Yeah....this is the package that Congress has presented to the President....to hand the $3.5-billion to the 50 states to conduct the mail-in deal.
Why so much? Unknown. No one can stand there with a straight face and explain why it's such a nice 'round' number.
The cost of the two stamps (mailing you the ballot and you returning the ballot)? $1.10.
The odds here that almost $300-million will be wasted on double or triple voters? Don't even bother bringing up that problem.
Let's be honest here....probably half of all voters don't trust the mail-in deal and refuse to participate....so they are wasting $1.10 up front for about 70-odd million voters.
If this is not agreed upon? Well....no $3.5-billion and if you (as a state) get deep into this....you'd have to go borrow at least $150-million minimum....maybe even up to $300-million. Which idiot bank will loan you that money? The one wanting a significant interest deal?
The deeper you go into the mail-in-vote deal....the more corrupted it looks.
Friday, 14 August 2020
The Odds that Senator Harris Is Already Reviewing a VP List?
I'd give it 50-50 odds.
As Joe steps aside, either in the weeks to come, or after the election 'win'....Harris probably has a list made up already of individuals for her VP choice, and for the cabinet itself.
I wouldn't even see a problem in admitting such a list exists.
Would the new VP have to be a white male? Yes, some idiot probably has already made up the rules list, and it has to be a white male over the age of sixty (figure NY Governor Andrew Cuomo).
As Joe steps aside, either in the weeks to come, or after the election 'win'....Harris probably has a list made up already of individuals for her VP choice, and for the cabinet itself.
I wouldn't even see a problem in admitting such a list exists.
Would the new VP have to be a white male? Yes, some idiot probably has already made up the rules list, and it has to be a white male over the age of sixty (figure NY Governor Andrew Cuomo).
Death Chatter
So this topic came up today and it's worth five minutes pondering.Primarydoctor.org did the graphic (Colleen Huber, NMD).
Basically, it covers ALL US deaths each year since 2000, set to a limit of the first 32 weeks of each year. That means violent deaths, cancer deaths, and even suicidal deaths.
Most years, it averages out around 2.5-million to 2.8-million deaths a year. For Huber to reach a correct dataset.....she cut off each year's data at 32 weeks....in order to compare against 2020. So you aren't looking at full year data....simply 32-week data for each year.
2020 numbers? We are at 1.6-million....NOT 2.5-million as you'd have in a normal number situation.
Yes, roughly a million deaths haven't occurred on schedule.
(a long, long pause at this point)
We are missing around 1-million deaths, if you look at the plain numbers.
Will it catch up? Maybe more deaths occur around Thanksgiving and Christmas? Well....there's no factual data to support that.
So I'm going to suggest four radical thoughts here:
1. Because of the lock-down business....folks simply didn't travel as much and have car accidents.
2. Because bars and pubs were shutdown a good bit.....DWI deaths didn't occur as you'd expect.
3. Because most elective surgery procedures were cancelled into April and still today....folks are hesitant to enter a hospital. So infections didn't occur, or screw-ups at the hospitals.
4. Because school events were cancelled out, fewer teen deaths were recorded via car accidents.
Even with Covid-19 deaths.....it doesn't seem to really help inflate our numbers. At the end of 2020? It might be the lowest 'death' number year of the past forty-odd years.
Yeah....it's one of those moments when you open up a bottle of fine whiskey, and sit on the patio....sipping, contemplating the numbers, and viewing the strange arrangement we have set up for 2020.
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Two Mask Stories
1. This week, I was watching German news, and this German political guy had run off to Beirut after the explosion. I won't discuss the political gain or imagery of this visit....but the guy did a one-minute chatty session....which you couldn't understand much of anything he said.
About halfway through this, I looked at his mask, and then realized...he had two masks on. The 'under-one' was the expensive N-95 'super-duper' mask (with a filter). The 'over-one' was a cheapo surgical mask.
I'm guessing he was awful fearful about getting Covid-19 there, but all this chatty hype was basically worthless because you couldn't understand nothing much he said.
2. This week, I was reading over a blog from a guy who is hired-up and working for a company.....doing office-time at home....during this Covid-period.
He admits, since early May, other than one day at work.....everything has worked fine at home, and he's getting more done.
So he gets onto this discussion....the team lead changed out. His crew (around ten) got a new 'boss', and the boss about ten days ago sent out the memo on the weekly conference video session (an hour where all projects are lightly discussed). The boss wanted two or three significant things done in a different way.....then said that everyone who appears on camera within the group....NEEDS to wear a mask (yes, while sitting at home).
In the day prior to this next session, this guy had a chat with two guys in the group, and they all voiced the opinion that was dumber than s**t.
So the day of the conference session comes up, and guy number one is on the group video 'show', but if you blew his picture up....you'd notice that it's a single picture of him with a mask on, the mouth never 'moves' and simply audio going on in the background.
The second guy? He's taken up the live voice/video thing, but his voice is heavily muffled....like South Park's Kenny McCormick. Nothing he says is understandable but he's waving arms and sounding agreeable to what everyone says.
I will offer this opinion....the longer this mask crap goes on....the more crazy things will get, and HR folks will get involved....dictating the style/type of mask, and the sixty-four rules of company mask policy.
About halfway through this, I looked at his mask, and then realized...he had two masks on. The 'under-one' was the expensive N-95 'super-duper' mask (with a filter). The 'over-one' was a cheapo surgical mask.
I'm guessing he was awful fearful about getting Covid-19 there, but all this chatty hype was basically worthless because you couldn't understand nothing much he said.
2. This week, I was reading over a blog from a guy who is hired-up and working for a company.....doing office-time at home....during this Covid-period.
He admits, since early May, other than one day at work.....everything has worked fine at home, and he's getting more done.
So he gets onto this discussion....the team lead changed out. His crew (around ten) got a new 'boss', and the boss about ten days ago sent out the memo on the weekly conference video session (an hour where all projects are lightly discussed). The boss wanted two or three significant things done in a different way.....then said that everyone who appears on camera within the group....NEEDS to wear a mask (yes, while sitting at home).
In the day prior to this next session, this guy had a chat with two guys in the group, and they all voiced the opinion that was dumber than s**t.
So the day of the conference session comes up, and guy number one is on the group video 'show', but if you blew his picture up....you'd notice that it's a single picture of him with a mask on, the mouth never 'moves' and simply audio going on in the background.
The second guy? He's taken up the live voice/video thing, but his voice is heavily muffled....like South Park's Kenny McCormick. Nothing he says is understandable but he's waving arms and sounding agreeable to what everyone says.
I will offer this opinion....the longer this mask crap goes on....the more crazy things will get, and HR folks will get involved....dictating the style/type of mask, and the sixty-four rules of company mask policy.
If You Were a Second-Year NCAA Football Player.....
Lets say you were a second-year NCAA football player with real skills....then the 'league' said because of Covid-19, there are no games for 2020. What should you do? Burn up a year of eligibility in non-play? Or go home?
If this were me, I'd pack my bag, and tell the university that I can't attend because of Covid-19, and head home. I'd return in August of 2021, if the NCAA started up games again, and not waste a near of eligibility.
If this were me, I'd pack my bag, and tell the university that I can't attend because of Covid-19, and head home. I'd return in August of 2021, if the NCAA started up games again, and not waste a near of eligibility.
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
Antifa X-Files Chatter
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.
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.
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.
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