berkshire has 330-plus BILLION ready to spend.  

BoA surviving?  Only if Berkshire helps them....meaning a massive amount of ownership/supervision by Berkshire in the future.

But this drags me to the key problem....all this excess commercial property....hotels, restaurants, malls, etc....the gov't has to absorb this and 'dump' it.  Where does it go and who would take on possibly tens of thousands of prosperities.....that have lost 50-plus percent of value?

As much as this election stuff involves Trump/Harris....it's really about who will inherit the mess, and if things match up to 1929. 

Ending my observation?  Well....ONE Berkshire share is currently (for the A-stock) around $666,000.  I will say if you could  just afford to buy one single share....it's likely to double in value within three years.  

If Kamala Harris Were To Win?

 1.  The banking collapse would have to occur between now and early January....because banks would figure Biden and Yellen would be easier to deal with than the mystery crew of Harris.  

Note, my estimate of the banking crisis....there's 100 banks in the middle of this mess....and yes, very 1929ish.

2.  President Harris will rarely give interviews over the four-year period....with someone hired to be the 'voice' of Harris in explaining details and strategies.

3.  As they attempt in November/December to hire the insider-crew....they find that half of the qualified Democrats they contact...have zero interest in being on the team.

4.  More than 300,000 Haitians are given entry-slips in 2025 and 2026.....to red-states.  By 2028....more than 1.5-million Haitians will have arrived in America.  Voodoo is the fastest growing religion in the US.  Alabama elects a Haitian-Alabamian as governor.

5.   By mid-summer of 2025....CNN finds that almost no one has interest in public appearances by President Harris.  The Harris team is still  recruiting bus-companies and crowd-hire-groups.....to get a respectful number of attendees in a building.

6. The chief of staff for Harris will be a pro-reparations enthusiast, and continually attempting to drum up support.

7.  President Harris will nominate 3 new Supreme Court justices....while the current nine are in place.....saying she has the 'power'.

8.  After touring Europe and meeting with various leaders there.....there's a hushed silence in the weeks that follow.....with most European politicians realizing that she's not very clear about strategies or intentions.

9.  Diddy is released within one month of Harris's Presidency.

10.  Joe Rogan's podcast is shut-down by the authorities.....with Rogan packing up and moving the operation to Aruba.  

Ten Humble Thoughts

 1.  Based on data out there....easy to say that one out of ten voters from 2020 aren't going to show up in 2024.  Where they went?  Unknown (maybe they never truly existed).

2.  I hate to suggest it at this point, but I think Joe Biden (even suffering from dementia) would have done better in the end than Kamala Harris.

3.  The guy shaking his head in disbelief?  Diddy.

4.  The rush to sell property in the DC area as of next week?  I'd suggest the 'for-sale-inventory' will triple in a matter of six weeks....with gov't workers in great fear of their job going away.

5.  If you remember all that flooding in Spain last week....it has dawned upon folks that around 250-plus small dams were dismantled over the past three years.....to 'correct' the natural flow of rivers.  A bunch of folks will likely stand up and ask questions now.

6.  Guy grinning the most as Trump wins?  Joe Biden.  He'll personally call both Pelosi and Obama....suggesting their push to get him out...gave them this defeat.

7.  Next job for Harris?  November 2026....California governor election....she'll run.

8.  Can CNN survive another four-year period of anti-Trump news for 12 hours a day?  I have my doubts.

9.  In the end, I  doubt if more than 3,000 people actually leave the nation because of Trump.....with three-quarter of them returning within a year...admitting that life is more miserable elsewhere.

10.   At least 40,000 Americans over the next two weeks will seek mental help over the Trump-panic syndrome. 

When Jesus And Satan Entered Politics

 Once upon a time....we had Presidential elections and things barely 'boiled'...meaning you could still bowl with Democrats, attend Church with Republicans, and linger through a 3-hour visit with relatives on Thanksgiving avoiding anything political coming up.

Then one day....the Jesus and Satan identification came up.  One candidate/party is Jesus, and the other candidate/party is Satan.  At that point, everyone wanted to join in on the cult.   Newspapers, churches, radio news, sports networks, magazines like  Reader's Digest and National Geographic, your local Channel 31, your friendly HR folks, scientists, medical geeks, social media, and the prime news folks.....they all  joined the party.

Your trust level dried up....you went skeptical.

You look at a story, reviewing the key five facts given to you....realizing there's two or three gaps missing.  You start to step back....realizing they avoided the whole story.

At some point, your friends with one cult (or the other)....will suggest if you just came back to the cult/church/theme....you'd 'get-right'.  You feel bad for them, but you realize they are fully tied into the Jesus/Satan stuff.

The accusation of conspiracy beliefs?  Well....with JFK and RFK....the laid-out 'truth' doesn't work anymore.  And after.....you just start asking questions.

The Greeks had a number of Gods/spirits that they worshipped....each having some special 'power'.  My favorite was 'Apheleia'.  You would ask Apheleia to help with a mess....presenting ease, simplicity and transparent/untroublesome details to complex situations/chaos.  We kinda need that Greek spirit today.  

Humble View

 By this point, most Americans have heard the epic ending to 'Peanut'....the squirrel who'd been saved by some New York guy....gotten to 'pet-status', and was extinguished (put to death) by New York animal authorities late last week.  The visit by the authorities?  Dozen state badged officials.

So I reviewed the whole story from a different prospective....COST.

Man-hours required?  From the planning process....paperwork typed...trip to the home....couple hours there interrogating the couple....recovering and terminating Peanut...returning to the office.....filing paperwork...there's 96 man-hours involved.  

Don't BS me....I've worked within the fed-government and know how man-hours get added up.

So you figure....New York officials....so they are making (with pensions, health-care, and extras)....around $80 an hour.  Total  at this point?  $7,680.00

But hold on....they have pistols, training certificates and regular practice....you need to add around $1,000 onto this amount.

But we aren't finished.  To get 12 folks there....you have to figure New York state, and at least six vehicles, with gas/maintenance figured...so add around $1,200 onto this amount....so we are up to around $10,000 roughly.....to kill one squirrel.

Meetings on Monday with state officials having to dedicate time and effort....explaining this to news people and the public....so add on $30,000 for the sixty-odd people who are engaged for six hours of meetings and BS-explaining things.  

So I'm figuring around $40,000 spent to kill Peanut (the squirrel).   Here's the thing...it's not fake-money....it's coming out of state tax money (New York state).

In most states....Alabama in mentioning....the country would have sent one single animal-control guy out.  He would have done a 8-minute presentation about 'THE LAW', and confiscated the squirrel.  Somewhere between the confiscation and the office....he would have stopped by the side of the road....dumped the squirrel out (alive) near a tree, and filed some 1-line report....squirrel-problem eliminated.  Total expenditure?  Maybe $60.

There's something wrong here....it's just that the public hasn't figured it out yet (especially in New York).

Finally....to the lady in Texas who filed complaints about this pet-squirrel stuff....which led to the officials on the mission? Her social media account?  Shut-down.  Some say her phone is turned off.  It would appear she left the place she was living  because of public criticism, and hiding out at present. Her reputation at this point?  Squirrel-killer-lady?  I can't imagine attending church....bowling with some team....attending weddings....under this type of accomplishment.

We live in a pretty rough world....where a dozen folks might visit with 'authority' and waste a whole day on 'nothing' but killing one single squirrel.  In Alabama....at least in the 1970s....a dozen guys would have killed at least 300 squirrels in a single hunting trip....made no report.....piled into one pick-up (with 9 guys riding in the rear....having no safety concerns) and having consumed six cases of beer before night-fall.  

The Tabs Story

This week in Colorado....the chief person in charge of the automation voting machines....goofed up and gave out a Excel spreadsheet, which had the passwords to each individual machine in the state.  For  a while, it was public knowledge....at least until they changed the passwords.

How she goofed-up?  Well...in Excel, you can have tab, after tab, after tab....in one single document.

I worked once with a female contractor (over 20 years ago)....who had gone off to a Excel class or two.  She came back in this Jesus-like manner....being a wizard at using Excel.

I needed some data one day, and she came to give me a copy of some document.  I noticed right away.....there were a dozen tabs to the document.

She had gone way beyond the expectation of our gov't agent (the boss)....having  literally thousands of bits of information built into this document and the stupid tabs.

It came to me one day....that she was just one of hundreds of thousands around the globe....who were inserting tabs, and doing massive calculations with sometimes marginal or useless information.  

Did this Colorado gal even know what this tab was or the significance of the passwords?  I doubt it.

It's just funny how technology has become some 'pain-in-the-ass' for society.  

An Investing Story

Around 2008....I worked with a guy whose dad called him up one day about a stock....SIRI (Sirus XM Radio).  It was doing lousy and gone down to 10 cents a share. His dad was hearing some good stuff about a comeback.  Dad said he was going to buy $10,000 of shares (figure about 100,000 shares).

My buddy brought this up with me.  I just couldn't see the wisdom....it was a dying stock in my mind.  The buddy went ahead bought some stock (couple days later, it was around 12 cents a share).  I seem to remember it being near 150,000 shares that he bought.

Six weeks later....stock was near 18 cents a share, and I jumped into this.  I wasn't crazy over a huge number.....so I bought near 2,500 shares.  About two months later....it was near 25 cents and I sold my shares, happily.  I went back in a couple months later at 35 cents and eventually sold at 45 cents.

My buddy and his dad were still into this in 2010, and I suspect they are still both into the stock.

Value now?  I was glancing at SIRI stock prices today (sitting at $26 a share).  My buddy and his dad....if they were still invested into it....would have several million each.

You come across some kind of gamble like that once in your life.  Either you take it or you walk away.

Barberry Effects

 Back in mid-January, I got a bulk bag of barberries, and started a early AM and late PM 'taste' (1 half-of-a-shot glass each).

Effects so far?

I'm losing about 1 pound each three weeks, without any real dieting attempt.  Hungary at lunch?  No....I'll eat a banana or apple, but I don't have any real appetite.

Slowing down my digestive tract?  YEAH....my bowel movements have gone to 48 to 60 hour rotations.