British Labor Party gets new leadership

The US TV has not had a word about it, but an email reached me from the American Jewish Congress.  It congratulates the new leader of the Labor party, Ken Starmer opon his election.  The old Labor party leader, leftie Jeremy Corbyn, was outspokenly anti-Semitic,  anti-American, and an all around PITA for the Brits and for us.  Good riddance to Corbyn.  Ken Starmer is a new name to me, I never heard of him before, and I have no idea where he is coming from. 
   Surprising that the MSM has said nothing about this fairly serious change in British leadership.

Google is going wild. 1318 page views today.

Used to be blogger would show a few pageviews a day, if that.  Then I had an 800 page view day, a lull abd 1318 pageviews today.  Looks like the Google software weenies messed something up.

There are a lot of brain dead manufacturers out there

Those are the ones who fail to put their company name on their product.  If they had two brain cells firing they would always put their name and Made in USA on everything they make.  It's good for sales.  It's the best advertising they can get.
   We consumers ought to understand that products that are not marked Made in USA are probably made in China.

Why I don’t trust computer models.

A computer model is nothing more than a computer program that computes how something will change over time, Global warming, Corona virus, you name it, is going to work out.  I have written and tested plenty of computer models over a long career in R&D and programming.  When you start programming a computer model, you already have a clear idea of what you want the model to say.  If the model doesn’t say what you want it to say, you start fixing the code.  Work hard enough and the model will say what you want it to say if especially if you are willing to cheat.  One greenie climate change program had a line of code that read “If date younger than 1945 add a few degrees.  If date younger than 1955 add a few more.”  This bit of code came from the Hadley Climate Research Unit (CRU) and created Mann’s “hockey stick” plot of world temperature. 

   Any how a model (or two or other models) predicted massive infection rates of Corona virus world wide.  It is beginning to look like that model’s frightening predictions of infection, need for hospital beds, ventilators, and what ever, are not true, and the Corona virus epidemic is not as bad as the model predicted.  It is still pretty bad, but not as bad as the model predicted.

Mail in balloting is voter fraud.

What with Corona virus keeping everybody indoors, the Democrats are calling for mail in voting.  They figure the massive voter fraud this would cause will help the Democrats.  In this day and age of Xerox machines, PC's with very decent ink jet and laser printers, digital camera's everywhere to photograph any real paperwork (ballots, ID's what ever) needed to vote.  A simple program running on a  PC can crank out authentic looking ballots for every registered voter in the state.  And print address labels, or even envelopes with return addresses up in the left hand corner for them.  Add some stamps,  or go business reply mail, and you can swamp the electoral commissions with truck loads of good looking, but fake  ballots.  God help the voting commission when some one, appearing in person, demands to vote, and the town clerk refuses because the mail in ballot box stuffers have already voted that voter by mail. 
   Far as I am concerned, voters ought to brave the Corona virus infected streets, get to the polls, show their NH drivers licenses to poll workers who know everybody in town by sight,  and fill out an official ballot in a secure voting booth.  And get checked off on the voter rolls one by one. And personally drop their ballot into a ballot box.  Up here we still use antique wooden ballot boxes. 

Trump's daily Corona virus updates preempt Fox News

Used to be Brett Bauer and Britt Hume came on at 6 PM with the news of the day.  Now Trump comes on  a little of 6 PM, and briefs on the virus, zaps obnoxious lefty reporters, and takes hostile questions for about an hour.  Fox news doesn't get a shot at the audience until Trump is finished close to 7 PM.

Season 8 Game of Thrones

Meh.  So far I have watched the first three episodes.  First episode opens with Jaime Lannister on trial at Winterfell, before Sansa Stark and Danaris Targarien, neither of whom like him very much.  Jaime is explaining that although his sister Cercei is reneging on her promise to send troops to defend Winterfell against the invasion of the White Walkers, he feels he must come and join the fight.  After that opening not much else in the episode.  Episode 2 the army of the White Walkers has surrounded Winterfell and far outnumbers the defenders. Everyone knows that battle starts in the morning.  They gather round and do some serious drinking.  Lighting is so bad that I could only identify who was who by listening for distinctive tones of voice.  Best short part, perennial tomboy Arya decides that since she will probably die in battle tomorrow she might as well get laid for the first time this evening.  She hooks up with former king Robert Baratheon’s bastard son, good looking young guy who is into black smithery.  They kiss, clothes come off, and they get into bed.  The scene ends before we can hear any pillow talk between them.  Episode 3 is the actual day of battle and is remarkable for having absolutely no lines of dialog between any characters, for the entire hour long episode.  Attack begins at 0’dark thirty, and the sun never does come up.  It is too dark to figure out what is going on, except for a couple of short scenes of dragons swooping down and doing the flame thrower thing on the enemy.

   Not sure if I have the energy to watch the rest of the season.