Atypical Tuesday Topics

 Why do people buy jeans that are already torn?  I just don't understand this. Do they buy new cars that are already dented and scratched?

Why is everyone more worried about politics in Qatar than they are about the World Cup Games being played there? It's the World Cup, shouldn't it be played at different places around the world? It's not like the poorly named "World Series" that has never been played anywhere but the United States and Canada.

I saw a statistic showing that the United States is the most tattooed nation in the world. At the Waffle House fifty years ago, I worked with a woman named Jackie who had an abundance of tattoos. She also rode with a "club" of bikers. In 1972, she was a one woman freak show. Today, no one would even notice. 

Maybe I am onto something with this tattoo thing. What if the reason that so many kids can't read is that they are spending all of their time trying to understand what their parents have had written all over themselves? Maybe a line of early reading books based on stupid tattoos would help. They could also study foreign languages by learning the alleged Chinese symbols that adorn their parents' bodies. If in fact, they are actually Chinese symbols and/or have any real meaning.

The United States and scores of other countries attended the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. We really showed Hitler how to behave in the world community there, didn't we? Adolf was left with nothing to do but start a Holocaust and a pretty good-sized war.  Qatar trembles at the sight of the American news media approaching.

The Democrats did much better than expected in the 2022 elections. Of course, that was after 26 million newly minted Biden supporters signed up for their $10,000 to $20,000 payoff from the taxpayers. Now these same voters are stunned that this payoff is being held up in federal court. In the old days, we jailed people for giving or taking bribes.

Biden keeps talking about limiting profits by oil companies, but nothing about profits made by universities. Maybe oil companies should change their terminology from "earnings" to "endowments". It works for Harvard. 

Does anyone really care about Brittney Griner doing time in Russia? In the District of Columbia people remain in jail charged with misdemeanors from January 6, 2021. Is Biden going to get them released? Maybe all of the television networks could "educate" Brittney and her supporters by showing "Midnight Express"? Does life imitate art?

HBO will be broadcasting a movie about Nancy Pelosi in December that was filmed by her daughter. I guess that rules out the slightest possibility of bias in this production. Just another thing that makes me grateful that I don't have cable TV.  HBO is paying big money to broadcast home movies of the Pelosi family. As a child, my role in our family was to fake a seizure when we were at anyone's home, and they mentioned showing "home movies". I am grown now; I will just stay away from the TV in December.

How many billions of dollars are we sending to Ukraine this week? How is the war over there going? We don't really know because all of our news is coming from one side. We are starting just like we did in Vietnam. We have "advisors" over there to train Ukrainians how to use the expensive equipment that we are giving them. Given that US missile that landed in Poland recently, we might need to raise that learning curve. There will soon be some kind of "attack" on American forces in the area to justify another massive military buildup. Are we still funding those medical labs in Ukraine that everyone in the media is ignoring? Maybe Fauci is heading over there, and this retirement thing is a fraud. I will have to check in with MSNBC or QAnon.