Fourr Things About Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey (The Story And Movie)

 First, there is a debate over if Homer wrote both the Iliad and the Odyssey.  If you use the Greek text....the wording is different between the two. 

What people believe? Some folks suggest a Homer-1 and a Homer-2.  My belief?  I think verbally....a Homer-1 developed both as entertaining pieces to be told around the camp-fire at night.  Along came some Greek to write down the story....earning the title of Homer-2, and  later....a third Homer (Homer-3) pieced together the last story.

Second, the entire story of the Iliad laid out in simple fashion? Well...it goes this way:

Homer tries to lay out the final weeks of the Trojan War (a 10-year epic period over Troy.

The 105 months of the war?  Not mentioned....just the ending.

So the weight of the story is about guy Achilles...a Greek warrior (described as the greatest of the great).  The Greeks  have raided some town and taken a virgin-gal captative (this is Chryseis....if you were curious).  Her  dad demands the return.  Eventually....this occurs....but the Greeks did go and grab Achilles’ own prize, Briseis.

There's some chatter where Achilles talks to Gods....at least he says this, and Homer relates it.

So we have this week where the Trojans lack Achilles....to make  up for that...Achilles’ close friend/buddy....Patroclus puts on the Achilles gear and pretends to be him.  He dies in a fight with Hector.  

Achilles arrives....peeved....bothered greatly....killing off a bunch of folks, and finally getting to Hector (killing him).  It's a messy end....He drags Hector’s body behind his chariot.

The poem ends with some words over Hector’s funeral.  

For a camp-fire story?  It's five-star, and a epic.  

Third.....the Odyssey?  I  consider it the 'lesser' of the two  (my humble belief).

This story the Greek hero Odysseus (king of Ithaca).  Oddly the Trojan war has ended after ten years, and his journey (about 300 miles in reality) consumes 10 years itself (part of the bogus-nature of  the story).

Here....Homer skips almost all of the 10 years of the war, and 95-percent of the trip home....talking mostly about 6 weeks of adventure.

 The key story-piece?  Back in Ithaca, Odysseus’ wife....Penelope...has stayed loyal (for almost 20 years).

Toward the end....they now assume that Odysseus is dead.

There's some words over Athena....goddess of wisdom....helping the son.

Apparently....at some point Odysseus has been held for years by sexed-up gal (Calypso) on her island. He finally escapes....gets shipwrecked and washed up among the Phaeacians.

There's some witch adventure....then a Cyclops adventure....then a Underworld adventure....then a monsters adventure (Scylla and Charybdis). 

The boys finally bring him home to Ithaca. He gets back with the wife....after 20 years.

Fourth, my view of the movie deal?  I think Nolan was led to make a movie that ha little  to do with Homer's story.  If this were Frankenstein....it'd been done with the guy being half-man, half-woman, half-beast (ManBearPig).  If this were Uncle Tom's Cabin....it'd been mostly a story of a Mexican 'Tom'....growing up in  Texas.

Are folks going to the movie?  I really don't buy into that....unless it's a money-laundering operation.  To be honest....I could  design the movie and the theater creation....as such.  

Debt BS

 "Nearly 10 million people in the U.S. age 50 and older have student-loan debt," per WSJ.

I paused over this.....reading several times.

To be fair....debt in general is a national issue  now.

I read a piece last week.....working couple....early 30s....both own 'new' cars.....each in the range of $70,000 spent on their car.....8-year loans.  Together....they still had around $60,000 left on the loans, with 3-to-4 years left to pay.

Somewhere....probably around 2035 to 2040....there's some massive financial collapse coming.

The four 'folks' who are going to be hurt the most?

I'd say the BIG banks, four-year university operations, the car-makers, and the housing market.  

Crazy-Crazy

 Past 3 days....I've watched this cop-video....University of Florida scene...trans-lady....goes crazy for about 8 minutes.

You can browse for it over YouTube....Hicks is the last name of the 'gal'.

Cop is responding to a call from the college....out-of-control nutcase.

I figure....I've watched it at least six times. 'She' is desperately seeking a 'safe-space'.

What bothers me....there are probably 20,000 individuals like this in the US presently....making me wonder about everyday interaction that you might be drawn into.

Mentally unbalanced?  Yeah....from this is the prospective of rural Alabama and growing up in the 1960s/1970s.  Up until 1980....I'd probably only run into two or three nutcases, and I was mostly entertained by the characters.

By the 1990s....at least once a year....I'd run into a full-blown nutcase.

That 3.5 years of work in Arlington, VA?  Oh, I ran into a nutcase at least once per week....but none of them were trans-types.

Here in Germany?   If I try hard.....discounting drugged-up cases....I might run into one  nutcase every six months.

What the court ought to do with this Jarrett-character?  I'd give him 60 days of a 'stay' at a mental clinic, and stipulate.....you need to have a normal interaction with people, or you will stay for a extended visit.

Nicaragua

Nicaragua’s socialist President, Daniel Ortega, has announced a change....to end Presidential elections. 

Reason?  He’s doing this to stop popular right wing opposition from coming to power. 

What replaces elections?  He's not really clear about that.

This being a 'winner' for a comedy script....3rd world country that 'saves' democracy....by ending  it.

If You Are On Public Assistance/Welfare, and Sending Money Out Of The Country.....

 I've tried to make sense of this.

Obviously, welfare situation....yet you seem to have a cash-flow that makes no sense.

Either you have a secret income  (like selling cocaine or selling sex)....or you fence-off stolen goods.

Seems like the logical Trump 'fix' would be....put a 75-percent tax on money-transfer that exceeds 50-percent of your monthly income.

Eight Thoughts

 1.  If you lined up the thousand-odd comedians of the US....on my index of 'funny'....at least three-hundred are not funny....to the point that they need to return to Pizza Hut or selling tires.

2. Every time that I see...."SHOCKING ADMISSION FROM A CERN SCIENTIST: "BEINGS ARE COMING OUT OF THE PORTA".....I'm pretty convinced that drug usage is massive.

3.   Personally....if you are without an ID of any type....I don't see how you can function in the modern era.   You could have done this in the 1960s/1970s....but not today. 

4.  Mayor of New York....Zohran Mamdani....says he will launch a pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.  

I pondered this....NY City....night-out....it's not like living in Iowa or Kentucky....you'd need a minimum of $100 for  dinner/drinks....before you even get to the theater.  Where does that money come from?

5.  In the 1970s....there might have been  2,000 Americans confused about their sexuality.  Today.....it's probably near 5-million.  What happened?

6.  These CIA burn-bags that were supposed to be burnt....weren't.  Why?

I have this theory.  I think the 'gang' involved in the anti-Trump 'mission'....reached a end-point where the mission collapsed, and they left the job for some low-ranking guy in the agency to perform, and he never got the message to burn the 500-odd burn-bags.

I also have another theory....that the CIA guys will come to admit they've found six additional rooms....from the 1940s to 2010....each with some weird purpose to fake intelligence realities, and each left hundreds of burn-bags....that  were never burnt.

7.  Paul Pelosi....husband of Nancy....probably has a drinking problem.

8.  If you graded states by allocation of SAFE-SPACES.....Alabama probably has the lowest allocation.

You can ask a resident of Alabama....where there might be a SAFE-SPACE, and most likely the answer will be the barn-loft, or some snake-infested area of Bankhead National Forest. 

Ten Opinions

 1. 2020 Senate 'winners' in Georgia....Ossoff and Warnock....probably never got more than 25-percent of the state vote.  The question is...how would you yank both out and run a fresh new election?

2.  CNN has done everything possible this past week....to convince me....they are still corrupted/screwed-up.  

3.  You could kill 10,000 of the Iranian Mullah-bosses tomorrow, and the system there is designed to replace them in a matter of minutes. This design....is something Trump can't defeat.

4.  This AZ Senator....Gallego.....is 'toast'....he'll be gone by the end of the year....on sex-stuff.

5.   This Maine Democrat....Ashley Webb....translady....claims in Reddit posts that he "ovulates" and has a monthly period.  However....the way he describes the blood....it's out of the anus and likely to be ongoing bouts of hemorrhoid's.

It doesn't appear he wants to 'cure' the hemorrhoids.

6. For some reason....whenever I watch TV news....I'm  always assessing propaganda value....like it was old Soviet or DRR crap-TV.

7. At least 10-percent of the leaders/'bosses' of the Democratic Party....probably should have a mental or IQ test performed.

8.  If you've ever been to Italy....going back to the US and eating at the Olive Garden....makes no sense.

9.  I suspect that a quarter of the Democratic Party agenda....is to shock you to such an extent....that you fumble around and wonder if it's a Twilight Zone episode.

10. As much as Epstein's stuff with juvenile girls seem to shock folks....a Muslim guy marrying a 11-year old girl doesn't seem to have the same shock value.

Three Things I've Noticed

 First, it appears (based on Trump told the story).....that the CIA (via USAID) funded some Chinese folks....who funded again.....some American journalists to write bogus/fake stories  over Trump.

I paused over this. How did they report the new income to IRS....or did they fail on that matter? Did guy come by the house at midnight with a paper-bag of $3,000 to bribe the guy? And did the majority of news folks do this?

Second, all this chatter about Nolan's movie....The Odyssey....mostly BS?

As a kid....around 1968...I went to the Scottsboro trade-day and found the comic's guy.   He had probably 5,000 comics laid out, and I ended buying 'Classic Comics'....the ones that told great literature in comic form.  By the end of the summer.....I had finished off reading around sixty of these.  I always felt they did a better job of telling the story....than $100-Million movies did.

Third, I have this gut-feeling....that ten times the number of people with phobias....now exist...compared to 1980.  At the present pace....I suspect it will expand another ten times by 2035.  

It's like....people feel more positive....with a phobia....like a member of a 'team'.

A Brief Talk On Capitalism/Democracy

 "Americans’ confidence in capitalism and democracy has fallen sharply." 

Article per WSJ

I sat and pondered over this.

This group....comes out of a NORC poll.  It says that only 48-percent of Americans feel capitalism works.  56-percent rationalize that democracy is not working well.

I looked at the poll....what they don't say....if a major amount of the negativity people....are college-educated (brain-washed).

One funny element of this....there's simply a lot of students who wrapped up college...got a debt of $80k, and found that jobs aren't plentiful.  

What the gov't should offer?   Offer one-way tickets to  a alternate country where you think democracy works better, and is mostly chatty on their version of capitalism/socialism.  Once they leave....don't let them come back unless they pay for the trip we gave them.

Last year....there was some lesbian couple that hauled-off, and left for Canada....mostly over Trump.  About 6 to  8 weeks into the hauling-off....they noted things in Canada weren't better, and this was mostly a mistake.

Reality works more effectively....if you give folks a dose or two. 

People Asking Don Lemon To Run For President?

 I sat this AM...reviewing this 12-line story.  Some podcast folks were talking to Don, and he insisted that he's being asked to run in 2028.

On my list of 15,000 possible folks to run in 2028....he's around 14,988 (just to be honest).

I'm not anti-Don....I'm just focused on competency for journalists....with Don ranking a '1' (1-to-10 ranking on my index)....meaning he'd have to improve a lot.

What people are asking Don to run?  Unknown.

They might be long-haul truckers....retirees from Tampa....Michigan hunters....roller derby 'freaks'....dwarf wrestlers....meth-heads....etc.

Frankly....I could see Don as a VP....getting some guy there who is constantly 'wrong'  on every issue, and getting CNN headlines on a daily basis.

Being Irrational About The Economy

Irrationally living paycheck-to-paycheck or carrying high consumer debt for non-essentials.

Irrationally buying status things (cars, phones, clothing) that depreciate rapidly instead of assets.

Irrationally obsessing over homeownership even when renting is financially superior in many markets.

Irrationally pursuing college degrees with poor ROI while trade skills and apprenticeships pay well without debt.

Irrationally blaming "corporations" or "the rich" for price increases while ignoring monetary policy, regulation, and supply constraints.

Irrationally expecting endless government benefits without considering who ultimately pays via taxes, inflation, or debt.

Irrationally ignoring automation/AI displacement while demanding wage floors disconnected from productivity.

Irrationally high spending on entertainment, subscriptions, and convenience while complaining about "not getting ahead."

Irrationally avoiding  building emergency funds up despite repeated economic shocks.

Treating student debt as uniquely unforgivable while other consumer debt is not.

Irrationally supporting policies that increase housing costs then blaming landlords or "greed."

Irrationally overvaluing credentials and degrees over demonstrated skills.

Irrationally ignoring inflation's effect on cash savings.

Irrationally supporting large fiscal deficits and then surprised by interest costs or future tax burdens.

Irrationally.....over and over.....blaming capitalism for poverty while it has coincided with the largest reduction in global extreme poverty in history.

Irrationally expecting perfect equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity and rules.

Seventeen Ways In Which Americans Have Turned Into Irrational 'Tribes'

 Oddly....started a irrational voting 'path'....where the specific policy has clear negative data (crime rates, housing costs, test scores).

Irrationally started to treat political opponents as morally evil rather than people with different information, priorities, or incentives.

Irrationally started dismissing statistical patterns on crime, family structure, or academic outcomes in favor of single-cause narratives.

Irrationally started to support "defund the police" or reduced prosecution....while living in or near areas that later saw measurable crime increases.

Irrationally started to make-believe or identity-based credibility selectively rather than by evidence.

Irrationally came up with the idea of canceling or deplatforming people for past statements....while ignoring context, satire, or changed views.

Irrationally came up prioritizing diversity metrics......over competence in hiring, admissions, or promotions.  Later....acted irrationally surprised at performance gaps.

Irrationally insisting biological sex is a spectrum or socially constructed in policy (sports, prisons, shelters).....despite consistent physiological and performance data showing large average male advantages post-puberty.

Irrationally went to medicalizing rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents with weak long-term evidence.

Irrationally started allowing biological males in female sports/categories.....then expressing surprise at dominance or safety issues.

Irrationally started redefining basic words ("woman," "mother") for ideological consistency while complaining that communication has become confusing.

Irrationally started  to attribute virtually all group outcome gaps to systemic discrimination.....while downplaying culture, behavior, family structure, and cognitive distributions backed by decades of data.

Irrationally started to support policies that demonstrably reduce housing supply (strict zoning, rent control).....while decrying high rents and homelessness.

Irrationally started expecting open borders or very high immigration levels without serious planning for assimilation, fiscal costs, or cultural cohesion data.

Irrationally  started to believe stricter gun control would disarm criminals who already ignore existing laws.

Irrationally started to romanticize socialism or heavy state control despite repeated 20th-century examples of economic failure and authoritarianism.

Irrationally started to judge historical figures solely by 21st-century standards without technological or cultural context.

Orchestrated Politics

When you go digging through history....you can find orchestrated fake episodes which the news media helped to funnel to the public, and shape public opinion to a particular conclusion.  So there's the bonus-Army episode of 1932....which I will explain in detail.

For decades in American history, it was common to offer up a bonus to people who would sign to help fight in some American war.  Typically, you got land or property, for a set period of time. By the end of the Civil War, it was becoming apparent that there was a limit on open land left and this idea of land-grants for military service....had to come to an end.  In the case of the Spanish-American War....luckily, it only last about one-hundred days and no incentive was required.

However, as you come to WW I....we had a slightly different case building up.  In this episode....the entry of the US didn't occur until early 1917 (note, after the November 1916 election, where President Wilson campaigned to stay out of the war)....that the US entered the brief war, and spent barely eighteen months in the engagement.

A bonus deal?  It's an odd thing....the war actually ended and folks went home.  Wilson's term would end in early 1920, with President Coolidge entering office.  Four years go by....a GOP-led Senate (figure near 60 Republicans, with a majority)....set up legislative matters to hand out a Army-bonus for WW I (having ended five years prior).

All of this comes up early in 1924, and is passed by the House and Senate.  Coolidge?  He vetoes the bill....but the vote comes up in the Senate and they overturn his veto.  Imagine that.

The deal?  Well....every guy who spent time in service for the war received a dollar for each day of service, with a limit of $500 maximum.  If you did overseas service (actually in France), then you got $1.25 for each day....but there was a $625 limit on that.  Amazingly enough....anyone who had very limited time and had fifty dollars or less owed....they got paid immediately.  Everyone else?  They got this certificate which they could hold and would be paid out in twenty years....1944.  In truth....the government had some money sitting there and could afford the group owed the $50 or less.  The rest?  They simply didn't have the money, and this was a debt that would be invented out of thin air in 1944.

There were a minimum of three million certificates created for this, and the debt listed was between three and four billion dollars.  If you did this by 2017 numbers....it was roughly fifty-billion dollars to be paid out.

No one says much between 1924 and 1929 over the deal.  But you have this odd episode of the Wall Street crash, and depression setting in.

So around by 1930, there some hyped-up nature over the bonus deal.  Some folks want the bonus open to a loan out....so you could walk in and get a partial payment (a loan).  This starts out at the twenty-percent level, and later....there's talk of a fifty-percent loan-out.  It goes nowhere.  Why?  The House and Senate sit there....in the midst of a depression....talking about finding money which doesn't exist, and suggesting higher taxes to pay out the bonus money.  No one wants higher taxes.

By January of 1932 (an election year), there are marches conducted on Washington by disgruntled former Army members.  Protests are set up in Washington DC....with approximately 25,000 folks there in the spring period....coming and going. By July, it's suggested that ten-thousand protesters are now in a camp atmosphere (intending to stay long-term).

As July arrives....the political atmosphere in DC is charged up.  Protests are common.  Some people think that anarchy could be on the verge of occurring.  So President Hoover (the GOP guy) orders the Defense Department to take action.  Note, there's virtually no real cop presence in the city to handle this type of mess.

On 28 July 1932....a brief one-day episode unfolds.  US Army versus ten-thousand former Army members....on the far east side of Washington DC.  The print-media at the time lays out the whole episode, and a massive amount of blame gets dumped on President Hoover for the way that this was handled.  Four months later, the election shift has occurred....one of the worst election defeats for a sitting President occurs....all going back to the Bonus-Army riot.

Oddly enough....in 1936...the topic of the bonus money came up through Congress again....passing through both House and Senate, with FDR vetoing the pay-out.  This time?  They voted again and overrode the veto....paying out roughly 2-billion dollars of bonus money.  Taxes?  No one says much....it was simply debt added to more debt and everyone looked the other way.  Who passed the bill?  It was a massive Democratic House and Senate that had taken over in 1932 and 1934.

One can look back at 1924 and how a bunch of politicians screwed up....how Hoover screwed up with the handling of the protesters....and how the Democrats made everyone happy in 1936 over the bonus...all neatly created or orchestrated.

Watching Caleb Hammer

 I've reached a point this summer....where I watch about 90 minutes a week of Caleb Hammer's podcast (being honest, it's the most I can handle).

Describing it?

Well...Caleb is a financial audit guy, and he brings on couples (straight, gay, whatever)....who are deep into a mess, and he digs into what went WRONG.  I'd describe the WRONG-moment (my index of 1-to-10) as mostly '10' moments.

The couples....in most all cases....are losers (to the 9th degree), and I can't see the marriage  surviving more than a year or so....after doing the show.

My thrill?  Well....in about half the cases....you have some wife who has purple-hair, or forty-odd piercings....who seems to be a die-hard socialist...showing a bizarre behavior as a nut-case, and the guy seems really stuck on this type of gal.

I paused over this....frankly....if this were my wife, and she was this dimwitted and trampy-to-the-9th-degree....I might stick around a while (for the fun).

The sad thing?  They are all deep into debt (bad enough that they ought to be placed into a jail).

Testosterone Story

 Pentagon has ordered new testosterone-deficiency screenings for members over the age of 30.  The expectation?  A percentage (probably 10-percent minimum) will have low T-deficiency numbers (my bet).

So, I'll tell this story.

In the early 1990s....the Air Force went in a massive way toward fitness/'the-look'/exercise.  About six  months into this....you started to notice several trends.

Folks had sleep issues....guys seemed overly tired (especially the over-35 age group) in the afternoons.....probably one out of three guys in the older age bracket had mood swings, which unsettled marriages/relationships.

I knew two guys in this period....who accidentally got some Air Force doctor curious....who tested them on testosterone....finding them low.   One of them just said 'finished' and ended up medically-discharged over the problem/treatment. 

The sleep-issues crowd?  By the time I retired in 1999....probably 5-percent of folks  I knew....were on some sort of treatment. 

What I expect out of the Pentagon?  By 2030....they come to admit the current fitness program and fitness expectation....is causing health issues. 

Eleven Irrational Behaviors With Technology

Heavy phone/social media addiction....while people crave for 'it'....showing mental problems. 

Irrational privacy complaints....while showing wiliness to share vast personal data.

Irrational fear of AI job loss.....while quickly adopting to AI tools.

Irrational trust based on 'facts', while showing marginal-to-no track record.

Irrational minor rule-breaking....while expecting others to follow the norms.

Irrationally expecting experts to be infallible on politicized topics....then seeming to ignore expert failures (COVID origins, economic forecasts, etc.).

Irrationally accusing the each other of "misinformation" while spreading their own selective framing.

Irrationally short-term emotional decision-making on long-term issues (retirement, health, family, national debt).....over and over.

Irrationally showing tribal loyalty to brands, sports teams, or subcultures.....that seem to have zero to no real evidence.

Irrationally expecting society to accommodate every individual preference without some type of trade-off.

Irrational pattern of knowing better (data on health, money, relationships, policy) yet acting against that knowledge due to emotion, status, convenience, or group belonging.

On the Subject of Meetings

At some point in the early-1990s....I moved from a player-mode to a manager-mode, and then came the realization that you had to go and attend meetings.  Some were a mere fifteen minutes long and drilled quickly down into the issue, and were worthwhile as a meeting.  Some were 90 minutes long, and basically accomplished next to nothing.  I came to value most meetings as worthless.

At some point around 2002 to 2004....I probably was wasting four hours a week in meetings.  In 2010 to 2013.....as a manager within the Pentagon empire, I was lucky to get myself down to 180 minutes per week.  The only enjoyable meeting each week in that last year was the building custodian meeting where all kinds of building renovation or history came out from the chief of the Pentagon building.

I brought this up years ago with a older guy who could remember the 1970s era, and how there were rarely meetings.  In his mind, when the internet and computer era arrived....meetings increased.  As he pointed out.....more people wanted 'stock' ownership in decisions made, and success from meeting decisions rarely paid dividends.

At some point about fifteen years ago....I worked with a female who had a husband who had a degree in business management (the master's degree), and he had weekly meetings with his staff (the wife, and the two kids).  One of the kids was a teenager and had become anti-meeting....thus causing friction in the household.  The wife tried to explain to the husband that these meetings were not of much value, and instead got lectured on the necessity of a 'focused-team'.  I asked the co-worker how would this all end, and she felt the kid would be out the door as soon as she graduated from high-school.

As much as I hate to suggest it....meetings have turned into some kind of rocket-science.

Why Iran Keeps Adding Layers Of More 'WAR'

 As a kid....I noted that probably 3 or 4 dimwits existed in my class, and it didn't matter how things were explained....they just didn't 'get it'.  We'd go to a second details-explained situation....a third details-explanation situation, and even a fourth details-explanation situation.

Years later....I would associate this to a low IQ.

Iran simply runs....as a nation....with authorities mostly geared toward a 75-IQ, and if you said something would occur tomorrow....to cut-off power/electricity for 6 weeks....they wouldn't see a big deal.

If you said all gas stations would only sell 10 liters of gas per week....again, no big deal.

The problem here....they've had 50 years to built the nation into a land run by the Three Stooges.  Trump calls up, and it's either Curly, Larry, or Moe answering the phone.

The funny thing?  Persia....before Mohammad came along....probably was the most advanced country on the face of the Earth.  

How Was The 'Faces and Phone Numbers' Program Connected to Charlie Kirk and TPUSA?

 Well...it's a '10' on the conspiracy BS.

Apparently, some US intelligence agency....had gotten into a surveillance 'game' with Kirk's TPUSA....where they would catch 'faces' at these Kirk events, and have cellphone numbers collected.

There is some belief that toward the last month of life...Kirk was figuring some of this out.

Illegal?  Well....yeah.

Odds that this was active on 6 Jan 2021?  I started to ponder upon this.

Requiring a massive data storage point? Yeah....that's another part of this story.

On my BS-meter?  It started out as a '10'....I'm probably lowering this to a '5' now.

If 2020's Election Was Corrupted, What Else Was Screwed-Up?

 President Trump on Thursday night....will talk  over the corrupted vote in 2020.....so I sat and pondered from the Senate races...what else occurred?

The two Senate races in  Georgia? Perdue lost to Ostoff. Loeffler lost to Warnock (both were 2-point margins)

Michigan?  James lost to Peters. (1.68 margin)

Arizona?  McSally lost to Kelly (3 points)

So the odds....in the three states....4 Senate seats were corrupt-voted? I'd say it's higher than a 50-percent chance.

Fixing this?  How?  There's no Senate rule for a mess like this.