The Varied Groups

Imagine taking the KKK, Antifa, Communist Revolutionaries, the Brownshirts, Abul Nida, ISIS, Charles Manson, the Red Brigades, and the Shining Path out of Peru....bundling them altogether and getting what you see in the US presently...in Portland and Seattle.

It is a wide collection of people with varying agendas and seeming to be waiting on the great revolution to occur, and capitalism to fall apart.  

Static Memory

The average person is exposed to more information in a day the a person in the 1700s would face in a year.

-- Brian Roemmele

I saw this today and would even go as far as saying that the amount of information you consume in an entire life in the late 1700s....would probably equal what you go through in a month of your present lifestime.  

Information overload?  That's something that I tend to find curious.  Someone did a survey in 2016 to find that most people had no real recognition of the vast majority of news from a previous week.  Whatever was consumed....was flushed out within days.

I worked in a vaulted area which had a hundred-odd mechanisms and power panels.  There were probably over 200 3x5 inch cards of information that I had to retain about vault door, the security alarms, the way that cables came into the facility, and differing aspects to daily operations.  For a guy in the 1700s, this would have been near-impossible to retain or remember. 

But the more I thought about the farmer in the 1700s.....the more I realized that he retained as much information as I do today.

He knew the various vegetables and fruits that he grew on the farm....when planting mattered or harvesting would occur.  He knew every medical issue that a mule would have or a cow.  His wife had over 500 bits of knowledge over practical day-to-day medical procedures.  

So the truth of the matter is that we've swapped memory around, and certain things don't matter anymore, while other things matter a great deal.  

Political Scenario

If the Electoral College 'fails' to elect a President, then we go to a 20 January to have a state by state vote in the House.

So there's this interesting scenario.....the House officially ends with the old group on 3 January 2021.  On the 4th, the winners of the election will arrive.

Some states will be debated and it's possible that you might have a couple of seats empty because the states haven't finalized the vote.  It's also possible that twenty to thirty members might not be there because of a strategy by states to recognize the winners in various elections.  It's even possible that one party might start this 'game' and the other party gets into it as well.

On 20 January, a new House Speaker would be elected.  It's possible that a major fight brews up out of this mess, and no one can get the votes necessary.  Normally, if the President's office is not yet determined (by the Constitution), then the House Speaker would temporarily hold the office until the state-by-state voting occurs.

So if you thought that we had a pretty big mess now....it's conceivable that the mess is ten times the current mess in January.  

The Simple Truth About Sports

At some point around 1839.....New England kids took 'rounders' (a British sport) and cricket (another Brit sport) and combined them into baseball.

Chief drive behind this?  Entertainment.  

Over the decades, various other sports started out....purely as entertainment.  

Golf, tennis, basketball, football, volleyball, roller-derby and so on......all came for the purpose of entertainment.

We paid money to watch the sports....in exchange for entertainment.

This current trend?  Making sports into a cult-like device, where one gets a lecture on politics or social ideals?  It's not entertainment, and basically....we were already getting that nightly via MSNBC, CNN and Fox.

Just a gut feeling, but most of these sports-turned-non-entertainment situations....are probably going to dive on profits, and the millionaire players are going to be asking why salary structures are torn apart in a matter of six to twelve months. 

At that point, people will bring the fact....we just wanted entertainment, and nothing else.  

Virus Chatter

James Woods wrote a Tweet today and asked the magic question:

It has been widely suggested that the #CoronaVirus was developed in the Wuhan Virology Lab in Wuhan, China and accidentally leaked into the population. Pure speculation, but if true, this question remains: what was the intended use for this “designer” virus in the first place?

So you sit and ponder upon this.

First, there is evidence existing to show that the virus was actually around in Europe (in Spain) around March of 2019.  

I tend to think that with various projects going on with this Virology Lab in Wuhan....someone sat there on some project, with the 2019 Chinese New Year week off period coming up, and told some clean-up crew to take care of some area, and the crew went beyond what was required.....removing the virus materials, and contaminating themselves.  

Week by week, this bounced around.....a dozen here, a hundred there.

What was the lab experiment in the first place?  They simply had isolated a bat virus, and wondering what would happen....that's my simple guess.

Beyond that, I don't think this was developed as some weapon.  If that was the intention, it's destroyed a great deal of the Chinese business development and financial stability.  

Ghost Reparations Story

Back in the 1970s of Zimbabwe....the nation was falling apart in a civil war.  So some promises were made to various military groups revolving around land reform.  The war ended in 1979, and in the 1980s....Robert Mugabe acted upon his land deal.  

What he basically did....involved a massive agricultural enterprise that had been developed over a hundred years, which not only fed Zimbabwa with no problems.....but profits from the crop sector came from various neighboring countries.  

When the smoke cleared by the 1990s....most all farms in Zimbabewa had flipped from white owned operations (large in nature) to small farms (all black owned in nature).

So a 2,000 acre farm would be broken up into 1k small farms.  The production level of the nation when to a level where they couldn't even farm enough....to feed their own country.....so they were importing from other countries.  

Paying the white owners for the land or the equipment lost?  No....nothing.  

Around a decade ago, Zimbabwe started to admit this issue was screwed up.  They'd screwed up the whole financial apparatus that supported a vast part of the revenue plan for the country.

This past week, they wrote up a plan to create a 3.5-billion dollar effort....to pay the white farmers for the improvements made to the land.   Some of the owners have been gone for 30-plus years.  

Where the money will come from?  Unknown.  

Most speculate that there might be 10 to 20 million dollars a year put toward the plan each year, and some showing of effort, but beyond that....it's really a 'ghost reparation'.  It's simply meant to show something.  

Bringing the white farmers back?  No....zero intention to accomplish that.  It's just a PR thing and supposed to show that a mistake was made.  

Corona Worry Story

I watched (clip-wise) about 15 minutes of the John Lewis funeral.....which was held in his home state of Georgia.

So, what's interesting here, dozens of Congressional folks were there, with at least a hundred-odd journalists who are based out of Washington.

If you follow DC 'bans'....there's a list of states which require you.....upon returning to DC....to sit in a mandatory home quarantine for two weeks.  

Yes, Georgia is on that list. 

The list creator?  Mayor Bowser of DC.

The odds that some 'second-wave' starts up from this funeral?  It wouldn't surprise me.  But the hypocritical attitude here.....rules are for little people....not for us?  It just stands out.