Observations

 1.  Wokeball (what used to be pro NFL football) got dismal ratings over the past week, and any hope that the season could be attracting the normal fans?  That's ended.

Note, Wokeball can be applied to baseball and NBA action as well.  Same rules.  

2.  All this rioting and looting business....it's basically become a modern times 'Jackass-Show', where people watch it for thrills or entertainment. 

3.  They had a 'Latinos for Biden' car demonstration rigged up for Vegas earlier in the week.  Someone showed up right around the time that the 'parade' was supposed to start.  Total number of cars?  Eleven.  It might have helped if the Biden people had shown up with forty rental cars, and forty fake-actors driving the cars to participate.

4.  It kinda got noticed yesterday.....as Ohio mails out the mail-in-vote ballots.....that there is no return postage envelope included.  Basically, you (the voter) will pay for the return of the ballot.  Similar to a poll-tax (basically illegal for over sixty years)?  Yes.  An effect upon the welfare class?  No doubt.

5.  Another post office worker shot (2nd in a week)?  Yes, in Virginia.  All this will do is trigger postal workers to start carrying a firearm.

Ending the Looting and Craziness

 This is my list of five things that ought to go into effect after the election:

1.  A 30-day curfew period in cities with trouble.  After 9 PM, no activity on the streets unless you are driving to work, going to a hospital or returning home.  Violation?  You get arrested/detained and held until you pay a $999 'fee'.  For each 24 hours you lay in the jail....another $40.  No excuses.

2.  Any laser device on you, or in the car, in curfew city?  $1k fine on the first occasion, double that to $2k on the second or more occasions.

3.  Any protester arrested for physical violence outside of his state?  A five-year ban on any airline travel.

4. Any physical violence conducted while in a riot, against a policeman or fireman?  One year of jail-activity mandatory, and no ability by the judge or prosecutor to downsize the punishment.

5. Start hate-crime activity against anyone with obvious issues.

NY Decline

Forbes put out an interesting article in the fall of 2019, and chatted over the decline of New York state over the past nine years....saying 1-million left.  This was before the Covid-19 and crisis period started. 

Since early 2020?  Between March and late May, the best numbers say in the Manhattan area alone....500k residents up and left.  If you could count the entire state, and the period since late May?  I would take a guess that another 500k residents have left the city/state. 

Before Covid-19 arrived, there was already a consensus among people that the tax situation was becoming a handicap.  Since Covid-19?  Well....social options have dwindled (plays, musicals), and restaurants/bars have basically shutdown.  Crime went in....particularly violent crime.  All of this made people ask the question....is there anything to stay for?  General answer?  No.

Here's the real crisis landscape to look upon....the city only existed because of wealthy people being based there and spending capital like crazy.  They had people who were willing to pay $500 a month on crazy tickets to Broadway shows.  They had people who had lifestyles that revolved around $10k being spent monthly on fashion, trends, and fake fine wine.  They had people who would easily spend $100k on a A-list party....with shrimp flown in and guests wearing $3k Italian shoes. 

It was a Disneyland for adults.....of an extremely different variety.  Now?  I would call it a 2-star Disneyland, with crime evolving on a daily basis.  

Did the Civil War Basically End in 1865?

For about 300-odd reasons, yes.....the war ended on 9 April 1865.  For most folks, depending how rural you were living....you probably didn't know about it for another week or so. 

For about the next five years, the former Confederate states go through a 'rehab' period, and things are kinda laid out as 'recovered'.

In the spring of 1898, I would consider all issues resolved because of the unified US engaging on the US-Spanish War....briefly lasting four months.  At that point, southerners returned with parades, and medals....as part of the national campaign.

The first 'true' southern President?  Wilson.

Participation in WW I?  Another element of the unification.

So why all the flag-waving of the Confederate flag....long gone for almost 155 years?  I would suggest that around one-third of the general population sees the conclusion of the war in a different aspect. 

Some can point toward members of their family having been in the war.  Some can point toward destruction of their local town.  Some simply want a piece of something that lasted less than five years. 

Covid Making Us Crazy?

So in front-page news today.....some doctors are reporting that 'some' of their patients....are suggesting things that relate to neurological symptoms.  The list?

Basically headaches, confusion and delirium.  

Being cut off from regular oxygen flow?  Well....it's being suggested to some degree.

So this leads me to an odd question....did Joe Biden get Covid-19 back in the early part of this year, and it's currently leading him to this state of confusion?  

If any of this was true....could you even allow the bulk of citizens in America to vote....if they were suffering from confusion (delivered via Covid-19)?

This confusion triggering BLM protests and rioting?  The Antifa folks being influenced by confusion and delirium.....triggered by Covid-19?

Are the nightly news journalists affected by the confusion?  Is your wife competent enough to make evening dinner?  Is the teacher for your kid affected by the Covid-19 confusion business, and actually giving them all of the test questions ahead of time?  Did that lustful wink by the clerk at Piggy Wiggly clerk come because of state of confusion on her part?  Did the minister launch into a Sunday church tirade on Gatorade being the beverage brewed by the devil himself....mostly because of Covid-19 delirium?

Is Nancy Pelosi affected enough by her delirium....that she'd walk into a hair saloon in SF....having her hair done in a illegal fashion?

All of this leading to a Stephen King-type thriller....half the nation affected by Covid-19 and being crazy?

Observations

1.  It came up Friday in Florida.....Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, came to Opalocka USPS facility....saying she wanted to investigate reports from postal employees on serious amounts of undelivered mail at the facility.

Well....the fact about it.....there is 100-percent undelivered mail there, because it's in transit.  Virtually everything is undelivered, on a 365 day schedule. 

So this didn't make sense.

2. Are there any true polling data to come out of election day?

No.  Based on the mail-vote.....normal data-collection people will find virtually nothing of value to collect.  You won't know how many Blacks voted for Trump, how many lesbians voted for Joe, or how many newly registered people came into the situation.  

Planning something for 2024 out of this mess?  Zero....nothing.

3.  Luluemon (the women's work-out clothing company) is building anti-capitalism courses (called 'resist capitalism').

Perhaps you haven't heard of them....but they tend to sell $20 fitness outfits for $50 (my description of the sales organization).  So it's a bit odd.....they are rather dependent on you being pro-capitalistic and spending a fair amount of cash on their products.

This would be like the 'Burger-shack' having vegetarian seminars, to get you over to non-meat products.  

4.  After Trump announced his list of people for Supreme Court seats (he is really assuming 'hard' that three or four empty seats will occur over the next four years)....you'd think that Joe Biden would announce his list.

5.  Portland police yesterday arrested and charged-up Bryan Michael Kelley.  His problem?  Accusation of using a laser to injure the eyes of the police a month ago.  Felony assault (Class B), plus felony unlawful use of a weapon.  If convicted?  Could be up over ten years.  My guess is that these guys kept thinking lasers weren't a real weapon and they'd fake-out the police.

6.  What is 'mental-snowblindness'?

Basically, you've hit a thousand times with fake journalism, and you've reached a point where you are practically blind, and anything (even a sudden book appearing on a anti-Trump agenda)....will just get pushed to the side.  These events only add to your determination to avoid the news and limit your trust in journalism.

7.  Eighteen companies recently signed a pledge to bring on one black American to their board of directors over the next year.

Naturally, you'd ask....why can't they also bring on one Latino member as well?

8.  L A Times says.....housing costs for the homeless went up to $531,000 PER UNIT.  

You'd sit there and think over this for a minute....with almost zero possibility of the massive homeless population ever being able to recover and produce tax revenue for the 'base'.....how would this work in the end?

You'd be better off to go out into the desert of southern California, and erect tens of thousands of quonset huts, for 5k per person.  

Joe in the Garden

I looked at this photo taken yesterday of Joe....meeting up with four supporters in Pennsylvania, and had three observations:

1.  If all three are wearing masks, there's no reason to be six-feet apart. 

2.  If this was mid-day, it'd be awful hot to be wearing the mask.

3.  Finally, whoever has this yard.....has a good bit of dead grass and needs to resod this badly.

I should note, for the record, that the glass table in the middle of this didn't make any sense, unless guests were going to set their tea or whisky sour cocktail on it.