My 10 Lessons From the Putin War

 1.  Pretty much any nation could hinder or humiliate Russia.....if they just avoid a tank-versus-tank strategy, and have anti-tank weapons/Stingers in their arsenal.

2.  Russia was probably a 3rd-rate enemy all the way through the 1960s/1970s/1980s/1990s.  Other the nuke thing, they were never at our level.

3.  Putin, on a list of 100 talents.....is missing military strategist.

4.  A billionaire Oligarch guy.....can lose the bulk of his wealth with just one single idiot running the country.

5.  Every time that some idiots said that sanctions don't trigger much pain.....they were BSing you to the extreme. 

6.  A bunch of dead Russian Generals and Colonels....simply opens the door for young guys to replace them.

7.  This uttering of Nazis everywhere....seems comical, but it drives the whole campaign in Russia. 

8.   Russian imperialism....continues on.

9.  There is no such thing as a cheap, or reasonable war or peace.

10.  Yeah, you can screw up a McDonalds business dynamic in such a way to close 850 'fronts'....permanently. 

Ten Things I Think

 1.  The Power Rangers show was the biggest bunch of garbage ever created for kid's entertainment.

2.  These BLM folks who handled the incoming cash flow....seem to have done a awful lot of things that would resemble money-laundering....either accidentally or on purpose.

3.  Facebook freezing hiring right now?  I think they are looking at a 'correction' period about to occur, with social media being demonized (in some weird way, demonetarized).

4.  There's supposed to be some big 'Summit of the Americas' in DC.  The invitations for this?  Well....half of Latin America have not accepted them.  White House sent Jill Biden to engage everyone (over a 6-day trip) to accept and show up.  Kinda funny.....zero respect out of Latin America for Biden's policies and the answer here is to send his wife down.

5. It is rather shocking....scientists/medical folks now say....the biggest problem area for Covid for the 2 years....was misinformation provided by the US federal government.  

6.  Only 78-percent of Americans say the economy is 'BAD'.  This means that 22-percent think it's OK or doing well.  Where are the 22-percent of people?  That really becomes a big question.

7.  I believe by 2025, the category 'women' won't exist.  The term 'people' will fill their void.  Women in general....will be shaking their heads and unable to reason how they disappeared from the landscape.

8.  Get used to the term 'Mobocracy'.  

9.  I think if you gave everyone a chance to enter the Doctor Strange 'multiverse'....more than 50-percent of Americans would readily volunteer to leave this universe/timeline, and venture somewhere else.

10.  There's some odd belief growing in the US that there's more racism existing today (2022) than in the 1920s.  

Why Would You Need A Government Disinformation To 'Save' You?

 For about a month, I've pondered over this Homeland Security invention....the Disinformation Governance Board.  This past week (week three since admitting it exists).....the WH (not Homeland Security apparently) dumped the 'boss' and has gone to some underground stage.

Disinformation....for the sake of this discussion....is the willful act of telling you something (fake news, false facts) to convince you of something (leading you to an agenda).

I tend to argue that prior to the internet/social media era.....we had a marginal problem (probably for the past 200 years).  Most people who came out of the 1960s/1970s.....up until social media/fake news....could review a story, and just measure the fakeness....coming to a decision that it was incorrect.  But this was based off just having newspapers, news magazines, and a limited amount of TV.

I would also argue that over the past two decades.....news content has more than doubled, and in some cases.....people are blitzed three to four hours a day.  In some cases, even around the office now.....you get news-blitzed.  Driving to/from work, you get blitzed.  And even in your local church.....you get blitzed.

 In simple terms......you are blasted way too much....to be able to discern disinformation on your own.  

The government pretending it can resolve this?  The minute that we reach some level where their 'truth' is fake....the entire reason for the board goes away.  

If you wanted a training module to recognize fake news or disinformation?  I would suggest watching all of the 317 episodes of South Park.  Even a 12-year old kid could gain a fair amount of reference by watching the cartoon.  In particular, I'd suggest watching the ManBearPig episode.

At some point before the end of 2022....I think the board will resurface and be a major part of the Biden 'brand'.  As for trusting the disinformation board?  It'll never happen.

What Was The Whitewater Property Business of the 1980s All About?

 So this Whitewater developmental scheme revolved around a fairly rural area of north Arkansas.....near Flippin (yeah, I doubt you've heard of the town).  For reference, out of Little Rock, it's about 90 miles straight north, and about 15 miles shy of the Missouri border.  

How you got to the property from Little Rock?  Well....you drove up highway 65.  It's about a 2.5 hour drive.  So you couldn't live there?  Yeah....this was a vacation or weekend-getaway development.

What was the other gimmick to the property deal? It was within 30 minutes of Branson, Missouri.  

Fairly wooded and remote?  Yes.

This whole agenda started out in 1979....to just be  a vacation 'playground'.  You'd put up a vacation cabin/house, and if you bought property.....you were there as your weekend place.

Somewhere around 1978, friends of Bill Clinton talked up this idea of buying 230 acres just on the south part of the White River.  Amount involved?  $203,000.  

The basic start-up idea?  They would buy the property, hold for several years, and some 'deal' would come up where you'd sell the property.

Did the property have any true value?  In 1978?  This is before the boom on RV travel, camping, and weekend getaways.  I've been of the mind that you were just paying twice what the actual property was valued, and it would be curious to bring the original owner into the picture.....asking them when they bought the property and how long they held it.

So, I need to tell this one odd part of the story.  Remember....all this chatter to get hyped up....was 1978.  Things went south in 1979....with interest rates bumping a couple of percent....so the general bank loan business was set to around 11.2-percent (yeah, hefty).

Bill and his friend....were screwed on timing.

Adding to this....over the next three years....the rate continued to climb.  At some point, it bumped up to 20-percent on bank rates.  No one....was buying.

To make any recovery, Bill and the friend decided that a model home needed to be built.  If people could just see the house/landscape....they'd overlook the bank issue (at least in their mind).

So you come to 1980, and Bill lost the campaign effort...leaving the governor's job.  

Four years would pass, and Bill would come back.

Whitewater?  It was mostly a failed land deal with bad timing.  But the bigger issue that was laying there....there's a sum of money involved and it's never clear where the money from.  Money-laundering?  

Well....here's the thing, at this point in the early 1980s....the Contra business was starting up, and cocaine was being flown into northern Arkansas.  There was tons of money being pushed around the region.  Banks were overflowing with cash, and it sorta needed money-laundering operations to occur.  So as deep as the bank interest problem had dragged the Whitewater mess into stagnation.....there's some pretty good odds that various people were begging for ways to launder their money.  

It's funny now to review the story....because in the 1990s....nothing seemed to fit or be understood.  Without the Contras, the Cocaine or the interest rate mess...Bill would have sold his property legally, and probably pocketed $100k for his efforts. 

What's The Difference Between Disinformation and Misinformation?

 This week, with the 'dumping' of Nina Jancowitz as the new head of the Disinformation Governance Board (Homeland Security)....disinformation and misinformation have been in the news. 

I spent some time looking over misinformation and disinformation.  If you asked a hundred people to define either....I would make the suggestion that fewer than forty could give you a decent explanation.  Some would utter 'fake news' in their explanation and I'd at least give them a plus-up on the understanding.

So, lets start with misinformation.

If you told a couple of folks that there was a trampy lady down on highway 64, who lived in a trailer, wore bikini gear while mowing grass, and gave free sex....there are five bits of information contained.  What you messed up on.....it wasn't free sex (she charges) and she only wore a bikini top.  So this is an example of misinformation. 

Another example: You went to a 'wreck-auction' and bought a fairly new BMW that had serious frontend damage done, pulling to the left continually, and wearing out a set of tires every 5,000 miles.  You brag at work/church....about this exceptional deal but never admit that the car is a 'problem' and that you actually got it for a junker-price.  

Disinformation?  It's deliberate in nature.  You are telling a story to get the listener to only attach their version of reality.

Disinformation is often accomplished to polarize society or a political stance.  

Both dished out by journalists, politicians, and intellectuals?  To some degree.

Here's the thing....it's not exactly new.  You can go back over the decades and cite various examples where this 'game' occurred, and people eventually got around to understanding the fake story told.  

In simple terms....plain old disinformation probably doesn't work any longer, and the whole system has had to bump up a notch....for a fake story to really work. 

My Thoughts On Woke

 I've spent a lot of time this past year looking over 'woke-stuff'.  

The true meaning of 'woke'?  Well....you go around saying you are aware (in some way) of things/issues....that you feel the true landscape of of social injustice.  In your eyes....there's marginalized people....diminished communities....and there's some path to cure all ills.

The chief problem here?  Well....you have five issues brewing:

1.  A fair amount of this landscape you claim in your vision....might be misinformation/disinformation, or propaganda.  

2.  For some odd reason, you need to whip up political power and 'victory' can only come via legislative ways or taxation.  If I ask you why.....you generally give this five-year-old kid behavioral trait.....you-just-gotta-believe-me.

3.  Undermining society or civility is always at work.  Tear-down and build is uttered over and over.  

4.  For some reason, there is Marxist 'pie-in-the-sky' chatter continually going on.  They talk about this imaginary Nordic country (they've never actually been there) where Marxism apparently works.  

5.  Finally, they tell you over and over....capitalism can't work.  They do this while wearing $150 Nike shoes, or a $90 pair of jeans.  They've got themselves $100k in college loan debt, but preaching the the evils of how capitalism cannot function. 

For some reason, I just don't see a positive future for the woke folks.  All will require some rehab treatment, and probably spend an entire year in a mental collapse where their sanity is questionable.  

Hallucinations Chatter

 There's a new term being thrown called 'nonconsenus realities'.

Basically, it's the hearing voices crowd, who are having hallucinations.  They are asking for some  type of reform to occur....where mental health folks/clinics.....uses a different approach in handling their 'problem' (they usually avoid saying they've got a problem).

I'm from the old crowd.....if you spoke up that you were seeing dragons flying around the farm, seeing Jesus hanging out at the gas station, or hearing the voice of Hitler through your cellphone.....you got problems.

I'm against folks like this.  If it makes them feel OK to hear George Steinbrenner's voice over the phone (he's been dead for 20 years) or to see a unicorn in the city park....fine, let the guy be.

But I see this 'nonconsenus' chatter leading back to the element of you wanting me to just accept you and trust you enough to be my bus-driver, or to handle my money at the  bank....well....NO, that won't happen.

We are at this odd point in society, where hallucinations occur and some people think that society should 'approve' the hallucination situation and 'nod' our head.  

In some ways, it's remarkable that this topic comes up.