I sat and read an entertainment piece today, which indicated that ALF is in the discussion stage of being brought back. For October new shows? Very doubtful. I'm guessing they are talking October 2019 at the earliest.
I sat and pondered upon this. ALF in modern times? ALF with an Amazon account? ALF with credit cards? ALF making Trump-like comments over Twitter? ALF with a Facebook account? ALF registered to vote? ALF watching 200 hours per month of Friends? ALF with an account to Radio Shack? ALF doing vegan one week, and then realizing what it really means? ALF drinking a 50-50 mix of Tab and Dr Pepper? ALF writing science fiction books and selling them under the fake name of Gordon Shumway? ALF looking for a safe space?
I suspect the writers have at least 3,000 ideas for the first season alone.
Thursday, 2 August 2018
Trump-Unbridled-Optimism-Syndrome (Parody)
(Parody) Clyde got up one morning and his wife decided to speak to him....about a problem.
This conversation led to one central theme....Clyde's wife felt that he seemed overly happy with life, more so than normal. It just wasn't right. She told Clyde that she'd noticed almost tears coming down his cheeks when he arose and opened curtains and gazed at the morning sun rising. Since the spring of 2017, she noted this 'passion' over life.
Clyde admitted that he did feel a bit more optimistic than normal. NO...says the wife, this is more than that. She suggested physiological treatment.
So Clyde went off and asked his associates about a recommendation. The druggie at the office could name a good doctor but that wasn't the problem. The gal with personality issues could name a good doctor but that wasn't the problem. The Vietnam vet chief could name a good doctor but that wasn't the problem. The HR guy flipping into a trans-lady could name a good doctor but that wasn't the problem. Eventually, the security guard at the front door had a private chat with Clyde.
'Duke' was a Army vet....black guy....often obsessed with NCAA football....often bragged of playing poker one night with one of bin Laden's henchmen in some faraway jail-house....and was a happy-go-lucky security guard for the company. Oh, and he was a noted former Democrat, turned Republican.
'Duke' said there's only one doctor for this, and gave Clyde the number.
Clyde made the appointment and the next day....showed up at some office that seemed to be designed to look like 1969. The doctor asks about a dozen questions, and then states in a matter-of-a-fact way....Clyde, you got TUOS. Clyde was of course thinking it was a sexual disorder but the doctor corrected him quickly. No, it's Trump Unbridled Optimism Syndrome.
The doctor reassured him that things were fine and that he had a special group which met on Wednesday nights to discuss matters. He wanted Clyde to show up....but then said it'd be best not speak at the beginning part.
So Clyde shows up on the next Wednesday meeting and is there with six other folks and the doctor. They start around and talking about 'their problem'. It seems that it started on 9 November 2016. Anxiety, panic attacks, stress, heartburn, and so on.
About twenty minutes into this, Clyde realizes that he's in a group of Hillary Lost It Syndrome (HLIS) folks. He starts to eyeball the doorway and to leave.
The doctor gives a wink and turns to Clyde...asking him about his great fall on 9 November, and how he emerged.
Clyde starts to realize that he's not there to help himself....he's there to bring people to the 'unbridled optimism' position. He starts to talk about his woeful family, unemployable son, the niece with no skill or future, and the worry over his job holding out.
Tears flow as Clyde tells the sad prospective of his family in 2016. They just didn't have any optimism. By summer of 2017, something clicked. The son was hired up by some company, and made enough to have his own apartment. The niece got hired by some gun-shop and discovered that she had some knack on selling rifles. With the tax changes, Clyde had enough money to take his wife to Aruba for a week of hot lusty passion.
Clyde arose from his chair and began to wave his arms around and get all animated. He'd helped some lady from his church rewrite her resume and get her hired up for a job (her first job, at age fifty). He'd given up watching NFL football and was helping a neighbor repaint their house. He hated cats, but had gone to the county center and adopted two cats.
The atmosphere in the room was electrified. Unbridled optimism was brewing thick and strong. The doctor gave a wink. The session ended an hour later, and just about all of the folks there came over and offered a handshake. They all felt better....they felt like a great burden had been lifted off their chest.
Clyde went home and his wife asked about the psychological session with the group. Clyde stood there and thought about it for a minute, and then responded: "What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate". The wife responded....that's a direct quote from President Trump. "Yes" responded Clyde. A twist of fate here and there....brought on unbridled optimism.
This conversation led to one central theme....Clyde's wife felt that he seemed overly happy with life, more so than normal. It just wasn't right. She told Clyde that she'd noticed almost tears coming down his cheeks when he arose and opened curtains and gazed at the morning sun rising. Since the spring of 2017, she noted this 'passion' over life.
Clyde admitted that he did feel a bit more optimistic than normal. NO...says the wife, this is more than that. She suggested physiological treatment.
So Clyde went off and asked his associates about a recommendation. The druggie at the office could name a good doctor but that wasn't the problem. The gal with personality issues could name a good doctor but that wasn't the problem. The Vietnam vet chief could name a good doctor but that wasn't the problem. The HR guy flipping into a trans-lady could name a good doctor but that wasn't the problem. Eventually, the security guard at the front door had a private chat with Clyde.
'Duke' was a Army vet....black guy....often obsessed with NCAA football....often bragged of playing poker one night with one of bin Laden's henchmen in some faraway jail-house....and was a happy-go-lucky security guard for the company. Oh, and he was a noted former Democrat, turned Republican.
'Duke' said there's only one doctor for this, and gave Clyde the number.
Clyde made the appointment and the next day....showed up at some office that seemed to be designed to look like 1969. The doctor asks about a dozen questions, and then states in a matter-of-a-fact way....Clyde, you got TUOS. Clyde was of course thinking it was a sexual disorder but the doctor corrected him quickly. No, it's Trump Unbridled Optimism Syndrome.
The doctor reassured him that things were fine and that he had a special group which met on Wednesday nights to discuss matters. He wanted Clyde to show up....but then said it'd be best not speak at the beginning part.
So Clyde shows up on the next Wednesday meeting and is there with six other folks and the doctor. They start around and talking about 'their problem'. It seems that it started on 9 November 2016. Anxiety, panic attacks, stress, heartburn, and so on.
About twenty minutes into this, Clyde realizes that he's in a group of Hillary Lost It Syndrome (HLIS) folks. He starts to eyeball the doorway and to leave.
The doctor gives a wink and turns to Clyde...asking him about his great fall on 9 November, and how he emerged.
Clyde starts to realize that he's not there to help himself....he's there to bring people to the 'unbridled optimism' position. He starts to talk about his woeful family, unemployable son, the niece with no skill or future, and the worry over his job holding out.
Tears flow as Clyde tells the sad prospective of his family in 2016. They just didn't have any optimism. By summer of 2017, something clicked. The son was hired up by some company, and made enough to have his own apartment. The niece got hired by some gun-shop and discovered that she had some knack on selling rifles. With the tax changes, Clyde had enough money to take his wife to Aruba for a week of hot lusty passion.
Clyde arose from his chair and began to wave his arms around and get all animated. He'd helped some lady from his church rewrite her resume and get her hired up for a job (her first job, at age fifty). He'd given up watching NFL football and was helping a neighbor repaint their house. He hated cats, but had gone to the county center and adopted two cats.
The atmosphere in the room was electrified. Unbridled optimism was brewing thick and strong. The doctor gave a wink. The session ended an hour later, and just about all of the folks there came over and offered a handshake. They all felt better....they felt like a great burden had been lifted off their chest.
Clyde went home and his wife asked about the psychological session with the group. Clyde stood there and thought about it for a minute, and then responded: "What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate". The wife responded....that's a direct quote from President Trump. "Yes" responded Clyde. A twist of fate here and there....brought on unbridled optimism.
Humble Opinion
Ten news events, and just my observations:
1. On this missing Iowa college student, Mollie Tibbetts. Cops say she finished her run....went back to the house, and did homework. Between that point and the next morning.....she disappeared. No blood in the house.....no scuffle damage....nothing. Whoever came to the house, was someone she knew. Or....she never really came back to the house, and the homework business is all faked up.
2. Senator Feinstein woke up a couple of years ago in the middle of a FBI face-to-face meeting....to learn one of her hired folks was probably working as a amateur-spy for China. My question is....how many other Senators have been greeted by the FBI and told the same type of story?
3. This Medicare for all deal? Oddly enough, back in the early 1970s, in the midst of the Watergate episode.....President Nixon was proposing the same idea.
4. If Mueller never reaches the impeachment stage? Could he stretch this into 2024 and beyond?
5. Tommy Robinson was released by the Brit judge. What the judge indicated....this judicial episode from two months ago....was handled in a behavioral way that you'd expect out of a 12-year-old kid. Right now.....trust in the Brit legal system is at an all-time low.
6. After a fair amount of reading over these 3D manufactured guns....I would suggest that if you were looking for a one-shot only weapon....this would be it. After you fired that one single round from the weapon, I'd toss it into the dumpster and not trust the weapon to function correctly for the second shot.
7. With all this talk of illegals being registered to vote....eventually some idiots will dream up a round-trip vacation from France or Italy or Germany....to San Francisco, to include a one-stop session where they register to vote (while there as tourists). Pictures will be taken and the tourists will be thrilled to be part of the American voting experience.
8. It's becoming obvious that more people know Marvel hero characters, than American politicians.
9. A fair number of 20-year old American kids have awaken in the past two years, and asking who this Hitler guy is.
10. I kinda noticed this morning.....the North Korean main newspaper....Rodong Sinmun....spoke up and told North Koreans.....not to be faked-out by other cultures or ways of life, insisting instead that the Kim lifestyle was giving them the “best in the world.” The regular North Korean guy has to be sitting there....discussing matters with the wife, and thinking.....man, if it's that great here....imagine how bad it is in Tampa, or Louisiana.....they must have it really bad.
1. On this missing Iowa college student, Mollie Tibbetts. Cops say she finished her run....went back to the house, and did homework. Between that point and the next morning.....she disappeared. No blood in the house.....no scuffle damage....nothing. Whoever came to the house, was someone she knew. Or....she never really came back to the house, and the homework business is all faked up.
2. Senator Feinstein woke up a couple of years ago in the middle of a FBI face-to-face meeting....to learn one of her hired folks was probably working as a amateur-spy for China. My question is....how many other Senators have been greeted by the FBI and told the same type of story?
3. This Medicare for all deal? Oddly enough, back in the early 1970s, in the midst of the Watergate episode.....President Nixon was proposing the same idea.
4. If Mueller never reaches the impeachment stage? Could he stretch this into 2024 and beyond?
5. Tommy Robinson was released by the Brit judge. What the judge indicated....this judicial episode from two months ago....was handled in a behavioral way that you'd expect out of a 12-year-old kid. Right now.....trust in the Brit legal system is at an all-time low.
6. After a fair amount of reading over these 3D manufactured guns....I would suggest that if you were looking for a one-shot only weapon....this would be it. After you fired that one single round from the weapon, I'd toss it into the dumpster and not trust the weapon to function correctly for the second shot.
7. With all this talk of illegals being registered to vote....eventually some idiots will dream up a round-trip vacation from France or Italy or Germany....to San Francisco, to include a one-stop session where they register to vote (while there as tourists). Pictures will be taken and the tourists will be thrilled to be part of the American voting experience.
8. It's becoming obvious that more people know Marvel hero characters, than American politicians.
9. A fair number of 20-year old American kids have awaken in the past two years, and asking who this Hitler guy is.
10. I kinda noticed this morning.....the North Korean main newspaper....Rodong Sinmun....spoke up and told North Koreans.....not to be faked-out by other cultures or ways of life, insisting instead that the Kim lifestyle was giving them the “best in the world.” The regular North Korean guy has to be sitting there....discussing matters with the wife, and thinking.....man, if it's that great here....imagine how bad it is in Tampa, or Louisiana.....they must have it really bad.
Wednesday, 1 August 2018
Observing Ocasio-Cortez
Over the past month, I've probably watched at least fifteen different interviews with the new political figure out of New York City....Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
So I've come to this observation. When you get ready to finish college (for a four-year degree), they need to require some type of oral exam or Q and A session. You need to be able to state some logical arguments, and sustain a basic conclusion. In the case of Ocasio-Cortez and her degree from Boston University and her degree (supposedly relating to economics), I would suggest that she's pretty much lost and unable to conduct a logical argument or sustain a basic conclusion. In simple terms, I'm not sure what she did four years, but that $49,000 per year....was pretty much dumped down the drain with little gained in terms of intellect.
I'll even go as far to suggest that everytime she speaks and does one of her arguments....it hurts the reputation of the University.
I doubt if any university wants to implement some kind of qualification exam for their Bachelor's Degree.....mostly because half the students would fail, but it would suggest to me that all we are doing is pumping idiot 'man-kids' into the public, with no true skills gained from four years of college.
So I've come to this observation. When you get ready to finish college (for a four-year degree), they need to require some type of oral exam or Q and A session. You need to be able to state some logical arguments, and sustain a basic conclusion. In the case of Ocasio-Cortez and her degree from Boston University and her degree (supposedly relating to economics), I would suggest that she's pretty much lost and unable to conduct a logical argument or sustain a basic conclusion. In simple terms, I'm not sure what she did four years, but that $49,000 per year....was pretty much dumped down the drain with little gained in terms of intellect.
I'll even go as far to suggest that everytime she speaks and does one of her arguments....it hurts the reputation of the University.
I doubt if any university wants to implement some kind of qualification exam for their Bachelor's Degree.....mostly because half the students would fail, but it would suggest to me that all we are doing is pumping idiot 'man-kids' into the public, with no true skills gained from four years of college.
The Next California Exit
There are several problems with this. First, they put it up as a ballot measure. If voted upon and reaching a passing rate....neither the State Constitution nor the federal government.....have any method to really make this work.
Second, if a regular guy owned property in this region? Well....you'd have to compensate the guy, and I would imagine this would get up into the hundreds of billions. Who would pay it?
Third, who exactly is the aNAn? I could see a dozen tribes trying to get 'respect' and having control over this region, with this going into twenty years of legal challenges.
Fourth, Why limit this to the eastern side of California? Why not the entire state? Or why not the western end?
Fifth, there are dozens of federal parks, reservations, and military sites in this region. I just don't see the federal government giving them up.
On paper, it's interesting....beyond that, it's a joke.
Monday, 30 July 2018
Trump Anxiety Disorder?
I was sitting this morning and reading through a piece which talked about 'Trump Anxiety Disorder'.
This idea (hard to describe as a true medical condition....came from an essay written by psychologist Jennifer Panning. The suffering here? You come to a point of "feeling a loss of control and helplessness, and fretting about what's happening in the country and spending excessive time on social media."
The psychologists aren't saying how many folks they are treating, and my humble guess is that it's into the 300,000 (a fair number might be university students).
After hearing the whole chatter....I asked the question....how would you handle this as a psychologist talking to some poor guy in a bad-off way?
Well....you'd have to ask them to give up social media for sixty days (my feeling). News? Probably limit the guy to just local news for the same period.
As for Trump? You'd go and talk to the guy every two weeks....suggesting that maybe a group setting would be better for them. So you can imagine this group meeting.....ten folks with some moderator....kinda like a alcohol rehab group....meeting every Thursday night to talk about their Trump feelings. A fair number of these would be women, in their forties....single.
Somewhere in the mix of ten folks....there'd be one Trump-guy....mostly pretending that he has issues....just to hang out and chat with single gals.
The problem I see with the mental health issue is that Trump might be around through 2024, and that's a fair bit of time to be in some rehab group.
But the other issue that bothers me.....are people really that fragile? If you had suggested something like this back in 2000 or 2004....folks would have laughed. Yet here we are.....fragile Americans in need to special help.
Oddly, what the mental health guys say is that this is just a mental issue....it's not causing folks to drink whiskey or take drugs.....at least not yet. Personally, I think if they just went off to North Korea for two weeks, they'd get all this disorder stuff out of their head and think of other things to worry about.
This idea (hard to describe as a true medical condition....came from an essay written by psychologist Jennifer Panning. The suffering here? You come to a point of "feeling a loss of control and helplessness, and fretting about what's happening in the country and spending excessive time on social media."
The psychologists aren't saying how many folks they are treating, and my humble guess is that it's into the 300,000 (a fair number might be university students).
After hearing the whole chatter....I asked the question....how would you handle this as a psychologist talking to some poor guy in a bad-off way?
Well....you'd have to ask them to give up social media for sixty days (my feeling). News? Probably limit the guy to just local news for the same period.
As for Trump? You'd go and talk to the guy every two weeks....suggesting that maybe a group setting would be better for them. So you can imagine this group meeting.....ten folks with some moderator....kinda like a alcohol rehab group....meeting every Thursday night to talk about their Trump feelings. A fair number of these would be women, in their forties....single.
Somewhere in the mix of ten folks....there'd be one Trump-guy....mostly pretending that he has issues....just to hang out and chat with single gals.
The problem I see with the mental health issue is that Trump might be around through 2024, and that's a fair bit of time to be in some rehab group.
But the other issue that bothers me.....are people really that fragile? If you had suggested something like this back in 2000 or 2004....folks would have laughed. Yet here we are.....fragile Americans in need to special help.
Oddly, what the mental health guys say is that this is just a mental issue....it's not causing folks to drink whiskey or take drugs.....at least not yet. Personally, I think if they just went off to North Korea for two weeks, they'd get all this disorder stuff out of their head and think of other things to worry about.
Mueller and Trump: 2011
It rarely ever gets brought up, but back in 2011....Mr Mueller had this problem with Mr Trump.
Mueller, at that time....was acting director of the FBI. He came up and joined a private golf club in Sterling, VA....owned by Trump.
Initial fee? Well....it's in the range of $100k. Monthly costs? $695 a month. I know, it's hefty, but it's a private club and big-shots tend to show up.
If you were golfing every weekend, it'd probably be worth the money suggested.
In 2011, Mueller came to quit the club. There's never been any real explanation over this. What Mueller wanted was part of his initial fee back. No one says how much (if any) of it that he got back.
But you start to think over this. As the acting director, he was making $175,000 at the time. How did he afford the initial fee? One might assume that he had enough pocket money to make this happen. But if you go and figure the $695 monthly fee, and food/drinks for a Saturday out....he was likely spending $10,000 a year on his 'hobby'.....that's before we even get to the 'right' clothing or the 'right' equipment.
Is this golf episode something that might come up in any court case? Well....that's the thing, you just don't know how the returned fee business went, and if sour-apples might exist with Mueller.
Mueller, at that time....was acting director of the FBI. He came up and joined a private golf club in Sterling, VA....owned by Trump.
Initial fee? Well....it's in the range of $100k. Monthly costs? $695 a month. I know, it's hefty, but it's a private club and big-shots tend to show up.
If you were golfing every weekend, it'd probably be worth the money suggested.
In 2011, Mueller came to quit the club. There's never been any real explanation over this. What Mueller wanted was part of his initial fee back. No one says how much (if any) of it that he got back.
But you start to think over this. As the acting director, he was making $175,000 at the time. How did he afford the initial fee? One might assume that he had enough pocket money to make this happen. But if you go and figure the $695 monthly fee, and food/drinks for a Saturday out....he was likely spending $10,000 a year on his 'hobby'.....that's before we even get to the 'right' clothing or the 'right' equipment.
Is this golf episode something that might come up in any court case? Well....that's the thing, you just don't know how the returned fee business went, and if sour-apples might exist with Mueller.
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