1. This supposed comment that the magazine 'Atlantic' published on Trump?
Well....try to imagine this. Two years ago....on a visit to France, Trump said some really stupid 'crap' that four guys individually heard, and were taken back in a negative way, but NONE of the four told John Bolton (the chief guy who really hated Trump)?
And for two years, they kept their mouth shut.....only spilling the story in the past three weeks to some journalists with the magazine?
Then the magazine publishes this story with no one stating the story....only saying that anonymous sources said it?
If you went to a real college program and wrote a thesis for some professor, and the bulk of your citations were anonymous? The professor would fail you. So I'm not buying into this story. Even Bolton doesn't buy into it.
2. If Joe Biden wins.....does Antifa just go away on day one, and you don't see or hear them again? Really?
3. Is the Kosovo and Serbia economic treaty a big deal?
If you ever go and cross the border into Kosovo (I did last year), you get the feeling that you crossed over from Texas into Mexico, and just about everywhere you look....things marginally work.
The EU resolving this or the problems in Serbia? So far, nothing much.
So this Trump deal is a fairly big deal in this region. The amusing thing....if Obama had done something like this....it would have been front-page news and openly discussed for three or four days in a row. These news dimwits? Nothing. You could even hand them a European map and ask where Kosovo is located....no idea.
4. The NBA in 2021?
I think the owners are going to huddle after this current mess is finalized in the Championship Series, and decide to cancel out next season entirely, using Covid-19 as the excuse. They need players to be extremely desperate on finances, and willing to shut up about social garbage. The NFL will follow their lead.
Sunday, 6 September 2020
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.
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