Observations

 1.  Joe Rogan quote from yesterday: “Democrats on Twitter spray ‘mental illness’ like ‘diarrhea all over the screen".  

I spent an hour yesterday looking strictly at commentary on Twitter over the Supreme Court business, and I have to agree with Rogan on this....just a lot of hot-hyper commentary....stuff you'd expect out of a 12-year-old kid. 

I did learn that a fair number of Democrats now cannot recognize a dementia-President, describe what a woman is, and probably shouldn't be allowed around firearms.  

2.  I saw this posted on Twitter.....'be the chage'.  I think they mean either change or charge, but maybe the effect of the THC, or lack of schooling prevented them from getting the message across.

3.  Some kind of chatter came on CNN (after 5 minutes of discussion, I changed the channel).  Topic?  Supreme Court may go after inter-racial marriage next.  I think all nine of them had a laugh upon hearing this.

They might go public and just suggest that Democrats should never marry Republicans....making it the law of the land.

4.  US Navy said (in some cryptic way) that they might punish sailors who intentionally misuse/abuse pronouns.  I'm guessing they will be mops and told to clean the deck.  It used to be some punishment suggested for excessive cussing....that never went anywhere either.

5.  I expect some national 'fad-trend' to start up....where women sign some promise to only practice lesbian sex for a year....to punish guys and prevent unnecessary pregnancy situations.  

6.  California progressing on a bill (SB 357) to make prostitution.....more or less....legal.  To be honest, I don't think anyone will notice much....after it passes.  

7.  Poll was done on 6 January hearings in House.  Public says....one-in-three....that it will make a difference on their voting in November.  Course, that one guy was probably a Democrat before the hearing even started.  If so....then the hype was useless.  

Three Thoughts

1. For about 45-odd minutes on 6 Jan 2021....we were fairly close to having Buffalo-hat-wearing guy as the insurrectionist 'President'.  If the Capital Police had done the same behavioral thing as the Uvalde school police folks....the capital would have been put on full-exit priority, with a thousand-odd police heading to their cars....to escape DC before the full take-over.  

It really begs the question....were we even close to a insurrectionist 'President' or was this just a thick 'THC'-induced fantasy?

2.  If I read all this Constitutional chatter of the past year.....it seems like we need sixty-odd pages of new rights written up and passed by the states.

We need a right to Cannabis, a right to marry whoever/whatever, a right to police-protection, a right to passports, a right to cheap cellphone plans, a right to a house, and a right to flip our gender.  

The funny thing....it's all just chatter.  No one is really making any true effort to write a four-line text piece for the Constitution to flip on abortions, or a 6-line text to guarantee housing for everyone. 

3.  It just seems odd....more Americans can name all of the Supreme Court Justices, but can't name all of the actors to 'Ocean's Eleven'.  It's even more odd that the majority of Germans can name at least one of the Justices....when 99-percent of Germans can't name a single Justice from their own Constitutional Court.  

Three Realities in 2022

 1.  If someone is breaking into my house....the checklist goes this way.  First, I call my lawyer, then I call medical examiner, then I call the police to report a dead guy.  

Maybe the dead guy had ambitions in life, or some goal to eventually change....but it's none of my business.  We just didn't have time to openly discuss his failures and lack of respect.

2.  Whether people believe it or not....we've been on the path to full-up insurrection for about 25 years.  We will eventually reach what I'd call '1859-level' reality.

3.  Every time you see Joe Biden in a public 'talk'....you have to ask...are the cards speaking (that he holds) or is it really Joe talking?

Observations

 1.  VP Harris comment after Supreme Court decision: "This decision is even too hard for me to swallow."

Don't get no funny ideas here....she was serious.

2.  Based on what I've seen off TV this AM (Saturday).....seems to be a lot of insurrection going on (not just in DC).

3.  Someone asked the question yesterday.....is Mitch McConnell a Republican?

I think if you did a line by line assessment....he's marginally a Republican, and mostly attached to a dozen lobbyists.  Perhaps the better question to ask....is McConnell even a Kentuckian?  

4.  If you wanted an example of how crappy Red-Flag laws work....use Hunter Biden as an example.

5.  Prior to 2010....'Fact-Checkers' didn't really exist.  In the past decade....this 'art-form' comes up daily now.  

It is kinda funny....based on 'Fact-Checker' production....people are now even more distrusting of the news media than before.  

6.  About twenty years ago, I would occasionally listen to newsmen Keith Olbermann.  He says about 500 things in a one-hour 'talk'.  I will admit....you can discount about 480 of those things mentioned.....but occasionally, he slips in a gem.

This past three days?  Olbermann has more or less had some massive 'break-down' and gone way off into the 'woods'.  

7.  There are three crappy things going wrong in America, and dissolving the republic: (a) censorship/bias views, (b) efforts continue to bring people into tribal conflicts, and (c) lot of stupid kids attending college....getting degrees as they exit...still as stupid as they were four years earlier.

8.  New CNN boss said something about 'serious journalism' now required because of consequential society issues. 

What's that really mean?  I think the Trump-is-our-butter emphasis is finished, and they will try to do investigative analysis.

9.  Finally, a comment on open-carry of guns.  Since the 1990s, it's been accepted part of Israeli society....to just openly carry guns in public.

I'm not talking about pistols on your belt or shoulder....I'm talking about various rifles hanging off your shoulder.  

They go to restaurants, cafes, grocery stores, medical appointments, and schools....with weapons.  

If there's some nutcase or agenda-demon threatening anyone....within a minute...there's probably a dozen people in the vicinity....ready to put the nutcase down.   

For some reason, this system seems to work.

What Happens in NY Now?

 After the Supreme Court handed down their decision....this is my script for the next three years.

Starting next week, I expect around 10,000 people to apply for 'carry' status.  I expect all of them to be denied for various reasons.

So by August....a lawsuit will start up.  Damages asked per person?  Probably in the range of $250,000.  

NY politicians will sit and play this game through the courts, and by 2024....it'll hit the Supreme Court where it's likely to be finished.  $2.5-billion minimum, with court costs....handed to the state.  

If you were looking for bankruptcy signs?  This will be the start-up of a  massive decline for the state.  

The Gun Discussion Reality

 Growing up in the rural south of the 1960s/1970s....you had zero reason to worry about assault, robbery, or home-invasion.  As I left the farm....over the next fifty years....I roamed around the US, Panama, and Europe.

Looking back at Shreveport, Tacoma, Tucson, Wichita Falls and Denver (places I was assigned in the Air Force)....there just wasn't much of a reason to worry about personal safety.

Well....yeah, I did have the neighbor who accidentally fired off a pistol and a round impacted in the wall of my Tucson apartment (cops did come and took away his pistol).

Yeah, there were the riots in Panama.

Later on....living out of Arlington, Va and working at the Pentagon around 2010....I had to limit my walking around at night, and there were places in DC where you should just avoid....day or night.

I've come to realize out of the cocaine introduction era (mid-1980s)....that a lot of people react in aggressive ways with drugs in their system.  You could comment on the paint-job of a car to your neighbor, which he'd take offense to, and fire two rounds into your tire.

You could share a criticism about the Dairy Queen lady....to which she might pull a knife and try to stab you.

A lot of this leading back to higher THC levels in Cannabis?  Among the forty-odd reasons for our current mess....yeah.

If you went amongst the general population of Dayton, Ohio....just asking who has a gun for protection reasons....probably 75-percent will admit to a gun in the home, and 50-percent admit to a gun in the car, or on their person.  It's not a Republican or Democratic thing....it's just that folks have viewed the news enough....to realize it's not safe anymore.

Society and public safety over the past two decades have rapidly changed.  A bunch of people are simply out of control, and can't respect society.  

The only path ahead?  Well....defensive measures that aren't pleasant. 

Havana Syndrome Story

 I read this morning....the Biden team is talking (nothing really concrete) about paying off people in the government who says they got 'dosed' with "Havana Syndrome waves".

Now, I should note....they aren't saying HS exists....just that there seems to be something there and people suffer from it.

The compensation idea?  Well....$100,000 to $200,000.

Now, is this enough?  If you can't work ever again.....NO.  So where is the science to this?  Unknown, and Biden's team isn't discussing that matter.  

So, this method of saying you got 'dosed' with HS?  It's not clear.  I mean....you could visit some guy who works at the Prague embassy, and have a serious headache after that....then write the claim letter, and say you got a 30-percent dose of HS....so you want $60,000 in damages.

It'd probably take five years, but I'm guessing they'd eventually award you the money.

This all leading to false or fake 'injuries'?  OH YEAH.

My gut-feeling?  I think someone in the Kremlin blabbed to someone connected to the CIA and admitted they have a team that runs around dosing people with HS.

I also have this odd conspiracy theory....that Joe Biden the candidate in 2019....while at some hotel....got dosed with HS, and that's the reason for his mental issues today.

Fake story?  Maybe, but the idea you'd pay some guy $200,000 for claiming he got HS dosed?  Same level of fakeness, if you ask me.