Humble Thoughts

 1.  Governor Newsom: Maybe in a enclosed 'bubble'.....you might find the guy and his 'pitch' worth something.  Nationally, folks won't buy into this.  The minute he comes on for a interview...I'm drawn to his hand 'signs', and more impressed how many gestures he can make in a 60-second period.

2.  AOC:  As long as she doesn't talk about world events or economics....I can probably devote three minutes to her 'chat'.  Frankly,  I question how she got a bachelors degree.

3.  Vegas 'A's'?  Vegas is on a decline, and I'll predict by 2032....the A's baseball team will exit the city and admit this was a financial disaster in moving there.

4.  I noted this AM.....Florida’s population is 425-percent higher than it was in 1992.

5.  Hakeem Jeffries gave a 'pep-talk' yesterday: “We have to defeat them (GOP) electorally and then we have to break their spirit.”

Just seems like you'd go and focus on doing something that makes folks overall....happy.  Pretty simple task.

6.  Noted yesterday.....28 states being sued by the Feds....to clean up their voter rolls. 

For some reason....they just won't do it unless some judge is involved.

7.  Lue Elizondo gave a UAP/UFO account....where an Air Force officer allegedly vanished from beside his sleeping wife, woke up in a mysterious silver room, then suddenly reappeared back in bed.

I think a lot of AF officers have this story always ready to go, and their wives tend to believe the BS.

Fixing DC-City

 Having lived around the area (in Arlington) or 3.5 years....I have a pretty good idea of what is required:

1.  Create a 'bed-time' for all local kids under the age of 17 of 10 PM (Sunday to Thursday) and 11 PM (Fri/Sat). You get caught.....you get  dragged to a lock-up for the remainder of the night, and released only if a parent comes to get  you.

2.  Fire the current mayor/city council.

3. Install a 'manager' of the city for a 3-year term...with the President listing three candidates, and letting the House (only) selecting one of the three (most votes win).

4.  Improve Metro security, and arrange a Metro 'court'....where a judge and prosecution team exists....if you challenge safety/security....you face a fed-charge.

5.   Hire up one  single security police force....for the city, and House/Senate.

Three Humble Thoughts

 1.  World Cup Games

I believe various negative situations will develop....with five US cities....causing the fan base to get hostile (Seattle, SF, LA, Philly and NY).

I'll also say that narco-war will be noted in some of the Mexico games.

2.  Past week.....'Mayor Pete' Buttigieg has been brought up a good bit as competition for Vance in 2028.

Obviously.....some folks are not buying into Governor Newsom, and this is the  only alternate they seem to believe in.

3.  Warren Buffett comment: "Owning five homes doesn't mean anything to me because I'm happy in one home. If I've got two homes, I know I've got more problems, and I don't have more happiness."

Best quote of the week so far.

Six Observations

 1.  I've heard the term 'FREE-STUFF' about a dozen times this week.  There's no such thing....somebody...somewhere...paid for it, when you gave it a away

2.  Crazy image of former Confederate-states....mostly all lined-up to be Republican districts.  The reality?  The war and its effects...finally ended.

3.  Atlanta would be Memphis-sized today.....without Ted Turrner.  The airport?  No necessity to build to this size....without Ted Turner

4.  Just odd....right before the LA mayor election....Google has restored maps/imagery to show houses before the fire....instead of the 'dead-zone' that exists currently.

Folks asked Google about this.....no comment yet.

5.  Trump says...out of Maryland's 2020 election....there were supposed to be around 500,000 legit absentee ballots made.  Election results?  500,000 somehow turned into 1-million.

No one can explain how.  The odd factor?  Well...besides the 5 states which folks figured to be false-Biden-wins....you have to now include Maryland, and start to wonder about a dozen other states.

6.  Congress is now investigating whether private defense contractors were used to conceal/hide alleged UFO/UAP programs from Congress/President. Comment by  Rep. Eric Burlison.

If true?  There's problems for CEOs on the horizon. 

GPS And Living In The 'Stone-Age'

 Escaped the hospital yesterday....six days of treatment (Shingles)....fairly serious. Focus of the bout?  My head and a area about the size of a grapefruit above my eye....swelling up the eye big-time.  So I ended up getting three IV bags of solution per day....in a semi-luxury hospital room in Wiesbaden (it had a 48-inch TV, refrigerator, and free coffee/water/sodas).

So the the GPS topic.

I watched a podcast where some younger guy asked the question....how did we survive before GPS came along?

He kinda has a point.

At various times (Tacoma, Shreveport, Denver, and Tucson)....I kept a city paper-map in the car....under the driver's seat.   It was 'survival-driving'.  

It was not the best way, and it forced you to plan as much of a your trip ahead of time....as possible.

These map-talents existing today?  I doubt it.   From the over-50 folks.....they probably still have it....but the under-30 group?  No....they won't  be needing map talents.

My use today of GPS?  It's inter-connected with the bus-rail App. Plus the car itself has a independent program.....which you need to program on some trips.

Yeah, I've gotten use to it.

Off For 4/to/5 Days

 Doc says shingles....wants to put me in a local Wiesbaden clinic....for treatment.  So for a couple of days....no chatter.

UFO/UAP Chatter

 I sat and read through/viewed....the gov't UFO/UAP file release from Thursday.  You can do so yourself....here at...https://www.war.gov/UFO/.

I'll make three observations.

First, nothing fantastic.  If you were waiting for the big-release...this isn't it.

Second, several space items...stuff seen while on the Apollo mission  (for example).

Third, there's some video from the past 10 years....Army/Air Force  recon vehicles 'seeing' spheres.....which can't be explained.

Yeah, it's just enough to ask more questions.

Alien Chatter

 Former National Science Foundation Program Director Dr. Anna Brady-Estevez gave a talk in the past few days.

What she said?  She's about 95-percent CERTAIN....multiple nonhuman species (aliens) are here on Earth....interacting and living among us.

I sat and pondered over the talk.

If you'd asked me....I'd give the talk a 50-50 chance (nowhere near 95-percent).

What she basically hints....dozens....hundreds...thousands....of non-humans are walking around...engaged in Earthly affairs. Some probably voted for Trump.  Some probably own gas stations. Some probably star in zombie movies. Some probably distill whiskey. Some probably play for the New York Yankees.  Some probably are dance-instructors or reality-TV stars. Some might be meth-addicts or coffee-bingers.  

The next step....well, you will start to eyeball your neighbor...your wife....your boss...even your President....wondering if they are the non-human.

Dyscalculia?

I had to look up the term. 

Dyscalculia means you have a lifelong neurodevelopmental learning disorder.  Roughly....one out of twenty have this problem.

Effect? It causes persistent difficulties in understanding numbers, quantities, and basic arithmetic. 

This is the kid who you tell some word-problem....indicating 16-percent being the end-result, telling you that that this represents 30 people....and the 'game' is to figure what you really started with.  The kid looks at you....thinking it's a rocket-science problem.  No matter what you do....he's lost.

As you expect...mental math is impossible....and there's constant anxiety in this one single class.

The guy/gal isn't stupid or low IQ....they just have math jumbled up in their head.

Invasion!!!!

 I sat yesterday and watched about ten minutes of a guy talking over the newest rumor/BS....that somewhere in the US government....a group is planning to stage a fake alien invasion.

I pondered over this for the past twelve hours.

First, within the state of Alabama....we are fully prepared (armed)....with enough ammo to hold off the fake aliens. 

Second, to reach a point of a quarter of society accepting this....you'd  have to have some 'event' where 50,000 Americans die, and I just don't see gov't idiots willing to go that far.

Third, if this amounts to just six football field-size alien craft....no one is going to  believe the event.  

Fourth, you likely get one single chance on this....if you ever try to stage a 2nd or 3rd fake invasion.....no one will fall for  it.

Finally, just a bet....the minute the fake invasion starts up....it's likely that the good-guy aliens will say  'what-the-hell' and blast the fake aliens.

Wild times.

Five Observatations

 1. My wife's co-worker had a new washer arrive Thursday of last week....with a wi-fi connection.  I asked why.....neither the wife or her associate had a good explanation.

I just note...dryers....toasters and coffee-machines come this way now...making no sense..

2. Someone noted how much wealth has left California  in the past two years....saying it's in the $700-Billion range.

3. I generally believe that if you grew up in the 1960s/1970s....you could generally handle any stress/chaos.

4.  Tucker Carlson claims.....that Donald Trump has some kind of a “supernatural component” that puts people around him in a “dreamland.”

Alien-BS?  

5. What job would I hand de Santos as he exits Florida governor-job?  

House-Speaker is not required to be a House-elected member....I'd tell the House GOP to hire him up and give him that job for 2 years.

$9 Starbucks Coffee

 Somebody this week asked Starbucks CEO about their newest coffee and cost ($9).  What he said....he says a guy needs to just not think about it as a $9 cup of coffee, this is about paying for the “experience” of getting a Starbucks coffee,

I paused over this.

I can remember when coffee (plain/regular) was around 25-cents.   

I can also remember being at some airport in the early 1990s....paying $1.

I can remember around 2013....getting a premium coffee of Starbucks....paying around $4.50 (grande/large cup).

At the point where it was near $5....I sat and thought....two premium beers from the grocery across the street...with sales tax...probably would equal the coffee.

To be honest...at least here in Germany, I could buy a whole bottle of vodka now  for about $7...which would barely get me two medium cups of coffee.

The experience thing he talks about?  Well....if this were a stripper-club...maybe the $9 cost is appropriate.  But if the coffee lady is some dimwitted 18-year-old gal with florescent-orange hair, has seven piercings being obvious, and she talks demonic BS about politics....then NO, the $9 is not a reason to drink the coffee.

To be blunt about this...if I ever did buy and drink the $9 coffee....I'd be fearful that my German wife would find out and spend four hours lecturing me about being frugal, and that I should fill a thermos at home with coffee to lug around. 

Netflix Series: Department Q

 It's not often I recommend a Netflix series....but I've wrapped up 'Department Q', and would strongly recommend it.

Detective series....missing person....'bad-boy' cop given the job.

Somewhere in the beginning....they've given the detective a 'helper'...basically a immigrant guy from the Middle East....named 'Akram'.

I'll just say that every scene that Akram appears in....he's like 'Billy-Jack' character, and dominates the scene.  Akram has no respect for rules or regulations.

Season two?  Approved.  

My View On Seattle

 Since last year....I've followed almost daily....the ramblings and  commentary of Seattle's socialist mayor....Katie Wilson.

I consider her to be rather 'gifted' intellectually....to the point where you would describe her as a idiot-servant.  

How she was elected as mayor?  I have this theory.

I think a majority of voters saw her as useless and lacking....but were drawn to vote her into office because they wanted chaos.   These are voters who knew she'd fail to deliver, and likely open various 'exit-doors' for the well-to-do voters to leave the city and state. 

These are 'agents' who want disorder and daily theatrical shows.

Wilson is set to be mayor (unless she quits or is taken  out by the state mechanism)...until the fall of 2029.   

My humble view is that the tax revenue folks will have a talk with her around the first of 2027, and note they are missing around 5-to-10 percent of normal collection.  Whether she'll connect the dots or not....I think she'll just say 'move-on'...continue operations, and some financial officer will note that somewhere in the budget....at least five-percent has to be cut/gutted.

At that point, Wilson will tell the state to make up the difference...refusing to cut.

This will go back and forth....to the point that the state tells Wilson....that Seattle's damage crosses over into state-damage, and they are missing tax revenue as well.  'Sorry' will be the response....but the state can't cover the losses.

By mid-summer of 2027....Wilson probably will have public appearance issues....not wanting to talk about the mess.