Q-and-A

 1.  The odds of Michelle Obama running in the 2024 Democratic Primary?

Name-recognition-wise?  She goes to the top of the line and probably gets one full-step ahead of Governor Newsom.  

Competency for the job?  Practically zero.  You'd be talking about a 3 x 5 inch index card for the past thirty years of her life.  But she was the wife of Barak Obama.

Selling this to black voters?  Maybe in 2008, this gimmick would have worked well...but I think 50-percent of blacks would just start laughing.

2.  This timeline for the FBI searching President Biden's records at the university....going to early-November?

Well....if you look at things, there must have been something to occur in mid-October to trigger interest, but no one seems to openly chat about that.

3.  What really happens when automation really does finally hit McDonalds?

A fully automated McDonalds (probably by 2030) will have no more than 3 on-shift employees....mostly to load equipment, and reset problems.  

The burger-flipper guys are going to be released, and find no one much needs them around.  A bunch of politicians will be all bothered by this mess, and try to find work for the burger-flippers.    

4.  My general prediction on the Tyre Nichols - Memphis business?

I'll predict shortly that one of the cops knew Nichols in some way, and this traffic stop was a pay-back situation that got out of control.  I'll also predict that the chief of police for the city....has to go (probably by mid-March), and she ends up either in Baltimore or Detroit.  

The Lab Chatter

 If you've been following Twitter the last couple of days....you might have noticed a fair amount of talk over bio labs in the Ukraine.

To simplify this, and lay this out....at the end of the Warsaw Pact days and shutdown of the Soviet Union (evolving into Russia)....all of the biological labs in the Ukraine were left 'free'.  

Someone, with a fair amount of money....walked in and laid some type of claim to them (not the Russians in this case, or the Oligarch folks).  This was rather simple, with just money attached to run various programs.  

If the data and maps are correct....more than twenty labs are funded in some way by the US government.  

Why?  It's probably a question to lay out to the Clinton, Bush, Obama Trump and Biden groups.  For the most part, I don't think the White House itself knows the total number or the amount used to keep the labs open, or the end-purpose of the labs.  

Where this goes?  Someone end up with a truth-commission, and this will be a problem in explaining why funding just kept coming.  

The Suffering/Guilt/Struggles of Being a Something/Something/Something Male

 Over the past three years, some trend has started up in the US, and it centers on someone announcing you or I having some guilt trip, or some advantage, or some lack of suffering....because we are something-something-something.  

I've tried to make sense out of it.

To be honest, I don't feel any guilt....other than (1) the guilt of having some abundance of common sense given to me in my youth, (2) struggled in being fairly skeptical throughout my life, (3) struggled a bit when offered a 2nd trip to the desert-bar, and (4) feeling some guilt over having traveled a bit further than most folks.

I used to work with a guy who had '2-AM-Guilt'....meaning he'd wake up and feel some pain in his head, and waste 90 minutes of time trying to make sense out of this feeling.  

The chief problem I see here....someone who has zero knowledge of me....trying to assign something/something/something to my lack of woes. It's like some idiot trying to give me advice over cigarettes'....when I don't smoke, or having some intellectual give me a hour-long lecture about my lack of respect for 'doom'.

I almost have a phobia building up now....over this fake struggle or fake suffering business.  I hit the mute button twice as much in 2023.....as I did in 2020.  

The sad thing here....it's those 6-percent folks....the ones that lingered and never did much in life, who now want me and the other 94-percent of folks to stand there and feel guilt.  

The same group wants me to bring my stupidity level down to their level....believe that they can fly or repurpose themselves into another sex, and they can suddenly be guilt-free. Things just don't work that way.

Observations

 1.  Nicki Halley (SC, GOP) running for President?  Simply a gimmick for the SC primary vote, and hoping to draw votes away from Trump in the primary.

I'll go and predict that she draws no more than 10-percent of the primary votes, with Trump well over 70-percent.  

2.  Surgeon General says that at age 13....you are too young to handle social media.  I would go a step further and suggest even at age 18 to 20....most folks are too young to handle it, and a handful of folks (10-percent) are still young and immature to handle it at age forty.

3.  Pentagon now says that AI has a major role in future operations.  Within twenty years, I'll predict that AI will be writing itself up for medals, and promotions.  

4.  The Gallup poll group....did a poll and asked Americans what the biggest problem was.  Response?  The US government was said to be the biggest problem.  

Shocker?

5.  Out of Memphis.....some rumor started up over this dead guy (Tyre Nichols) in relation to the five police.  The rumor says that Nichols was having some type of relationship with the wife/GF of one of the cops.  BS-meter?  I'd give it a '8' and say unless something more substantial comes out....it's just bogus.  However, it would explain a few things.

6.  Tennessee appears to be drafting up a bill that says...in the future....if you want to attend a drag-show, you need to be an adult (age 18).  

7.  Trump announced some campaign 'promise' to stop the chemical, physical, and emotional mutilation of kids. Frankly, even around working-class Democrats....probably 50-percent of them agree with this idea.