18 Observations About Modern Mankind

 1.  People generally want 'something' to be true, or 'something' to be false.  Whether it is true, or false....doesn't matter.

2.  A store that is losing $10,000 a day on theft....probably has a ticking 'end'.  You can't make up the losses by charging $3 for a stick of gum, or $21 for a cheap $7 Mexican-made t-shirt.

3. The statistics for death-by-flu (going back over 40 years)....mostly resembles the death-by-Covid (going back over four years).   It's just that we never seemed to talk much about doom/gloom of flu.

4.  Turning politics into a Jesus-versus-Satan situation....probably does religion an injustice.  

5.  If you paid some college $100,000 over four years, and you haven't expanded your intellect or comprehension....you've wasted four years of your life on top of the $100k debt.  

6.  You can't make low-IQ people (those with 80 or less) any smarter than what they already are.  Even if you promote them into management....to get rid of them from one situation....you simply make the low-IQ guy think he's capable when he isn't.

7.  If you bring up Covid 'contact' via eyeballs with a guy wearing a KN-95 mask.....the odds are that he won't believe you.  

8.  At present pace, I expect legal challenges to occur shortly where a 9-year-old kid says he's smart enough and doesn't want any additional schooling. 

9.  If you had 500,000 new migrants show up....none speaking English, or showing a trade-craft situation....what exactly do you think they will be doing for the next three or four years while you house them in a $75-a-night hotel room?  

10.  The amount of RISKS that you encounter from getting up and laying down at night.....are probably 100 times the level of what people in the 1960s faced.  

11.  On 'trust', I would imagine that half of the general public has lost a fair amount of trust in their doctor, their minister, and their school officials.  Skeptical nature is at a all-time level.

12.  If you randomly asked 100 people (18 or over) if they've read the book '1984'....I doubt if you find more than 15 of them who admit this.

13.  I'd estimate that one-quarter of the general public has delusionary problems, but are quiet happy to remain in this sort of mind (like that Elwood P. Dowd character in Harvey).  You shouldn't try to bring them back into reality.

14.   If you start counting at 6 AM with local news and pay attention throughout the day....the word 'crisis' probably gets uttered at least thirty times.  If you ask people to define crisis....it'll come out like some PhD-level chatter that makes no sense.

15.  Life is mostly about theatrics....presenting an image or brand or message.  You already start with this gimmick by the end of 1st grade.

16.  Generally, if you wake up and suddenly realize you are in the middle of a cult....it's best to say very little, and show minimal 'fret' or worry as you exit the mess. 

17.  You need PhD-level people to think about problems.  You don't want a PhD-level person to run your office or company, or city/state.  

18.  There is no such thing as cheap electricity.  Maybe it existed in the 1960s/1970s.....but it's long gone now.

Poverty Stimulation?

 I was sitting and reading this piece over Highland Park (the city in Illinois).  Apparently, someone in the city gov't had this idea.

They wanted the public there (30k residents) to get some idea about poverty.  No one says why this was necessary.....just that they could 'teach' you.

So a “poverty simulation event” was arranged where well-off people (don't know how they figured the dividing line)....would get some play-action to pretend being poor for 2.5 hours.

Then the story goes....this was to be done at some local well-to-do country club.

Now, I'm from the rural region of Alabama and will admit that I've never been to a country club.  I did work with a lady in the 1990s, and she would get into these discussions about her growing up in Ohio, and her family had some membership in a country club (primarily for golf reasons).  So I have an idea how they function.

Looking over this....I don't really grasp how 2.5  man-hours can be spent....pretending to be poor.  I'd probably show up at the event and order a $14 cocktail right before I entered the poverty-room.  

I'd mingle with other folks from the club....occasionally sneaking back out to freshen up my cocktail (three or four times).  By the end of the 2.5 hours.....I probably wouldn't remember that much.

The problem with this silly game is that you end up with stupid city management people (an IQ of 80 or below but they have a college degree).....who are engaging you to be as stupid as they are.  

Without a drink, I probably would have engaged in this, and told each poverty person....lets get ahead.  There's work over at such-and-such place, and we can work a second-shift at the hammer-factory.  I'd show them the light of work, money and missing out on poverty.

Yeah, I would have been kicked out of the poverty pretend-stuff, and the club might have suspended me for 7 days for bad-boy behavior.  

Here in the end of my summary....I just kinda wonder....how many people did show up for the poverty pretend deal at the country club?  Five.....ten? 

My Thoughts On Tucker Carlson Interviewing The Gay Guy Who Hooked-Up With Obama

 Five observations:

1.  This all occurred in 1999....so the guy says.  At this point, Obama had been married 6 to 7 years.  

2.  Getting off crack is awful hard, and usually you spend 90 days in some rehab center.  If Obama did get clean....where did he disappear to for 90 days?

3.  Based on the way the story was told.....there must be a minimum of 1,000 Chicago folks (mostly guys) who knew the sexual habits and drug preference of Obama.  

4.  All this guy-to-guy sex and no news source picked up on this for 20 years?

5.  A totally invented character....running for President, where no one ever dug into his history?  News media has ruined their reputation for a whole generation.

Five Things About Epstein I Believe

 1.  As a kid, we'd go to a flea-market operation that had this guy in a truck, and he'd be there getting a crowd all in a frenzy....to sell each person a box (something like a $1 in cost) and that one person out of forty might have something of value (say $20), while the rest had something worthless.  There would  always be fifty-odd people to participate.  He'd run the game three or four times during the day.....then leave shortly after lunch.  

I think Epstein was doing this at a global scale....convincing people to come to the island to party-up, booze-up, and chatter with other wannabe VIP-idiots.  One person out of forty got something of value.....the rest just had a crazy weekend with a lot of booze (and drugs probably).

2.  From all this chatter of young girls (say age 13 to 16) as party-favors for guests.....you just don't have much true evidence of this.  I suspect that he'd introduce some 19-year young-looking gal to some dimwit older guy and say she's 'Wanda'....a 13-year old.  These guys were stupid enough to believe that, and the fantasy simply took over.

3.  If you figured a weekend of twenty-odd guests, with hidden cameras and microphones....there's 500 man-hours of tapes to glean through and figure out valuable information.  But you'd need at least ten people sitting....analyzing minute after minute....to package this for the 'boss' (the guys above Epstein).

4.  There's zero evidence that Epstein was ultra-rich.  He acted that way, but what did he actually own?  An island?  A jet or two?  

5.  No one talks about women showing up on the island....VIP-types, but they were also there.  Oddly, each time the island comes up....they only discuss men being there.  Hillary Clinton went.  

This Tucker Carlson-Putin 'Thing'

 So quietly, Carlson went out and asked an associate about getting an interview with Putin (in Russia).  Couple of days pass.....Putin says 'yes'.  Day or two passes, and some US gov't intelligence guy calls Carlson and says....we know about your email, and would like to have a chat.

The emphasis of this?  Well....as a minimum, the US would like to ask questions of Carlson upon his return to US soil. To be honest, since Covid....I doubt if a single American has come face-to-face with Putin.  

They'd probably like a health assessment.  I would question this because Carlson might respond that Putin is in better health than Biden, McConnell, or Pelosi....and you wouldn't really want to tell the intelligence guys this.

A curious meeting?  Well...no Russian journalist is allowed total freedom on questions if they did get 15 minutes with Putin.  

My humble belief....Carlson will probably get forty-odd minutes and maybe 15 questions.   

The Washington intel guys sitting around and shocked how easy this was?  I would imagine they've poured a few shots of booze and trying to imagine the questions that Tucker would ask.  

My final thought?  In the middle of this interview....it would not shock me if Putin pulls out a box of Burisma tapes, and starts playing Biden conversations that imply a 'deal'.  Then with a grin....he tells Tucker there's over 200 conversations of Joe and some deal-guy. 

Do People Really Want The 'Truth'?

 I would say prior to 2000....generally, if something came on via the radio, or TV....or was written in your local paper.....you felt it was 99-percent 'true'.  Even if it was marginally true.....you had some idea in your head that things told....ought to be true.

So, in the past twenty years....something changed.

I think if you went to people with x-story and just said....the central five facts....do you believe them totally?  You'd get this funny look and then the person would say something to 'balance' the situation.  They would avoid saying all five were facts or true.

Then you go to your 10-year old kid, and ask about something....involving five facts at school over something....asking him if they were valid?  He'd answer with 'well, some of this is just BS'.  

Then you'd go to your 'church-associate' and ask over something relating to five facts....having nothing to do with the Bible or some preacher-chatter, asking him if the story facts were valid?  He'd hesitate, and then answer that some parts are not fitting well.

Then you'd go to the neighbor and ask about some NCAA football stuff....involving five facts....asking if this were true?  He'd ask for a beer first, then launch into a 3-minute talk that facts aren't facts anymore.  He'd tell you.....you'd like to believe things, but can't bring yourself to believe much.

It's an odd evolution that we've wandered into, and can't seem to find a 'path' out.

Some things are going in a way to be like some WWE-wrestling scenario....where you think Joe Biden or the DeSantis-guy.....are like WWE-characters.  Hunter Biden's woes?  They might be just BS, or 50-percent true.  You just don't know.

My question.....where does this lead us now?  Can you trust the power company?  Can you trust 'Cindy' who does the Channel 19 weather?  Can you trust the Bud-Light management?  Can you trust that clerk at Piggly Wiggly who seems to be rather dim-witted?  

Who Are 'The Men North Of Richmond'?

 In recent days, with the Oliver Anthony tune.....folks have taken an interest who he refers to....when stating 'men north of Richmond'.

He's referring to lobbyists, Republicans and Democrats.  Anyone who got into greed and made wealth off their occupation.

If you came to DC twenty-five years ago being half-a-millionaire....you probably exceed 200-million today.  And if we analyzed your friends....they also got rich off your DC work.

So as much as conservative House/Senate members might say this is their 'tune'.....NO, it's really putting a number of these folks in the same status of blame.