Ten Observations

 1.  I expect the LGBTQ folks to have at least a dozen additional letters by 2025....likely to include the bondage people, the Masochism people, and the Picquerism folks.  

2.  This visit by Harris to the Waco area....will be the only trip to the border in 2021 (my prediction).  In fact, I doubt that she will visit at any point in 2022.

3.  Yeah, President Biden did say in some 'funny' way that Latinos in general....are in some fashion....all illegals.  I don't think he grasped the way he said this, and he just misread the teleprompter. 

4.  I expect some group to rise up in 2022...to demand that the Statue of Liberty be torn down because it's racist.

5.  Poll done this past week does say that if the 2024 election was Harris versus Trump.....she'd easily lose.  This is why I think that Joe Biden will be kept around, and probably run again in 2024.

6.  The head guy of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Army General) says that he wants to understand 'white rage'.  I imagine that the guy has lived in a bubble for 30-odd years, and has no idea over the crazy nature of America in 2021.  They ought to go and force each officer upon being promoted to one-star status....to spend six months touring America in a truck, and talking to regular people.

7.  If transgender surgery is a 'right'....then nose surgery or boob surgery ought to be a 'right' as well.  

8.  Yeah, in a speech....President Biden did put the Tuskegee Airmen (famous for WW  II participation) with syphilis test subjects (different era and story entirely).  Listen, people come up to Joe every day and tell him 700 facts, and it's hard to remember and differentiate between them.  That's 255,500 facts, and they get all jumbled up.  

9.  Over in the Saarbrucken area of Germany (far west state)....a older gal (blonde, 50s) moved up in the Green Party and became the number two person in the state political scene for the Greens.  This week however, a Q and A came up, and she knew absolutely nothing over environmentalism, the party agenda, or current event topics.  The people who voted her up to this current status?  I don't think they really cared if she was a 'dumb-blonde'.  They just liked her image and looks.  Says something about the political world we live in.

10.  Identifism.  It's a new term that I've created.....where people go around and identify as 'something else'.  They might suggest they are Latino, when they are plain Wisconsin-white.  They might say they identify as a thin person, when they weigh 350 pounds.  They might say they are sane, when they are 100-percent insane.  It's reached a point where we probably need to send these folks off to some farm situation, and let them haul hay for two weeks straight (in July) to get the craziness out of them.  

Joe's Credit Card Used for $25k for Hotel and Hooker Cost?

 Well....yeah.  I'll link this to this news group.

At some point in 2018, Hunter Biden got Joe's credit card and over a one-week period....charged up for a LA hotel and round-the-clock hooker service. End result was $25k of 'services'.  

The binge?  It would have continued on but the Secret Service got wind of the expenditure of money and tried to get Hunter under control.  All drugged-up?  Maybe.  

Chinese aware of Hunter's situation?  No one says much but you have to imagine that they (and the KGB) had a full view of the situation.  

This being a big deal now?  No.  That's the comical side of this.  Had this been Bill Clinton, or Bush I/II, or Obama....it would have torn apart the Biden administration.  Folks just look the other way.  

Educational Chaos

 I sat and read through this story.  Basically, the state legislature of Oregon has come to realize that in this Covid-19 era....educational achievement is royally screwed.  

So they wrote a draft bill in Oregon that is going to the desk of the governor....which would waiver the requirement of a read/write or perform math requirements at the 10th grade level....to graduate and get your diploma.

Permanently?  NO.  This waiver would last until 2027.

In theory, you could be standing there at age 18....in the final months of the 12th grade, with the ability to read/write at the 5th grade level, and marginally perform 6th grade math.....but it's all well and good enough to graduate.

You'd sit there and ask....why would you fund or go tax locals to support school costs....for twelve years per kid?  

If I were the kid in this scenario....in the 9th grade presently, then I'd be laughing.  All I have to do is show up and attend class.  The system is geared for me to learn nothing but graduate at the conclusion of the 12th grade.

So you ask yourself....if you were an employer in the state....how reliable is the educational system?  Every kid graduating between now and 2027....questioned over their knowledge level?  Yeah, basically....that's the story.

Consequences?  I can see over a hundred issues being created, and none of them helpful for society.  

The 44-Percent Story

 I sat and paused over a short story from today's news.....a study completed and says that 44-percent of Americans have hit their lowest emotional point of their lives...with the Covid-19 era.  

The chief problem of the study?  It didn't really identify rural versus urban folks, or state-by-state folks. 

Generally, if I were looking at this idea....I'd say that probably only 5-percent of rural folks said they'd hit their lowest emotional point of their life (they've seen tornados, droughts, and failed crops....so it's hard to rattle them on some virus).  The urban folks?  It might be 70-percent of them 'suffering' (in some way) enough....say they were at a key emotional point.

If you were going state-by-state?  I'd take a wild guess that folks in NY City and California....probably around 80-percent of them were in this dismal state of life situation.

Folks in Tennessee or Alabama?  It might be only 3-percent of them in some dismal state of life environment, and half of them were consumed with watching CNN or Doctor Doom-videos twelve hours a day.

Frankly, it's hard for me to buy into this discussion.  If you are that bad off on the emotional scale, you probably had some issues brewing before Covid-19 ever came along.

So I end this essay with this observation....it ain't over.  Come October, I expect the virus to rise up again in numbers.....with various state governments wanting to go back to full-scale chaos, and your dismal scale of life rises back to maximum numbers once again.  CNN and Doctor Doom?  They will do their job, and you will get a full dose every evening.  

Joe's Nuke Talk

 Did President Biden say: "If you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons."

Yes.  It is in relation to his belief that a limit exists within the idea of the Second Amendment.

To be honest, if you listed the 388,812 quotes of Joe Biden over the past thirty years....most fall into the category of being a bit unhinged, and this would be one of them.

So I sat and pondered upon the quote.

To be honest, if you wanted to take on the US government....a simple virus made in some bio-weapons lab would probably be enough.  

Why would anyone go big-tech with F-15s?  The Mujahideen in the 1980s did quiet well with the Soviet military apparatus, and removed the threat of technology with just hand-held surface-to-air missiles.  

I could make a 100-page summary, but it's obvious that Joe was talking to 'consumers' who buy into his chatter, and he didn't mean this to be anything more than laughable-Joe-talk.  

NCAA Players to Get Paid?

 There is a legal case proceeding where some folks think that NCAA players (mostly starting out in football) will force the issue of salaries.  What kind of salaries?  Unknown, and not likely to be discussed.

So, lets be honest here and admit up front....across the nation....there's probably only 35 college (more or less) that make the income from attendance, merchandise and tv contracts....that they could pay some type of salary.

Ole Miss, as an example...pulls in around $17-million a year, from it's entire sports department.

The University of Texas makes around 40-odd million off football ticket revenue.

University of Alabama?  It makes around 33-odd million off their football program.

So if this case goes to the bottom line....just what kind of salary would be paid out for your average player? 

My humble guess is that teams would sit down and have a 'pyramid-type' system where three to five players would be able to pull in $60,000 per season and the bottom ten players (mostly reserve players) would never make more than $5,000 a season (figure $15 an hour for practice and playing time).

Freshmen getting next to nothing?  It might go that way.

Would you have some teams offering Corvettes to players who decline the pay-scale?  You might have cases like that.

But there's this one problem.  After you wrap up the 35-odd teams at the top level....most all other teams would not be able to pay more than $3,000 per player, and there would be this huge 'fairness' issue brewing for the NCAA.  

I suspect in a matter of four years...you'd have a large segment of players trying to unionize, and suddenly Saturday football games would be hit with strikes.  The whole system would collapse in a matter of just one season.  

So I think the end of the tunnel is emerging and you will see a spiral starting up shortly.  

The Problem with News

 Joe Rogan gave an interview in the past couple of days, and talked about spiraling trend of CNN, and in particular....Brian Stelter.

Over the past three years, I've probably watched twenty-odd clips of Stelter in action....some of three minutes....some going up to half-an-hour.  The general problem that Stelter has (same way for most all of CNN's team)....they take a story which has six facts which could be discussed for about six minutes.....but instead turn the entire show (45 minutes if you cut commercial time out), and you stand there at the conclusion....feeling a bit dazed that six facts took 45 minutes to lay out.  

Adding onto this....you end up with four people at the table, coming on the show at various times....acting as experts, and you feel like one single person could have told this story in simplicity.

You see this at a lesser degree with MSNBC and Fox....maybe half as much. They usually lay out the six facts....have one single expert appear, and maybe dwell on this for around fifteen minutes. 

Stelter excels at this 'game' more than anyone else.  

Rogan's criticism?  He's correct....people are flipping from commercial news....to YouTube 'channels' like Rogan.  Rogan has become a modern-day Larry King....asking both smart and stupid questions.  Rogan lets you know ahead of time....he's always a bit skeptical and doesn't necessarily buy into half of the news that we hear on a daily basis.

The fact that Rogan's show outdraws Stelter's show now?  If you had said something like this a decade ago....folks would have laughed. 

Should CNN let Shelter go?  Well...if you did....what would replace him?  The same crap?