Four Things

1.  This NY City Chabad 'tunnel' dug into the Jewish facility is a wild story.  No permit....probably there for years.  Some suggestion that it was for sex-trafficking.

2.  I sat and watched a Twitter video today....some 19-year gal....all hyped-up over her 40-hour a week job and it's not enough to move out of the parent's house.

I pondered over this....1979, I worked with a Air Force NCO who was married.  Between him and the wife, they had two full-time jobs, and three part-time jobs.  On Fridays after work, he'd pull a 12-hour shift loading pallets at the local airport for a cargo airline.  His wife worked three six-hour shifts a week at the bowling alley.  At least twice in the middle of the week....he'd run the base theater ticket stand, and the pop-corn operation.  

I don't want to dump too much on the gal, but this has been reality for decades.

3.  The craziest scenario I've heard for November?

Someone suggested that at least three states will openly allow non-Americans to register and vote.  The reaction will be a majority of states  who will refuse to certify the election and refuse to participate in January's state-by-state vote in the House.   

If this were to happen?  All out chaos.

The necessity in getting non-Americans registered?  Even if you posed this to 100 Democrats....more than 90-percent would say it's plain stupid.

4.  Just some odd medical study....saying that dementia in young people is starting to be noticed.  Probably a trendy thing.

What Mexico Wants?

 President Obrador of Mexico stood up and said that they'd really like to close off the border to support the US, then he said four conditions:

1.  $20-billion per year.  It would be dispersed to Mexico and Central American countries, on some basis  (they skipped over how the loot would be divided up).

2.  End of sanctions to Venezuela.  

3.  End of sanctions and allow full-trade to Cuba.

4.  Give work-visas to 10-million from the region.

To be honest, elections are so crappy in most Central and South American countries....that this gimmick of sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela.....makes little sense.

As for the $20-billion....if the migration was going to be fully halted....it might be worth the money.  But I don't see how Mexico can promise such an action.

This will be chatted over for a week or two....then dropped.

The Problem In Projecting The CIVIL WAR Chatter?

 Well....eventually folks will ask....after the 1865 period.....who started up the KKK?  And this leads back to the Democratic Party.

Then eventually folks will ask.....who owned slaves prior to 1865?  And this leads back to members (southerners) who were bound to the Democratic Party.

Then eventually folks will ask....who defended slavery prior to 1865?  And this leads back to Democratic Party members.

Then eventually folks will ask....who pushed Jim Crowe laws?  And this will lead directly back to Democratic Party members.

Then folks will ask....who exactly filibustered Civil Rights legislation?  And this will lead back to Democratic Party members of the south.

Then folks might go and ask who arranged and ran the 'Trail of Tears' situation with the Indians?  Well.....it leads back to the Democratic Party.

You might even have a few folks who ask in the 1942-1945 era....who interned Japanese-Americans?  You can guess who that leads to.

The more the civil war is dragged up.....the more it begs questions.

Just Two Odd Things

 1.  I noticed from legal action from yesterday....the Fifth Circuit pushed back on the President Biden Department of Energy over some odd regulations that they were attempting enforce.  

So the Court wrote....after analyzing everything....there's no clear authority given to the DoE....about regulating 'water use' in dishwashers and washing machines.

I sat and pondered over this. 

How many hours were wasted in DoE....writing up a regulation....when they really didn't have the authority over it.  Really begs the question....what's the real purpose of DoE?

2.  SecDef Austin.  What was laid out yesterday.....there was an actual ambulance to come and pick up the guy (he was in such bad pain).....from that point, no seems to have called the next person or the office.  Just weird.  

I can't recall a single event in my Air Force days where no one called the office.    

The Ten Fears Of The November Election

 1.  I suspect a fair number of Democrats (particularly blacks) will cross an imaginary line and vote for Trump (Chicago for example).  In this scenario, I also think the DNC has done the survey numbers and realize that compared to 2020....three times the number of Democrats who voted for Trump in 2020.....will cross the line in this upcoming election.  

2.  I suspect that CNN, WaPo, and the NY Times will use what remaining popularity and trust they have....in angling against Trump for the whole of 2024, and bring their economic condition  to a collapse (probably in mid-2025).

3.  I suspect more than a dozen states will either refuse to count Trump ballot numbers or refuse to certify the election....in hopes of squashing the Electoral College....bringing about a total distrust of the 50-state system in place for over 200 years.

4. I suspect as you approach 100 days prior to election day.....you will hear more than a dozen arguments per day....that we are in a Civil War mentality.  

5.  Liz Cheney, from March on.....I suspect....will be on some network of TV for at least 60 minutes per day (even on Sundays).

6.  The primary argument, I suspect, for the whole election....oddly will go past Trump and be primarily the economy and the border situation.  Neither Biden or Newsom (whoever runs) will be able to counter that discussion in any forum.

7.  I suspect by the end of 2024....a majority of adults will have zero trust in news outlets.  The uner-18 crowd....will only trust Tik-Tok.

8.  I suspect by mid-summer 2024....the biggest argument against Trump....will be his age, as Biden hands the candidacy over to Newsom.

9.  I suspect weird-polling in mid-2024 will reveal that one-third of society would accept Hitler to replace Biden....if it'd improve the economy.

10.  I suspect that a majority of people will come to think that mental disease over the election....has come to be the biggest problem facing Americans today....by the  end of the year.  

Footnote:  I suspect that the term 'Hitler', 'Fuhrer', or 'Nazi' will be uttered at least six times a day from the end of the Democratic Convention to election day....by the Democratic candidate.  

Medical Chatter

I was reading through medical trends, and oddly....this fact stuck out.  To be in the path of trans....to X or Y.....your entire life is connected to pharmacies being open, and having a regular stock of HRT and testosterone.

If the local shop has delayed shipments, or the manufacture company has issues....you start to de-transition. 

So five to eight years into your plan....if anything happens to your drugs or manufacturing....a lot of stress and frustration are going to occur overnight.

If you ask me....it's a risk factor on my index of 1-to-10....of a '10'.   

Just having some idiot science folks to say HRT/testosterone cause a 200-percent chance of cancer....would create a national mental health situation.  

My PhD Story

 I worked with a guy who was helping his Fortune-500 company win a DoD contract.  One of the stipulations in the contract....from the hundred-odd people that his company would provide to support the 'need'....three of them had to be PhD-level scientists (of sort).  

He looked over the requirement in the bidding and told the government this was an enormous waste of skill and manpower (adding over a million a year in extra costs).  The response was....at times, to argue facts or bogus things....you needed some guy/gal with 'doctor' and PhD behind their name.   Requirement stood.

So he bid....getting the contract for the company.

He then went out to recruit and hire the 97-odd regular folks.  This was not a problem.

The three PhD-level folks?  Well....that took a while.  One gal said fine, but she wanted the company to professionally move her horse (figure in the $3,000 range) for the two-day trip.

Another PhD person asked for a personal secretary (of their choosing).  This was not stipulated in the gov't contract....so it was going to cost money out of the profit margin (big negative).

Another candidate owned a antique car, and wanted the company to move their car as part of the relocation move.

One candidate wanted a travel allowance (in the $20k range each year) as part of his deal....but could not explain where they'd be going.

My associate ended up hiring three PhD folks to fill the role, and assessed the work-space situation next.  Each PhD person wanted a private office, and square footage became an issue because the three private offices weren't precisely the same amount.  He had to work with what the gov't gave him.

In the end, over the three years that he managed this program....it became a daily task to just keep the 97-odd folks away from the PhD folks.  

Certain projects had to be signed with the three, and that was the only real value in the end.  

All of this made me wonder....across the entire US government....how many welfare-hire situations exist....where a PhD guy is hired with no real purpose in life?  Ten-thousand?