Binge TV Viewing Again

 This week, I concluded 'surge-viewing' of Stargate Universe (2009-2011)....forty episodes. 

Living overseas....there are a lot of shows which I just never saw before.  

So my ten observations:

1.  They tried awful hard to connect this show to Stargate itself (1990s show) and instead, it just appeared to be more Battlestar Galactica instead.

2.  You have to watch this show in precise alignment (1, 2, 3, etc).  It's one of those that you can't skip around.

3.  Must be forty-odd characters that have pieces and parts in the episodes, which makes it a bit odd.

4.  They never showed the WC or restrooms of the ship, and I just kept wondering about that part of the human element.

5.  Episode 1 and 2 are pretty 'lame'.

6.  Almost all of the aliens are not to be trusted.

7.  Based on food available on the ship....I would have lost 40 pounds in the first month alone, and been dead by week eight.

8.  I think if one of the big-boy networks would have taken it on.....maybe doing 15 episodes a year and given it a better chance of survival.

9.  The mad-scientist guy should have been left on some alien planet by episode five. 

10. It's funny that I missed viewing the show for almost 13 years.....then discover it by accident.  

Radical Nudists?

 As the newspapers laid out the Paul Pelosi attack (in his home)....several things came out.  Paul knew the guy on a first-name basis.  The dude was dressed in his underwear (we assume his, not Pauls) when the Police arrived.  And the guy was identified as a radical nudist agenda guy.

So I picked this up and asked the question....what the hell is a radical nudist?  Being from Alabama.....I'm kinda unfamiliar with this revolutionary nudists.

Originally, this group started up in the UK....around 100 years ago.  They had four significant agenda items.....vegetarianism, pro-nature/pro-environmentalism, free sex (meaning no real attachment), and improving your hygiene.  

There are various groups in Europe, and the US.  

One odd aspect of the group.....no matter how your body 'look' or style is.....it's damn fine by members of the group.

So the more I looked into the group....the more they look like normal everyday swingers.  

It begs the question....was a Paul just a friend, or a member of the group?

Observations

 1.  It does seem odd with this beating on Paul Pelosi (husband of Nancy)....that he was on a first name basis with the attack guy....who happened to be dressed in underwear (either his or Paul's underwear), and mostly known by the police as a 'nude activist'.

Course, I don't know much about nude activism, and rarely talk with sociable friends dressed just in their underwear.   In Alabama, we'd be suggesting drugs or booze being involved, and question the friendship.....particularly if the person wasn't someone of the opposite sex.

2.  News media says around 18-percent of Americans had to skip a meal, or deny themselves food.....because of the inflation rate.  Yet, oddly....no one is saying that they are starving or losing weight.  Something here doesn't make sense.

3.  Uvalde police now say they were fairly fearful of getting shot, when the school shooting took place.....even though they were armed and wearing 'flak-vests'.  

4.  Polling indicates for mid-term....that 40-percent of all Hispanic votes will go to the Republican candidates.  

5.  Newest conspiracy chatter in the US?  Poll watchers are not what they seem.  There may well be people who claimed Democratic status and signed up to be a poll watcher, but reality is that they are Republican in nature.  We may have to force folks to sign a 'blood-oath'.

6.  Tim Robbins said this week: "You can't over-regulate people's lives."

Well....he might be wrong on this.

7.  Presently, I'm counting four Senate races that should be won by Democrats....and it appears that it'll be a Republican win instead.  Just odd how 2022 has played out and four Democrats went sour in the final three months before the election.

Court Case

 I've probably watched around seven hours of the Darrell Brooks murder trial.  In short summary, he ran over six people in a Christmas parade last year.....now has six counts of homicide, with 76 additional charges.  He started the trial....saying he was a sovereign citizen....challenging the court that they did not have authority over him, and was going to defend himself.

What I'll say....he's not an idiot, or clear-cut nutcase, but his intention to say he can kill people and avoid consequences....just doesn't sell.

4th grad mentality?  Yeah, this shines through with each hour I view the case.  He desperately wants the judge to screw up.

He reminds of those guys who smoked high-THC weed twice daily for thirty years, and believes that he lives in his own little world.  

His mother?  She says he has a fairly long history of mental issues and isn't coherent.  You would think the judge would have established that back in the spring after the eval.  

The odds that this case will be thrown out on appeal?  I'm giving it a 50-50 chance.  

This sovereign citizen BS?  You see it mostly in the US and Germany.  If you were that stuck on this....you should go to the Pacific region....find some island, and just try to live out your life without the 'extras' that your nation provides. 

The Ten-Year Spiral Accomplished in Two Years

 There was a study done....by Understanding America.....roughly 7,000 folks who were checked out (over the age of 18).  This is what you'd call a personality test.

So they looked at five things....neuroticism (how you handle stress), extroversion (your ability to work or socialize with folks), thinking (more so to your creativeness),  how agreeable you are in trusting people, and conscientiousness (which means your ability to be responsible). 

People change and evolve....on a routine basis, and this is a known fact.

So what they discovered here was that in a two-year period (the Covid era).....people evolved in a critical way.....at a quicker pace.   What you would have done in ten years.....you did in two years.

Between the complex closed-off society we lived in.....the amount of BS we put up with.....growth of skepticism....and general view of stress (being limited on how to handle it)....we've developed a problem.

The thing that I'm curious in.....will this trend continue (at the same pace) and just how bad will things be in ten years?

Four Observations

 1.  This Pennsylvania Senate race: Oz versus Fetterman.

I've come to an opinion that Fetterman is so screwed up health-wise....that perhaps he's got a more terminal/limiting problem, and the tactic here is to arrive....work for six months, and then have the governor appoint Fetterman's wife (a migrant-turned-US citizen) to the Senate job.  It's stupid but legal.

2.  Elon firing 75-percent of Twitter employees.

Well....it's going to be rough because there's just not enough jobs out there for these poor folks, and they will linger for a year.....waiting for some dream job to appear, then accept a pizza delivery situation.

3.  Social Security is about to allow folks to select their gender.

Being a Social Security guy....I intend to select 'super-duper-gender' (not really existing) and hope that some idiot asks me to define it.

4.  Home sales falling to a 10-year low.

Looking for recession hype....it ought to rank near the top.

My 'Disability'

 I had to go off to the Air Force clinic yesterday (standard stuff).  So Airman 'Snuffy' handed me a sheet at the front desk, and asked me to read it.....noting things.

I sat in the waiting room and attempted to read it.  

It was in the smallest possible font size possible.  I gazed at it for 30 seconds.....how the hell do they expect me to read this?

Somehow, I managed to read about 70-percent of it, and attempted to 'X' through things.  

Then I came to a question.....asking me if I had a disability?  I responded: "Only one, I can't read small sized writing'. 

The problem is....they simply tried to cram four pages of questions onto one single sheet.  Looking back at my era (1977-2000), we never had sheets like this.....but we never had so many odd questions to ask people.  We didn't care if you smoked.  we didn't care if you were disabled.  We didn't care if you drank.  You came to a clinic for some physical woes, and that was 'enough'.