Country Club Chatter

 I sat and pondered over this story popping up today....the Black Lives Matter crowd stood up and gave some warning to the Senator from Rhode Island....Sheldon Whitehouse.

So, apparently Whitehouse is a member of some exclusive and apparently controversial country club.

They (BLM) say Whitehouse has to quit (the club in question is the Bailey’s Beach Club).  Failure to accomplish this?  BLM just says they will make Whitehouse 'miserable'.

Now, for a guy from Alabama (which I am), I have to admit there are ten different levels of miserable.  Some levels of miserable are like....well....just having one guy on the bus to fart, and you barely smell it.  Other levels of miserable are like your house getting hit by lightning.  So I'm kinda wondering about the intent here.

The thing is....if he is in DC most of the time....why bother paying some $3,000 to $10,000 a year for a place that you might only hang out for two times a year?

I was not privileged as a kid....growing up on the farm just didn't put you around the right people or right situation for a private country club.  If you got a catfish dinner, or some grilled burgers at a local diner....that was country-club enough for the normal guy.

At some point, the Air Force wanted to get me hyped up on the NCO Club, and that meant a monthly fee of $3....which a decade later escalated to $5...a month.  To be honest, I just could never see any real advantage to that deal, or the club.  

Where this threat from the BLM might go?  Maybe they'd show up with ten women as a protest unit.  

If you asked Whitehouse about the membership....he'd probably tell you that nine out of ten of his top ten campaign contributors....are from the same club.  

Just for thrills, this might be interesting to watch.

How I Explain Alien UFO Visits

 I sat and watched a podcast the other day, and the key item of discussion....could it be that the aliens in this suggested visitation to Earth (a hot topic around the Pentagon) just be here not as explorers but just private travelers who want some thrill in life, and some alien Jeff Bezos character rigged up a space travel service to bring Org, his girlfiend Logzi and sixty-odd folks to Earth for a year or two of thrills?

It's been on my mind for a week, and to be honest....the idea is actually appealing in various ways.

I could imagine some alien-run corporation like Amazon getting successful....building alien craft, and then hauling aliens off on weird and wild vacation packages.

You might go and drop Org/Logzi off in New Orleans for a week of wild passion, great food, and heavy drinking.  Then they get picked up....taken to London for various shows, and then spend six months on some beach in Thailand to chill out.

Earth being like a West-World.....just better?  Certainly.

The fact that forty different alien civilizations might have 10,000 aliens on Earth presently.....on some long-term holiday vacation package?  Well....why not?

There's probably even a alien run 'TripAdvisor' program which recommends hotels, pubs, and excitement.  

Observations

 1. The odds that the Pelosi 6-January Insurrection Commission will be reformed in January of 2023, under a new Speaker of the House (GOP guy), and produce an entirely different report, with no Democrats on the Commission?  I'd say it's better than a 70-percent chance now.  Two conflicting reports in the end?  Yeah.

2.  With various military groups leaving Afghanistan and Iraq....what are the odds of ISIS or the Taliban coming back into the picture?  I'd give that better than a 70-percent chance.  If so....does that mean refugees now come back into the picture....toward Europe?  Absolutely.  I'd already take a estimate that more than 100,000 Afghans try to enter Germany in 2022. 

3.  Jewell Jones, Democratic Party state representative from Michigan....used campaign funds to have a 'party' at a strip club.  Now before you go off the handle....this was a fund-raising party and by renting out the room, the incoming folks paid some cash for drinks and a chance meet him.  No one says a word about strippers in the room with the guests or Jones.  Yep, this was all innocent and without much drama.  How much was spent?  The journalists suggest $220.  

4.  I've watched probably three minutes of the Olympics up until this point (morning of Thursday).  Zero interest....you can blame Covid, woke crap, etc.