Sunday, August 07, 2016
Tuesday, August 02, 2016
Getting lost on the elevator
As the elevator doors open, two tween girls exit and run off. I walk into the car with Towbzilla. The lady, her son and dog follow. We both choose the same floor near the top. As the elevator doors began to close, the two tweens re-enter the elevator. They announce they got off on the wrong floor, for some obnoxious reason. The lady and I don't say anything as the elevator doors are finally allowed to shut. Now, for some reason, this elevator is rigged so that if the doors are held open for too long, when the doors are finally allowed to shut, they give off one long buzz while the doors shut at an extra slow speed. So, let me just buzz to simulate that annoyance: "buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" OK, the doors finally shut and the elevator starts to move upward.
The elevator stops at the 2nd floor. The doors open. No one enters and no one exits. The tweens giggle while one of them explains how they keep getting out on the wrong floor. As the doors shut again, I lean over and point to the buttons, saying "Ya'no, you generally use these buttons to choose floors on which you actually wish to exit." The lady, who was bent over tending to her excited dog looks up at me with a big grin and chuckling. As funny as that was, this comment unfortunately triggers the girls to go into several excuses about why they kept picking the wrong floors, including something about them just moving-in to the apartment complex, then something about some other girl that was apparently lost on the elevator just minutes before, and a story about them going to the wrong apartment earlier in the day.
The lady cordially responds with a reconciliatory comment about how her son (the same in the elevator with us) once entered the wrong apartment on the wrong floor by walking in an older Chinese gentlemen. I'm sure her son was thinking to himself "Thanks Mom!".
The tweens finally find their floor. This allows the elevator to move upward unencumbered by any further wrong floor choices. The lady, her son and dog exit on the same floor as I. Toebzilla keeps his composure the whole ride up, despite the giggly tweens, multiple stops and the excited dog. The lady and I cordially excuse ourselves with a couple of "take-cares".
I reward Toebzilla for behaving, and our remaining walk back to the apartment was uneventful.
Monday, August 01, 2016
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Friday, July 29, 2016
Trouble with Wikileaks emails from DNC: as far as I can tell, no "election manipulation" is actually in the emails
You know what I've seen no one do? Look through the emails and talk about any actual evidence of election manipulation. I've seen journalist use rather dicey innuendo regarding email content, but not much else.
Most of emails are just reports. What conversations I've seen are just people expressing their opinions and/or making strategies in support of those opinions and desires (like how best to get certain points across to their constituents). I've not seen anyone showing anything from the emails about rigging the primaries.
The party insiders are supposed to be neutral by their own party rules, but I don't really care about DNC or any party's rules. I'm not a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Greenie, etc. Even if I were, I still wouldn't care because I understand that people are people. We Americans all have the rights to our own opinions, and the rights to pursue our own interests. What would've suprized me? Seeing every person in the DNC expressing complete neutrality regarding who is going to represent their party in the General Election.
The DNC rules aren't laws of the land. The only person that needs to be upset, maybe, is Sanders since he was working under one set of rules, and others where not. In the end, it still just people expressing their opinions and trying to work towards goals they feel are best for their interests. None of this has anything to do with me, and none of this is in anyway a "manipulation" of elections.
If someone can dig up something that shows election rigging, then we have a story, as well as an actual crime. Maybe it is buried somewhere deep in the emails. I've not see it. I'd be interested to see if something like that pops up. The fact that no journalist have dug it up suggests that it's just not there.
At this point, after looking through the emails myself, I'm forming the opinion that anyone that uses the terms "manipulate" or "rigged" in reference to the primary elections based on these emails is being dishonest or honestly doesn't know what they are talking about (which is still a form of dishonesty).
I'm also now of the opinion that Julian Assange, who has made several incendiary statements regarding the content of these emails, is full of nonsense. What little good he did in the distant past is now been cancelled out by his modern behavior.
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