Eight Humble Thoughts

 1.  If you drag up the rank-and-file regular working-class Americans...this Minneapolis-Somalian fraud-misbehavior.....doesn't sell.  

It's like you told this 6-odd million  voter group....screw you, we don't care about your hurt feelings.  

Trying to imagine this as a positive brand to sell?  It just doesn't work.

2.  Just odd....ICE comes to Memphis....maybe for 10 days.  They detain around 40,000.....NO riots/demonstrations or hostile feelings by locals.  ICE quietly leaves western Tennessee.

ICE comes to Minneapolis....has barely arrested/detained 10,000 so far, but probably one-third of those detained are not illegals (protesters for this group). If you asked me....length of this deployment will go six to eight weeks....with 10,000 Americans arrested in the group of 40,000 (I figure April numbers by then). 

What's really different  from Tennessee and Minnesota?

3.  Denmark does suggest they are sending more troops and planes to Greenland.

However, if you really dive into the discussion....it's a light-squadron of probably six to eight fighters, with at least two transport planes.   As for troops?  Somewhere between 200 and 400.

Yeah, it's a marginal presence, but enough that you can spend an hour nightly talking over public TV news in Denmark of the glorious Danish men and women protecting the Inuit people.

4. I admit....it is entertaining to view the idiocy of pronouns in people's bio text.

I've been thinking over the idea of making new pronouns out of thin air...for myself.

5.   Couple of decades ago....some guy connected to the CIA in a science role....wrote a book: "Adam and Eve Story."

The CIA came up classified the story....then to some degree declassified it.

Emphasis of the story?   Well....Earth's crust slips every 5,000-12,000 years in cataclysmic pole shifts, sliding 90 degrees over molten core in a day. This starts up  2,000mph supersonic winds shredding everything, oceans surging as 5-mile wave.

Supposed to be somewhat fictional.....some folks think it's not too much fiction.

This would explain the need for Greenland....where it'd slip  30 degrees south...with north Russia on the North Pole status.  Well....if true.

6.  I hear the term 'unhinged' about 30 times a day now.  Prior to 2020....I don't think I ever hear the term.

7.  I noticed someone brought it up....since 2025....a fair portion of the new recruits of ICE....are US-citizen-Hispanics.   

Guessing that some  protest folks  are fairly hyped-up over this detail.

8.  Not saying it's a fact....but eventually....you start to think every single Antifa-member from the west coast (Oregon-California-Washington) has deployed to Minneapolis.  

I would imagine the FBI is analyzing  cellphone traffic and noting who is not a 'local' and this is going to be a serious footnote.

Minneapolis and Don

 I  wasted 30 minutes this  AM....viewing this Don Lemon-mob-church situation in Minneapolis...watching clips and viewing social media comments. So four observations:

1.  There's enough that a DA could drag Don and 'friends' into a grand jury.  Charges?  I guess you could find some mob-action and threatening behavior charge. Would be odd...convicted and showing up in some fed-jail for 3 months, and explaining your terrible crime to the fellows there....you threatened up folks in a church.   

2. Had this been a Texas Baptist Church.....guns would have been present....with church members and mob folks  exchanging gunfire.

3.  This anti-ICE behavior....at the  present pace....probably by this next weekend, there's  going to be violence and gunfire.  Very civil-war-ish. 

4.  I'm guessing both the governor and mayor are meeting today......you can't just pretend it didn't happen.  You will end up with National Guardsmen...probably a crew of 6 to 8....at each church in the city by next Sunday.

Three Humble Thoughts

 1.  It's an odd week approaching Minneapolis.  After the mob-action, chaos, and beating of last week....three groups are destined to arrive shortly.

First, the Governor has activated 4,000 state Guardsmen....it's mostly to send a message to the mobs.

Second, the DoJ has directed more FBI to show up in Minneapolis. I assume to carry out warrants/raids on the fraud business.

Third, the President has called for 1,500 active-duty Army folks (paratroopers) to come into Minneapolis.

2.  If you reach a stage where you CANNOT define a woman....within a year, there's probably sixteen other things which you lose the ability to  define, and over the next decade....probably more than five-hundred things which are undefinable. 

As a species....how will you survive?

3.  I'm of the mind that if you mandated 'true-ID' for voting....meaning you had to show a actual address where you reside, a social security number, and all of this merging into a national database where only one John J. Jones (ssn: xxx-xx-xxxx) exists....then 35-percent of registered voters would dissolve overnight.

Overnight, you'd have CNN suggesting some alien vessel landed, and kidnapped 60-odd million people....to explain what happened.

What This Trump Era Feels Like?

 It was the best of times, 

it was the worst of times, 

it was the age of wisdom, 

it was the age of foolishness, 

it was the epoch of belief, 

it was the epoch of incredulity, 

it was the season of light, 

it was the season of darkness, 

it was the spring of hope, 

it was the winter of despair.

-- Charles Dickens

Yeah, there are two groups of people existing in Dicken's vision, and it's basically the same vision in my mind of 2026.  

People fantasize over despair, and fantastic achievement ahead....with no real  middle ground for the two groups to merge, or sit in the same pub.

The book where the quote comes from?  A Tale of Two Cities.

How does the story in the book end?  Well...there's public order to execute some guy, and an associate takes his place at the end.  The ending theme....the ending emphasizes the image of resurrection (the guy who escapes death), self-sacrifice (the doomed guy), and hope amid chaos. 

As much as the whole book, and story is 'dark' and tragic....there is some final good point of quiet triumph. 

Maybe the Trump era ends that way as well.

Footnote: I read the book originally around age 14.  It's one of the twenty-odd books that I think every kid should read by the age of 18.

Three Humble Thoughts

 1.  Not front-page news, and won't be covered by CNN....but the mother of Hunter Biden’s love-child is calling for his arrest after failing to uphold child support agreement.

From what I can figure....the court gave Hunter a $5k a month situation to pay, and he's mostly failing on that.

Does he actually have the money?  I'm not that convinced.  But the  judge is likely to dig into the banking business.  

2.  Remember Ryan Wesley Routh?  Attempted to shoot Trump in 2024.

Well....came up this week....the DOJ is seeking life in prison for Ryan Wesley Routh. 

3.   This past week....there was a oddly-worded piece from the Department of Homeland Security.  It was advising its U.S. citizens to be prepared to present proof of citizenship.

Just an odd feeling....things to come....if you intend to vote in 2028....I'm betting that this citizenship requirement comes up, and things get 'rough' for some folks.

The Ten Issues That Come If Trump Does Buy Greenland

 1.  The Greenland folks (both the Danes and Inuits) will retain Danish citizenship....but the other 5,000 residents aren't Dane or Inuit....so how exactly will  you handle this issue?

2. The Greenlanders will state an  obvious requirement....NO asylum folks...NO migrants....limited number of residents. The US will have to agree to some limit of 1,000 per year, and show a plan on housing/settling them.

3.  Status as a territory or state?

4.  Some type of ferry service has to be procured/paid-for.....say twice a week....guessing to be run by the Army Corps of Engineers.

5.  The Green news situation (TV/radio/papers/news magazines) are paid mostly out of Danish funds.  So the US has to agree to cover this for a period of time.

6.  The two banks in operation in Greenland....have to be approved under the US Treasury.

7.  Right away....the alcoholism-suicide-social problems....have to be on some top US agenda..

8.  If Greenland goes to the state-route....I expect Guam, Puerto Rico, Alberta and Manitoba to follow within a year. 

9.  Power grid for Greenland will be 'bumped-up'.....mini-nuke stations brought in, and for some period of time....electrical costs will be near zero for society.

10. Within a year.....a golf course will be developed and a 'championship' will be run each July....a 24-hour golf game.....because the sun never sets.

My Crypto Box Story

 Around the next to last year of Air Force service time (late 90s)....I was called one day to come over to the secure facility at base supply to pick up three crypto-boxes.   I noted to the guy...I had not ordered these.  He responded....some program had procured (bought) the new technology boxes.

$45,000 each.

I bring them back to the vault....placing them in a locked closet. They sat there for about 8 months (still in the box).

Some contractor comes to me....saying she has the job to implement these.  There's some 40-odd page 'plan'.    

I bring this up to my boss....he checks into the 'plan'.

Then oddly....this funny episode unfolds.

Somewhere between the development stage and production stage (roughly two years before I signed for them)....this technology had been 'passed' and the three boxes were worthless.

The two months that the contractor had spent writing the 40-odd page  'plan'?  Worthless.  

Then came the bigger issue....disposing of them.  Supply wanted various forms of 'release'.  I wasted three hours researching the requirements....completing the paperwork, and driving over to supply to deal with people  who knew little of the program or process.

As I retired.....they wanted to write a medal over the five years in the unit....so there is a line in this stupid medal paperwork....noting my complete support of the 'xyz' crypto-box program....delivering the process on time.