If You Read Between The Lines: Biden's Supreme Court Committee

 After a lot of talking and thinking....Biden's commission on updating the Supreme Court came to a conclusion.  The only thing that they did seem to agree upon....maybe there ought to be a 'cycle' where a Supreme Court judge stands for 18 years, then moves on.  This would be done in a cycle, ensuring each President had one chance to nominate a new guy/gal.  

Getting this actually done?  Well....you'd have to go to the Constitution, and get a two-third's vote of both the House and Senate....then get 38 states to agree to this.

Added to this burden, logically....once you openly discussed this 'forced' upon the Supreme Court.....the public would ask why you couldn't do the same thing to the House and Senate....enforcing a 18-year cycle upon them.  

For a lot of Democrats who felt the commission would write the script to 'fix' their court problem?  This was a total failure.  

USA Today Headline: Is Math Racist?

 Yesterday, as a topic for it's daily paper.....USA Today asked the question.....is math racist?

I've seen the subject on more than a couple of occasions, and generally laughed over the discussion.

There are around four issues which seem to 'hover' above this topic.

First, ever since Black Lives Matter started up.....they needed 'targets' to hype upon and this math business is one of them.  The belief is that black kids do badly in math and never grasp various applications.  So in the general mindset....it has to be racist.  In this case.....I would suggest that there are substantial numbers of math instructors (across America) who are not capable of teaching math.  

If you are in a crappy and marginally-run school....the odds are your math scores (from both whites/blacks) will be limited.  It's not a racist thing.....it's more like a poor instructor problem. 

Second, there are some individuals who believe you can dumb-down math, and make it simpler.  You know....the same way that you can dumb down geography, English, science, etc.  The problem with this logic is that math has spent several thousand years getting to the point where it is about as dumbed-down as it can possibly be.  

Third, if you tried to just stamp math as marginally required, and let kids off the hook at the fifth-grade level (doing the same for English, History, Science).....then you might as well release/graduate kids at the sixth-grade and send them off to Burger King to flip burgers.  

Fourth and final.....with the exception of the French Fry guy at BK.....there just aren't any jobs in America where math does not occur.  I know it's shocking but if you go dig into most all jobs (even as President)....some kind of math occurs with jobs.  Even dope dealers, transmission mechanics, and bartenders have to deal with some element of math to be successful in life. 

Observaions

 1.  Ukraine and Putin.  It would appear the game plan for Biden is to arm Ukraine with US weapons....thus getting Putin closer to the invasion goal.  People will be shaking their heads in January on how this mess got created.

2.  Fauci is now admitting this travel-Africa ban was hastily done......might go back in the next couple of days to undo this.

3.  Someone put up statistics to show the late-night TV crew (Colbert, Kimmel, etc) are in a spiral with the youth audience.  Apparently, some of them woke up and realized they aren't that funny.

4.  There's been some kinda claim this week that Joe Biden is getting more negative press/media attention....than Donald Trump.  I've probably wasted an hour pondering over this.  The suggestion here is like comparing chocolate ice cream, to vanilla ice cream.  It's a totally different kind of attention....where Biden seems to go walking out in some cow-field, intentionally stepping into a cow-paddy every third step....then standing there grinning while the Press-Spokesperson remarks that he might have accidentally stepped into a paddy.  Then he repeats this over and over. 

The Second Amendment or Freedom From Tyranny

 If you could write some statement and find some way to provide protection (absolute in nature) from tyranny.....then you wouldn't need the Second Amendment.  That's really the long standing problem when you drill down into this whole discussion.

In the 1760s.....tyranny was some statement that you uttered in various ways, after having to deal with the British system of law in the colonies.  There just aren't 'protections' that exist....to give you some safe feeling against tyranny.  

So we edged through the 1800s...with tyranny always a step or two away (particularly in American western history, or the Civil War period), thinking over what would give us some chance of survival. 

As we arrived in the 1900s....tyranny was discussed in various other ways.  

If you live in a number of American cities today....tyranny has been replaced by fear of crime or threats.  You could be on the way home, and have some wild human creature with the idea of harming you at the gas station or super-market.  The Second Amendment is the only protection in this case.

This entire argument....to rid the nation of the Second Amendment?  You'd have to go and refer to tyranny, and build something to protect people from that.  Good luck on that search.  

The Normal Strategy of Picking a Vice-President

 Up until the 1990s, you (as the Presidential candidate) picked a VP who was mostly unknown to the bulk of America after the primary system.  Even in the case of Johnson being selected by JFK.....beyond Texas, the vast majority of Americans didn't know the guy.

The chief strategy was that you'd pick someone who was mostly unknown....not likely to create a fake national crisis....not having affairs to turn into scandals....didn't really cheat much on taxes....and didn't really know much about world politics.  

You might admit in 50-percent of cases....selecting a VP meant meeting the guy/gal for the first time and your full knowledge level was enough to put on a 3 x 5 inch index card.

So here is the problem of Biden-Harris.  Joe Biden needs 'lift' and figures that his VP ought to be out....actually working.  The script to the VP job?  You are supposed to attend funerals, cabinet meetings, golf at least twice a week, and mostly attend parties in the district.  You can consume a vast amount of alcohol, and wink at the opposite sex.  Joe wants more, and Harris is unable to deliver.  Why Joe needs more?  Well....he can't deliver.  He's basically acting like the VP job under President Obama.

What Harris should do?  Nothing.  I'd dismiss most of her staff....hire 3 or 4 unknown folks (college kids) and just do exactly what VP Biden did for eight years.  

Chances of her running in 2024?  Just about zero.  So it doesn't really matter.  

Observations

 1.  Jussie Smollett. I think this case will end with a conviction and a total time of 12 months of prison given.  With time off....he might be out in seven months.  Maybe it shapes up the guy, and he walks a straight line from this point on.

2.  Tesla moving its headquarters from California to Texas.  If you wrote up a list of the top fifty company headquarters in California presently....I'd suggest that virtually all of them have examined the idea of leaving, and at least ten of them are pretty serious (to announce by the end of 2022).  If I were the California tax revenue 'boss'.....I'd start hinting that this is a major problem.

3.  Gut-feeling over nut-case high school students.  The minute there is some hint of a high school kid being a nut-case.....expel the kid and let the parents deal with this.  If the kid needs a permanent presence in some mental facility....it's their job, not the school's job.  

Wilson Edward's Story

 Back around the 3rd week of July (2021)....there's this guy who appeared on Facebook/Twitter by the name of Wilson Edwards.

Wilson was a Swiss guy (yeah, Edwards is not really a Swiss name)....who happened to be a PhD-type biologist, and knew a good bit on Covid.  

Wilson came via social media to a lot of people, and talked over the idea that the US government (via the Biden-people) were putting a fair amount of pressure on the WHO to blame China for Covid.

At some point....maybe about three weeks into Wilson's appearance....some folks wanted to know more about the guy.  Even Chinese wanted to know about him.

So the Swiss government went and did a search to Wilson.  Basically, they couldn't find the guy.  He was non-existent.

Within a couple of days....Facebook and Twitter took down Wilson's accounts.

Here's the thing....if you really started to dig around Facebook/Twitter....there's probably 100k fake accounts out there like this....maybe even going up to 1-million.  

In the end, people doubted Wilson's chatter and began to question his authority.