Just A Fading Memory Now

 One of my favorite episodes from the Covid era (2020-2022) was a visit in mid-2020 to my local German car repair shop.

This was the sign outside the building....which was limiting entry to just 2 customers at a time....so I had plenty of time to analyze it.

They were offering a 49.99 Euro deal (around $58).....they would disinfect your car....killing the crappy Covid 'bugs'.

When I finally got inside....some old lady was asking about the service....she'd just dropped off a friend, and was worried that maybe the friend had Covid.

When the lady left and I came up....I asked the guy bluntly....what was the 'service'.  

Well....it was a misty solution they'd bought....I stopped and asked....so it's a commercial house-cleaner?  

Well....yeah, was his response.  With a fresh-lemon scent....he noted.

I stopped him and asked....isn't this like 2.99 Euro for a full-up bottle?  Well....yeah, he responded.  So I could do the same thing myself and not waste the 49.99 Euro?  Yeah....he grumbled.

They ran this service for several months.  I would imagine at least two or three people a day showed up and asked for the deal.  So in a month, there's probably 120 of these service deals to come up.  

Some smart 12-year old kid could have offered the same type service....for 6.99 Euro.  

Conspiracy Chatter

I spent about an hour this AM....pondering over this news item.  In summary, some scientists (you are left to wonder what their field is about)....believe that regular people doing research...are triggering themselves to format something that is a conspiracy is faked-up.

How?  Well....as you read over some story that sounds fake, the scientists say there are empty 'pits' of reality or data....to reach a conclusion.  In their mind, a conspiracy should remain a conspiracy, and never proven faked-up.

The fact that scientists and researchers readily go back and update/correct things they said were 'facts' to start withh?  Well....yeah, that's a problem by itself.

About That Balloon Business

 I pondered for the last day or two...over a national story that I read.  Apparently, when all that Chinese balloon business occurred (early on)....the White House was set to a decision....to keep the public from finding out about the balloon.  No balloon....no worry.

Why?  Well....no one can really say.  I'm sure after the holidays...one of the chief questions to be posed to the WH press-spokesperson....will be 'why'.

So I analyzed this from several prospectives.  

Their vision?  They probably thought it would be like some satellite, and just not visible to the normal eye (that was NOT the case).  But maybe in talks with Biden....he just kept you can't see balloons that high up.

Then I thought....as dementia prone as Biden is....maybe he's got people around him who think the the same way he does.

But this led me to a meeting-mentality....where you have eight folks in a room....suddenly keyed-up on a balloon threat from China, and the general discussion wasting ninety minutes of your time....with no one really wanting to engage upon the idea of shooting it down.  Chief reason?  How would you explain this on CNN?

These are simply rough times for the average White House 'expert'.  You get dragged into a meeting with the boss....knowing that he's mentally ill-prepared for the job, and crappy situations demand some kind of response.     

Hot Political Chatter

 States planning an agenda to remove Biden's name from ballots: Georgia, Penn, and Arizona.

States planning an agenda to remove Trump's name from ballots: Alaska, Arizona, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey New Mexico, New York, Oregon, South Carolina,  Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

I would imagine by mid-January....at least ten more states will go remove either Trump's name or Biden's name.

What may happen here?  It's possible that two dozen states end up in a refusal to have a Presidential ballot....meaning that the Electoral College is not capable of working....and everyone goes into mid-January to vote by state's House members.  

Odds of states rigging a new selection system (redrawing districts) to ensure maximum Democrat Party 'wins'?  Yeah, it's possible.

Just An Odd View Of Wars Ongoing And Wars About To Start

 1.  Ukraine-Russia (US has given a significant amount of assets)

2.  President Xi (China) threat to take Taiwan

3.  Israel - Hamas

4.  Yemen attacks on ships to enter the Red Seat

5.  All that equipment left in Afghanistan

6.  Venezuela - Guyana threat of war

7.  North Korea testing of rockets

8.  Lowest US Army manning in years

You would almost think that the CIA designed some massive world war situation that the Pentagon could not win.

Gut Feelings

 1.  On Jeffrey Epstein and the 'guests'.

I think Jeff started the exclusive 'club' mostly to get a limited amount of insider information...just by wining/dining folks with some 4-star hookers involved.

After six to twelve months of this....I think the Mossad (Israeli Secret Intelligence folks) came to want a piece of the pie and additional guests that went beyond the business world...to include various politicians.

After a year of that era...I think the CIA stumbled into this, and they wanted a piece of the pie.  

As for the underage business?  Maybe there is an example or two of this going on, but I suspect there's mostly women over age 21....with a handful of gays/lesbians involved.

But these guys are now sitting and wondering....did 'Angie', the gal who said she was '20'....was she actually 16 years old, and ten to fifteen years later....this bothers the guy a fair bit.

The fact that he blabbed to Jeff about such-and-such deal to take place in six ways?  That probably never comes up in his mind....it's the youthful 'Angie' and that eight hours of hot sex that is on the guy's mind.

2.  I think it's now possible that fifteen states will deny Trump's name in some fashion, and various other states react by refusing to conduct a Presidential election....they intend to force a 'no-electoral-college' situation, and go to the state-by-state voting.  

I also think the hotest topic to come by mid-summer of 2024....will be voter ID....nationwide.

3.  I was looking over Bloomberg this AM, and they say.....a quarter of America's 'normal-rich' (meaning a income of $175,000 a year or more).....will infer to people and peers...that they are 'poor' or just getting by in some fashion.

I've tried to ponder upon this topic.  To be honest, I've never known or been friends with anyone making $175k a year.  Back as an E3 in the Air Force and barely making $9,000 while living in the barracks....I didn't really infer or tell anyone that I was poor or getting by.  Today, married to a German, at least once a week...I will infer to the wife  that we lived poorly on the farm...having to eat thin strips of bacon instead of the thick stuff, and we used the cheaper-made toilet paper.  

There's some kind of five-star BS going on....if you think $175k a year makes you poor.

4.  There's apparently a new investigation going on in Congress about a second gay video tape....involving another gay employee of the House/Senate.

Just a gut feeling, but I suspect by spring of 2024....there will be at least sixty of these videos, and only two will involve lesbians.

5.  All these people talking about leaving the US,  if Trump wins....has to now be in the 500,000 range....I would imagine that more than 99-percent have never given real consideration to this.  The one and only country on their list?  Probably Canada.

Frankly, as winters go in Canada....after one season, I think the vast number of people will quietly return to the US.  

Nine Humble Thoughts

 1.  If you polled a fair segment of Americans, I suspect that 25-percent would say that a 'civil war' is currently underway in the nation.

2.  Why can't the Harvard management folks fire the University President with all the plagiarism issues?  Just me thinking over this....they've probably talked about it, and now worry that it'll be seen as a racism issue if they fire her.  

I'm also of the thought process that maybe they've agreed on firing but now realize from the twenty-odd people to replace her....a scan of their PhD thesis reveals similar issues as the current gal.

3.  Are 'migrant' and 'illegal alien' the same thing?  Yeah.

4.  Walter Lippman 1922 quote: “It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?”

I saw this in the past week.  Public order/respect....often pushes you in extreme ways....to the point that you need to halt the message you are receiving and just ask a few questions before getting serious or hyped-up about something.

5.  Throwing Trump off the Colorado ballot?  Well....seems like now that he is collecting a ton of public donations.  On smart political play for Colorado (my 1-to-10 index)?  I'd give them a '2' at best.  

6.  All this money coming in for the Biden campaign....which is currently marginal at best (most primaries are limiting candidates to only Biden himself).  I suspect if you line up a hundred typical Democrat voters....more than sixty-percent will say they are not participating in the upcoming primary season.  

7.  DeSantis is finished when the Iowa caucus is wrapped up.  I don't think he'll have funding to continue on.  From  that point, it's just Haley, Trump and Vivek.  Oddly enough, for CNN to have some 'fresh' news....they are giving a ton of extra coverage over to Vivek and Haley at present.

8.  From the 8-million-odd 'guests' in the US....'illegals'....if we enter a year long real recession with no real money being spent....what work will they be doing?

9.  How to read this entire Jack Smith special prosecutor 'status'?  Well....normally,  under the law, to be a special prosecutor, you are already hired and employed by the US gov't (meaning?  you took the oath and are a fed employee).

Jack Smith was not a fed employee, and has not taken any oath.  In the true sense of the word....he was contracted out for the special prosecutor role.  

A problem?  Well...if the Supreme Court comes back and tosses the case...it will look rather amusing for the Attorney General to explain this in some public setting.  I doubt that he was the person creating the entry for Smith in this role.