Maggie's Farm

Bob! We need to talk! Didn't you know that 2+2 could in fact equal 5. Math is a construct of the white patriarchal society. The answer to these silly math and physics questions can be whatever we want them to be. It's not as though human lives depend on science being accurate. Duh! Relax, sit down in your seat as I prepare to take off in the Boeing 77-something as soon as I can figure out what all these dials and knobs mean. Oh1 And don't go near those damned emergency exits...

In my opinion everyone who facilitates the cutting off of breasts or genitals or prescribes puberty blockers of anyone under 18 should go to jail for child abuse. I would also hope that trial lawyers would take these cases on and sue them into bankruptcy.

Unexplained fires continue to destroy food processing centers and other companies associated with the growing, processing and distribution of food. The crazy right wing conspiracy theory for a few years now is that this is terrorism by infiltrators/illegal aliens who came to this country to destroy it. This did seem a little far fetched as the first of hundreds and hundreds of these select fires occurred. But over time as these fires and destruction of Americas food supply continues the "crazy conspiracy theory" seems to make sense. Do a little research, the odds of this many destructive fires on a single industry are astronomical and yet they continue. Meanwhile in unrelated news the FBI goes after parents for speaking at school board meetings and Christians for praying and singing hymns.

From a debate point of view your are absolutely right. That is if your goal is to make points in a debate or shut down the discussion nothing works better than to demand reams of documentation and absolute proof. You got me! I don't even know for sure that some 750 food processing, production and related facilities have burned in America in the last two years. I could sequester myself for a month or so and track down every report and maybe give you an answer that I have total confidence in. I'm not going to do that and you knew that when you responded.

I read a book about Joesph Kennedy some years ago and I remember one story from that book. He went down to Wall Street in early 1929 to look for himself at the crazy stock market. After talking to a number of people and following some leads he decided that it was all a huge bubble and he took his investments out or at least made them more liquid. In the story he goes on to say that this allowed him to invest/buy during the following 12 years and become a multi-millionaire. Yes he did some investigating but mostly he took some advance knowledge that couldn't be proved or disproved and then took action based on that.

Now I know that Joesph Kennedy was actually a crook who made most of his money smuggling in Irish whiskey and forcing bars and restaurants to buy from him so I don't really know if his little story is true or a fiction designed to explain his wealth. But the gist of what he described is good to understand. He paid attention to what was going on around him and acted on it before it was 100% common knowledge (say October 30th 1929) and used it to improve his situation. That's all anyone can do. You can get bogged down in research and self-doubt and analyze it to death or you can go with what you know and take some reasonable and minimal steps to respond to the situation.

Now I understand that doing that won't make it look like you won the debate. I get that. I'm not debating! Take it or leave it. I feel about that as I do about the car with the young fast driver who cuts me off to get to the stop light before me. Yeah you won and when the light turns green you take off again to the next red light and all the time you are feeling good about being in front or in this case winning a debate.

I am paranoid. I have always been paranoid. I don't consider that a fault but rather a feature and 80 years of life has proven that to me. I could make a list of the serious problems I see facing our country that are self inflicted OR made worse because we chose to ignore it. I don't feel at all uncomfortable about raising awareness of issues I see even knowing that some may be inaccurate or incorrect. That's OK, I'll watch and learn and adjust my plan as I learn more. If it turns out that 750 fires in food processing plants is normal and nothing criminal or terroristic is behind it than no harm no foul. But for now it is one more thing to watch closely and not a debate to win or lose on the internet. Time will tell.

" I just refuse to get pulled around by (what I think are) phony or biased news stories"

I absolutely agree with you on that. I have a natural mistrust of anything I read or hear in the news. But at the same time I have a mistrust of the good news and lack of news. I don't (still don't) think flight 800 shot itself down. I don't think Tim Mcveigh acted alone. I don't believe Oswald killed JFK. And I don't think all those Chinese and Muslim illegals coming across our border love America. I think we are in deep shit and that the media and our government actively conspires and hides this from us.

Early on in the Covid pandemic the Chinese were making a lot of strange trips to Italy and New York. At some point this was revealed and documented and then quietly deep sixed. Did China intentionally spread Covid by having some of their people travel to Europe, Canada and the U.S.? We will never know because the MSM and our government is hiding the data.

I believe that tens of thousands of enemies of our country have come across our Southern border and through our airports and are here to sabotage our country. Our infrastructure is at risk. Our electrical grid, water supplies, petroleum refineries, natural resources, military installations, everything is a target. Waiting for irrefutable evidence is a fatal mistake.

So the border bill is "dead". Well, wait and see. I am betting that Biden will issue some executive orders that will effectively accomplish the same things.