Yeah, it probably was the best college class I ever took, and had value for my entire life.
I've probably used logic at least forty times a day....for most of my life. It simply makes sense.
Unfair advantage? I saw this story today and thought about this for an hour.
Even if you talked over logical decisions and trying to resolve problems....I'd assume 50-perent of people are prone to be anti-logic, and have a mindset to always make a poor decisions.
Up on the northern 'front'....lays the Yukon (bumping against Alaska), the Northwest Territory (in the middle) and on the right....Nunavut.
Populations? Yukon (46.7k), Nunavut (41k) and the Northwest Territory at 44.7k.
None of the three are big enough (population-wise) to be states....however, if you bump Greenland into a deal and offer them statehood (having only 55,000)....you'd have bump these three eventually (say in a dozen years) as states.
Processing all three as one individual state? It makes more sense, but status-wise....I think all three would complain.
1. British Columbia? The original folks from the region....Squamish tribal folks....gave the name K'emk'emeláy̓ which happens to mean "place of many maple trees".
K'emk'emeláy̓ would likely be used.
2. Alberta likely stays Alberta.
3. Saskatchewan would likely change....the Cree tribe used the name originally of “Kisiskatchewanisipi”.
4. Manitoba? It would revert to a Cree tribal name of 'Manitou'.
5. Ontario? Skanadario....meaning sparkling waters....to the regional Indians.
6. Quebec? It stays Quebec....that was the original Indian word.
7. New Brunswick? The Indians didn't really have a name for the area, but when the first folks arrived in 1690.....they got to calling it Prigmore's Swamp....after a local guy who lived in the region.
Personally, I like Prigmore Swamp.
8. Novo Scotia? Well....the Indians used “Mi'kma'ki”, and the French called it “Acadia”. Either name would work.
9. Newfoundland? The Inuttitut/Inuktitut name was Ikkarumikluak, meaning "place of many shoals". Would work fine.
10. Prince Edward Island? Local Indians called Prince Edward Island “Abegweit”, which means “cradled in the waves”.
I should also note that as French settlers came in....they called it “Île St-Jean”. Isle of Saint Jean.....would be a nifty state name.
Am I going too far? No.
I'd make this a regional vote process.....put down two or three name options, and just let people pick their choice.
A year ago, if you'd said that Canada and Greenland might be on some path to a US status....I would have laughed. Today? I think if you engaged the Greenland (56,000)....around 75-percent would at least talk over the deal and ask questions.
Part of this issue....there's a serious disconnect between two Greenland groups....the 'elite' folks (numbering around 20 percent) are pro-Denmark, and want to keep that status going. The 'other' folks are more of a native Indian/Eskimo situation and lean mostly toward an independent status (dumping Denmark).
Offering a deal, and statehood? It's crazy but you might wake up by the end of 2026...with a five-year plan to bring them in as a state.
I also think....as this starts to occur....Guam is likely to get a statehood status (172k population).
As for Canada? Look....polling typically suggests that maybe a quarter of the population (40-million) might look favorably at this idea of getting statehood status with the US.
Reality? Economically...over the past decade....things have gone south, and there's a bitterness building up. It's possible that you might get near 50-percent agreeable to statehood status.
But then it comes up....10 provinces, and 3 territories.....how would you design this? Ten new states? Maybe 13 new states?
So could we wake up in 2030, and find 15 new states? I give it a 10-percent chance.
Confusing? Yeah, but that's the key gimmick of this 'sale'....actual 'change'.
Are there going to be anti-expand folks? I would imagine CNN is recruiting ten experts to play this role.
1. The US funds or runs at least forty-odd biological weapon labs outside of the US....it just makes me wonder what exactly of value do you have with so many? It's like a paint-by-numbers picture, where I'm missing the '1' and '8'.
2. If you are lined up to believe Joe Biden has dementia....what year do you start? 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, or 2024? I'm leaning toward January 2020. I also think the court system will come up shortly....saying the pardons and executive orders are invalid because of his dementia.
3. I'd be willing to lay down a $1,000 bet....the Army medical folks won't admit what drugs they were prescribing to the Vegas special forces guy.
4. Even if you put warning labels on booze bottles (booze causes cancer).....I still think out of 10,000 booze-drinkers....9,998 would still consume the same amount of booze.
5. I'm leaning toward the alien-Grays existing, and that they might not be a friendly sort of alien.
6. I expect by the end of 2025.....some effort to force all 75-and-older Senators/Congressmen to retire.
7. I don't think any news attention will occur with Barak Obama, from 20 January on.
8. Ball-play in the NBA is so bad....that I think the 2025 audience will shrink by 30-percent.
9. I suspect by the end of 2025....more than 100 bank brands will have collapsed....mostly holding commercial real estate that is worthless.
10 I think a US versus the Mexican cartel 'war' will start by May, and shock people to the extent of destruction. The price of drugs in the US by August? Triple what you were paying in April.
Thanks to Tesla....you can review the route taken by the supposedly dead Army guy from the Vegas Trump Hotel.
First stop for recharging after picking up the vehicle? Leaving Denver, he arrives at Monument, Colorado....a 59-mile ride. Yeah, you typically get 340 miles on one charge. So it is awful early in the trip to charge-up.
Second stop? Trinidad, CO. He got 148 miles on this charge-up.
I should note here....a typical complete charge would take 2.5 hours. If you didn't need a full charge....then 60 to 90 minutes would be enough.
Third stop? Las Vegas, NM. 130 miles accomplished on this 'leg'.
Fourth stop? 127 miles 'leg'....arriving in Albuquerque.
Fifth stop? Gallup, NM. 144 mile leg.
Sixth stop? Holbrook, NM. 95 mile leg.
Seventh stop? Flagstaff, AZ. 90 mile leg.
Eighth stop? Kingman, AZ. 146 mile leg.
Finally arriving in Las Vegas and last charge-up. 107 mile leg.
So you do the math here....about every 100 miles of driving (assuming at 70 mph)....he's pausing for 90 minutes minimum....to charge-up.
Was there a more direct route? Yes....but you would avoid that in winter....typically.
Is he charging up a lot? This is a region with limited off-ramps, and limited charging stations. You can't be picky.
Is he sleeping and resting in these pauses? Well....this part of the story....you don't know. FBI says he didn't rent a hotel room....it was go-and-pause for the whole trip.
Using camping gear? Well...he bought the gear prior to the trip....so you assume he was camping in some way.
Most economic vehicle for this drive to Vegas? Back in early 2024, it was in the $225 range (per-day). It's NOT a cheap vehicle to rent.
If you were asking me for a vehicle to rent, then to drive from Denver to Vegas....out of a thousand possibilities.....this would rank near the bottom.
Do I believe any part of the suicide story, the gravitational drones, etc? No....it just all seems faked-up. It could be a paranoid shizophrenic episode, with a drug mixture....with one or two pieces of facts, and the other 70-percent of the story being faked-up....either by this guy, the gov't, or some 'friend'.
In the early 1960s...Barksdale AFB had a project where they were replacing all of the WW II barracks. There was a row of 12 buildings erected and completed around 1963.
When I got there in 1981...they were 18 years old. To be honest....they had serious problems by this point.
I probably killed at least forty cockroaches a week in my room (3rd floor). The AC marginally worked. The original carpet had a funny mildew smell. The mattress (original one) was crap.
Along about 15 months of residency there...I came 'home' one day around 4 PM, and was there to change clothing and get my book for the evening college class. Some disturbance occurred on the first floor....requiring a fire-truck/ambulance and the alarm was for folks to leave the building. I went to the two evening classes.....I didn't get back till almost 10 PM.
The building was dark. The normal door I'd enter was 'engaged' in some way, and I had trouble opening it.
Some guy came to the door and said there was a natural gas leak in the building. Some guy on the first floor had showered around 4 PM...come into the room to run his hair dryer, and lit a smoke....having this 'FLASH' of fire erupt (this was the guy who needed the ambulance).
So I was allowed to grab 2 days of clothing....and directed to the base hotel.
A week later....the word came down. The base refused to renovate anything more in this zone....everything was to be torn down within 18 months.
The $hit that hit the fan? Well...the AC was crap from that point on. The last 3 months of this era? Winter period, and the heat marginally worked. It was enough the final 4 weeks to keep the room at 45 F (yeah, brisk).
I was transferring overseas....a week or two after that...they moved everyone to a brand new building.
The new building? Well....I talked to someone who'd been there in the mid 2000s, and they indicated this entire row of new buildings (1984 finished) were crap by 2000 and they were already planning the next batch of new barracks.
