Observations

 1. Rasmussen (the polling people) did a poll on the news.  Oddly enough, only 1 out of 3 people felt that political news on TV was reliable.  The rest?  They seem to be believe that it's propaganda by the Biden administration.  

2.  Has 'Heels' visited any border state yet?  No.

3.  What really happened at the Iranian Natanz nuclear facility?

If you go and breeze through twenty-odd sources....when the 'boys' reached the point of getting the order to 'flip-the-switch', and ease on the centrifuges on....the highly computerized system basically turned itself off.  In simple terms, nothing happened.

Chief reason?  I would speculate that somewhere among the networked computer system....there's a flash-drive connected somewhere in the facility that feeds the entire layout of the network, and it's got some good bug-software to disables the entire system.  

If I were the geek crowd.....I'd tell Mullah 'Joe' that it's best to just dump this site entirely and build an entire site from scratch.  

4.  What'll happen with MLB and Atlanta?

I suspect that the Commissioner will try to make some $10-million 'peace-offering' to the minority business folks affected by the loss of the All-Star Game.  The non-minority folks?  Nothing.  The Latino folks?  That's a question in itself.   

Trailer Park Boys

 Over the past six weeks, I've watched five seasons of 'Trailer Park Boys'.  It is a bit weird, and it wasn't til the 3rd episode that I was hooked on the series.  

Basic premise?  Well....it's set in Nova Scotia, Canada....in a cheapo trailer park.  The three chief characters are Julian, Ricky and 'Bubbles'.  Their basic reason to exist in life?  Booze, marijuana, and scheming to get ahead through illegal means.  

Beneath the three characters....there are around fifteen sub-characters.  There's the drunken trailer-park supervisor, his gay associate, the owner of the park, a 1-star white rapster, Ricky's love interest, two half-wits who serve Ricky and Julian, etc.

At some point in the last week, it suddenly hit me that this is mostly all the landscape and character types of Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat novel (involving Danny, Pilon, Pablo, and Jesus).  

In the Steinbeck novel, Danny's 'gang' is forever trying to get ahead, but miserably failing.  Alcohol is part of the background and you generally felt sorry for the boys. You see the same problem for Julian and Ricky's crew.  

Dogs are a big deal in Steinbeck's novel.....while cats are the big deal for Trailer Park Boys. 

It's just an odd thing to compare these and they seem marginally similar, although one is set in the 1920s.....the other in the past decade. 

As for recommending Trailer Park Boys?  I suspect that 80-percent of people will find it lacking or too-crazy.  But if you were just looking for something 'different'....this probably meets that requirement.

The Thing About Crisis Management, You Actually Don't Want a Non-Crisis Situation

 Over and over....from the early part of February, the Biden-team has said there is no crisis at the southern border.  

In the last couple of days....Biden chief coordinator for the southern border, Roberta Jacobson, gave intent to resign at the end of April.

So you look at this and the only way to publicly say it.....there simply wasn't any crisis at the border for Jacobson to handle, and she got fairly bored with a non-crisis crisis-related job.  

You know the feeling....you get promoted up into a job at the company, and lectured over and over by the boss....we have these crisis issues existing.  So you get the big office area and are consumed with passion to handle crisis event.  

You get to the office on day one, and realize.....there is NO crisis.  Everyone around you....says the same thing....NO CRISIS. 

So about a month into the job.....you've come to realize that this is not really a job for you....being a crisis-director in a NON-CRISIS situation.  In fact, the longer you stay....the more damage you are doing to your four-star resume.....as a crisis-manager.  I wish this Jacobson gal luck.  

Who gets the crisis-director job next?  Unknown.  

Just Seven Things I've Noted in the Past Month

 1.  Generally, every single person who talks about background checks at gun shows and harps on 'there needs to be something done'.....has actually never been to a gun show in their life.  

2.  No one has ever seems to ask the 435 Congressmen or 100 Senators....if they individually own a gun.

3.  People who advocate high-speed rail service....if asked how they will get to the central station, or how they park their car there....start to realize that you actually need a full-up 100-percent airport-type situation, with a massive parking structure.  Then they start thinking....this is geared to go from X to Y (never to Z or any other point).  After a while, these same folks lose interest in the discussion.

4.  If you are a federal manager of a 'holding-facility' for migrant kids....there's pretty good odds that pictures and video are being taken, and you might be dragged into a state investigation (not federal).....with potential charges.  I'd be handing in my retirement paperwork and leave this occupation.

5.  As irrational as it sounds....professional baseball has something to do with politics.  It was already complicated with the infield-fly rule, but this adds seven new dimensions to the worthless sport.

6.  If Atlanta wanted to make up for the loss of the All-Star Game (13 July, Tuesday), then I'd call up the professional wrestling folks, and see if they could rig up a forty-man 'king-of-the-ring' match for the stadium.

7.  The US federal folks spend right now.....around $60-million a week....to house/care for non-American kids.  With that much money, you could build a dozen four-star high school structures...every single week.  

The Failure of Leadership

 The NY Post came out this week, and reported a curious thing.....the Capital Police Chief (Steven Sund) went to the Pelosi team two days prior to 6th of January and urgently begged for National Guard support on the 6th.  

Sund could apparently not get a face-to-face meeting with Pelosi. He ended up meeting her 'handlers'.  They heard the request and said 'no'.

The names?  The NY Post leaves that out of the story. 

After the 6th, Sund and the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House....are fired.

At the very least, there needs to be an investigation done, and if 'handlers' were responsible for the mess....they need to be fired.  

But this brings me to the current mess, which you look over the landscape of Pelosi's job, and how much responsibility hangs upon her.  She heads up the legislative efforts of the Democratic Party in the House.  She swings the gavel for the House.  She is given the responsibility of directing both the Capital Police and the Sergeant-at-Arms team (700 just for them).  She does various interviews and speaking engagements for the party and it's agenda.

Frankly...it's about 500-percent of work laid on the back of a 81-year old person.  She's not capable of handling the work.

In fact, I would go and suggest that even if the Speaker was 45 years old....it's still about 200-percent of work on the plate.

So I'd like to suggest a radical path.  

First, the House Speaker job does not have to be a current member of House (shocking?).  Why not appoint the House Speaker job to some retired member of the House (age limit of 65) for a two-year period?  

Second, this whole security apparatus deal and authority....needs to be removed from the Speaker's job.  There needs to be a central authority....appointed to one single five-year term.  

Third and final....I'd start removing anyone over the age of 80 from House or Senate responsibility positions (head of committee, etc).  You need to have an image in your mind of retirement preferably by age 70.  I might even write the regulation that if you don't start retirement by age 72....we start deducting 2-percent of your retirement every quarter.  

My Gut Feeling Over Inoculation Passports.

 I will offer three observations:

First, when Yellow Fever, Chorea and Polio inoculations came along.....we didn't get all hyped up to mandate folks carry around a card or letter....if you were going to go on a passenger ship or ride a train.  

From a historical standpoint, mandating this now doesn't stand the common sense test.

Second, once you start this.....how many fake inoculation cards/letters will exist?  Fifteen million in the US alone?  Trying to tie this into some kind of Bill Gates database?  What if I get the inoculations in Turkey or El Salvador?  

Finally, there's this question....if I get inoculation, I need not worry the rest of my life?  Look around....no one from the CDC or WHO is saying that.  They've all been careful about this 'safe' business.  My humble guess is that someone will announce in two or three years that the 'edge' of inoculation runs out around 18 to 36 months, and you have to repeat the exercise again.  

As for collecting the inoculation upon your old Army or Air Force shot records?  Yes, without any doubt.  I sat and pulled my cards out and counted up....since August of 1977....I've been jabbed around sixty occasions.  

Observations

 1.  Biden's commission on changing the Supreme Court?  

Well....commissions usually (99-percent of the time) accomplish very little but produce a nice forty-page report and nothing beyond that.

The Constitution doesn't say how many can be on the court, or set a limit.  So he can add all he wants to.  Beyond that....setting term limits?  You'd have to add to the Constitution, and he's not going to do that.  So this six-month project is a waste of time? Yeah, more or less.

I kinda expect him to add one judge by the end of 2021....if no one passes away....just to make a more 'balanced' court in his opinion.  

2.  Shock over the Amazon union vote in Alabama?  

None.  They don't want the union business.