Just A Humble View

 

I saw this story a couple of days ago and it's been on my mind. 

It's just odd....first counter-sniper deployment for a Trump event.  First time that CNN covers a Trump event live.  

I imagine if I sat down and wrote a full analytical report....there would be around seventy ODD-things connected to this 13 July event.

It'd be like baling hay....some lightning storm coming up....lightning striking the barn....having a drugged-up lady drive up to chat while hauling hay in a state of undress....a snake trying to strike you while picking up a bale....having a Jesus-is-my-savior guy stop to preach on this being judgement-day....and suddenly you have a heart-attack on the final bale moved into the barn.

Seven Observations

 1.  For the past couple of years, through various banks...there were short-term CD accounts (1-month, an 3-month).  Well...in the past two weeks....those have virtually disappeared, and if you were chatting to a bank over 6-month or 12-month deals....they've dropped about half-a-point....being just at 4.95 usually.

Indicator of something?  Just guessing....banks are sensing something will occur before the end of 2024.  And I don't think it's a happy or positive thing.

2.  This past week's effort...."White Dudes For Harris" zoom session? 

Listening to the chatter, and after hitting mute about 15 minutes into it....it just seemed to me to be some intellectual white KKK-like group.  Just seemed odd....they were in the past....all low-IQ working class guys.  

3.  Someone has decided that we need a movie about Brittney Spears.  Just shaking my head.

4.  The Green 'Power-Ranger'.....arrested this week for assault on some Idaho guy.

5.  If you really wanted to fix the Supreme Court....there ought to be 50 members....each from their own state, and appointed by the state system....leaving the President, the House, and Senate out of the selection process.  Each case that comes up....do a random selection process to haul in seven folks and one sub.  

6.  There is a time and place for drag shows, and if you want to pay $12 for a beer and one-hour of drag stuff at the VFW hall...fine.  Beyond that....thinking you'd want drag entertainment for a NFL half-time show, or some Olympics show, or a Presidential-share-a-chat show....no, it doesn't work.

7.  Just odd....Berkshire Hathaway has apparently dumped more shares this quarter than any other quarter in its entire history.  Something done with the cash?  Well....NO.  They seem to be sitting and waiting.

Yeah, there's a crash coming....probably in the last quarter of 2024.   

So Imagine You Were A SF Junkie Now

 The cops come up with some sanitation guy and they start to dismantle your tent.  You argue....'what-the-hell'.

The cop has a 12-line sheet as he reads off the mayor's order.  In simple terms, you have two choices....accept a city-run facility with drug-rehab or mental-health-mandated care...OR you accept a bus-ticket to any town in America.

Depending on the time of day and how drugged-up you were......you are trying to comprehend the 'deal' offered.

You figure.....well....they aren't serious.  So you back out on the street....beg off another tent and some gear from another fake charity operation, and pitch the tent 12 blocks away from the last location.

A week goes by, and the same cop comes up with another sanitation truck crew...confiscating this tent and gear.....offering you the same deal again.

You might be drugged-up enough to repeat the new tent strategy one more time.

So around the 3rd or 4th time....you finally figure out....you have to take deal one or deal two.

A true junkie would never consider drug-rehab.  So you opt for the ticket.  Where do you go?  Well...out of a hundred folks....I would make this guess.

Sixty-percent will go to LA.  Twenty-percent will select either Portland or Seattle (mostly because of the open-drug mentality or nice weather).  Ten-percent might just ask for a cab-ride over to Oakland and try to stay local.  The rest?  They might try to resettle back east....maybe DC, NY City, Philly, or Chicago.

In the old wrestling world....there was always a once-a-year event where Junkyard-Dog or Tommy Rich would agree to some 'loser-must-leave-town' script and disappeared for two or three months....then reappeared with a mask...pretending to be the 'Masked-Avenger'.  This SF gimmick reminds me of that era.

All of this being done too late to really fix/cure SF?  Well...that's my end-analysis.  I think this should have been done in 2010.  So the billions wasted in SF over 20 years....setting the city deep into a Detroit-path?  Yeah.    

Malapropism Chatter

 I had to look up the word 'malapropism' today....thought I'd share this insight.

So....malapropism is a word-problem. 

You sit there....watching TV, or listening to the radio, or watching some intellectual talk over something, and they utter some word, phrase, or term....that is unintentionally comic in nature.

It'd be like you uttering: "We need a escape-goat to blame."  The true phrase that you meant...."We need a scapegoat to blame."

What I've tended to notice....once this was laid out...there are just people walking around who are WIRED in some way to talk a lot, and misspeak often with malapropism in the middle of things.  

If you watch CNN or listen to NPR a good bit....you will pick up on this issue.  The people you notice....they do it over and over.  It doesn't make them stupid or less intelligent....just you (the listener) sit there and in the middle of some 'talk'.....you ask yourself....'what the hell did she mean'.  

In some cases, you probably even get your mind 'reset'....to mute the malapropism moments and just pretend it didn't occur.

Just an humble observation.

Just Something To Think About

 After Lee H. Oswald was arrested at the theater (suspicion of shooting the police officer, not JFK).....he was tested with the paraffin test....to see if he had traces gun-powder on himself.  

Hands?  Positive.

Cheeks?  Negative.

So he probably did fire the pistol at Officer Tippit.....killing him. 

And no, he didn't fire the rifle at the book depository.

Yeah, this one single fact remains conclusive....sixty years later.

The only thing you should wonder about?  Why Oswald didn't enter the car with Tippit, and why Tippit had to be eliminated.  

It's Not Really Trump Who Is The 'Threat'

 Once upon a time, Elon Musk came along, and toyed with the idea of buying Twitter.  Back and forth he went....eventually buying them.  Days later....he then resolved himself into a corner....that the majority of people working at Twitter had much of a function.  Couple of weeks later....Elon finally relieved 80-percent of the work-force.  

Relieve is a pleasant word.....you could just say that this 80-percent crowd (6,500 folks roughly)....really weren't doing anything productive, and he was doing a good thing in helping them find productive work (elsewhere).

In this once upon a time story....Elon and President Trump have apparently had a talk.  There's this element brewing.....Trump would like for Elon to come and be part of a 'commission'....to Twitter-rize the US federal government.  Basically....to help dismiss people and positions....that have no function.

Where before....it was mostly the Department of Education and FBI that had to worry about Trump winning and downsizing them.....every single agency now has something to worry about.

How big a mess could Elon create?  Well....it's possible that he might look at the US military and ask why the active duty Army needs x-number of troops....when you could shift 50-percent to the Reserves, and cut one-third of the total Army budget.

Elon might wander into the DEA building and the ATF building....grasping that they are both just plain law enforcement, and should be one single agency....gutting one-third of their total man-power.

State Department?  CIA?  National Park Service?  IRS?

Yeah, it would seem to me that they all might grasping now the true threat of Trump....really isn't Trump himself, but the act of hiring Elon for two years....to downsize the entire US government and cut the budget by a significant number. 

Senators and Congressmen standing in the way....to protect 'sacred-cows'?  Well....yeah, this might be an issue.  

For some reason, this might be interesting to watch unfold.