Officer Chatter

 I read through commentary today, where an individual had several long chats with enlisted folks (NCOs/Airman) from the Air Force, and got onto the topic of 'wokeism'. 

Up and down the line....the enlisted people were figuring it was about 99-percent (within their group) anti-woke, anti-Marx, and anti-Communist.  

Then the subject went to officers....who were pretty much committed to being pro-woke....yet still showing a strong tendency to being anti-Communist/anti-Marx.

So, here's the odd thing to think about.  If you lined up non-military people and identified a hundred people who were committed to being pro-woke.....the same people (near 100-percent) would at least lean to being pro-Communist and pro-Marx.

It would defy logic, when laying out this path on the officers.

I sat and pondered over this.

Woke-people for the most part....are generally anti-capitalist, and lean a good bit toward socialism/capitalism.  If you laid out Marx chatter....they'd be somewhat agreeable.

This position by the officers make little sense.  Course, you have to remark that these are the enlisted guys who are making this observation.  

With around 30 years around the service, and working in three generally different fields (civil engineering, intel, and comm)....I have this generally different prospective about the officers I worked around.  Each had a different view of the job, and how to prioritize things.  The intel officers often sought to use logic in decisions.....it was less so with the comm officers. 

All this chatter....laying down a serious problem?  Yeah....it begs how you will wake the officers up, and if they eventually reach a point where they are anti-capitalist in nature. 

Meds Story

 Rumor says....Senator John Fetterman will remain in the hospital a couple more weeks.  Reason suggested?  'To get meds right.'

At one point in my life, I worked with a guy who had a 18-year old daughter that was bi-polar.  It was at the level that she would never be able to be productive or employed.

So one day...the doctor over her....had this new brand of medication that they wanted to prescribe.  Old medication would halt, and the new medication would start.  There was to be a one-week stay in some clinic, to be continually observed.

Then the daughter was released. 

About a week passes by, and the guy (with his wife) and daughter decide to do a quiet drive into central Virginia....to an apple orchard.  Things went fine for the first six hours of this day.

Then it comes time to plan the return....which they decide to stop at some restaurant.

About ten minutes into the sitting......there's a sign or two that the daughter is about to get unhinged.  Arguments mount.  A verbal situation occurs, and there's some stuff thrown around.  The medication?  With the stress of the day and energy released....it'd worn off too quickly.  

Restaurant calls the cops.

Cops arrive, and decide that 'dad' is the root cause and detains him....taking him to the county jail.

Mom is now left with the unhinged daughter, and questioning the cops on how she can return the kid home. 

Eventually, the cops call the county hospital and decide to hold the daughter in some medical situation.

Wife returns to Fairfax area....by herself.  There, she calls their lawyer, and he gets some bail situation for the dad.

About a month later, court convenes and the whole story is laid out.  No charges.  But the judge kinda hints that the daughter can't really reside at home any longer....she needs full-time observation. 

I kinda look at Fetterman's case and wonder.....they are trying various meds to help the guy....finding there's almost nothing that resolves his problems.  

Maybe he does return to the Senate, but it wouldn't shock me if  it's for just a 90-day period, and then he returns to the hospital once again.  

My Theory On Alien Visitation 'Tourism'

 I have an odd theory....no science or facts behind it.....just simply a belief....that an alien culture (or two)....hang around the Earth mostly on a tourism situation.

Lets face up to this....this crowd of aliens is probably anywhere from 10,000 to a million year more advanced.  I would suggest that life has gotten to such a slow level....that 'Zorg' and 'Buorg' have found a need to recharge their batteries.  So they spend a year or two....learning some Earth language, and sign up for a tour....maybe six months long....maybe three years long.

The ship takes in a load of 300 alien tourists each week, and via some fake company they've created....have a credit card and hotel reservations arranged.  

Zorg and Buorg look enough like humans....that with a funny accent, they arrive in some place like Norway, or Ottawa, or Miami.....they settle in and get a taste of Earth culture.

Along the way, Zorg and Buorg ran into pronoun issues (they weren't expecting that), the Trump thing (they weren't expecting that), and daily assaults in major urban areas.  

It's a crazy idea....I admit.  But it begs the question....if you were this highly advanced culture, why keep visiting Earth, and tourism makes perfect sense.

Ten Types of People I Can't Be Around Any Longer

 1.  People that engage on lecturing me (doesn't matter if it's 30 seconds or 30 minutes).

2.  People that have personal woes/problems on a daily basis....that seem  to be unresolved no matter what happens.

3.  Both guys and gals who seemed 'locked' in 1980s fashion.

4.  22-year old 'kids' who have a college degree but seem to be 12-years old in terms of behavior and knowledge.  

5.  Women who wear pajamas for casual-wear....for airline flights.

6.  People who are in a position of decision-making, but in the majority of situations....can't pull the trigger or make a decision.

7.  People who readily create an atmosphere of 'emergency'.....for just about everything that occurs within their reach.

8.  People (especially managers) with no goals.  People with fake goals are even ranked worse in my book.

9.  Individual with a PhD....that is hopeless beyond his/her expertise.

10.  People whose life hinges on pronoun activity.  

Kid's Note BS

 President Biden did some chat deal with this letter from some kid (probably in the 5-to-6 year old range)....talking about unfair wages between men and women.

I watched the White House 'con' and kinda laughed.

I will admit some kid wrote it, but I would imagine they copied it from mom's notes.

This being something you drag up for adult consumption?  No.

Seven Observations

 1.  At the end of 2020, you could buy SVB bank stock at $400 a share (up from 2016's $100 a share).  By the 3rd quarter of 2021.....it was nearing $700 a share.  Then it started dropping month by month.  January of this year.....$250 to $300 a share....a massive drop.

They had to be enticing people from 2016 on, and those with shares in the SVB stock....are screwed today....royally.

2.  At some point, Antifa is going to be on some terror list given to the FBI, and a lot of people who hold college debt/school jobs....are going to be dumped into a fed prison visit for a couple of years....with no ability to ever pay their debt.

3.  In an average week....there must be ten occasions now that I see President Biden in a confused state of mind.  

4.  Apparently, three of the wineries that Governor Gavin Newsom (California) owned.....had their business accounts with SVB.  Up to $250,000 each....they are covered.  Beyond that?  

5.  Blaming Trump for SVB financial crisis?  The new WH has had two years to correct all mistakes....so it's hard to drag this out and BS that you couldn't figure out the screw-up here.

6.  Lot of optimistic chatter about Senator Fetterman returning to 'full-power' in two weeks.  Basically, with his past stroke....you can figure he has about three to six weeks of limited work upon the 'return'....then falling back to a hospitalization episode.  He'll repeat this at least two more times in 2023.

7.  My advice on how to watch President Biden?  Try to find a channel with a deaf 'hand-speaker' and watch for the confused facial expressions as they try to 'explain' things.

The 'Mute' Reality

 "If Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

(It's a somewhat fake quote).

Some people will argue that the quote came from George Orwell....when he tried to market 'Animal Farm'....finding almost no publisher willing to handle it.  Some revisions occurred, and this quote got 'cut'.  Years later, it would be found in text of the original document.

It's a quote that probably bothers people a good bit....when thrown out in a discussion.  

Is there a limit?  I would suggest that everyone has a list of things they'd rather not listen to or hear a lecture on.

My list?  I'd rather not have to listen to Joe Biden speak at length (60 seconds is probably my limit).  I'd rather not have to hear a 30-minute podcast over Bigfoot.  I'd rather avoid having three PhD types discuss Quantum physics.  I'd rather not sit at a diner....having breakfast, and have two ladies sitting there and talking over their failed marriages.  

I'm often critical of the 'con' situation...where I'm getting BS at a top level....where some Jesus political figure is selling his 'con'.  I can see the past dozen Presidents in this way.  

I've worked with people who had zero trust in US government doing the 'right-thing'......oddly, while still employed by the federal government.   They really didn't want to hear the BS story that was supposed to whip them up in a frenzy and get hyped up about the new path.

Did Orwell have a point about this quote?  I would imagine while sitting in some pub in the 1920s....he probably came to this reality.  But in this case....if you didn't want to engage with Orwell at the pub....you'd just take your glass to another table, or just walk out of the pub.  It wasn't a case where we needed Lincoln debating Jefferson.  

Life is crappy around the edges....no matter how much chatter goes on.  It's just that we want to hear certain things, and would prefer to 'mute' the lesser of the list.