In The Old Days Speech

 Back in the old days...meaning when Greeks were supreme race on Earth, and were contributing vast amounts of knowledge....they had a habit of inventing 'Gods'.

I won't say that it was a big deal or discussed that much.  You needed to have some element of 'protection' and you had a list of Gods created (in the fictional sense) to correct the woes that you ran into.

One of the more interesting Gods that the Greeks created....was Dionysus.

Dionysus was a unique creation.  He served around 7 purposes:

1.  When you needed entertainment or humor....he was the God of theater.  You'd pray to him for singing, a good laugh, or stoic words of inspiration.

2.  When you needed top-class wine-making.....he was the God of wine production.

3.  When harvest came up for apples or pears....he was the God of orchard harvest.

4.  When things seemed dull, and you needed some crazy stuff to happen....he was the God that you generally sought.

5.  When you needed hot passionate lust stuff....he was the God to deliver.  I should note....in those days without a bunch of chatter or woke-stuff...LGBTQ-stuff just occurred along with 300-odd fetishes, and everyone seemed happy.

6.  When the yearly ritual talk started up....he was the God you sought hope for a successful ritual or party.

7.  Finally, when you coupled up with some Greek gal and hoped for a kid or two....yeah, he was the God that you had quiet discussions with.

I'm not saying Dionysus was a guaranteed thing....just that people seemed to believe in things not accidentally occurring. 

Hiring Chatter

 I sat and read over this story...admitting, there are not lot of details or facts. What the FAA guys basically say.....they will make some effort to hire that typically....they would hire.

Level of position?  Unknown.  Manager-status?  Unknown.  Security clearance?  Unknown. People with a IQ of 85 or below?  Unknown.  People  with paranoid schizophrenia, or having invisible friends?  Unknown.

The problem I see....people tend to have a level of trust in the FAA (like it used to be with the FBI or National Forest Service).  If you said that 300 FAA employees will exist in the future....with some 'Forest Gump' label/status....I doubt that trust will be maintained.

But this begs the question....why couldn't the CIA, US Army, Border Patrol, or Secret Service....hire up intellectual misfits (maybe even with a PhD) or psychiatric disabled people?  Why can't the House/Senate mandate  at least one or two members of their crowd fit into this category?  Why can't we get a President who is mentally disabled? 

It just seems like something bad is going to evolve out of this....where you'd advance far in life....if you had a FAA job and had an imaginary friend.

Six Foot Chatter

 Years ago, I took a college science-related course, and the professor gal (bone-digger type) had been low on cash funds, and accepted this evening course to replenish field project status.

So one night....science chatter started up in the room....we are all mostly Air Force folks working on a degree unrelated to science (yeah, kinda forced into the course, for degree purposes), and the topic of science constantly evolving or changing was coming up.

The professor (smart gal but strongly attached to digging up dinosaur crap)....more or less admitted that about 10-percent of science wasn't really fact-based or proven....it was just a best guess situation.  She wasn't claiming it was hoax-stuff or BS....just that people looked at something and best guess #1.....was fact until proven wrong.  

As she noted....some fields....it was worse than other fields.  In the dinosaur business....she kinda hinted it might be closer 50-percent made-up.

So when Fauci stood up and said that the 6-foot rule for Covid might not be based on science...I pondered upon this.

Personally, I always questioned how this came up.  Germans for example....said 1-meter (3.2 ft) was good enough.  How you could easily this distance....well....just hold your arm straight out.  But if you asked a German doctor where this idea came from....they would mostly grin. 

Looking  back four years ago....it's amazing what people accepted as fact, and how some people just refused to participate.  

This brings me  back to the professor and wondering....maybe I should have gone off into science, and gotten a PhD....then just made up a lot of BS facts.  How much could I have gotten away with?

We May Have To Legislature Ways Of Death

 I sat and read over this news piece this AM.

Basically....translady (29) has passed on....with the death attributed to testicular cancer (a guy thing).

On paper?  Well....doctor will have to write 'something' but I doubt that he wants to disturb relatives/friends.  

If I were the guy, I'd write vagina cancer, and just leave it like that.  If someone asked...just refer them to accept imaginary causes of death....just like the other imaginary things in life.

This trend likely to continue?  I mean the testicular cancer affecting Transladies?  Well....yeah.  

It might be something that ought to be handled by Congress....making up some fake reality to appease some folks.  

Three Odd Things I've Noticed

1.  CNN is in some capacity of reporting that SecDef Austin somehow ordered and then monitored the strikes in Yemen....'real-time' from his hospital bed.

BS. BS. BS.

Based on reports of his health....I'd suggest the guy is on some type of pain-killer, and if he ordered anything....he probably doesn't remember much of the order.

2.  NBC News has apparently laid off several dozen news people...to save on cost.

Odds that Artificial Intelligence (A-I) will replace the folks?  I'd bet money on that.

3.  “Our vegetables would rot in the ground if they weren't being picked by many immigrants... many illegal immigrants.” Quote by Rep Jerry Nadler.

I stopped and pondered over this.  To be honest, if you asked a thousand Americans to put in eight hours per year....to help harvest some farmer's fruit/vegetables (getting a bushel themselves in the process).....99-percent would say 'no'.

So this illegal immigrant statement might be right.  But in 25 years....as this new group of migrants get 'whitish' in their behavior.....they won't pick fruit or vegetables either.  

Five Things I Expect To Happen In 2025

 1.  I expect a minimum of two Justices to retire from the Supreme Court. Probably Thomas and Sotomayor.  So the Presidential race is kinda important.

2.  I expect damage reversal to occur on the Biden student loan business to occur.....with people being handed back their debt to pay.  I also expect a long discussion to start up over future student loans and a 'harsh' limit of no more than $10,000 a year from the federal program. 

3.  More than half the students of California high schools will identify as 'LGBTQ'.  Someone will ask on frequency of weekly sex to discover that 50-percent of California are active weekly, and 10-percent admit some student-teacher affair going on. 

4.  Nicki Halley, having failed at the Presidential ballot business....finds no federal position offered, and briefly ends up at CNN, until they figure out that no one much cares what she says or thinks.

5.  More black/Hispanic recruits than white recruits, for the US Army.  Someone will point out in the 2025 data....that two out of three white recruits....are fitting into the 'LGBTQ' category.  It will also be noted that at least 100 Army white recruits...entered and claimed the status of Pacific Islander....while they were from Georgia, Florida or Alabama.

Do You Have Camping Rights?

 I noticed this week that the Supreme Court has decided to listen to an argument...... whether cities can ban homeless folks from public streets/neighborhoods.

After pondering over it....I came to the logical question....do you have camping rights?

It's really not about homeless discussions....it's about you having some right to camp out in a city park, or on a sidewalk, or on a parking spot of a road/street.

If I were a Justice sitting there....it'd be a fairly easy answer.  Camping always costs something...even if you were on a state park, national forest area, or state lake front.  So the logical answer here....once you set up a tent,  you need to pay the city or county some fee. It shouldn't matter if this is in a city park, or on some sidewalk in a industrial area.

I'm of the mind that $20 a day is a fair rate.....unless the city is providing toilet/water services (in that case....$40 would be fine).

Yeah, the way to handle this....flush people out of urban zones.  If some city wants to offer up camp grounds?  Fine...establish a true camping park, with inspections and requirements...maybe offer a $50-a-week fee.  

I'll admit up front, this is a stupid argument, but I would imagine Justice Thomas (being a RV-camper) has an idea or two...that he will share with the other Justices.  This might be interesting to hear the discussion.