Today, I took a fifty-mile round trip drive to learn that my Primary Care Physician, whom I have been going to for forty years, is off sick. I should have called first, but I thought he would have someone covering for him. No such luck. His cover is off on vacation. So, I decided to turn the lemon into lemonade by listening to Dan Bongino while driving.
When I arrived home I began researching Doctors. I found one in Mokena, the town bordering Frankfort and about 4 miles away. The appointment is one week out, but I’ll tough out the shoulder pain until then. I’ve had this mysterious ache for eight weeks now, and I think I can live with it for another week before I get it checked out. In the meantime, I’ll have to send my ailing doctor a thank you note to tell him how grateful I am to have had him take care of me over all of the years.
Meanwhile, As I listened to Bongino he verified my theory that Obama is running the country. Biden is too stupid to have all these left wing policies on his own, So the BIG O has been feeding them into his former operatives who now call Biden boss. In other words Obama who was never born in the USA, and not entitled to be president is now running behind the scenes in a third term. Bongino commented that Obama was politically smarter than Biden and was afraid to push radical left ideas too far under his presidency, but under Biden he can blame it all on Biden and Trump and succeed in demolishing our Republic.
Winter in Northern Illinois is predictable but also variable. The temperatures have been relatively mild for the past few weeks, hovering in the thirties. Then, we experienced a sudden temperature change upward into the sixties, and this week, we enjoyed three days in the seventies. Today, we are back into the twenties to low thirties, and not liking it one bit. Suddenly the winter coats are feeling too light. Why is it that after acclimating to winter temps which then flare into the seventies that we lose our winter hardened bodies and immediately hate the cold? It never ceases to amaze me at how these rapid temperature changes make me despise cold weather, and yearn for life in a southern state.
On a different topic but on the same theme my lovely wife, whom I often call Lovely, whipped me into driving her to the drug store to pick up a prescription that her doctor ordered for her this morning during a phone call. She couldn’t nor wouldn’t understand my argument the the pills are not available yet because I hadn’t gotten a text message telling me to pick the prescription up. I’ve learned over the years that arguments of this kind are not worth the effort, and drove her to the drug store immediately. The druggist had no record or notification of a new prescription. We came home and went for a walk in the cold chilly 29 degree day with a 16-20 mph wind. It was brisk to say the least.
I recall the time not too many years ago when getting a drug from a doctor required a visit to his office and sometimes waiting for hours to get a handwritten scrip, then having to carry that scrip to a druggist and wait in line for him to accept it and tell you what day he would have it ready for you. How quickly we forgot those days! Now, we are setting a new bar for speed by calling doctors instead of making visits, who then enters the order for the drug online and directs it to the pharmacy of your choice. Lovely actually expected the pills to be waiting for her by the time we got there. It was only twenty minutes from the time she spoke to the doctor to the time we showed up at the Pharmacy. The next step will be tele-transportation of the pills from the druggist to our home.
We don’t realize it but speed is slowly creeping into every aspect of our lives and making us dependent. The one factor that we can’t always count on is the human element that remaiins in the process. Data moves at the speed of light once it is input and sent, but the human element of data entry, quality control checks, etcetera are all human controlled and we move more like the speed of snails and not like the speed of electrons. How quickly we forget what the processes of life were like as compared to what they are today.
This whole speed thing makes me wonder how men are evolving and adapting. How are our brains and bodies changing to keep up with the need for speed?
How many thoughts does a person have during one day?
Google says:
Every day, our minds are flooded with a constant stream of thoughts, ranging from mundane daily tasks to deeper contemplations about life and the world around us. According to research, the average person has approximately 60,000 thoughts per day.
Thatquestion is currently on my mind, but why? I have no clue why, but it occurs to me that with 8 billion people on planet Earth, there is a lot of thinking going on. Imagine if this thing called Artificial Intelligence (AI) could harness all the thinking going on worldwide. Would the genie in the computer be able to bring about world peace? Or cure all sicknesses? Indeed, that would be a dream come true. Perhaps someday we will build a computer with enough memory to accomplish feats like the ones mentioned. What if scientists discovered a way to link all human brains together to preclude the need to build a computer large enough to hold all the thoughts in the world? That might be easier to accomplish than trying to make something that is mechanical into which every human’s brain content could be transferred. Think about the loss of thought that would occur the day after the first brain dump occurred, and today humanity has a new set of thoughts.
Maybe the tequila over ice I drank last evening planted this conversation in my mind. Or, perhaps it is the fact that I spent an hour reading about AI yesterday to understand just how and why AI is so dangerous. Actually, what I learned is that AI will not take over the world by itself like a god but will be used as a tool to help people do their jobs. As I write this, I am using AI in the form of Grammarly to correct my lousy punctuation and grammar. What I am learning is that Grammarly has a writing style that is unlike my own, and I don’t like the changes it suggests about seventy percent of the time. I like to use extra words using my street vocabulary to inject my personality into a piece, but AI chooses to eliminate many of my adjectives for the purpose of making the writing clearer.
Eventually, AI will indeed take over the world and cause many people pain, just as every social revolution has in the past. People will lose their current jobs and will need to adapt to make a living. Or, they will beg and plead with the government to throw them a safety net in some form of a handout to save them from looking for new work. It isn’t going to be pretty, and I am glad it will not affect me. I will, however, be affected by the suffering I will see. As a Lion, it will afford me many new opportunities to serve my community. For every negative, there is a positive. Will we be smart enough to identify the opportunities, or will we need AI to do it for us? And if we do have to use AI to find the opportunities, so what? Isn’t that why AI has been invented in the first place?
Yesterday, I posted an article critical on Joe Biden and the Special Counsel who released his report on Biden’s handling of “Confidential Material.” I didn’t like that the Counsel let Old Joe off the Hook for breaking the law in a country predicated on the Rule of Law. Counsel Hur reported that Biden broke laws by keeping highly classified materials in his homes in unsecured areas. Still, Hur pansy-assed his way out of indicting the president by accusing Joe of being a tired old man who has a poor memory. How do you think tired old Grumpa Joe would fare if the Secret Service caught him in the act of assassinating poor old Joe? After all, Grumpa Joe is several years older than Joe Biden, and his memory is not as good as it used to be. Hell, just this afternoon he found a bowl of tiny dead fish in the refrigerator and asked his step-grandson what they were called. Grumpa Joe couldn’t remember. The name came to him about thirty minutes later; they are called sardines.
My guess is that Grumpa Joe’s sorry old ass would be arrested immediately and thrown into the Hoosegow indefinitely. There would not be a special counsel looking into his motives and proclaiming that he should not be indicted because he is a tired old man with a poor memory.
I criticize the Special Counsel for not indicting poor old Joe Biden, but I praise him for sticking it to him by telling the world in an official report that his mind is not 100 percent and he shouldn’t be running the country anymore. Then I go back to criticizing the Counsel for sticking it to the American people by paving the way for our useless Vice President Kamala Harris to take over. We are screwed from two directions.
“What a revoltin’ development this is!” (William Bendix from “The LIfe of Riley” radio program.)
Today, the special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland issued his report on President Biden’s handling of classified materials. In my professional opinion, as a certified voting citizen of this country, I proclaim Garland’s conclusions to be classified as bullshit of the highest caliber.
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The following excerpt is a headline from the New York Post
“Biden Cleared in Documents Case; Report Raises Concerns About His Memory
The inquiry found that the president had willfully retained material after finishing his term as vice president and had shared sensitive information with a ghostwriter.”
After reading most of this report, it is my conclusion that the Special Counsel didn’t really want to find anything that he could use to indict the President. He makes many remarks that the evidence found would not convince a jury of guilt. My opinion, is that he does not know what a jury will do. He should have reported that the evidence should be presented to the jury for determination. Instead he has poisoned the report with his opinions. The Counsel does make repeated sound observations about Biden’s forgetfulness during interviews.
Earlier, Ms Colleen Long of the AP reported on President Biden. In this article shown below Biden, referring to Trump, wonders how . . . “anyone be so irresponsible?”
BY COLLEEN LONGPublished 8:12 PM CST, September 18, 2022Share
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the discovery of top-secret documents at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate raised concerns that sensitive data was compromised and called it “irresponsible.”
Biden, who rarely does interviews, spoke to CBS’ “60 Minutes” in a segment that aired Sunday. He said that when he heard about classified documents taken from the White House, he wondered how “anyone could be that irresponsible.”
Biden added: “And I thought, what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods?”
Joe Biden is a hypocrite. Above, he attacks his opponent, Donald Trump, by calling him irresponsible regarding securing record storage outside of the White House. Yet the Special Counsel cites incident after incident of Biden violating the Secure Records Act by keeping classified documents unsecured in his several homes, offices, and garages.
It is clear that Biden is not as infirmed memory-wise as the Special Counsel would lead us to believe. In this video he is clearly speaking about his political enemy without pulling any punches. He has enough memory and spunk as an old man to go to battle. The Special Counsel wants us to believe that Joe Biden is an age infirmed old man who has severe memory and cognitive decline. Granted, Joe is slowing down and gets a little confused at times, but he is still in charge as we see daily as we watch the thousands of people crossing over into the USA under his immigration policy.
If Biden were so lost memory-wise, he should be considered incompetent to run the country and step down from office. If he did that, his shadow president, former President Obama, would be exposed and compromised from further interference in leading this country.
This Administration is clearly a shit-show from top to bottom.
