If you live in the United States, there is no shortage of media expressing all sort of opinions from the far right to the far left and in between the known political spectrums, it’s up to you to figure if you are being psychologically manipulated, fed raw meat. In this post let us take a not too close look at two issues in the recent news.

Electoral fraud, the cure is voter identification cards with a recent picture of the voter. What is never mentioned is just how wide spread is voter misrepresentation, what are the numbers that would warrant laws to require voter ID’s in order to vote…I’m waiting?

Transgender Bathroom legislation, that would make it punishable by fine or jail time to enter a public restroom that did not correspond to one’s birth chromosomes. The number of reported cases are? I’m waiting?

Requiring voter ID cards is in my mind to discourage a segment of the population, and make it more difficult for them to vote.

Transgender males entering female only bathrooms as an issue is purely a vote getter, a rhetorical exaggerated fear to be set into the minds of fathers of daughters and husbands. ‘A vote for me will end this practice before it starts’… or continues?

 

A leopard in an effort to hide its spots is applying pounds of make-up along with new handlers in order to appear in a different incarnation, forgetting the hours of recorded video tape in circulation just waiting to be played back again and again at a moment’s notice displaying this leopard in its true spots warts and all…Proving once again a past image cannot be erased forever…If he, you know who, becomes his party’s presidential nominee, you can just bet that the archives will be flooded with requests of every dumb and offensive remark he ever spoke, few will be pleasant and courteous, many will be dubious, indecent, verging on impropriety, Tipper Gore, will have to start a new campaign to have ‘parental advisory’, stickers on history books mentioning the 2016 presidential campaign, that will only be available to those over twenty-one, or those seeking to experience a sudden feeling of excitement liken to the language frequently heard during a phone sex conversation…Oh the thrill of it all…

 

The most experienced politician after ascending to the office of the Presidency of the United States must spend the first year in office in on the job training, each day in office is a snap shot of events of that day with the stars aligned for that day only and never again in the same way will they be so aligned. Today a leading presidential candidate outlined a foreign policy in the opinion of this writer is a cookbook of recipes for a major violent occurrence or at the very least about twenty or so small ones occurring at the same time worldwide. The American Presidency must not be viewed in this twenty-first century (the 3rd millennium) as in American Interests but viewed through the lens of international interests, this an age of global interaction, this is not the 1820’s, the world is a much more complicated place then it ever was. Words that can travel around the world in a millisecond can produce actions before there is time to reconsider and withdrew them. And yet it seems that a person is under serious consideration who has demonstrated the ability to make outrageous claims of non-facts, engaging in name calling of the most respected world leaders that can only lead to American isolation and distrust and damage world markets and trade…This my friend is no way to run a country…

 

A person with a lot of cash laying around gathering dust decide to form a business syndicate to found and operate a prison, knowing that a lot of cities and states are sick and tired of operating jails and prisons due to high housing and administration costs. What if it can be done more cheaply by private enterprises. Bingo, a gold mine. What is a hotel without paying guests, what is a prison without inmates? First nip in the bud any laws on the rise to decriminalize drug laws. Once incarcerated, cancel any reformatory programs, the aim is to keep them in and returning often after released. Set up internal inmate work industries, like sewing, printing, metal fabrication, furniture wood working, any low paying unskilled job found in the outside world, that would keep inmates busy and provide income for the syndicate along with the city and state tax breaks, is would be all up profit and no down turn. All the finished goods and labor can then be sold for an extravagant profit. The crime would be in having custody of all those bodies and minds for all these years as kind of slave labor force to cement in their minds as societies underdogs in and out of prison further making sure that if they are ever released they will find it difficult if not imposable to find any well-paying employment insuring they will return to the safe and free life style of imprisonment, giving way and providing a comfortable existence for the syndicate all for just a few upfront investment dollars, what a world…

A southern state in the United States passed a law that states in part, that transgender people using public bathrooms have to use the one associated with their gender at birth, there is nothing wrong this law as stated, however, is problematic in practice. Let me explain, nod if you agree. An individual female looking person enters the male only public bathroom, in obvious female clothing, light red greasy lips, long brown streaking hair, the males look on in wonderment at the sight. One better, an individual enters a female only public bathroom in obvious male clothing, has a whisper of facial hair below the nose, no noticeable breasts, women scream out in horror. How could such situations occur, these individuals are just following the law, they are transgender using the restroom that the law says they have to because of the gender they were born with…

 

The line between news information and show business have been crisscrossing for years, talent may attend up to five auditions a week receiving as many rejections; which begs the question as to why would one endure such a tortuous life style, and complain when things don’t go their way, well it has to do with the hope of a big pay day, perhaps for life. Knowing just some of the above going in its odd that anyone would be upset when at a moment’s notices they can and are replaced by a younger more marketable personality. When millions of dollars are at stake it’s not hard to understand it’s the bottom line that rules here, personal feelings just don’t count for anything.

 

Retribution, retaliatory violence among strangers can and does often fade into the background of a relationship over time, not so when it’s played out within a family, let’s call it a ‘blood feud’ that can last almost as long as the families exist. It is no secret that the seeds of two wars was planted in Europe, at a time when most of the ruling heads were related as blood relatives and that did not stop them from engulfing the whole civilized world into two World Wars. European economic integration was seen as a way to avoid most petty disputes, nothing binds like money. Since 1957 incorporating over a hundred tightly and loosely held European organizations have managed to keep the state of war at bay, some will claim until now. Distrust like before along with nation sovereignty is once again threating the peace with the added common rule of law fueled by the migration crisis. The European Union provided for a common currency, free travel without passports between states seems to be unravelling, walls are being erected, free speech in one country is not tolerated in another, religious expression is being terminated if not state approved. The American President appeared on the continent urging them to stay together in spite of their current differences, assuring them that they will soon pass, was told to mind his business by so doing are setting the stage for not another World War but an economic one with the high cost of all commodities that will soon be out of the reach of the populace with each country setting higher and higher prices for their goods and services worldwide that was once stabilized within the Common Market before and European Union now…

It’s hard to believe that a woman arriving at a social function in a new dress finding another woman in the exact same dress wanting to leave. And yet if she is of a certain age there is a good chance as a teenager she dressed in the latest fashions of the teenagers of her age group and area of the country. Anyone walking into a teen social function could see that they are all dressed alike with only a slight variation. Much like all the current crop female news contributors, which became just too obvious to realize during the recent primary news coverage. It was like they all received the same memo on the proper dress code for the evening, which required, discrepancy streaking shades of blond dyed hair, long fake eyelashes, and greasy lips and if their feet could be seen, high heels too. I’m told that is the way men like for women to look, not me, I prefer the ‘Ivory soap’ just washed clean appearance, the wholesome look. Was it ever in vogue, perhaps not wide spread, but I do remember one or two growing up during High School that there were a few, I don’t think they got many dates, but a lot of proposals of marriage. There are two types of teenagers, those you dated for a good time, they looked the part and those you thought would make a good partner in marriage, no amount of fakery will get you there, but oh yes, a job in broadcast journalism.

 

In old Hollywood a new movie has been cast, however, at the screen test it is discovered that the leads heights are not compatible, meaning, the female cannot be taller than the male, the male can be taller but not too much. If elevator shoes do not fix the height problem, then someone will have to stand on a box or in a depression in the floor. In these modern times the height between performers can and has been ignored up to a point and allowed to continue as in a natural occurrence between human beings. However, there is still a bridge too far and that is in skin tone, yes my friend there is still a color bar of sort in network television, it’s referred to in polite conversation as the ‘Lena Horne syndrome’ left over from old Hollywood. It is still not acceptable in some roles for one of the leads that have to interact with others, in certain situations, be on the darker side of a brown paper bag, or co-host a national talk show, be on the lighter side yes, the darker side no.

Blond hair was once rare on television not so these days, it’s almost a requirement, along with greasy lips and straight hair wigs. Old Hollywood lives on right out in the open and is well understood by all those who play the game…

 

‘A leopard doesn’t change its spots’ a well-known idiom often quoted and under stood to mean once a, you fill in the blank, always a? This leopard is kept in check by the continuant presence of its trainers (handlers) 24/7, except for that day when its spots got the best of him so he tweeted like days of old, an off the cuff remark that plunged world markets into a deep recession.