Three Questions

 1.  Do I think CNN is 'dead'?

I would say they've reached the point where no one takes them serious as a news organization, and most would be more willing to watch Nat'l Geographic whale video or 1970s Johnny Carson reruns....than CNN itself.

They need viewership to pump up the cost of advertising, and it's simply not going to happen.  

2.  What was this Minneapolis riot stuff with the Democratic Party all about this past weekend?

Well...candidate 'X' apparently was supposed to meet candidate 'Y' (same party) over a city council seat.  I should note here....both are democrats.  This was supposed to be a friendly meeting where each told their story, and 'sold' their message.

Support folks went nuts, and the police were called.  Yeah, it was pretty violent.

So now, the leadership of the democratic party (locally) wants to have an emergency meeting (bigwigs only) to ban certain people from ever attending such meetings again.  

On the BS-scale....1-to-10....I'd say this was a '7'.

All of this....over one single ward?  Yes.  

3.  How this Disney/DeSantis thing ends?

I think toward the fall....Disney will announce a quarter-to-half-closure of it's Florida operation.  75,000 folks in Florida presently work for Disney in Florida....my prediction is that 20,000 will be put on terminal status.  

On the blame-DeSantis game?  Well...it's going to turbo pretty quick.  

How long will this game be played out?  I would imagine until November of 2024, and then some re-entry will occur, with half of the 20,000 brought back.  The rest in the summer of 2025.

Q-and-A

 1.  Did President Obama know about all this Hunter-Joe-deals?

I've thought about this a good bit, and would suggest that from day one of the Obama administration....he paid little to no attention to Joe (as VP).  From the Obama circle?  I think 90-percent of them also paid almost no attention to Joe and his deal-making.  

Then you have to consider....what exactly were these low-level deals that involved a million or two of 'cash'?  

2.  White Supremacy is now considered the greatest threat to America? (President Biden says this)

Well....do you know of any white supremacists?  On your list of the top 1,000 'fears' or worries.....does this even come up?  Even if you are black.....can you point out any of these supremacists?

3.  Some cities suing car-makers....to force them into making cars more difficult to steal?

Yeah.  It's not a big deal, but it's moving via the court system.  Judges shaking their head over this tactic?  

I worked with a guy who had a daughter in college (2008-2012).  About six weeks into the freshman year.....this girl's car was stolen (never found).  Halfway via 2nd year of college.....2nd car stolen (this one was found....parts removed and unusable after find).  3rd car was stolen at the end of the 3rd year of college.  Dad replaced the 4th car with a junker....rusted red color.  This car was never stolen.  

4.  This doomsday cult in Kenya?

Well...the name of the group is 'Good News International Church'.  Presently, what the gov't is saying there.....200-plus folks have died via suicide, in support of the church 'word'.

Method?  Oddly....starvation.

Just ending at 200?  That's the odd part.....police are hinting several hundred folks on the 'lost/unfound' list.  I think it'll reach a thousand by the end....if they find all of them.

5.  Are all of these migrants who entered the US....going to find jobs?

In a recession?  No. 

It's a curious thing, if you think about it....most are headed to major urban centers....anticipating 'help'....like getting a free hotel-room while they wait.  Who pays for the hotel-room?  City-government, via fed-help.  

Hotels making tons of money?  So far, I'd say yes. 

Nine Observations

 1. People who seem to consider themselves constantly as victims....don't seem to perform successfully in whatever they aspire to....leading one to wonder what kind of miserable lives they lead.

2.  When you start some statement with 'sinister forces'.....if this isn't a Stargate or Lord of the Rings episode....it's pretty comical.

3.  When someone utters 'underage children'.....I'm usually standing there and wondering if there are 'senior children'.  It's just an odd phrase to use.  

4.  Looking at video this week of Senator Feinstein returning to the Senate....I'm of the mind that she's probably got no more than six months of life left.  Zero interest in returning to California.  Dies in office, is my prediction.

5.  Watching all this video of migrants crossing the border....I'd saying it's 95-percent male.  

6.  I read the housing crisis to handle the migrant flow into NY City has reached the point where closed-down state prisons are now being considered.  Odds of the migrants accepting this?  Zero.  You can imagine the video of this scene.

7.  This George Santos character (the House Republican guy) has this one odd thing going on with the charges presented.  His money-guy....Andrew Olson?  No one knows the guy or has claimed to have met him.  

Fictional character?  Well.....just pretty odd.

8.  Out of the top ten bank executives existing in America today.....how many connect back to Jeffrey Epstein?  Just wondering.

9.  I noticed someone has started selling a plastic 'poop' knife.....when you do your business in the toilet and it's too big to flush down the toilet.

Terror-Terror-Terror

 Just awful weird to watch.....President Biden gave a commencement speech at Howard University (black university) yesterday.  

Hype?  Well....apparently....white supremacy "the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland."

I watched about 8 to 10 minutes of this speech.  One odd thing which I noticed. Typically, a mortal human will blink their eyes about 15 to 20 times in a minute.  After the first viewing with the words on white supremacy...you couldn't help but notice that he blinked probably a mere 5 times a minute.  

Just odd.

As for the terror threat.....you would think 'Russia-Russia-Russia' would be uttered.  Or the Chinese threat.  

The Right Folks Scenario

 I sat this morning and viewed a Twitter comment...."The fertility problem is really a marriage problem. I know a lot of people who would have had children if they had found "the right person".  (David Boxenhorn comment)

To which, the comment was:  "There are fewer "right" people than at any time in history thanks to social media." 

By the time you are 25, and apply the appropriate fifty filter-process.....you've eased out around 4,990 of the 5,000 potential marriage situations.

By filters?  I mean.....you took out the fragile folks, the dim-witted, the pronoun people, the folks who owe $90,000 in student loans, the weed-smokers, the people who have a one-page arrest record, the social media freaks who waste two hours a day dumping on friends/relatives, the Paranoid Schizophrenic folks, the overly religious, and the three-times divorced types (at age 30).

Would you have done this at age 25....in 1985?  No.  You might have three filters at best, and the only constant was crazy-crazy folks were definitely out, and overly consumed religious folks were questionable. 

The Thing About Gaslighting

 I sat the other day and contemplated when I first heard the term gaslighting.  It was probably between 2012 and 2015, and after hearing the term....I spent an hour reading up on the philosophy of gaslighting.

I probably had seen bits of piece of this while working in the Air Force, but as a media-control strategy....getting you to some favored opinion....this really started to appear around 2008 to 2010.  

The problem today....so many people are trained in recognizing it, and reversing it (Tim Pool is one)....that you really don't want to start an  engagement and think this will win the argument for you.

To be honest, the minute I see you portraying yourself as some kind of victim....I'm asking myself how stupid you are (maybe at the 3rd grade level).

There are college kids walking around and thinking that they have this great tool to win arguments, and in a matter of minutes....the other guy has revamped the gaslighting....and your whole win-attitude is spiraling out of control.

Having some management guy or CEO go this route?  It's unwise, and just demonstrating you aren't qualified for the work required.  

Twelve Things I Eventually Came To Realize

 1.  About a decade after my 7th/8th/9th grade math and science classes. I regarded this entire 3 year period to be a total waste of time.  Between the material, poor instructors....there was nothing gained.  It'd been better to just skip from the 6th grade...to the 10th grade, at least in my case.

2.  Driving around highly urbanized areas like Atlanta, Los Angeles, Seattle.....it's best to avoid if at all possible.

3.  In terms of crazy people.....there's plain-crazy and crazy-crazy.  One....you can entertain or talk with.....the other, you need to maintain a 20-foot distance.

4.  An all-you-can-eat buffet....is probably serving you no more than 2-star food.

5.  Intellectual people are probably the last folks on Earth that you want to take advice from.

6.  Whoever you vote for....for President....probably isn't a Jesus-character or likely to save you from 14,000 issues.

7.  There is a difference in hangovers from beer or whiskey.  One is slightly better than the other.

8.  You don't want to accept an airline reservation where leg #1 delivers you to an airport, where you sit for seven hours waiting for leg #2 to occur....even if it is dirt-cheap ticket.

9.  A woman who has a five-times divorced record....has a lot of things that she wants to tell you about, but it's probably not anything you want to hear.

10.  A no-go area....is precisely that, and if you don't understand the comment.....you need to experience it one time to better grasp the big world.

11.  Someone who is ultra-fragile....probably doesn't have the wits or understanding to even handle donut-shop clerk job.

12.  Even if you are provided a 300-page manual on operating/repairing a item....it's generally written by an engineer...in such a form, that the manual is worthless.