With all this church shooting business from the last couple of years (especially recently).....folks are now reaching the point of talking over the idea of taking a gun into a Sunday service. I sat and pondered over this, and remember the Baptist church environment as a kid in rural Alabama.
Typically, that long hour on Sundays (11 AM to noon)....was the most unbelievably boring period that you could imagine. This was before the smart-phone era, and you could gaze around the rear of the church, and note at least two or three of the older guys nodding off to sleep.
Some kids would have pens and would be doodling around or doing artistic pieces. You'd occasionally notice some women fumbling their pursues (perhaps counting change).
If the current environment continued on and guys started to tote a pistol into service.....I could imagine some guy sitting there and removing the magazine to the PPK pistol, or tripling-checking (every five minutes) the safety....to make sure it was absolutely safe. Some would quietly be pulling their pistol out to show their associate, and gun trades might even occur in the midst of a minister chat about Japheth (son of Noah) and how he didn't get much attention because he was a 'slacker'.
In simple terms, all of this would lead to poor gun handling practices, and one day.....some idiot would flip it accidentally off safety, and let loose one round. Someone would interpret this as the first shot of some terrorist, and then a dozen rounds would be fired toward the backdoor of the church. It'd be one of those events that would kinda end services for the day, and be talked over for months.
Tuesday, 30 April 2019
What's Done?
Since January, and the arrival of all these House Democrats....what's the achievement tally?
Well....it's short.
They did have some impeachment stuff discussed in January, but ever since Mueller turned in his report.....that seemed to just go away.
They did fight off Trump's budget discussion, but that really didn't get any public interest.
AOC? There's not a single day that some network or news media group hasn't hyped up her chatter or political discussion. But is that something that you'd consider an achievement?
We are around 90 days from summer vacation for Congress, and unless something really arrive soon.....we will be in the October period, with zero accomplishments for 2019.
If we arrive at this same time period in 2020.....with zero accomplishments, what does that do for the House election cycle in the fall of 2020? In blunt terms, something of some public significance really needs to be put on the board, and accomplished this year....or a hundred of these guys disappear toward the end of 2020.
Well....it's short.
They did have some impeachment stuff discussed in January, but ever since Mueller turned in his report.....that seemed to just go away.
They did fight off Trump's budget discussion, but that really didn't get any public interest.
AOC? There's not a single day that some network or news media group hasn't hyped up her chatter or political discussion. But is that something that you'd consider an achievement?
We are around 90 days from summer vacation for Congress, and unless something really arrive soon.....we will be in the October period, with zero accomplishments for 2019.
If we arrive at this same time period in 2020.....with zero accomplishments, what does that do for the House election cycle in the fall of 2020? In blunt terms, something of some public significance really needs to be put on the board, and accomplished this year....or a hundred of these guys disappear toward the end of 2020.
Monday, 29 April 2019
Just a Moment of Discussion Over Indians
I often view college students (and even professors) in some video dialog where they want to talk about the great evil where Europeans settling America.....did a something terrible, and owe the land back to 'THE' Indians.
There's a historical problem when you go and discuss 'THE' Indians....because they split off into not just dozens of tribes but literally hundreds of tribes (if you consider Canada, Mexico, the US, and Central America). At various times.....x-tribes had control of x-land, and later, a y-tribe came along to conquer that group, and then later, a z-tribe came along to conquer that group.
Does it sound somewhat like African tribal warfare? Yes, it's identical.
Does it sound somewhat like Asian tribal warfare? Yes, it's identical.
Does it sound like European tribal warfare? Yes, it's identical.
You can go over to the Creek Indians and find that they had various wars with other tribes, and killed a fair sum of non-Creek Indians over the past couple hundred years.
There's a historical problem when you go and discuss 'THE' Indians....because they split off into not just dozens of tribes but literally hundreds of tribes (if you consider Canada, Mexico, the US, and Central America). At various times.....x-tribes had control of x-land, and later, a y-tribe came along to conquer that group, and then later, a z-tribe came along to conquer that group.
Does it sound somewhat like African tribal warfare? Yes, it's identical.
Does it sound somewhat like Asian tribal warfare? Yes, it's identical.
Does it sound like European tribal warfare? Yes, it's identical.
You can go over to the Creek Indians and find that they had various wars with other tribes, and killed a fair sum of non-Creek Indians over the past couple hundred years.
Sunday, 28 April 2019
Mock Stuff
I noticed this in the news today....that Oxford University (the big-boy's university, for hefty intellectual types).... has discovered that young naive kids attending their college are a bit worried (filled with anxiety) over tests (who would figure that).
So, they found this remedy. The month prior to the real test.....they intend to stage a practice-test (a mock test). A full three hours....of fake-testing, to get you around to the point where you won't worry.
I sat and debated this idea.
If this is such a good idea, why don't we have two practice-elections during presidential election years, say in the month of October, and just get everyone up to the level of accepting that their presidential candidate (maybe Hillary).....might lose. Then maybe after the second practice-election....you'd reach a point where you realize it's best to just accept this situation, and just not get all freaked-out.
In fact, we could do the same way with employees being fired, by having a mock-firing the day prior....to get you around to the level of just accepting this.
We could even go and have mock NCAA football games.....where a practice game was played between team A and B, and the loss in the practice game would get you to the point of accepting that as being 'OK'.
So, they found this remedy. The month prior to the real test.....they intend to stage a practice-test (a mock test). A full three hours....of fake-testing, to get you around to the point where you won't worry.
I sat and debated this idea.
If this is such a good idea, why don't we have two practice-elections during presidential election years, say in the month of October, and just get everyone up to the level of accepting that their presidential candidate (maybe Hillary).....might lose. Then maybe after the second practice-election....you'd reach a point where you realize it's best to just accept this situation, and just not get all freaked-out.
In fact, we could do the same way with employees being fired, by having a mock-firing the day prior....to get you around to the level of just accepting this.
We could even go and have mock NCAA football games.....where a practice game was played between team A and B, and the loss in the practice game would get you to the point of accepting that as being 'OK'.
Beto's Idea
At some point in the last couple of days, during a campaign stop....Beto O'Rourke (the Mexican-Irishman) spoke up and made a political promise to push for the 'establishment of farm-to-table restaurants in every community to combat poor nutrition'.
I sat and pondered over this.
First, is he actually saying that the government needs to get into the business of running their own brand of restaurants? You know....like in each county, there would be two or three public restaurants, with government guys in charge, and they'd be serving you food which only comes from local farms, and this would be in some format of great nutrition?
So the cost of this nutritional dinner? I know what it costs for a plate of catfish at the Catfish Cabin in Athens, Alabama (figure around $14 for the three fish plate). For a Beto-plate special, with only local stuff and nutritional? Maybe $20? Maybe $24?
Second, if you hired up marginal cooks, and they just served ten people a day....would they shut down (like a normal bad restaurant would), or would they just get more government funding to stay open as a bad restaurant?
Third, what if people just won't eat a nutritional dinner? What if you went up to a guy and offered up this low-calorie dinner, with high-salad use, and marginal taste? Would a normal guy eat this nutritional dinner? If he had the choice of a ribs-plate (thick on the sauce), with french fries (with a special dip), and a 32-ounce sugar drink?
Maybe Beto had good intentions, but this government-run type restaurant, based on only good nutrition....sounds like a pretty bad idea.
I sat and pondered over this.
First, is he actually saying that the government needs to get into the business of running their own brand of restaurants? You know....like in each county, there would be two or three public restaurants, with government guys in charge, and they'd be serving you food which only comes from local farms, and this would be in some format of great nutrition?
So the cost of this nutritional dinner? I know what it costs for a plate of catfish at the Catfish Cabin in Athens, Alabama (figure around $14 for the three fish plate). For a Beto-plate special, with only local stuff and nutritional? Maybe $20? Maybe $24?
Second, if you hired up marginal cooks, and they just served ten people a day....would they shut down (like a normal bad restaurant would), or would they just get more government funding to stay open as a bad restaurant?
Third, what if people just won't eat a nutritional dinner? What if you went up to a guy and offered up this low-calorie dinner, with high-salad use, and marginal taste? Would a normal guy eat this nutritional dinner? If he had the choice of a ribs-plate (thick on the sauce), with french fries (with a special dip), and a 32-ounce sugar drink?
Maybe Beto had good intentions, but this government-run type restaurant, based on only good nutrition....sounds like a pretty bad idea.
Saturday, 27 April 2019
Value of Yahoo News and Mother Jones
I noticed this got brought up today.....when the pee-dosier business needed to be broadcast out in mid-2016, where the business originally started was Yahoo News and Mother Jones. Why those two, and not WaPo or NY Times? Well....no one has really said or talked to that issue.
I would speculate that both looked at the pee dosier story, the credibility of the sources, and then said....right now, we can't touch it because it looks so fake. So Yahoo News and Mother Jones did the big pick-up.
So you sit and ponder about this. If the whole idea was to get voters turned OFF on Trump....with this pee dosier business being your five-star 'thug'.....would those two sources of news have value?
If you asked a normal guy over the age of thirty about reading Mother Jones, the only ones that ever touch it are typically environmentally-friendly leftists. Republican guys don't read it....ever.
If you asked most folks over the age of thirty if they read Yahoo News....they might see an occasional headline, but it's mostly just click-bait, and they pass.
Then you look at how the pee-dossier was constructed....even if you got the idiot to read the first page....none of this really read like some professional document. It's like a third-world 30-page James Bond piece by a marginal 2nd year college student.
So the value of this whole pee dosier, with Yahoo News and Mother Jones carrying it? Worthless. You could have gone to a research group, and in less than fifteen minutes....they would have laughed you out of the room with the dosier, and the two news sources.
This was all a big waste? Yes. That's the comical side of this now.
I would speculate that both looked at the pee dosier story, the credibility of the sources, and then said....right now, we can't touch it because it looks so fake. So Yahoo News and Mother Jones did the big pick-up.
So you sit and ponder about this. If the whole idea was to get voters turned OFF on Trump....with this pee dosier business being your five-star 'thug'.....would those two sources of news have value?
If you asked a normal guy over the age of thirty about reading Mother Jones, the only ones that ever touch it are typically environmentally-friendly leftists. Republican guys don't read it....ever.
If you asked most folks over the age of thirty if they read Yahoo News....they might see an occasional headline, but it's mostly just click-bait, and they pass.
Then you look at how the pee-dossier was constructed....even if you got the idiot to read the first page....none of this really read like some professional document. It's like a third-world 30-page James Bond piece by a marginal 2nd year college student.
So the value of this whole pee dosier, with Yahoo News and Mother Jones carrying it? Worthless. You could have gone to a research group, and in less than fifteen minutes....they would have laughed you out of the room with the dosier, and the two news sources.
This was all a big waste? Yes. That's the comical side of this now.
De-Snowflaking
I have a humble view of snowflake 'kids'.....that they've basically signed up to a mental state of being a loser. So I'd like to offer some humble ways of recovering or de-snowflaking:
1. Go spend thirty days in some national park in Montana, in the midst of winter....without the comforts of home.
2. Go walk from the far west end of Memphis to the far east end....from 11 PM at night and 5 AM in the morning.
3. Go haul hay for an entire month in Alabama, in the midst of July.
4. Go to Wyoming ranch and be a cattle-hand for six months.
5. Hike from the Canadian border to the Mexican border.
6. Sit in a room...handcuffed...for four hours with fairly different people who see life different than you do, and repeat this practice every Sunday until the handcuffs are no longer required.
No one states numbers, but I would take a wild guess that at least 300,000 snowflake kids exist in America today, and pose a serious threat to the stability of the nation because of their inability to handle pressure or conflict of any type.
1. Go spend thirty days in some national park in Montana, in the midst of winter....without the comforts of home.
2. Go walk from the far west end of Memphis to the far east end....from 11 PM at night and 5 AM in the morning.
3. Go haul hay for an entire month in Alabama, in the midst of July.
4. Go to Wyoming ranch and be a cattle-hand for six months.
5. Hike from the Canadian border to the Mexican border.
6. Sit in a room...handcuffed...for four hours with fairly different people who see life different than you do, and repeat this practice every Sunday until the handcuffs are no longer required.
No one states numbers, but I would take a wild guess that at least 300,000 snowflake kids exist in America today, and pose a serious threat to the stability of the nation because of their inability to handle pressure or conflict of any type.
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