Today (12 August) the Boston Herald is reporting that President Trump "resistors" are planning to reserve seats to his NH rally and then leave the seats empty.  "I want the venue to be at least half empty".

I couldn't help but think even if these juveniles were successful in having the arena half-empty, the crowd would still be much larger than anything the democrats could put together for their clown car of candidates.

Every once in a while I rewatch some of my DVDs.   I've just finished watching "Magnum Force" and also watching one of the special features on the DVD: "A Moral Right:  The Politics of Dirty Harry".  That special feature was produced in 2008. 

It was interesting to hear those interviewed talk about divisions in American society in the early 70's, how the Harry Callahan movies shocked liberals of the time, Clint Eastwood being labelled Facist, etc etc etc.   " people use the word 'Facist' too much, they use the word 'Racist' too much.  ...they just use it as a word sometimes .... and it works because it gets people's attention.  But those words should really mean something.  You shouldn't just throw those words around"

I was struck the similarity to what's happening today.

AP is reporting that Instagram is testing hiding how many "likes" a post receives.  Apparently it hurts peoples feeling when they don't receive as many likes as other people.

good grief.

April 16, 1969.  The launch of Apollo 11.  The first mission that Man walked on the moon.

I was perusing old threads and noted one thread were a poster was adamant that cellphones shouldn't be allowed to work in moving vehicles.  He (she?) didn't seem to understand that there are many valid uses of a cellphone in a moving vehicle (e.g., passengers).

I find it strange that a forum with, presumably, many instrument-rated pilots, so many posters don't understand how people can multi-task.

oh, btw, if you were to look at the NHTSA data for motor vehicle accident rates, and compare accident rates from the time before cellphone to the accident rates once cellphones became ubiquitous, you might be surprised to see that the accident rates remained constant (or dipped slightly) over that time period.

According to an op-ed piece in today's Boston Herald (Michelle Malkin), the ravelry.com operators have declared "every right-winger on the fiber arts forum who supports our commander in chief[sic] is really just a KKK domestic terrorist".  Any support of Donald Trump is banned, even projects or patterns that are deemed to support him in any way.

yet another example of how the left wing have gone over the top.

Single-payer and "free" health-care is all the rage among the far-left.

I can't help but wonder how the far-left would feel about single-payer education.  No more elite schools, one set of rules for everyone, one set of standards for everyone.

Would paying a "professor" $300,000 to teach one course fit in the whole single-payer education system?

Sauce for the goose....

Yesterday I watched a bit on the news about a new cholesterol treatment that is apparently extremely effective at reducing LDL levels into the low double-digits.  With the low LDL levels, the risks of stroke and heart disease is predicted to be significantly reduced.

Note that the projected cost of the drug is $14,000 per year.

For now, let's ignore why the drug is that expensive.

My single-person health insurance costs about $9,000 per year.

A preventative treatment for a relatively common health problem costing more than current insurance plan rates.  Hmmmm, what are the possibly results?

Even more common is the risk of the elderly developing Alzheimer's.  What do we do if the miracle occurs and a cure for Alzheimer's is developed but it costs $50,000 per year?