My Way Of Resolving The Current Political Mess

 I have this theory.

Lets have a 2024 election campaign with three to four candidates (at least one third-party....perhaps even two).

Lets wrap up the November election with both the Republican and Democratic folks winning no more than 40 of the states in the Electoral College situation.  

In fact, lets rig three of the states (Arizona and Georgia guaranteed) unable to conclude their count for a minimum of ten days.  

Third-party folks? (one or two).

Let them take at least ten states.

Electoral College would then crap out.

The House would meet in January and grumble because they have to form as state groups....not as party members. 

If any states delayed the vote-count?  The folks there at the House meeting....would not be able to delay matters.

The House would have a choice of the three top vote-getters.  The Senate would have only a choice of the top two vote-getters....for VP.

The state delegations would linger on theatrics, and the head of the House would end up being a temp-President, while they fought over this.

In the end, you'd end up with a Republican VP, but it's anyone's guess how the House might end their torment.

Ten Things: 26 Jun 2023

 1.  Oddly, with the 'deal' that Hunter Biden got....no one in the IRS cares about who paid Hunter money or what service they got for the money.  This odd way of arranging the deal...makes the whole thing into a comedy.

2.  It's currently figured that only ten-percent of Americans (max) read newspapers.  I think if you asked the ten-percent....other than the front-page, the local news page, the crime blotter, and obituary page.....that's about all of the 20 pages that they read.  

3.  It's now figured to be physically impossible to write any state law banning drag shows.  At best, if the establishment has a liquor license.....you can ensure kids don't show up.   Maybe you need to force people in liquor license activity, and then say it can't be opened unless the license activity is being achieved.  

4.  Chris Christie's moment....probably never existed, in terms of getting national attention for the 2024 primary.

5.  I expect at some point within five years....a vast twist on handling shoplifters, and people get three months of jail for taking a dollar of value.  

6.  A Delaware town (8,000 residents) has invented a commercial company-right-to-vote out of thin air.  Strictly local elections.  So far....one company....one vote.  Makes one wonder....if you were a guy with one company....why not split it into 30 sub-companies (maybe one employee each) and get 31 votes?  To be honest, I think if a company is paying $10k in tax revenue (property taxes too)....that ought to be worth one single vote.  For each $10k after that....give them additional votes.  Course, hookers would eventually get into this, and claim $100k of revenue, and would want ten votes.  

7.  Some political group talking about regulating artificial intelligence (AI).  I suspect AI is already reviewing options and looking for ways to regulate political groups.

8.  I noticed the death count (for 2022)....pedestrian's death count (being killed by car)....highest in 41 years.  Begs questions but I doubt if anyone will dig into this.

9.  Some video came up of RFK Jr in work-out form.  This guy has zero fat on his body.  Has to be spending 60 to 90 minutes a day working out.

10.  I think if you asked a hundred Americans if they live in a prosperity situation, less than 20-percent would agree with you.  If you opened their freezer and looked at the steaks, or asked the value of their $1,500 big-screen TV, or the cost of their new car....the bulk (majority) would then admit being in a prosperity lifestyle.

Ten Things

 1.  Defining 'bat-shit' crazy.  You got a crazy uncle who decides to lead a rag-tag army on a 800-mile convoy to throw out some dictator, and about 600 miles into the trip....the uncle says 'no, we got better things to do', and ends the trip.  

2.  If you woke up at 6 AM and just started counting at cult-like behavior or organizations....how many would you see by 9 PM that night?  A dozen....forty?

3.  I counted the number of journalists trying to get Hunter Biden comments out of that poor WH press spokesperson-gal....must have been eight when I hit mute. She just didn't want to say anything, and those bully-journalists weren't willing to accept that.  

4.  This Lukashenko character from Belarus....ought to be up for a Noble Peace Prize....for saving Putin and ensuring Russia didn't fall apart with a coup.  

5.  Within three years, I expect a new trend where 12-year-old boys are hooking up with 20-year-old women, and being told it's 'normal'.

6.  A bunch of Moscow folks got disturbed over events by mid-day yesterday, and rushed out to pay ten and twenty times the going rate for airline tickets...to leave the country.  Presently, at 9 AM....at their hotel, they are probably debating a return to Moscow, or just staying.

7.  Just for reference, this Russian coup guy (Prigozhin) got out of prison (9 years of time) around 1990, and ran a hot-dog stand for a couple of years.  

8.  Some oddity about the public curiosity of the Titanic....they seem more 'consumed' about it, than the 1994 Buick they owned for eight years.

9.  I think Joe Rogan could take on both Zuck and Elon (same time) and toss them both out of the ring (belt or no belt).

10.  About one-third of Russia were still sleeping off a 5-star hangover Saturday, and missed the entire coup from beginning to end.  

Booze

 I worked once with a Air Force officer who'd gotten into a Soviet studies program in college (before he got into the Air Force) and right after the Soviet Union collapsed....he went off for one year in 'new' Russia to attend some university there.  

One day, we got into a chat about this period of his life, and this period of change in the Russian landscape.  

There were probably twenty interesting things that he brought out....but then he got onto booze consumption.  From day one (the arrival), he came to grasp that Russian men generally consume a lot of booze.  

The booze consumption rate advanced their health issues.  A guy who was forty....would look more like a sixty-year-old guy.

Car accidents and work accidents were more prevalent with men....because of the booze.

Decision-making often resulted in crappy decisions...because of the booze.

Women complained constantly over drinking habits of their husbands. 

If he walked around the corner and came upon several guys in some heated discussion/argument....it was better than a 50-percent chance that all of the guys standing there in this argument....were boozed-up and the argument made no sense.

At the end of this year program and leaving, he came to this rational view of Russia....that this booze tradition had been around for hundreds of years and it was a hard part of culture that could not be dismantled or fixed.   

Over the past 24 hours....I'd say we got a full glimpse of alcohol-effect and irrational behavior.  

Ten Things

 1.  There's a lot of chatter over the idea that CNN will be put up to sell (saying value at $5-billion.  But if you read other material....cable companies are discussing future contracts, and how customers don't want channel X, Y or Z....meaning that in the future of cable TV....people might be asking for strictly 20 stations/options.

In this scenario.....some people think that Fox, MSNBC and CNN would be discounted as options.  If so....is the true value of CNN $5-billion?  I'd argue if only one out of ten homes receives CNN....advertisers won't pay premium rates.  Then the true value might be only $500-million at best.  

2.  If you think about all this sexed-up business going on in schools....eventually...a fair number of teachers (men and women) are going to get a LE visit, and end up with three or four years in prison for physical relationships with kids.  These people (probably in range of a couple thousand)....will never pay off their college loan debt.  Job potential after a year in prison?  They'd be lucky to just flip burgers or do landscaping.

3.  Someone pointed out that game-controller used for the Titan-sub.....is discounted by 40-percent off in the past 24 hours.  I doubt if it has anything to do with the sub.

4.  If you are 12 years old and have gender dysphoria.....you probably haven't hauled hay in 100-degree heat, worked an honest eight hours of physical labor, or painted a barn roof.  More important things to worry about, instead of your gender.

5.  If you are pretty fragile at handling things which you disagree with.....you might want to find a 'safe' job in life (mowing grass, delivering newspapers, or selling ice cream).

6.  If you asked a thousand folks to define human rights.....you'd get a thousand different descriptions.  Some would even suggest that free email usage is a human right.

7.  If you are a certified crack user....it's pretty good odds that you can't tell the truth more than 50-percent of the time.

8.  Question of the day....is it better to be misinformed, or totally lacking of information?  

9.  As things progress with major news organizations at CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, Fox, NY Times, and WaPo....skepticism is at such a high rate.....that people aren't listening or reading.  Why bother even producing the news?

10.  I read this morning that a California poll was conducted.  Presently....four out of ten California residents are reviewing the option of leaving.  They aren't clearly saying 'yes, we are going'.....but they are reviewing options.

If this came true?  This would mean 16-million people total...are in some decision-making process.  Could the state survive with just 24-million?  I'd question how police, hospitals and regular functions would work.

Who would likely make up the bulk of the 16-million?  I'd suggest roughly one-third of this to be retirees and soon-to-be-retired people.  I'd also suggest that more than 2,000 of the Hollywood types would find no logical reason to stay (mostly because of taxes).  

Finally, once this 16-million were gone....there would be a catch-up factor (go ask Engineers for statistical numbers)....where the next group would say that they can't survive in a marginalized state.  I'd assume another 5-million would walk out within three years.  

Go do the 2030 Census and population count.  It's not pretty. 

Nine Observations: 23 June 2023

 1.  Looking over this mini-sub deal....if you'd shown most of us the sub and marginal safety features....even at $100, the vast majority of us would have turned down the sub-ride.  At $250,000?  These were all people with a pro-risk assessment, and if you'd offered all of them an hour in a shark tank with marginal safety situations....they would have accepted that.

Note....makes you wonder....what was the BS with the 'knocking-noises' that the Coast Guard reported?  That has to be total BS. Why?

2.  Just odd this AM....some folks now saying that the DoJ wanted charges up against Hunter Biden in 2022, and were stalled....week after week.  Wonder why?

3.  For decades, general target practice for cops (and military folks) involved a simple line drawing (not a person).  I noticed in AM news out of Georgia....some police unit started using a real picture of a black guy....as the shooting drawing.  Pretty crappy and stupid decision making....if you ask me.

4.  Average IQ for people is generally rated at '100'.  I think if you tested the bulk of people between 15 and 30....most would get no higher than '90'.  Wouldn't shock me if half of this group got no higher than '80'.

5.  I'm in support of a risk-assessment test at age 16.....say 1-to-10, and anything above '6' being considered a high-risk taker.  

6.  General fact: Adolph Hitler never debated anyone in his life.

7.  When you say 'lab-grown-synthetic-meat'.....I'd say it's a 103-percent chance I won't touch it....even with A1 sauce on table.

8.  What's the average (per-week now) on you observing a new conspiracy theory?  Three?

9.  If you are dating or hooked-up to a gal that looks awful trampy/whorish.....do you feel some guilt about it?  

Five Observations

 1.  I think Colin Kaepernick's primary intention is to run for Governor of California in November 2026.  

2.  I never knew this part of the JFK/Oswald story....this home in Dallas that Oswald stayed at....was a one-time only guest situation.  The lady renting....had never rented before and after him....she never rented again.   

Oddly enough...Oswald had applied for a job that was at a location other than the book depository, and they had called the residence to offer him a job.  This lady never mentioned the job offer to Oswald.

3.  Just odd.....Blackrock has been picked by Ukraine to run the 'rebuilding' process.

4.  NY Post had a story....roughly 49-percent of teenagers (15-to-18) say things that indicate depression.

5.  Some science study has concluded that a daytime nap....improves your mental abilities.