In the past dozen hours....all this hype has occurred with the list of thirty-odd Obama Administration figures who had requests in for unmasking of Flynn 'chatter'. I've sat and thought about the whole thing, the implications, and have come to this theory.
Back in 1984, writer Tom Clancy came out with the book 'Hunt for Red October'. By 1990, he'd wrapped up five major books. By 2000, he'd written another seven. A fair number of these were made into movies, which were watched by tens of millions of Americans.
So this crew in the Obama Administration.....in this period of 1984 to 2013....likely read these Clancy novels, and also smoked a fair amount of weed (pot, marijuana, dope, refer, etc). Some of them smoked the intense stuff and got the exceptional and fierce 'high'. Some watched the Clancy movies, while on this high.
Eventually, they all began to see themselves as Tom Clancy secret agents, Pentagon good guys, cloak and dagger folks, snoops, and undercover folks. The books helped.....as did the marijuana.
They began to talk among themselves.....to save America....to fight the evil Russians....to do battle against the terrible woes facing the nation....they would adapt to Clancy standards, and become secret agents.
It thrilled them. They likely stood around the water-cooler in the White House....grinning over their achievements and the secret agent business.
They were junior Jack Ryan characters.
All of them....from President Obama, down through VP Biden, and the next twenty-odd people......fake Jack Ryans.
So now what? Well....the weed effect has worn off, and some are asking $500-an-hour lawyers what they can do in this weed-recovery process. He probably starts off.....dump those Tom Clancy novels. Then he tells them they were never Jack Ryan in their whole life.
Sit and think over it.....why would a group like this go to such a length to get themselves into this much trouble? The only logical answer is weed and Tom Clancy novels.
Thursday, 14 May 2020
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
How to End 'ObamaGate'
With twists and turns, it's now obvious that dozen-odd people (Clapper, Comey, Rice, etc) in the White House circle are involved in the production of ObamaGate. Down from them? Probably another twenty to forty individuals....some who naively believed that they were 'smart' enough to get away with various unethical acts.
The Grand Jury action will consume much of 2020, and by January of 2021....with President Trump going into his second terms.....I would suggest the following way to end the ObamaGate situation.
Before anyone gets into court action but to the extent that they've had lawyers attached and eating up their savings....I'd send AG Barr off to former President Obama. He will have two confidential scenarios/agreements to offer.
1. Admit that he (Obama) directed all of these individuals within his staff (list them, their charges, and the amount of jail-time anticipated).
If Obama admits that he directed this....all individuals on this listing will be pardoned, without any court-action....with the exception of former FBI director Comey. Comey's case will continue on.
Within this admission, will be the fact that Flynn was screwed on, on Obama's orders.
The agreement will state that President Trump then issues a full and absolute confidential (secret) pardon to President Obama. None of the pardon information will ever be released, unless conditions are exceeded.
With this agreement, President Obama will agree to avoid and not conduct any interviews (for any reason, within the US, and beyond its borders) for a period of eight years. This means book interviews, TV interviews, radio interviews, etc.
In addition, no books, essays or newspaper articles will be written by President Obama for the same period of eight years.
In essence, he's doing an eight-year period of exile. If a violation occurs within the eight-year period....all data from the investigation will be released and identify precisely what this deal was about.
2. If Obama refuses the deal....then full-speed ahead for the players involved in this episode, and full-court action proceeds. Attached to this situation will be a blanket pardon for President Obama, and all evidence gathered in this episode will be released to the general public at the conclusion of the last court case. This will include the information on orders given by President Obama.
I know....it's a stupid way to end this whole thing. But if we proceed through and jail fifteen to twenty White House players.....it makes the whole period between 2008 and 2016 look like a joke. It's best to just proceed on. And in this case, if you exiled President Obama for eight years, you'd get an ending to this whole mess.
The Grand Jury action will consume much of 2020, and by January of 2021....with President Trump going into his second terms.....I would suggest the following way to end the ObamaGate situation.
Before anyone gets into court action but to the extent that they've had lawyers attached and eating up their savings....I'd send AG Barr off to former President Obama. He will have two confidential scenarios/agreements to offer.
1. Admit that he (Obama) directed all of these individuals within his staff (list them, their charges, and the amount of jail-time anticipated).
If Obama admits that he directed this....all individuals on this listing will be pardoned, without any court-action....with the exception of former FBI director Comey. Comey's case will continue on.
Within this admission, will be the fact that Flynn was screwed on, on Obama's orders.
The agreement will state that President Trump then issues a full and absolute confidential (secret) pardon to President Obama. None of the pardon information will ever be released, unless conditions are exceeded.
With this agreement, President Obama will agree to avoid and not conduct any interviews (for any reason, within the US, and beyond its borders) for a period of eight years. This means book interviews, TV interviews, radio interviews, etc.
In addition, no books, essays or newspaper articles will be written by President Obama for the same period of eight years.
In essence, he's doing an eight-year period of exile. If a violation occurs within the eight-year period....all data from the investigation will be released and identify precisely what this deal was about.
2. If Obama refuses the deal....then full-speed ahead for the players involved in this episode, and full-court action proceeds. Attached to this situation will be a blanket pardon for President Obama, and all evidence gathered in this episode will be released to the general public at the conclusion of the last court case. This will include the information on orders given by President Obama.
I know....it's a stupid way to end this whole thing. But if we proceed through and jail fifteen to twenty White House players.....it makes the whole period between 2008 and 2016 look like a joke. It's best to just proceed on. And in this case, if you exiled President Obama for eight years, you'd get an ending to this whole mess.
Mask Chatter
After suiting up and putting the stupid mask on....I remarked to the instructor, that breathing through this was going to be awful hard. Then he spoke to the necessity that I might be wearing one for a full 12-hour shift, and doing fairly strenuous work. I sat there and thought, this was going to be fairly impossible to breath and actually do work.
Almost yearly, we did the three-hour class, and occasionally would attempt to do an hour or two of work....to reinforce the idea that you could do something while wearing the mask.
My general perception, after 22 years of service was that you might need that stupid mask, but in any type of physical labor....you'd probably have some anxiety attack, or huff yourself into a fainting spell.
Around eight weeks ago....I bought one of those N95-masks, because of the stupid virus stuff. After trying to wear it one day at a grocery (for about an hour of pushing the cart around).....I was shaking my head. You couldn't get enough oxygen, and I could tell....if I'd continued on for three or four hours....I'd be having some type of huff/faint spell.
So what's this mask deal about? It's mostly a mind-game to convince you that you can wear it and avoid getting the virus. I understand this part of the game. Oddly, these German experts back in early February made it very clear....the mask has marginal pay-back. It makes you, your associates, your boss, and the folks on the bus or plane....think....at least in the marginal sense, that you are saving yourself.
The problem I see....about four hours into this wearing of the mask, as you collapse in the office hallway and some freaked out administrative lady will go running down the hall yelling about Covid-fainting or Covid-attack.....it just makes things worse off. Some ambulance crew will come and tote you off, with folks talking of a dire Covid situation for you, and Bob (the part-time Baptist minister) offering to do office prayer over your anticipated demise, while you sit in the ambulance and try to recover from just a fainting spell.
Saturday, 9 May 2020
The Decade Ahead for New York and California
If one stands and looks at the next ten years, and tries to imagine the landscape in May of 2030.....it looks rather bleak for these two states.
First, both are looking at huge empty 'pockets' for tax revenue in 2020. The only possible solution is a rise on property, sales and income taxes....likely to follow in 2021.
If you live in NY City, and had your expenses calculated to fit your pay-situation....this rise in taxes (I would go and suggest that your debt to the city and state will rise by 25-percent) will trigger a review of the necessity to live there.
By 2022, a small number of city residents will have evaluated the oncoming problem, and made the decision to leave the city. Somewhere between 2022 and 2025....the city leadership will realize that more people are leaving the city, than entering.
California's problem? It's slightly different....in that they have a revenue pot which demands higher taxes, but the growth of homelessness and crap-on-the-streets....will persuade some in the heart of Los Angles and San Francisco to question how the public nuisance problem can be resolved.
The census of 2030? You can go and predict that enough will have left both states....to lessen their 'burden' of legislative districts by two each (my humble guess).
But then you add on the problem of meeting pension requirements....the escalating pot of revenue required to make the state pension programs work, and the likely odds of bankruptcy or massive taxes to solve the mess.
In some ways, it's a sad story. Both were the places where people dreamed of moving to, and now....both are the places where people dream of exiting.
First, both are looking at huge empty 'pockets' for tax revenue in 2020. The only possible solution is a rise on property, sales and income taxes....likely to follow in 2021.
If you live in NY City, and had your expenses calculated to fit your pay-situation....this rise in taxes (I would go and suggest that your debt to the city and state will rise by 25-percent) will trigger a review of the necessity to live there.
By 2022, a small number of city residents will have evaluated the oncoming problem, and made the decision to leave the city. Somewhere between 2022 and 2025....the city leadership will realize that more people are leaving the city, than entering.
California's problem? It's slightly different....in that they have a revenue pot which demands higher taxes, but the growth of homelessness and crap-on-the-streets....will persuade some in the heart of Los Angles and San Francisco to question how the public nuisance problem can be resolved.
The census of 2030? You can go and predict that enough will have left both states....to lessen their 'burden' of legislative districts by two each (my humble guess).
But then you add on the problem of meeting pension requirements....the escalating pot of revenue required to make the state pension programs work, and the likely odds of bankruptcy or massive taxes to solve the mess.
In some ways, it's a sad story. Both were the places where people dreamed of moving to, and now....both are the places where people dream of exiting.
Thursday, 7 May 2020
The Free Deal
So I'll lay this out there and let you ponder upon it for a while.
The San Francisco City Health Department came out in the past 24 hours and said....yes, we are supplying all of the homeless folks staying temporarily in hotels during this crisis period....with booze, nicotine, weed, and 'other' substances. You go to the hotel deal....you get the free stuff. You still live on the street.....no free stuff.
Obviously, a lot is going through your mind.
First, how is this free? Someone.....within the city department is using taxpayer funds (city revenue) to pay for this. How is this possible?
Second, where are you buying the weed, and whats the cost factor? If I need four joints a day.....will you give me four joints? If I need seven joints.....will you give me seven?
Third, who signed this paperwork, and how did they gain this 'power'?
Fourth, what exactly are the 'other' substances? Are you referring to heroin or cocaine?
Fifth, once you admit this.....why can't regular people get the same deal?
Sixth, on this booze topic....are you saying an entire bottle of cheap vodka ($12)....per day?
There's something wrong here, but as long as they keep it in some hellhole like SF.....I don't really care. But this is free stuff, and it shouldn't be.
The San Francisco City Health Department came out in the past 24 hours and said....yes, we are supplying all of the homeless folks staying temporarily in hotels during this crisis period....with booze, nicotine, weed, and 'other' substances. You go to the hotel deal....you get the free stuff. You still live on the street.....no free stuff.
Obviously, a lot is going through your mind.
First, how is this free? Someone.....within the city department is using taxpayer funds (city revenue) to pay for this. How is this possible?
Second, where are you buying the weed, and whats the cost factor? If I need four joints a day.....will you give me four joints? If I need seven joints.....will you give me seven?
Third, who signed this paperwork, and how did they gain this 'power'?
Fourth, what exactly are the 'other' substances? Are you referring to heroin or cocaine?
Fifth, once you admit this.....why can't regular people get the same deal?
Sixth, on this booze topic....are you saying an entire bottle of cheap vodka ($12)....per day?
There's something wrong here, but as long as they keep it in some hellhole like SF.....I don't really care. But this is free stuff, and it shouldn't be.
How to Agree to Disagree
Forty years ago, this wasn't something that you needed to talk about, preach upon, or lecture on. Today, some folks need a bit of structure and lecture.
So imagine yourself on a front-porch where sixteen cars an hour will pass.....all at 30 mph, and their windows open.
Then imagine that someone has stopped by....a cousin, neighbor, work associate, fake-love lady, church friend, etc.
Upon this front-porch....the two of you settle on rocking chairs, and engage in conversation.
The general rule is that you simply agree to disagree. You can have some position on cattle mutilations, slutty women, sugar content in Mountain Dew, Latino dance moves, horse racing, flirtatious folks, bad Nicolas Cage movies, Nancy Pelosi ice cream, Fleetwood Mac being the best band of all time, and dispatching demons via a Catholic spell. Your associate can have agreed views, or disagreed views.
The key thing, you don't want to get so far off the topic....so angry....so frightened....that folks in the cars pick up on the conversation or think that you are in some full-scale debate....well, this is a pretty wicked mess then. A front-porch debate? Really? Is this so necessary?
Another point here.....once you reach a stage where your man or gal (that you support) is 'Jesus' and the person 'Satan'.....where exactly can this debate go?
Think about the nutty conversation....going on for hours....Jesus and Satan chatter.
So your general goal....in this porch conversation situation....is simply to agree to disagree. Nothing more....nothing less.
It's ok to believe aliens exist, or to persist in believing without evidence, there are no aliens. It's not going to change much of anything. Life goes on.
So imagine yourself on a front-porch where sixteen cars an hour will pass.....all at 30 mph, and their windows open.
Then imagine that someone has stopped by....a cousin, neighbor, work associate, fake-love lady, church friend, etc.
Upon this front-porch....the two of you settle on rocking chairs, and engage in conversation.
The general rule is that you simply agree to disagree. You can have some position on cattle mutilations, slutty women, sugar content in Mountain Dew, Latino dance moves, horse racing, flirtatious folks, bad Nicolas Cage movies, Nancy Pelosi ice cream, Fleetwood Mac being the best band of all time, and dispatching demons via a Catholic spell. Your associate can have agreed views, or disagreed views.
The key thing, you don't want to get so far off the topic....so angry....so frightened....that folks in the cars pick up on the conversation or think that you are in some full-scale debate....well, this is a pretty wicked mess then. A front-porch debate? Really? Is this so necessary?
Another point here.....once you reach a stage where your man or gal (that you support) is 'Jesus' and the person 'Satan'.....where exactly can this debate go?
Think about the nutty conversation....going on for hours....Jesus and Satan chatter.
So your general goal....in this porch conversation situation....is simply to agree to disagree. Nothing more....nothing less.
It's ok to believe aliens exist, or to persist in believing without evidence, there are no aliens. It's not going to change much of anything. Life goes on.
People That Worry About Microaggressions
Lets get the definition correct here, and this is my particular wording. Somehow....you make a verbal or written comment.....or perform some action (lifting a coffee cup in some way, or rubbing your hand against your jaw....that in some way (maybe even unconsciously)...that shows some type of negative or perceived outlook on some marginalized group (religious, cultish, ethnic, style of home, tattoo group, nutcase clan, etc).
The key to this....someone seems to recognize this in a prejudiced way (maybe not me...the guy who made the move....and maybe not even the guy who I perceived against). So this might be the third guy/gal in the room.
Note also, that both me, and the perceived 'victim'.....might be standing there and then wondering if the third guy/gal had too much weed, or had four shots too much of gin.
Note also, that the perceived 'victim' might have done a double-reverse microaggression against me, while I was microaggressing against him. In eastern Tennessee, this would be a 'double-micro'.
Note also.....don't bring any of this up....with six people in the room (other than the guy/gal who started this) and all of them might have shown multiple microaggressions in a 30-minute period, and the witness lady might be so freaked out....she'd have to slip out of the room and find a 'safe' space to worry about our fates in life.
So here's the thing....buddy, if this is your chief worry in life, you haven't done many adventures, and you might be living in some kind of weird and perverted universe, where dogs and cats sleep in peace, or Democrats actually vote for Trump.
Yeah, I'm suggesting that your worry-business on microaggressions indicate that you haven't worked much, traveled much, or been in difficult troubles.
Go take up a minimum wage job and try to survive for six months with that. Or go and buy a $2k car that continually needs $300 a month in repairs. Or go and live an entire summer without air conditioning in Louisiana. Or go and limit yourself to Pabst Blue Ribbon beer for an entire year (not the good stuff). Or go and have a car breakdown along the interstate of Birmingham, Alabama at 10 PM....with the gas station guy telling you that this ain't a safe part of town to just stand and wait for dad to arrive.
My advice.....go slip out of the sphere for twelve months and live around real people. This microaggression thing will chill off pretty quick. You'll find bigger worries.
The key to this....someone seems to recognize this in a prejudiced way (maybe not me...the guy who made the move....and maybe not even the guy who I perceived against). So this might be the third guy/gal in the room.
Note also, that both me, and the perceived 'victim'.....might be standing there and then wondering if the third guy/gal had too much weed, or had four shots too much of gin.
Note also, that the perceived 'victim' might have done a double-reverse microaggression against me, while I was microaggressing against him. In eastern Tennessee, this would be a 'double-micro'.
Note also.....don't bring any of this up....with six people in the room (other than the guy/gal who started this) and all of them might have shown multiple microaggressions in a 30-minute period, and the witness lady might be so freaked out....she'd have to slip out of the room and find a 'safe' space to worry about our fates in life.
So here's the thing....buddy, if this is your chief worry in life, you haven't done many adventures, and you might be living in some kind of weird and perverted universe, where dogs and cats sleep in peace, or Democrats actually vote for Trump.
Yeah, I'm suggesting that your worry-business on microaggressions indicate that you haven't worked much, traveled much, or been in difficult troubles.
Go take up a minimum wage job and try to survive for six months with that. Or go and buy a $2k car that continually needs $300 a month in repairs. Or go and live an entire summer without air conditioning in Louisiana. Or go and limit yourself to Pabst Blue Ribbon beer for an entire year (not the good stuff). Or go and have a car breakdown along the interstate of Birmingham, Alabama at 10 PM....with the gas station guy telling you that this ain't a safe part of town to just stand and wait for dad to arrive.
My advice.....go slip out of the sphere for twelve months and live around real people. This microaggression thing will chill off pretty quick. You'll find bigger worries.
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