My View On Term Limits

 First, if you want to apply this....across the board, fine.  Senators, House members, Supreme Court Justices, VP, and President.  I would even suggest that a cabinet member ought to be limited to one term  (max of four years).  

But then, what amount of years do you apply?  Two Senate terms (12 years)?  Six House terms (12 years)?  Supreme Court Justice (12 years)?

I'd even be willing to apply an age limit and say by age 68...you have to give your final notice and retire by age 69.  

Same view at state level?  Yeah.  Even for a city mayor or city council guy....twelve years max, and final notice of retirement in your 68th year of life.

The problem is....once you bring this up....more than 75-percent of Senators/House members....aren't that likely to vote for it, or will rig it to fail with the court system.

Five Observations

 1.  It's just odd....with the crypto folks at FTX in bankruptcy.....around 100 parties have lined up and want 'buy' them (I'm assuming for a ultra cheap price), and revamp them or re-invent things.  

What idiot customer would trust the group?  Unknown.

2.  Just amusing....at the El Paso area where President Biden did his walk....they spent around three days cleaning up the area (local authorities).  So Joe didn't get the view landscape view of homeless folks camped out.  

3.  I sat this morning watching Brit news early on....live camera team at a major bookstore in the downtown London area.  This was opening day for Prince Harry's new book.  

ONE single person at the door at 8 AM who was a non-journalist.  The other forty to fifty folks.....all journalists.  

There's just zero interest from the general public.

4.  Those documents in Biden's think-tank?  Top Secret.  Now confirmed.  On a sh*t-scale....1 to 10....it's a '9'.  The place was not a TS vault.  So someone is going to have explain how they were held for six years....in this non-secure area.  On the crap system.....it's bad.

5.  It just begs questions as you gaze at FB/Meta/Twitter.....how did all these geeky guys/gals....get some moralistic and want to control free speech?  Were they that easily brain-washed?  It's almost like a cult group....focused on an agenda and not technology itself.   

The Problem With Biden's Secret Documents

 I have read through a dozen accounts of the secret documents found in his 'Biden-Center', and will suggest these five observations:

1.  It does not appear that the Biden-Center has a classified material storage area.

2.  As VP, he had zero authority to declassify any classified document.

3.  It's not clear if these are Secret or TS (Top Secret).  If they were TS.....there is gross violation of security.

4.  At this point, I'd have to order the National Achieve people to audit the JFK, Johnson, Carter, Nixon, Ford, Bush I/II, Reagan, Obama and Clinton collections.

5. Then I come to a weird issue....some element of the China contributed a fair amount of money to the Biden-Center.....did they get access to the document?  

Whichever idiot in the White House that suggested to raid Trump's place.....really didn't anticipate Biden's crew in 2016 was this stupid.  

This being enough to fire the guy?  I'm pretty sure he himself....didn't throw the document into the box.....so it begs the question....who did pack up the box?

Pilot Chatter

 American Airlines came this weekend to announce that they were cutting flights to Columbus, Georgia; Del Rio, Texas; and Long Beach, California.  Chief reason?  Well....it wasn't the passenger flow or lack of planes.  It was a lack of pilots.  There simply aren't enough around.

Back around 2012, I worked in the Arlington, VA region and had a 30 minute chat one day at a pub around the corner of my apartment building with a guy who was a 25-year old pilot.  

Around age 19....some relative had passed on and left him around $100,000....to which he used to get a pilot license for a particular type of plane (a 40-pax type).  

He found the employment not a big deal....but they weren't going to pay him anything substantial (even in his 3rd year of employment...he was still in the $32,000 level).  It marginally paid for his studio apartment, and marginalized lifestyle.

He had some deal with the airline....after five years of work, they'd pay for some upgrade on a bigger frame plane, and increased pay would come.  At the pace he was going?  He probably wouldn't be making the $80,000 a year rate until he got up around 40 years old.

He wasn't disgruntled but he wasn't thrilled over the limits.  

The problem is....all of these smaller airports have  a limited number of people who need to out to the 'hubs'.  So there's a lot of these 20 to 40 passenger planes out there, and most all of these pilots are making a pretty low wage.

Over the next decade....I suspect more than forty US airports operating today (the small operations) are going to get the message....flights will be curtailed or lessened.  What that means for the normal American?  Well...if you live in some small town of 40,000....your local airport with ten flights a day to Houston or St. Louis.....probably isn't going to be around.  You will add another hour to driving to the next bigger town and flying out from there.

That's the long term landscape to prepare for.  

Brain-Washing

 One of my more favorite podcast folks is Dr Peterson.....the Canadian who dumps out tons of logical advice.

In the past week, if you follow Peterson....he got a registered letter.  The Canadian College of Psychologists of Ontario (they hold his official license) has said he has a problem involving social media.....so he needs to come to a re-education camp to straighten out his 'bad-boy' behavior (mostly over critical comments of the Trudeau kid who is the President of Canada). 

What this re-education 'camp' is about?  Basically, the crew of psychologists of Canada figure that he (Peterson) needs straightening out.  Yeah.....some sort of lecture deal.  No one has said if it's a half-day deal....two or thee days....etc.

Scott Adams of Dilbert fame.....thought about the event, and made up a new cartoon.....officially to be released at the end of January.   Adams lays out the chief issue here....maybe the Ontario group of psychologists....might themselves have a mental disorder.

I thought about this from a military intelligence prospective, in the way that you'd brain-wash or counter-brain-wash a 'prisoner'. 

Typically, the guy who is the boss of the brain-wash session....is supposed to take the lead and not allow the prisoner to counter-process the session.  If you lose this prospective.....then the prisoner will counter-brain-wash you.  At this point, the crew (usually watching) has to call the guy into another room....get washer dude #2 prepped-up and send him into action.

My advice for the Ontario group of psychologists....if you did access to any of the Nazi guys left from 1945.....you might want to consult with them before you start things.  

Also, because of the vast amount of knowledge with Doc Peterson....you would be advised to figure a minimum of 15 days before he breaks down....with a minimum of five brain-wash 'bosses' necessary to keep the pressure on Peterson.

My advice?  I would suggest for the Ontario crew review five movies: Manchurian Candidate (1962), Sleeper (Woody Allen, 1973), Naked Gun (1988), Zoolander (2001), and the Bourne Identity (2002).  

I'd also crank up a plan 'B' if Peterson counter-brain-washes your crew, and you might need to look for North Korean experts.  

Observations:

 1.  This past week, I probably watched or read through four hours of 'Prince-Harry' BS.  My conclusion at this point with all the Harry garbage uttered over his book?  He basically gave all the information required for a 4-star divorce lawyer to hang you out to 'dry'.  In simple terms.....once his lady ('M') reaches the point of dumping him....it's all there in black and white.  

For a guy to be this stupid and give a divorce lawyer the info?  You have to have the mentality of a 7-year old kid.

2.  I suspect around 2-percent of people walking around today.....will be wearing some kind of air 'tank' device (fresh air) because of their irrational fear of virus bugs in the air.  

Some engineer idiot will develop a $1,200 scuba-like tank that you carry around with you, and refill at home via some vacuum device.  

All of this....because of your fears.

3.  Ever noticed how this 6 Jan stuff evolves into a WWE-wrestling scenario of sorts?  

In forty years, folks will be laughing because their entire image of 6 Jan revolves around the buffalo head guy, and by that point....he's a cult figure for hundreds of thousands of Americans.

4.    Ever noticed the number of people around you who continually chat over emotional 'ups and downs'?  

It's like a quarter of the people you bump into....will admit this was a stressful day, and they want to confess their 'membership' in some up-and-down club.

5.  Just odd....you could be in some breakfast diner in 2023....sitting next to a stranger with conversation starting up, then you discover of a hundred topics you two might discuss.....he has an opinion on like 95-percent. 1980s....you might have talked over traffic, weather, and sports.  Today, even if you drifted over to forty-odd topics involving Biden's wife, son or relatives....everyone now has an opinion. 

6.  It's mostly a fact that rarely gets mentioned with historians.....but in the medieval period (500-1500)....most 'peasants' worked around 150 days a year. Various fests, holiday celebrations, religious retreats were held to make them 'happy'.  The Catholic Church in this era had the idea that people who were in off-time, and usually boozing-up....were less critical or negative about their woes in life.  I should add....witchcraft trials were popular and part of the entertainment for the general public.

7.  Not that it's a big deal, but I noticed a news item where certain airlines had a rule in place to have their wastewater from the incoming plane tested for Covid, and the vast majority of planes....had detected Covid (almost every single flight). 

Not that I'd worry about it, but if you were fearful of Covid....you'd best avoid that toilet onboard.

8.  If you handed a map of the US to President Biden.....could he mark the actual border?  

I think at least three aides would quickly run up and try to hold Biden from the map and marker....in fear that he'd mark only the border of Delaware and Maryland.  

9.  I've viewed this video of Alabama Rep Mike Rogers approaching Rep Gaetz about twenty times.  

What I'll say is that Rogers appears in some violent way, and I'd suggest that he had some alcohol 'rage' building up (more than a shot or two).  If the Roger's 'friend' hadn't held him back.....he would have kicked-ass (as we say in Alabama) on Gaetz.  

Course, for WWE wrestling scenarios....it's all done in good humor.

10.  General rule on shooting intruders in your home, or some public situation...if the idiot brandished his gun and threatened folks....you get one fair/good shot to take him down.  If you generally fire a second shot....you might still be ok in terms of police approval.  If you fired five rounds into the guy.....don't count on the judge being friendly about your extra shots.  

Where This Church-Committee Business Will Lead Onto?

 First, for those who don't remember the Church hearings in the 1970s....a brief note or two.  Frank Church was a Democratic Senator who came up in 1975 to run a full inquisition of the CIA.  This was a full Republican and Democratic approved hearing.  It's virtually impossible to find anyone in the Senate at the time....who stood up against having the open hearing. 

At the end....no one really got sent off to jail.  What Church and the group proved in public hearings....a number of CIA folks were running rogue, with occasional approval by Presidents (from 1945 on), and CIA directors.  No one was sent to jail, but a fair number of folks were just given 'papers' and they left the CIA.  Some rule changes occurred, and the directors were put on a short rope....continually hindered by the House/Senate.  

All of this....a clean-up from the JFK era?  Some people would argue that it should have been done in 1964, and this was just a decade late.  

Second, if you get a bunch of BS by CNN or WaPo....remember, this was 1975 for the Church hearings, and you'd have to be 70 or older to remember what happened.  So the bulk of experts talking to you now.....don't really know much or have marginally read maybe forty pages of material over a weekend.

Third....what the House committee is going to review....is rogue agents/bosses mostly within the FBI, and probably to a lesser degree....the CIA and NSA.  

Fourth....part of the protection in the Church hearings....was that the CIA director was only supposed to brief....and NOT testify under oath.  The Ford Administration demanded this.  I expect the Biden Administration to do the same.....saying no one will testify under oath before the House committee.  

Fifth....this ending in 2023 (by December)?  No....I wouldn't bet on that.  It'll continue through most of 2024, and the report will be issued by election-time in November 2024.  

Results being one of the top three issues for the campaign?  Yeah.

Sixth....a lot of stuff involving Twitter?  Yes, and that information might lead to civil court business....putting people at jeopardy for cash fines....not jail-time.

Seventh....all of this leading to some break-up of the FBI?  I'd say a 99-percent chance that the campaign of 2024 will center on this as a top five issue.  

Eighth....discovery that the FBI has around 250-odd agents in undercover jobs with various left and right wing groups around the US?  I might suggest that this shock will be laid out.  At some point, I expect a comparison to come up....over Agent Oswald (for the CIA) and how it oddly fits the late-1950s mentality of the CIA.

I'll even suggest that one or two agents were embedded with the Trump campaign, and could possibly even be embedded with the Twitter staff (even today, after Elon bought them).  

Ninth, and final....most of the 6 Jan legend stuff will dissolve, and agent-provocateurs will be a term that Americans learn about, and openly criticize.  

The sad thing here?  Here is probably the biggest opportunity that CNN could ever ask for....getting creditability back, and they limit their coverage daily to six minutes or less.