Tuesday, 7 July 2020

My Thoughts on Ghislaine Maxwell

1.  No one in her position would remain in the US, in open sight like she did....unless she felt awful safe. 

2.  For the next two months....total silence on her case and what she is saying.

3.  Over the next two months, I expect around fifty significant suicides to occur, from Hollywood to London.  Bankers, actors, politicians, etc.

4.  Toward late September, the list of names will start to appear.  Some US Senators will be listed (some retiring this year, some already dead, some fairly embarrassed), from both Republican and Democratic sides.  Some bankers will suddenly retire after being listed.

5.  Suddenly the news cycle for the month of September to late October will be occupied over Maxwell.

6.   Maxwell will name five or six dead folks, who might have met an untimely end by an arranged situation.

The Two Plus Two Problem

"2+2 only equals 4 because of western imperialism.” 

- Brittany Marshall, Twitter comment

I sat and pondered over this comment for a good hour. 

The Greeks, the Persians, the Romans, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Hindus gave us math and science. 

If you walk into a real engineering class today (2020), and go over the basics of mathematical formulas.....a lot of these have been around for a minimum of 1,000 years....some on for 2,000 years, and a handful for 3,000 years.  The professor may not admit this.....but those silly Hindus spent a heck of a lot of effort to rationally conclude things. 

In math, if you mess around with two and two....it has to equal four, or there's something wrong. 

It's like a Ford brake specialist working on modern brakes, and x-amount of pressure will be applied, and on every single occasion.....x-pressure must go hand-in-hand with x-amount of reaction by the brakes.  If this doesn't occur....10,000 out of 10,000 times....then something is wrong.

So I look at Ms Marshall, and I have this feeling that she doesn't really know much on engineering, modern technology, or history.

The significant problem here is that people are walking around with no appreciation of what has occurred over the past 3,000-odd years.  The reason that you can fly from Dallas to NY City in three hours?  Well....10,000 different calculations occurred, between the control towers, the aircrews, the fuel people, and the design folks...to get that plane in the air and safely to the destination. 

The same is true with electrical voltage and the way that you can feel safe touching your washer....knowing that something won't happen and give you a blast of electricity.

The handling of a pistol?  Well, there's math and science built into it, and the safety-button meets various conditions.....involving a dozen-odd formulas.

Your dog being seen at the Vet?  Science calculations have occurred and the dog's weight equals x-amount of medication, which relieves them of pain and suffering.

The sanitation factor of your food?  Well, all that handling and cooking....relates back to science and math again.

The roasted aroma of your Starbucks coffee?  Science and math again working as they should.

So if you come to some conclusion that two and two can't equal four.....you might want to look for a bridge to live under, and start learning to exist off nuts, berries, and pond-water. 

Sunday, 5 July 2020

Just Observations

1.  Kanye West running for President?   Yes....announced yesterday.  All fifty states?  He didn't exactly say that.  If I were guessing, he'd go to the 15 most black-populated states, and get onto the ballots there.  To be honest, in most states....you need to have a couple thousand folks sign you up, and that's probably the biggest stumbling block to his candidacy.

Does this matter?  He's intending to say he's the black candidate.  So if you were BLM, or pro-BLM....you'd have to vote for him.  Naturally, it takes votes away from Biden and the Democrats.

Will this change much of anything?  Black voter impacts are usually in the south, and Trump had those states locked down.  It's states like Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, and Virginia that I might wonder about.

Guessing the impact?  The McMuffin-character in 2016 took around 750k votes in 2016....so I'm guessing with some effort and a little bit of cash flow, West ought to take double that (1.5-million range).  Course, there is this question of California, and he might actually take a million votes there, and Trump might gain a million votes there (over 2016 numbers)....suddenly, California might be close to a Trump win.

2.  It's just curious....so many people angry and frustrated with America....that they don't pull out a map and pick some pleasant country to go to.

3. The strategy that BLM/Antifa and the path ahead is more about intimidation....than some national cohesiveness?  Walk into any middle-class neighborhood and explain this.....people start laughing.

4.  Does the black vote matter?  If you use the statistical data and say that a state with 20 percent of population is black (meaning a higher chance of influence), then there are only 8 states that meet that threshold.  Alabama, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.  Twenty-five states have a percentage of 10-percent or less....meaning their effect on the state vote is marginal.

5. My argument about peaceful protesters....if a 100 show up and 3 of them destroy things and set fire to cars, what does it say about the 97 who simply stand there and watch? Are they still peaceful, or are they intimidated to do nothing, or just don't care?

6.  As college starts up shortly....I'm just wondering how many assaults occur on Trump-kids, and legal problems ahead for colleges to defend. 

Saturday, 4 July 2020

A Dental Story

Back in 2010, I arrived in Arlington, VA....and one of my lesser priorities as time went by....was to find a dentist.

Roughly ten months went by.  I had various problems.

Some local dentists said fine, but said I'd go on a six-month waiting list (by this, it meant I wasn't even getting to the cleaning 'date' yet).

One dentist wanted a fee of $500 to get on his 'list'.

So I finally found a dentist who only put me on a 60-day waiting list.  The odd thing was that it was in the basement of an apartment building about a mile from the Pentagon.

Fine, I show up on this appointment day.

First, it's a weird waiting room.....fashioned in something that looked 1960ish to me.

Second, the music in the room was violin stuff....like an opera-type situation.

So, it came time for him to check me....into waiting room X.  He spent barely 90 seconds and then left me to the 'lady'.

The cleaning lady was like some Russian-looking model gal to do the cleaning with a serious accent, which I identified to be Russian.

Six months pass, and I'm up for my next cleaning.....it's already on a schedule, and I show up.....here is another different Russian-looking model type to do the cleaning....same funny accent.

Another six months.....same deal again.

Another six months....same deal again.

Then I left.

The odds that he got 'tourist' visas for Russian dental technicians?  I never did ask about this, and it's best to just avoid that question. 

Seattle Accident

So in the early hours of Saturday morning....a couple of protest people made their way to the freeway in Seattle and tried to block traffic.  An oncoming car didn't see much (people in black, no reflective vests, no cones, etc)....so these two ladies were 'hit'.

I've watched the video at least twenty times.  I would guess the speed at near 45 mph.  Based on the view, I'd say that the driver had 3 seconds at best of reaction, trying to assess 'what the hell' this was in the road, and the two women were just naive to the situation they'd stepped into.

The 24-year old woman from Seattle?  She's in severe shape, and walking-wise, if she does make it....I'd be guessing physical rehab for most of the next year.  The second gal?  A 32-year old woman from Bellingham.  Her condition?  Less severe, but I'd be guessing a broke leg somewhere in the situation.  Both went into the air (maybe six to eight feet). 

What bothers me here....the level of stupidity.  You walk out on a freeway area....in the dark....in dark clothing....no vests or flares, and just think people will respect your protest thing.

The parents of both women?  I'm guessing the mayor or police haven't called yet, and things will just sit there in a slow movement.

The DA or city idiots trying to charge the driver?  On what?  It's simply juvenile bad behavior to stand in the middle of a freeway, and think people respect you or your protest, and can react to such a thing.

Friday, 3 July 2020

Revolution Poster

As the cops recovered in Portland, this poster was left up on the wall by the protest crowd.

So you read over this. The 'children' obviously wanted them (the police) to pass this to the FBI and be some new agenda item.

The problem with the 4-step plan for revolution....it's basically asking it's team (other kids) to vote for the Green Party in November.....NOT the Democratic Party.

Course, there could be FBI agents within the Antifa movement....feeding them BS like this, and hoping they take the bait to be pro-Green Party.

This all begs questions....how you'd run up a revolution, and take down the US government.....then assume everything will be better.

Seven Observations of the Remaining Political Season

1.  Looking back to September-October of 2019 and the fifteen-odd political choices of the Democratic Party....it would make a world of difference if Senator Warren or Bloomberg, or Mayor Pete had just been more competitive or believable to the general public.  Then at this point, we wouldn't be talking about Hunter Biden, the Ukraine episode, Joe's dementia, or Joe's behavior over the past thirty years.  It's like we were dealt some poker hand, and the best you can say is that you are holding a pair of 'fours', and three other guys are grinning in an excessive way.

2.  The NY Times is basically worthless at this point, and anything they say....people are generally skeptical about.  They have achieved the CNN 'standard'.

3.  Trump (having a billion of campaign funds) doesn't have to buy a single minute off any local station.  He'll fund 60-second commercials to be made, and flow out via social media.  General profits that stations would anticipate this time of year?  Probably half of the norm.

4. If you attempted to measure public enthusiasm.....a topless 30-second clip of Madonna would probably get more views than a 3-minute interview of Joe Biden.

5.  If your strategy was to use BLM to recover lost black votes....you might want to go back to the idiot who suggested this, and ask where they got this idea.

6.  If you notice now....thirty days after the defund chatter started up in Minneapolis.....just in the last 24 hours....local black leaders/ministers are now fairly critical of the defund or dis-establishment idea.  They do agree, they are better ways of policing but getting rid of the police isn't one of them.  All of this defund chatter makes an abrupt stop at non-urban communities. 

7.  Jobs are typically the ironclad magnet of votes in any US election.  No one can show any dynamic where Joe Biden's strategy is a continuation of the current jobs market.  That really says a lot when you think about.