The Lack of a Peritum Standard

 For those not into Latin....peritum means 'expert'.  

Around ten years ago....I sat one night watching CNN, and they wanted to drill down into some topic and had some 'expert' show up for a 'Q and A' session.  About half-way through the ten minutes, I came to realize that the expert was NOT an expert, and that I probably knew twice as much on the topic as the CNN expert.  

Ever since that point, I'm skeptical of 'experts'.

Between the various news networks, and print-media/social media experts.....I probably see or read a presentation by at least 20,000 experts per year.  To be kinda honest....about 80-percent of them are what I'd call marginal or non-existent experts.

In the days of old Greece or old Rome....maybe in your entire lifetime, you probably only came face-to-face with twenty-odd experts (one of them probably was the village blacksmith).  So you weren't so confronted with so many non-existent experts pretending to know nothing about something. Life was simple.

Today?  You have even social media giants like Facebook and Twitter which have granted themselves 'expert-status', and have the power to collapse or cancel anyone who doesn't rank with their level of expert-status.  In some sense, the world is revolving around a civil war of the 'experts'.....group X against group Y.

In some cases, you even have experts who deem their status because they are experts about the experts in the world.  And in some cases, you have experts who are experts over experts over experts.  

Where this is leading onto?  It's anyone's guess.....but it would seem like....eventually, that some folks would just wake up and just start laughing about this level of experts existing.  

Atlanta

 So when this BLM riot episode started up in the fall of 2020 in Atlanta.....at some point, a 8-year old kid was killed.

The family of the kid this week....started up a court episode.  They want sixteen million dollars, or they go to court.  

Responsible parties?  The mayor and chief of police.  

What'll happen?  I'm guessing Atlanta has an insurance policy over events like this and it's probably in the range of five to eight million for a pay-out.  Course, once this occurs....the insurance company will come back within twelve months and probably double the insurance rate.

The city will spend at least a million (probably more) on legal costs, and eventually get this down to what the insurance would pay.  

But here is the icing on this cake.  The folks in Buckhead (that upper-scale suburb to the far north of Atlanta) have been reviewing this idea of breaking away from Atlanta and becoming a city on their own.

I'm guessing this will help funnel the move in a certain direction, and within two years.....Buckhead, the city...will occur.

How the city covers increased insurance costs.....with fewer 80,000 fewer residents, and less property tax revenue?  That's a curious question.  

Bold New World

 I sat and read through this story.....the University of Washington Law School has drafted up this idea which basically says....as a 'guest' of their school....there would be regulations to limit what you say on social media.  

I pondered over this for a while.

Who exactly would determine the list of forbidden topics?  That's not clear.  It sounds like the University law school folks would have the final say.  Who made them special?  Well....that's not clear either. 

For example....you might wake up one day, and find that discussing whores or hookers was a bad thing (thus forbidden to talk about) but slutty women was approved (thus a good thing).

Another example, you could wake up and chatting about blacks and high cholesterol was a forbidden topic, but it was ok to chat about whites and high cholesterol.  

Personally, I'd look at the situation (if I were a student) and build a secret identity with a fake moustache, $19 used wig, and a VPN that led back to Gila Bend, Arizona.   

Six months into this deal....if they finalize it....you'd probably see a thousand fake ID folks....chatting over forbidden university topics, and the university elites just grumbling that people weren't supposed to do fake identities.  

What If It Came From the Lab?

 Supposed solid evidence came up and the Covid-19 virus was a 'critter' that was brought into a weapons lab, and over a two-year period....was a bio-project that kinda reached a good stage, and then 'Hu-Chung' (the bumbling clean-up guy) accidentally took some element out in the regular garbage and the virus 'escaped'.

If true....what now?

China being responsible?  Why?

The fact that Fauci and the US might have paid for part of the research?  

This is the chief problem you have at this point.....there's no punishment great enough for the 'escape' of the virus.  I'm guessing the 25 Chinese lab technicians who were around the project....have all been executed in the middle of the night.  The head of the department?  He's dead.  Probably the next three bosses above that single idiot....dead as well.

We'll spend the next decade figuring out the virus, and eventually reach a stage where you have to lick the spit off some walrus to get some kinda natural immunity, and repeat this yearly.  

The Thing About 'Binges'

 Breitbart put up a story yesterday....here's this private security company that hired up a Secret Service guy as their CEO about a week after he personally handled a discreet but messy event....with Hunter Biden.

What is said is that Hunter showed up in Los Angeles....stayed at a hotel at some point in 2018, and got on a alleged drug and prostitute binge.

I sat and read over the story for a while....several times.

I kinda know what a drug binge is, and how you could be there in a fancy hotel room with a fair amount of cocaine, and really binge big time.

But then I came to a prostitute binge situation. Being from Alabama, we'd naturally say that two hours with one single hooker.....was a binge point.  

Some folks from Birmingham would say three black hookers for a 24-hour period, would be a binge point.

Some folks from Florida would say eight hours with four hookers would be a binge point.  

Some guys from NY City would say that two hookers for twelve hours....would be a binge point.  

I've known Vietnam vets who'd say that in Thailand in 1968....seven days with two hookers was a binge thing.

So, I'm kinda left wondering.....what exactly was the hooker binge level in 2018 for Hunter?

Mask Story

 I sat and read over this Epoch Times piece several times this morning.

Back around 5 Feb 2020.....our doctor doom (Dr Anthony Fauci) answered an email.

The question posed was....would the regular masks you could buy at drug and grocery stores....be adequate.

His answer?  “The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.” 

Then he added: "Those masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infections.” 

He wasn't finished.....saying “I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you are going to a very low risk location. Your instincts are correct, money is best spent on medical countermeasures such as diagnostics and vaccines.”

So either he is 100-percent right, or 100-percent wrong.  The countless millions spent on masks across the globe in 2020 and 2021?  

All of this begs questions, but no one will go to that level of leadership.  

What is a 'Outrage Peddler'?

 Well....it's a new term that has been thrown around for the last year or two, but rarely described.  So this is my definition.

It's a guy/gal....who talks a lot, and hypes you up....to feel 'outrage' to such an extent....that you'd go and attend a protest, demonstration or vote in some wild way. 

Rush Limbaugh?  Yeah.

FDR?  Yeah.

Trump?  Yeah.

Most journalists at CNN?  Yeah.

TV ministers?  Yeah.

Cuomo, Pelosi, and Doctor Doom of Covid fame?  Yeah.

The plain blunt truth is that most of us....if outrage peddlers were not around....wouldn't be that hyped up over politics, national leadership or anything in Washington DC.

Outrage peddlers going away?  No.  If anything, the profession seems to be growing.  There are kids now (Greta) who serve as outrage peddlers.  You've got various members of the NBA or NFL....who portray themselves as outrage peddlers.  You have comedians who've dump comedy, and actively portray themselves as outrage peddlers.