Border Story/Fantasy

 In roughly two weeks, Donald Trump is scheduled to visit the US border (Texas).

Pressure now building for VP Harris?  I would say that her planning team is now sitting there at least four hours a day, and discussing how they could get ahead of Trump, or how to downplay Trump's visit.

The fantasy scene I could see playing out?  There out of the brush...walks six Hispanic kids....having crossed the border, and here is the Texas Governor and Trump.

Trump reaches into his bag and pulls out six ice cold waters and offers them up to the kids.  Headline for the next day?  Trump saves kids! Yes, it would be that crazy.  

The Thing About Nature

 “If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.” 

– Kurt Vonnegut

I sat and admired the quote this morning.  There are various things that occur in nature, and they end up as front-page news now.  From disease, to hurricanes, to drought.  

A New Phobia

 Terminus-Phobia?  

Well....yeah.  It basically translate over to being an irrational fear of borders.  

Our Vice-President (Harris) has Terminus-Phobia.  I don't think before 2021 that she had this phobia of borders....this started up in the past hundred days with this new job that President Biden gave her....in facilitating a solution for the border.

Somewhere in this business....she got this irrational fear of the border.  

Normally, mental health specialists would have sat down and figured out a treatment program for a person in this case....but I doubt if they've had enough time to resolve this.

What I would suggest....just take a person with Terminus-Phobia, and toss them into a bread-truck....taking them to the border.  Hand them a six-pack of beer as they exit the truck and see the sign proclaiming the border.  Then give them an hour or two to accept the border situation....getting rid of this irrational fear.  

The One-Quarter Chatter

 One of the odd 'add-on's' that you get with Netflix and the various streaming video platforms now....is 'speed-handling'.  This means if you want to run the video at a slightly faster speed, or much slower speed....you can.

So in the past year, folks have began to notice various 'experts' appearing who view a 3-minute clip at one-quarter speed, and then providing 12-minute presentation where they talk about all the secret things in this 3-minute clip.

As you begin to review these....you come to realize that production teams are putting in tremendous amounts of time to hide things in the clip.....making you the viewer get more intense over the story, or the video.  

Adding to the production time and story?  

Well, you could now have a two-hour Marvel movie where sixty hidden things are in the background....that you'd normally never notice.

It means you have to sit there after watching the two hours.....putting in another four extra hours....grasping these hidden story pieces.  On top of that, you need a $1,200 special giant-screen TV to see the clips at one-quarter speed. 

I recently watched Netflix's Army of the Dead, and there is some moment about halfway through the movie (on zombies') where I suddenly realize that there is a time-loop suggested in the story, and a couple of moments where you realize it's intentional for you to believe that.  The potential that three different additional movies might be made over the one single Army of the Dead?  I'd go and suggest that.

What's the Chief Problem of Society Today?

 Self-righteousness and lack of tolerance.  

It's a skill-set that people had upon coming out of school prior to the 1990s.  

You learned to be marginally tolerant of people and just nod your head.  As stupid or crazy as the person might have been.....you had to work with them or socialize with them in various ways.  

You learned to avoid the holier-than-thou behavior, and quietly hide your moral superiority.  

You learned to be hypocritical of people....but just not say that to their face.

You learned that no one was perfect.  

Where did these skill-sets go?  Unknown.  They literally disappeared overnight, and I would suggest the bulk of the nation are wandering around in a daze....unable to confront reality.  

Just Something to Think About

 If you wanted to run a world-class lab, but weren't ever going to be given world-class money by Congress....you'd naturally go to plan 'B'.

Plan 'B'?  You'd take what marginal funds that Congress would give you and turn to some Chinese guy named 'Wang', and let him do it the Chinese way.....running a marginal pretend-to-be world-class lab, on a quarter of the real budget that you'd need. 

If 'Wang' screwed up one day.....at least he did it, and not your own guys.  

Just something to think about. 

A Story You Have to Wonder About

 There's a story out of the Washington Examiner which basically says from the Covid-19 stimulus money and business-help funds.....around 400-billion was siphoned off, and taken illegally by criminal enterprise.....going out of the US.  

Odds of this being true?  Unknown.

Government looking into this?  Unknown.

Total embarrassment if this were true?  I'm not sure if any member of the House or Senate would be embarrassed.  

Maybe it's only one-quarter true.