Ten Things I Tend To Believe

 1.  If you did crank up a reparations 'check' for blacks over the slavery issue....of $100,000 each, the massive bulk of this money....into the hundreds of billions....would be consumed into the US economy over a one-year period.  I would suggest fewer than 1-perent would still have half of the money by the end of two years.  

2.  None of the private lawyers that Joe Biden hired to do the document search.....probably have clearances for the documents to be found.  Maybe I'm wrong on this....but I doubt it.  

3.  I suspect if visitor logs did exist for President Biden's home visits.....it would show for each single weekend visit....a medical doctor was in the mix.

4.  I think if you 'tested' President Biden and asked him to name ten capitals of ten US states...other than Delaware....he'd fail.

5.  I suspect if you uttered the term 'whore' in a group of college students....you would be censored right away, and a dozen of the hundred would be fragile enough to seek 'help'.  Yet, if you asked the same group to 'define' whore.....they'd mostly be unable to do so.

6.  I think ever since the Pentagon went and said 'yeah....UFOs are real'.....the general public is still at the same rate of UFO-belief (roughly two out of three).  The admittance hasn't really changed the belief numbers in any sort of way.

7.  I think by 2030....ten-percent of the bars in America....will be non-alcoholic bars....meaning that no alcohol of any sort will be sold.  

8.  Some idiot by 2030 will have figured out a DNA way to reproduce Mammoth elephants, and started a herd in Idaho.  

9.  Someone in the next ten years, in Detroit....will have started a local political party under the Taliban platform.  At least one member of the city council of Detroit will come from the group.

10.  A illegal drug will be marketed/sold in the US in the near future, which will put you to sleep for five consecutive days (to be called '120-hour surge').  A IV will have to be applied by your dealer, but it will knock you out for 120 hours.  

My List of the Seven Most Over-Hyped TV Shows

 1.  Suits.  I've tried on two occasions to catch onto the series.  The storyline and text....crap.  

2.  Stranger Things.  I've watched all of the episodes.  I'll just say there was some 'flame' or interest there in season one....but from that point on....it's a teenage series with some soap opera crap and light science fiction.

3.  It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.  Presently, I've watched around ten episodes, and will just say that character-wise....it's just awful weak, for people who seemed hyped-up over the series.

4.  Dukes of Hazard.  In my military barracks years....the TV room crowd would demand that the channel be set to this...if it was on.  At some point, we had a drinking game set-up....when character X said 'this' or 'that'.  I had the impression that a 12-year old kid wrote the weekly script.

5.  Moonlighting.  It was hyped because of the two key actors....beyond that....there just wasn't a real script.

6.  3rd Rock From The Sun.  I think I've watched around forty episodes of the series.  The talent was always there, but half the scripts just never delivered.

7.  Walker, Texas Ranger.  Basically, there was 3 minutes of kick-ass routine....mingled around with a introduction of some bad guy, and forty minutes of BS soap opera cop-routine. 

Classified Material

 At some point in my military years, I got 'drafted' into a classified document search.  There were three of us in this 'search-team'.  

So, here's the odd thing....there were three lost documents, based on the original audit.  None of the three of us....worked in this 'vault' or had any relationship to the crew which were working there.  

So we walked in and immediately realized the scope of the mess.  This was a vault with around twenty-five file cabinets.  To go through each drawer....searching for the documents or the message lost....among what was literally thousands and thousands of documents or messages?  

I immediately asked for destruction records.  Looking at the age and description of two of the documents....I knew they had replacement documents arrive in the past year.  It took 15 minutes to find the first document (already destroyed) and five more minutes to find the second destroyed document.  

These people had simply failed to grasp the destruction records.  

The third one?  It had fallen in some drawer and was underneath several folders....but it would take the rest of the day to settle upon this finding.

Nothing was lost.  

Classified documents don't get lost....unless you remove them from a vaulted area or safe.  

So I look at the White House 'mess' and it's the reality that people want these documents in open areas....which aren't really treated as vaults or secure.  

Someone will go and ask for such-and-such....to read.....but the reality is....they pretend to read it and discuss it, when all they did was read the sixty-line initial summary.  The thirty-odd page real report?  Ninety percent of folks will just skip that because of the dry material.  

Four Bits of Advice

 1.  If the government says you need something.....you probably don't need it.

2.  If the government says they want to 'help' you....it's probably not the kind of help that you or I imagine.

3.  If the government makes a statement....hyping up that it's factual....there's probably enough reasons to be skeptical and disbelieve some part of the statement.

4.  If the government says it's position on something is 'safe' (actually using the word SAFE)....then it's probably 50-50 odds that it's not safe (like you or I imagine).  

Three Fascinating Facts On Charles Manson

 1.  His mother was Kathleen Manson-Bower-Cavender, (originally Maddox) (born in 1919, and died in 1973) who was fifteen-years-old at the birth, but very likely to be 14 when she got pregnant.   

The father was Colonel Walker Henderson Scott Sr. (born in 1910 and died in 1954).  I should note.....he did not serve in WW I.  The 'Colonel' rank was something he invented for himself, and had convinced Kathleen Maddox that he was distinguished.  

After the birth, Kathleen did use the court system to sue, and get some type of marginal settlement (in 1937).

Upon telling Colonel Scott of the pregnancy....the 'Colonel' announced he had Army business to attend to, and left (in the permanent sense).  He died of alcoholism at age 44.  

Scott's two primary occupations in life?  Working in a flour mill, and noted as a local con-artist.  There's some stuff there to suggest he was marginally educated, and probably serious alcoholic from his teen years on.  

2.  While in reform school in his younger years....he developed a technique that he referred to as 'the insane game'.  What he learned was....if you act insane....people don't screw with you.  

3.  In 1968, Manson found employment in a SF hospital, which happened to have a funded research project....to see how the effects of LSD worked on the human mind.  He (along with several lady friends) would sign up and get paid for their involvement in the LSD treatment.  

Coaches

 This past week, I was reading through my home-state news (Alabama) and found this interesting story over the state finding funding....to hire up 'math coaches'.  Note, we aren't talking about math teachers....we are talking about extra folks out there, who apparently will be hired to better handle crappy math education within the state of Alabama.  

Yeah, they aren't replacing math teachers....it's just that they will show up and lecture kids in some different manner....than the math teacher can present.  

Bogus situation?  Well....I will tell this story of my ninth-grade math situation from early 1970s.

We started the school year in the math class....with a new teacher.  I would say that the first four weeks were mostly a refresher episode....where half the class had forgotten most everything from the previous math 'year'.

Along about mid-September....we come to a chapter of mathematical equations....vastly different from anything of the previous year.  

There's supposed to be around 3 weeks on this chapter, with a test, and then we move onto the next chapter.

At this end-point, out of 24 students....I would estimate that five people grasp the subject, with another five who marginally understand it (me in this group), and the rest in failure mode.  The test result?  If I remember correctly....one person scored in the 90 range....two in the 80 range...two in the 70 range....the rest all in the zero to sixty range.  

The teacher basically threw out the results, then went onto roughly seven additional class days of refresher on the same subject, with another test.  That improved things slightly....there were six kids to now to get 70 or above.

The teacher threw out that result, and went to another full week of the same subject (you can figure 27 days used for a chapter that should take 15 days).  

At this point, the day prior to the test....he gave out a test (lesser in terms of problems) and we went step by step over the each of six problems. 

The next day....as the real test was handed out....it was noted quickly that it was the same test as the previous day.  I would guess out of the 24 students there....six folks still got sixty or less....the rest of us mostly got in the 70-to-80 range.  

In getting the concept across?  Neither the book or the teacher could accomplish this.  At some point, some kid asked.....how would we ever use this in regular life.  It was a pretty accurate question to ask, and the teacher (new at the profession) simply said you needed math ability in life.  

My humble belief is that these math 'coaches' will fill in this mess, and maybe make sense out of the rocket science of math.  

My Documents 'Scenario'

 Yesterday, a piece of paper came from Hunter Biden....his document for a gun purchase....where he gave his address.  Oddly, it's the property that Joe/Jill Biden own themselves, but in some funny fashion....Hunter says for the record....he is the owner, and that he pays a 'rent' of $49,000 per month.  Course, it's not what you would call real rent....this was the funnel where Hunter's cash flow to 'dad' occurred.  

Money-laundering?  Yeah, and you see the end of this whole situation.  

So this is my 'script' to what occurred and will be the end:

1.  Someone (rogue agent or whatever) planted document #1 at the Biden-Center to draw some bait.  The Center people reacted, and called up Joe's insider team.  The reaction was....we better send people over to investigate....BUT lets not alert the AG, the FBI, the House/Senate.  So a couple of Biden lawyers went to the Biden-Center.  

2.  This investigation details out various classified documents, a couple of weeks prior to the election.  But now, the insiders are worried....what if there's more documents?  So they review records and know two additional deliveries took place (home in Delaware, and this garage). So the lawyers will venture there.

3.  At some point in early January, the AG is now alerted.  Whether Joe told him, or the team told him.....might be interesting to know.

4.  What the AG intention is....to keep the entire documents 'drama' controlled, without the House investigating.....so a special prosecutor is appointed.  While this guy spends two years investigating....nothing via the House can be done on the documents.

5.  So we turn now to the document where Hunter suggests a rent paid of $49,000.  The AG can't cover that.  The House can. 

6.  The money-laundering angle?  Enough for impeachment.  

7.  The rogue folks?  This impeachment will likely drag forward, and they already have the script fixed up....Harris will be sworn in....probably by mid-summer.  The new VP?  Governor Newsom of California.

8.  We will have around six months of President Harris....then oddly enough...she will 'pass on suddenly' from a heart attack (having gotten a Covid vax the month prior).  

9.  VP Newsom now moves up....becoming President.  Anyone's guess on the new VP....but I'm suggesting AOC.  

2024's dream team?  Yeah.  

All of this being handled by rogue agents of some weird group?  These folks had to know Joe's connections to the Biden-Center, the Hunter relationship with the Chinese, the rent money, the money-laundering angle, etc.  

The necessity of hiding this as long as possible from the AG?  He's stuck now with limited knowledge over Joe's money-laundering and how this whole thing was designed to function.