Q-and-A

 1.  Do I believe Michelle Obama is 'qualified' for the Presidency?

She is as qualified as 99-percent of American society...meaning your local gas station clerk, your choir-director at the church, your burger-flipper niece, the neighbor with $88,000 in college debt, the septic tank salesman, or the one-eyed Veterinarian that you take your dog for his shots.

The problem is....how would sell such a person with a 3 x 5 inch index-card resume?  Plus you have to go and convince people that the past four years with President Biden were a magnificent success....because of his 4-page resume and selling Michelle Obama in the same way.

2.  Is all this Biden-cognitive chatter....pushing people to ask more questions about their own relatives?

Well....yeah.  And in some cases....the target-person, upon realizing his relatives are pro-cognitive testing.....ought to be (themselves) cognitive tested.

3.  KFC 12-piece chicken bucket....now $30 (with tax figured)?

Yeah, and guys over the age of sixty are shaking their heads because they remember when it was $12.  

But here's the thing....by 2030....that 12-piece bucket will likely be close to $45.  

4.  Florida driver's license rules changed in the past week....where you can't use more than 2 genders.  

Oddly, this got a fair number of folks disturbed....who suggest their lives were 'determined' in some way.....with the extra gender rules.   It's hard to imagine....one single card....with incredibly small font...with a extra letter or two....made people complete.  

My Theory On Significant Numbers Of Chinese Men Crossing Into Panama And Onto The US?

 Just a theory of mine.

The only thing making money presently in China is Fentanyl production and sales.  Shocker?

So, these guys have figured out.....why only produce and deliver to some logistical group in Mexico?  Why can't they be maker, distributor, logistical movement around the US, and be the sales people as well?  All in one.

I think China hub gave this some thought, and figured....we  can get 40,000 Chinese men into the US by mid-summer 2024.  We can set up over 300 hubs around the US.  We can get another hundred-thousand men there by early 2025....to  be salesmen on the street.

We can double production....double distribution....taking out all of the cartel action on Fentanyl.

We can buy silence with city and county prosecutors.

So, it would make sense....bring in the hub crew....get ready for expansion, and own everything from production to sales.   

Three Things

 1.  I was offered one single chance to join up with a DC gov't employee 'union' back in 2010.  There were a dozen of us new hires in the room, and NOT one single person was interested. 

I noticed this graph today....going back to 1990....almost 20-percent of people were union members.  Now?  It's down to 10-percent, and I would imagine by 2030....it'll be near 5-percent.  

Adding to the spiral?  Well...folks used to be hand-cuffed by the union to vote along union 'picks', and that has been lost as well.

2.  I sat and watched this AM...one of those stupid videos of a 22-year old gal....finished with college and hired-up somewhere (never saying where or with what company).....all miserable and extremely negative about life.

In an average week....I probably watch five of these.  Generally....always a female, and always in the age group of 21 to 25.

It's always a passionate moment....lost on enthusiasm....dwelling on the terrible life they are living.  The pay is never enough.....they don't have time for friends...they seek fulfillment but can't find it.

I feel like taking them out to the hay field in August, and letting them spend a day at 95-degree F....hauling hay and getting this miserable feeling transformed.  

3.  Each day that passes.....it feels like propaganda-A, propaganda-B, or propaganda-C is being fed to me.  It'd be nice to delete the news entirely, and just watch the Three Stooges or some Japanese monster movie.

I'm Not Really Against Stupid People, But......

 I think around the last year of high school in Bama, when it occurred to me that at various times....I was dealing with stupid people.  

A year or two into the my Air Force era....I came to start a ranking system (Stupid-level 1/2/3).  Level-1 people were OK, and you could manage to educate or bring them out of the 'pit'.  Level-2 stupid people were mostly people you avoided.  Level-3 stupid people were people with extremely low IQ....probably in the 80-to-85 range and you felt sorry for.  

By the end of my Air Force era (1999)....I'd even come to realize that folks with four years of college or even a Masters Degree....could be stupid as well.

Over the past twenty years?  I've come to realize stupid people exist in the medical arena...the news media....Hollywood, and even work to sell themselves in some religious fashion...as stupid.

I've probably developed myself to immediately assess stupidity.  It's nothing personnel....but if you walked up to me and I seem  preoccupied after your introduction or tale of woe.....asking me what my mind was on....I'd respond with 'one', 'two' or 'three'.  Then you'd be hoping I gave you a 'one' or 'three'.

If I were offering advice to some high school kid?  Yeah, I'd explain the stupid people issue, and get them hooked onto my grading system.  

Five Observations

 1.  It's just odd....this whole investigation into Biden's holding of classified documents in the garage and non-secure locations....declared over, and no charges.  What the prosecutor said?  Biden is an old guy and not that clear-headed....so you just need to skip over the law and 'let him be'.

Yeah, it was a huge insult, to which Biden reacted last night....got all hyped-up (extremely aggravated).  This 12-minute piece....I felt...went badly.  

Oddly, you notice at various times....his eye-blink rate goes on for 30 to 40 seconds without a blink.  He's obviously on some drug. 

2.  The Supreme Court hearing the Colorado case to exclude Trump from the ballot?  

It went badly for the Colorado anti-Trump folks....they just weren't prepared, and their case was marginally constructed.  

3.  There's talk in California that Prop 47....which made bad-boy behavior a misdemeanor.....is going to be reformed.  Next?  Well....cops would have to go and arrest folks....then charge them up, and find jail-space (into the tens of thousands).  I just don't see this working.

4.  In roughly nine to ten years....Social Security will be emptied out.  I anticipate most on Social Security to be told 'tough luck' and a 10 to 20 percent cut to be put upon them.  All those years that the House could have gone into repair?  Wasted.

5. Finally, in Air Force news.....desperation has reached a point where if you retired from the Air Force in the past five years.....they are interested in bringing you back....for a four-year period.  Certain fields....officers and NCOs.

Who would go back in?  I pondered over this.  

Most folks would laugh....they already have a job.

I would imagine that one-percent of AF retired folks will sit and ponder upon the idea....being age 45 and getting one more tour and four more years onto their retirement situation (probably giving them an extra $400 as a E7/E8 on their pension). But out of this 1-percent group?  I'd take a wild guess that fewer than 150 folks actually take the bait and run.

I laughed over my final month in the Air Force in 1999.....the personnel guy was briefing me and said.....you must retain your uniform for a period of time (I think it was 3 years)....saying some type of obligation existed at that point in time and they could call me back.  

I think somewhere in the basement....there's still a duffle bag with one set of blues, and three sets of BDUs sitting there.....twenty years later.

Warrant Officers?

I sat and read over a Air Force story today....Air Force Headquarters in reviewing this crazy idea.....bringing back warrant officers (WOs), and possibly creating the claass training program by the end of 2024.  

How long have the WOs been gone?  Sixty-five years.

What happened?  Well....the Air Force came to realize that Congress was looking at trimming officer billets, and figured....lets dump the WOs.....enlarge senior enlisted billets and junior officer billets.

What made WOs different?  They were typically people with 2-year degrees (minimum), and a minimum of four years of service as a enlisted guy.   They stayed in their field....meaning you didn't go off and do work unrelated to your training.

Why this change now?  Well....getting NCOs to stay in past 20, and recruiting enlisted and college folks....is near impossible. 

Will cargo pilot positions mostly go to WOs?  That's one of the curious things I see coming.....where a quarter to half of such officer billets will be WO (when the smoke clears).

I'll even predict that virtually all of the Predator piloting....goes to WOs in the future.

Eight Humble Thoughts

 1.  Within five years, I will predict that some artificial intelligence (AI) movie will be made, with dead Hollywood stars.

My pick for a western?  The Wild Bunch, with John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, and James Dean.  

2.  I've seen a couple of mentions where states issued a check for $1,000 to each migrant processing in.  Americans get disturbed by this.

I sat and pondered over the stimulus checks (in the $1k to $1.5k amount), and figure....most Americans spent the money in eight hours or less.  The migrant probably spent his in two hours.  

3.  All these people in great fear of Tucker Carlson asking Putin questions.  It's like some demon-show or great fear of what Putin might say.

4.  Inflation is where you have unchecked spending on an individual and government level....where reckless behavior consumes reality....making both want a fantasy that they can never achieve.

5.  I sat and watched some video of a young guy (probably 30) who was taking his gal out for a birthday dinner, and she's got an entourage with her (maybe 15 other women).  She wants him to take the whole crew out and lay down $500 for everyone.  He just wasn't going to do it.  

I felt sorry for him....he'd picked the wrong gal to date.  The fact that he just sprung this upon him....was crap.

6.  I was reading a story over the weekend....guy had three friends coming over and had ordered up four big sub-sandwiches (Jersey Mikes).  Final bill came (with taxes) to just over $90.  Guy stood there in shock...paid it, and made a mental note....never to order sub-sandwiches again.

This is the reality of inflation and how society 'lost'.

7.  Delaying the Biden exit....to the Convention, is the wrong way to go.  You end up with a massive jump-start necessary for secondary candidates (House, Senate, Governors, state elections, etc). 

8.  I paused over the AM story today....Nevada primary for GOP concluded....Haley finished second (33-percent).  They would not allow Trump on the ballot, so instead, the bulk of voters went to 'None-of-These-Candidates'.

How bad does this make Haley look?  Exceptional.

The millions wasted and you couldn't really beat Trump again.