Five Things You Tend To Notice Now

 1.  The more that Joe Biden talks (heading toward the campaign)....the more BS he utters, which isn't true or convincing.  

Just an odd factor.....maybe he should only make one speech/talk per week.

2.  Strange....I've seen at least five articles this past week....on the idea of dumping VP Harris in 2024's election effort.  All were left-leaning news sources too.

3.  One odd thing out of this G20 conference held.....they all agreed (US too) that national ID's....digitally connected....is a top priority.

Odds of the US going this?  1-percent chance.

4.  Odds of the Department of Education going away entirely....should Trump win?  I'd say it's pretty close to 100-percent chance.

5.  Some kind of odd game being played out by AOC....some hint she's married....some hint that she's not married.

I don't think she understands the definition of married.  

Misinformation Story

 The Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force gave some speech a couple of days ago, and hyped-up....that misinformation and disinformation campaigns are currently going on....developed to "recruit members to their cause, divide our society domestically, and create rifts."

I sat and pondered upon this. 

To be truthful....it's a warning that is probably twenty years too late.  

To also be truthful....just a lot of BS and chatter being pumped out by various Air Force leaders.....triggering people to question things, and further divide the ranks.

Part of this statement made....suggested Artificial Intelligence was being used to produce the crap.  Maybe, but you see a lot human BS created as well....if you go looking for it.

Where this is all leading to?  I could easily see a point within five years where some event occurs, and in the 'blink' of an eye....you create a path where 1,000 enlisted and officers make a remarkable decision to exit the Air Force as quickly as possible.  One single event....creating a path where people get out within a year....when they had long term plans before.  

Social media part of the blame?  Yeah, but you can throw in woke-stuff, and poor decision-making as well.

About a dozen years ago, I noticed a particular overseas base where the commander decided that the barracks would be alcohol-free (meaning no beer, wine or booze in any room).  At the time, I was around the base (retiree status) and I asked one airman how things 'work' now, and he responded.....he kept his beer in his pick-up (in the barracks parking lot).  He remarked....that probably was illegal in some way, and he felt stupid doing it.  

Bold new world out there.

I Had Two Incompetent Teachers In High School

 It's not worth discussing, and I didn't really figure this out until my late 20s.

The first teacher was a science teacher that I had for four years.....who absolutely prevented evolution from coming up in the class.  I actually figured her tactic of skipping chapters (she'd start the year on chapter 6, then go to chapter 4, then onto chapter 16, and so on).  At the end of each year....the one single chapter on evolution would have been quietly skipped.

You can laugh over this today, but it's just remarkable this occurred each year.  

Getting knowledge across?  No....you eventually figured out that memorizing about 25 things for each test....was  the only way of passing.  After that....you would forget everything taught.  She did a remarkable job in making you hate science.  

The second teacher situation was a series of math teachers that the school had over a four-year period (the old gal had health issues and was gone mid-way through the 6th grade, the gal for the same class for the 7th grade stayed one single year, same for the 8th, and 9th grade).  

None of the four seemed capable of getting a simple problem across to the majority of the class. It became a root-canal-like experience sitting there daily.

This was the early 70s, and these were mostly people who'd passed out of the college system in 1950s/early 1960s.  

If you'd just gone to a self-taught or occasional seminar system?  I probably would have been ready by age 15 to test-out and progress out of high school.  I think a third of all kids are capable of that level (even today).

The fact that probably a quarter of all kids are low-IQ and just see school as baby-sitting?  Well....yeah, that factor is driving a lot of this poor quality business that you see. 

Oregon Story

 

I sat and pondered over this story in the news from yesterday.  

Basically, Oregon has passed a law and said that things have reached a level....that we don't want to burden stupid kids....so ease up on reading, writing and math in high school.

What'll happen?  I would suggest one of three things.

First, you will start to notice in three years that those graduates of high school in Oregon....arrive at college, and can't meet the general entry requirements.  So the colleges will rig up a semester (maybe two) of fake college....basically charging you $2,000 minimum to take 'real' high school math, and English classes (instead of college-level classes).

Yeah buddy.....what you didn't learn in high school.....you will waste six to twelve months in college (call it the '5th' year).

Second, about ten years into this era.....people start to remark that young folks can marginally read at the 6th-grade level....at age 25.  Nationally, folks start to point out what seems to be a low-IQ status of Oregon residents.  Some term will be created....'he seems oregonish' will be uttered (meaning not too bright).

Third and final.....blacks only make up around 12-percent of the demographics.  If you throw the map up....the majority (say near 75-percent) live around Portland, Bend and Eugene.  If you head to the eastern half of the state....I doubt if they make up more than 3-percent of the population.  Maybe they injected 'people of color' to mean Hispanic folks....but I doubt if they want to be included in this group.

More or less, this is just going to drive the wedge to split half of the Oregon off to Idaho at a faster pace.

Waste of Money Story

 I paused over a Wall Street Journal item for today: "DECONGESTANT IN COLD MEDICINES FOUND INEFFECTIVE."

Basically, for several dozen cold medications  in the US.....they never had any effective 'power'.

If you'd asked me about in 1980....to recommend anything....I'd say most did almost nothing.  Same in the 1990s, and for the whole past 20 years.

How much have I wasted?  Probably well  over $1,000 since August of 1977.  

What'll happen?  I'd say almost 95-percent of people will continue on....buying the same crap.  

How to Properly Money-Launder 'Bad' Cash

Back in 2018....it came up in the banking news....ABLV, a Latvian bank....was noted for serious money-laundering.  This involved not only Russian money-laundering, but also cash for North Korea.

The US had a serious meeting with Latvian leaders and kinda hinted in a serious way.....they needed to correct some serious problems.

The odds that ABLV was the only Latvian bank doing this?  That's a curious question.

But that wasn't the only problem....Latvian was allowing shell companies to be staged and operated, without much control.  You'd just show up....file some paperwork, and 'X-to-X' would be created.  It might amount to be strictly a mailbox where 20-million a year would flow into, and out....seemingly on paper to be legit but mostly non-existent.

So after the money was cleaned in Latvia, it'd move onto Cyprus....where another company would be created....another mail-box scheme.  Here, you could show enormous losses or business deals being made (at least on paper), and then the money could flow cleanly back to the US.

Yeah....in a way, this would be a way that Hunter Biden might have moved cash around.  Some Ukrainians gave him money, which he shifted to Latvia....cleaning it.  Then he flipped the money to a fake shell company out of Cyprus, and then delivered it back to the US. 

So there's this curious part of the story....around back in the fall of 2018, Cyprus got all heated up and dumped 20,000 fake business accounts....to show they were 'serious'.  There is no evidence that Hunter Biden's fake account was in the 20,000.  Maybe he was never into using Cyprus banks, or that his account avoided the cleansing.  

Any of this reported to IRS?  No, but they might now be interested.

Just Three Odd Things I Noticed In The News

 1.  The CIA went out (early on in the Covid business) and hired 'experts' (people who weren't already working for the CIA)....to proclaim that Wuhan labs didn't trigger the outbreak of Covid. 

It's like they needed to protect someone or something.

I saw this yesterday and generally shake my head.  You'd almost have the opinion now that this was a 'plan' of some type to bring down the massive economy of China (which is obviously underway at this point).  

2.  The Air Force sent up a F-22 to shoot down another Chinese spy-balloon 'thing'.  Front-page news?  No.   You might have accidentally noted it.....maybe one American out of a thousand saw the story.

3.  Polls say three out of four Republicans now say 'ditch-McConnell'.  Odds of this happening?  Zero.