The Island Experiment Idea

I noticed an interesting suggestion today.

Someone said....why not put two groups of people out on two island.  One group would be regular everyday conservatives, and the other would be woke-progressives.  Same resources.....same tents....same start-up situation.  Then the question came....what would happen in just one single year (365 days)?

I sat for a while...pondering this.

I eventually came to this logical conclusion.

The woke-progressive folks would would probably start to argue over things....the dynamic of survival....the language (pronouns) to be used....the necessity to group-talk on everything (from everyone eating the same food, to everyone using the same political slant on life).  

About 90 days into this...the woke-progressive folks would start to break off into two or three groups....one being hard-core woke-progressive....the others less so.  

Team-work on the woke-progressive side would be a problem by the sixth month.

Verbal attacks and physical attacks would be a common theme by the last couple of weeks of the year.  

On the conservative side?  There would be a discussion on day one about priorities, and most all would agree to the top five priorities.  

By the sixth month, there would be an abundance of food, and they'd likely do the kind neighborly thing....offering some to the opposite crowd.

At the end of the year.....about 75-percent of the woke-progressive folks would ask to be moved to the conservative side, and I suspect around three folks from the conservative side would ask to move to the woke-progressive side. 

Here's the thing....no one would suggest this one-year thing was a failure.  But you'd start to notice that the woke-progressive folks didn't want to talk about their feelings much, or their failures.  

Odd how society has progressed to this point.. 

Saving Us From the Evil Nazis

 Yesterday....the Democrats in the House passed an amendment to the military budget....that basically says for the Pentagon to 'fire' (remove) any military members who are white supremacists, Nazi-supporters, or extremists.

So the question should be asked.....just how many Nazis are in the US military.

Throughout my period (1977 to 1999, and the decade after that as a contractor)....I never came across a Nazi-enthusiast in that entire time-frame.

White supremacists?  You mean KKK-people?  None of them either.  

Now, I admit....I worked around the IT and intelligence field, and what you mostly had were people with unique sexual habits....individuals with extreme OCD.....and borderline schizophrenia folks.  

Will anyone get kicked out.....mostly based on extremist-labels?  I would take a guess that over the next year....there might be forty-odd people let-go.  If you'd say sexual-deviants needed to exit?  Oh, it'd probably go up into the 5,000 range....but they aren't a threat....like those evil Nazi characters.

Is there anything really positive out of this effort?  Well....you can pat your House member on the back and thank him for helping to eradicate Nazis from the US military.  If you'd gone back to 1980 and said Nazis in the Army or Navy would be a big deal in 2022?  Most people would have laughed, but that's how far society has moved in the past fifty years.  

Q-and-A

 1.  If you walked around America and asked a hundred American what an emoji is....how many would know it?

I would suggest that 50-percent will give the correct answer....a symbiology on Twitter. 10-percent will respond about something on the internet, but knowing nothing else. 10-percent will  respond it's a new coffee from Columbia.  And the remainder will respond that it's nickname that Joe Biden gave VP Harris.

2.  Does it bother anyone that Joe Biden has a list of pre-approved questions/reporters?

Probably not....but it means that the approved group has some inside connection to the administration and it lessen the trust in their reporting.

3.  Any truth to Facebook laying off people?

Well....just chatter.  However, if they lay off folks....Twitter would not be far behind them.

Trying To Define a No-Go Zone

 I grew up in the rural south in the 1960s/1970.  If you had approached me to define a no-go area....I mostly would have responded....'such-and-such area near the creek, where copperheads roam'.

The first time I ever heard the no-go chatter?  Around 1980....when 'Sarge' wanted us to know a certain bar or two in the Tacoma area were on the forbidden-list of the base.  

In the 1990s, I was sent to a training school in Kansas City, and the hotel folks gave me a nice map of the region.  I would be there for two weeks, and wanted some restaurant ideas.  The kind lady at the desk circled five or six places for great food....then took the red marker to indicate three regions to avoid.  Yes, she used the term 'no-go'.  

I asked what the issue was, and the response....'drugs, crime, assault, etc'.

By the mid-1990s, I came to realize in the Frankfurt area of Germany....an area or two had become a no-go zone.....mostly over hard drugs.

Over the next two decades, I came to realize the same label being applied to Hamburg, Berlin, Amsterdam, Prague, etc. 

When you travel these days....people use the term a good bit.

When I go back to Alabama?  Well....yeah, the term has started to pop-up occasionally.  Just about the entire region around Birmingham (except the airport) is a no-go area now.

All of this happening in one single generation.....that's the hard part to accept.

What happens over the next twenty years?  That's the thing I tend to ponder upon.  To suggest I need to carry a pistol when I go to get an ice cream, or pick up a case of beer?  How far will this go?

Interesting Quote

 "As of this morning every single “pregnant person” in 5500 years of recorded human history was a biological woman."

-- Marco Rubio

Begs to this whole discussion going on....where political folks can't define a woman, and it starts to sound like they are mentally challenged (we have other terms in the south but this probably is more appropriate).

Q-and-A

 1.  What's the mid-terms really about?

Four things: gasoline cost, recession, Democrats unable to define over 20 things in a public forum, and abortion.  Here's the chief problem....except for abortion...it's the worst position for the Democratic Party in thirty-odd years.

2.  How are Joe and Jill Biden getting all of these screwed-up speech scripts?

Maybe just plain bad luck....but you have to wonder about the people who support the couple in the White House and their resumes.  Maybe these folks aren't that qualified for the work required.

3.  Explaining this 10-year old rape/abortion thing in Ohio?

Well....a illegal alien raped a 10-year old Ohio girl.  Local authorities did everything possible not to report this up to the state AG or state authorities.  Someone on President Biden's team heard about half the story, and it was appropriate for the abortion chatter....not grasping it was an illegal alien story.

4.  How long will this Twitter legal case drag on?

Well....if you count appeals, and eventually getting to the Supreme Court....probably four years. Most of the Twitter board will have left and gone into some hiding situation in Costa Rica by that point.  

St#rbucks Chatter

 I noticed this St*rbucks story today....company is closing down 16 operations in the US....due to drug-trafficking.  

Last on the list?  The Union Station in DC.  Twice in my life (2010 and 2013) I was in the station.

Generally, the whole station is a drug sales 'candyland'.

You sit and sip through a coffee and would notice at least five to ten drug dudes operating, within fifty feet of the shop.  

No fear of the police.

The necessity of operating within the station?  I pondered upon that.  I don't think they wanted to be outside of the station, or in the subway.  It just seemed to me that various 'friends' were alerting them when cops were positioned.