I've sat this week, and watched at least fifteen different criticisms pop up over Trump, this hurricane-non-threat over Alabama, and the map stuff pop up. It's a curious thing.
If you go back ten days ago....watching purely Alabama meteorologists (not the national weather folks)....they all had the regular map projecting the hurricane going into Florida. Then they all verbally said....in pure Alabama-language....IF IT WERE to continue on, it'd come into central Alabama in a weakened state.
You can go out today and ask ten-thousand Alabama locals about this, and they'd all say the same thing. They heard it, and frankly.....they didn't give a damn (it wasn't going to cancel out any NCAA football games, so it didn't matter).
Maybe folks around Mobile and Orange Beach have some feelings over evacuation, but the other 99-percent of Alabama just don't get stirred up over such a suggestion. Maybe some folks might stop off at the beverage shop and buy twelve extra cases of beer, but the other folks will just continue on with their lives.
So this criticism business? It's mostly comical, and draws upon people to ask why they couldn't be that critical in the Obama eight years.
Saturday, 7 September 2019
Friday, 6 September 2019
Why Isn't Bernie Ahead?
Well....in 2016, it was basically a race between Bernie, Hillary, and two no-name characters.
Here in 2020....you had at least six fairly well known folks, and voters have a real choice....unlike in 2016.
So Bernie will be knocked out by the end of the 4th primary? I'm kinda predicting that.
Here in 2020....you had at least six fairly well known folks, and voters have a real choice....unlike in 2016.
So Bernie will be knocked out by the end of the 4th primary? I'm kinda predicting that.
My Level of Guilt
I noticed that CNN ran seven hours...of guilt TV. Basically....you were introduced to the ten primary Democrats and then led through guilt pieces to convince you of something.
Do I have any guilt over my 'immoral' use of air conditioning, air travel, meat consumption, or forty-four other bad practices?
No.
I suspect if you did find a hundred people who watched at least an hour of the piece....the vast majority will tell you that this was some kind of propaganda broadcast, and simply not real factual.
From the clips I saw....it reminded me of some bleak scenario that was used for the 'Hunger Games', or 'Soylent Green'.
In fact, if this was agenda....to dose you with seven hours of propaganda....I'd probably make it a month or so....before I had to go and ask for guilt-therapy from some psychological unit or hospital.
I can imagine myself at the front-door.....telling the white-suit kid that I'm all freaked out, and using too much air-conditioning and eating too much beef. The kid would ask some questions and then take me over to some compound. There, I'd get wheat toast for breakfast, a salad for lunch, and three apples for dinner. Beer? That's out because I'd also have immoral use of beer on my mind. No AC in the compound...even on a 100-degree day? Probably so.
The problem I see....is that via CNN and their method, you might have convinced two-million people of immoral behavior and guilt. You'd show up at grandma's house for a July Sunday lunch, and trying to convince her to turn the AC off and enjoy the 100-degree temperature.
Or you might be ready to entertain Wanda....the wicked gal from the trailer across the street, and instructing Wanda that you don't want condom-guilt....so you would prefer not to use them with Wanda.
Or you might be getting Piggly-Wiggly-guilt, and forcing yourself to only buy vegetables and fruit from some open-market in town.
Or you might be getting voter-guilt, and be thinking.....oh, yeah....it's best not to bring up voter-guilt
What kind of idiots run CNN? The guilty types.
Do I have any guilt over my 'immoral' use of air conditioning, air travel, meat consumption, or forty-four other bad practices?
No.
I suspect if you did find a hundred people who watched at least an hour of the piece....the vast majority will tell you that this was some kind of propaganda broadcast, and simply not real factual.
From the clips I saw....it reminded me of some bleak scenario that was used for the 'Hunger Games', or 'Soylent Green'.
In fact, if this was agenda....to dose you with seven hours of propaganda....I'd probably make it a month or so....before I had to go and ask for guilt-therapy from some psychological unit or hospital.
I can imagine myself at the front-door.....telling the white-suit kid that I'm all freaked out, and using too much air-conditioning and eating too much beef. The kid would ask some questions and then take me over to some compound. There, I'd get wheat toast for breakfast, a salad for lunch, and three apples for dinner. Beer? That's out because I'd also have immoral use of beer on my mind. No AC in the compound...even on a 100-degree day? Probably so.
The problem I see....is that via CNN and their method, you might have convinced two-million people of immoral behavior and guilt. You'd show up at grandma's house for a July Sunday lunch, and trying to convince her to turn the AC off and enjoy the 100-degree temperature.
Or you might be ready to entertain Wanda....the wicked gal from the trailer across the street, and instructing Wanda that you don't want condom-guilt....so you would prefer not to use them with Wanda.
Or you might be getting Piggly-Wiggly-guilt, and forcing yourself to only buy vegetables and fruit from some open-market in town.
Or you might be getting voter-guilt, and be thinking.....oh, yeah....it's best not to bring up voter-guilt
What kind of idiots run CNN? The guilty types.
Hurricane Comment
It's just something you tend to notice from the hurricane damage in the Bahamas, and really going back to Katrina in August of 2005.
If you live at sea-level....say one to five feet above sea-level, and within a mile or two of a beach-front property.....then you are screwed when the hurricane arrives.
So it begs the question....what idiot would go and live like this, or build a house within a thousand feet of such a situation? I just don't have any sympathy for you or your dream-home.
If you live at sea-level....say one to five feet above sea-level, and within a mile or two of a beach-front property.....then you are screwed when the hurricane arrives.
So it begs the question....what idiot would go and live like this, or build a house within a thousand feet of such a situation? I just don't have any sympathy for you or your dream-home.
Thursday, 5 September 2019
Power of Mind Stuff
I read over a piece by Marianne Williamson yesterday. She's hyped up about the power of the mind, and suggesting that you can 'will' something away, if you use enough of your mind-power.
So I sat and tried to imagine her as the President, and we having these 15-minute sessions where she comes on the TV and trying to get people hyped-up to use their mind-power....to make something happen.
This would be like Jerry Falwell-Billy Graham-Pat Robertson-Bishop Sheen-Aimee Semple McPherson-Jimmy Swaggart-Benny Hinn-Jim Bakker-Tammy Faye Bakker all rolled up into one, and carried live by CNN.
You can imagine the CNN journalists trying to entice you to watch the mind-power segment weekly and some pollster trying to convince you that 48-percent of will-power topics are being achieved.
Eventually, Marianne would have the White House put up a blue-dot on the screen, and have people gaze via their TV and smart-phone at the blue-dot....to get rain to drought areas, stop forest fires, and bring Kim to the peace-table.
Marianne-enthusiasts would be meeting at 5 AM to gaze at the sun rising and using their mind-power to achieve national priorities. Eventually, some doctors would suggest that the enthusiasts are suffering through mental issues, and unable to handle reality.
For me, this would be pure entertainment....and I'm kinda leaning toward Marianne winning this election. We need relief from politics and I think she'd give us four years of pure entertainment.
So I sat and tried to imagine her as the President, and we having these 15-minute sessions where she comes on the TV and trying to get people hyped-up to use their mind-power....to make something happen.
This would be like Jerry Falwell-Billy Graham-Pat Robertson-Bishop Sheen-Aimee Semple McPherson-Jimmy Swaggart-Benny Hinn-Jim Bakker-Tammy Faye Bakker all rolled up into one, and carried live by CNN.
You can imagine the CNN journalists trying to entice you to watch the mind-power segment weekly and some pollster trying to convince you that 48-percent of will-power topics are being achieved.
Eventually, Marianne would have the White House put up a blue-dot on the screen, and have people gaze via their TV and smart-phone at the blue-dot....to get rain to drought areas, stop forest fires, and bring Kim to the peace-table.
Marianne-enthusiasts would be meeting at 5 AM to gaze at the sun rising and using their mind-power to achieve national priorities. Eventually, some doctors would suggest that the enthusiasts are suffering through mental issues, and unable to handle reality.
For me, this would be pure entertainment....and I'm kinda leaning toward Marianne winning this election. We need relief from politics and I think she'd give us four years of pure entertainment.
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Onto Mentally 'Unfit'
So the police in Texas now say...this Odessa shooter was 'mentally unfit'....that the computer system for gun purchases would have pulled this up and denied him the gun. But he went around this by buying via a private situation. Will that private seller get into trouble? It's possible, but legally....he's not forced (at least yet) to validate if the buyer is on a no-sale listing.
But lets talk to the topic of mentally unfit.
In general, you could be mentally unfit based on mental issues (disillusions, paranoid schizophrenia, hallucinations, etc).
You could also be mentally unfit with an low IQ level (typically described at 70 or below). The Army will tell you that they don't sign folks up if the IQ falls below 83.
Around 1984, we had an episode with the US Army in Germany, where this kid was wrapping up his two year contract. He was processing out in the final six weeks, and the finance person came to discover...that since boot camp (20 months prior roughly)....this 'kid' had never been paid since arriving in Germany. Nor had he complained about this.
How? Well....they went to talk to his NCO and found that while the guy was a polite and agreeable character....he was really mentally unfit. His finance records had gotten lost upon arrival in Germany, and his mother (every two weeks apparently) had sent him an envelope with $20. With that, he'd easily survived and the Army chow-hall deal provided all the food he needed. Occasionally, Mama would send a box of t-shirts, socks and underwear.
The Army added it up....it came out to a sum in the range of $30k. They called up his Mama and had a discussion over the matter. The kid was planning to return home (somewhere in eastern Tennessee) and they were going to send the check to her....to ensure things were done right.
How many folks would fall into the mentally unfit category? If you threw in the whack-jobs, the crazies, the schizophrenic crowd....I suspect that we'd have around 10-million across the US, who would be deemed mentally unfit.
In fact, in rural Alabama where I grew up....I'd take a guess that 100 such people lived in ten miles of the family farm. Some graduated high school....mostly just by friendly teachers who gave them a marginal grade for showing up when the guy or gal was simply mentally unfit to be there in the first place.
Licensed to drive? Well....that would bring another topic....how they passed the driver's test/exam.
Should we worry about this? Here's the odd part to this story. You might have 250,000 of these mentally unfit characters who currently own weapons.
Is this something we ought to discuss in Washington? Well....you might even have a Senator or Representative who is mentally unfit....yet serving there.
But lets talk to the topic of mentally unfit.
In general, you could be mentally unfit based on mental issues (disillusions, paranoid schizophrenia, hallucinations, etc).
You could also be mentally unfit with an low IQ level (typically described at 70 or below). The Army will tell you that they don't sign folks up if the IQ falls below 83.
Around 1984, we had an episode with the US Army in Germany, where this kid was wrapping up his two year contract. He was processing out in the final six weeks, and the finance person came to discover...that since boot camp (20 months prior roughly)....this 'kid' had never been paid since arriving in Germany. Nor had he complained about this.
How? Well....they went to talk to his NCO and found that while the guy was a polite and agreeable character....he was really mentally unfit. His finance records had gotten lost upon arrival in Germany, and his mother (every two weeks apparently) had sent him an envelope with $20. With that, he'd easily survived and the Army chow-hall deal provided all the food he needed. Occasionally, Mama would send a box of t-shirts, socks and underwear.
The Army added it up....it came out to a sum in the range of $30k. They called up his Mama and had a discussion over the matter. The kid was planning to return home (somewhere in eastern Tennessee) and they were going to send the check to her....to ensure things were done right.
How many folks would fall into the mentally unfit category? If you threw in the whack-jobs, the crazies, the schizophrenic crowd....I suspect that we'd have around 10-million across the US, who would be deemed mentally unfit.
In fact, in rural Alabama where I grew up....I'd take a guess that 100 such people lived in ten miles of the family farm. Some graduated high school....mostly just by friendly teachers who gave them a marginal grade for showing up when the guy or gal was simply mentally unfit to be there in the first place.
Licensed to drive? Well....that would bring another topic....how they passed the driver's test/exam.
Should we worry about this? Here's the odd part to this story. You might have 250,000 of these mentally unfit characters who currently own weapons.
Is this something we ought to discuss in Washington? Well....you might even have a Senator or Representative who is mentally unfit....yet serving there.
Tuesday, 3 September 2019
This Seth Ator Guy From Texas
On this Odessa, Texas shooting....there is this one odd part of the shooting guy's personal history.
Back in January of 2018, Ator bought this lot. It's a suburb that really hasn't been developed, and mostly known to have house trailers.
Ator didn't have electricity or water running into the property (that's really an indicator of how new the housing development was, and how slow things tend to be at times).
So how did the guy survive without heat or water for the past 18 months? That's a curious question.
Internet? No, I don't think you can even establish much of a social media background on the guy.
I would take this guess that his IQ level was less than 83 (minimum for the US Army). This leads you to ask....how he ever passed a drivers test, or found employment beyond flipping burgers.
Back in January of 2018, Ator bought this lot. It's a suburb that really hasn't been developed, and mostly known to have house trailers.
Ator didn't have electricity or water running into the property (that's really an indicator of how new the housing development was, and how slow things tend to be at times).
So how did the guy survive without heat or water for the past 18 months? That's a curious question.
Internet? No, I don't think you can even establish much of a social media background on the guy.
I would take this guess that his IQ level was less than 83 (minimum for the US Army). This leads you to ask....how he ever passed a drivers test, or found employment beyond flipping burgers.
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