Observations

 1.  Exactly 402 years ago today....the Mayflower left for the new world.  

Late in the season?  Yeah....they should have been leaving already in March, and had a whole growing season behind themselves, with shelter built.

2.  Some kind of statement by Governor Newsom of California.....suggesting to the DoJ to charge up states sending illegals by bus anywhere....that it ought to be kidnapping.

3.  Some (just a few) colleges are now admitting there is a mental health crisis with students who are conflicted over global warming and the crisis impending.  It's reached a point where some intervention and wellbeing efforts have to occur.  

In simple terms, these are kids who are too fragile to handle climate change.

True Positive, False Positive, True Negative, and False Negative

 One year at the community college I attended in Tacoma, Washington (my Air Force years), they offered up a Logic 101 type class....to be taught by some Italian visiting professor from Milano.  

From the class, we had fourteen people total.  Yeah, it wasn't an hyped-up deal.  

Somewhere in the 2nd class held....he got onto this true positive, false positive, true negative and false negative discussion.  I had no problem and visually.....I got it in about 60 seconds.  

From the rest of the class....I'd say more than half of the people didn't get it.  This meant minutes added while trying to get them 'over-the-hump'.  It was probably more than forty minutes wasted on this, and what it came down to.....at least three people didn't see a reason for four of these conditions to exist.  They felt once you established a true positive and false positive.....the rest were illogical.  

At this point, for me anyway.....it was more interesting to view the class as a psychological unit than a class.  It was a statement about society....that a quarter of people were simply not going to see a necessity to have a true negative/false negative added to the true positive/false positive situation.

Today?  I would suggest we've gone way past the quarter of society, and probably more than fifty percent would be skeptical of the necessity of having four conditions.  

A bad thing?  I wouldn't necessarily say that.  It's just that people want less complicated matters.  X and Y should just come to equal XY.  Once you suggest that something beyond XY exists.....people start getting skeptical of a second answer.  

The entire class there (1980) came to an end where the professor didn't want to have a final test/quiz, and in some shocking way....found a logical way to hand each of us an 'A'....without a paper handed in or a quiz.  Of all the classes I've ever taken....it was the most entertaining class environment.  

Can Anyone Write A Report Card Over Biden's First Two Years Of Office?

 I would suggest that it's hard.  

The recession business is a mystery.

The college debt deal for $10,000 will be challenged in court and likely revoked...angering the White House that someone figured out President Biden didn't have the power.

The Afghanistan exit was mostly a 'F'.

The 'gift' money for the Ukraine has everyone disturbed.

Other than 'V for Vendetta' 'red' speech.....no one remembers a single speech given by President Biden over the past two years.

On selection of VP Harris....that's mostly proven to be a 'F-plus'.

I could probably write another sixty lines but for what reason?  Maybe it'd be better if I wait ten years after he's left office....before I get to a report card session.

Biden's 'Red' Speech and V For Vendetta

 Someone brought it up this week.....how the Biden 'red' speech was a lot like the movie 'V For Vendetta'.  

I sat and pondered upon this.

V For Vendetta was a movie released in 2005.  The key element?  It was originally designed as a DC Comics story (late 1980s) where England had been taken by a agenda group, and the public was being lied to....on a national scale.

It's mostly a movie about propaganda and to what degree you'd drag the public into a dire situation where trust was no longer there.

In this comparison with Joe Biden's 'red' speech?  He wants you to believe it's a us versus them type of reality.  It was not a unity speech....it was a divider speech.  No one can argue about that suggestion.

So this is my question....the guy or gal who wrote the speech and designed the stage, with the red lights, Marines, and flag business.....had they watched V For Vendetta in the past six months and figured to create the same image?  

It's a crazy idea.  

House To Rush $50-Million For Chicago, DC and NY Refugee Crisis?

Well....there is a bill out there now....which would funnel $50-million over to the city governments of NY City, DC, and Chicago.  

The question here....out of each dollar sent....how much is funneled to some middle guy who is providing a $4 plate of food for $10?  Yeah, carving out some corruption money.

The $50-million?  It'll arrive and probably be spent in four weeks.  

My issue?  At the end of August, it was figured that 9,000 refugees had been put on buses for the three destinations.  At the current pace, by Christmas.....I would figure the number would be up around 16,000.  

That 50-million would have to re-occur every six weeks....to 'save' the three cities.

Equating Levitation To Gender Stuff

 At some, when all this 'wave' of gender stuff started up, I came one day to think that if this all made sense....then levitation made sense as well.

To define levitating?  Well....it's the rising of the human body....maybe an inch....maybe a couple inches.  

The background....most all of the episodes ever discussed came from either hallucinations of the crowd, or some illusion of the guy demonstrating his ability.

Most religions at some point....have entertained levitation to some minor degree.

I felt that if you could change sexes.....you might as well go and claim you could levitate, and use the same degree of illusion or hallucination.  

Everyone wants to believe in some gender change....to such a degree....that hallucinating it is not that big of a deal.  It'd be different to say you were changing your dog into a cat, or making yourself into a tree stump.  But this is just a simple task of getting the audience to think something....whether true or not.

Burn-Out Chatter

 This week, I read through a news piece which talked up the burn-out rate of ministers in America....now developing into a problem where guys/gals walk off the job.

Trigger?  Well....you would think that the primary job is just to write up a simple 40-minute sermon for Sunday, chat up Moses ten times more than what he deserves, avoid Revelations and demon-chatter as much as possible, pray for sick folks, and just provide a marginal amount of inspiration to folks.  That's it....it was pretty simple.

In the past decade, the minister folks have all become politicized.  Either the 'headquarters' hypes this, or the local deacons, or just membership itself.  So you are working constantly to irk a quarter of congregation....forcing them to leave, and then constantly back in a recruitment drive to bring new people in with like-minded ways to your political dynamics.

Was the profession completely neutral prior to the past decade or two?  No....you can go back even to the 1960s/1970s, and find some political gaming going on.  It's just that in the current era....everything is played to the maximum.  

If you were trying to run a non-politicized church?  I think you'd generally fail within a year or two....because of the current dynamics at work.

What happens to the burn-out ministers?  I would imagine they end up selling real estate, running a insurance agency, and shift-manager work at grocery stores.  

Just an odd thing to think over....burn-out from too much politics. 

This soon reaching schools and teachers?  Oh, I would imagine it's already going on.