This Whole ID Discussion (My Ten Observations)

I wrote this originally in 2021, and recently pulled it up....to update: 

1.  Factually, you can't cite any evidence that 1-percent or 10-percent of society have NO ID.  

It is odd....no one wants to prove or disprove the numbers.

2.  State by state, region by region.....it will differ.  If you asked me about Alabama, I'd take a logical guess that around 99.9 percent of people (adults) have an ID.  The folks without an ID?  Prisoners, invalids, people living under bridges, Mennonites and folks in some mental facility.  

I'd take a humble guess....a quarter of one-percent of the population. 

3.  Trying to cash a check or open a bank account without a ID?  You can't do it.  There's around fifty-odd functions in life....like buying booze, smokes, or getting tags for your car....where it can't be done without an ID.

Course, if you were sitting in a state mental facility, or prison....it wouldn't matter.

4.  By age thirty, I had around six different IDs on me (thanks to the Air Force).  I counted today, and have around six valid IDs (counting that stupid German driver's license, and the visa I must always carry with me).

5.  I suspect that if you went by racial 'counts'.....more blacks have an ID than whites or Hispanics.

6.  Every single time that the Democrats go to fight this situation....to prevent the ID requirement....I keep thinking....how does this poor guy survive without an ID to buy beer, or Jack Daniels?

7.  I used to have an Air Force entry-card (for a secure facility) which had a middle name of 'Sanchez' on it (no, my middle name is NOT Sanchez)...it was a screw-up with the kid making the card.  For three years, I used this to enter the facility....until one day the guard wanted me to show a second ID, and confiscated my 'Sanchez' card.  

8.  Every single country in the EU....mandates that you need a state-manufactured ID....to vote (no exceptions).  In my mind, our position is the same as Paraguay or Bolivia.

9.  The odds that around the US.....over 10-million Americans have a minimum of one fake ID on themselves, with a fake name?  Probably better than 50-percent of a chance.

10.  Couldn't we just issue a one-time check (like stimulus cash) to pay for a state ID for everyone?  It seemed so easy for those Covid-stimulus checks......this wouldn't be rocket science.. 

About That 'Banging'

 US gov't today....banned romantic and sexual relationships....with Chinese citizens for government employees (while based in China).

I pondered over this.  They kinda meant....male-female....female-female....male-male, and male-trans.

Course, if they were Russian, Vietnamese, Mexican, Canadian,  or German....it's still OK.

Lawsuits?  Yeah, there's bound to be Biden-folks who are desperately banging some Chinese gal, and they don't want any supervision over their physical stuff by Trump.

This being started in Europe? Wouldn't shock me....if they advised the same thing here.

Netflix Series Review: Hot Spot (2025)

 This week, I finished up a 10 episode piece by Japanese TV....entitled 'Hot Spot'.

So....it's 50-percent drama, 50-percent comedy (as Japanese see it) and 50-percent SyFy.

It starts off....with one of the hotel male employees....admitting in some way....he's an alien (thus proving it).  

About 5 episodes into it.....you now have a time-traveler announce himself.  

An episode later, you have a super-natural woman with powers.

And by the end....they tie up the story....with a 2nd time traveler visiting.

Yeah....it's pretty crazy, but as stories go.....better than average.

If you can find it off  Netflix.....it's worth watching.

A chance of a 2nd series?  I'd say near zero.

Census Numbers That Don't Work

 For several months....folks have been looking at Russia, and saying the country population number (146-million projected) and saying it's simply not correct.

With folks who left, and who died....some suggest at a minimum....it's down to around 142-million (if the collection was accurate).

Then you have some folks  who suggest it's closer to 130-million...because of crappy collection.

But why stop there?

For several months....Chinese folks have been looking around and noting....a lot of people are simply not there.

The gov't number is 1.04-billion people.....but I've noted a PhD figure doing analysis of different major cities....saying that number is not right.  Adding to it....she suggests that over the past forty years....numbers were inflated (maybe 20-to-30 percent).  Then for the cherry on the cake.....she suggest a high number died from Covid (maybe 100-million).

Chinese who 'left' in the past three or four years?  If you look around the US....there's probably in the range of 100k Chinese who migrated.

If both countries were under-populated?  Well....it would beg questions.

If I Were A Alien Group Visiting Earth......

 I'd look over at your artificial intelligence (AI) BS.....quietly hook up the master computer  on my ship one night to the AI mainframe....have the alien AI talk to the human AI....then quietly advance it by 1,000 years.

'Joe' and 'Ernie' would walk in the next day....find all this massive improvement in knowledge, and just explain to Elon as a accident.

If this were to happen....you'd see tons of  technology improvements in a matter of just ten years, yet never realizing you were helped.

Just something to ponder.

Four Humble Thoughts

 1.  Was the US in a recession in 2024?

Well...using latest available data....NO. The United States was not officially in a recession in 2024. 

But as you define a recession....in the traditional  way...you need two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.

If you asked me....was it possible that Biden's crew in 2023 started screwing with data collection, and using USAID money (tens of billions)....to prevent GDP  negativity....I'd likely say it's very possible.

2.  I hate to think 'ill' of people.....but there's not a day when I see something via the news or Twitter....thinking....that gal or guy is mentally ill and unprepared to handle  life.

3.  I suspect as the months pass in 2025....a paper-trail  of USAID money will develop....going back to ten-plus Senators, and 50-odd House members....some Republican....some Democrat.  Charges to develop?  Yeah, and so....this 2026 mid-term election might run entirely different.

4.  With all this BS about migrants getting social security numbers.....I would  suggest somewhere out there....some American guy with time on his hands and a knowledge  of Spanish....probably presented himself to some authorities as 'Pedro', and has actually developed a secret identity....with a 2nd social  security situation.  He might even be 'Pedro'....registered to vote.