Georgia hand recount ordered by Trump people in line with Democrats' push for 2 Senate Seats

 

Gee, I couldn't believe it.  The Georgia recount for President is to be done by laborious hand labor.

You may know that there's a Democratic team appointed to live in Georgia till the run-off in January for the two Senate seats from Georgia.  I think this is a golden opportunity for the Democrats to learn first-hand what's on the minds of voters in Georgia right now.  The meticulous procedures to be followed in the hand recount should let analysts know the Georgian psyche pretty well, i.e., what the voter is wanting at this moment in history!

And, with that insider information, the Democrats should be able to put together the two campaigns for the January elections designed just to meet Georgian requirements for motivating to vote Democratic!

That the Democrats have gotten this far as to force a run-off for both Senate seats from Georgia indicates the Black caucus in Georgia is doing a phenomenal job to date.

My WHACK-O Theory!. 

         

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A health aide? Those over 80's best friend!

 I've had a health aide program in the DC area for under 3 months, but I can already verify positive results!

After talking with one of my doctors, who's on the medical faculty of George Washington University, I will paraphrase her words to me as a summary of my enthusiastic endorsement of this program:  "It's ended the isolation for you that older people feel once no longer in the thick of life's busy things to achieve." 

God bless!  

P.S.  I also find that I've returned to habits I developed during the more productive time in my life--with the addition of a health aide to keep me in active fit.

 

President Trump pushing for a fight with Iran?

Surely, this is a hoax and not an ounce of truth to it!

But I hear through friends in the military that there were even planes in the air on their way to where Iran is located, when a brave general insisted the fighter planes turn around and come back!  This can't be true. 

It's just a rumor--HUSH, HUSH, WINK--Trump would never want to pick a fight with Iran or any other country he admittedly hates! 

It's WHACK-O!

What was President Trump's Reason for the Trade War?

After following the Administration's rationale for not joining the TPP, I can only conclude that Trump had in mind to establish a competitive trade organization in Asia of his own founding.

That China had done the legwork among Asian countries during years of trading in the region added weight to my surmise.

But the key to verifying this theory is when the Secretary of the Army claimed at a Brookings Institution meeting recently (as I understood him to say) that he would be visiting Asian countries to encourage them to establish trading relations with the US on some on-going basis--a sort of TPP thing.

But this only underscores the basic problem the US has been having in dealing in trade among world leaders the past four years of Trump's Presidency:  he doesn't work with other countries, but tells them his proposals, if they are to work with him, instead.  The relationship of the US to our Asian friends he has set as leader to follower, not the US as one of trading partners among Asian traders--no matter through WTO or TPP or any organization that Trump may want to form with Asian countries who are willing to accept his offer of becoming a 'partner.'

Indeed, I think he is trying to make his administration an obstacle to trade with China, preferring not to iron out a trade agreement (except in agriculture where our farmers are hurting), so as to strengthen an argument that US companies should stay at home.  Yet, just because China has an already thriving trade with other Asian countries, many large American companies are still working with the Chinese government so as take advantage of  China's connections for establishing a sound footing in Asia and retaining their Chinese manufacturing operations.

 

      

UN Meeting on Current Crisis of food shortages in Africa

 For the next 3 days, I understand, Nigeria is the host to a conference on the current crisis across Africa because of starvation and malnutrition.  This crisis is the direct result of climate change's affect on agriculture: an invasion of locusts destroying crops in the east, draught overtaking lands used for farming, as well as flooding of crops occurring in the lower plains.  Add to these woes is the incursion of the pandemic the whole world is suffering from.  

I listened to a BBC newscast last night which claimed the African Union is not doing a good enough job in distributing food relief.  At least, maybe some good ideas for locating and distributing food quickly will emerge from this Nigerian conference.

The US Worker's Fight for his own self-respect: a step forward

 CNN's Jake Tapper threw out the possibility that Senator Sanders may take the job of Secretary of Labor should Biden win.  It's a great idea!

For lo these many years--70 years just about--the American worker has been neglected, robbed of his own self-respect for doing an excellent job!  Reason?  Make way for the computer to work alongside him or her.  And now, AI technology is making its mark in American industry, too.  Oh, yes, the worker was told here and in Japan and elsewhere that the computer has taken hold, that as a result of his patience, the goods he buys--mostly from China--he now buys for less; and American companies must have to eat the fact that goods sold in America became cheaper due to competition from abroad.

Well, Trump is engaged in a trade war with China to make prices more competitive for the consumer.  His war is hurting both American and Chinese corporations, while upping the coffers of the government, I contend.  Specifically, no benefit to the worker in his wages or K401 savings.

What is needed--the new Secretary of Labor find and make use of a labor union model from abroad that clearly demonstrates that the worker is receiving the respect he rightfully deserves there; yet has been denied him in the US corporate world here where he works.  I suggest the German labor unions as a model; I've seen them fight for labor rights and win big!  The labor unions in the US government do pretty well, too.

Bernie, I hope you sound off big--should you decide to take it.

  

    

What could be the use of a tilt-rotor go-up-and-down-and-sideways helicopter?

Let your imagination ponder the scene.  I did after the Brookings Institution discussion of the Bell version

on last Thursday.

The helicopter takes off from an aircraft carrier 1500 miles away--practically, noiseless in flight.  Nearing the intending target area, it zooms in a spurt to nearly 500 miles per hour then switches to down-up power and lands without a peep from anybody around it.

The door opens and out into the night go 20 Navy Seals, surround a farmhouse, then 2 enter to do their business before the local police rouse themselves to their vehicles.  One man from within was taken them back into the helicopter.  But before returning from whence they come, they leave a calling card for the police by bombing the place.

Mission accomplished:  just another obliteration of a Fascist cell operating from the woodlands in southern Germany--a relic of Nazism, now no more.

Whole itinerary: in 120 minutes performed by a NATO team!