Gut Feeling Of Colorado Removing Trump From The Ballot?

 1860, Lincoln was removed from 10 state ballots, yet still won the election in the end.  

If you brought up this fact....99-percent of people are unaware of this fact.

The Supreme  Court?  They will issue a 'pause'.....telling Colorado that it can't progress until a review occurs....meaning that the primary to be held on 5 March 2024...likely will occur, with Trump's name on the primary ballot.

I have two observations over this.

First, if you use the 14th Amendment for this action....logic would follow that the Republican Party itself is a problem in the insurrection business, and you'd have to remove all candidates in the state of Colorado who identity as Republicans. 

Second, if Trump's name is tossed back at them and forces them into a corner, will the state of Colorado do the right thing and exit the union?

Yeah....it would sound like a Civil War strategy.  Just the odd factor....the Democrats of the south in 1860....went this way and badly lost.  

Quote Story

 I looked over this news story: "Trump says he never read ‘Mein Kampf’ after ‘poisoning the blood’ comment linked to Hitler."

The quote?  Hitler did make a 'poisoned blood'  speech, and to be honest from 1920s Nazi Party and into the 1930s....a fair number of Germans were angry that the coalition government was not doing enough to prevent migration.  That big of a deal?  Well....a lot of German men went off to the war and didn't return....so industry (trying to recover in the 1925 to 1930 era) were accepting non-Germans for employment.

But as for the use of Mein Kampf?  I've attempted to read it (once in 1978) and found it crappy enough to drop after an hour.  About a decade later, I'd make a second attempt and marginally got through  it.  

Anyone who says they've read it....probably read through the first ten pages, and then dropped the book.  The emphasis of the book is to sell you on a nationalistic political focus....involving socialism as the landscape.  

As for anyone believing that migration in the US presently can be resolved by Trump or anyone (including Newsom or Biden)?  I think if you asked the blunt question...the majority of Americans would say it's permanently screwed-up.  

Women Happier?

 

I sat and read through a piece off Twitter today and the emphasis is that a report was concluded after asking women some questions, and the outcome of the study is that women seem to be happier without a permanent guy/husband and kids.  

No one asked guys much over this but I would imagine that guys would mostly respond that 50-percent of women probably should be 'black-listed' in some way....because of emotional issues, high expectations on finances and home sanitation practices.  

The real issue?  About every six seconds in America....some PhD guy/gal  is wrapping up another study, and publishing a 50-50 report....either lacking in facts, or full of BS.  

So you, as the reader....go and read through five to twenty pages, and eventually (with 15 to 30 minutes wasted)....you stop yourself and admit that half of what they wrote is pure BS.  You don't even need a PhD to write this sort of garbage.  

As for the real question here....are women happier?  To be honest, if most women just had a dog or cat, and 'Friends' were still being produced....life would be simpler in nature.  

Name Grifting?

 It's a curious Biden-story.

So this trustee is in charge of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy company (health-related).  At some point several years ago....they sought out new business, and this 'deal' came up.  For a sum of $600,000....arranged as sort of a loan deal....James Biden (the brother of Joe Biden) said the family name was worth X, and that he could arrange more business from the Middle East.  So the health company loaned out money to James....but no business ever came.

Somewhere in this business....where the money 'moved'....James Biden wrote out a check for $200,000 to Joe Biden.  No one says much except it would appear that the $200k was a cut of something.

So this brings to the oddball situation of James, Hunter and Joe....that they've all sold something, but you really can't find where the government did some service in return for the three getting cash.  

Just selling a name, but no return on it?  Well....yeah.  A crime?  No.

Looking at all the Chinese connections and Ukraine business....it brings me to the old subject on Hunter Biden....that people seemed to think they were getting something but the reality (the non-illegal part of this)....is a name had value. 

It's like saying the name 'Pinkerton' (detective agency), or 'Brando' (acting), or Aaron (baseball).  

Can you impeach on selling a name?  Not really....unless you skipped on taxes.  

It is sorta comical to say this...but all this wasted chatter really revolves around the name 'Biden'.  Seems like the answer in life for people in poverty....just mount a name change....saying you are a 'Biden' and some money will fall out of the sky.  

Five Humble Thoughts

 1.  After reviewing this Congressional staff guy who got wild and crazy in some sexual act (with another guy)....I came to ask the critical question.  Was this his first time use of the Congressional hearing room?  I sorta doubt it.  It would not shock me if he'd been there a dozen times.  

A big deal?  No...there's probably four-hundred folks who can claim some sort of sexual status in the room (like the mile-high club).

2.  If someone has done something to convince you of their 'woke' status.....are you likely to turn around and leave?  Like in a church, a bar, a baseball game?  

3.   To be honest, if I was a Fortune-500 company 'boss' (CEO).....I probably would have a hard rule on not hiring Harvard graduates....knowing I'm overpaying a salary for a guy who probably got mostly inflated grades and isn't capable of doing 'honest' work.

4.  Someone made a comment that they were self-partnered.....so I had to look it up.  Basically, they were in single-status, and considered their partner to be themselves.  Permanently single?  Yeah.  Conflicting signals?  Well....you could skip over dating them....as far as I can see.

5.  Just noted....this court business for Hunter Biden....it's in California.  To start on 11 January 2024.  Odds of a deal before then?  I'd give it a 90-percent chance.  

Cost Story

 Just something to ponder. 

I noticed this guy's story on Twitter....he'd gone to a place in Manhattan.....sharing a cocktail situation with someone and having small platter of cheese sticks.  Pricey?  With tax....just over $50.

The wife and I had a scene like this back in the summer....just two drinks and no snacks....totaling out near $30.  Course, it wasn't Manhattan.  

By the time you figure inflation, the cost of employees, heating or cooling these establishments....things have escalated over the past five years.

The big deal is that city/state sales tax....escalated with this.  So you wake up and think over this past habit....then reach a point where you avoid moments like this.  Yes, it slows down the commerce path, and establishes a new problem for city/state tax revenue folks.  

I should note....all of this talk takes place before you get to the 'tip'.  And what would you tip for two drinks and a cheese plate at $50?  Old guys like me won't go past $5.  My wife, the German?  She might not go past $3 if she's controlling the situation.  

What If We Were Left To Our Own 'Devices' To Identify Ourselves?

 At least forty times a week, I'll be watching some YouTube or Twitter video....where some gal or guy wants to let you know how to 'identify' themselves.  They assume you want to know them, their problems or woes, and you wouldn't mind conducting this experience with a special title or ID.  

In my military years, you wore a rank identifier on your sleeve/collar, and a name ID on your chest....with 'Air Force' on the opposite side.  That was all the ID that you really needed (at least at that point in time).  So it's hard for me to see this new trend as being legit.

The chief problem I see with the identify-people....if they were to meet forty new people a day....they are wasting at least two hours of time in getting the ID across and fully understood.  The minute you say binary or non-binary....that usually opens another hour (for the 40 people) where you need to explain your sex route and how things seem fluid or non-fluid.  

Me?  The minute you start on this chat....I'd probably stop you and ask about your car....mostly wanting to know if it's a Buick, Honda, or if you are carless.  Then right before you restart your identity chat....I'll ask about your dog or cat.  After that minute long response....I'd probably go on and ask about favorite episodes of 'Friends', and who you felt was the better character on 'Lost'.  I might ask about your health, particularly your mental health.  I might dwell five minutes on the crappy state of baseball, or this idiot DeSantis, or if you had any favorites passages from the Old Testament.

I know that you'd like to just control the conversation and make it a pronoun thing or sexual thing....but there ten-thousand other potential chat topics and you might spill your guts over any number of things unrelated to sex or pronouns. 

Yeah, in a way, you are living a fairly miserable life if the conversation can only touch on pronouns and sex (unless these were juicy stories over the librarian lady who wears naughty see-through blouses, or the Piggly Wiggly clerk who has a dozen lip-piercings).