Things like this typically don't happen in Alabama, but social media has arrived and gotten folks hyped up.
So in a public housing development down in Birmingham....these two ladies got into a discussion over a Facebook comment that one wrote.
No one says what the comment was, the derogatory nature, or if it was fake news related. Maybe one gal said something over the lusty nature of the other gal or accused her of being a Trump-supporter.
The confrontation then occurred.
A call comes to the local police. Local gal shot in the parking lot of her complex. 31 years old.
The call includes a brief bit on this argument going on.
The aggressor gal has a guy in the middle of this....whose name is....Corterius Kizzard.
It's a unique name, and I would suspect that he had some trouble in high school with nicknames.
What the police say....Corterius shot the first woman in the arms (two rounds).
His charges? Minimum of two. First-degree assault in the mix....minimum of two years in prison....on up to 20 years.
The sad thing here....Corterius gets sentenced and sent off to some state prison, and on day one.....the fellows there ask what was his crime. He'll respond that some gal insulted his woman via a Facebook comment....maybe over her weight, or her attire, and he shot the gal for disrespect.
The fellows there will stand there for a while, and finally burst out laughing. You'd be doing five years in some prison for Facebook chatter and shooting over that? What kind of idiot are you?
At that point, Corterius will realize his stupidity, and swear off social media for the rest of his life. The sad thing here.....his gal probably won't come and visit him in prison.
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
Monday, 31 August 2020
What is a Comorbidity?
Well....this topic came up today and I spent 45 minutes reading up on this.
It used to be simple when you passed on (died).....the coroner would come over and pick up the body. He'd look at your medical records, and eventually determine the ONE and only reason for your death.
Life was simple in those days, and you'd only die from one single thing.
So, we've reached the stage today.....where coroner is now asking stupid questions, and science gets into the middle of this.....then comorbidity occurs. This means that two conditions occurred in the final stages of your life, and you died from two, or three, or even four different things happening.
It's even possible that you were mentally crazy, and consuming a vast amount of drug-laced jelly beans, and this triggered you to do something crazy (like jumping off a cliff), and you didn't just die from the impact of the ground....but also from the illegal drugs.
This comes up...because of Covid-19. You see....a lot of unhealthy folks have various conditions going on, and have a weakened immune system. So when Covid-19 comes along....it craps up the body, and when you pass.....you didn't just die of the virus, but from secondary conditions as well.
Admitting comorbidity exists? Some folks, with an agenda....hate the idea of admitting that you could die from two things....rather than one thing.
All of this, for a southerner, is a hard thing to get over. We usually had a six-paragraph story to explain how Uncle Marcel passed on, after he was stomped upon by a 1,500 pound bull in the barn. However, under this comorbidity system, we'd have to admit that Uncle Marcel had a bad leg from a Vietnam War situation, and could never run that fast....so the bull didn't just kill him....the leg slowed him down enough for the bull to accomplish his part of the act. So you'd have to tell this additional four paragraph story over the war injury as well.
It used to be simple when you passed on (died).....the coroner would come over and pick up the body. He'd look at your medical records, and eventually determine the ONE and only reason for your death.
Life was simple in those days, and you'd only die from one single thing.
So, we've reached the stage today.....where coroner is now asking stupid questions, and science gets into the middle of this.....then comorbidity occurs. This means that two conditions occurred in the final stages of your life, and you died from two, or three, or even four different things happening.
It's even possible that you were mentally crazy, and consuming a vast amount of drug-laced jelly beans, and this triggered you to do something crazy (like jumping off a cliff), and you didn't just die from the impact of the ground....but also from the illegal drugs.
This comes up...because of Covid-19. You see....a lot of unhealthy folks have various conditions going on, and have a weakened immune system. So when Covid-19 comes along....it craps up the body, and when you pass.....you didn't just die of the virus, but from secondary conditions as well.
Admitting comorbidity exists? Some folks, with an agenda....hate the idea of admitting that you could die from two things....rather than one thing.
All of this, for a southerner, is a hard thing to get over. We usually had a six-paragraph story to explain how Uncle Marcel passed on, after he was stomped upon by a 1,500 pound bull in the barn. However, under this comorbidity system, we'd have to admit that Uncle Marcel had a bad leg from a Vietnam War situation, and could never run that fast....so the bull didn't just kill him....the leg slowed him down enough for the bull to accomplish his part of the act. So you'd have to tell this additional four paragraph story over the war injury as well.
Saturday, 29 August 2020
Ten Observations
1. Are you better off than you were four years ago?
Most would say 'no', but then talk over Covid-19 issues and the riots/looting. If these issues existed....would it even matter if you voted for Joe Biden? No, that's the humorous part of this question.
Joe's intent is for another 60 to 90 day shutdown, and repeat as often as necessary. On riots and looting, he can't readily demonstrate he has power over this situation.
2. Do you even care about the NBA season or NBA playoffs coming up?
Some might still suggest 'yes', but I suspect a majority of people simply don't care. The teams are mostly now surviving off a $2.6-billion yearly TV contract with the networks, and merchandise sold to fans.....since you can't sell seats in arenas.
So aren't the networks getting screwed with lower viewers? Yes, that's the troubling angle to this deal....they are probably selling discounted advertising time, and marginally covering their $2.6-billion obligation. Profit-wise, there's an issue brewing. But here's the rest of this story....the deal only goes to the 2024/2025 season. If the 2021 and 2022 season are crapped out....don't go and expect much on TV deal-chatter and more money in the next contract (I might go and expect the next contract to pay less than $1-billion).
3. Has the stock market recovered from the disaster of the spring period?
Shockingly enough....yes. A lot of people will admit back in March....they lost 20-percent of their portfolio and they were told by the 'experts' on CNBC that it would not be in 2020 or 2021 that their money would come back to a 'norm'. Yet, here we are....six months later, and the 20-percent lost....is now returned.
4. The feeling of getting 'lectured' when watching TV news?
There's not a single element left on any news network....where you don't feel 'lectured'. Half the time, you reach some level where you realize the hypocritical values being laid out, and the other half....you start to feel the suggestion that you ought to be a guilt trip for something (you just can't figure out what).
5. Will you miss NCAA football this fall?
Probably. But then you will discover that hunting, fishing and other recreational activities suddenly become interesting again. Along the way, you might discover that your wife and niece are interesting in hunting, and you drag them out on a six-hour adventure.
6. If you mob and assault a policeman?
Well....in some states, if you are lucky.....they could twist it enough to be a misdemeanor and get you only up to 12 months in a state jail. If they twist it the other way, into a felony....it could be three years in a state jail.
On the stupidity scale, this would be near a ten.
7. The most stupid political strategy possible?
You line up a quarter-million hooligans across the country and conduct riots/lootings daily, with video fed across social media. Then you allow the general public to view the video, and attempt to convince them if you just voted against Trump.....it'd come to an end.
This type of thinking and strategy? If you hung around real people and engaged in regular conversation, you'd find that working-class people don't buy into this type of stupidity.
8. One odd aspect of this Jacob Blake character (the black guy shot in the back by the police). Part of this argument brewing with him and the gal on the front yard (before the cops get the call).....he'd taken the woman's keys and was absolute about not handing them back to her.
He was more or less....begging to have the police involved in this scene.
9. Sarah Palin going into court against the NY Times?
Yes. And this might be curious to see how far it gets before the Times has to issue an apology and hand over a couple million.
10. What are you really being offered by Joe Biden and the Democratic Party?
Go out and simply ask a hundred regular people on the street. The only thing which most can readily say.....the one item offered is a Trumpless White House. Beyond that....they will not be able to sustain a conversation.
This is an even worse situation than 2016.
Most would say 'no', but then talk over Covid-19 issues and the riots/looting. If these issues existed....would it even matter if you voted for Joe Biden? No, that's the humorous part of this question.
Joe's intent is for another 60 to 90 day shutdown, and repeat as often as necessary. On riots and looting, he can't readily demonstrate he has power over this situation.
2. Do you even care about the NBA season or NBA playoffs coming up?
Some might still suggest 'yes', but I suspect a majority of people simply don't care. The teams are mostly now surviving off a $2.6-billion yearly TV contract with the networks, and merchandise sold to fans.....since you can't sell seats in arenas.
So aren't the networks getting screwed with lower viewers? Yes, that's the troubling angle to this deal....they are probably selling discounted advertising time, and marginally covering their $2.6-billion obligation. Profit-wise, there's an issue brewing. But here's the rest of this story....the deal only goes to the 2024/2025 season. If the 2021 and 2022 season are crapped out....don't go and expect much on TV deal-chatter and more money in the next contract (I might go and expect the next contract to pay less than $1-billion).
3. Has the stock market recovered from the disaster of the spring period?
Shockingly enough....yes. A lot of people will admit back in March....they lost 20-percent of their portfolio and they were told by the 'experts' on CNBC that it would not be in 2020 or 2021 that their money would come back to a 'norm'. Yet, here we are....six months later, and the 20-percent lost....is now returned.
4. The feeling of getting 'lectured' when watching TV news?
There's not a single element left on any news network....where you don't feel 'lectured'. Half the time, you reach some level where you realize the hypocritical values being laid out, and the other half....you start to feel the suggestion that you ought to be a guilt trip for something (you just can't figure out what).
5. Will you miss NCAA football this fall?
Probably. But then you will discover that hunting, fishing and other recreational activities suddenly become interesting again. Along the way, you might discover that your wife and niece are interesting in hunting, and you drag them out on a six-hour adventure.
6. If you mob and assault a policeman?
Well....in some states, if you are lucky.....they could twist it enough to be a misdemeanor and get you only up to 12 months in a state jail. If they twist it the other way, into a felony....it could be three years in a state jail.
On the stupidity scale, this would be near a ten.
7. The most stupid political strategy possible?
You line up a quarter-million hooligans across the country and conduct riots/lootings daily, with video fed across social media. Then you allow the general public to view the video, and attempt to convince them if you just voted against Trump.....it'd come to an end.
This type of thinking and strategy? If you hung around real people and engaged in regular conversation, you'd find that working-class people don't buy into this type of stupidity.
8. One odd aspect of this Jacob Blake character (the black guy shot in the back by the police). Part of this argument brewing with him and the gal on the front yard (before the cops get the call).....he'd taken the woman's keys and was absolute about not handing them back to her.
He was more or less....begging to have the police involved in this scene.
9. Sarah Palin going into court against the NY Times?
Yes. And this might be curious to see how far it gets before the Times has to issue an apology and hand over a couple million.
10. What are you really being offered by Joe Biden and the Democratic Party?
Go out and simply ask a hundred regular people on the street. The only thing which most can readily say.....the one item offered is a Trumpless White House. Beyond that....they will not be able to sustain a conversation.
This is an even worse situation than 2016.
Friday, 28 August 2020
The CNN Interview
I sat this morning and watched the 11-minute video of CNN's Anderson Cooper trying to interview Joe Biden. It's probably about 8 to 10 hours old at this point.
So three observations:
1. There are at least ten occasions over the interview where you can see Joe looking at some monitor....as if he was getting advice on how to answer the question.
Maybe he was looking at some dog in the corner, or gazing at some carpet stain on basement floor....but it was obvious that he was focused on something away from the camera.
It doesn't detract from his interview, but it makes you ask questions.
2. Cooper's questions? Fairly simple....nothing that a 2nd year college student couldn't handle.
3. At the end of the 11 minutes, I simply couldn't imagine 90 minutes of this type of activity, in a debate with Trump....with Joe on his own without a connection to the handlers. It wasn't that way in 2008 or 2012, so it begs questions if Joe is really prepared for this election.
So three observations:
1. There are at least ten occasions over the interview where you can see Joe looking at some monitor....as if he was getting advice on how to answer the question.
Maybe he was looking at some dog in the corner, or gazing at some carpet stain on basement floor....but it was obvious that he was focused on something away from the camera.
It doesn't detract from his interview, but it makes you ask questions.
2. Cooper's questions? Fairly simple....nothing that a 2nd year college student couldn't handle.
3. At the end of the 11 minutes, I simply couldn't imagine 90 minutes of this type of activity, in a debate with Trump....with Joe on his own without a connection to the handlers. It wasn't that way in 2008 or 2012, so it begs questions if Joe is really prepared for this election.
Thursday, 27 August 2020
The Morning of 4 November 2020
I see these eight things unfolding:
1. At least fifteen states admit that they are having issues in counting the mail-in votes. Half of them are suggesting results will not be finalized for another two weeks.
2. Thirty-five states are finalized on the 4th, with thirty of them being Trump-win states. On Electoral College votes, it's over.
3. Almost 40-percent of black voters (nearing close to 50-percent of black males)....have voted for Trump.
4. In cities like Portland, Minneapolis, and Seattle....it's close to a 50-50 voting situation for Trump/Biden.
5. Polling people find that the the riots seemed to work in favor of Trump....convincing almost 20-percent of Hillary-voters in 2016, to cross the line and vote for Trump in 2020.
6. The DNC has a meeting on 4 November to move onto the next strategy quickly....another impeachment attempt on Trump.
7. More than 20 black and Latino Republicans win House seats in this election.....including District 7 of Maryland (Baltimore-City).
8. CNN is mostly in shock on the 4th.
1. At least fifteen states admit that they are having issues in counting the mail-in votes. Half of them are suggesting results will not be finalized for another two weeks.
2. Thirty-five states are finalized on the 4th, with thirty of them being Trump-win states. On Electoral College votes, it's over.
3. Almost 40-percent of black voters (nearing close to 50-percent of black males)....have voted for Trump.
4. In cities like Portland, Minneapolis, and Seattle....it's close to a 50-50 voting situation for Trump/Biden.
5. Polling people find that the the riots seemed to work in favor of Trump....convincing almost 20-percent of Hillary-voters in 2016, to cross the line and vote for Trump in 2020.
6. The DNC has a meeting on 4 November to move onto the next strategy quickly....another impeachment attempt on Trump.
7. More than 20 black and Latino Republicans win House seats in this election.....including District 7 of Maryland (Baltimore-City).
8. CNN is mostly in shock on the 4th.
Long, Long Time Ago, I Could Still Remember
This past week, about a half-dozen professors from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school stood up and stomped their feet.
They believe that back in 1968, Donald Trump paid someone to take his SAT exam....therefore acquiring their degree in a fraudulent way.
The crew suggesting this? Oddly, they all teach ethics.
The university take on this? NO, they have virtually no interest in trying to open this or discuss the allegation.
So lets admire the landscape.
1968....52 years ago.
The person they suggest as the fake tester? Joe Shapiro. He's been dead for over twenty years....just for the record.
Even if the college had gone to the first step of this and asked questions....who would you ask? The dead guy? Trump?
Maybe if he'd stayed around to do two more years and complete a thesis....you could open that up and make accusations of poor writing or failed citations. But he only lingered there long enough for the bachelor's degree.
So this became more or less another humor-piece for people laugh about. An accusation from 52 years ago, with no substance. Even if they had launched into this and dug up super-secret things and achieved the goal of revoking the degree....then what? Would the public even care if a 74-year old guy had a degree?
They believe that back in 1968, Donald Trump paid someone to take his SAT exam....therefore acquiring their degree in a fraudulent way.
The crew suggesting this? Oddly, they all teach ethics.
The university take on this? NO, they have virtually no interest in trying to open this or discuss the allegation.
So lets admire the landscape.
1968....52 years ago.
The person they suggest as the fake tester? Joe Shapiro. He's been dead for over twenty years....just for the record.
Even if the college had gone to the first step of this and asked questions....who would you ask? The dead guy? Trump?
Maybe if he'd stayed around to do two more years and complete a thesis....you could open that up and make accusations of poor writing or failed citations. But he only lingered there long enough for the bachelor's degree.
So this became more or less another humor-piece for people laugh about. An accusation from 52 years ago, with no substance. Even if they had launched into this and dug up super-secret things and achieved the goal of revoking the degree....then what? Would the public even care if a 74-year old guy had a degree?
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
When the Taser Doesn't Work
I sat yesterday and observed the video of the Kenosha video of Jacob Blake, getting tased. From that moment....Blake was up in about eight to ten seconds. Most cops argue over this stage....suggesting you have about 30 to 60 seconds as a minimum...up to three to four minutes maximum.....where the guy is not able to gain muscle coordination.
The effect on Blake? Almost zero.
So it begs the question. The cops believed after they'd tased Blake....they had a minute or so to gain the upper hand. Why didn't it have an effect?
Crappy taser? Guy on some type of drugs? Did they tase some 'protected' part of his body?
It just begs questions.
The effect on Blake? Almost zero.
So it begs the question. The cops believed after they'd tased Blake....they had a minute or so to gain the upper hand. Why didn't it have an effect?
Crappy taser? Guy on some type of drugs? Did they tase some 'protected' part of his body?
It just begs questions.
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