Humble Opinions

 1.  VP Harris?  I think she's wired-up (mentally speaking) to jumble six thoughts into a 44-word sentence...whenever possible.  

I also think she's been that way all the way through high school and university.

I also don't think you can fix this, or cure her of this mental behavior (unless alcohol is involved).  

2.  If you gave most kids the choice of a drag-queen story hour, or an hour of circus clowns.....in 99-percent of the cases, the kids would select the circus clowns.

3.  Whatever definition guys had for 'whores' in the 1970s.....probably still works today.  No evolution or change has occurred.

4.  Presently, I'd say the brightest kid in some 6th-grade class....probably could debate President Biden and in 50-percent of cases....win the debate. 

5.  Tucker Carlson episode.  If you sell a flavor/brand of ice cream, and one-quarter of your profits revolve around that flavor/brand, you don't want to wake up and realize your whole operation is intensely attached to that flavor.  Fox came to that moment, and will attempt to invent a new flavor to make you happy.  If you don't like....then go elsewhere (we still live in a place where a thousand flavors exist).

6.  Existing without an ID on you.  I believe you can still exist in America....without any form of ID.  Naturally, you'd be living in some shack....gathering firewood, relying upon your good health and no prescription drugs.  You wouldn't be cashing checks, owning a car, or flying in a plane.  But you could survive, in the barest fashion possible.  But part of me just wonders....is this what people generally set as goals?

7.  Temptation is a cruel master....particularly if you are in a all-you-can-eat-buffet-restaurant.  A big platter of crappy two-star food....replaces logic/reasoning.   

8.  1991 was the last time that I touched a rotary phone.  I just started to think about that this week.  Over thirty years ago.....and I haven't missed it a single bit.

9.  The idea that all these dedicated transwomen will wake up and realize that only gay guys are interested in them....idolizing them for being a guy looking like a gal.....will unsettle the whole reality approaching us at lightning speed.

10.  I think we've reached a point where being 'kind'....probably won't work with a quarter of the population.  Once you identify such people....being 'unkind' is the only method to handle their behavior.  

Regulating Things Talk

 In my home state (Alabama)....there was a funny turn of events this week.

For over 200 years, the state had never seen a need to regulate drag shows.  They had regulated just about every 'arousal' show that had ever been introduced around the state, and decided this week...that things needed to be made clear on drag hows.

The new law basically says....you won't have a drag show in a library, a school or in the presence of school-age kids. Anywhere else?  Appears ok....if you wanted to do it at a gas station, cattle-sales barn, stripper bar....not a problem.  

I sat and pondered over this.  In 1977 when I graduated high school, if you'd brought up drag shows....most folks would have thought you meant 'tractor-pulls', then you would have corrected them.

Then they would have responded that yeah, they'd been at comedy shows (like the Grand Ole Oprey (GOO) type)....where men dressed up as ugly women.  In this case....you would have correct them again....saying it wasn't a ugly woman contest....but the 'OTHER' type.

In the whole state in 1977....I doubt if there was a single club that featured drag shows.  I might go as far as suggesting that drag shows probably didn't start to be a thing until after 2000.  

Today?  Far as I know....there's just one single place in the state which is a authentic drag show club, and it's in Birmingham.  That's it.  

Again, I go back to the GOO-mentality...I'd suggest that still today (2023)....a quarter of the population thinks what you are talking about is a ugly women contest with guys participating in comedy.

Did we need some law?  It's hard to say....but suggesting that some drag-queen show was open to 8-year old kids, why wouldn't the same 8-year old kids get a right to see a authentic topless stripper show (my humble opinion)?

It just seems like we are on some path where 'shock-values' are seeing how far things can go....before just about anything is accepted....even a 12-year old marrying another 12-year old.  

Yeah, About Those Guns

 Just funny....when they'd done the raid on that Air Force National Guard guy....they (the FBI I assume) released a photo of the room in parent's house, and the gun-collection they took possession.  

At time....I looked at the picture and thought....maybe I was making a mistake but there seems to be some 'red' on the end of the barrels.  My color vision, as I grow older....is crap.

So hats off to Twitter (thanks to Sgt. Bradley USMC).....he blew up the picture and the red is obvious.

What the guns are?  Replicas....airsoft type types.

Are there other real guns?  Well....as far as I can tell at this point....no.  Maybe later....they found some Oswald-like weapons that he ordered from a mail-order house.

Should Trump Just Come Out By Mid-Summer With His VP Choice?

 I saw this uttered this past week, and it just seemed to me.....things are so wild at present...that I wouldn't see a problem if he picked someone like Arizona's Kari Lake (who has been vetted to the maximum already).

Putting Biden/Harris into a tough position?  Lets just be honest and say that on personal appearances/5-star moments.....you just aren't going to get the 'home-run' situation necessary for a campaign.  

Doing this already in mid-summer of 2023?  It's early but lets face it....the primary is a joke unless DeSantis/RFK Jr catch on.

If Trump selected someone who'd not faced 'vetting' in 2022?  Well...it's a big problem if he picked someone to stumble.  

To be honest, after Grenell (the gay guy in Trump's cabinet)....there's just Lake.  I don't see anyone else out there.

Just Observations

 1.  Is there any real primary in 2024?

Well....the way that things are shaping up....NO.

For the moment...SC appears to be the first primary (not Iowa).  Georgia and Michigan will follow NH, SC and NV....then Super-Tuesday will occur.  

I would suggest if RFK Jr were to win in NH (I consider it a possibility) and Michigan...then it becomes a pretty interesting situation.  If DeSantis has not won a outright victory in the first five states?  He's out.  

After Super-Tuesday?  I'd consider the 2024 primary period trending fast downward.

2.  Is Joe Biden a 'Kennedy-Democrat'?  

Joe can probably talk for an hour about how he relates to typical Kennedy-Democrats....but it's mostly all BS.  He can't cite much of anything done over the past two years that puts him into such a category.  

And to be honest....Kennedy-Democrats from 1960....would today be viewed as moderate conservatives.  

3.  This Nashville shooter manifesto being released?

What the FBI said yesterday....it will be released at some point.  My belief?  You won't see it until mid-summer, and at least a quarter of it will be 'cut'.   Anyone's guess why.

4.  What I see Tucker Carlson eventually doing (probably in the spring of 2024)?

Three nights a week, some type of one-on-one debate, with each night picking out one single topic, and arguing about it for one hour.  You'd probably pay $8 a month to watch this and get informative.  

It's the kind of thing that the networks are fearful of, and would avoid.  

5.  This purchase of the Oakland A's baseball team and movement to Vegas?

Well...here's the thing....the city of Las Vegas says they will handle the ballpark (37,000 set indoor stadium).  With the right design....I think in the non-game days and the non-season period....they could probably fill a quarter to half of the stadium with events, and make tons of money.

I also think that the city might hire fifty planners to hype up individual tours from American League cities....with concert tickets and comedy acts drawing folks to fly in and get special deals.

Tons of money to be made for the club, and the city.  

My Security Clearance Review Story

 From the early 1980s....to around 2009....I was in the clearance-required situation, and a review had to occur every five years.  

Other than spending near three hours filling out the form papers....I didn't ever think it was a big deal.

You'd wrap up the paperwork....some security guy would validate the first step, and then six to nine months would pass....with the review 'stamped' and a new five-year period approved.

At some point around 2006, I submitted my papers three months before it ran out.  The security guy processed it and it went on.   

Around six months....near the end of 2006, I asked for a status.  Nothing came.  

Two months passed, I asked for another status (now into Feb 2007).  Nothing came.  

By mid-summer, I was up to eleven months since submission (the longest ever for me).  I asked....any problems?  No.  

Around four more month pass....so I'm up to 15 months since submission.  Now they kinda admit.....they lost my paperwork.  So everything had to be re-generated from scratch.  I was at this point of a full year 'late'.  The security folks basically wrote a waiver form (not wanting to discuss how they lost the paperwork).

Toward the very end of 2008....it finally came back approved.  

Where my original paperwork went?  Anyone's guess.  

Movie Review: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

 I basically had to break this viewing up (via Netflix) into around twenty to twenty-five bite-size 'pieces'....over seven days.  

It is a very weird script.....basically a science fiction piece....where you have to stop about every five to eight minutes and reconcile what you saw.

Yeah, it's one of those movies that you'd probably start with four shots of booze, and slip another shot every 15 minutes.  

How the movie won the Oscar for best movie?  There's just no logical reason.

Recommendation...if you aren't into science fiction....skip it.