House To Rush $50-Million For Chicago, DC and NY Refugee Crisis?

Well....there is a bill out there now....which would funnel $50-million over to the city governments of NY City, DC, and Chicago.  

The question here....out of each dollar sent....how much is funneled to some middle guy who is providing a $4 plate of food for $10?  Yeah, carving out some corruption money.

The $50-million?  It'll arrive and probably be spent in four weeks.  

My issue?  At the end of August, it was figured that 9,000 refugees had been put on buses for the three destinations.  At the current pace, by Christmas.....I would figure the number would be up around 16,000.  

That 50-million would have to re-occur every six weeks....to 'save' the three cities.

Equating Levitation To Gender Stuff

 At some, when all this 'wave' of gender stuff started up, I came one day to think that if this all made sense....then levitation made sense as well.

To define levitating?  Well....it's the rising of the human body....maybe an inch....maybe a couple inches.  

The background....most all of the episodes ever discussed came from either hallucinations of the crowd, or some illusion of the guy demonstrating his ability.

Most religions at some point....have entertained levitation to some minor degree.

I felt that if you could change sexes.....you might as well go and claim you could levitate, and use the same degree of illusion or hallucination.  

Everyone wants to believe in some gender change....to such a degree....that hallucinating it is not that big of a deal.  It'd be different to say you were changing your dog into a cat, or making yourself into a tree stump.  But this is just a simple task of getting the audience to think something....whether true or not.

Burn-Out Chatter

 This week, I read through a news piece which talked up the burn-out rate of ministers in America....now developing into a problem where guys/gals walk off the job.

Trigger?  Well....you would think that the primary job is just to write up a simple 40-minute sermon for Sunday, chat up Moses ten times more than what he deserves, avoid Revelations and demon-chatter as much as possible, pray for sick folks, and just provide a marginal amount of inspiration to folks.  That's it....it was pretty simple.

In the past decade, the minister folks have all become politicized.  Either the 'headquarters' hypes this, or the local deacons, or just membership itself.  So you are working constantly to irk a quarter of congregation....forcing them to leave, and then constantly back in a recruitment drive to bring new people in with like-minded ways to your political dynamics.

Was the profession completely neutral prior to the past decade or two?  No....you can go back even to the 1960s/1970s, and find some political gaming going on.  It's just that in the current era....everything is played to the maximum.  

If you were trying to run a non-politicized church?  I think you'd generally fail within a year or two....because of the current dynamics at work.

What happens to the burn-out ministers?  I would imagine they end up selling real estate, running a insurance agency, and shift-manager work at grocery stores.  

Just an odd thing to think over....burn-out from too much politics. 

This soon reaching schools and teachers?  Oh, I would imagine it's already going on.

The Batman

 I sat yesterday and watched the new Batman movie (2022).  Three observations:

1.  It's about as 'dark' of a script that you can possibly imagine.  If you tried to compare it against the first three or four....it won't work.  

2.  It's more of a mystery thriller than a superhero story, which is fairly entertaining.  

3.  This Robert Pattinson guy does a pretty good job (not as good as Christian Bale).  

It's just an odd piece designed as a mystery movie and keeps you interested.  

Pregnant Men and Bearded Ladies Chat

 I noticed a poll done (published yesterday)....where one in five Democrats believed that men could get pregnant.  

Pausing over this....I pondered the number and the reality.

If you'd asked....do you personally know of any men in this fragile and delicate condition, the response would have been zero.  Yet, they believed this.

So it begs the question....what else might this quarter group believe in?

Could demons create global warming?

Are there any 5th grade teaches who can teleport from Nebraska to Miami?

Are there thousands of Americans with a second asshole?

Was there a fake JFK killed in Dallas in 1963, and the real JFK resides in a underground bunker in Virginia?

Did Hitler marry a guy six months prior to this death in 1945?

Is there a Biden plan to tax birth control pills at $3 a pill?

Did Joe Biden accidentally marry some French lady in 1963?

This brings me to a county fair visit in the early 1970s (in rural Alabama) where the carnival folks brought in some $1 show.....with a gal who had a beard.   For weeks after that, at the school....discussions centered on this, and why she was the only woman to have a beard that we knew of.  Eventually, we came to the decision that the beard had to be false, and that ended the discussions.

I guess I'm waiting for the fake beard reality to hit with pregnant men, and some Democrats having a wake-up moment.  

To Be Honest

 With all this woke, transgender stuff, pronoun chatter and folks stressing out....I'll quietly just say this....to be honest:

- I really don't care to know you, your sexual fantasies, or your 100-page self-spoken history of woes and problems.

- I really don't care to know your shoes size, your boob size, or the reason for your nervous tick with your right eye.

- I really don't care to hear about your disadvantages in life.

- I really don't care to your feelings over religion.

- I really don't care to discuss your reasons for being a vegan.

- I really don't care to hear your thoughts on daylight savings time.

- I really don't care to know how your first, second, third or fourth marriage failed.

- I really don't care to hear talking points over the unfairness of welfare.

- I really don't care to hear your blame-chatter over the amount of stress in your life.

- If you do want to talk over the TV series 'Lost', or Gumby episodes, or septic tank placement, or cowboy westerns from the 1960s, or Star Trek (but not Star Trek Discovery), or the health of Putin, or the failures of New York City.....then I'll give 30 minutes of my time.

Beyond that...maybe you and I really don't have that much to fill three minutes of conversation.  

The Anti-MAGA Discussion

 With the hype of MAGA, we got some dose by President Biden of the anti-MAGA business last week, and it brings up this odd discussion.....why can't President Biden or the national Democratic 'players' invent opposite MAGA....to oppose the Trump 'gimmick'?

In the past six months, this has been on my mind.

I eventually came to this conclusion....there are probably forty different minor counter-MAGA 'gimmicks' at play currently, but nothing really ties them into one central package.  

You can't invent a national counter-MAGA that influences working-class Democrats, Hollywood Democrats, Hispanic Democrats, Black Democrats, Puerto Rican Democrats, farmer Democrats, mass urban Democrats, rural Democrats, woke Democrats, environmental Democrats, and so on.  So there is some minor theme being played out, and probably only appeals to 5-to-10-percent of the Democratic base itself. 

The college debt thing?  There's a lot of folks in this group....but if you spread it out across the US....it's not a unifying thing.  A fair number of non-college working-class Democrats actually aren't that thrilled of the deal.

The 'soul of America' speech by President Biden last week?  Maybe in some weird way....he tried to present a negative slam on MAGA, but then you wondered....where was the counter-MAGA?  Basically, he just wanted you to stand up and hype democracy.  Thats a sales gimmick with limited potential.  If you lined up a hundred odd Democrats....probably a quarter of them were thrilled with the speech and the rest were either shaking their heads or wondering if there was a phase two to the 'soul of America' 'arc'.  

So this is the odd part of the landscape.....as badly as there needs to be some counter-MAGA.....no one has yet to figure out how it'd work.  It's like inventing a cheesecake which has only 16 calories per slice, and you know it just isn't rocket science.