Over the past month, I've continued to hear/read commentary from Antifa 'kids', who want me to know about abducted people and Trump's secret police. It's hyped up and I read over the claim....then wait. There should be names and locations listed out. None ever get presented.
So-and-so was abducted by the secret police, and they haven't been seen since that evening.
Well....who?
It's almost like an episode X-Files and you keep thinking Men-in-Black (MiBs not BLMs) are involved.
The Antifa kid swears up and down.....some 20-something gal was with him, and then the secret-police pull up, and grab her. So you'd think....did you do an introduction, ask about her favorite band or if she would like a Pepsi after the riot business tonight?
Will the 'smoking man' show up? Will Fox solve the mystery of missing Antifa 'maiden'? Will Scully figure out the Portland vampire-nutcase as part of the Trump secret-police episode?
It is a great urban legend....like Bigfoot or Nessie, but without a name, it's non-existent.
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
If You Feel Things Are F**cked
Over the past couple of months, with all the hype on the election, Covid-19, the rapid decline in the economy, the impeachment 'corkscrew-drama', and endless nights of dramatized news....you sit there on the edge of your couch and just shake your head.
You'd like some form of 'Jesus' to arrive and just reset all this drama, and resolve things.
You'd like for Covid-19 to quietly disappear as quickly as it arrived.
You'd like for the Antifa kids to find real work, pay taxes, and clean up the neighborhoods they burnt to the ground.
You'd like for CNN to go for an entire week without uttering the word 'Trump'.
You'd like for the NBA, NFL and MLB to just center their efforts on sports and not some passion unrelated to sports.
You'd like to walk into a Piggly Wiggly without a mask, and greet Hector in the fruit department, who'd remind you of your youth when you had passion to do your job and pump you up on fantastic fruit desert ideas.
You'd like to drive home without having to encounter some idiot policeman who marginally can perform his job.
So, here's the ten things you ought to consider:
1. You can't resolve the bad cop business without dumping the union business, forcing DA's to do their jobs, and having public accountability out in front of the general population.
2. Happy people are typically people who have jobs, thrive on advancement, and don't have ridiculous taxation issues.
3. Colleges that aren't educating your kid, but charging you almost $25k a year for indoctrination.....probably aren't colleges.
4. It might be more helpful if the House and Senate were limited to seven months a year of service in DC, and forced to return home every August.
5. People running around and hyped up on revolution....probably wouldn't survive more than seven days in a real revolution.
6. If your chief political 'Jesus' has a resume that fits on a 5 x 7 inch index card....they probably haven't done much in life.
7. Professional sports without fans in the arena or stadium.....probably won't survive more than a season or two.
8. If you really like socialism that much.....go spend a year in Denmark, Iceland or Finland. Come back and tell us how it was.....or just stay there.
9. The true limitation of Kaepernick....if you think about the entire landscape....the new coach wanted a multi-talented and multi-skilled player, which he simply wasn't developed to fit into that type of style or play.
10. Finally, people who do feel f**cked...usually open up a case of beer on the patio and contemplate the entire panorama. They eventually come to decide that they don't want a 'Jesus-like' figure as President.....they want someone who seems to be blazing a different path, and bridges are left standing after they cross them. These people reach a point where they hate the 'drama', and they can find the 'mute-button' in two seconds flat.
You'd like some form of 'Jesus' to arrive and just reset all this drama, and resolve things.
You'd like for Covid-19 to quietly disappear as quickly as it arrived.
You'd like for the Antifa kids to find real work, pay taxes, and clean up the neighborhoods they burnt to the ground.
You'd like for CNN to go for an entire week without uttering the word 'Trump'.
You'd like for the NBA, NFL and MLB to just center their efforts on sports and not some passion unrelated to sports.
You'd like to walk into a Piggly Wiggly without a mask, and greet Hector in the fruit department, who'd remind you of your youth when you had passion to do your job and pump you up on fantastic fruit desert ideas.
You'd like to drive home without having to encounter some idiot policeman who marginally can perform his job.
So, here's the ten things you ought to consider:
1. You can't resolve the bad cop business without dumping the union business, forcing DA's to do their jobs, and having public accountability out in front of the general population.
2. Happy people are typically people who have jobs, thrive on advancement, and don't have ridiculous taxation issues.
3. Colleges that aren't educating your kid, but charging you almost $25k a year for indoctrination.....probably aren't colleges.
4. It might be more helpful if the House and Senate were limited to seven months a year of service in DC, and forced to return home every August.
5. People running around and hyped up on revolution....probably wouldn't survive more than seven days in a real revolution.
6. If your chief political 'Jesus' has a resume that fits on a 5 x 7 inch index card....they probably haven't done much in life.
7. Professional sports without fans in the arena or stadium.....probably won't survive more than a season or two.
8. If you really like socialism that much.....go spend a year in Denmark, Iceland or Finland. Come back and tell us how it was.....or just stay there.
9. The true limitation of Kaepernick....if you think about the entire landscape....the new coach wanted a multi-talented and multi-skilled player, which he simply wasn't developed to fit into that type of style or play.
10. Finally, people who do feel f**cked...usually open up a case of beer on the patio and contemplate the entire panorama. They eventually come to decide that they don't want a 'Jesus-like' figure as President.....they want someone who seems to be blazing a different path, and bridges are left standing after they cross them. These people reach a point where they hate the 'drama', and they can find the 'mute-button' in two seconds flat.
VP Chatter
Typically, for the past 200-odd years....whoever was selected as a VP candidate for either party....was mostly an unknown figure in 49 states.
That probably changed when Reagan selected Bush I....with some insiders knowing Bush I's background via the CIA. Bill Clinton did go with Al Gore, who probably was marginally known throughout the south, but not exactly a national figure. Bush II with Cheney? Significantly popular with the Reagan crowd and nationally known. Hillary Clinton with Senator Tim Kaine? If you watched C-S**n, you knew the guy but one would imagine fewer than one out of ten voters for Hillary had any real knowledge of Kaine.
You typically pick a person who has no scandals, no negativity, and could bring you their state. At least that was the set of rules prior to the last decade.
With Harris? It's a no-gain, no-loss situation. She's marginally capable at debates....fairly 'wooden'....known as a 'law and order' prosecutor for SF and California.....but beyond that....nothing significant. In simple terms, it's a resume that fits on a 5x7 inch index card. On the negative side, she's mostly known in the 'oral-way' for being helpful with the former mayor of SF. The less said on this matter....the better off.
If Joe Biden is bad-off with dementia....does this add-on of Harris help? It would be questionable to say that.
So finally, you come to working-class Democrats....beyond the urban zones. Most would not see Harris in any great positive light, and it probably doesn't guarantee 90-percent of all black votes returning to vote for Joe Biden. This 36-percent group of blacks for Trump? You can probably stamp it official now.
I'm more or less sticking with a zero net-gain and zero net-loss. Joe could have done better, but this is a screwed up year for old-fashioned regular working-class Democrats.
That probably changed when Reagan selected Bush I....with some insiders knowing Bush I's background via the CIA. Bill Clinton did go with Al Gore, who probably was marginally known throughout the south, but not exactly a national figure. Bush II with Cheney? Significantly popular with the Reagan crowd and nationally known. Hillary Clinton with Senator Tim Kaine? If you watched C-S**n, you knew the guy but one would imagine fewer than one out of ten voters for Hillary had any real knowledge of Kaine.
You typically pick a person who has no scandals, no negativity, and could bring you their state. At least that was the set of rules prior to the last decade.
With Harris? It's a no-gain, no-loss situation. She's marginally capable at debates....fairly 'wooden'....known as a 'law and order' prosecutor for SF and California.....but beyond that....nothing significant. In simple terms, it's a resume that fits on a 5x7 inch index card. On the negative side, she's mostly known in the 'oral-way' for being helpful with the former mayor of SF. The less said on this matter....the better off.
If Joe Biden is bad-off with dementia....does this add-on of Harris help? It would be questionable to say that.
So finally, you come to working-class Democrats....beyond the urban zones. Most would not see Harris in any great positive light, and it probably doesn't guarantee 90-percent of all black votes returning to vote for Joe Biden. This 36-percent group of blacks for Trump? You can probably stamp it official now.
I'm more or less sticking with a zero net-gain and zero net-loss. Joe could have done better, but this is a screwed up year for old-fashioned regular working-class Democrats.
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
The Truth to Looting
“That is reparations. Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance."
-- Response from Chicago BLM organizer on the looting situation
So this is what 'really' happens, for the benefit of any BLM supporter.
X-company has a store in Chicago on the 'high-side'....meaning 300 employees in the store, and it turns a tidy profit/tax revenue situation for the city.
You arrange a looting situation. The store-front is destroyed, and the bulk of contents are stolen. Total damage? By the time, you resolve the doors and windows, then turn to lost merchandise.....it's between 2 and 3 million. If additional things (like the elevators or fire-sprinkler system) were damaged, then you can add another one to two million on top of the first estimate.
Time lost while repairs take place and zero profit for two weeks take place? That's usually an insurance item as well.
So here's the neat thing....toward December, the insurance company looks at 2021 and hands you the cost for the year ahead. You can figure as a minimum....your insurance went up 20-percent. If there's some chatter about defunding the police or this type thing occurring a second time? You can figure a 50-percent rise in insurance.
How do they pay for the insurance? Normally, they'd pass the bill to consumers/shoppers.
But in this case, the store will ask for a face-to-face meeting with the police and try to determine the odds of this happening again. The police will ask the city council for advice. Basically, no one will say anything to comfort the store.
Adding to the price of underwear? This is a stupid argument. So you market high-cost underwear....the special stuff....$32 for three pairs of underwear (for you Wal-Mart fans, their regular stuff from Mexico would be $7.50 for three pair).
But to meet the new insurance game....the $32 pack of underwear will go to $34. 50. Oddly enough.....at 300 miles away at another store (same brand-name)....the underwear is still $32.
In this case, the store evaluates the situation....why stay in Chicago? You discover 40 miles away.....in some town like St Charles or Aurora...they've got this upscale mall idea being floated around. The city promises to have an actual police department headquarters at the end of the mall, with thirty full-time private security guys walking around as part of their support staff. They even promise an aggressive DA and won't settle for letting people off the hook.
So the store agrees to stay in Chicago for two years, but then plans to exit. The jobs? Lost to Chicago. The city sales tax? Lost to Chicago. Other stores in the district get interested in this, and then vacate downtown. Hotel managers are now talking to the mayor and asking.....is downtown Chicago 'dying'?
The insurance side of this whole discussion? You actually dissolved jobs, sales tax, and made Chicago a lesser place. I know you think of this in terms of reparations.....but in the end....the jobs and sales tax left the city....so what do you think will happen to people in Chicago? Screwed.....big-time.
Gettysburg
The 'rumor' is that Trump will pick Gettysburg to announce his acceptance for the Republican nomination.
If you sit and ponder upon Gettysburg as a choice, you need to reflect what the significance of Gettysburg is about. It's a National Park that I'd strongly recommend....requiring probably 12 hours to take in the historical introduction, the tour of the battleground and look over the memorials.
Gettysburg is the beginning of the end for the Confederacy and slavery. Four and a half months will pass after this battle....when Lincoln goes to the battleground and delivers a short but significant speech.
Trump will probably address the woes of the Coronavirus, the economic stumble, the riots, and the lack of progress with the House. It might be one of his top three speeches of all time.
If you sit and ponder upon Gettysburg as a choice, you need to reflect what the significance of Gettysburg is about. It's a National Park that I'd strongly recommend....requiring probably 12 hours to take in the historical introduction, the tour of the battleground and look over the memorials.
Gettysburg is the beginning of the end for the Confederacy and slavery. Four and a half months will pass after this battle....when Lincoln goes to the battleground and delivers a short but significant speech.
Trump will probably address the woes of the Coronavirus, the economic stumble, the riots, and the lack of progress with the House. It might be one of his top three speeches of all time.
Sunday, 9 August 2020
Dates That Matter For The Election
3 November: Election Day
14 December: Electoral College Day
3 January 2021: Day that the House of Representatives Convenes.
3 - 7 January 2021: Tabulation of the Electoral College votes must be accomplished by both the House/Senate.
Can anything take place between 14 December and 3 January, if the EC is a failure? The House could convene in this holiday period, and have a committee to investigate the failures of various states to complete their 'count'. States may or may not comply. Timing this with Christmas is also an issue.
Pelosi trying to get to a closure point? Basically, once a state admits that 5-percent of the ballots have been disqualified and lawsuits start flying, there's nothing that Pelosi can do....to improve the situation.
Adding to this frustration....all 435 House seats are in a questionable area, with perhaps a dozen states refusing to sign a completion, and those House members unable to reach DC to perform their duty. This also, will draw court activity and the Supreme Court likely to get into the middle.
The possibility that the Republicans win an edge but have 30-odd members in 'limbo' waiting on their state to sign off? Can you appoint a House Majority leader or Chairman with the lacking members?
The odds that we reach 20 January without a President approved by the House method?
14 December: Electoral College Day
3 January 2021: Day that the House of Representatives Convenes.
3 - 7 January 2021: Tabulation of the Electoral College votes must be accomplished by both the House/Senate.
Can anything take place between 14 December and 3 January, if the EC is a failure? The House could convene in this holiday period, and have a committee to investigate the failures of various states to complete their 'count'. States may or may not comply. Timing this with Christmas is also an issue.
Pelosi trying to get to a closure point? Basically, once a state admits that 5-percent of the ballots have been disqualified and lawsuits start flying, there's nothing that Pelosi can do....to improve the situation.
Adding to this frustration....all 435 House seats are in a questionable area, with perhaps a dozen states refusing to sign a completion, and those House members unable to reach DC to perform their duty. This also, will draw court activity and the Supreme Court likely to get into the middle.
The possibility that the Republicans win an edge but have 30-odd members in 'limbo' waiting on their state to sign off? Can you appoint a House Majority leader or Chairman with the lacking members?
The odds that we reach 20 January without a President approved by the House method?
Saturday, 8 August 2020
Grill With Bio Charcoal-Like Material?
Bio charcoal.
So the deal? Corn cobs. A good burn? I paused and just wondered over this. Normally, it simply isn't what you'd go and put on a grill for steaks. It is natural and bio....I would assume.
Beyond that....a question mark.
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