At the end of the 1950s.....we were at an era where the Eisenhower period was going to end, and an election would really set up the entire 1960s in one direction or another. The 1960 election is rarely discussed today in any forum. The vote difference between Kennedy and Nixon (then Eisenhower's VP)? 2,000 votes nation-wide separated the two. That's it.
Based on the electoral college.....Kennedy had a more hefty number, but then you examine state-by-state numbers. If Illinois had just found another 1,000 votes....it would have gone to Nixon. Texas was only 46,000 votes away from Nixon winning there.
This all sets up a rather unique era if Nixon had won and gone on to win 1964 as well.
No JFK shooting in Dallas. The Cuba missile crisis would have been handled in a different fashion. The civil rights period would likely have gone in a different direction. Vietnam....might never have become a major conflict. The drugs introduced into the US as the war proceeded.....might not have occurred.
There are a list of things that occur because of a unique election....that was a lot closer than people tend to remember today. Bogus votes? There's no doubt that thousands of votes across the nation went into the system in some fashion of being bogus.
Nixon in 1960, instead of 1968? No Watergate. No Jimmy Carter. No Ford presidency. No Clinton era?
Yeah, things would have gone in a different direction.....if a thousand votes had appeared in Illinois. Just something to ponder upon.
Friday, 8 August 2014
Thursday, 7 August 2014
My Ten Solutions to Climate Change (If It Existed)
Not that I spend an awful lot of time thinking about it or pondering over it....but generally....there are roughly twelve methods to limiting the continuation line on global warming....if it does exist. I've generally taken the position that once the brilliant among us declared global cooling to be in effect and a terrible pain....then fifteen years later, the same group voiced they were wrong and went to global warming, and ten years later, to climate change.
You can't modify or change science like this....unless you really don't know what you are doing, and to suggest that carbon credits or carbon fees tied into society and culture answers the problem....means there is no problem and this was all a cash redistribution effort.
So, my dozen fundamental changes?
One....you start with hydrogen-run cars, and hydrogen-storage tanks. So far....the Japanese are the only ones putting real effort into this and will be the first to market across their nation (my humble opinion). Taxing people to reach this? No.....just investing into university programs and putting smart people onto the projects.
Two....improved energy efficiency across all lanes (home, business operations, stores, power plants, etc). Taxing people to reach improvements? No....just investing into technology and rewarding those who reach a sellable product. If you want to tax heavily on heavy-power consumers....the guys with a heated pool and four freezers in their garage? Ok....no issue with that....but the idea that regular people need to feel some kind of pain? No.
Three....fuel economy of regular cars. Basically.....fuel cost today is forcing people to move themselves from SUV vehicles....to smaller vehicles. It's stupid to artificially pump gas up to six dollars a gallon to make some illegitimate point. Three-cylinder cars becoming the norm? I'd take a guess by 2030.....half of all cars made will be three-cylinder models, and there will even be a few two-cylinder two-passenger cars on the market (thirty horse-power might appeal to some folks if you just said the yearly tax was $10).
Four.....nuclear power being expanded. Yeah, I know.....all that bad stuff could happen. The thing is....you have to start gauging your problems and realize that nuke power might be evil but acceptable.
Five.....go to urban communities and put the thought of growth on forests around a town as a priority. Offer to pay some community groups to plant a thousand trees a month for an entire spring. Offer to change open fields near cities back into forests. Offer a $50 credit on yearly property taxes if a two-acre home owner would just plant six new trees on his property.
Six....set your house thermostat to sixty-nine degrees in winter and eighty degrees in the summer. It won't be a perfect temperature but it'd cut back on energy usage. And if you haven't modernized your house with insulation in thirty years or weatherized the windows ever.....maybe set an incentive for a guy to do this (don't tax them.....offer a simple yearly tax credit).
Seven....fire half of the global warming alarmists who run around and suggest your hernia came from global cooling, or your baldness came from global warming. They disrespect the science and the general intelligence of society. These are the people who need to drive cabs, shovel snow, or set up the shelves at Piggly Wiggly with merchandise. You've got way too many "experts" and they have to threaten society with freaky predictions.....to keep their jobs with foundations. We don't need their help.
Eight.....chop off all carbon credit taxes on airlines or airports entirely. These are entirely bogus in nature and simply shuffle money off to bogus entities. If you did want to do some good....offer the blimp guy developing cheaper and better forms of transportation.....some tax incentives. Put up some blimp ports down in Florida and a few in New Jersey, pushing for $99 one-way tickets via blimp (16-hour flights).
Nine.....positively forbid global climate change conferences at five-star resorts around the world where your chief players fly into the conference on a private jet with four others....wine and dine forty others with crab flown in from Alaska and wine from France....and talk for three days straight about the impending doom. Start having conferences out in the west Texas area of Waco.....forcing people into two-star hotels.....and suggest they'd find better ways to waste time and money.
Ten.....take a society approach of less driving. In the last fifty years, it's become common now that a guy lives fifty to seventy miles from work and drives this daily. While at the Pentagon, I knew a guy who drove 115 miles daily to work....all one-way. We ought to be able to produce less maintenance-free cars and start to challenge guys to either live closer or find other forms of employment. To imagine some guy sitting around for fifty years and driving the whole time at 25,000 miles a year.....is a bit silly. Taxing the guy? No. But we ought to find some method of simply getting more incentive to the guy to find a different angle to this deal.
You can't modify or change science like this....unless you really don't know what you are doing, and to suggest that carbon credits or carbon fees tied into society and culture answers the problem....means there is no problem and this was all a cash redistribution effort.
So, my dozen fundamental changes?
One....you start with hydrogen-run cars, and hydrogen-storage tanks. So far....the Japanese are the only ones putting real effort into this and will be the first to market across their nation (my humble opinion). Taxing people to reach this? No.....just investing into university programs and putting smart people onto the projects.
Two....improved energy efficiency across all lanes (home, business operations, stores, power plants, etc). Taxing people to reach improvements? No....just investing into technology and rewarding those who reach a sellable product. If you want to tax heavily on heavy-power consumers....the guys with a heated pool and four freezers in their garage? Ok....no issue with that....but the idea that regular people need to feel some kind of pain? No.
Three....fuel economy of regular cars. Basically.....fuel cost today is forcing people to move themselves from SUV vehicles....to smaller vehicles. It's stupid to artificially pump gas up to six dollars a gallon to make some illegitimate point. Three-cylinder cars becoming the norm? I'd take a guess by 2030.....half of all cars made will be three-cylinder models, and there will even be a few two-cylinder two-passenger cars on the market (thirty horse-power might appeal to some folks if you just said the yearly tax was $10).
Four.....nuclear power being expanded. Yeah, I know.....all that bad stuff could happen. The thing is....you have to start gauging your problems and realize that nuke power might be evil but acceptable.
Five.....go to urban communities and put the thought of growth on forests around a town as a priority. Offer to pay some community groups to plant a thousand trees a month for an entire spring. Offer to change open fields near cities back into forests. Offer a $50 credit on yearly property taxes if a two-acre home owner would just plant six new trees on his property.
Six....set your house thermostat to sixty-nine degrees in winter and eighty degrees in the summer. It won't be a perfect temperature but it'd cut back on energy usage. And if you haven't modernized your house with insulation in thirty years or weatherized the windows ever.....maybe set an incentive for a guy to do this (don't tax them.....offer a simple yearly tax credit).
Seven....fire half of the global warming alarmists who run around and suggest your hernia came from global cooling, or your baldness came from global warming. They disrespect the science and the general intelligence of society. These are the people who need to drive cabs, shovel snow, or set up the shelves at Piggly Wiggly with merchandise. You've got way too many "experts" and they have to threaten society with freaky predictions.....to keep their jobs with foundations. We don't need their help.
Eight.....chop off all carbon credit taxes on airlines or airports entirely. These are entirely bogus in nature and simply shuffle money off to bogus entities. If you did want to do some good....offer the blimp guy developing cheaper and better forms of transportation.....some tax incentives. Put up some blimp ports down in Florida and a few in New Jersey, pushing for $99 one-way tickets via blimp (16-hour flights).
Nine.....positively forbid global climate change conferences at five-star resorts around the world where your chief players fly into the conference on a private jet with four others....wine and dine forty others with crab flown in from Alaska and wine from France....and talk for three days straight about the impending doom. Start having conferences out in the west Texas area of Waco.....forcing people into two-star hotels.....and suggest they'd find better ways to waste time and money.
Ten.....take a society approach of less driving. In the last fifty years, it's become common now that a guy lives fifty to seventy miles from work and drives this daily. While at the Pentagon, I knew a guy who drove 115 miles daily to work....all one-way. We ought to be able to produce less maintenance-free cars and start to challenge guys to either live closer or find other forms of employment. To imagine some guy sitting around for fifty years and driving the whole time at 25,000 miles a year.....is a bit silly. Taxing the guy? No. But we ought to find some method of simply getting more incentive to the guy to find a different angle to this deal.
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Simplified Views
You could spend eighteen hours a day viewing various news items and trying to grasp the significance to you....yourself. Or you could simplify these down to a point of easy understanding.
Ebola? It's relatively safe. It's kinda like you getting a bag of six rattlesnakes in a canvas bag, tied by our cousin at the end, and then the bag is thrown into the car trunk for a three-hour drive. What could happen? Normally nothing out of ninety-nine trips....it's just that one-hundredth trip, where your cousin's knot wasn't secure, and the snakes got out of the trunk that you worry about all the heck that would occur.
The President's executive order sequence? Well....ninety-nine percent of all executive orders over the past one-hundred years have likely had no effect on you...yourself. That's the plain simple truth. So the question is....could some guy be creative enough to finally invent some executive orders that affect the regular guy off the street? And if they did.....what exactly could you do alone to halt, hinder or prevent it? A counter executive order by you....the guy on the street?
Hillary Clinton in 2016? When you sit back and look at 2008.....wondering how the heck anyone could screw up an Iowa primary and lose to a virtual unknown Illinois Senator with a eight-line resume and no real accomplishments in life? The answer? You don't know how to run a primary campaign in Iowa, or for that matter....any other state. So, the Hillary effort in 2016....is mostly bogus, unless you were some media organization looking for hype.
The IRS mess? Week after week....the Republicans drag out a marginal effort to put illegal activities by the IRS into court. No one really cares....either from the Republican or Democratic parties. The likely reason? One might suspect that the Republicans have found the golden calf, and will utilize the IRS in the same fashion in 2016, as they win the Presidency and control both the House and Senate for a brief period....meaning that dozens of Democratic agenda groups under the foundation gimmick situation....will have problems with the newly-controlled IRS. If you were a Democrat.....you might start shaking your head because this has opened up a big can of worms for decades ahead.
Ebola? It's relatively safe. It's kinda like you getting a bag of six rattlesnakes in a canvas bag, tied by our cousin at the end, and then the bag is thrown into the car trunk for a three-hour drive. What could happen? Normally nothing out of ninety-nine trips....it's just that one-hundredth trip, where your cousin's knot wasn't secure, and the snakes got out of the trunk that you worry about all the heck that would occur.
The President's executive order sequence? Well....ninety-nine percent of all executive orders over the past one-hundred years have likely had no effect on you...yourself. That's the plain simple truth. So the question is....could some guy be creative enough to finally invent some executive orders that affect the regular guy off the street? And if they did.....what exactly could you do alone to halt, hinder or prevent it? A counter executive order by you....the guy on the street?
Hillary Clinton in 2016? When you sit back and look at 2008.....wondering how the heck anyone could screw up an Iowa primary and lose to a virtual unknown Illinois Senator with a eight-line resume and no real accomplishments in life? The answer? You don't know how to run a primary campaign in Iowa, or for that matter....any other state. So, the Hillary effort in 2016....is mostly bogus, unless you were some media organization looking for hype.
The IRS mess? Week after week....the Republicans drag out a marginal effort to put illegal activities by the IRS into court. No one really cares....either from the Republican or Democratic parties. The likely reason? One might suspect that the Republicans have found the golden calf, and will utilize the IRS in the same fashion in 2016, as they win the Presidency and control both the House and Senate for a brief period....meaning that dozens of Democratic agenda groups under the foundation gimmick situation....will have problems with the newly-controlled IRS. If you were a Democrat.....you might start shaking your head because this has opened up a big can of worms for decades ahead.
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
The $10,000 Solution
Down in Miami, there's an association who will be offering $10,000 to anyone who can prove voter fraud in November's election.
It's a one-time deal, and I suspect if eight people bring up names and evidence....they will have to split the $10,000.
All of this brings me to the state of voter fraud in the United States today. Over the past decade, I'd take a guess that around twenty people have been identified and given some type of conviction....typically with probation and some fine paid. Generally, I'd say that thirty percent of the public believes in voter fraud being a normal event now.
Two or three decades ago....it would have been impossible for people to get the data, identify the issue, and show enough evidence for voter fraud. Today? Things are slightly different and spreadsheets are a major tool in tracking down addresses and comparing notes.
So, I'd like to make a simplified suggestion. As you walk in to register at the county office....you get a sheet that says you, upon conviction in a county court of voter fraud, will not only pay the county fine, repent by not voting for the next ten years, but will pay the person or association who discovered your voter fraud a $6,000 fee within thirty days of conviction (or lodge a $6,000 bond to be held by the judge if you appeal this verdict).
All of this would suddenly interest locals in who voted and where they voted. You'd force the clerks to reveal data sheets. You'd spent twenty hours doing analysis instead of watching NCAA football. And you'd eventually find eight guys in your ward, who voted across the state line in Mississippi or Missouri as well. Eight notifications.....eight convictions eventually, and you got yourself $48,000 (taxable of course).
You could take off to Aruba and actually spend four months there....boozing it up and eating buffet dinners at the marginal hotels.
Would Republicans or Democrats press for a fee deal on voter fraud? No. Which kinda leads you around to asking if both parties have manipulation going on, and simply don't want to exercise restraint in a corrupted system?
Will someone claim the $10,000 in Miami's November election? Yes. Over a dozen people being identified? I'm betting on that. People voting in both Miami and New York City elections? I'm betting on that as well. Do they realize the implications....the threats.....the potential jail-time or fines? They ought to realize it.
Kinda sad....democracy unable to function right.....because of a bizarre attitude over fraudulent voting. And the only way Americans can fix it? By offering a bribe to find the guilty party.
It's a one-time deal, and I suspect if eight people bring up names and evidence....they will have to split the $10,000.
All of this brings me to the state of voter fraud in the United States today. Over the past decade, I'd take a guess that around twenty people have been identified and given some type of conviction....typically with probation and some fine paid. Generally, I'd say that thirty percent of the public believes in voter fraud being a normal event now.
Two or three decades ago....it would have been impossible for people to get the data, identify the issue, and show enough evidence for voter fraud. Today? Things are slightly different and spreadsheets are a major tool in tracking down addresses and comparing notes.
So, I'd like to make a simplified suggestion. As you walk in to register at the county office....you get a sheet that says you, upon conviction in a county court of voter fraud, will not only pay the county fine, repent by not voting for the next ten years, but will pay the person or association who discovered your voter fraud a $6,000 fee within thirty days of conviction (or lodge a $6,000 bond to be held by the judge if you appeal this verdict).
All of this would suddenly interest locals in who voted and where they voted. You'd force the clerks to reveal data sheets. You'd spent twenty hours doing analysis instead of watching NCAA football. And you'd eventually find eight guys in your ward, who voted across the state line in Mississippi or Missouri as well. Eight notifications.....eight convictions eventually, and you got yourself $48,000 (taxable of course).
You could take off to Aruba and actually spend four months there....boozing it up and eating buffet dinners at the marginal hotels.
Would Republicans or Democrats press for a fee deal on voter fraud? No. Which kinda leads you around to asking if both parties have manipulation going on, and simply don't want to exercise restraint in a corrupted system?
Will someone claim the $10,000 in Miami's November election? Yes. Over a dozen people being identified? I'm betting on that. People voting in both Miami and New York City elections? I'm betting on that as well. Do they realize the implications....the threats.....the potential jail-time or fines? They ought to realize it.
Kinda sad....democracy unable to function right.....because of a bizarre attitude over fraudulent voting. And the only way Americans can fix it? By offering a bribe to find the guilty party.
Monday, 4 August 2014
Statistical Warfare
Years ago, I was in the Air Force and stationed at McChord AFB, Washington. Around 1979....this major on the base was doing a master's degree program in statistical analysis. He had a class project and just decided to ask Air Force people how they prioritized their benefits and what they really wanted.
Roughly a year later....he's finished with the thesis and data collection project....publishes it and even sends on copies to Air Force leaders within the Mobility Command. It was a shocker.....pay wasn't the top priority....what people wanted was stability and time off.
Naturally, a fire-storm erupted....who gave this major permission to collect data? This conflicted with the fake reality that Air Force leaders had of their people and their priorities. It was the first time that someone ever sat down and asked real people their opinions, and it disagreed with the perceived "truth".
This past week.....I noticed that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) got itself into a fire-storm.
For some reason, the CDC felt that it needed to know an accurate number of how many gays, lesbians and bi-sexuals there were in America. They went out and collected data....polling 35,000 Americans.
The end result? Basically....1.6-percent of Americans fall into the category of gay, lesbian or bi-sexual. That would end up with a rough number of 3.8 million (give or take).
Yeah, that's it.
It's a problem now because the general perceived number in America is somewhere between twenty and thirty percent....meaning that somewhere between fifty and a hundred million Americans fall into this category. You can ask various journalists, political figures, and prominent-know-nothings....they will all cite the twenty-five percent number as they are interviewed.
So, it's disturbed some folks. It's a heavy weight that is being carried by these 3.8 million gays, lesbians or bi-sexual folks. Millions of hours have been put into the gay marriage issues, personal rights, and various other civil discussions....over roughly 3.8 million individuals....which compares to the state population of Oklahoma.
Anger and hostility at the CDC? Yeah. Questions are being raised about who authorized the survey....how the polling was done....and if there was some political agenda at work.
It also poses some curious questions. If there are only 3.8 million people fitting into this category....then the max number of special marriages can only be 1.9 million.....if every single gay, lesbian and bi-sexual married one of their own. That's it. Course, you could marry the wrong guy....divorce him.....find another guy.....marry him....divorce him.....and then repeat this five times....just to build up statistical numbers.
How did we ever get to the imaginary number of twenty-five percent of Americans being gay or lesbian or bi-sexual? I'm not sure. I doubt if it was ever a scientific poll, and maybe it just got printed out on some news article....fake data....for a fake political agenda. People just read it and believed it all to be true. Kinda like Vulcan-mind-control, and how a hundred-thousand Americans believe it's a real feat that some folks are capable of.
Does the 3.8 million number matter? It's a big difference when people were thinking fifty million Americans were gay, and now they might realize it's just under four million. It's kinda like building a big new five-hundred-million-dollar football stadium for some professional team, and you can barely get ten-thousand people to show up....so the stadium is mostly empty. What was the hype that got the stadium built and how can the team get any real news coverage?
It's hard to say where this goes. I'm guessing some professors will now assign various studies to students and find that new polling data goes into different directions.....maybe forty percent of all women are bi-sexual and ten percent of all Alaskan men are gay. Maybe the polling data will show the student population of Texas Tech is ninety-eight percent gay. Maybe sixty percent of all CNN correspondents are bi-sexual, while ninety percent admit they are Democrats.
Yeah, it's statistical warfare. And it's not clean, pure, logical, or perfect.
Roughly a year later....he's finished with the thesis and data collection project....publishes it and even sends on copies to Air Force leaders within the Mobility Command. It was a shocker.....pay wasn't the top priority....what people wanted was stability and time off.
Naturally, a fire-storm erupted....who gave this major permission to collect data? This conflicted with the fake reality that Air Force leaders had of their people and their priorities. It was the first time that someone ever sat down and asked real people their opinions, and it disagreed with the perceived "truth".
This past week.....I noticed that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) got itself into a fire-storm.
For some reason, the CDC felt that it needed to know an accurate number of how many gays, lesbians and bi-sexuals there were in America. They went out and collected data....polling 35,000 Americans.
The end result? Basically....1.6-percent of Americans fall into the category of gay, lesbian or bi-sexual. That would end up with a rough number of 3.8 million (give or take).
Yeah, that's it.
It's a problem now because the general perceived number in America is somewhere between twenty and thirty percent....meaning that somewhere between fifty and a hundred million Americans fall into this category. You can ask various journalists, political figures, and prominent-know-nothings....they will all cite the twenty-five percent number as they are interviewed.
So, it's disturbed some folks. It's a heavy weight that is being carried by these 3.8 million gays, lesbians or bi-sexual folks. Millions of hours have been put into the gay marriage issues, personal rights, and various other civil discussions....over roughly 3.8 million individuals....which compares to the state population of Oklahoma.
Anger and hostility at the CDC? Yeah. Questions are being raised about who authorized the survey....how the polling was done....and if there was some political agenda at work.
It also poses some curious questions. If there are only 3.8 million people fitting into this category....then the max number of special marriages can only be 1.9 million.....if every single gay, lesbian and bi-sexual married one of their own. That's it. Course, you could marry the wrong guy....divorce him.....find another guy.....marry him....divorce him.....and then repeat this five times....just to build up statistical numbers.
How did we ever get to the imaginary number of twenty-five percent of Americans being gay or lesbian or bi-sexual? I'm not sure. I doubt if it was ever a scientific poll, and maybe it just got printed out on some news article....fake data....for a fake political agenda. People just read it and believed it all to be true. Kinda like Vulcan-mind-control, and how a hundred-thousand Americans believe it's a real feat that some folks are capable of.
Does the 3.8 million number matter? It's a big difference when people were thinking fifty million Americans were gay, and now they might realize it's just under four million. It's kinda like building a big new five-hundred-million-dollar football stadium for some professional team, and you can barely get ten-thousand people to show up....so the stadium is mostly empty. What was the hype that got the stadium built and how can the team get any real news coverage?
It's hard to say where this goes. I'm guessing some professors will now assign various studies to students and find that new polling data goes into different directions.....maybe forty percent of all women are bi-sexual and ten percent of all Alaskan men are gay. Maybe the polling data will show the student population of Texas Tech is ninety-eight percent gay. Maybe sixty percent of all CNN correspondents are bi-sexual, while ninety percent admit they are Democrats.
Yeah, it's statistical warfare. And it's not clean, pure, logical, or perfect.
The Ward Situation
In the epic fictional series of Batman....Bruce Wayne (secretly Batman) had a young ward assigned to him (Dick Grayson). Dick would eventually become Robin. By the general rule of state laws (not federal)....you as a kid under eighteen years old and without parents will undergo a legal process with a county or state court, and be assigned to some adult. It might traditionally a relative or close friend of your parents. It's a local or state process.....NOT federal.
Throughout the history of the United States....episodes involving wards stayed at the local or state level because the federal government had no jurisdiction in this type of business.
For me to look at the current and charged-up episode of Latino teenagers coming into the US, and a bunch of federal government individuals getting all peppy over how they need to handle the episode.....I'm perplexed.
There's never been a federal method of detaining a illegal-entry teen for federal law violation. I can't recall any law that really fits or applies. Normally, you'd have to treat them as you'd treat an adult. Yet we have people talking of camps just for teens, or just blank residency to fix the problem.
The US government acting as the master over 250,000 wards? It's an odd scenario. If you'd laid this out ten years ago.....people would have laughed over the scenario and just said it'd never happen in America.
Getting the federal authority to turn the illegal teens over to a county or state apparatus, which is geared toward the ward-mentality? It's hard to imagine where this would start and how people would make it work. The federal system would have to agree into a partnership, which traditionally is something you avoid as a federal representative. Typically, it's a one-way street and the federal authority prefers to dictate things.
These youth camps that are suggested? Basically, it's a fenced-off area....where the wards stay in and outsiders don't enter. Part of this is to protect the wards of the federal government, and part of this is to limit the appearance of illegals in some county or state. The guys or gals hired to monitor the wards? All on some federal contract, and their "companies" are making a fair amount of profit. They tend to use the word "Christian" somewhere in their company title.....yet there are questions on their ethics and nature tied to Christian morality.
How long would the camps be around? Well.....no one has said we are at a peak, and I'd suggest that some teens in Africa and Asia are looking at this funnel. How would a twelve-year-old kid cross the Atlantic.....getting to Honduras....then onto the train-network.....finally arriving across the border in America and get "ward-status"? I would imagine some kids are going to find ways to make this work.
So....five years from now? We might actually have three or four million teens who've made the system work and now wards of the federal government. We might not even hit the peak of this episode until 2025.
Somehow, in the epic story of Batman, this ward business always turned out positive.....Dick Grayson had a pretty nifty house....decent clothing.....good education....developed good character while around Bruce Wayne.....learned some manners from Alfred the butler.....and saved a few people here and there as Robin.
For some reason.....I don't see too much good coming out of a bunch of federal guys handling wards of the federal government. It just doesn't have the ring of Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson.
Throughout the history of the United States....episodes involving wards stayed at the local or state level because the federal government had no jurisdiction in this type of business.
For me to look at the current and charged-up episode of Latino teenagers coming into the US, and a bunch of federal government individuals getting all peppy over how they need to handle the episode.....I'm perplexed.
There's never been a federal method of detaining a illegal-entry teen for federal law violation. I can't recall any law that really fits or applies. Normally, you'd have to treat them as you'd treat an adult. Yet we have people talking of camps just for teens, or just blank residency to fix the problem.
The US government acting as the master over 250,000 wards? It's an odd scenario. If you'd laid this out ten years ago.....people would have laughed over the scenario and just said it'd never happen in America.
Getting the federal authority to turn the illegal teens over to a county or state apparatus, which is geared toward the ward-mentality? It's hard to imagine where this would start and how people would make it work. The federal system would have to agree into a partnership, which traditionally is something you avoid as a federal representative. Typically, it's a one-way street and the federal authority prefers to dictate things.
These youth camps that are suggested? Basically, it's a fenced-off area....where the wards stay in and outsiders don't enter. Part of this is to protect the wards of the federal government, and part of this is to limit the appearance of illegals in some county or state. The guys or gals hired to monitor the wards? All on some federal contract, and their "companies" are making a fair amount of profit. They tend to use the word "Christian" somewhere in their company title.....yet there are questions on their ethics and nature tied to Christian morality.
How long would the camps be around? Well.....no one has said we are at a peak, and I'd suggest that some teens in Africa and Asia are looking at this funnel. How would a twelve-year-old kid cross the Atlantic.....getting to Honduras....then onto the train-network.....finally arriving across the border in America and get "ward-status"? I would imagine some kids are going to find ways to make this work.
So....five years from now? We might actually have three or four million teens who've made the system work and now wards of the federal government. We might not even hit the peak of this episode until 2025.
Somehow, in the epic story of Batman, this ward business always turned out positive.....Dick Grayson had a pretty nifty house....decent clothing.....good education....developed good character while around Bruce Wayne.....learned some manners from Alfred the butler.....and saved a few people here and there as Robin.
For some reason.....I don't see too much good coming out of a bunch of federal guys handling wards of the federal government. It just doesn't have the ring of Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson.
Sunday, 3 August 2014
Our Vulcan-Mind-Society
Back in late May....there was a stabbing attempt up in Waukesea, WI....with two twelve-year old girls who attempt to kill a friend of theirs. The stabbing? Nineteen wounds, and this one girl was lucky to make it away and survive.
The judge questioned the sanity of the two twelve-year-old girls. Reasoning? An imaginary fantasy game was at the heart of this episode.
This past week....two mental health doctors came back from examining both young ladies. For gal number one.....she was deemed mentally competent enough to be pushed into court and tried as an adult. There's some questions about this, and I doubt if she does more than three to five years in some youth center.
The second kid (twelve years old)? Well...this one doctor comes back and basically says that the kid thinks she's got Vulcan-mind-control. She also talks to characters out of Harry Potter books. And the kid thinks she has an ongoing relationship or friendship with some Ninja Turtles character. Nutcase? Yeah. The Doc basically said that she needed to really grow up, and needed some really heavily medication.
The parents? Teachers? Associates? They all put this kid in the normal intelligent group, and it kinda has shaken some people to consider her nuts at age twelve.
I worked with a guy years ago.....who the Air Force yanked to be an instructor at Goodfellow training school in west Texas. My associate didn't really care for the job, but they wanted NCO's with bachelor degrees....which there were very few....and he was qualified for the instructor job.
As he said.....about a year into the job, he realized that there were a fairly large crowd of immature kids coming into the Air Force and not really prepared for the real world.
One day.....he had some 19-year-old female who'd failed a module....eight weeks into the class. He had to quiz her and attempt to find a way to prepare her for the second test. So he asked her for the notes she'd taken. They were unreadable.
So he asked her if anyone else could read the notes, and she noted her other friend in the class...."Amber"....who could easily read the notes. My associate accepted this and let her return to her desk. Then he went to the roster of the class participants....no girl named "Amber". He looked at the other classes. No "Amber".
So he walked to the back of the room....where this gal sat, and asked about "Amber". She points to an empty table next to him and an empty chair. "Amber" was sitting there. My associate asked...."Right now?" Yes of course was the response.
My associate walked quickly to the commander's office.....laid out this unique situation, and the commander doubted the story. So the young gal is brought to the commander's office, and answers various questions, and then points to an empty chair in the room....where "Amber" was now sitting and indicating her friend was part of the class.
This gal had been through basic training, and had survived a security background check. No one had ever noted her issues.
The commander dragged a female NCO along with him and drove this young gal over to the base clinic. They kept her for several days....getting the same responses, and basically came to note that she was mentally perfectly ok....except for this imaginary friend. They processed the paperwork and around a month later......she was sent home.
In this case....this twelve-year-old kid in the attempted murder....is a nutcase and cannot be trusted. How many such nutcases exist in America? It's hard to say. There could be forty thousand....there could be four-hundred-thousand. Someone could walk up to you on the street....place their hand on your head, and then hint they are are doing Vulcan-mind-control over you....and then you kinda wonder if it's a joke or a nut.
Prior to the 1950s....we didn't really have science fiction or vampire-like stories. We didn't have monsters, zombies, or alien predators. Something happen over the past forty years, where society is continually being bombarded with these fake cultural derivatives. Now? There might be one percent of society that is unable to distinguish from Vulcan-mind-control and evil Republican politics. The same group has trouble telling a difference between zombies and meth-head Democrats.
I even kinda wonder if this one gal in the intelligence school had just passed the test.....she would have gone on to more modules....passed them, and graduated out. For all I know.....I might have been her first supervisor in the intelligence world, and found myself one day quizzing her over some failed project, and then she would have pointed to an empty chair and her friend "Amber". Maybe I would have acknowledge "Amber"....but then hinted that "Amber" was a Karl Rove-agent and falsely pulling her toward a fake Republican agenda. Would "Amber" had survived? It's hard to say. At some point, you wonder if reality would just set in one day, and cast the fake illusion folks adrift.
Sadly, all of the problems in the world.....and now I have to worry about fake Vulcan-mind-control idiots.....who might want to stab me while I stand in line at Piggly Wiggly and admiring the busty clerk handling merchandise.
The judge questioned the sanity of the two twelve-year-old girls. Reasoning? An imaginary fantasy game was at the heart of this episode.
This past week....two mental health doctors came back from examining both young ladies. For gal number one.....she was deemed mentally competent enough to be pushed into court and tried as an adult. There's some questions about this, and I doubt if she does more than three to five years in some youth center.
The second kid (twelve years old)? Well...this one doctor comes back and basically says that the kid thinks she's got Vulcan-mind-control. She also talks to characters out of Harry Potter books. And the kid thinks she has an ongoing relationship or friendship with some Ninja Turtles character. Nutcase? Yeah. The Doc basically said that she needed to really grow up, and needed some really heavily medication.
The parents? Teachers? Associates? They all put this kid in the normal intelligent group, and it kinda has shaken some people to consider her nuts at age twelve.
I worked with a guy years ago.....who the Air Force yanked to be an instructor at Goodfellow training school in west Texas. My associate didn't really care for the job, but they wanted NCO's with bachelor degrees....which there were very few....and he was qualified for the instructor job.
As he said.....about a year into the job, he realized that there were a fairly large crowd of immature kids coming into the Air Force and not really prepared for the real world.
One day.....he had some 19-year-old female who'd failed a module....eight weeks into the class. He had to quiz her and attempt to find a way to prepare her for the second test. So he asked her for the notes she'd taken. They were unreadable.
So he asked her if anyone else could read the notes, and she noted her other friend in the class...."Amber"....who could easily read the notes. My associate accepted this and let her return to her desk. Then he went to the roster of the class participants....no girl named "Amber". He looked at the other classes. No "Amber".
So he walked to the back of the room....where this gal sat, and asked about "Amber". She points to an empty table next to him and an empty chair. "Amber" was sitting there. My associate asked...."Right now?" Yes of course was the response.
My associate walked quickly to the commander's office.....laid out this unique situation, and the commander doubted the story. So the young gal is brought to the commander's office, and answers various questions, and then points to an empty chair in the room....where "Amber" was now sitting and indicating her friend was part of the class.
This gal had been through basic training, and had survived a security background check. No one had ever noted her issues.
The commander dragged a female NCO along with him and drove this young gal over to the base clinic. They kept her for several days....getting the same responses, and basically came to note that she was mentally perfectly ok....except for this imaginary friend. They processed the paperwork and around a month later......she was sent home.
In this case....this twelve-year-old kid in the attempted murder....is a nutcase and cannot be trusted. How many such nutcases exist in America? It's hard to say. There could be forty thousand....there could be four-hundred-thousand. Someone could walk up to you on the street....place their hand on your head, and then hint they are are doing Vulcan-mind-control over you....and then you kinda wonder if it's a joke or a nut.
Prior to the 1950s....we didn't really have science fiction or vampire-like stories. We didn't have monsters, zombies, or alien predators. Something happen over the past forty years, where society is continually being bombarded with these fake cultural derivatives. Now? There might be one percent of society that is unable to distinguish from Vulcan-mind-control and evil Republican politics. The same group has trouble telling a difference between zombies and meth-head Democrats.
I even kinda wonder if this one gal in the intelligence school had just passed the test.....she would have gone on to more modules....passed them, and graduated out. For all I know.....I might have been her first supervisor in the intelligence world, and found myself one day quizzing her over some failed project, and then she would have pointed to an empty chair and her friend "Amber". Maybe I would have acknowledge "Amber"....but then hinted that "Amber" was a Karl Rove-agent and falsely pulling her toward a fake Republican agenda. Would "Amber" had survived? It's hard to say. At some point, you wonder if reality would just set in one day, and cast the fake illusion folks adrift.
Sadly, all of the problems in the world.....and now I have to worry about fake Vulcan-mind-control idiots.....who might want to stab me while I stand in line at Piggly Wiggly and admiring the busty clerk handling merchandise.
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