My TV makes the sound of telephones ringing, electronic gadgets beeping, cats crying, sirens screaming, cars crashing and many more. Each time I hear one of these sounds I stop, listen, and ask my self "Is that sound mine? Is it real? Should I answer my phone?" PITA.
The TV people could help, by relocating their studios to a quieter part of of town so they don't have emergency vehicle sirens drowning out the newsie who is pontificating in front of the camera.
This is being deplored, but I am not sure it is all that bad. There are a lot of good paying jobs for men that don't require a college degree. Truck driver, heavy equipment operator, logger, construction worker, auto mechanic, miner, carpenter, cop, fireman, lineman, soldier, machinist, and many more. Few women want to take those kind of jobs. Women are looking for office jobs with no heavy lifting, where they might snag a good husband. Plus more girls are deeply into academic work. There are a lot of guys who find academic work boring.
Last Arab Israeli go around, the Arabs fired a helova lot of rockets out of Gaza into Israel. Israel's Iron Dome missile system was amazingly effective at shooting down the Arab rockets. Most of the Iron Dome missiles launched, hit their targets in mid air. The Israeli's launched a LOT of Iron Dome missiles. They must be running low.
We were going to give the Israeli's $1 billion to buy or build more Iron Dome missiles. Israel needs those missiles for the next time the Arabs start launching rockets at them. Yesterday the Democrats in Congress killed the Iron Dome replacement missile funding. Good work Pelosi, refusing to fund defensive weapons for our best (only?) ally in the Middle East. A liberal democracy, the only one in the entire area.
Biden recommended everyone get a booster shot. On the other hand, Biden is getting senile, and knows very little about anything of importance. In fact, much of what Biden thinks he knows is wrong. I don’t plan to take Joe Biden’s advice on any medical issue
Anthony Fauci is recommending booster shots. On the other hand Fauci has changed his tune repeatedly over the last year. Why should I think he has got it right this time?
FDA recommended against booster shots, and then changed their tune the next day and recommends booster shots for people over 65. On the other hand FDA is mostly bureaucrats concerned with keeping their jobs. They believe in doing more and more paper work. The few medical doctors in the FDA haven’t treated a live patient since leaving medical school, they just do paperwork.
So who’s advice will I follow? Dr Kevin Silva, my doctor who I have been seeing for many years. He has gotten it right a couple of times over the years. I will wait a bit, to give the information (if any) some time to circulate and then ask him if I should get a booster shot. I plan to follow his recommendations.
Ten years ago Boeing won the contract for 180 new air refueling tankers. They have not yet finished delivery on all the planes. Boeing says they have lost $5 billion on this job. There was a hassle over how to wire the aircraft, the Air Force thought they knew more about aircraft wiring than Boeing did. Then there is the rear view TV system. They wanted to seat the boom operator up in the cockpit rather than back in the tail. So they put in a TV system to let the boom operator see to steer the boom into the fuel receptical of the refueling aircraft. The Air Force has complained that the TV system image is not as good as the image you get looking out thru a plain old window. Air Force has been "witholding" $12 million per plane. Boeing has promised an improved TV system, some time in the future.
180 new tankers aparently isn't enough. So, USAF is going thru the whole bidding process, pitting Boeing against Airbus all over again. New specs, new contract, and if Airbus wins, they will furnish their own tanker, based on an Airbus airliner. Speaking as an old USAF maintenance officer, I would much rather have a larger fleet of the same aircraft, than a mixed fleet of half Boeing, half Airbus. The mixed fleet means I have to train my guys on both aircraft and I have to stock different spare parts for both aircraft.
Yesterday the TV said that FDA does not approve of booster shots. Today the TV says that somebody thinks boosters are needed for old folks over 65 like me. I think I will ask my doctor what he recommends rather that taking the TV's word for anything.
General Mark Milley, Chief of Staff, in the news a lot, over Bob Woodward's story about Milley telephoning the Chinese chief of staff and promising to give him a heads up in case Trump was planning an attack on China. Some times he wears the traditional Marine Class A uniform in olive drab. Sometimes he wears a blue Class A uniform, the blue is lighter than Navy blue, and darker than Air Force blue. I am out of touch with uniform regulations now, but I am surprised about two colors for the Class A uniform.
