My Four Problems With CNN's Jake Trapper Book Tour ('Why I Was Fooled On Joe Biden's Condition')

 Over the past 10-odd days....I've followed this book tour....where CNN's Jake Trapper wants to confirm....Joe Biden was mentally unstable (out) for most (if not all) of the four years of presidency.

I have four problems (after watching about six of these interviews).

First,  he (Trapper) seems to want to confirm to me that he's a dumbass....over and over. With most folks I've  met in life....they usually will admit a dumbass moment maybe once or twice....but NEVER more than three times. If I count the six appearances....there's at least thirty occasions that he admits he's a dumbass.

Second, I'm now drawn to a 2nd issue...what else did Jake Trapper get wrong?  

Third, no one else from CNN seems to want to suggest Joe Biden was 'out'.  Just odd.

Fourth, this leaves twenty-odd people who were working on their own 'Joe Biden is mentally unfit' book in a screwed-up position.  Once you heard it from one guy....would you go and buy a book from the 2nd, 3rd or 4th guy?

After four years of watching weekly commentary by Jake Trapper...it's just an odd feeling that he got so much 'wrong' and now wants to sell you a book for 16-odd dollars....to make things right.   

Dumbass Story

 This AM....I read through a California  law news piece. There's a draft bill flowing....called the "Grading for Equity" program.

Basic landscape?  This program will eliminate homework assignments  by teachers....eliminate weekly test requirements.....allow an extra week for late assignment hand-in situations....let students skip class without affecting grade performance....anything above a '80-average' be an 'A', and finally allow students to pass with as grade as low as "21".

The problems here?

If it passes into law.....the university system would have to engage and find ways for dumbasses (more so than now) to get in, and somehow pass.  Then you  have to allow some type of system to allow both gifted and dumbasses to be at  the same level.

Why?  I paused over this....because the whole wording seems  to signal that half the kids in school today (in California) are not capable of doing their level of work required to graduate.

The odds in ten years that you might have 2,000 electrical engineers from California....who can only perform at the 6th-grade level of thinking, yet have a high school graduation slip, and a college degree?

The comical side of this?  This same group...probably will  borrow $100,000 to attend college, and need to make a minimum of $75,000 a year....to pay back the money....while giving you a 6th-grader perception of electrical engineering.    

Four Humble Thoughts

 1.  I read yesterday that NPR is moving up with a court-challenge...saying the federal  government HAS TO fund their operation.  The selling point of this?  For people in the 'sticks' (my term for rural Arkansas or Alabama)....NPR is the only way people get news.

I tried to imagine how this BS would come across.

If you sat in the most rural part of Alabama....off AM/FM....you can probably get 30 stations, with your choice of sports, gospel inspirations, country/western, 1980s tunes, and on the hour....get a five-minute update of news.

Added to this rural  scenario....you can subscribe to the local 16-page daily newspaper.  You can also subscribe to US News and World Report, a dozen monthly magazines, and the Sunday paper from Atlanta, Nashville, or Chicago.  

If that was not enough....you can get in this rural area....at least four TV stations.  

You can go into the most remote area of Oregon, and find the same situation....at least forty avenues of  news....if you had the time or inclination.

Sorry, I DON'T buy NPR's BS on this topic. What I see is  a propaganda-unit....built on federal funding, and now in a terminal stage...unable to reach tens of millions.

2.   Up until the Caitlan Clark era in NCAA basketball....I had not really watched much of women's basketball....maybe just highlight video.   In the past  year.....I've probably watched a hundred highlight video of  the WNBA, and probably four actual games.

My chief attention to the game action?   There's so many crappy violations that I can note in a 3-minute period....between fouls...turning the ball over....'walking'....and poor play.

This past week, I watched a quarter of the Chicago women's team....counting around 16 total violations. Roughly ninety-percent were not called by the ref's.

3. I read this AM....the State Department is now reviewing all visa holders associated with Harvard, not just students.  

Professors?  Yeah.  I'm guessing here that a dozen non-American professors are on the payroll....here on a visa, and their behavior over the past four years will finally be evaluated.

4. Skittles says it will remove titanium dioxide from all products sold in the US.

So two questions. First, how did titanium dioxide get into Skittles in the first place?  Second, does the statement  mean in the EU....Skittles will continue to have titanium dioxide?