Just something to pause over. At age 55....you kinda need to think about things, your health, etc. At age 75, you need to worry.
Saturday, 5 September 2020
Chatting Covid-19 and Deaths in the US
Just something to pause over. At age 55....you kinda need to think about things, your health, etc. At age 75, you need to worry.
Grenell Speaks
“People aren’t listening to you anymore. It’s really a crisis in journalism.”
-- Richard Grenell, to journalists yesterday
After a series of childish questions by younger journalists in the room, Grenell finally said his piece. Most Americans over the age of fifty have reached his level of thinking and agree.....there's too much juvenile lecturing going on, and no one trusts the news media any longer.
We are becoming the 'mute-generation' where we don't have to listen to stupidity any longer.
Stars and Stripes
At the end of September....the US military paper....Stars and Stripes will come to an end. The Pentagon finally ranked and prioritized things....realizing that the hundred-million cost wasn't worth it.
Some observations:
I was first introduced to Stars and Stripes in early 1978 upon arriving at Rhein Main Air Base, Germany. At that point, it was 15 cents.
If you wanted the US and world news, it was encapsulated into a 30-page newspaper, and the only one that you could pick up daily on base.
The top five positives?
1. Tons of travel advice.
2. Letters to the editor. Complaints about the BX dimwits, or poor planning at Army housing offices, or sloppy attire by Army housewives would always bring reality to your life.
3. The Fred and Frank cartoon. It was the adventures of two imaginary Army guys as they discovered all kinds of German realities.
4. Murders and crime stories.
5. A brief 15-minute read gave you all the things that you really needed in life.
The negatives?
It became painfully obvious in the mid-1980s that the newspaper tightly controlled what you were told and in some cases....you were better off reading German Bild for the news that they refused to discuss.
Somewhere between 2000 and 2005, it was obvious that people were using the internet, and avoiding buying daily copies of Stars and Stripes. If you asked around....probably only one in twenty people read a daily copy of the newspaper.
Since returning in 2013 to Europe....I've probably picked up a total of six copies of the newspaper. In general, they lean more to the left in terms of what news items they cover (or leave out). The letters to the editor? Those have been marginally left there, but you kinda notice....almost no one writes in anymore.
This effort by Senators and House members to retain the newspaper? It basically shows how out of touch they are. They are still living mentally in the 1990s era and think that nothing much has changed.
Once we entered the internet era....paper newspapers were not going to survive.
Note: My favorite Stars and Stripes story, which they told in great fashion. An Army guy had a serious drinking episode to occur on his way home, and he needed some 'excuse' to tell the German wife. He said he'd been briefly kidnapped by Red Army Faction terrorists. She believed him, and called the German cops. Over the course of 2 days, he holds to this story, and begins to figure out that they are getting more and more skeptical of the story (as are the Army MPs). He finally admits it was all made-up. But for a brief 48-hour period, Stars and Stripes carried it as a front-page item.....warning folks that Red Army folks are everywhere. Then we were left to wonder if the German wife divorced the guy.
Some observations:
I was first introduced to Stars and Stripes in early 1978 upon arriving at Rhein Main Air Base, Germany. At that point, it was 15 cents.
If you wanted the US and world news, it was encapsulated into a 30-page newspaper, and the only one that you could pick up daily on base.
The top five positives?
1. Tons of travel advice.
2. Letters to the editor. Complaints about the BX dimwits, or poor planning at Army housing offices, or sloppy attire by Army housewives would always bring reality to your life.
3. The Fred and Frank cartoon. It was the adventures of two imaginary Army guys as they discovered all kinds of German realities.
4. Murders and crime stories.
5. A brief 15-minute read gave you all the things that you really needed in life.
The negatives?
It became painfully obvious in the mid-1980s that the newspaper tightly controlled what you were told and in some cases....you were better off reading German Bild for the news that they refused to discuss.
Somewhere between 2000 and 2005, it was obvious that people were using the internet, and avoiding buying daily copies of Stars and Stripes. If you asked around....probably only one in twenty people read a daily copy of the newspaper.
Since returning in 2013 to Europe....I've probably picked up a total of six copies of the newspaper. In general, they lean more to the left in terms of what news items they cover (or leave out). The letters to the editor? Those have been marginally left there, but you kinda notice....almost no one writes in anymore.
This effort by Senators and House members to retain the newspaper? It basically shows how out of touch they are. They are still living mentally in the 1990s era and think that nothing much has changed.
Once we entered the internet era....paper newspapers were not going to survive.
Note: My favorite Stars and Stripes story, which they told in great fashion. An Army guy had a serious drinking episode to occur on his way home, and he needed some 'excuse' to tell the German wife. He said he'd been briefly kidnapped by Red Army Faction terrorists. She believed him, and called the German cops. Over the course of 2 days, he holds to this story, and begins to figure out that they are getting more and more skeptical of the story (as are the Army MPs). He finally admits it was all made-up. But for a brief 48-hour period, Stars and Stripes carried it as a front-page item.....warning folks that Red Army folks are everywhere. Then we were left to wonder if the German wife divorced the guy.
Friday, 4 September 2020
Fact-Checker Chatter
I read through a piece this morning that explained how the fact-checking to the Biden-Trump debates would go (in theory).
As Joe talks, there would be a text line down at the bottom of the screen. Same for Donald.
Now, some folks (older folks)....have the general text turned on anyway....meaning as Joe talks....his commentary is appearing at the bottom of the screen.
So you sit and imagine this.....bunch of text rapidly running across, and underneath that....another whole roll of text also rapidly running across. Can anyone even read that fast? I just don't think a mortal human can do it.
Then you toss in Joe's commentary.....taking eight topics in a 3-minute period...WW II, Cowboy movies, what he did as VP in 2012, a great ice cream he had last Thursday, the economy, ticks on dogs, a quote from Elvis, and how to solve world-hunger. Can a fact-checker even comprehend all of this and encapsulate this to run under Joe's commentary?
Most folks will be looking at the Joe fact-checker text and be so confused.....that they won't be able to focus on Donald or his fact-checker. They will still be asking ten minutes later....what WW II or ticks on dogs had to do with the economy.
All of this....will confuse people enough....that they will turn off the 2nd and 3rd debate entirely. Some idiot will even ask the CNN guy what tick-powder that Joe advocates for dogs.
As Joe talks, there would be a text line down at the bottom of the screen. Same for Donald.
Now, some folks (older folks)....have the general text turned on anyway....meaning as Joe talks....his commentary is appearing at the bottom of the screen.
So you sit and imagine this.....bunch of text rapidly running across, and underneath that....another whole roll of text also rapidly running across. Can anyone even read that fast? I just don't think a mortal human can do it.
Then you toss in Joe's commentary.....taking eight topics in a 3-minute period...WW II, Cowboy movies, what he did as VP in 2012, a great ice cream he had last Thursday, the economy, ticks on dogs, a quote from Elvis, and how to solve world-hunger. Can a fact-checker even comprehend all of this and encapsulate this to run under Joe's commentary?
Most folks will be looking at the Joe fact-checker text and be so confused.....that they won't be able to focus on Donald or his fact-checker. They will still be asking ten minutes later....what WW II or ticks on dogs had to do with the economy.
All of this....will confuse people enough....that they will turn off the 2nd and 3rd debate entirely. Some idiot will even ask the CNN guy what tick-powder that Joe advocates for dogs.
Lusty Story
Canada's top doctor got onto the topic of virus-protection and having sex. Basically, she said that when you meet up with 'Wanda', and get real frisky....you should be wearing a mask as you meet, and when the encounter starts and progresses....you should still be wearing a mask.
I sat there for a while...contemplating this scene in Alabama.
You'd have Karl meeting up with some trailer-trash gal that he's been dating....nothing serious, just a beer, chat over poison ivy, garage sale purchases, and Hee Haw jokes. Both wearing a mask, and as things progress to the hot and lusty stage....they continue to wear masks. Then all heck breaks loose, while still wearing masks, and 22 seconds later, it's over. Both having lost passion of the moment, and they depart.....without much occurring.
I just can't see mask-sex going to too far. Course, if your gal had bad teeth...maybe it's an improvement. Those meth-gals are that way....you know.
The question probably should be asked of this Canadian doctor.....have done masked-up sex before? My guess is no.
I don't see this going too far.
I sat there for a while...contemplating this scene in Alabama.
You'd have Karl meeting up with some trailer-trash gal that he's been dating....nothing serious, just a beer, chat over poison ivy, garage sale purchases, and Hee Haw jokes. Both wearing a mask, and as things progress to the hot and lusty stage....they continue to wear masks. Then all heck breaks loose, while still wearing masks, and 22 seconds later, it's over. Both having lost passion of the moment, and they depart.....without much occurring.
I just can't see mask-sex going to too far. Course, if your gal had bad teeth...maybe it's an improvement. Those meth-gals are that way....you know.
The question probably should be asked of this Canadian doctor.....have done masked-up sex before? My guess is no.
I don't see this going too far.
Observations
1. Was Nancy Pelosi 'set-up' on the hair saloon situation?
Well...if so, then she is probably one of the biggest dimwits walking on the face of the Earth. Course, she could have had this hair job done in the DC area, and no one would have said a word. The sad thing is that she'll return to DC, and everyone is going to complement her on her hair (even Trump).
2. Why does Joe Biden keep uttering KKK/Klansman/White Supremacists chatter?
A minimum of once a week, Joe utters Supremacists or KKK stuff. The problem here....for about 90-percent of the public, they haven't personally met a Supremacist or KKK guy in their life. In some areas....like Miami, it's a higher chance of meeting a Cuban-spy than a white Supremacist.
3. Rush Limbaugh asked this week: "How did the Russians convince Biden to act like he's losing mental acuity?"
Yes, it is a Russian strategy to flip the Presidency over to Biden, by getting Joe to pretend that he's got dementia or just plain crazy. The belief is....Americans love crazy folks, and Joe's got the attention of people now.
Some folks will sit and admit they spend hours trying to figure out what Joe said in a five-minute speech, where 32 different topics were laid out, but none connecting. Yes, all Russian-planned.
4. Upon visiting Kenosha, did Joe say that if he went into details about his plans and policy....someone would shoot him?
Well....yeah, he did say that. It probably didn't go well as a joke, but that's Joe's humor at work. Yeah....seriously.
5. Are all of these riots simply dosing people up to vote for Trump?
Look, 99-percent of the country lives in safe rural regions, small towns or quiet urbanized regions. We are simply viewing the riots as entertainment. We'll go over to the neighbors....sip up a beer, and the commentary will be 'man, I'm thankful I don't live in NY City or Kenosha'.
Along the way, we then comment that it's obvious that Democrats run these towns, and something must be seriously wrong....for all this destruction. Then we turn the TV off, go to sleep, and get up in the morning to put in eight full hours of work (something that the riot-kids are not capable of doing).
6. In 1964, a poll was taken and 78-percent of Americans trusted the government. Two decades passed, and the poll occurred again....45-percent said that they had trust. 2016? The poll was taken and the trust level is at 10-percent. What happened?
Each decade that passes, you get more and more news outlets. Each wants to expose the government and 'save' you in some way. But as each story passes, you have less belief or trust.
Even if the government came up and admitted today that they had a alien spaceship and three alien-dudes they'd captured.....would you really trust the government in this case, or the story?
7. Lets get this straight....the guy in Portland who shot the Trump-guy dead a couple of days ago....is finally located and cops come to detain/arrest him. The guy, gets into a conflict with the police, and the police shoot the guy?
Yep. The odds of massive riots coming over the next week in Portland? Here's the chief problem....once the police arrive and announce themselves....this guy immediately went to a weapon. That type of mentality doesn't ever end well.
8. Did Joe Biden truly say that he became a professor after he left the White House in 2017?
Yes. Although you can't find any university vouching that they had him on the payroll. It does seem like he came to give a 'talk' or two, but beyond that....no, he wasn't a professor.
9. If you write a 500-word news article for the NY Times, and the whole thing is based entirely off anonymous sources....just how far do you the reader go and trust or verify the story?
Well....a decade ago, you would have looked the other way and said maybe they had something. Today? You basically start laughing once you notice that no true source was documented and it's entirely anonymous.
10. Finally, the American Psychological Association said that they intend to pledge to start abolishing the "disease" of capitalism.
Basically, if you were into capitalism....by their definition....you need rehab. I'd suggest a month living under a bridge, eating canned soup, and drinking only ultra-cheap beer (PBR). At this point, I would suggest the APA folks probably have some kind of capitalistic phobia, and they might need rehab as well.
Well...if so, then she is probably one of the biggest dimwits walking on the face of the Earth. Course, she could have had this hair job done in the DC area, and no one would have said a word. The sad thing is that she'll return to DC, and everyone is going to complement her on her hair (even Trump).
2. Why does Joe Biden keep uttering KKK/Klansman/White Supremacists chatter?
A minimum of once a week, Joe utters Supremacists or KKK stuff. The problem here....for about 90-percent of the public, they haven't personally met a Supremacist or KKK guy in their life. In some areas....like Miami, it's a higher chance of meeting a Cuban-spy than a white Supremacist.
3. Rush Limbaugh asked this week: "How did the Russians convince Biden to act like he's losing mental acuity?"
Yes, it is a Russian strategy to flip the Presidency over to Biden, by getting Joe to pretend that he's got dementia or just plain crazy. The belief is....Americans love crazy folks, and Joe's got the attention of people now.
Some folks will sit and admit they spend hours trying to figure out what Joe said in a five-minute speech, where 32 different topics were laid out, but none connecting. Yes, all Russian-planned.
4. Upon visiting Kenosha, did Joe say that if he went into details about his plans and policy....someone would shoot him?
Well....yeah, he did say that. It probably didn't go well as a joke, but that's Joe's humor at work. Yeah....seriously.
5. Are all of these riots simply dosing people up to vote for Trump?
Look, 99-percent of the country lives in safe rural regions, small towns or quiet urbanized regions. We are simply viewing the riots as entertainment. We'll go over to the neighbors....sip up a beer, and the commentary will be 'man, I'm thankful I don't live in NY City or Kenosha'.
Along the way, we then comment that it's obvious that Democrats run these towns, and something must be seriously wrong....for all this destruction. Then we turn the TV off, go to sleep, and get up in the morning to put in eight full hours of work (something that the riot-kids are not capable of doing).
6. In 1964, a poll was taken and 78-percent of Americans trusted the government. Two decades passed, and the poll occurred again....45-percent said that they had trust. 2016? The poll was taken and the trust level is at 10-percent. What happened?
Each decade that passes, you get more and more news outlets. Each wants to expose the government and 'save' you in some way. But as each story passes, you have less belief or trust.
Even if the government came up and admitted today that they had a alien spaceship and three alien-dudes they'd captured.....would you really trust the government in this case, or the story?
7. Lets get this straight....the guy in Portland who shot the Trump-guy dead a couple of days ago....is finally located and cops come to detain/arrest him. The guy, gets into a conflict with the police, and the police shoot the guy?
Yep. The odds of massive riots coming over the next week in Portland? Here's the chief problem....once the police arrive and announce themselves....this guy immediately went to a weapon. That type of mentality doesn't ever end well.
8. Did Joe Biden truly say that he became a professor after he left the White House in 2017?
Yes. Although you can't find any university vouching that they had him on the payroll. It does seem like he came to give a 'talk' or two, but beyond that....no, he wasn't a professor.
9. If you write a 500-word news article for the NY Times, and the whole thing is based entirely off anonymous sources....just how far do you the reader go and trust or verify the story?
Well....a decade ago, you would have looked the other way and said maybe they had something. Today? You basically start laughing once you notice that no true source was documented and it's entirely anonymous.
10. Finally, the American Psychological Association said that they intend to pledge to start abolishing the "disease" of capitalism.
Basically, if you were into capitalism....by their definition....you need rehab. I'd suggest a month living under a bridge, eating canned soup, and drinking only ultra-cheap beer (PBR). At this point, I would suggest the APA folks probably have some kind of capitalistic phobia, and they might need rehab as well.
Thursday, 3 September 2020
The Medicated Society
Last night I spent a fair amount of time reading over statistics.
Roughly twenty-six million Americans (around 9-percent of the population) use illegal drugs (meth, crack, weed, etc).
Roughly one out of every six Americans use some legal mood-changing drugs or antidepressants. The doctors say it's fine....it passed all the tests, and you can have them.
If you figure up the two groups, you can assume that in a normal day of bumping into one-hundred people....at least thirty of them have medication in their system, or they've doped up in the past couple of days.
It's a high number, if you think about it.
The real problem though...is that you tend to only think of this group as adults. So if you were to look around the local school with 500 kids between the ages of ten and eighteen....would it bother you if sixty of them are on some type of antidepressant or mood-changing drug? If you were a teacher and came to realize in this group of twenty-two students in your room....there two kids contemplating suicide because of the antidepressants, and at least one kid who wanted to terminate some 'mortal-enemy' in the class for stealing their pencil.....would it bother you?
If you were the school bus driver, and had forty-two kids to pick up or deliver home, and eight of those kids were potentially on the borderline of harming themselves or other kids....would it bother you?
It is a heavily medicated society...something that you didn't really have to face in the 1930s or the 1960s.
So this brings me to this observation.....where exactly will this lead onto?
Roughly twenty-six million Americans (around 9-percent of the population) use illegal drugs (meth, crack, weed, etc).
Roughly one out of every six Americans use some legal mood-changing drugs or antidepressants. The doctors say it's fine....it passed all the tests, and you can have them.
If you figure up the two groups, you can assume that in a normal day of bumping into one-hundred people....at least thirty of them have medication in their system, or they've doped up in the past couple of days.
It's a high number, if you think about it.
The real problem though...is that you tend to only think of this group as adults. So if you were to look around the local school with 500 kids between the ages of ten and eighteen....would it bother you if sixty of them are on some type of antidepressant or mood-changing drug? If you were a teacher and came to realize in this group of twenty-two students in your room....there two kids contemplating suicide because of the antidepressants, and at least one kid who wanted to terminate some 'mortal-enemy' in the class for stealing their pencil.....would it bother you?
If you were the school bus driver, and had forty-two kids to pick up or deliver home, and eight of those kids were potentially on the borderline of harming themselves or other kids....would it bother you?
It is a heavily medicated society...something that you didn't really have to face in the 1930s or the 1960s.
So this brings me to this observation.....where exactly will this lead onto?
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