1. Ukraine-Russia (US has given a significant amount of assets)
2. President Xi (China) threat to take Taiwan
3. Israel - Hamas
4. Yemen attacks on ships to enter the Red Seat
5. All that equipment left in Afghanistan
6. Venezuela - Guyana threat of war
7. North Korea testing of rockets
8. Lowest US Army manning in years
You would almost think that the CIA designed some massive world war situation that the Pentagon could not win.
1. On Jeffrey Epstein and the 'guests'.
I think Jeff started the exclusive 'club' mostly to get a limited amount of insider information...just by wining/dining folks with some 4-star hookers involved.
After six to twelve months of this....I think the Mossad (Israeli Secret Intelligence folks) came to want a piece of the pie and additional guests that went beyond the business world...to include various politicians.
After a year of that era...I think the CIA stumbled into this, and they wanted a piece of the pie.
As for the underage business? Maybe there is an example or two of this going on, but I suspect there's mostly women over age 21....with a handful of gays/lesbians involved.
But these guys are now sitting and wondering....did 'Angie', the gal who said she was '20'....was she actually 16 years old, and ten to fifteen years later....this bothers the guy a fair bit.
The fact that he blabbed to Jeff about such-and-such deal to take place in six ways? That probably never comes up in his mind....it's the youthful 'Angie' and that eight hours of hot sex that is on the guy's mind.
2. I think it's now possible that fifteen states will deny Trump's name in some fashion, and various other states react by refusing to conduct a Presidential election....they intend to force a 'no-electoral-college' situation, and go to the state-by-state voting.
I also think the hotest topic to come by mid-summer of 2024....will be voter ID....nationwide.
3. I was looking over Bloomberg this AM, and they say.....a quarter of America's 'normal-rich' (meaning a income of $175,000 a year or more).....will infer to people and peers...that they are 'poor' or just getting by in some fashion.
I've tried to ponder upon this topic. To be honest, I've never known or been friends with anyone making $175k a year. Back as an E3 in the Air Force and barely making $9,000 while living in the barracks....I didn't really infer or tell anyone that I was poor or getting by. Today, married to a German, at least once a week...I will infer to the wife that we lived poorly on the farm...having to eat thin strips of bacon instead of the thick stuff, and we used the cheaper-made toilet paper.
There's some kind of five-star BS going on....if you think $175k a year makes you poor.
4. There's apparently a new investigation going on in Congress about a second gay video tape....involving another gay employee of the House/Senate.
Just a gut feeling, but I suspect by spring of 2024....there will be at least sixty of these videos, and only two will involve lesbians.
5. All these people talking about leaving the US, if Trump wins....has to now be in the 500,000 range....I would imagine that more than 99-percent have never given real consideration to this. The one and only country on their list? Probably Canada.
Frankly, as winters go in Canada....after one season, I think the vast number of people will quietly return to the US.
1. If you polled a fair segment of Americans, I suspect that 25-percent would say that a 'civil war' is currently underway in the nation.
2. Why can't the Harvard management folks fire the University President with all the plagiarism issues? Just me thinking over this....they've probably talked about it, and now worry that it'll be seen as a racism issue if they fire her.
I'm also of the thought process that maybe they've agreed on firing but now realize from the twenty-odd people to replace her....a scan of their PhD thesis reveals similar issues as the current gal.
3. Are 'migrant' and 'illegal alien' the same thing? Yeah.
4. Walter Lippman 1922 quote: “It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?”
I saw this in the past week. Public order/respect....often pushes you in extreme ways....to the point that you need to halt the message you are receiving and just ask a few questions before getting serious or hyped-up about something.
5. Throwing Trump off the Colorado ballot? Well....seems like now that he is collecting a ton of public donations. On smart political play for Colorado (my 1-to-10 index)? I'd give them a '2' at best.
6. All this money coming in for the Biden campaign....which is currently marginal at best (most primaries are limiting candidates to only Biden himself). I suspect if you line up a hundred typical Democrat voters....more than sixty-percent will say they are not participating in the upcoming primary season.
7. DeSantis is finished when the Iowa caucus is wrapped up. I don't think he'll have funding to continue on. From that point, it's just Haley, Trump and Vivek. Oddly enough, for CNN to have some 'fresh' news....they are giving a ton of extra coverage over to Vivek and Haley at present.
8. From the 8-million-odd 'guests' in the US....'illegals'....if we enter a year long real recession with no real money being spent....what work will they be doing?
9. How to read this entire Jack Smith special prosecutor 'status'? Well....normally, under the law, to be a special prosecutor, you are already hired and employed by the US gov't (meaning? you took the oath and are a fed employee).
Jack Smith was not a fed employee, and has not taken any oath. In the true sense of the word....he was contracted out for the special prosecutor role.
A problem? Well...if the Supreme Court comes back and tosses the case...it will look rather amusing for the Attorney General to explain this in some public setting. I doubt that he was the person creating the entry for Smith in this role.
I noticed this in Air Force news today....they were extending max years for enlisted, because of the manpower shortage.
What this this means? If you were a E-4/Senior Airman, you were now allowed to stay (without promotion) to 12 years.
E-5/Staff Sergeant? 22 years.
E-6/Tech Sergeant? 24 years.
E-7/Master Sergeant? 26 years.
E-8/Senior Master Sergeant? 28 years.
An awful long time to be just a SSgt? Yeah. In the early 1980s, I worked in a civil engineering squadron with a air conditioning SSgt who was up to 18 years. His IQ a problem? Yeah....he knew just enough about AC systems to get by.
The AF thinking this will help? They claim....2,000 folks are affected by the rule, with no idea if the folks will stay anyway.
Based on a few chats I've had in the past three years with enlisted guys....most had now a plan to exit the military upon 20 years. The woke-stuff, deployments, and amusing pronoun players....were enough to convince them to exit.
1860, Lincoln was removed from 10 state ballots, yet still won the election in the end.
If you brought up this fact....99-percent of people are unaware of this fact.
The Supreme Court? They will issue a 'pause'.....telling Colorado that it can't progress until a review occurs....meaning that the primary to be held on 5 March 2024...likely will occur, with Trump's name on the primary ballot.
I have two observations over this.
First, if you use the 14th Amendment for this action....logic would follow that the Republican Party itself is a problem in the insurrection business, and you'd have to remove all candidates in the state of Colorado who identity as Republicans.
Second, if Trump's name is tossed back at them and forces them into a corner, will the state of Colorado do the right thing and exit the union?
Yeah....it would sound like a Civil War strategy. Just the odd factor....the Democrats of the south in 1860....went this way and badly lost.
I looked over this news story: "Trump says he never read ‘Mein Kampf’ after ‘poisoning the blood’ comment linked to Hitler."
The quote? Hitler did make a 'poisoned blood' speech, and to be honest from 1920s Nazi Party and into the 1930s....a fair number of Germans were angry that the coalition government was not doing enough to prevent migration. That big of a deal? Well....a lot of German men went off to the war and didn't return....so industry (trying to recover in the 1925 to 1930 era) were accepting non-Germans for employment.
But as for the use of Mein Kampf? I've attempted to read it (once in 1978) and found it crappy enough to drop after an hour. About a decade later, I'd make a second attempt and marginally got through it.
Anyone who says they've read it....probably read through the first ten pages, and then dropped the book. The emphasis of the book is to sell you on a nationalistic political focus....involving socialism as the landscape.
As for anyone believing that migration in the US presently can be resolved by Trump or anyone (including Newsom or Biden)? I think if you asked the blunt question...the majority of Americans would say it's permanently screwed-up.
No one asked guys much over this but I would imagine that guys would mostly respond that 50-percent of women probably should be 'black-listed' in some way....because of emotional issues, high expectations on finances and home sanitation practices.
The real issue? About every six seconds in America....some PhD guy/gal is wrapping up another study, and publishing a 50-50 report....either lacking in facts, or full of BS.
So you, as the reader....go and read through five to twenty pages, and eventually (with 15 to 30 minutes wasted)....you stop yourself and admit that half of what they wrote is pure BS. You don't even need a PhD to write this sort of garbage.
As for the real question here....are women happier? To be honest, if most women just had a dog or cat, and 'Friends' were still being produced....life would be simpler in nature.
