My choice? 2.5.
Thursday, 21 July 2022
Baseball Chatter
Red Sox is the worst situation....$324. Phoenix is best at $126.
In a period of inflation? It makes no sense to attend a game.
Ten Things
1. Lately, if you just stand back and observe all the chaos and crazy thing going on....it does seem to be remarkably like an episode of the Twilight Zone.
Nothing makes sense. People seem to be 24-hour a day hypocrites. Logic meets illogic on a continuing basis. You could walk into a beverage shop with empty pallets where the beer should be, and the only explanation by 'Woody' is that the distribution chain is 'broke'.
2. The one negative I hang on Trump? Out of every ten people he hired....five were idiots or working to oppose him. He proved his firing skills at dumping them....but he was crappy at finding good people.
3. 'Experts' seem to come out of the woodwork daily....to the TV news folks....to intimidate us with the expertness. About half the time, we reach a level where it's a 'staged-lecture' and mute the expert's dialog.
4. Just a test, but after all this dialog and chatter about the Secret Service having lost text messages from the 6th of January of 2021....I'd like to announce a text message review of everything that the House members wrote on the 2nd of June. I would expect within twenty-four hours....all of their messages will also have disappeared.
5. Adderall induced psychosis will be declared the number one health issue in America within five years....my prediction. It'll even outpace meth usage.
People will be reporting to their doctors that they perceived Jesus walked into their living room last night, or they have these persistent thoughts of buying a cabin in Alaska for no reason, or that they are having continual behavior attractions to slutty women. Your cousin will call and announce he's getting a gender change because the dog told him to do it. Your boss will imagine that half the employees need clothing mandates because their style doesn't match his.
Doctors will react to this....prescribing MORE Adderall, and tripling up the affected crowd.
6. Within five years, it'll be common-place in several states to see men and women hauling around a holster with a pistol, or having shotgun slung over their shoulder....while grocery-shopping or filling the car with gas.
7. It's just funny....as a kid....I probably watched at least a dozen TV shows/movies each year where people sunk off into quicksand. Over the past decade? Not a single move/TV show....where 'Joe' would fall into quicksand.
8. Some chatter going on....the White House is in search of a new communications team. Interviews to occur, and offers to be made. 18 months into this period. Presently, I would forecast whoever is hired....will last through till spring of 2023, and be dumped for the next team.
9. I think if you gathered up a hundred gay/lesbian folks, and asked how consumed they are over gender evolution....more than 95-percent would say this is NOT for them.
10. One odd thing on the bill floating around in the House to ban assault weapons. If you can get a draft of it....on page 8, it bans the Ruger Mini-14. Funny though....then you page over to page 26, and it UN-bans the Ruger Mini-14. Probably sixteen people writing the draft, and the pieces.....with one guy consumed to ban the '14' and one guy wanting it to be a regular weapon.
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Chatter Over the Mall Shooting
The thing I'm impressed with.....from roughly 120 ft away (90 ft is the standard from home-plate to first-base)....he hit the guy eight times out of ten shots.
If it'd been me? At that distance.....I probably would have only hit the guy two times. I might also have known my limits and tried to edge forward 30 feet....to have a better opportunity at the shot.
But that's admitting I'm just not a pistol shooter (better with the rifle).
The fact that he continued to fire after the first round hit the guy? I would have kept firing until he was on the ground, as well.
A Little History Story
About every five or six years.....I bring up this little story.
This is about the Chappaquiddick Island episode with Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne...happening on 18 July 1969.
The basic outline is that Ted left a party on the isle with Mary Jo....took a wrong turn...got over a bridge, and then ran off into the water. Ted managed to climb out. Mary Jo didn't make it. Ted was considered somewhat drunk. Ted somehow made it back to the hotel at 2AM. Cops come in the early morning to the site. Ted gets signed off as it being just an accident. End of the story.
Some things about the episode don't fit.
The purse in the car? It's not Mary Jo's, and no one ever really determined who owned the purse. Three people in the car? Well....I've come to think that.
The wrong turn?
Here's the thing about Chapaquiddick. The party house is on the south side of the isle. You drive up one single road for 3/4 of a mile and there a left or right turn. Left goes to the ferry to return to the mainland. Right goes to a bridge which only takes you to another sandbar area....running four miles in length.
Ted turns right. It's 4,000 feet to the bridge.
I don't think this was a one-car situation. I think Ted left with two ladies in his car...with a friend/associate (with another lady) in the lead car. The lead car crosses over and goes up the sandbar. Late night party fun is anticipated. Ted is about a minute behind. Ted drives off the bridge. The lead car driver, I humbly think....waited around fifteen to twenty minutes for Ted, and then came back around....finding the car in the water, and Ted on the bank....probably with another woman, and Mary Jo in the sunken car.
As the cops tell the story....Ted walks down the road....turns left, and for some reason (in the darkness around midnight) goes back to the party house. No one can explain any good reason for this. Oddly, all the booze bottles and beer cans? The cops find none there the next day.
Ted apparently sits around for a while, and then walks from there to the ferry area. It's a 2.4 mile walk.....in the dark....with Ted still somewhat drunk. The fact that houses and cottages exist there....mid-summer, with people who could help? This never figures into the cop investigation.
Ted arrives at the ferry dock, and then swims (yes, unbelievable)....roughly a quarter-mile swim in the dark at 1AM while somewhat drunk. Then Ted arrives at the hotel where he sleeps off the drunken episode.
For me, it's hard to believe the story as it stands. Ted would have had to walk at least four miles in the dark....in a fairly drunken state. I think the folks in the second car helped Ted clean up the mess and just get him to the dock. The cops do shift some blame onto Ted.
The affect of this episode on the 1972 Presidential election? That's an interesting episode.
Ted Kennedy instead of Hubert Humphrey? Without the Chappaquiddick incident, I think Ted would have come very close to defeating Nixon in 1972. The news folks would have hyped up the Ted agenda, and Nixon's war situation would have been a negative.
This is about the Chappaquiddick Island episode with Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne...happening on 18 July 1969.
The basic outline is that Ted left a party on the isle with Mary Jo....took a wrong turn...got over a bridge, and then ran off into the water. Ted managed to climb out. Mary Jo didn't make it. Ted was considered somewhat drunk. Ted somehow made it back to the hotel at 2AM. Cops come in the early morning to the site. Ted gets signed off as it being just an accident. End of the story.
Some things about the episode don't fit.
The purse in the car? It's not Mary Jo's, and no one ever really determined who owned the purse. Three people in the car? Well....I've come to think that.
The wrong turn?
Here's the thing about Chapaquiddick. The party house is on the south side of the isle. You drive up one single road for 3/4 of a mile and there a left or right turn. Left goes to the ferry to return to the mainland. Right goes to a bridge which only takes you to another sandbar area....running four miles in length.
Ted turns right. It's 4,000 feet to the bridge.
I don't think this was a one-car situation. I think Ted left with two ladies in his car...with a friend/associate (with another lady) in the lead car. The lead car crosses over and goes up the sandbar. Late night party fun is anticipated. Ted is about a minute behind. Ted drives off the bridge. The lead car driver, I humbly think....waited around fifteen to twenty minutes for Ted, and then came back around....finding the car in the water, and Ted on the bank....probably with another woman, and Mary Jo in the sunken car.
As the cops tell the story....Ted walks down the road....turns left, and for some reason (in the darkness around midnight) goes back to the party house. No one can explain any good reason for this. Oddly, all the booze bottles and beer cans? The cops find none there the next day.
Ted apparently sits around for a while, and then walks from there to the ferry area. It's a 2.4 mile walk.....in the dark....with Ted still somewhat drunk. The fact that houses and cottages exist there....mid-summer, with people who could help? This never figures into the cop investigation.
Ted arrives at the ferry dock, and then swims (yes, unbelievable)....roughly a quarter-mile swim in the dark at 1AM while somewhat drunk. Then Ted arrives at the hotel where he sleeps off the drunken episode.
For me, it's hard to believe the story as it stands. Ted would have had to walk at least four miles in the dark....in a fairly drunken state. I think the folks in the second car helped Ted clean up the mess and just get him to the dock. The cops do shift some blame onto Ted.
The affect of this episode on the 1972 Presidential election? That's an interesting episode.
Ted Kennedy instead of Hubert Humphrey? Without the Chappaquiddick incident, I think Ted would have come very close to defeating Nixon in 1972. The news folks would have hyped up the Ted agenda, and Nixon's war situation would have been a negative.
If You 'Content' It, They will Come
“Today, you can create content, gain the audience, build the bots, pick out the election and even the voters that are valued the most in swing states and actually insert the right content in a deliberate period.”
-- Clint Watts, counter-terrorism expert and former FBI agent back in the spring of 2017 in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
This comment came to revolve around the dangers facing the Electoral College and how it might be destabilized.
What Is/Was A Serf?
Well....originally (going back over 500 years)...a serf was a local guy who usually couldn't read/write, and they served the local 'estate'. You were 'bound' in some way to the property and the local 'lord'.
The neat thing about this status....you could actually be a free-guy (non-serf) and make some stupid debt issues....thus finding your name on papers....putting you into serf status.
On the books in England, serfs ended around 1807. In Russia, it officially ended in 1867.
I noticed today an argument being waged on Twitter....suggesting that Americans (with college debt) are getting themselves into serfdom status.
It's an interesting argument.
Officially, I'd agree....once you pass a limit....owning nothing much other than a car at age forty....you might present some evidence that you've entered serf status.
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