How I Explain Alien UFO Visits

 I sat and watched a podcast the other day, and the key item of discussion....could it be that the aliens in this suggested visitation to Earth (a hot topic around the Pentagon) just be here not as explorers but just private travelers who want some thrill in life, and some alien Jeff Bezos character rigged up a space travel service to bring Org, his girlfiend Logzi and sixty-odd folks to Earth for a year or two of thrills?

It's been on my mind for a week, and to be honest....the idea is actually appealing in various ways.

I could imagine some alien-run corporation like Amazon getting successful....building alien craft, and then hauling aliens off on weird and wild vacation packages.

You might go and drop Org/Logzi off in New Orleans for a week of wild passion, great food, and heavy drinking.  Then they get picked up....taken to London for various shows, and then spend six months on some beach in Thailand to chill out.

Earth being like a West-World.....just better?  Certainly.

The fact that forty different alien civilizations might have 10,000 aliens on Earth presently.....on some long-term holiday vacation package?  Well....why not?

There's probably even a alien run 'TripAdvisor' program which recommends hotels, pubs, and excitement.  

Observations

 1. The odds that the Pelosi 6-January Insurrection Commission will be reformed in January of 2023, under a new Speaker of the House (GOP guy), and produce an entirely different report, with no Democrats on the Commission?  I'd say it's better than a 70-percent chance now.  Two conflicting reports in the end?  Yeah.

2.  With various military groups leaving Afghanistan and Iraq....what are the odds of ISIS or the Taliban coming back into the picture?  I'd give that better than a 70-percent chance.  If so....does that mean refugees now come back into the picture....toward Europe?  Absolutely.  I'd already take a estimate that more than 100,000 Afghans try to enter Germany in 2022. 

3.  Jewell Jones, Democratic Party state representative from Michigan....used campaign funds to have a 'party' at a strip club.  Now before you go off the handle....this was a fund-raising party and by renting out the room, the incoming folks paid some cash for drinks and a chance meet him.  No one says a word about strippers in the room with the guests or Jones.  Yep, this was all innocent and without much drama.  How much was spent?  The journalists suggest $220.  

4.  I've watched probably three minutes of the Olympics up until this point (morning of Thursday).  Zero interest....you can blame Covid, woke crap, etc.  

Survey Story

 Look, I've tried to make sense out of this story from Minnesota that came out yesterday.  The basic situation is that a teacher (unnamed so far) handed out a survey to fourth-grade kids.  Topic of the survey?  Equity.  Yes, posed to mostly ten-year old kids.  

So the chief question....what gender do you identify as?  

Kids sat there in the class....confused.  So they asked if it were OK to ask their parents for help in answering the survey.  'No' was the response from the teacher.

It wasn't just one of the questions....various questions were not understood by the fourth-grade crowd.

Naturally, this has gotten a lot of parents upset.

So I pondered upon this.

Most fourth-grade boys are mostly into Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, or Space Ghost.  

Most fourth-grade girls are mostly into Barbie, Backstreet Boys, or Taylor Swift.

Out of a 25-student class....there might be one intellectual kid who knows about equity and gender-garbage, and might be answering the questions of the survey.  In the 1970s....you (the whole class itself) would have latched onto 'Marvin' (class genius)....got his input of the answer, and just copied it.

Another student of the 1970s class....'Woody', would have gone home....typed up the survey in a whole fashion....asking if the teacher were to be graded as a Nazi or Fascist.....how do you rate them from one to ten?   He would have handed this in, and that night at home....Teacher Wanda would have read the piece and just freaked out that some kid considered her a '9' as a Nazi.

The question here....exactly what of value are you teaching in school, and would you just be better off with a home-school situation?

As for the answer to the gender question....just always answer that you felt feelings of being a 'Walrus', and would like body/gender modification surgical business to convert over.  Be insistent though....you only want to be a male Walrus, and you want the name Odysseus.   

The Letter Story

 I sat and read this story several times....from over at Hot Air's site.

So this is the way it goes.

There's this 'letter' that went out from a group called Dallas Justice Now....to a number of parents in a particular white neighborhood in the vicinity of Dallas.  Based on the description....it sounds like it's upscale, and the type of neighborhood where folks drive BMWs, own $100k RVs, and send their kids off to Harvard or Georgetown for college.

The letter goes into detail, but it basically wants these mostly all white parents to STOP sending their kids to high-end or Ivy League colleges.  

Chief reason?  To help support Black Lives Matter.  The logic here is that if the rich white kids don't show up....the Ivy League school would be 'forced' to accept black kids.

So I sat pondering over this.

First, is this a legit letter?  No one much has ever heard of this Dallas Justice Now group.  

Second, if you approached a hundred rich and upper-scale families with this type of scenario....they'd ask you how they could do this and ensure that 'Johnny Jr' or 'Wanda Jean' could get ahead in life without the Georgetown or Princeton diploma?

Third, even if they did this......wouldn't the second tier white families....the ones making $75k a year on salary simply take up the space vacated by the ultra rich families?   Or maybe the ultra rich Latino families would do this?

Fourth, where the hell did the Dallas Justice Now group get the mailing addresses from?

Fifth and final.....if this letter came to your house, and Wanda Jean (being 16 and all hyped-up to attend Harvard in two years) stood there listening to your acceptance of this idea.....just how peeved would Wanda Jean get?  

Personally, I think the letter is a hoax deal, and probably written by some Republican guy in the same neighborhood.  This is probably the same guy who gives the fake-support hype each week at the local golf club and seems overly supportive of BLM.  

Now, if you asked me....out of a hundred families who might get the letter...how many will react?  I'd say between one and zero.  There's probably some wife now trying to convince Johnny Jr.....that attending North Dakota State University isn't such a bad thing.  

Stamps Going Up

 Last week, even though Congress wasn't that enthusiastic over the idea....the Post Office announced that stamp prices would go up (from 55 to 58 cents).  Around early September, this will happen.

As a teenage kid (1975), I remember the price being at 10 cents.  That's how far the economy has really changed in 46 years.

I would speculate by 2030....it'll be fairly close to 80 cents.  

You have to ask yourself....are we using Postal Service that much?  In a normal year now....I probably mail a total of seven to ten items....that's a quarter of what I was doing in 1985.  On deliveries....90-percent occur by Fedex, DHL, or some German special delivery deal.

I might go and speculate that ten-percent of the population get no more than one piece of mail per week today.  

The idea of published catalogs?  Why?  You can go online and search, then purchase your item.

It is a different world than forty years ago..

Public Safety Story

 For several days, there's been this ballot referendum from Minneapolis that has been on my mind.  It's pushed up by the city council, and will be voted up later in the year by residents of the city.

The general wording?  The police department would basically go away.

What you'd have is a safety department.

Composition?  'Licensed' police officers, mental health responders, substance abuse specialists, violence 'interrupters' and violence prevention professionals.

I've sat and reviewed the idea, and the composition.

Generally, I see five problems:

1.  Manpower-wise, you'd probably have to double the number of folks that you have presently as police, to make this effectively work.  Tax revenue-wise....it will take an incredibly large group, and cost value.....to put this into action.

2.  If I were a violence 'interrupter'....brought to a scene and the guy is drugged-up to the max....the odds are that this will get violent in a matter of minutes, and I'm not armed or trained to the degree required....so I expect the violence 'interrupter' crowd to meet a violent situation in ten-percent of cases.

3.  If you took the Floyd-case....who would have been called?  Well....the standard police in this new era because this was all about a stupid counterfeit $20 that Floyd didn't want to discuss.  

4.  Man-hours on each event?  Where the cops might figure 90 minutes for a messed-up situation....under this situation, you might be talking about three to four hours.  

Hostile drugged-up husband?  Wife calls 9-1-1.  Mental health guy responds, and meets up with a very violent husband.  This will be a very case to spiral out of control quickly.

5.  Finally, where is the authority figure?  Normally, authority rests with the police.  If some 'violence interrupter' guy shows up and flashes a badge.....you will ask the guy....are you the police?  He'll say no, and you will disrespect the guy by walking away.  That will be standard public attitude.

I see this referendum passing, and in a matter of two years....the cost of public safety in Minneapolis will soar to double what the cost is today.  I'll also predict that a quarter of the residents will view the change in a negative way.....plan an exodus from the city, and the experiment will be deemed a failure after four years.  The failure will mostly revolve more violent acts than before and the cost factor being too much for residents to handle.  

So to a final note, which I found odd....the change that is proposed....has a little sentence in it....which says that the police that would exist after the transformation....would be more or less run/managed by the city council themselves...NOT the police chief.  

You would hire someone who would just 'pretend' to be the chief, but in reality...some city council member could walk into the central control room....via a situation and just demand that officers 'stand-down'.....there would be no standard way of handling a mess....you'd just invent a new management view each day and leave people guessing how the chips may fall.

In some ways....it's a bit amusing and looks like a transformation into Mogadishu....one clan family over another, just depending the day of the week. 

Biden's Suggestion

 One of the comments from President Biden during the town hall of this past week....concerns the comment 'we don't have near enough people handling the mentally-ill and the drug addicted folks in America'.

I've sat there for a fair amount of time pondering the statement.

NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) says just in general....one out of five Americans have some form of mental illness.  That's 51.5-million Americans.  At the more serious level....they figure it's five-percent of the nation or 13-million.  

NSDUH says that around (2017 survey) 19.7-million Americans had a drug addiction of some type.  

You add the numbers up....it's around 33-million folks that would be in this concept of President Biden's idea.....where people would be handling the group.  

The chief problem here?  Under his idea....these people deserve help....whether they want it or not. If you went up to the 33-million and said here's your big chance in life....I'd be skeptical that you even got 10-percent of the group being agreeable for one massive rehab deal.  

In the case of the paranoid schizophrenic folks....you might be better off just housing them in a quiet facility....away from the general public. Once you explained that idea to the general public....probably sixty-percent of them would freak out and say 'no way'. 

So the suggestion that President Biden made?   A noble act?  More or less....yeah.  We all have crazy uncles, nutty neighbors who mow the lawn in a precise fashion, co-workers who disappear on a four-day period once a year while using heroin or LSD, friends who go nuts when traveling on planes, associates who do weed four times a day to handle their anxiety/stress levels, and cousins who have lived under bridges in Los Angeles for the past seven years.  

It's just that it'd take a massive army to cover the issue, and if the problem-person doesn't want the enforced recovery....then what?