Basically, you had a parent with tons of money in their pocket and a non-productive kid who just wasn't that remarkable in high school. You went to the folks in the middle, laid out the cash, and did what probably 10,000 parents across America do each year.....you bought a 'chair' in some educational enterprise, and gave the unremarkable kid a free degree.
You can look around today at literally thousands who've passed through this system, and become a noted personality or political figure....who are not really gifted or bright, or remarkable.
The system caught up with Huffman, judged her....and passed a hefty fine with two weeks in some jail. So in 2019, you caught and judged one parent of the ten-thousand. No big deal. The system continues on.
Sunday, 15 September 2019
Tuesday, 10 September 2019
60 Days with an Audi A5
So it's been roughly two months with the new A5 and I have these eight observations:
1. It drives like a tank. Yes, it feels like some tank on an open road. Over-sized and with plenty of pick-up-and-go....it's got the feel of some cruise boat in terms of maneuvering. It's not negative but it's just the feeling you don't get with most vehicles.
2. This cut-off-engine-technology-stopping. Frankly, I would deem this a total waste. Luckily, there's a button on the dash, and you can flip it off.....but you have to do this each time you start the engine.
3. Parking is a pain. It has to be backed into the carport parking spot, and you end up with three inches of space on the passenger side, and maybe 18 inches on the drivers side. Even with the video-assistant, it's just too big for the carport.
4. Perfect passenger seat. You can lay the seat as far back as you desire, and snooze easily.
5. Crappy gear-shift-assistant. It wants to tell you when to shift up to 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th gear. If I'm not paying stringent attention, the wife wants to gaze over and remind me that it reminded to shift up a notch. At various times, it'll even tell me to skip shifting to 3rd, and go to 4th gear instead.
6. Always looking for the cellphone connection. Once you get into the car, and it sees that your cellphone is almost dead....it's talking to you and wanting the phone charged because that's its way of communicating back to Audi HQ. What kind of data is being shared? I'm never quiet sure.
7. Clearly, the map and update function is superior to anything out there, and it updates your path ahead....minute-by-minute. So when it suddenly tells you to exit the autobahn and take a winding piece of country road for 30 minutes....it's doing that help you avoid some accident on the autobahn and traffic jams. I have to admit, it's a major plus-up.
8. I would easily compare it to a Crown Vic in terms of handling and feel on the road. I think you could drive 600 miles a day in this car, and never feel tired.
1. It drives like a tank. Yes, it feels like some tank on an open road. Over-sized and with plenty of pick-up-and-go....it's got the feel of some cruise boat in terms of maneuvering. It's not negative but it's just the feeling you don't get with most vehicles.
2. This cut-off-engine-technology-stopping. Frankly, I would deem this a total waste. Luckily, there's a button on the dash, and you can flip it off.....but you have to do this each time you start the engine.
3. Parking is a pain. It has to be backed into the carport parking spot, and you end up with three inches of space on the passenger side, and maybe 18 inches on the drivers side. Even with the video-assistant, it's just too big for the carport.
4. Perfect passenger seat. You can lay the seat as far back as you desire, and snooze easily.
5. Crappy gear-shift-assistant. It wants to tell you when to shift up to 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th gear. If I'm not paying stringent attention, the wife wants to gaze over and remind me that it reminded to shift up a notch. At various times, it'll even tell me to skip shifting to 3rd, and go to 4th gear instead.
6. Always looking for the cellphone connection. Once you get into the car, and it sees that your cellphone is almost dead....it's talking to you and wanting the phone charged because that's its way of communicating back to Audi HQ. What kind of data is being shared? I'm never quiet sure.
7. Clearly, the map and update function is superior to anything out there, and it updates your path ahead....minute-by-minute. So when it suddenly tells you to exit the autobahn and take a winding piece of country road for 30 minutes....it's doing that help you avoid some accident on the autobahn and traffic jams. I have to admit, it's a major plus-up.
8. I would easily compare it to a Crown Vic in terms of handling and feel on the road. I think you could drive 600 miles a day in this car, and never feel tired.
Saturday, 7 September 2019
This Trump-Alabama-Hurricane Business
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.
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.
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.
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