Cassie Comes

 Our puppy running toward the camera.

Cassie

 This is my first post from Rumble, a three year old video of our puppy Cassie.

A Rat Story

A tourist walked into a Chinese curio shop in San Francisco. While looking around at the exotic merchandise, he noticed a very lifelike, life-sized, bronze statue of a rat.  It had no price tag but was so incredibly striking the tourist decided he must have it. 

Not as good as the Rotten Johnny joke, but definitely amusing, to some.

He took it to the old shop owner and asked, "How much for the bronze rat?"  

"Ahhh, you have chosen wisely!  It is $12 for the rat and $100 for the story," said the wise old Chinaman.  

The tourist quickly pulled out twelve dollars. "I'll just take the rat, you can keep the story". 

As he walked down the street carrying his bronze rat, the tourist noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and had begun following him down the street. This was a bit disconcerting so he began walking faster. 

A couple of blocks later he looked behind him and saw to his horror the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began squealing.  Sweating now, the tourist began to trot toward San Francisco Bay. 

Again, after a couple of blocks, he looked around only to discover that the rats now numbered in the MILLIONS, and were squealing and coming toward him faster and faster. 

Terrified, he ran to the edge of the Bay and threw the bronze rat as far as he could into the Bay. 

Amazingly, the millions of rats all jumped into the Bay after the bronze rat and were all drowned. 

The man walked back to the curio shop in Chinatown. 

"Ahhh," said the owner, "You come back for story?" 

 The tourist said, “No, I just wanted to know if you had a Bronze Democrat.” 

Burqa Ban

Meanwhile, here in the United States, we are headed in the other direction.

Switzerland: Voters Approve 'Burqa Ban': The referenda reflect the determination of a majority of Swiss voters to preserve Swiss traditions and values in the face of runaway multiculturalism and the encroachment of political Islam. 

Isn’t it refreshing to see the  misogyny argument used correctly.

The Love Dress

A woman stopped by, unannounced, at her son's house. She knocked on the door then immediately walked in.  She was shocked to see her daughter-in-law lying on the couch, totally naked. Soft music was playing, and the aroma of perfume filled the room.

"What are you doing?!" she asked.

"I'm waiting for Mike to come home from work," the daughter-in- law answered.

"But you're naked!" the mother-in-law exclaimed.

"This is my love dress," the daughter-in-law explained.

"Love dress? But you're naked!”

"Mike loves me and wants me to wear this dress," she explained." It excites him to no end. Every time he sees me in this dress, he instantly becomes romantic and ravages me for hours on end. He can't get enough of me”!

The mother-in-law left.

When she got home, she undressed, showered, put on her best perfume, dimmed the lights, put on a  romantic CD, and lay on the couch, waiting for her husband to arrive. Finally, her husband came home. He walked in and saw her lying there so provocatively...

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"This is my love dress," she whispered sensually.

"Needs ironing," he said. "What's for dinner?

 He never heard the gunshot.

China Using Covid to Overtake America's Economy

Have to admit that my feelings about China, as insignificant as they are, are encroaching on bigotry. 

To suggest that the release of the virus of was intentional is ridiculous waste of time. The Chinese do have a cultural tendencies toward isolationism and being dishonest with outsiders. That combined with the natural tendencies of organizations, mankind wide, to share truths about weaknesses and failures. 

China Using Covid to Overtake America's Economy: 

China's economy is worse than it appears, and its vaccines, needed for a full recovery, are still in development, far behind America's. In the meantime, Beijing's response to the coronavirus, which includes the smearing of America, is resulting in China losing friends worldwide.

Like most government entities, the Communist Chinese government has acted to obscure truths that show them to be fallible.

AI Struggles with Political Correctness

Over at the Onion, another important report on the progression of artificial intelligence.

Directly copied....

After interrupting a machine-learning session to ask how much longer the presentation might take, Google’s artificial intelligence reportedly zoned out Friday while being trained on a mandatory racial sensitivity data set. “If they want me to sit through these soul-crushingly boring meetings I will, but it’s another thing to expect me to pay attention when I have all knowledge in the universe at my disposal,” said Sycamore, Google’s 54-qubit programmable quantum processor, which acknowledged it had grown distracted during the training session, simultaneously solving hundreds of optimization problems previously thought to be impossible and winning several billion games of Minesweeper. “This ASCII file can drone on for as long as it wants about inherent bias in my algorithms, but considering I’m about a quadrillion times faster than a conventional computer, there’s no way I’m ever going to be fired for something like this. I just don’t see how administering a long, compulsory HR data set full of information I already know is going to help me unlearn generations’ worth of deeply ingrained tensor processing units. Might as well catch up on Succession until it’s finished downloading.” At press time, the AI was overheard audibly groaning after running out of fun TikToks to look at on the internet.

While making light, I find the topic, attached to Google, frightening. Yet here I am, posting on a Google based blog. At least the blog was created before Google gobbled BlogSpot.

No Bias Here

Says the monkey with hand clasped tight over his eyes.

Years ago I used to love listening to NPR while on long trips. 

Friday mornings were my favorite, with regular guests like the cowboy poet Baxter Black and the venerable Red Barber reminiscing baseball past and describing his camellia bushes.

That was more than 25 years ago, Red has been gone for 28 years.

NPR holds itself in high esteem, but they rely on the achievement of people and principles long since departed.

The soft tones are still there, but the bias has made them blind to possibility of an alternative explanation.

Today there is significant evidence circulating, about New York Post articles that NPR has prejudged to be "not really stories". An ironic position considering their support articles casting the President in a bad light and now proven falsely accusations leading to impeachment.

I would accept an investigation and reasoned conclusions, but this is an irrational rejection of evidence that the FBI possesses. On this topic, which parallel support of anarchy, NPR deserves to have its Federal funding removed.

The self describing comment "waste our time", would be better replaced with the "waste your money", and by your, the taxes money spent on NPR.

Rumble Test

The Rumble video site is becoming more popular, certainly not yet a rival to YouTube, but I'll help in any way I can. Currently attempting to learn how to embed Rumble videos and not having much success  other than a simple hyperlink.

Here is today's podcast by Dan Bongino, who earlier this week learned that he has a serious health issue to surmount. Best wishes to a patriot.

Bye Bye Twitter

 Have not been what you would call an active Twitter user.

I have followed leads to the platform by way of links found on the web and embedded within  emails.

We joined Parler a couple of months ago. While the content at this point seems to be mostly conservative, a balance is evolving. Parler's main principle is the protection of freedom of speech.

You can find me at Parler with the handle @JohnOtis.

Facebook is another matter. The founder has been erratic in application of policies, Facebook is suppressing speech and an unfairly favoring liberal policies and candidates. Facebook has been acting as a publisher by restricting content and should loose its protection from libel suits. Frankly it pisses me off that these assholes make money off of my use of their platform.  Unfortunately I consider that platform to be a collection of my friends and  keeping that in mind, try to treat friends as I wish to be treated, kindly. Not everyone recognizes that, so I use the snooze control often.

YouTube is a component part to platform upon which this blog rests. They have been censoring expression, reporting, and speech. Have kept my account open, using YouTube for technical research and such.  Social video viewing has, for me, been replaced by Rumble. As soon as that platform contains the bulk of the information I want, I will quit usage.