Astonishment

I read this paragraph over at Politico:

Dashed are the hopes that the campaign could come to a conclusion on a high note, instilling in Americans a feeling that casting a history-making vote for Clinton is something more than merely a repudiation of Donald Trump.

Wow.

I am getting used to the twisted view being presented to us by these folks, but little things jump out at me.  These folks actually think this way.

Out here in the real world, the politics are coarser, less ideologically defined.  The politics center around what one feels has been done to him and by whom.  Neither candidate is an example for others.  Both candidates are a loud and clear "fuck you" to the other camp.

High notes are not possible in this cesspit of an election.

Say what you want

This election has certainly been different.

Yep

Trump might be finished. But another playwright, Bertolt Brecht, warned: "Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again."

Gotta take a breath

Look, everyone knows that the deal is going down.  

What everyone is worried about is that it might not go their way.

Well, I got new for all you pilgrims.  All of you are right.  It won't go your way.  

No reason to stop anything.  Even if shit goes seriously south, do you think that you aren't going to have to put time and energy into the system to make the new way work?  Do you think that the energy that you put in now is going to be wasted?  

Look, life is series of decisions and accommodations.  Some of what you sow gets reaped.  Some is carried away on the wind. Get over it.

All you can do is keep trying, don't plan on winning them all.  Try to learn from your failures.  Try to reinforce your successes.

Things are going to go awry in the none-to-distant future.  Stay on your feet, keep your wits about you and soldier on.

A Ramble

Of late, I am trying hard not to spend to much time watching the goings-on being perpetrated in the name of the American People. It isn't really working.

I seem to have a taste for watching and reading history.  Lately, the headline news from trusted sources seems to have been quite selective in the coverage of the world.  Where they once at least pretended to give us information (Yes, I remember Walter Cronkite, Huntley/Brinkley, and McNeil/Lehrer), we now get a sanitized and self-serving pablum of pre-digested pap that services the goals of the corporations that control the news services.

So you go off hunting.  Try and find sources of information that aren't too slanted or biased.  Hard to do, and you have to spend a lot of time on the threshing floor.  Separating wheat from chaff has always involved hard work and application of energy.

I don't know what is going on.  I have assigned in my own little head a set of probabilities.  I am hoping to raise the level of certainty for the key propositions up to >80%, but this will be a serious task considering the quality of the data that I have as my starting points. 

Mailing this one in

I am finding it hard to decide how to keep this thing going.  The Blogger interface is annoying, and when I send stuff, it just never looks all that good.

So I have to calibrate my expectations.  This is an experiment with posting using the e-mail feature.

Wonder how it will look​

effing funny

Ophiuchus: Nov. 29 - Dec. 17

I admit it, when I am bored, I read my horoscope.  Don't put a single bit of credence into what is says, but it is always fun

I am no longer a Sagittarius. 

I wonder what my new personal characteristics are....gotta get working on this, get ahead of the curve