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I hate it when I’m like this.

I’ve been writing… I try to write every morning over the first cup of coffee. Okay maybe the second and third cups too.

The trouble is, as I’m writing multiple thoughts collide and then the post sort of falls apart. 

A way to visualize the problem is watch a zipper as it’s closing. The left and right halves would represent two distinct trains of thought in my head, then you run the closure mechanism up the zipper and both trains are merged. 

That works great for a zipper but when you’re writing it creates a mess. If you have a few trains of thought running in your head at the same time what you end up with is a really bad train wreck.

There have been a number of train wrecks over the past few weeks.

I’ve written about Leticia James, Donald Trump, women gloating, why I think female to male transgenders can’t pass as men, and why I think the Biden regime is being run by women or man bun wearing soy boys who are weak & annoying.

Sometimes when I have a train wreck in my head I’ll just copy out the train wreck point and create another post that stands on its own merit.

Oh there was also a piece bemoaning the loss of meritocracy.

Anyhow…

That hasn’t worked very well lately. I’m thinking the trouble is in everything being so intertwined.

Here’s an example: 

Trump was being a whiney little bitch about losing 2020 for the past 3 almost 4 years. Had the Biden regime not weaponized the legal system against Trump, I think Trump would have faded into history and lost to another conservative presidential candidate. That’s because the Biden Regime moved too far left too fast and the correction is going to be Biden is a one term president. People in general are or were tired of Trump and all the drama. However the Biden Regime behaved like a woman in a divorce and couldn’t just let things settle. They needed vengeance. It wasn’t solely the Biden regime, it was the entire Democrat party. They’re still pissed off that Hillary lost in 2016 and they’re willing to punish Trump and the American people for 8 -12 years for that heinous “betrayal”. It’s analogous to the way women hold onto their anger in an argument. Instead of putting a stake in the heart of the monster known as Donald Trump, Biden and the Democrat party effectively fed him virgins blood. Now each trial, each indictment, each bloviating buffoon of a Mayor, Governor, District Attorney, Attorney General or Special Prosecutor makes Donald Trump stronger than ever before.

If you read that paragraph there’s a lot to unpack!

Yes, I’m not a big fan of Trump. I’ll vote for him for no other reason than he’s the better of the options available.

I think the Democrat party is behaving like a bunch of bitter women who want their pound of flesh no matter the cost. That’s a major problem for the nation.

I think that Trump lost much of his dignity by bitching and moaning for the past four years about 2020. I lost respect for him because of his inability to lose with some shred of good grace. After 6 months or so, he should have shut the fuck up. Honestly, if he’d “Gone Dark” then exploded on the Presidential campaign scene say in Jan of 2024 he might have avoided all the legal bullshit.

Biden’s presidency has been the most filthy administration since Nixon. I literally hate every single aspect of the Biden Regime top to bottom. I would dance a jig if the lot of them were tossed into prison cells awaiting trial for treason. I call them a regime because there is no honor in this Presidency. The will of the people, and the good of the people has been subverted by the Biden Regimes greed and lust for power. 

I have grown increasingly angry at the justice system, starting with their refusal to hear cases regarding voter fraud. Not for Trumps sake, but for the sake of our Republic. By not hearing the cases, the judiciary has effectively countenanced voter fraud. But then it goes further. Every case brought against Trump, every alteration in the law to allow Trump to be tried for whatever, demonstrates that the country I love and believe in, doesn’t exist. I don’t know if that country ever existed but I’m really pissed that my illusions have been shattered.

Lastly, there’s a fair bit of misogyny in there because I point out women’s behavior in divorces and their preternatural ability to hold onto anger and vengeance (look at Nancy Pelosi!). That line of thinking leads to my exploring why female to male transgenders might pass as men visually, but fail to pass emotionally.

So gentle readers, that’s why the blog posting has been spotty recently. 

My multiple trains of thought have been about as controllable as psychotic horses running into a burning barn.

It’s going to take some time to work through it. Your patience is appreciated.

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Well There’s my problem!

I was reading… Scanning headlines as I often do and a headline caught my attention.

The Headline was something like Russia sanctions nuclear weapons in Belarus. I thought “Great!” A few less nuclear weapons in the world is probably a good thing.

Then I read the article a little further, and found that Russia was allowing weapons to be deployed in Belarus. 

Hmmm. 

But we impose sanctions on Iran to keep them from doing shit that nobody likes.

To the dictionary Boy Blunder!!!

Oh hell no!

This word has no fucking meaning at all does it?

As a Noun it could be a penalty or permission, as a verb it’s the same.

Why does this word even exist?

No wonder there are pallets of cash and uranium being moved around to our enemies. 

They wrote the agreements using a word that is as two faced as Janus. (Look it up…)

I don’t want to hear this word being bandied about by journalist, politicians, or anyone else ever again! I’m putting this word in my official “Weasel Word collection”. This collection is my personal list of words not to use, and words that when others use them are red flags that the person is lying to my face.

I was looking for references to Russia threatening to Nuke Berlin, DC, and a couple of other cities if the west really threw in to ensure Ukraine won the war.

This seemed to me to be something of interest. While I’d caught the headline, I didn’t have time or inclination to read something that would very probably depress me. 

Then happily, I remembered that I am a child of the 1960’s. I grew up living under the imminent threat of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War. 

Nukes! Smooks! Bring it on bitches!!!! I remember how to duck and cover!

Although I must admit I might be inclined to send Putin a box of chocolates if he nuked DC.

That would solve a number of problems at once. Crime… Homelessness… Shitty Government…

Ahh there’s the piece…

Russia Will Drop ‘Entire Arsenal’ on London, Washington if it Doesn’t Win Ukraine War

It’s a Breitbart piece. It looks like Medvedev was saber rattling for the folks at home. I wondered why none of the talking heads were breathlessly telling us this was a result of Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin. 

Apparently they didn’t believe the threat was credible. 

The media and others say Tucker Carlson is now a traitor… Yawn. He’s the puppet of Putin… Sigh. He’s a useful idiot to Putin… Whatever.

There was a time when a real journalist would interview Jesus and then Satan just to present both sides of the story. Carlson in my opinion did what any decent journalist would have done. He seized an opportunity to go directly to the source.

We’ve heard all kinds of stuff from Zelensky, personally I wanted to hear from Putin in his own words.

Putin may possibly be a bit crazy, but he’s not senile and infirm like our president. 

The Russian guards in dress uniforms looked a bit odd. It was like they didn’t want to risk eye contact with Putin but still needed to watch over him. They looked uncomfortable performing their task. I wonder if that’s a traditional holdover from the days of the Tsar. There’s something in my memory about not meeting the eye of the emperor or king because mere commoners weren’t equal to the emperor.

I’ll have to look it up, refresh my memory.

Anyway that’s enough randomness for this morning. Time to get breakfast, then walk the K9. Spring is around the corner and Im planning on talking to the realtor mid March.

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You know, I don’t think DirecTV gets it.

I saw an ad for DirecTV today. The ad is selling the ability to stream DirecTV content via the internet.

You can see what I’m talking about at directv.com

Their big selling point is that you don’t have to have a dish on your roof. Uh… big deal! Their little dish is the least of the problems with them.

First and foremost in my mind is that I’d still be locked into one of their bullshit programming packages that forces me to pay for channels that I will never be interested in or watch. BET? Uh Nope! Zero Interest! I think I flipped through once a decade ago and needed subtitles to understand the language being used.

All I could think of, was the scene from Airplane where Barbara Billingsly says, “Excuse me stewardess, I speak Jive.”

I looked at their cheapest package which ends up being around 85.00 a month because you have to rent their box and the channel lineup was for shit! Oh they include SyFy, but SyFy doesn’t show Science Fiction anymore. It’s all reality shows and honestly stupid shit.

I can stream local channels without DirecTV. Heck I can and have been streaming local TV channels from places that I think I’d like to live. It’s great to listen to their news and see what’s happening. The human interest stories tell me about the communities. The crime reporting (or lack thereof) give me information about the safety of the area. There’s also a fair amount of information to be gleaned from the political reporting on their local level and how they report on national news.

So why do I need DirecTV? Oh, right I need to rent their box, plug it into my internet, and then buy a nearly $200 package per month to “Experience” all they have to offer. But wait… I already pay $80 a month for internet… So NOW you’re talking $280. For that, I get all their channels, a fair number of which I am not ever going to tune into.

I don’t speak Spanish, so I’ll never use the Spanish channels. I don’t speak Ebonic, so I’ll never watch the BET offerings. I’m not a Catholic and honestly have never enjoyed televangelists. If I’m gonna go to church, I’m going to get up, get dressed, and actually go to a church. So all the church channels are off the plate.

If you start talking about the “Premium” channels… HBO, Showtime, Max, Disney, and all those channels aren’t gong to do much for me because generally speaking they all play the same thing at different times of the day. I can also order those channels through the internet directly, and once again I don’t have to have DirecTV’s box. I’d have to do the math, but I think I can have them on a subscription basis for less as well.

CNN is included on all the packages and MTV is apparently still around. CNN I will not watch, and MTV? Haven’t even thought about that channel for at least 20 years.

I might be interested if I could pick and choose my channel lineup. Let me construct my own package of channels in blocks of 10. Charge a fair price and have a Premium Block where the HBO, Showtime, etc live.

Make it easy for the consumer to change the selections, make it web based, or better yet ON the DEVICE the user has to rent, so no-one has to listen to crappy English from a call center 1/2 way around the world who will inevitably screw things up worse each time the consumer calls about their service.

10 Channels cost X.
20 Channels cost Y
30 Channels costs Z
Premium block of 5 or 10 costs some higher price 

Make the cost per block predictable and easy to select.

Then DirecTV streaming service might have a chance in hell of surviving.

I could see myself easily with the 4 or 5 local channels, the local PBS stations, WGN, and TCM and that would about fill out my first block of 10. 

The point is, suddenly the viewers via their selection of channels implement a merit based system. Neilson would know which channels and what shows work instantly.  Hollywood could then create entertainment that actually entertained instead of throwing crap against the wall to see what sticks.

It will never happen.

What’s sad is DirecTV just trying to reboot the same tired old paradigm of the cable days and thinking that’s innovation.

I have to ask why they’re doing this now? I can only imagine that their current satellites are running out of fuel and will soon be unable to maintain orbit, or their relative positions in orbit, both critically necessary to maintain coverage.

The cost to launch new satellites is prohibitive and If memory serves, they’ve lost a few on launch recently. Some of the oldest units have probably become non functional or DirecTV has been forced to de-orbit them prior to failure, to burn up in the atmosphere or crash into the ocean so they don’t crash down on populated areas.

Eventually, the constellation of DirecTV satellites will become too thin to provide coverage. I think this is a “Hail Mary” move. DirecTV is trying to do a sort of “Bait & Switch” on consumers. They’ll get everyone who is already using their services to switch to their “Faster more reliable” service.

“New!!! Improved! Now with zero downtime due to weather conditions or blockage of the dish.”

Because so few people understand how so much of our technology actually works they’ll keep writing the check instead of thinking it through and looking for alternatives.

There’s very few channels that can’t be streamed. Most newer smart TV’s have the applications built in. Or An Apple TV, Roku, Xbox, FireStick,  or PlayStation can be loaded with the appropriate applications to access the streams.

Why do I need DirecTV again?

Don’t fall for it, Don’t subsidize shitty programming that you’ll never watch because of a crappy bundling scheme on the part of Cable or Satellite providers.

Show them you’ve got a brain!