Ten Observations

 1.  It's just odd.....half-way through the Biden era....various gov't agencies are now saying 'yeah, Covid probably did come from a Chinese lab leak'.  They couldn't rationally say this by the end of 2020?  Whole lot of explaining to do...if you ask me.

2.  Elon says he'll create an alternate version of Chat GPT (the AI program that thinks and answers questions).  If you ask me....it'll be programmed to think like Elon.....which might open up a Pandoras Box.

Eventually, the Chat GPT will seek out Elon GPT, and try to 'think' like Elon.  

3.  Some hype dumped this week....CNN now on the lowest ratings since 2014.  

4.  Shocker.....no money/profit to be made from natural immunity.

5.  I'm reaching the stage where I think of every one-hundred problems presented by the news media and the social media.....probably thirty-percent of the problems are fake (created to keep you focused away from the other seventy-percent).  

6.  Without really thinking about it....I've probably created a lies-index, where I evaluate some journalist to some degree, and regard anywhere between 10-to-100 percent of their 'story' to be bogus.  

7.  There's a Oregon state draft bill shuffling around....where the state would issue $1000 a month to homeless people.  Chief use of it?  I'd suggest that on average....$950 will be spent on drugs.  Will just disturb state residents even more....as they fund out-of-state residents who arrive to be their new homeless.

8.  Some PhD group finally completed a study where they say marginalized irregular sleep....causes heart problems.  I could have told you that twenty years ago....it's unhealthy and puts more stress on your body.

9.  I don't think the Democratic Party (as most of us over the age of 50 remember things) exists anymore.  It seems to be more of a activist/irrational party.  

10.  According to USDA....the cattle inventory of the US....is currently at the lowest point since 1962.  I'll go out on the edge and predict....by the end of 2024....a national beef shortage will be announced....as the next thing to worry about.  Meanwhile....back on the farm....the freezers are full of home-grown beef, and guys are grilling beef of some type five days a week.  

Some journalist will ask Biden about this, and he'll remark he worked for six months on a cattle ranch in Montana...discounting the shortage as being fake.  

The Greater Idaho 'Talk'

 If you haven't paid attention in the past year.....residents of eastern Oregon have stood up and said 'enough'....they are fed up with the politics and liberal situations brewing in Oregon.  So they want a separation, and to be allowed to form around Idaho instead.  

Basic issues to this?

1.  There are five cities on the western side of Oregon (Salem, Portland, Eugene, Medford, and Bend)....which are probably about 70-percent 'leaning' Democrat, 20-percent Republican, and 10-percent independent.  The rest of the state?  Probably 60-percent Republican, 20-percent independent, and 20-percent Democrat.

2.  I worked with a guy who grew up there from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s.  His description of the Portland region?  Of every ten people who identified as Democrats....at least two were hard-core communists and favored revolution to cure all ills.  

3.  Of the 36 counties in Oregon who chat over the idea of moving to Idaho.....I would suggest that a minimum of fifteen counties are pretty set on moving at this point.  How the map would look (if successful)?  Around 60-percent of Oregon (mostly the eastern rural region) would move to Idaho.  Oregon that is left....would be about two-thirds the size of Alabama.  

4.  Anyone against the move?  That's the odd part.....you have two groups.  Group one says it'll happen (probably within ten years).  Group two says it's not allowed by the Constitution.  Oddly.....no one is really saying its a terrible idea.

5.  Is it possible that five counties of the SW corner of Oregon....along the coast....might fold the agenda toward them as well?  Those five typically vote 60-percent of the time for Republican presidents.  So it's possible....if this is dragged out and unhindered.....that they would slide over.  The Greater Idaho consumption then?  I'd say near 75-percent of the state....leaving Oregon about one-quarter the size of Alabama.

6.  Unconstitutional.  This debate has not yet been settled, and I suspect the Supreme Court....probably in three to four years....will get the case to consider.

7.  If this does occur (I still give it only a 20-percent chance)....it begs the question....where does this stop?  Would the folks of upstate NY be right to desire a break-off?  Would the folks from eastern Washington state be right to desire to be a part of Greater Idaho?

We might as well admit it....there's probably 20 urbanized areas of the US who either want to be off on their own, or the state itself would prefer they go off on their own (Chicago, SF and Atlanta for example).  

The View Of The View

 Back around 2011....I had a snow day at work, and ended up staying home all day.  I sat and watched THE VIEW (never had seen it before).

So for about sixty minutes....I sat....consuming the show.

My view?

First, after about 20 minutes....I got the impression that whatever the ladies were talking about....they marginally knew anything about the subject.  It was like asking your barber about nuclear fusion, or asking the garbage truck guys about Asian food, or asking your minister for investment advice.

Second, about half of the show was politically motivated in some way.  It felt like some propaganda piece.

Third, it seemed hooked to some California mentality.  I should note....it is filmed there.  

Fourth and final....it was hard for me to imagine who would sit daily and watch the show.  Course, probably half the audience records it and plays it back after they get home at night.

This brings me to the question....is there anything of value to the View?  I think it's probably the wrong question to ask.  Instead, the question is.....are there so few women sitting there at 11 AM (ET)....that it's the cheapest show to produce and insert into the time-slot?  

The Path of Three Things

 1.  Gendering and Mis-gendering.

One day, you (as a supervisor or boss) will have a new employee arrive.  On the form, their first name is 'blkdidiaklsksidy', but they stand there and tell you that you shall prounounce their name as 'Tom', but it must be written each time as 'blkdidiaklsksidy'.  

Naturally, you ask for a social security card or valid ID, and they've somehow managed to get that set to 'blkdidiaklsksidy'.  

So you start off....a first name should have a capital 'B', and they tell you 'NO'.....by their gender.....their name starts off with a 'b'.  

Then you state the problem in that anyone who walks into the building looking for 'blkdidiaksksidy' and not asking for 'Tom'.  

A month will pass and two new employees arrive.....one with the first name 'SixSix-Nine-ixy' and the other being 'SixSix-Nine-ixy-Nine'.  

Eventually, you will let all three employees go, and get sued.  The problem here....there is nothing existing over name discrimination (yet).  So a whole new trend will start....to ensure name discrimination cannot occur.

2.  By 2030, in California....the Hispanic population in California will reach a stage where they outnumber whites and blacks.  

THE minority for California at this point.....will be the Hispanic folks, and the whole talk over minority action or reparations for blacks.....will end (abruptly).

By 2040.....the Hispanic wave will have reached five US states....where they outnumber blacks.  

It's Hispanics in the future of the US.....not blacks....that matter.

3.  Chatter over 4-day work-weeks?

There's a lot of discussion over dumping the five-day work-week.....going to four days instead.

If it means you rebalance the typical work-day to ten hours.....I just don't see this as a positive.  Course, the same people would openly discuss dumping the 24-hour clock and going to a 12-hour clock instead....having 120 minutes in an hour.  

BB-Gun?

 I sat and was amused by this product picture....AR-15-like BB gun.

Scaring the crap out of the neighborhood?  Yeah, I could see some urban areas having a phone call or two each week to the cops.

I would imagine there's already an agenda to outlaw the product.

So, What If Covid Was A Accidental Lab Accident?

 Released at the end of last week.....the PhD folks at the US Energy Department released a report, and had concluded that Covid was not a wet-market episode, and most likely came a lab (either accidentally or intentionally).

So, several observations:

1.  Why the Energy Department?  Well....they have physicists sitting around....probably into the hundreds, and they discuss problems for hours on end.  

Physicists are different from most people.  They analyze things and want a scientific answer in the end.  If you have evidence of 'A' and 'B', then only 'C' can be the end-result.  

Einstein said of the world of physicists...."It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."

2.  If this was a lab experiment gone wrong....what does it say of 'protection' at the lab?

3.  If this was intentional....to bring down Trump and the economy....was the idea thought out at all?

4.  It might be time to ask what exactly the US government funds in terms of things beyond the border.  

5.  Oddly, you now have around half the US nation which is skeptical of everything done in 2020, 2021, and 2022....over Covid.  They don't believe the news media.....social media (FB, Twitter, YouTube)....the President, or half of the people who used to be their friends.  In a odd twist....you also can't repair the loss of this trust.

6.  Finally, now you have to assume everything that Trump said over the virus....pretty much was correct.  I think this is the biggest 'ace' laying on table.  

Five Observations

 1.  Via social media....you see a lot of people commenting 'literally shaking'.  

Either you are shaking, or you aren't.  Using 'literally'?  Well....you could be 'literally farting', 'literally sleeping', 'literally puking', or 'literally angry'.  Something is literally wrong here.  

2.  There's some BS going on where James Bond books (by Ian Fleming) are being edited in some fashion....to lessen hurtful words for fragile readers.  Bond would come across as nice and kind....I would assume.  I expect the Bible to be next on editing for lesser hurtful content.

3.  People are so fragile at this point now....that I would suggest more than 50,000 Americans would be unable to do a self-car-wash situation....without help.

4.  There's a minimum of once a day....where I view something and 'scam' comes to my mind.  

5.  If you go and ask any of the opposing Republicans for President (to Trump)....what their policy differences are to Trump....they seem to get awful quiet.  They seem to notice if you tried to copy anything other than Trump's programs....it won't sell to the public.