Unemployment Rate for Huntsville, Alabama?

 My German wife....eager to hype the negative nature of unemployment in America....was utterly shocked....December  2025 numbers for Huntsville, Ala...1.9-percent.

What this generally means?

If you run a BK or McDonalds operation...you probably have a full-time HR guy constantly recruiting, and a french-fry guy/burger flipper is probably paid $10/12 an hour starting out, and making $15 an hour within 3 months (to keep them there).

Across the board....you could marginally pass out of high school, and within three years...probably make $17 an hour easily.

Aliens Chatter

 I sat and watched a AM podcast interview with the actor Laurence Fishburne (one of the few Hollywood actors that I truly enjoy watching)....so the topic of aliens/UFOs come up and the podcast gal asks Fishburne...what he thinks: (he says)

“I think they walk among us…I think they’re right here with us and we just don’t know who they are.”

To be honest, it wouldn't shock me some 'truth' were to arrive where we found around 100,000 aliens live among us....paying taxes....flying planes....running bars...repairing transmissions....working as soap-opera stars....wrestling...NCAA football coaching, and even being a President.

Why?  Well....if you were highly advanced....you probably are fairly bored and wish to have some adventure (West-World type).  So some travel agency exists....providing you a year of language training, and some basic trade skill....then whisk you off to Earth with some 10-year adventure.

Are People 'Blessed' With Such A Low IQ....That They Can't Gather-Up An ID Or Present It?

 This AM, I pondered for half-an-hour about presenting an ID to vote, and if the real problem was a quarter of society has a IQ level of 65 to 75....meaning they are destined for food-prep-help, farm-work, assembly jobs, and House-of-Representatives work.

The question is....if you 'herded-up' a thousand of the low-IQ people....could 50-percent of them be unable to prove anything for a ID situation, or that they are even a US citizen?

Then the bigger question comes up....do you want the low-IQ  people voting?  I pondered over this for a while.  I don't mind asking low-IQ guy to flip burgers, haul hay,  or do dimwit-level work for the Senate job...but if they are this stupid....do I want them to have the right to vote?

So I'll just say it....this whole ID talk we are having presently....is a 50-foot deep 'hole' and we might want to have a serious conversation.

Harris Chatter

 I sat this AM...watching a interview of former VP Harris, and the topic of mandating an ID to vote.

For a brief 20 seconds, Harris seemed to have the clarity and competence of a 16-year-old teenage girl....then  she said something to the effect that rural folks didn't have access to a Xerox machine, so they couldn't have copies of documents their American citizenship or residency.  This led me back to her mental side being that of a 8-year old girl.

I grew up in the 'boonies'....at least I considered it boonieish.  Today?  The forty-odd houses on the county road....all have multi-printers with Xerox/fax capability.  McDonalds?  There's one six miles away. The dry-county status dissolved around 15 years ago. Ninety percent of folks have internet capability and cable-TV.   On a boonie-index (1-to-10)....we probably won't get past '2'.

All these Democrat folks who seem passionate about about the rural folks existing along some 1940-timeline?  I think they need to take a month off....just travel around the nation, and talk to people.

My Thoughts On The Washington Post

 There was a time....up through the 1990s....that they had 4-star investigative journalism. I worked with a Air Force officer who'd occasionally bring his Sunday edition into the office and I'd get a chance to read the bulk of it during lunch.

For my 3.5 year period (2010-2013)...in DC.....I was a subscriber for about 9 months.  

I eventually came to a end-point.....mostly over 3 reasons: their analysis often seemed one-sided.....they just would not criticize or comment on the DC city council....and as many sports journalists as they had, they seemed to barely talk sports.

With the laying off this week?  Well...the folks that remain....probably are looking at three years of 'life'....before  the WP goes under.

 

My Humble Thoughs On:

 Voter ID?  Look....I suspect this...if you mandate the ID and force people to re-accomplish registration...across the fifty states....around 50-percent of registered voters will disappear (more so in California than any other state). How would you go and explain this?

People unhinged/upset over use of words?  Look....if you are that childish in nature, then you ought to hook up to some Amazon tribal folks, and just find some group with 1,600 total words.  Live a simple life....boil lizards...and stare at stars an hour every evening.

News content?  If you write mostly BS, or stuff that people aren't accepting....you need to prepare for a 2nd career.

Life skills?  Around the 8th grade....there ought to be two hours a day on cooking, repairing, banking, etc....skills that you need in real life.

Trump giving a UFO's exist speech?  Some people will believe it....some will be on a TDS-frenzy and refuse to believe it.  We will end up with UFO-DS being a new problem.

Addictive Story

 This AM....I read through a research piece briefly....this paper by Milbank Quarterly suggests that soda and sweets are designed to be addictive, in some odd way....copies the tobacco industry tactics.

My wife (the German health nut) has believed this for 30-odd years.

Up until 2010....I was a two-to-three soda a day consumer.  Since then....I might drink a Pepsi or  Coke three times a year....mostly at airports.

On a addictive scale....some are pretty high up, and then you have Tab, Sprite, and 7-Up....which I tend to see as zero on being addictive.