Stores Story

 

I sat and pondered over this story.  So the basis of the problem is that theft has escalated around Chicago.....with various grocery operations shutting down.

You might have had three grocery stores within a mile of your place last year, and this year.....none of the three exist.

The problem I see goes to two factors....can you find half-a-billion to fix up a couple of stores to open, and can you stock it to run for a year....without theft occurring?

But then it occurred to me....in a city like Chicago, you'd have management positions to fill in such city-run stores.  Usually, it's either incompetent folks or relatives who end up as managers.....taking bribes or robbing the store themselves.

If they get that far?  Well....I would assume for every hundred dollars spent to fill the store and make a fair profit (5-percent).....you'd probably lose 30 dollars.  So it's a lose-lose-lose situation in the end.

On the list of fifty things that the government (any type) should not provide as a service?  Well....there's that problem as well.  Governments shouldn't be in the football stadium business, or selling booze, or providing free air conditioners.  

What'll actually happen?  Increasing factor at work....more grocery stores will shut down.  The few that remain by summer of 2024 in Chicago....probably will have a entry/exit post, with armed guards. I don't think anyone much believes it's a rational idea to sponsor or run city-owned grocery stores.  

RFK Jr

 Quietly, RFK Jr said that if the Democratic Party denies him primary opportunities....he'll halt his primary campaign and become a third-party guy.  If I were in the DNC....I'd probably start to worry over this threat.

First, in a 3-way match....Biden-RFK Jr-Trump, there's a lot of crazy things that could occur.  

I'd suggest in California....it's possible that RFK could win the state.  There's probably five 'leaning' states where RFK with a lot of effort....could overcome Biden's vote.

Second, the 270 Electoral Votes?  In a 3-way, I'm pretty convinced that no one would reach the 270, and you'd really prefer not to walk into January 2025....having a state-by-state vote in the House.

Third, RFK doesn't need a major campaign effort.  He needs 'X' to function, and have some support of Joe Rogan and a dozen-odd podcast folks.  

So I'm leaning toward the DNC waking-up and saying to Joe Biden....'enough'.....you need to say something about your health, and get out of the race.....allowing Newsom to enter, and allow RFK Jr to be a participant.  

This Whole Impeachment Thing Over Biden

I have three thoughts over how this will go.

First, Hunter Biden had people convinced that special favors could be accomplished via 'dad'.  Whether a single favor was ever truly accomplished?  You might line up forty 'customers' who felt such favors were occurring.....when all they got was three minutes of stupid Joe Biden-stories about his quarterback years or when he played for the Chicago Cubs that one season.

Item by item, you might go down and have each 'customer' stand and describe the situation, and eventually each remarks....they got utter BS for the $1-million they paid Hunter.  

Second, for whatever reason....as Hunter got cash....he distributed it to members of the family.  Bank transfers exist and it's hard not to ague about the movement of the cash.....after Hunter took his 'cut'.  

Illegal?  No.  People like to share their wealth, and if Hunter made $10-million in a year....after he paid $3-million on taxes.....maybe half the remaining amount was just his nice way to share the funds.

Third, if Biden was stupid to promise something for a cash situation, and that event did occur....then Biden is in trouble.  

How  would such evidence exist?  Well....the FSB (former KGB for Russia) probably did monitor a lot of the Ukraine 'deals' and I would imagine tapes do exist.  Joe being able to understand that?  I doubt it.

If only one single tape exists, and Joe promised something....which did occur, then the impeachment has potential to end in a bad way for Joe. 

It's a remarkable thing to observe.  

The Thing About Dogs

 Over the weekend, I observed this dog sitting by his two masters (a couple), and they were eating ice cream.  The dog did everything possible to be observant, patient, and consumed about the ice.  He wanted them to know....it'd be wonderful if they just gave him a 'bit' (not a good thing to give a dog pure regular ice cream).

Dogs have this problem.....they need to convey a message and they often go to crazy levels to get you (the stupid human) to react or bend to their will. 

For probably 20,000 years, it's been that way.  Out in the cave-days.....or with the sheep on the hillside....or in some dense forest with wolves around....the dog has been on a mission to get the human to just grasp things.  

I know....it's often felt the other way....we working to get the dog to grasp things, but in the dog's mind....they already know the score....the problems, and the crap existing in the world.

This thing about going with us....to the gas station, or grocery store, or to visit relatives?  The dog figures we might not be safe, or lose our way on the return 'leg', or be confronted with a problem requiring dog-sense.

Where would we be without dogs?  Silly question....even dogs know it's stupid.  

At the end of this ice cream session I viewed....the dog got a bare minimum taste off the spoon and seemed pretty happy.  He then led the couple out of 'danger' and onto some spot where there were fewer threats (at least in his mind).  

Not the stuff that Jack London wrote about....but then it's not Alaska either.  

The Average Temperature Problem

 Lets say you have a 6-room house.  You go and mount a temperature measurement device in each corner, plus the hallway of the home....amounting to 28 temperature readings.

All the room have one window....some have large windows....some two windows.  Some rooms face the north, some the west and some the south.  Some have trees affecting things.  Some heat ducts by the windows....some have heat ducts on the opposite side of the room. 

So over a 20-year period, can you say with any scientific authority....there's an average for the house....with a value that you'd put trust in?  

After a long pause.....you'd likely state that weather affected yearly temperatures...having windows open affected temperatures....having the temperature changing....there is NO average of value.

I see the same problem with people trying to say the Earth has an average  temperature, and you can reach some scientific level of 'trust'.  

Math Word Problem

 My construct:

X-high school (9th to 12th grade) has 800 students and has 34 teachers consuming 2.475,000 in pay/benefits).

Only 200 students are able to maintain a A or B level on grades.  400 students maintain a C or D level.  And the remaining 200 students are in failure status.

So my question is...what is the question and answer?

Logically, after you consider the whole math problem....why would you keep nine teachers or 200 students?  Cut the teachers and students, and save $675,000.  

I might give the students a 'warning' for three months but after that....why would you continue 'limping' along with a waste of time.  BK and McDonalds needs burger flippers.....send these 200 kids out into the flipper world. I might give each kid some small part of the saved $675,000....as a parting gift....just to show my kind nature.

Three Things That Went 'South'

 1.  Once all this entanglement stuff with legal cases came up on Trump.....it just got his name out in the public eye, and traumatized the public to be distrusting even  more of the DoJ, the FBI and various prosecution teams.  

It was the worst thing possible to dream up and start....hoping that he' stumble and fall because of witty lawyers.

2.  Hunter Biden buying a gun?  Here's a guy with 'real' Secret Service protection.....doing crack/cocaine (he even admits that) and signs some stupid document at the gun shop to say he's clean.

He never had a single logical reason for a gun. 

3.  This G-20 chatter about a 'digital ID'.....strongly resembles the Covid vax ID business.  

The odds of people accepting this?  It goes down dramatically once you figure this angle.