My Heart Fluttered This AM

 I was gazing over news, and there it was....new Godzilla movie coming in the fall.  'Godzilla-Minus-One'.

Apparently, the studio has been under secrecy and avoid comments until now.

Around age 9, the local Huntsville station ran unusual movies on Sunday morning.  I accidentally discovered that there was a Godzilla movie on and was fascinated over the 1954 classic.  

Presently, we are up to number 29.  All of them with the same basic theme and story?  Yeah.  You can sit down with a Mountain Dew and cheetos.....spend ninety minute amazed over a lot of Japanese monster 'stomping'.  

Early in 2024, there's supposed to be a King Kong versus Godzilla movie coming.  

Harris Quote

 “A.I. is kind of a fancy thing. First of all, it's two letters. It means 'Artificial Intelligence.”

-- VP Kamala Harris

I paused over the VP's comment from yesterday.

At the 5th grade level....she did accurately describe AI.

If you'd asked what artificial really meant?  I suspect that would have been a 40-word sentence that would only complicate matters.

Just remember....she's one step away from the Presidency, where you will be depending upon her.  

Cheese-Cheese Burger?

 New Burger King item in Thailand.

No meat, just 20-odd slices of cheese. 

Seems like if you ate two of these, you'd be all constipated-up for three days.  

Harris On Transportation

 "This issue of transportation is fundamentally about just making sure that people have the ability to get where they need to go!"

-- VP Harris

I sat and pondered this statement by Harris (from yesterday).  Basically, it's what you'd expect out of a 7th-grade kid, when the teacher asks for analysis of the term 'transportation'.

But then she said....'making sure'.  

I've been on a dozen trips in my life where the plan 'B' situation fell into play because of airport troubles, weather, or the hotel reservation got lost.

What you generally learn is that plan 'B' situations need to be creative.  

Just Three Odd Things

 First, I sat and watched a MSNBC piece which detailed that fitness trends that developed during the Covid era (if you forgot, it's spring-2020 to mid-2022)....have led to hyped-up right-wing beliefs in the fitness community. Somehow, this involves martial arts and combat activities....within the fitness community.

I sat for a good ten minutes after hearing this story, and had to just start laughing.  Just to imagine this 'starting' in Covid?  Well....martial arts in the fitness community has been going on for decades.

Second, it would appear that the location of the White House cocaine....has changed again.  It's like a UFO story....evolving in different ways.  At this point, the Secret Service has said 'enough' and won't discuss where it was found.

Third, Turning Point Action (Conservative group) was extending out a invitation to DeSantis for this weekend's meeting.  Well.....he turned it down.  

At this point, I'd say his campaign is just marginally getting by.  

Five Things I Think About

 1.  With this cocaine found in the White House.....I wonder if there was any PCP mixed-in, and if some idiot would have gone 'crazy-pcp', and just gone to killing Secret Service guys and the President.  How would people view all this....afterwards?

(based on having watched 'Death Drug' from 1979)

2.  Does the President even know about the 7th grand-child...the kid that Hunter had and has worked some deal with the mother?

3.  I wonder about the 3-percent of folks who say the family pet is NOT a member of the family.

4.  I wonder if the master plan at Bud-Light....was to lose a quarter of all business, and this was written up already in 2022.

5.  I wonder if artificial intelligence (AI) would be better at briefing folks at the White House press conference.

What Really Happens In 2023 If We Miss Pentagon Recruitment Goals?

 It was the middle of 2022....when the Pentagon (particularly the Army) said 'yeah, we missed the recruitment goal'.  Shortly after that, the Air Force and Navy agreed on their goals missed....not quiet by the same number.

Presently, more numbers missed for the summer of 2023.  

Here's the thing, you can also go and readily predict for the summer of 2024, and 2025....all three will miss their goals.  

The Army goal  back in 2022?  The missing number was around 15,000 folks (20-to-25 percent of the written goal).

Presently?  I would imagine that various groups are meeting and discussing the missing people.  Up the bonus program?  Let the overly out-of-shape/fat folks in?  Lessen standards?  

I read yesterday that the House was looking over legislation to allow the Defense Department to bring folks in....without the Cannabis drug test.  At the current pace?  I think Cannabis will be legalized federally and within four years....every BX/PX will have a weed-shop.

Here's the thing....you can look forward to probably 2027 and predict that manpower will be cut drastically, and overseas bases will simply be closed down because they don't have the people to support such a mission. 

Bringing back the draft?  Won't happen.  

Even to involve the National Guard and Reserve?  Yeah.

It's a bold new world approaching.