Quote of the Week

 “If you're vaccinated, you’re not going to die.” 

- President Joe Biden

Yeah, he actually did say that.  He was told that by the scientists I guess, and he said to trust the scientists.

On the 'misinformation-index' (one to ten)....I'd say it's pretty close to a eight.  But you know.....maybe it's good misinformation....to help you when you feel weak, or disgruntled.  

You go into work, and hype it to your co-workers.  You go to church, and hype it to your Baptist associates.  You go into the honky-tonk, and hype it to the tube-top ladies.  You tell it to Grandma, the neighbors, your transmission mechanic, the burger-gal, your Choctaw Indian friend, and even your dog.  

Maybe it serves a purpose of some type.  I doubt if the dog believes you though....he'll be worried about your situation. 

Ten Tips If You Are Going to Lecture People

 1.  If you intend to lecture people on business, you better know the topic.  The same goes for lecturing people on drug use, taxes, farming, nutrition, homelessness, or resolving conflict.

2.  If you use the phrase 'you-better-believe-the-experts' or 'you-better-believe-the-scientists'....your lecture is doomed.

3.  If you intend to lecture and this revolves around a COST of some type....you better know the exact amount of cost, and just NOT say it's 'minimum'.

4.  If you are using a Hollywood 'puppet' as part of the lecture....you might as well use quotes from Mighty Mouse, Huckleberry Hound, or Space Ghost.

5.  If it takes you more than ten minutes of talking to get your chief lecture point across....you probably failed.

6.  If you lecture people and say the phrase....'civilization will be destroyed in a single decade'.....people now start to laugh and not take your talk serious.

7.  Fidel Castro is famous for lecture speeches....on one occasion, he actually went 7.5 hours with his lecture.  There's no indication that folks who started listening....stayed with him for the entire lecture.  You kinda need to wrap up a lecture in 30 minutes or less.

8.  If your idea is to lecture people....day in....day out....five days a week, then your 'business' will ultimately fail.  People can't consume that amount of lecture.

9.  Mixing religion, politics or health matters into a lecture is risky business.  You may very well wake up....to find half your audience gone because they considered your lecture to be a joke, and they won't return.  

10.  A comedian can lead a lecture just as well as some four-star general, or some PhD scientist.  

(secret tip: If your business is NFL football, and the football  side of things becomes the secondary topic, while your lecture is the primary topic.....your business is finished).  

Town Hall Chatter

 At some point in the past twelve hours, someone finally put up the 72-minute town hall meeting with President Biden on YouTube (no, it wasn't CNN who did it).

So I tried to view it, and finally gave up around minute 45.  My chief three observations:

1.  There's just nothing to take away from the 45 minutes I watched.  No new policy ideas, no new enthusiasm, nothing.  If he were selling something....you were buying the same stuff from 2020's campaign.  

2.  The Covid-chatter?  Basically, you need to obey the scientists.  Biden professes he believes the scientists....you should too.

3.  There's probably 50-odd occasions in that 45 minutes I watched....where Biden was halfway through a comment/thought process....then stops for two to four seconds, and then renders some different comment/analysis.  It was like someone hit a button, to reset his brain.  This was the chief reason why I gave up at the 45-minute point....I couldn't handle this continual 're-boot'.

My general belief....he has to be on some type of drug which affects thinking and analysis, and he can't give you 100-percent, or for that matter...even 90-percent of his capability.

As for Don Lemon, the moderator?  At some point, Biden walks up to him....probably within three feet and you can see Don take a half-step back (maybe fearful of Covid....maybe fearful that Joe was going to intentionally bump him).  I think Don gave the best he could....under the circumstances.  

The half-filled hall?  Well....it's best not to bring that up.

My advice?  Either they halt these town hall meetings entirely....or they start them at 8 AM when Biden is refreshed and full-power.  

At least when a Obama Town Hall episode ended....you kinda got some form of enthusiasm....things weren't that bad....new horizon coming....'we-can-do-it' was the end product.  You didn't feel any of that from this Town Hall episode.  

Observations

 1. It's just odd....usually after a Presidential Town Hall meeting.....they put the whole thing up on YouTube...ALL of it.  Today....18 hours later....nothing.  You get a minute here...five minutes there.....all cut to some small portion.  

Just odd.  It's CNN's work, and you'd think they'd want people to have a chance to view it.

2.  VP Harris made a comment about a voting rights bill going around in the Senate, and voiced the comment that she'd talked to folks from BOTH parties.  Some reporter stood up and asked what Republican she talked to.  She didn't answer the question.  Maybe she chatted with them....maybe not.

3.  So there's this ballot initiative floating around the DC city council which says that it'd be OK to create African American 'autonomous zones' in DC.  What does this really mean?  Well....in that 'zone'....you'd have your own black mayor and black city council folks.

So does it sound like some South African tribal 'zone'?  When you sit and think about it.....yeah....it does sound that way.

What's odd about this idea?  When I lived there (2010 to 2013)....the past five or six mayors had all been black, and 90-percent of the city council members since the 2000 era....were black.  So if you asked me....maybe they should just appoint DC already (entirely) a tribal or autonomous zone?  

Doing this in New Orleans, Memphis, Chicago, Detroit, Birmingham.....just making them tribal or autonomous zones?  

Don't worry....I doubt if this would pass.

4.  I noticed some grocery chain CEO stood up today and said that prices will surge in October 10 to 14 percent.  

5.  Just odd how these state border re-alignment groups keep multiplying now.  About every six months.....the pro-change-the-border groups double in size.  I'm waiting for some neighborhood group in NY City to want a status change and be included into Alabama.  

The Truth About This Pelosi-6 January-'Truth Commission'

 Basically, Grandma baked up a pie...set it on the window to cool off, and someone stole.  So Grandma is calling the Scooby Doo-team in, and they know the drill....just blame the neighbor kid but lengthen this enough that Grandma bakes a dozen pies just for the Scooby team.

This whole effort works like the Warren Commission over JFK's assassination, except the FBI and Justice Department are already on the case, and doing their job.  Now, if you think they are incapable of doing their job....then the Scooby Doo-team makes sense.  But so far, no one has suggested that.

Pelosi refused two of the Republican's suggested members to the team....so they came back yesterday and said they just weren't going to participate.  So it's simply a one-sided Scooby Doo-team.

Will anyone cooperate and testify?  Not unless you work up a deal and drop charges on them.

Will the Capital Police chief and leadership admit they screwed up?  No. 

Will Pelosi be asked questions?  No.

So this Scooby Doo-team script is already basically written out?  Yeah.

When will the report be finalized?  I would imagine around 30 days before the November 2022 mid-term election.  It'll be page one news on CNN for at least a month. 

Will anyone really care?  That's the question.

If there is a serious Republican win in November's mid-term....won't that start another truth-commission/Scooby Doo team?  Well....yeah, and it'll center on Biden (both Joe and Hunter), and maybe even look at Antifa.  

I'd start to prepare myself....every two years, another Scooby Doo team investigation, and probably more truth than you can ever handle.  Here's the chief problem....we probably need to know the truth about the truth.

The Next Downward Step of the NFL?

 A couple of days ago....I saw this news piece....the NFL says that it will play the song widely recognized as the Black national anthem (Lift Every Voice) before every 2021-2022 season game.

Blacks universally agreeing on this 'national anthem'?  Well....no.

Likely to draw criticism and physical acts to counter the 'anthem'?  I would suggest that some in the stadiums will stand and turn 180 degrees....putting their backs to the field area.

The odds that some will render another song instead?  I could see some rendering a rendition of ABBA's 'Money, Money, Money'.....or the Beatles 'It's Been a Hard Day's Night'.  

The possibility that some viewers will start the telecast by muting the sound and watching the entire game in silence?  That might happen.

The odds that the Latinos/Hispanic announce that they want their 'anthem', that the Chinese community will want their 'anthem' played....that the southern whites will want their 'anthem' played.....that the Boston community will want their 'anthem' played....and so on?  I'd give it pretty goods that by the sixth week of this....this issue will arise.

That idea that NFL football will be about football?  Gone.  Maybe it's not such a bad thing for it to just dissolve away.  

On the Topic of Art

 This morning, I went looking for examples of Hunter Biden artwork.  It's been in the news lately, and Hunter is apparently making some 'cash/loot' for the paintings.

My impression?  If you type in Hunter Biden art.....Google will come up and give you at least five paintings.

First, it's weird stuff that you might draw, if you were on LSD or Crack.

Second, it kinda reminds one of Vasily Kandinsky or Pablo Picasso....simple stuff....maybe a dozen colors....the stuff you could start at 9 AM and have done at 5 PM.

Third, in towns like Tucson or Austin....at a local art show.....this kinda stuff would max out at $400.....not $400k.  

Fourth and final....if this were a 18-year old kid's work....you'd likely advise him to stick with his regular job and just do this as a evening hobby.

So if you were to buy one or two....say for $250k each....would they hold value?  I just don't see how.