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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Points To Ponder

By Rich Kozlovich 

As I sit in my seat in the back row watching the world go by I see comments and events that are profound, provocative, humorous, and even idiotic. But... that's life... and I think worth pondering.   Just a bit anyway. 

Talk show host Larry King once observed what amazes him about UFO's is they never seem to land at the White House.  They land at Laramie, Wyoming.  Thirty miles out, where they're seen by on farmer.   Another post asked if CNN existed in 1967 would they have called the arrest of Charles Manson a police kidnapping of a peaceful protestor?

Elon Musk names his child X Æ A-Xii? Along with three others named, Nevada, Saxon, and get these two names, Exa Dark Sideræl, Techno Mechanicus.  If there was ever any evidence of interstellar aliens on the planet, he's it. And would clearly qualify as their ambassador.  There's something seriously wrong with this guy. As for the women who've married and/or bared his children; they must have a screw loose.

I'm retired, and 79, and just found out a lifelong friend has just passed, which is becoming a common occurrence in my life, and should bring a certain perspective to our lives.  I used to say if you can get someone to pay you to do something you'd do for free, it's not a job. After I retired I realized anything that "required" me to do something ...anything.... it was a job.

We work in order to survive and provide food, clothing, and shelter for our families. Hopefully we will have at some point earned enough to not have to work and get a paycheck. When that happens, and we're getting old, it's time to hang it up and start expanding our horizons, do other things that are enjoyable, enjoy time with the family, especially the grand children.

Time is short, so don't waste it on a job, no matter how much you enjoy that job, it's still a job, and takes you away from the really important stuff in life.

 A few years ago Sotheby's announced the auction of a bottle Macallan Adami 1926, a Scotch whisky that spent 60 years aging in sherry casks, and since there were only 40 bottles left in the world, they estimated it might go for 1.5 million dollars.

I've never understood this. The idea of why anyone would spend a million bucks on a bottle of hooch. But once that's done, then, there are three options.

  1. Never open it as an investment, but if you can afford to spend a million bucks on hooch, the investment argument seems weak to me.
  2. Use it to show off. They need a bottle of hooch to make them seem like they're something special?  Remarkable!
  3.  Drink it. But I don't understand how any hooch, no matter the taste, can be worth a million bucks.

Conclusion. They're nuts. 

Kamala Harris says she's not done yet, and she lost the election to Trump because she was playing three dimensional chess during the last election..  Don't ask, I didn't understand that either. She's telling potential donors she's in for the 2028 election.  She wasted over a billion dollars, and even ran up a campaign debt, so for her to believe she's gonna be the 2028 Democrat candidate is evidence her stupidity is only exceeded by her ego and arrogance.  Is there any sane person who actually believes there's any evidence she's smart, competent and a winner?    If so, please share that information with the world... Kamala would appreciate it. 

I can't golf any longer, but I did love the game.  Golf is the greatest game in the world, and is a test of personal character.  Integrity in keeping score is almost sacrosanct, and is not be easily forgiven, at least at the pro level.   I used to play regularly with a group of friends, some of whom cheated.  We knew they cheated, and we didn't much care.  When they would declare their score our group would just look at each other, shake our heads, roll our eyes, and laugh, because we really didn't much care, we just loved being out there.  But we also knew that was a character pattern that plays out in real life also.  Golf brings out the character in people. 

Secretary of Defense Hegseth is purging the military of a lot of high ranking officers who support all the leftist nonsense that's destroying the military.  When you see this kind of stuff you have to wonder how does someone that stupid become a high ranking officer.

Well, I have the answer.

About 15 years ago while in Washington on my industry's trade association legislative day one of my companions, who had been a graduate of the Air Force Academy many years back, told us one of the dumbest guys in his class made the Air Force a career was now a two star general.  I can say honestly from my personal experience in the service, butt kissing and brown nosing is far more important than smarts when it comes to promotions in the military.

The fact is the two groups everyone assumes are real leaders, aren't. If a junior military officers tells the higher ranks they're all wrong and can prove it, I'll show you an career junior officer.  Show me a Ph.D. candidate telling the Ph.D's. during his oral dissertations they're views are all wrong, and proves it, and I will show you a career Masters degree academic.

They learn very early on they have to go along to get along to get what they want, until that pattern of thinking becomes intrinsic to their character, removing any vestige of a backbone. 

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