Someone did a survey and found that around 53-percent of folks who say they are for Bernie.....will not be agreeable with anyone from the Democratic Party in November, if Bernie is not the chosen 'one'.
A mess?
Well....if you sit and think about it.....the type of characters from the past thirty years of politics....were anything but similar to Bernie.
Mostly from the northeast and northwest of the US.....Bernie took around 13-million votes in the primary. I won't suggest similar numbers like this in 2020, but he's likely to take a minimum of seven million votes.
If 3.5 million of those walked away from the Democrats in 2020? It's a problem, and really forces up the scenario where Trump could win all fifty states.
Saturday, 25 January 2020
Friday, 24 January 2020
Script Idea
I'm thinking of writing this script for a TV movie. So this is the idea.
You have some country that got into a fairly bogus civil war and ended up breaking up.
The country surviving is so bad off, that they've got natural gas issues, and this other 'rich' nation decides to fund them for a billion dollars....but they can't give the money to the country.....they have to give it to some company which has a history of corruption.
As this discussion comes up about the billion....out of nowhere will come this guy with no real knowledge of natural gas, but the host company decides to hire him as a board member (80,000 dollars a month).
Things proceed, except some idiot prosecutor gets into the middle of this, and threatens to ask questions.....but he gets fired. Mostly because the new board member guy's father is a high-up guy in the rich country's government.
Months pass, and a new government arrives.
This new President calls up the President of this other poor-off country and things start to fall apart.
Then some legal stuff starts.
I haven't decided on the ending yet, but I'm thinking this is a pretty good Jerry Lewis-type movie script.
You have some country that got into a fairly bogus civil war and ended up breaking up.
The country surviving is so bad off, that they've got natural gas issues, and this other 'rich' nation decides to fund them for a billion dollars....but they can't give the money to the country.....they have to give it to some company which has a history of corruption.
As this discussion comes up about the billion....out of nowhere will come this guy with no real knowledge of natural gas, but the host company decides to hire him as a board member (80,000 dollars a month).
Things proceed, except some idiot prosecutor gets into the middle of this, and threatens to ask questions.....but he gets fired. Mostly because the new board member guy's father is a high-up guy in the rich country's government.
Months pass, and a new government arrives.
This new President calls up the President of this other poor-off country and things start to fall apart.
Then some legal stuff starts.
I haven't decided on the ending yet, but I'm thinking this is a pretty good Jerry Lewis-type movie script.
Thursday, 23 January 2020
Impeachment: Day Two
This AM, I got up and watched around 60 minutes of highlights from day two of the Impeachment 'series' (I'd almost refer to it as a TV series).
Day two was softer for some older folks in the Senate.....with it ending around 10 PM locally (taking roughly 8 hours). So you add it up.....the old Senators have to walk back to their office, and get their jackets. Along the way....their staff folks will chat, and they won't officially leave the building until 11:30. You can figure 30 to 45 minutes (no traffic) to get home, and then make a sandwich (it's awful late to eat a real dinner). Toss back three shots of something, and finally be asleep around 1:50 AM. By 7:00 AM, they will have to be up, sipping coffee, and getting into some frame of mind. Yep, marginally five hours of sleep.
The two things that I took out of this?
1. A bit of chatter from Schiff about the Russian threat. It wasn't clear about how this threat would work, or which Russians (the KGB, the Oligarchs, or just pain-in-the-ass hacker-kids) were responsible.
This chat has often been used over the past three years, but what always bothers me about this suggestion.....if you take it real....could it be that Bill Clinton, Bush II, and Barak Obama....were all brought to power by the Kremlin or Putin? Yes, were we already duped by Russia into accepting marginal performers?
I know....Democrats hate that scenario because it opens up a vast discussion, but where exactly this threat started is a problem, if you accept Schiff's idea.
2. The integrity of the 2020 election and trustworthiness is marginal....so says Schiff.
How would you relieve the public's questions? Well....you'd go and shutdown all political chatter on social media for three months prior to the election. You'd carve the length of the 18 months spent on election games down to three total months. That would mean that the primary, convention and national campaign would start around the end of July, and conclude by early November. Finally, you'd mandate a national ID card....free-of-charge for everyone, and mandate it's use for voting.
Instead, Schiff just wants the President to be moved out, and then integrity will just happen overnight.
So I come to this final view....it basically took 24 hours to bring the marginal two-star show to a one-star level, and make an episode of Honey-Boo-Boo seem appealing.
Luckily, because of McConnell's rules....the cameras can't focus on Senators bored out of their mind, and sitting there at their table....drawing images of monkeys, naked women, and race cars.
The idea of six weeks of this? No....you can now forget about that, and I would start to suggest that TV audiences will lessen by the middle of next week....to half the number of day one. This might be over in the third week, as journalists realize there is no great public interest.
Day two was softer for some older folks in the Senate.....with it ending around 10 PM locally (taking roughly 8 hours). So you add it up.....the old Senators have to walk back to their office, and get their jackets. Along the way....their staff folks will chat, and they won't officially leave the building until 11:30. You can figure 30 to 45 minutes (no traffic) to get home, and then make a sandwich (it's awful late to eat a real dinner). Toss back three shots of something, and finally be asleep around 1:50 AM. By 7:00 AM, they will have to be up, sipping coffee, and getting into some frame of mind. Yep, marginally five hours of sleep.
The two things that I took out of this?
1. A bit of chatter from Schiff about the Russian threat. It wasn't clear about how this threat would work, or which Russians (the KGB, the Oligarchs, or just pain-in-the-ass hacker-kids) were responsible.
This chat has often been used over the past three years, but what always bothers me about this suggestion.....if you take it real....could it be that Bill Clinton, Bush II, and Barak Obama....were all brought to power by the Kremlin or Putin? Yes, were we already duped by Russia into accepting marginal performers?
I know....Democrats hate that scenario because it opens up a vast discussion, but where exactly this threat started is a problem, if you accept Schiff's idea.
2. The integrity of the 2020 election and trustworthiness is marginal....so says Schiff.
How would you relieve the public's questions? Well....you'd go and shutdown all political chatter on social media for three months prior to the election. You'd carve the length of the 18 months spent on election games down to three total months. That would mean that the primary, convention and national campaign would start around the end of July, and conclude by early November. Finally, you'd mandate a national ID card....free-of-charge for everyone, and mandate it's use for voting.
Instead, Schiff just wants the President to be moved out, and then integrity will just happen overnight.
So I come to this final view....it basically took 24 hours to bring the marginal two-star show to a one-star level, and make an episode of Honey-Boo-Boo seem appealing.
Luckily, because of McConnell's rules....the cameras can't focus on Senators bored out of their mind, and sitting there at their table....drawing images of monkeys, naked women, and race cars.
The idea of six weeks of this? No....you can now forget about that, and I would start to suggest that TV audiences will lessen by the middle of next week....to half the number of day one. This might be over in the third week, as journalists realize there is no great public interest.
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Commune Living?
So I noticed this page four type story...over this commercial company....out of southern California, wanting to deliver a brand new idea.
The concept here is that you'd build this big 'dorm' facility for adults, which would be charging rent of a much lesser scale.
How big of a dorm? Well....they are suggesting a hundred people could be housed in this dorm of building, but then they kinda suggest that they all need a particular view of such living (a 'mindset').
The lack of privacy? In most of the scenarios that I've seen over the past year, with various groups trying this concept....there are 'pods' in each warehouse type situation where your bed resides, and the rest of the area is simply open space with couches, chairs, and dining tables.
I have this opinion over 'group-live' (similar to 'group-think), in that you could make this work as long as all members were marginal drinkers (never getting drunk), non-druggies, and without any paranoid schizophrenic behavior. They'd also have to be like-minded on politics, sports, agenda items, and desire to be around groups of people for the majority of their 'life-plan'.
Trying to make this work in the military, with barracks? I always noted continual disagreements and personality conflicts, and the Air Force eventually went to the simple plan of one-guy per room.....to avoid dealing with this constant bickering.
Long-term success with this idea? Maybe in the area of San Francisco and LA....you might be able to put up five to ten of these structures in each city, and find people who are desperate to live in a $300 a month group situation for a year or two.....to get around the high cost of living in urbanized California. Guys and gals will do 'stupid' things....when faced with unbearable costs.
The odds that you could run such an operation with 40 anti-Trump folks and 20-pro-Trump folks in the warehouse? Virtually zero.
Workable in other states? I have my doubts. If you arrived in Huntsville, Alabama and tried to interest folks in this....the response would almost laughed upon. For what you'd charge for a 'spot'.....the guy would respond that acquiring an RV and parking it in a trailer park.....would offer more privacy and be almost the same cost factor.
So I'll predict this comes around and survives for a couple of years, until some episode occurs with a major brawl, and some idiot suing his fellow occupants for insults or assault-action.
The concept here is that you'd build this big 'dorm' facility for adults, which would be charging rent of a much lesser scale.
How big of a dorm? Well....they are suggesting a hundred people could be housed in this dorm of building, but then they kinda suggest that they all need a particular view of such living (a 'mindset').
The lack of privacy? In most of the scenarios that I've seen over the past year, with various groups trying this concept....there are 'pods' in each warehouse type situation where your bed resides, and the rest of the area is simply open space with couches, chairs, and dining tables.
I have this opinion over 'group-live' (similar to 'group-think), in that you could make this work as long as all members were marginal drinkers (never getting drunk), non-druggies, and without any paranoid schizophrenic behavior. They'd also have to be like-minded on politics, sports, agenda items, and desire to be around groups of people for the majority of their 'life-plan'.
Trying to make this work in the military, with barracks? I always noted continual disagreements and personality conflicts, and the Air Force eventually went to the simple plan of one-guy per room.....to avoid dealing with this constant bickering.
Long-term success with this idea? Maybe in the area of San Francisco and LA....you might be able to put up five to ten of these structures in each city, and find people who are desperate to live in a $300 a month group situation for a year or two.....to get around the high cost of living in urbanized California. Guys and gals will do 'stupid' things....when faced with unbearable costs.
The odds that you could run such an operation with 40 anti-Trump folks and 20-pro-Trump folks in the warehouse? Virtually zero.
Workable in other states? I have my doubts. If you arrived in Huntsville, Alabama and tried to interest folks in this....the response would almost laughed upon. For what you'd charge for a 'spot'.....the guy would respond that acquiring an RV and parking it in a trailer park.....would offer more privacy and be almost the same cost factor.
So I'll predict this comes around and survives for a couple of years, until some episode occurs with a major brawl, and some idiot suing his fellow occupants for insults or assault-action.
Five Take-Aways From Day One of the Impeachment
I've watched around 75 minutes of clips from yesterday....early here in the AM. So five things that I kinda noted:
1. All this effort by Senator Schumer....trying to add 'rules' with the amendment process? He's bluffing his way with a lousy 'hand of cards' and doesn't seem to have great luck with the extra rule business.
2. The suggestion of giving the Senators more subpoena power (another Schumer idea) on White House documents? It's going nowhere, and some folks point out that it's a strong indicator of the House sending over an incomplete package, which simply wasn't ready for action. There was homework required, and the House screwed up.
3. The suggestion of hoax material in the House package? Well, it's going to be a problem if this is proven. It'll just be another reason to end the whole thing in two weeks.
4. The fact that the first day session at midnight is still going on? I would imagine that more than forty of the Senators are tired, and they've not going to be capable of handling this type of environment for more than two weeks, before their wit and sharpness disappears. The fact that most of these Senators are over the age of 60? It just adds problems.
5. Bringing Bolten into the mess? Maybe they think they have some 'power'....but the President still maintains executive power and will 'trump' them on the passage of this idea. I have my doubts that Bolten will be appearing.
1. All this effort by Senator Schumer....trying to add 'rules' with the amendment process? He's bluffing his way with a lousy 'hand of cards' and doesn't seem to have great luck with the extra rule business.
2. The suggestion of giving the Senators more subpoena power (another Schumer idea) on White House documents? It's going nowhere, and some folks point out that it's a strong indicator of the House sending over an incomplete package, which simply wasn't ready for action. There was homework required, and the House screwed up.
3. The suggestion of hoax material in the House package? Well, it's going to be a problem if this is proven. It'll just be another reason to end the whole thing in two weeks.
4. The fact that the first day session at midnight is still going on? I would imagine that more than forty of the Senators are tired, and they've not going to be capable of handling this type of environment for more than two weeks, before their wit and sharpness disappears. The fact that most of these Senators are over the age of 60? It just adds problems.
5. Bringing Bolten into the mess? Maybe they think they have some 'power'....but the President still maintains executive power and will 'trump' them on the passage of this idea. I have my doubts that Bolten will be appearing.
Monday, 20 January 2020
Explaining the Movie 'Parasite'
First, it's a South Korean production, and it's not likely to be shown much in most theaters around the country.....however, it's now in the hyped-up group for best movie of the year for the Oscars.
The basic script?
There's this South Korean family (father, mother, son and daughter) who are on the bottom level of society in South Korea. They live in a basement of a highly urbanized neighborhood, and are marginally 'making it'.
One day, junior gets this tip on a job....a tutor job. It's for a rich and affluent family. Junior has to go and pretend a lot of things, but it's part of the family tradition of surviving.
The storytelling art is stretched a good bit because they introduce you to this somewhat dysfunctional rich family, and their housekeeper.
As time goes by, Junior sees a chance to bring his sister into the game....also pretending that she has expertise to fit some role in the rich affluent family.
Along the way, they see a chance to edge the housekeeper out (getting her fired), and then the mother of the marginalized family enters the scene as the new housekeeper.
The father? Well, the son figures a way to get the rich family's chauffeur driver fired, and so dad shows up and becomes the new chauffeur.
So, they are all doing well, and fitting into this scheme. Then, the curve occurs. The rich family goes off for a weekend, and the marginalized family decides to party it up at the 'mansion'.
The party goes well, until the old fired housekeeper arrives. In a matter of ten minutes....this movie changes gears and goes to the weirdest unexpected thing....the modern house has a bomb-shelter in the basement, which the rich affluent family is totally unaware of. The housekeeper is aware of it.....and there sits the 'secret' to the whole story....the house-keeper's husband.
This guy has gotten himself into trouble and has had to disappear, and the old housekeeper has kept him there, in a secluded room.....feeding him. There is no exit out of the room.....unless the outside person moves a cabinet.
Things go downhill at this point, with a fight between the housekeeper and husband....versus the marginalized family.
I won't go into great detail about the ending, but it's a pretty dramatic ending....with more than a couple of folks dead.
With twists and turns....I regard Parasite as one of the best stories of the past twenty years.
The basic script?
There's this South Korean family (father, mother, son and daughter) who are on the bottom level of society in South Korea. They live in a basement of a highly urbanized neighborhood, and are marginally 'making it'.
One day, junior gets this tip on a job....a tutor job. It's for a rich and affluent family. Junior has to go and pretend a lot of things, but it's part of the family tradition of surviving.
The storytelling art is stretched a good bit because they introduce you to this somewhat dysfunctional rich family, and their housekeeper.
As time goes by, Junior sees a chance to bring his sister into the game....also pretending that she has expertise to fit some role in the rich affluent family.
Along the way, they see a chance to edge the housekeeper out (getting her fired), and then the mother of the marginalized family enters the scene as the new housekeeper.
The father? Well, the son figures a way to get the rich family's chauffeur driver fired, and so dad shows up and becomes the new chauffeur.
So, they are all doing well, and fitting into this scheme. Then, the curve occurs. The rich family goes off for a weekend, and the marginalized family decides to party it up at the 'mansion'.
The party goes well, until the old fired housekeeper arrives. In a matter of ten minutes....this movie changes gears and goes to the weirdest unexpected thing....the modern house has a bomb-shelter in the basement, which the rich affluent family is totally unaware of. The housekeeper is aware of it.....and there sits the 'secret' to the whole story....the house-keeper's husband.
This guy has gotten himself into trouble and has had to disappear, and the old housekeeper has kept him there, in a secluded room.....feeding him. There is no exit out of the room.....unless the outside person moves a cabinet.
Things go downhill at this point, with a fight between the housekeeper and husband....versus the marginalized family.
I won't go into great detail about the ending, but it's a pretty dramatic ending....with more than a couple of folks dead.
With twists and turns....I regard Parasite as one of the best stories of the past twenty years.
The 70-Billion Promise?
What is Bloomberg's announced campaign 'promise'? As president, he would funnel 70-billion dollars to a blacks-only economic program. There are some twists to it....the money ONLY goes to the top 100 black neighborhoods of America, and there would have to be a black-run neighborhood 'equality' office in his section chosen.....to help provide information to a White House manager who would be the actual person with the bundle of money to spend.
If you were in the 101st or 129nd black neighborhood? You would be screwed.
Who would form up the black-run neighborhood 'equality' office? That's a mystery item in this and you can figure that various people will claim the title, and infighting will occur with one group fighting the other to be the 'equality' manager.
Frequent trips to DC? I would take a guess that each top 'equality' manager will get a free trip to DC for five days....each quarter, and mostly sit around in some conference room to gab with other equality managers. A 'friend' authorized to accompany the equality manager? More than likely.
The odds that 25 billion of this money is totally wasted? It's a fairly high chance.
Me running this? I would just cut a check for each black adult (over 18) for $500 a year for four years. Just hand them the money.....rather than bringing this stupid equality manager corruption scheme into being.
Added to this promise by Bloomberg......there would be an additional one-million black homeowners. There weren't a lot of details over how they'd make this work. One might assume that HUD would be given more cash, and told to go out and find blacks....lower the down-payment structure and ease those blacks easily into the heavily financed home.
The odds of a 2008 'meltdown' occurring again, and throwing these blacks out of their newly acquired homes? I'd say there's a fair chance of this happening. The potential for the home-gimmick to also be tied to equality managers? It's best not to bring up this possibility.
Then he said this.....somehow....someway....there would be 100,000 new black-owned small business operations. How? That was left entirely blank. My humble guess is that for government services and procurement....there would be some forcing nature put upon government operations to buy on x-amount of services from black-owned businesses, period. The fact that you might have a company rigged up to appear black, with a black 'CEO' but be entirely owned by some Latino or white guy? Don't bring that up.
Some blacks will latch onto this.....hyping the just-nature of this deal. The problem is....for decades, in highly urbanized areas (Baltimore is a good example)....literally billions have been delivered in each decade, and it's basically failed to make any difference or change. This seventy-billion? It'd quietly disappear, if Bloomberg is the President, and show no real change in the end, if you regard past history as being reliable.
If you were in the 101st or 129nd black neighborhood? You would be screwed.
Who would form up the black-run neighborhood 'equality' office? That's a mystery item in this and you can figure that various people will claim the title, and infighting will occur with one group fighting the other to be the 'equality' manager.
Frequent trips to DC? I would take a guess that each top 'equality' manager will get a free trip to DC for five days....each quarter, and mostly sit around in some conference room to gab with other equality managers. A 'friend' authorized to accompany the equality manager? More than likely.
The odds that 25 billion of this money is totally wasted? It's a fairly high chance.
Me running this? I would just cut a check for each black adult (over 18) for $500 a year for four years. Just hand them the money.....rather than bringing this stupid equality manager corruption scheme into being.
Added to this promise by Bloomberg......there would be an additional one-million black homeowners. There weren't a lot of details over how they'd make this work. One might assume that HUD would be given more cash, and told to go out and find blacks....lower the down-payment structure and ease those blacks easily into the heavily financed home.
The odds of a 2008 'meltdown' occurring again, and throwing these blacks out of their newly acquired homes? I'd say there's a fair chance of this happening. The potential for the home-gimmick to also be tied to equality managers? It's best not to bring up this possibility.
Then he said this.....somehow....someway....there would be 100,000 new black-owned small business operations. How? That was left entirely blank. My humble guess is that for government services and procurement....there would be some forcing nature put upon government operations to buy on x-amount of services from black-owned businesses, period. The fact that you might have a company rigged up to appear black, with a black 'CEO' but be entirely owned by some Latino or white guy? Don't bring that up.
Some blacks will latch onto this.....hyping the just-nature of this deal. The problem is....for decades, in highly urbanized areas (Baltimore is a good example)....literally billions have been delivered in each decade, and it's basically failed to make any difference or change. This seventy-billion? It'd quietly disappear, if Bloomberg is the President, and show no real change in the end, if you regard past history as being reliable.
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