I noticed that CNN ran seven hours...of guilt TV. Basically....you were introduced to the ten primary Democrats and then led through guilt pieces to convince you of something.
Do I have any guilt over my 'immoral' use of air conditioning, air travel, meat consumption, or forty-four other bad practices?
No.
I suspect if you did find a hundred people who watched at least an hour of the piece....the vast majority will tell you that this was some kind of propaganda broadcast, and simply not real factual.
From the clips I saw....it reminded me of some bleak scenario that was used for the 'Hunger Games', or 'Soylent Green'.
In fact, if this was agenda....to dose you with seven hours of propaganda....I'd probably make it a month or so....before I had to go and ask for guilt-therapy from some psychological unit or hospital.
I can imagine myself at the front-door.....telling the white-suit kid that I'm all freaked out, and using too much air-conditioning and eating too much beef. The kid would ask some questions and then take me over to some compound. There, I'd get wheat toast for breakfast, a salad for lunch, and three apples for dinner. Beer? That's out because I'd also have immoral use of beer on my mind. No AC in the compound...even on a 100-degree day? Probably so.
The problem I see....is that via CNN and their method, you might have convinced two-million people of immoral behavior and guilt. You'd show up at grandma's house for a July Sunday lunch, and trying to convince her to turn the AC off and enjoy the 100-degree temperature.
Or you might be ready to entertain Wanda....the wicked gal from the trailer across the street, and instructing Wanda that you don't want condom-guilt....so you would prefer not to use them with Wanda.
Or you might be getting Piggly-Wiggly-guilt, and forcing yourself to only buy vegetables and fruit from some open-market in town.
Or you might be getting voter-guilt, and be thinking.....oh, yeah....it's best not to bring up voter-guilt
What kind of idiots run CNN? The guilty types.
Friday, 6 September 2019
Hurricane Comment
It's just something you tend to notice from the hurricane damage in the Bahamas, and really going back to Katrina in August of 2005.
If you live at sea-level....say one to five feet above sea-level, and within a mile or two of a beach-front property.....then you are screwed when the hurricane arrives.
So it begs the question....what idiot would go and live like this, or build a house within a thousand feet of such a situation? I just don't have any sympathy for you or your dream-home.
If you live at sea-level....say one to five feet above sea-level, and within a mile or two of a beach-front property.....then you are screwed when the hurricane arrives.
So it begs the question....what idiot would go and live like this, or build a house within a thousand feet of such a situation? I just don't have any sympathy for you or your dream-home.
Thursday, 5 September 2019
Power of Mind Stuff
I read over a piece by Marianne Williamson yesterday. She's hyped up about the power of the mind, and suggesting that you can 'will' something away, if you use enough of your mind-power.
So I sat and tried to imagine her as the President, and we having these 15-minute sessions where she comes on the TV and trying to get people hyped-up to use their mind-power....to make something happen.
This would be like Jerry Falwell-Billy Graham-Pat Robertson-Bishop Sheen-Aimee Semple McPherson-Jimmy Swaggart-Benny Hinn-Jim Bakker-Tammy Faye Bakker all rolled up into one, and carried live by CNN.
You can imagine the CNN journalists trying to entice you to watch the mind-power segment weekly and some pollster trying to convince you that 48-percent of will-power topics are being achieved.
Eventually, Marianne would have the White House put up a blue-dot on the screen, and have people gaze via their TV and smart-phone at the blue-dot....to get rain to drought areas, stop forest fires, and bring Kim to the peace-table.
Marianne-enthusiasts would be meeting at 5 AM to gaze at the sun rising and using their mind-power to achieve national priorities. Eventually, some doctors would suggest that the enthusiasts are suffering through mental issues, and unable to handle reality.
For me, this would be pure entertainment....and I'm kinda leaning toward Marianne winning this election. We need relief from politics and I think she'd give us four years of pure entertainment.
So I sat and tried to imagine her as the President, and we having these 15-minute sessions where she comes on the TV and trying to get people hyped-up to use their mind-power....to make something happen.
This would be like Jerry Falwell-Billy Graham-Pat Robertson-Bishop Sheen-Aimee Semple McPherson-Jimmy Swaggart-Benny Hinn-Jim Bakker-Tammy Faye Bakker all rolled up into one, and carried live by CNN.
You can imagine the CNN journalists trying to entice you to watch the mind-power segment weekly and some pollster trying to convince you that 48-percent of will-power topics are being achieved.
Eventually, Marianne would have the White House put up a blue-dot on the screen, and have people gaze via their TV and smart-phone at the blue-dot....to get rain to drought areas, stop forest fires, and bring Kim to the peace-table.
Marianne-enthusiasts would be meeting at 5 AM to gaze at the sun rising and using their mind-power to achieve national priorities. Eventually, some doctors would suggest that the enthusiasts are suffering through mental issues, and unable to handle reality.
For me, this would be pure entertainment....and I'm kinda leaning toward Marianne winning this election. We need relief from politics and I think she'd give us four years of pure entertainment.
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Onto Mentally 'Unfit'
So the police in Texas now say...this Odessa shooter was 'mentally unfit'....that the computer system for gun purchases would have pulled this up and denied him the gun. But he went around this by buying via a private situation. Will that private seller get into trouble? It's possible, but legally....he's not forced (at least yet) to validate if the buyer is on a no-sale listing.
But lets talk to the topic of mentally unfit.
In general, you could be mentally unfit based on mental issues (disillusions, paranoid schizophrenia, hallucinations, etc).
You could also be mentally unfit with an low IQ level (typically described at 70 or below). The Army will tell you that they don't sign folks up if the IQ falls below 83.
Around 1984, we had an episode with the US Army in Germany, where this kid was wrapping up his two year contract. He was processing out in the final six weeks, and the finance person came to discover...that since boot camp (20 months prior roughly)....this 'kid' had never been paid since arriving in Germany. Nor had he complained about this.
How? Well....they went to talk to his NCO and found that while the guy was a polite and agreeable character....he was really mentally unfit. His finance records had gotten lost upon arrival in Germany, and his mother (every two weeks apparently) had sent him an envelope with $20. With that, he'd easily survived and the Army chow-hall deal provided all the food he needed. Occasionally, Mama would send a box of t-shirts, socks and underwear.
The Army added it up....it came out to a sum in the range of $30k. They called up his Mama and had a discussion over the matter. The kid was planning to return home (somewhere in eastern Tennessee) and they were going to send the check to her....to ensure things were done right.
How many folks would fall into the mentally unfit category? If you threw in the whack-jobs, the crazies, the schizophrenic crowd....I suspect that we'd have around 10-million across the US, who would be deemed mentally unfit.
In fact, in rural Alabama where I grew up....I'd take a guess that 100 such people lived in ten miles of the family farm. Some graduated high school....mostly just by friendly teachers who gave them a marginal grade for showing up when the guy or gal was simply mentally unfit to be there in the first place.
Licensed to drive? Well....that would bring another topic....how they passed the driver's test/exam.
Should we worry about this? Here's the odd part to this story. You might have 250,000 of these mentally unfit characters who currently own weapons.
Is this something we ought to discuss in Washington? Well....you might even have a Senator or Representative who is mentally unfit....yet serving there.
But lets talk to the topic of mentally unfit.
In general, you could be mentally unfit based on mental issues (disillusions, paranoid schizophrenia, hallucinations, etc).
You could also be mentally unfit with an low IQ level (typically described at 70 or below). The Army will tell you that they don't sign folks up if the IQ falls below 83.
Around 1984, we had an episode with the US Army in Germany, where this kid was wrapping up his two year contract. He was processing out in the final six weeks, and the finance person came to discover...that since boot camp (20 months prior roughly)....this 'kid' had never been paid since arriving in Germany. Nor had he complained about this.
How? Well....they went to talk to his NCO and found that while the guy was a polite and agreeable character....he was really mentally unfit. His finance records had gotten lost upon arrival in Germany, and his mother (every two weeks apparently) had sent him an envelope with $20. With that, he'd easily survived and the Army chow-hall deal provided all the food he needed. Occasionally, Mama would send a box of t-shirts, socks and underwear.
The Army added it up....it came out to a sum in the range of $30k. They called up his Mama and had a discussion over the matter. The kid was planning to return home (somewhere in eastern Tennessee) and they were going to send the check to her....to ensure things were done right.
How many folks would fall into the mentally unfit category? If you threw in the whack-jobs, the crazies, the schizophrenic crowd....I suspect that we'd have around 10-million across the US, who would be deemed mentally unfit.
In fact, in rural Alabama where I grew up....I'd take a guess that 100 such people lived in ten miles of the family farm. Some graduated high school....mostly just by friendly teachers who gave them a marginal grade for showing up when the guy or gal was simply mentally unfit to be there in the first place.
Licensed to drive? Well....that would bring another topic....how they passed the driver's test/exam.
Should we worry about this? Here's the odd part to this story. You might have 250,000 of these mentally unfit characters who currently own weapons.
Is this something we ought to discuss in Washington? Well....you might even have a Senator or Representative who is mentally unfit....yet serving there.
Tuesday, 3 September 2019
This Seth Ator Guy From Texas
On this Odessa, Texas shooting....there is this one odd part of the shooting guy's personal history.
Back in January of 2018, Ator bought this lot. It's a suburb that really hasn't been developed, and mostly known to have house trailers.
Ator didn't have electricity or water running into the property (that's really an indicator of how new the housing development was, and how slow things tend to be at times).
So how did the guy survive without heat or water for the past 18 months? That's a curious question.
Internet? No, I don't think you can even establish much of a social media background on the guy.
I would take this guess that his IQ level was less than 83 (minimum for the US Army). This leads you to ask....how he ever passed a drivers test, or found employment beyond flipping burgers.
Back in January of 2018, Ator bought this lot. It's a suburb that really hasn't been developed, and mostly known to have house trailers.
Ator didn't have electricity or water running into the property (that's really an indicator of how new the housing development was, and how slow things tend to be at times).
So how did the guy survive without heat or water for the past 18 months? That's a curious question.
Internet? No, I don't think you can even establish much of a social media background on the guy.
I would take this guess that his IQ level was less than 83 (minimum for the US Army). This leads you to ask....how he ever passed a drivers test, or found employment beyond flipping burgers.
Monday, 2 September 2019
Visits
There was a news piece out there today, which discussed Jane Fonda.....on some political trip to Pennsylvania.....where she was out in various neighborhoods....knocking on doors, and trying to convince 'confused' folks why they should not vote for Donald Trump.
She's around 81 years old, and the way the article was written up.....I got the impression that she probably visited at least ten houses.
I tried to imagine a trip like this....to Alabama, and on some hot Saturday afternoon....pulling up to my brother's farm and wanting to sit there in the carport to talk to him over his 'confusion'.
He would have been Alabama 'charming' and made up a pitcher of ice tea (the cheap but decent stuff from Piggly Wiggly), with a freshly squeezed lemon and crushed ice. He might have offered her the rocker, if it were functional....otherwise, she'd have to sit on the Wal-Mart garden furniture.
Then he would have instructed the dog (Dolly) not to growl much at her, and comforted Ms Fonda that it's more of a grin and laugh....than a growl.
So this chat would have started up and she would give him the 5x8 card list of reasons why Trump is evil and you should convert over.
He would have asked at this point if Baptist Church folks got her (Ms Fonda) up to this, or maybe some cousin. She would have assured him that it was totally at random that they pulled his name out of the hat.
Along about twelve minutes into this visit....he would have said that he felt she was more confused that he was. Then he would have launched into a eight-minute piece on why Trump was 50-percent Clint Eastwood, 50-percent Ronald Reagan, and 50-percent Bear Bryant. At the conclusion of this...Ms Fonda would have been overcome and almost weeping....she'd been converted over to Trump.
The problem here....is that these idiots never seem to visit the right house.
She's around 81 years old, and the way the article was written up.....I got the impression that she probably visited at least ten houses.
I tried to imagine a trip like this....to Alabama, and on some hot Saturday afternoon....pulling up to my brother's farm and wanting to sit there in the carport to talk to him over his 'confusion'.
He would have been Alabama 'charming' and made up a pitcher of ice tea (the cheap but decent stuff from Piggly Wiggly), with a freshly squeezed lemon and crushed ice. He might have offered her the rocker, if it were functional....otherwise, she'd have to sit on the Wal-Mart garden furniture.
Then he would have instructed the dog (Dolly) not to growl much at her, and comforted Ms Fonda that it's more of a grin and laugh....than a growl.
So this chat would have started up and she would give him the 5x8 card list of reasons why Trump is evil and you should convert over.
He would have asked at this point if Baptist Church folks got her (Ms Fonda) up to this, or maybe some cousin. She would have assured him that it was totally at random that they pulled his name out of the hat.
Along about twelve minutes into this visit....he would have said that he felt she was more confused that he was. Then he would have launched into a eight-minute piece on why Trump was 50-percent Clint Eastwood, 50-percent Ronald Reagan, and 50-percent Bear Bryant. At the conclusion of this...Ms Fonda would have been overcome and almost weeping....she'd been converted over to Trump.
The problem here....is that these idiots never seem to visit the right house.
Where Did the 6,000 Year Existence of Man Idea Come From?
Well, it is a curious story.
There's this guy....Henry M. Morris, who went off to college (Rice University, Texas), and graduated in 1939 with a degree in Civil Engineering.
It's safe to say that he was a moderately religious guy at this point in his life. It's also safe to say that men of science around this period (1900 to 1940) generally believed the Earth was a minimum of a couple million years old.
Morris at this point, around 1942....became an instructor at Rice for a short period (up to 1946), and tried his hand at writing. The topic? He wanted to take science (at the 1940s point) and try to validate the Bible, or perhaps use the Bible to validate science. Take your pick.
The work was called 'That You Might Believe'. It's not exactly a book that you would read today, and I have doubts that it sold more than a couple hundred copies.
After this period at Rice....he went to Minnesota and studied for both a Master's degree and a PhD. He drifted around for the next decade....with at least three colleges.
In 1959, he arrives at Virginia Tech to teach hydraulics. In this period, he goes back to his hobby of combining science and the Bible, and that ends up with him as a co-author on the book 'The Genesis Flood'.
One could say that the time and continuing suggestion of new information and theories met up, and public interest in proving Genesis was at some peak point. So the two writing this book (Morris and John Witcomb) piece together a narrative (best way of describing this). In doing so, they had to have a date in mind to get people to the conclusion of the book, and their number was 6,000 years (more or less) since the dawn of mankind.
If you go out and question folks, especially in the geology field....in this period of the 1960s....NO one seemed to agree with the 6,000 year estimate. That was problem number one. Was either Morris or Witcomb a geology expert? No. Witcomb was mostly a minister-type guy and Morris was a civil engineer by trade.
So they were pretending to be experts in something that they really didn't know much about? Yes, that's the simple side of this story. But the 'Genesis Flood' was a story told in such a way, that Christian enthusiasts felt that it answered the whole question and attached science to discussion. Naturally, it pushed out evolution and just pretended that it wasn't part of the discussion.
Within the Christian communities....the book sold. Beyond that? No, most scientists were amused by the story, and the lack of evidence. You had to take the Bible as the absolute source of information and build around it.
Where we stand today (2019)? Well, most science folks will be on the agreeable side that the Earth by itself is 4 to 4.5 billion years old. If you go to DNA experts (especially from the past two years)....they will argue that Mom and Dad (version 1.0)....came from 250,000 to 450,000 years ago. That call by the DNA folks upsets a fair number of the evolution crowd because it really doesn't help them tell their story.
So the 6,000 year thing? Well, the 'Genesis Flood' business has formed out and created a group often called 'Old Earth Creationists'. Some folks will go and suggest that forty-percent of Americans are in this belief. The polling done is suspect and probably not that accurate. I won't say it's in the thousands or even tens of thousands, but it's a group that generally believes that the flood business is told via the Bible, and that science can back up the flood.
But there is this odd piece of science standing there which might help but disturb the Creationist crowd. There is no doubt that a glacier stood over North America (mostly over NY state and over to mid-section of the US) around 12,900 years ago. Among the geology folks, this is a 99.9-percent proven fact. It's hard not to find someone who isn't on the glacier situation.
But something happened around 12,900 years ago....with the glacier greatly affected, and in a matter of days....a great portion melted (remember, this was between a mile and two miles thick). We aren't talking of a thousand-year melt....there is enough evidence to say this occurred over days and weeks. The melted water affecting the Gulf Stream? More than likely. The melting water raising water levels across the globe by 300 feet? Yes, readily proven. In fact, that water still remains at the flood stage of today.....where it's accepted as 'normal'.
Villages and cities flooded in a matter of hours? Yes. So this Genesis story could connect to that flood of 12,900 years ago....with the melt of this North American glacier? Yep.
What triggered the rapid melt? Unknown. This is the part of the story where geologists sit and argue for hours while sipping Jack Daniels. The solar science guys like to argue this as well....stating that some massive solar flare could have started this. The comet guys will argue that something struck the glacier area and melted a heck of a lot of it.
So that's where the 6,000 idea started up. It was simply a guy trying to get the Bible and science of the 1940s to agree on something, but limited with facts.
You have to admit....it's a decent story. But it's like talking over Bigfoot, or the Nessie creature.
There's this guy....Henry M. Morris, who went off to college (Rice University, Texas), and graduated in 1939 with a degree in Civil Engineering.
It's safe to say that he was a moderately religious guy at this point in his life. It's also safe to say that men of science around this period (1900 to 1940) generally believed the Earth was a minimum of a couple million years old.
Morris at this point, around 1942....became an instructor at Rice for a short period (up to 1946), and tried his hand at writing. The topic? He wanted to take science (at the 1940s point) and try to validate the Bible, or perhaps use the Bible to validate science. Take your pick.
The work was called 'That You Might Believe'. It's not exactly a book that you would read today, and I have doubts that it sold more than a couple hundred copies.
After this period at Rice....he went to Minnesota and studied for both a Master's degree and a PhD. He drifted around for the next decade....with at least three colleges.
In 1959, he arrives at Virginia Tech to teach hydraulics. In this period, he goes back to his hobby of combining science and the Bible, and that ends up with him as a co-author on the book 'The Genesis Flood'.
One could say that the time and continuing suggestion of new information and theories met up, and public interest in proving Genesis was at some peak point. So the two writing this book (Morris and John Witcomb) piece together a narrative (best way of describing this). In doing so, they had to have a date in mind to get people to the conclusion of the book, and their number was 6,000 years (more or less) since the dawn of mankind.
If you go out and question folks, especially in the geology field....in this period of the 1960s....NO one seemed to agree with the 6,000 year estimate. That was problem number one. Was either Morris or Witcomb a geology expert? No. Witcomb was mostly a minister-type guy and Morris was a civil engineer by trade.
So they were pretending to be experts in something that they really didn't know much about? Yes, that's the simple side of this story. But the 'Genesis Flood' was a story told in such a way, that Christian enthusiasts felt that it answered the whole question and attached science to discussion. Naturally, it pushed out evolution and just pretended that it wasn't part of the discussion.
Within the Christian communities....the book sold. Beyond that? No, most scientists were amused by the story, and the lack of evidence. You had to take the Bible as the absolute source of information and build around it.
Where we stand today (2019)? Well, most science folks will be on the agreeable side that the Earth by itself is 4 to 4.5 billion years old. If you go to DNA experts (especially from the past two years)....they will argue that Mom and Dad (version 1.0)....came from 250,000 to 450,000 years ago. That call by the DNA folks upsets a fair number of the evolution crowd because it really doesn't help them tell their story.
So the 6,000 year thing? Well, the 'Genesis Flood' business has formed out and created a group often called 'Old Earth Creationists'. Some folks will go and suggest that forty-percent of Americans are in this belief. The polling done is suspect and probably not that accurate. I won't say it's in the thousands or even tens of thousands, but it's a group that generally believes that the flood business is told via the Bible, and that science can back up the flood.
But there is this odd piece of science standing there which might help but disturb the Creationist crowd. There is no doubt that a glacier stood over North America (mostly over NY state and over to mid-section of the US) around 12,900 years ago. Among the geology folks, this is a 99.9-percent proven fact. It's hard not to find someone who isn't on the glacier situation.
But something happened around 12,900 years ago....with the glacier greatly affected, and in a matter of days....a great portion melted (remember, this was between a mile and two miles thick). We aren't talking of a thousand-year melt....there is enough evidence to say this occurred over days and weeks. The melted water affecting the Gulf Stream? More than likely. The melting water raising water levels across the globe by 300 feet? Yes, readily proven. In fact, that water still remains at the flood stage of today.....where it's accepted as 'normal'.
Villages and cities flooded in a matter of hours? Yes. So this Genesis story could connect to that flood of 12,900 years ago....with the melt of this North American glacier? Yep.
What triggered the rapid melt? Unknown. This is the part of the story where geologists sit and argue for hours while sipping Jack Daniels. The solar science guys like to argue this as well....stating that some massive solar flare could have started this. The comet guys will argue that something struck the glacier area and melted a heck of a lot of it.
So that's where the 6,000 idea started up. It was simply a guy trying to get the Bible and science of the 1940s to agree on something, but limited with facts.
You have to admit....it's a decent story. But it's like talking over Bigfoot, or the Nessie creature.
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