"What Kind Of American Are You?"

 "What kind of Americans are you?"

-- Jessie Plemons character in spring 2024 'Civil War' talking to some journalists that he's encountered.

The scene is fixed.....a civil war in America has broken out, and there's the US gov't, the 'western alliance' (whatever that means) and the Texas 'guard'.  The journalists are portrayed in the movie as being good guys.  Jessies's character has encountered them and wants to identify them as 'good-guys' or enemies. 

I pondered over the question, and how one should respond.

The attempt by the production team is to portray various people as enemies of the Republic, or nutcase militia types.

The fact that the movie has not be released or seen beyond the 3-minute preview....leaves a lot to your imagination.

My response to the Jessie-character.....I'm American-American.  

Releasing some piece like this in an election year?  It's an attempt to stir up public anger....making them perceive civil conflict being just months away.  It won't go well.

Booze-Discussion

 In the old days of the Air Force (prior to the 1990s)....booze on a base was sold at two locations (your local 'club' or the Class-6 store).  The club sold drinks....the Class-6 store was the place to buy it in bottle form.

To describe a Class-6 shop?  It would be typically like any beverage shop that you'd walk into today, with ultra-cheap prices.  If you were off-base and found a bottle of 'X' for $6....Class-6 would probably sell it for $5.

From the 1950s to the 1990s....Class-6 survived (actually thrived). 

In the 1990s...the BX-folks came along and said they could do a better job, and the Class-6 empire was dissolved.

What you figured out five years later...was that the $6 a bottle of 'X' off-base.....via the new BX shop....was now about $5.90 for the same bottle.  Yeah, this became a much discussed topic.

Occasionally, you'd walk in and find some case of beer on sale, and the discount made sense.  But you had to view each week of what was coming up on sale, and only buy when discounted prices were in effect.  

But the BX went and changed things in an odd way as 2000 came around.  The shopette gimmick was invented, a 24-hour shop came up out of thin air.  I was retired at this point, but young enlisted guys would talk about going over at midnight....to buy X and Y.  This was something that 1970s/1980s enlisted guys weren't into.

This week, I noticed that the BX-management had gone to another modification....saying there were too many suicides on bases....with people buying booze after 10 PM.  So there is a new being established....the 24-hour operation will still continue, but you can't buy any beer, wine, or booze....from 10 PM to 6 AM.  No one really caring?  Well....they had to admit that in normal operations....booze sales from 10 PM to 6 AM....only amounted to 1-percent of the booze sales.  Yeah.....99-percent of booze/beer sales occurs from 6 AM to 9:59 PM

This brings me back to the odd factor....guys committing suicide after dark (mostly from midnight to 4 AM).  No one says booze or drugs are involved, but this BX decision makes you wonder about this.  

Folks just readjusting to the time change, and rush over between 9 and 10 PM....to buy beer or booze?  Well....yeah, people tend to adjust.  The other factor?  If you needed booze or beer....why limit yourself to the BX-management situation?  

New Scenario: Haley-Newsom-Trump-RFK Jr?

 It came up yesterday....Haley suggesting to Democrats (since there is no D-primary stuff going on) to cross the line and vote for her.  So it's the next likely gimmick to have Haley as the Republican convention winner....leaving Trump to be a Independent.

In a race where it's Trump-RFK Jr-Haley-Newsom?

I'd say Haley wins zero states.

RFK and Trump will split 45 states, and Newsom will mostly win west coast states, and NY. 

Crazy year for an election.

Four Observations

 1.  Yesterday, I viewed a 2024 movie review....entitled: 'Civil War'.  Basically, the Ron Swanson actor (Nick Offerman) is President of the United States, and because of a irrational public....war has started up.  

It appears to be the US versus the southern alliance folks (whatever they are) and the west coast crowd.

This went on for about three minutes and I was mostly laughing....it was all dead-serious in the attempt to convey 'WAR'.  I was hoping some LGTBQ-land would come about....probably SF Bay area.

You can find it over at YouTube, and spend some time watching it.

2.  All this impeachment crap on Biden?  Going forward?  Yeah.

I would imagine that VP Harris is sipping Champaign and getting pretty loose/ready....for the new job.  My question?  Who would Harris select as VP?  I would imagine it won't be Newsom.  

Finding someone is even less clever as Harris?  Very likely.  

3.  What all this Harvard plagiarism crap is about?  " " ".

Yeah, quotation marks. 

 It was somewhere around the 8th grade where my English teacher finally conveyed the necessity of " marks.  I questioned the logic of this....was it really necessary, but it was drilled into me.

As for this PhD gal who runs Harvard having a problem?  I think she may merely have a crappy keyboard and the "-key doesn't work half the time (mine does that occasionally).

4.  If you ask me on anxiety levels for Hunter Biden?  I suspect he's maxed-out and likely doing two or three lines of cocaine daily to relieve the pressure.  

The Penis-Lady Question

 I spent most of the day pondering over this story.  Comes out a Seattle high school....history test of some type (I can't figure  out how history relates though).  

Question came up on the quiz....kid was given a statement and was told it was a true/false situation.  This seems be a dumbass test where you ought to get 100-percent on the test.  

1st question:  Only women can get pregnant. True or false.

2nd question: Only men can have penises. True or false.  

Kid responds 'true' on both....marked wrong by the teacher.

Test is not the type that you can remove from the room (collected, from what the journalists say).  Kid took a screen shot....parents reviewed later, and all 'hell' broke loose.

Teacher male or female?  Left for you to wonder.

Mostly an indoctrination episode?  What's it have to do with history or civics?

You are left to wonder....out of the 25-odd kids in the class....how many answered 'true'.

You have a case where some dimwit (male or female) has wrapped up high school, and then wrapped up four years of college....prepared to hand-out BS like this.  Normal kid would view the classroom lesson and indoctrination....reaching a point by age 14....that he's smarter than the teacher (he even knows this).

School left to clean the mess up?  Yeah.   I would assume there's some meeting with the principal, a district lawyer for the school board, and the teacher.  Beyond that....you will not hear anything else for a while.

My view?  I would say it's a safe bet that by the ninth grade.....you should graduate kids out of school, and try to get 75-percent of them into some apprentice-or-trade school.  The kids remaining for this type of education involving penis-ladies or vagina-men....you need a dumbass profession.....apple-picker, trucker, or Piggly Wiggly clerk for them.  

Three Humble Thoughts

 1.  On this return of Alex Jones to Twitter?

I'll say this about Jones....if he rants for ten minutes....there's garbage BS and worthless chatter in about half of the talk...making it a pain-in-the-ass to listen to his rant.  The problem is....in 60 seconds of his ten-minute talk....there's five-star material/facts.

The one true value of Twitter/X...is that you can mute or block people that you don't want to hear.  

2.  I sat in amazement....TSA has rigged up some kind of fake-line business where if you are a refugee with NO ID....you somehow get through security at airports to fly.  It makes no sense.

3.  All this Harvard chatter from past day or two?  I don't really care. 

If you were stupid enough to pay $55,000 a year for tuition and $22,000 for room/board....you probably deserve the right to cut-and-paste for your home-work.  

College Story

 I worked with an Air Force officer once who got into a discussion once about a 'buddy' in college who'd gone and done four stupid acts, while drunk.  Each one ending up with either the college 'police' or the local town police getting involved....then having some meeting with the college's management. 

On the third episode...they called up his dad and gave him the lecture that patience was running out.  

On the fourth episode, they just brought the guy in...gave him a short summary slip of 'you-are-expelled'....then had the campus cops escort him to the dorm to pick up the belongings to leave.  

The problem that developed after this?  Well....he went to another public institution and figured that they'd readily accept him.  Once he delivered the summary of classes/credit already taken, and there's some comment about being forced to leave....the new college discussed things for a day or two....then said 'no-acceptance'.  

It took a month of looking around to find a college that accepted the circumstances.

The odds of someone getting expelled today out of some public or private college?  I'd have my doubts that the management folks have the 'guts' today to throw folks out.  It's an odd evolution over the past two or three decades that has developed. All of the 'big' colleges have their own police staff these days.....added security because of various bad-boy behavior being accepted.