My Sense Over the Rittenhouse Court Case

 Several years ago, I watched a podcast and a older law professor talked over the decline of prosecutors.  It'd reached a level (he said) where numerous charges were being tossed at folks, and the deal was to bargain the situation down to the 'guilty-party' accepting one or two lesser charges, and marginal jail-time (at least a year or two in semi-serious cases).  

Real prosecution cases....in his mind....no longer existed.  

I think this prosecution team in the Rittenhouse case....were on this remarkable 'ride' and figured that they'd eventually offer Rittenhouse two lesser charges....get him to admit guilt, and they'd avoid a real courtroom case. 

Weeks progressed, and Rittenhouse never wanted a deal. 

In my mind, the prosecution team walked into a case that they were never capable of winning, and had done marginal preparation for the situation.

The skills that might have been there for a 1920s or 1930s courtroom case?  Long gone.  

Just my humble view.    

UFO Chatter

 The top official of various US intelligence groups....came out and talked over UFOs briefly.  So what she said in essence....there's mounting evidence, but intelligence people ask 'whats the real landscape' (where all this leads to), and they can't answer that.

Having viewed all the chatter....over years, I will offer three observations:

1.  There's serious physical limits (at least upon humans) to travel for years in space.  This has been discussed at length.  I'm one of those people who believe none of these are actual beings, but AI-robots, with given instructions.  

2.  You can pretty much assume the 'end-game' contains only two options: gain resources/minerals, or assemble knowledge or data or society.  If they wanted to conquer society....they'd just turn some stupid bat-virus loose and immunize people with a counter-productive vaccine.  

3.  Maybe they are the ones who planted all that exists on Earth.

Beyond that....there's nothing much to be discussed.  If they wanted to hide themselves....they've done a poor job.  

Observations

 1.  Did anyone know that VP Harris was capable of a French accent?

No.  Where did she learn the accent?  I pondered upon this, and the only logical place is that LeBeau guy on Hogan's Heroes.  My guess is that she spent several hours on the flight from DC to Paris....watching LeBeau clips.

2.  Florida chatting about sending refugees to Delaware?

Well....yeah.  Personally, I'd just get a load of refugee actors....one single bus, and then dump them somewhere in Delaware to act-out or pretend to be newly arrived from Florida and just see how public reaction goes.  'Stir the pot' as people say.  Maybe no one even notices them.  

Five Questions Which Might Be Interesting To Ask Joe Biden

 1.  When was the last time that he drove a car and refilled the tank with fuel?

-- I'm just guessing but it's probably been over twenty-five years.  So, he has very little knowledge over fuel costs.

2.  When was the last time that he entered and shopped at a Piggly Wiggly or any type of grocery?

-- In the past decade?  It wouldn't shock me if it's three times or less.

3.  Does he know his monthly average on electricity costs for the house he owns in Delaware?  

-- Just a humble guess here, but he probably hasn't reviewed the bill in thirty-odd years.  His wife might have a basic idea but I'll bet she hasn't seen the bill either, for at least a decade.

4.  Can he name all of his cabinet officials?  

-- It's a silly question, but it would just be curious to ask this and see if he fails.  If he utters 'that blonde gal', or that 'funny guy'.....there's something wrong.  

5.  What officials or meetings did you entertain in the past week?  In terms of man-hours....what exactly have you been doing?

-- As crazy as it sounds....I don't think he can answer the question.  

Two Entertainment Notes

 First, I noticed today that a TV production group is now putting together a TV-Rambo series.

I sat there for a while....trying to contemplate how this would work, how the original script would have to change, and how Rambo would be on the run....24 hours a day...seven days a week....for a whole production year.

Course, you'd have to accomplish all of this with minimum violence, weapons fired, without actually killing too many people (probably a limit of two folks for each one-hour episode).

The more I thought about it....the more I laughed.  

They'd probably try to do this with a female 'bad-guy-sheriff' and probably located in some mountainous area of the Carolinas.  If you asked....how stupid this rates....I'd give it a '9' out of '10'.

Second, there's the basic idea of the next James Bond / 007 movie put out there.

So female 007 (you were introduced to her in this last movie) will have been kidnapped, and 'Q' has decided to call the other 'OO's' (001, 002, etc).  

You (the viewer) will be introduced to at least three OO's (my estimate).  Who will play 001, 002, and 003?  Unknown.  

If this were me writing the script....I'd drag 006 into this and reveal him to be Prince Charles.....just for laughs.

What'll happen?  I'm betting that 001, 002, and 003 all meet an ending (dead) by the conclusion of this movie.....along with the female Bond/007 character.  Q reaches some desperation point in the final minute and reveals that he's called '000' (junior trainee), and you get quietly introduced to some wild character that is unlike any Bond ever.

Just my two cents on the idea.

My Logistics Story

 At various times in my Air Force career....I was often stuck with ordering or receiving items that the office/vault required.  

One day in the late 1990s....I got called to the front door of the vault.  The supply delivery guy was there.  He had a box for our organization.  So I signed for it and opened it at the desk.

Here was a fair sized box, with around forty-odd reels (all newly packed).  It didn't really make any sense....we had nothing in the vault that ran on reels, and hadn't had such a device in eight to ten years.  

So I went to the supply office and asked stupid questions.

They dug through the records, and that around 1990 (approximately eight years prior)....someone in the office ordered around forty of these reels.  Money was allocated, and the purchase was made, but put on back-order.  

So I looked at the paperwork and asked....how much did they pay?  It was near $100 each (premium reels).....$4k was involved.  

I told the 'kid'....we didn't really need these...was there anyone to give it to?  Nope was the response.

I went back to the office and spent ten minutes talking to my Captain.  His advice....dump them.  So I prepared paperwork....to turn them into supply.  Well....they turned down the reels.....telling me to turn them into DRMO (Defense reutilization).  But I had to get a stock number, and there was none.

So I went back to supply 'help' office and spent thirty minutes with the 'kid' again.....inventing a stock number, and getting a slip to turn these in.

Man-hour wise?  From beginning to end?  There's probably five hours of time wasted on this.  

Observations: 8 Nov 2021

 1.  This Ashley Biden 'stolen-diary' story.

Well....first, people are shocked that Biden has a daughter (via his second wife, Jill).  Normally, Hunter and the dead son are the only kids ever mentioned.  Second, people keeping diaries?  Well....it was a popular thing for maybe a hundred years.....but in the last thirty-odd years?  It's simply not that popular.

As for the 'steal'?  This is suggested to have occurred about ten days prior to the November election.....but there's simply not many facts on this property being stolen.  Some people relate that the diary was left behind by the daughter (the abandoned is often used).  

This entire story has the 'look' and 'feel' of being fake.  There might have been a diary-like book there and filled with 'juicy' gossip....but there is little to suggest that it was real or actually written by Ashley.  The FBI drawn in?  Why?  If it was personal property....it's a local cop situation.  

2.  Latest shortage?  Those coffee cups you get at stop-and-go coffee houses?

No one is saying a nation-wide shortage....just that problems are being noticed now in the past week.  The odds that you might be asked to bring your own cup with you in the future?  It wouldn't shock me if by Christmas.....you buy your coffee and put it into your own container.

3.  Is Bosnia about to erupt into another civil war?

Well....in the past six months....politics in the region has changed, and there's some 'dynamics' at work.  The tax-revenue people and the judges.....appear compromised.  So 2022 might be an interesting year, with a collapse of civilization in the region.