If You Are Prone To Anxiety.....

 It's not my job to really do much or resolve your 'attack'.

I just hate to break that news to you....while you might be in a fragile condition and thinking I might go and be extra-sympathetic toward your cause or your illusionary condition, I just don't bend that much.  

I mean....if you wanted to introduce your imaginary friend to me....I probably won't even offer a 'hello' to Gus (the ghost).

If you were trying to show me your pet pony 'Marvin' and insist that Marvin was a Kentucky Derby type....I'm just not going to go along with your story, or Marvin's status.

If you were trying sell me on your controlled drug habit and how you self-medicate to resolve your schizophrenia?  I'm sorry but I'm going to establish a six-foot zone between you and me, and won't allow you to ride in the car with me.  

If you were trying to explain how you have your alcohol problem under control, but I see your shopping cart with a dozen bottles of cheap booze?  I won't believe your under-control BS.

If you went to some 64 gender talk and wanted me to engage.....I'm sorry, I just don't care to hear the talk, the argument that ensues, or that this is science in some way.

If you go and admit to some mental condition but reassure me that you don't need treatment?  I'm sorry....the minute you confess zero treatment, I'm not your friend.

My bundle of sympathy at age 64?  It's probably the least amount I've ever had.  It's possible for me to realize bad service....that getting the 'boss' involved' won't help, and I'll just walk out.  

Yeah, I'm loaded with bits of skepticism and its affecting my view of the 'big world'.  It won't improve.  Skepticism-rehab?  Non-existent.  

So pardon my lack of understanding over your panic or anxiety situation.  I'm going to tell you to get your crap together and send you out into a fairly cruel world.  

The Problem

 Once you bundle up credence, 'gospel truth', conviction and confidence, you end up assigning a score to the topic, and the person speaking over the topic.

It's like turning on a podcast, with some Jimmy Swaggart-like character to talk about moral dilemma situations.  You might agree with general moral dilemma situations....like you shouldn't hang out with slutty women but having the Jimmy Swaggart character tell you this....just doesn't work.

It's the same way when you have Barry Bonds come up to talk about home-run hitting....but with you strongly believing that Barry hyped-up on steroids to reach his homers for the past eight years of his career.  You discount or mute Barry's comments.

It's like this with CNBC's Jim Cramer and when he comes on to tell you how great a bank is on stock price right now....it's a absolute sign they are in failure mode.  

Having Barrack Obama come up to speak solely on racism for eight minutes is that way for me....I'll mute the speech for that particular topic.

So I look at how this NY City case will go for Donald Trump, with Stormy Daniels (x-rated star), her x-lawyer (still in jail), and the Cohen-character (who wrapped up his conviction/jail time).  

You pick and rely upon this case coming to some guilty situation.....with three significant question marks. 

It's like I'm relying upon Patrick (from Spongebob Squarepants), Andy (from Parks and Recreation), and Rose (from the Golden Girls) to resolve a major problem, but know that they can only make matters worse in the end. 

I suspect even people from NY City are quietly smirking how this case relies upon three highly questionable characters.   They have to be thinking that Trump actually bribed the prosecutor to set this case up....to be such a questionable episode.

The weirdest part of this?  Almost every single time...this 'get-Trump' game has been played out (even impeachment-wise)....it's like they went looking for Spongebob-like characters, and that was the key to the conviction.  It's a script for hick-lawyers and they can't seem to win.  

Eight Observations

 1.  If you had a choice....would you prefer a day of unpleasant truth, or comforting lies?  

I think a majority of people would say neither, and just mute everything they hear.

2.  American Medical Association has come to this odd conclusion....a fair number of young people now claim they have 'long-Covid' (pretty serious disease situation, I will admit).  Upon testing this youth group, the AMA has come to say that half (figure 50-percent) have never had Covid, period.  Now, what the AMA did not say....is if the group had been vaxed-up.  If they weren't vaxed-up....then 'long-Covid' has a problem, or we have a serious mental issue brewing in the US.

3.  Defining statism?  It generally means you have a political system existing in your society where the state itself....has total centralized control over social, educational, commerce and economic affairs.

4.  Italian for Italians effort.  Draft law going up in Italy....if you use official communication (for gov't folks)....it has to only contain Italian words....NO more English to be inserted into public statements.

5.  Lot of hype going on with McDonalds, that some layoff of executive personnel will occur early this week.  

6.  The US is the only place where you might use the word 'reduction' and it means 'increase' instead.

7.  Imperfection makes things always a bit more interesting.

8.  Even with all the poverty existing in America today....tens of thousands cross the border each week....to get a chance to exceed that 'ranking'.

Chunky Story

 I sat yesterday and read through a piece related to the US military.....where a journalist had asked questions of people and developed a 'landscape'.  You see....during the Covid era (early 2020 to late 2022), it was near impossible to have a fitness work-out schedule and folks got 'chunky' (adding anywhere from 10 pounds to 30 pounds to their frame).

Because the exit-door is swinging so much....the services are grumbling but having to keep the chunky folks around (shocker for older vets who remember how aggressive the 'fat-patrol' were in the 1980s/1990s).

I remember in the fall of 2020....reading a commentary of a Air Force guy....noting the base gym would only allow a certain number of people in....during crappy weather, and he just gave up on the gym entirely.  

The one thing you don't read much of....if people went to lesser fitness....how much weight did folks gain in this period...on average?