Fear-Mania

 Over the weekend....I noted that co-host of The View....Sunny Hostin...got hyped-up and uttered that she does NOT feel safe in a neighborhood....if there are American flags on display.

I sat and pondered upon it.

Generally....growing up in the 1970s of rural Alabama....there might have been two or three folks out of 300 houses around the farm....where a flag was on display.  

The flag-thing....took off in the 1980s...as Wal-Mart arrived, and suddenly you could buy flags (yeah, K-Mart and Piggly-Wiggly never saw this as a 'hot' item).

But this safe and unsafe BS?  I can't think of much of a threat from 'flag-houses'.

If you feel this way....wouldn't Easter bunny decorations, or Halloween 'skulls' freak you out?  Wouldn't fireworks for the 4th of July freak you just as well?

This leads me to a thought....that probably 25-percent of society is in a permanent fear of something.

They probably don't want to talk about it.....fear of Trump....fear of raccoons....fear of white-women  playing basketball....fear of eagles....fear of flying....fear of Covid....fear of rational people.....fear of Fox TV news....fear of Gunsmoke episodes....fear of logical engineers....fear of the Bible....fear of honky-tonk women....fear of people who can't be trans-something....fear of people who seem competent.....fear of fear.

The crazy thing?  This is the kind of BS....that in the 1970s/1980s....you would never have brought up to a friend/relative/co-worker.  You'd keep this fear-crap internal and avoid admitting it.

Dumbass Discussion

 Big scientific study of 160,000 people....discussing numbers....large percentage of college students operating at the 5th-grade level.

Then they add....same group....intellectually....think at the 10-year old level.

I paused over this yesterday.

It's been on my mind for several hours.

Numbers?  14-percent of US college students ranked at this 5th-grade level.  They read at 10-year old level, and their comprehension at same level.

OECD study.

So...my 3 questions:

If this 'crew' is that stupid....does it mean that colleges are recruiting instructors to be 6th-grade level....just above the 5th grade level?

What happens after four years....do they graduate at 9th-grade high school level?

Finally....how exactly will we utilize a bunch of educated dumbasses?

My Thoughts On M K ULTRA (The CIA-Owned Operation)

 First, a great deal of the 'science' that started the program....came from the Germans (1860 to 1945).  I don't think anyone has clearly laid out this path, in book form.

Second, when the CIA said they 'dumped' M K ULTRA....in 1973....I think 99-percent of the program  went to non-CIA gov't programs (to  hide)....mostly in the health services landscape....mostly overseas.

Third, I would suggest that M K ULTRA played a role in the trans-crap over the past 20  years.....getting people to accept castration, and drug-use to make believe in some miracle 'change'.

Fourth, a lot of this irrational behavior BS....probably goes to some M K ULTRA program.

Fifth, the Butler-rally where shots were fired at Trump?  Part of me believes some element of M K ULTRA was active....same story for the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Sixth, I suspect one of the M K ULTRA  'cells' exists in Israel.

Seventh,  50-50 odds in my mind....that some process of M K ULTRA was active in getting Putin to believe he could win a 'war' against Ukraine.

Eighth,  I believe....if you dragged out the top five CIA 'bosses'.....they probably know nothing of the current program.

Ninth, wouldn't shock me if five to ten managers of CNN....were involved in the program, and arranging news bits to confuse you.

Finally, the bigger question is....does China and Russia have their own program, and trying to hype Americans in some way?

Three Observations

 1.  New York Times/CNN journalist/news-activist LuLu Navarro....spoke up over the weekend and said she was having a nervous breakdown and PTSD from the America 250 flyovers and fireworks displays.

I usually reserve criticism over folks with PTSD....it is generally a legit problem.

The general problem I see....we are at a point where there's probably 500,000 Americans with PTSD, and only half of them are military-occupation folks.

At the pace of things...by 2035....there's probably over 2-million that will ID'ed with PTSD.

2.  The movie 'Citizen Vigilante'....I'm  predicting at least three additional versions.  One for the US.  One for Japan.  And a third set in a Scandinavian country. 

3.  The 'Mitch-is-dead' comedy lingers on.  

He's obviously on life-support and will linger (in my humble  thoughts) until late August. 

Is WNBA Action....More Or Less.....Glorified Demolition-Derby Crap, Pro-Wrestling, And Roller-Derby?

I paused this past week....realizing that much of what you see on WNBA....is just faked-up action....with poor ref's....mostly women crashing each other, and crappy basketball skills on full-display.

I worked with a Air Force guy who  was big into demolition-derby action here in  Germany.  I asked....is  there any point to the race.  NO....it's purely for thrills.

Yeah, it's taken me a long time to reach this level.

It explains a lot....lessens my criticism....and gets me to the point of saying  'don't-worry' over the show.

Gavin's Wire Story: The Way It Looks

 What we know as a fact....Alexis Podesta (a longtime Democratic operative, lobbyist, and Newsom appointee to the State Compensation Insurance Fund board) wore the wire....starting around 2 years ago.

Start-up?  June 2024....while DoJ/FBI were under Biden's crew.

So you can discuss the idea that 3 to 6 months prior....Podesta was on someone's target list, and that they probably felt Newsom...sooner-or-later....would be president and prone to 'control'.

Trump's crew arrives.....just notes this, and continues on...taping Gavin.

So...at some point, they will bring Gavin in and ask....would you trade some  information....to get charges dropped?

What does Gavin know?  Unknown.

Whatever the Biden crew intended....they pretty much figured it would carry 'on'....with President Harris.  Well...that plan crapped out, and the crew never halted or cleaned up their mess.

A nifty TV series?  I was thinking that.

The Present Generation

I watch probably an hour each week of the finance wiz....Dave Ramsey.

This week, he got onto a statistical issue...saying America is broke.  Approximately 78-percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

Homes, cars, trips....drowning in debt.

I kinda felt this way the first four years of Air  Force time....paycheck-to-paycheck. Along about the 5th/6th year....I started to get ahead.

When I worked in the Pentagon (15 years ago)....there was a local couple interviewed....both husband and wife worked. One was earning in the $140k range....the other was in the $225k range.  They were a paycheck-to-paycheck couple.....had been for more than five years, and weren't expecting much to improve their situation.

For some reason....I just see this reality as being pretty close to the 1930s, and the hobo-generation.