At some point in the Vegas debate, Bernie's three houses come up, and then Bernie admits something that people didn't know.....he has a 'summer camp'.
I sat and paused over that term, and how he said it. It wasn't exactly clear what that means.
In Alabama, a 'summer camp' could mean a hut on the Cahaba River, with a tarp over the roof....a Wal-Mart purchased grill on the deck area....a refrigerator with PBR beer, and a rough situation for the toilet.
In Idaho, a 'summer camp' would mean some cabin, with no electricity or running water. It'd be visited by a minimum of two bears a day, and you'd have PBR beer mostly unchilled.
In Detroit, a 'summer camp' would be an abandoned house on the east-side, with Marvin coming by every other day with some fresh weed to smoke. You'd have access to Tiger's games, and some shady ladies would entice you with bawdy jokes during the evening hours.
So what is Bernie's 'summer camp'?
I imagine its a place where Bernie dresses down.....wearing mostly shorts and tank-top shirt, with flip-flops on. I would imagine that he's got forty Dean Martin CDs collected and plays them throughout the day.
For breakfast, he'll settle for coffee and a sausage biscuit. For lunch, he chow down on a tuna sandwich and sip through three gin-sours. And for dinner, it'll be some ribs on the bar-b-q, with a dozen Stroh's American Lager beers.
In a enlightened mood, he'll talk about the 1960s, past fantasies of being President, and episodes of Bay Watch (particularly season 3, episode 8....where the European princess had arrived and is in serious danger until Mitch comes to rescue her).
So we are left to wonder about this 'summer camp' thing. Maybe it's just a hut resting under some bridge in Meredith, NH....where Bernie converses with retired hobos.
Friday, 21 February 2020
The Difference Between Trump and Bloomberg
There are five differences between the two:
1. Trump bluffs....twenty-four hours a day....seven days a week. With Bloomberg, it's a guarded and measured bluff (he's an electrical engineer by trade/university, and he has to sample the bluff, running various tests to ensure it works).
2. Bloomberg is 'wooden' in front of a crowd. Trump is animated, and acts more as a circus ringmaster. Trump wants you to be thrilled and entertained.....thus leaving the 'tent' in a hyped-up state.
3. Bloomberg was originally a Democrat....converted to a Republican....converted to a Independent....converted to a Democrat, and generally acts his way through debates as some 75-percent Democrat/25-percent Republican. Trump? Basically a Republican since age 12.
4. Bloomberg, oddly, believes that more regulation resolves problems. Trump, oddly, believes that less regulation resolves problems.
5. Trump believes in fake news. Bloomberg believes in controlled news (he's ordered various control applications on his owned publications in recent months).
1. Trump bluffs....twenty-four hours a day....seven days a week. With Bloomberg, it's a guarded and measured bluff (he's an electrical engineer by trade/university, and he has to sample the bluff, running various tests to ensure it works).
2. Bloomberg is 'wooden' in front of a crowd. Trump is animated, and acts more as a circus ringmaster. Trump wants you to be thrilled and entertained.....thus leaving the 'tent' in a hyped-up state.
3. Bloomberg was originally a Democrat....converted to a Republican....converted to a Independent....converted to a Democrat, and generally acts his way through debates as some 75-percent Democrat/25-percent Republican. Trump? Basically a Republican since age 12.
4. Bloomberg, oddly, believes that more regulation resolves problems. Trump, oddly, believes that less regulation resolves problems.
5. Trump believes in fake news. Bloomberg believes in controlled news (he's ordered various control applications on his owned publications in recent months).
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Newsom's Threat
I sat and watched a clip this morning of the California 'State of the Union' speech by Governor Gavin Newsom.
His key idea from this? He wants to fix homelessness in California by find some method (left blank for the most part) to ease the government into a bigger role of forcing (he actually used that word) people into psychiatric treatment. If you had mental illness and living off the street....they'd mandate an exam for you and forced treatment.
All of this....circling around the idea that those who are suggested to be unable to care for themselves....would be put into a permanent facility.
Odds of this happening? I'll make three observations:
1. The governor will likely only fund this agenda item with twenty-odd million, and stage some type of situation with only 200 folks getting mental facility assignments by some judge. It'll prove it works but realistically requires over two-billion dollars a year to accomplish.
2. If you did make this a legit program? I would suggest almost 25,000 people throughout the state would be deemed 'helpless' and forced into actual psychiatric treatment.
3. If this did go to the realistic step of cops picking up people....within ten days....dozens of people per hour....would be leaving the state for other 'safe' locations (Portland, Vegas, Seattle, etc).
His key idea from this? He wants to fix homelessness in California by find some method (left blank for the most part) to ease the government into a bigger role of forcing (he actually used that word) people into psychiatric treatment. If you had mental illness and living off the street....they'd mandate an exam for you and forced treatment.
All of this....circling around the idea that those who are suggested to be unable to care for themselves....would be put into a permanent facility.
Odds of this happening? I'll make three observations:
1. The governor will likely only fund this agenda item with twenty-odd million, and stage some type of situation with only 200 folks getting mental facility assignments by some judge. It'll prove it works but realistically requires over two-billion dollars a year to accomplish.
2. If you did make this a legit program? I would suggest almost 25,000 people throughout the state would be deemed 'helpless' and forced into actual psychiatric treatment.
3. If this did go to the realistic step of cops picking up people....within ten days....dozens of people per hour....would be leaving the state for other 'safe' locations (Portland, Vegas, Seattle, etc).
Nevada Debate
I would make five observations after watching the debate for the Democrats:
1. With six 'players'.....this moderator team did a marginal job of keeping this on track and 'organized'.
2. 'Mini-Mike' Bloomberg just never did take off. Part of this blame, I'd assign to Senator Warren. She did a five-star job on the guy. On the positive side....he did introduce himself and state a few priorities....beyond that, this debate was a massive negative event for him.
3. The non-disclosure chatter against Bloomberg? It'll beg for more questions, and it's really too messy for some guy to enter the race and expect this to just disappear.
4. Joe Biden? Nothing much to say. He's finished.
5. Here at the critical time-point of the entire campaign....someone should have stood out. No one accomplished that except in the marginal sense of Bernie Sanders pounding the podium. Bernie versus Trump? Capitalism versus socialism? You are giving Trump an unbelievable odds to win.
So my final thoughts....there is one single debate left at this point (15 March). Let's be honest, they should have whittled this down to strictly two people.....Sanders and Bloomberg. The drama factor at this point (on a scale of one to ten)....maybe a '5'. If Bloomberg does win, you can discount any of these five folks on the stage from being his VP choice.
1. With six 'players'.....this moderator team did a marginal job of keeping this on track and 'organized'.
2. 'Mini-Mike' Bloomberg just never did take off. Part of this blame, I'd assign to Senator Warren. She did a five-star job on the guy. On the positive side....he did introduce himself and state a few priorities....beyond that, this debate was a massive negative event for him.
3. The non-disclosure chatter against Bloomberg? It'll beg for more questions, and it's really too messy for some guy to enter the race and expect this to just disappear.
4. Joe Biden? Nothing much to say. He's finished.
5. Here at the critical time-point of the entire campaign....someone should have stood out. No one accomplished that except in the marginal sense of Bernie Sanders pounding the podium. Bernie versus Trump? Capitalism versus socialism? You are giving Trump an unbelievable odds to win.
So my final thoughts....there is one single debate left at this point (15 March). Let's be honest, they should have whittled this down to strictly two people.....Sanders and Bloomberg. The drama factor at this point (on a scale of one to ten)....maybe a '5'. If Bloomberg does win, you can discount any of these five folks on the stage from being his VP choice.
Wednesday, 19 February 2020
The Mini-Mike Bloomberg School for Coding and Farming
To help out all of us lower intelligent folks who wish to be farmers, I believe Mini-Mike could accomplish the training situation in two weeks:
1-hour hay-hauling safety course
3-hour cattle info course
6-minute orientation on cattle-chute safety (including one practice run with the bull)
14-minute orientation on electrical knowledge for farming
2-hour orientation on fence maintenance
12-hour orientation on how to deal with stupid bankers and politicians
8-minute orientation on changing mower blades
2-hour weather basic knowledge course
2-minute course on identifying male and female cattle
8-minute course on vaccinating cattle
16-hour course on dealing with incompetent county agricultural agents.
30-minute course on barn repair and painting fence posts
The Mini-Mike school would make you an official farmer, with a certificate...with broad chances of operating your very own 2-acre farm on the outskirts of some suburban community.
1-hour hay-hauling safety course
3-hour cattle info course
6-minute orientation on cattle-chute safety (including one practice run with the bull)
14-minute orientation on electrical knowledge for farming
2-hour orientation on fence maintenance
12-hour orientation on how to deal with stupid bankers and politicians
8-minute orientation on changing mower blades
2-hour weather basic knowledge course
2-minute course on identifying male and female cattle
8-minute course on vaccinating cattle
16-hour course on dealing with incompetent county agricultural agents.
30-minute course on barn repair and painting fence posts
The Mini-Mike school would make you an official farmer, with a certificate...with broad chances of operating your very own 2-acre farm on the outskirts of some suburban community.
Monday, 17 February 2020
Bloomberg's Funny Way of Being Stupid
Back in 2016, Mini-Mike Bloomberg was at a forum and uttered the immortal lines:
“I could teach anybody in this room to be a farmer. It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on to, add water, up comes the corn.”
But he wasn't finished.....because then he added that information technology had arrived, and things were "fundamentally different, because it’s built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets you need to learn are how to think and analyze and that is a whole degree level different, you need to have different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter.”
I sat and watched the video of this event here in the AM.....maybe four times. It kinda bothered me.
Back in the early 1970s, living on the farm as a kid, it was obvious to me that technology was creeping in, and in an average year.....there were probably 100 different technology items that were being funneled into the farm 'world' and the old guys who'd quit school in the ninth-grade in the 1940s.....were screwed. They would be lucky to last out another twenty years, but the idea of low-knowledge idiots becoming farmers were rapidly disappearing.
By the 1990s, if you looked around a typical rural country....there were a thousand different technology items being introduced.
Today? I'd take a guess that it's near 10,000 technology items in a rural county, and farmers are sitting at the feed-store, or in some regional farming 'fair'....absorbing introduction material to things approaching in the next year or two.
I look at Bloomberg and kinda suspect that he hasn't hung out with regular people (carpenters, plumbers, farmers, bus drivers, or longshoremen) in the past fifty years.
You know who he reminds me of though? Hillary Clinton. She was the same way....she hadn't hung out with regular people either....not since the 1980s. She also talked about knowing things about technology.
So here's the whole angle to technology and farming. Around 300 years ago, in a single year....you might have had one single technology advancement introduced to you as a farmer.
Somewhere around the 1880s...the technology advancement went up two or three notches, and you could show up at a state farm exposition (say in Iowa or Ohio), to find forty advancements.
By the 1940s, between articles in farm magazines and farm expositions....you were up to around 300 advancements.
At the present rate? Just within five years, I think a number of farmers will have drones which routinely check on cattle or fence conditions, allowing the farmer to sit at the barn 'office'. Extended weather forecasts will allow farmers to plan out their work for the next ten days, and prevent wasteful periods.
What bothers me here, is that it's actually the moron political figures with zero talent or capability....running for some office, who fake you out with a resume that seems mostly blank or bogus. Maybe it's the farmer who could teach the politician a thing or two.
“I could teach anybody in this room to be a farmer. It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on to, add water, up comes the corn.”
But he wasn't finished.....because then he added that information technology had arrived, and things were "fundamentally different, because it’s built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets you need to learn are how to think and analyze and that is a whole degree level different, you need to have different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter.”
I sat and watched the video of this event here in the AM.....maybe four times. It kinda bothered me.
Back in the early 1970s, living on the farm as a kid, it was obvious to me that technology was creeping in, and in an average year.....there were probably 100 different technology items that were being funneled into the farm 'world' and the old guys who'd quit school in the ninth-grade in the 1940s.....were screwed. They would be lucky to last out another twenty years, but the idea of low-knowledge idiots becoming farmers were rapidly disappearing.
By the 1990s, if you looked around a typical rural country....there were a thousand different technology items being introduced.
Today? I'd take a guess that it's near 10,000 technology items in a rural county, and farmers are sitting at the feed-store, or in some regional farming 'fair'....absorbing introduction material to things approaching in the next year or two.
I look at Bloomberg and kinda suspect that he hasn't hung out with regular people (carpenters, plumbers, farmers, bus drivers, or longshoremen) in the past fifty years.
You know who he reminds me of though? Hillary Clinton. She was the same way....she hadn't hung out with regular people either....not since the 1980s. She also talked about knowing things about technology.
So here's the whole angle to technology and farming. Around 300 years ago, in a single year....you might have had one single technology advancement introduced to you as a farmer.
Somewhere around the 1880s...the technology advancement went up two or three notches, and you could show up at a state farm exposition (say in Iowa or Ohio), to find forty advancements.
By the 1940s, between articles in farm magazines and farm expositions....you were up to around 300 advancements.
At the present rate? Just within five years, I think a number of farmers will have drones which routinely check on cattle or fence conditions, allowing the farmer to sit at the barn 'office'. Extended weather forecasts will allow farmers to plan out their work for the next ten days, and prevent wasteful periods.
What bothers me here, is that it's actually the moron political figures with zero talent or capability....running for some office, who fake you out with a resume that seems mostly blank or bogus. Maybe it's the farmer who could teach the politician a thing or two.
Sunday, 16 February 2020
Ask Yourself: Why Would a Black Guy Vote for Bloomberg-Clinton
It's a stupid question but with 40-percent of black guys talking of voting for Trump....Bloomberg would need to pick up half of those guys and bring them back.
Would having Hillary on the ticket work?
This is why I don't think the Clinton for VP chatter is legit.
Would having Hillary on the ticket work?
This is why I don't think the Clinton for VP chatter is legit.
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