US Politics:

Whether or not US Prez Donald Trump gets re-elected depends on the degree to which the US electorate is satisfied that he has successfully drained the government swamp.

A non-politician, Trump managed to wedge his way into the political loop in Washington last election and lost no time re-scrambling things to different standards. It was a short-cut into politics seldom seen and the left-wing media was apoplectic..

We will have to wait until the votes are counted to see if a majority of the US electorate are happy with what he did. Whether Hillary Clinton's Deplorables are still around to once more cast their ballots in favor of Trump will show itself.

Who wins may be as simple as the number of voters casting their ballots for opportunity vs: those voting for handouts.

Strange Priorities:

How the Covid 19 infection is presented in the media hardly makes sense.

Every day we are told how many new infections have been recorded, but no word as to how many of these have wound up in the hospital. You have to pay close attention to catch how many people have actually died.

Since nearly all of these infections appear to be no more serious than a slight fever, cough or a sniffle, what's the panic?

For this, the municipal authorities have allowed local industry to wilt and unemployment to spin out of control. They have bought media hype and allowed small businesses to be reduced to the brink of bankruptcy. 

They say it's to halt the pandemic. 

What pandemic? Infections are not a pandemic. There are probably more deaths in the making due to lock-down boredom and domestic friction.

Let's be honest. Modern medicine does not actually know how to cope with Covid 19.

Rights Abuse:

 The news item re the pickup trucker being sued for laying skid marks on a LGBTQ rainbow painted on a local street needs analysis.

Painting a marker on public property by a special interest gang might be considered a provocation. Not everyone would agree that it represents the public interests. Some residents of the community may be wondering who allowed it.

Apparently, the driver of the pickup truck was provoked to do his own thing, too.

The special interest group that painted it are in the process of having him charged.

Obviously, this lawsuit is about one provocation being more important than another.

If the presiding judge does not assign court costs to the people who started it, a golden opportunity for justice will have been lost.

Nobody ought to have more right than anyone else to deface public property while promoting their own cause.

Presidential Concern:

 Media concern as to whether the Trumps will survive the Covid 19 infection are silly.

Their chances of not making it are less than one chance in a thousand.

I'm nearing the end of my 9th decade and I feel confident that the corona virus would have to really put in a day's struggle to gain the upper hand in my personal ecosystem.

Young Trump, only in his 70s, should have no trouble at all.

School Daze:

 Covid 19 has scrambled educational procedures, giving kids options on how they are going to continue their learning.

Not to worry. My own experience with the system tells me that those who intend to get educated will get educated.

There are no guarantees in what part formal schooling plays in a successful life. Nor is the definition of formal schooling the same at all levels. 

Take, for example, the case where a young man arrived in Canada with $200 and a certificate in Tool & Die Making in his pocket. He hoped to use that to make a living here.

That guy with papers for an obscure (in north America) trade was Frank Stronach.

For the Millennials, Frank Stronach can be Googled. Or simply Google Magna International.

It would be interesting to speculate on what would have happened to Frank Stronach if he had tried to get his education in Canada. Would he have been streamed into the non-existent trades section of the curriculum as he had in Austria where, it appears, the trades are taken and taught seriously?

Or, with attention to no child be left behind, would he have been offered a dumbed-down system of studies and streamed into an arts program where he might have eventually qualified to teach underwater basket weaving or drama?

Interesting thought.

Sustained Panic:

 Top health gurus and electronic media appear to keep stirring the Covid 19 cauldron for as long as they can. 

It's the hypothetical Second Wave they're concerned with right now. And after that, no doubt the Third Wave.

Actual casualties from The First wave have averaged out to a very mild fraction of a single percentage point among the infected, nearly exclusively among vulnerable elders. 

Still, our top health guru makes a big deal of continuing lockdowns and regulations while we wait for that ever elusive vaccine. 

No vaccine is available. Every lab is said to be working furiously to produce something they can market that's unlikely to kill us.

If these experts have their way, they will soon make it illegal for anyone to refuse their flu shots. 

How to Create Prejudice:

 Normally, most of us do not sit around thinking about the color of the skin of our friends and neighbors. 

Not until someone makes an issue of it.

It is brought to our attention almost daily by those protesters rioting in the streets every time someone gets hurt resisting arrest while committing an offense..

Those riots are claimed to be about gaining racial equality. They are not. There is no such thing as racial equality. Equality is individual. It's only for those who personally qualify. Nobody has ever gained equality by joining a gang. The only equality thus gained is with the other losers in that gang. 

Those rioters are looking to have it handed to them instead of working for it like everyone else. Their aim appears to be to gain easy access to preferential positions without actually qualifying. 

We are not hearing from the smartest or most dedicated among them. We are hearing from the lowest common denominator. That includes the loudest and most aggressive activists. They are the ones we see and hear as the electronic media sticks a mike and camera lens in their faces for news filler material..