Keeping the facts straight on Gaza, Climate, Gun Grabbing and Gal Jabbing.
Childhood memories of the Kennedy assassination
Technology is good but could be better
Women are great in the kitchen - as decorators
Putting a mom in jail for doing nothing
Gaza, Cliimate and more
Commentary on trending issues brought to you with a moderate perspective.
Keeping the facts straight on Gaza, Climate, Gun Grabbing and Gal Jabbing.
Childhood memories of the Kennedy assassination
Technology is good but could be better
Women are great in the kitchen - as decorators
Putting a mom in jail for doing nothing
Gaza, Cliimate and more
Commentary on trending issues brought to you with a moderate perspective.
Thanksgiving Misogyny
[00:00:00] On the anniversary of the J-S-J-F-K assassination, we recount what it was like. Provide comments on Gaza protestors, good and bad technology, climate gun control, and misogyny. Today on the 10th man
[00:00:33] Gaza,
[00:00:35] they're asking for a cease fire so that they can provide humanitarian aid. I think the word humanitarian is one that's being overused. That said, what you want to do if you want to provide humanitarian aid to the Gazans is build a cafeteria. Or build lots of cafeterias. And it's important that it's a cafeteria so you'll have a safe corridor so you can get to the cafeteria with the food.
[00:01:05] And basically, you need to give them food without giving them groceries. Give them food, don't give them foodstuffs. Because if you give them foodstuffs, they can take it and squirrel it away and hide it and sell it. And what you want is just like the cafeteria at school or the cafeteria at a military base or a cafeteria in general.
[00:01:35] Or even the the continental breakfast at a hotel. You're generally only supposed to take what you can eat while you're there. And if you take an orange or a banana, that's okay, but you can't take a bunch of oranges. You can't take any more than what you might have eaten in that, in that meal.
[00:01:57] You might recall some of the movies about the prisoners of war I don't know if you, maybe, maybe Hogan's Heroes or better, something like The Dirty, not The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, The Great Escape, and you'll see the characters there where they get their Red Cross packages and they squirrel them away and then they use that to, for trading and to have food if they escape.
[00:02:18] Well, the Germans didn't actually allow that to happen. What they did was, well, I'm German, so technically what I'm talking about is the axis. I have a friend, I have a friend whose father was a prisoner of war. Actually, I have two friends whose fathers were prisoners of war. One was a prisoner of the Italians, an American in the, imprisoned by the Italians, and the other was a German prisoner of war by the Americans, here in the United States, and that's how they came to live here.
[00:02:51] But I'm talking about the one who was imprisoned by the Italians, and when they gave him their food, If they're giving them canned food, they opened all the cans. They opened all the cans. You're not gonna save any of it. So, open up a safe corridor. Require the Palestinians to give you safe access to where your cafeteria's gonna be.
[00:03:15] And let the people come in and get treated. Or, excuse me, I'm getting ahead of myself. And get, and eat and leave. But they can't take any food with them. Medical care, same thing. Actually, everything is the same thing. Don't give them things that they can take with them. Give them the immediate necessities that are required, and no more.
[00:03:39] And make them provide the safe corridor. And if Hamas won't do it, then pass out guns. Pass out guns. And? Because guns are remarkable tools for ensuring equality, the Gazan citizens can help provide safe access to the cafeteria.
[00:04:05] There are a lot of protesters protesting against Israel. I wonder why they are so sympathetic to Palestine and so unsympathetic to, to the hostages. A year or so ago, when Brittany Griner was being held by the Russians, Brittany Griner being an adult who traveled to Russia voluntarily, and who arguably made a mistake ending up in custody.
[00:04:35] Compared to a child who is in the case of the three year old American child, got, got to watch her parents be murdered, then be hauled off to, to Gaza. And yet people can't seem to find any sympathy for her people on one side of this discussion. Anyway,
[00:04:58] there was a protester in New York city. A leader, a an outspoken, an outspoken pro Gaza, pro terrorists, pro genocide, et cetera, pro war crimes, gentlemen. And he encountered a woman who yelled at him and threw her hot coffee on him. And he had a, had had phone footage of it, so naturally phone footage makes you guilty.
[00:05:25] Whoever starts filming first, wins in that situation. So, she was arrested, charged with a felony, and here's where she went wrong. Rather than throw her coffee on him, she should have killed him, cut off his head, made a videotape of the whole event, and kidnapped the child. Maybe then... the Gaza protesters would be on her side.
[00:05:53] Because that seems to be how that works.
[00:05:58] In 1963, this time, I was in the fourth grade, and the day... President Kennedy was killed. We had just come back to school, my siblings and I. Our grandmother had just died, our first experience with death in the family. And it was a normal day for us at school. Because they didn't tell us, the school decided to let our parents tell us what had happened.
[00:06:28] And so when school got out at I think it was three o'clock, we were on the bus riding home. And we were split up, two kids in one school, two kids in the other. So, I was riding on the school bus with my little brother. And I noticed a little bit of a, not a scuffle, not a scuffle, not a physical one, an argument.
[00:06:48] And the big kids, we were the big kids. We had fourth grade on down on the school bus. We're Arguing with my little brother, as we rode from the elementary school, we rode , past the high school. And he said, see, that's why the flag's half staff. And I'm not sure he is pretty smart for a, for a second grader.
[00:07:09] Cause the schools, the flag was already at half staff at the high school. And he had been telling the other kids that. President Kennedy was shot and, and they were telling him he, he was wrong because they didn't know anything about it. So I was talking with him the other day and he said, yeah, another, a boy who had been told, not sure how he knew, but came by and told them.
[00:07:32] So we went and we got off the bus and we lived out in the, kind of in the country. know how the urban sprawl is, lived in a Small city, I guess we, we'd call it, we lived in a small city, a new school district, which was mostly rural at the time, so we lived on a dirt road at the edge of the old, old highway, the old state highway, and got off the bus just as our mother was going to work, to work the second shift at a factory job, and she came driving by, I remember she had her coat on, driving the old Two tone green, 55 Mercury, that we called the clunker.
[00:08:11] Cars did not last nearly as long back then. So this was a, this was considered an old car then. And she'd been crying. She rolled the windows down and, and just told us to, you know, go home. And she said, she, she told us then for sure that President Kennedy had died. And we went home. And uh, I think we were in school the next day.
[00:08:33] I know we had some time off, but I remember, I remember Larry, one of the kids at school, when we heard that Jack Ruby had been shot, of course, you weren't trying to process all this process. We didn't have that phrase back then. And as false, actually, I'm not sure we were trying to process anything. We didn't know there wasn't anything to process.
[00:08:52] And that'll be one of the points that I make later on that. That being that normal is normal to kids. Kids don't know what's normal. Normal is whatever they experience. So when Jack Ruby was shot, as a nine year old, I wasn't sure whether I didn't know that that was not part of the execution. Took me a while to figure that out.
[00:09:13] And a lot of these things, they weren't explained to us explicitly. Maybe at Larry's house they were. But so he was making a joke out of it. Kennedy got shot. And then the guy that shot Kennedy got shot, and the guy that shot the guy that shot Kennedy was shot, got shot, I don't remember how long he went with it, he was a bit of a clown.
[00:09:32] I didn't see that on television, but in the ensuing days of the funeral, I, I couldn't tell you, anybody could look up how far, how long after the funeral took place. But there's a lot of reporting on it. Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and Walter Cronkite on the news. And the other three things that I remember about it, besides all the talking, was when the funeral took place.
[00:09:56] I remember learning the phrase the caisson. And I remember the horse. With the boots backwards in the stirrup and they kept talking about the funeral cortege so learn those words cortege and caisson and There's a This word is overused but works in this place the iconic photograph of John John Saluting and, so we went back to school, life resumed. A few years later, now we're in junior high, I was anyway. And first... I don't remember the order somewhere in the, in the, ensuing years Malcolm X was assassinated and then Martin Luther King jr and then Bobby Kennedy.
[00:10:43] And I might have those two turned around. And then we had the riots, the Watts riots, and no, this would have been, I say then Watts and Detroit it started in Watts, I remember there were a lot of other places too. Those were in 67, 68 the assassinations, of course the wars in Vietnam started escalating in, I would say, 65.
[00:11:06] And to me, these things were normal and I don't think we, I know, we didn't think, give too much thought to it. That was just how the world was. Moreover, we had no control over it. So, that's just what it was. And at some point we'll have to contrast that with the people in Generation Z, Gen Z, constantly complaining, sense of entitlement, and the irony of their preaching to us.
[00:11:34] When, on average, their generation is the ones that are the losers. Okay. Climate. U. S. CO2 emissions have gone down 12 percent since 2010. Hmm. Meanwhile, they keep going up in China and India. The news report that said this, in one breath they say we went down and it's going up in China and India. But China is an exporting economy. Heh, they're exporting? Well, pretty sure what we're being blamed for, all the all the CO2 emissions past years,
[00:12:18] those were all done by an exporting economy. Everybody else gets an excuse. U. S. has to save the world. Before we leave that, I will have to say there are probably other countries that have reduced more in terms of And a careful analysis would have to be done to say who's really doing more in terms of where they started, where they go, and how hard it is to do.
[00:12:50] Countries with an abundance of hydroelectric power, for example, might be easier for them to shift. Countries like ours, it's easy for us to shift from coal to natural gas. And so on and so forth. In terms of absolute tons of CO2 being reduced. Yeah, we've re we've reduced more tons than probably the next four nations put together, something like that.
[00:13:17] Florida is going to be affected by intense rains as a result of climate change. One of the biggest problems with the climate change religion is they're making claims that this is the right amount of climate of climate. This is the correct climate we've decided and
[00:13:41] we want the amount of rain Florida's getting right now to stay the same.
[00:13:46] It could be that That as man does something in one area, nature compensates in another area. And it might not be, and in this case, for example, Florida actually needs rain. The Everglades don't have enough water in them. The Everglades is a giant grass filled river.
[00:14:11] Water flows from north to south. There needs to be water so that it stays fresh and is not affected, and it's not made salty by intrusion. The water has to be ever flowing outward. And it's crisscrossed with canals which have interrupted that water flow. And we've extracted ground water such that there are sinkholes.
[00:14:31] There are giant sinkholes. There's places where I've gone to visit people, and one of the sinkholes was on national TV. Yeah, it's huge. House disappeared into it with a guy
[00:14:44] Sinkholes are caused by pumping water out. So bring on the rain. Just bring it on
[00:14:52] Gun control Mother of a six year old who shot a teacher was sentenced to 21 months 21 21 months in jail The funny thing is that it's not that hard to keep a gun from a six year old's hands. And this little guy actually shot somebody.
[00:15:15] She got 21 months, but the Crumleys have been in jail for 24 months already. Without a trial. And their crime is, their crime is that their child got into a locked uh, It'll all come out in the trial. What's been, the sparse newspaper reporting is that they say it was hidden in a locked drawer. Hidden in a locked drawer.
[00:15:41] And I would maintain that you can't keep anything from a teenager in your house. Teenagers have been getting stuff from their parents all the time. And he lives there. He lives there for crying out loud.
[00:15:54] So, 24 months, teenager. 21 months, six year old. Lori Lightfoot, former mayor of Chicago. I recommend you go on YouTube and do a search on ride along with Chicago cop, and you'll find about an hour long video there and right in the middle.
[00:16:19] He talks about the security detail that the mayors have, and he talks about how Daley started it, and it started out with X numbers, went up to, it started out with 24, went down to 16, went up again. Anyway, at one point in time it had 16 members. Lori Lightfoot. Change it from 16 to 126. 126 people. There's always two cars in front of her house. There's a a backup, like an armored vehicle, parked a few blocks away. Wherever she went, she had an entourage. Then there was one car of cops to make sure the entourage wasn't being followed.
[00:17:03] It's just ridiculous. So, you just want to know how many guns there were with her everywhere she went.
[00:17:11] Okay, with it being Thanksgiving, let's talk about how, how men are better. Men are better than women. So we want to show respect to women by giving them the same kind of criticism a man would get. So, at Thanksgiving dinner, and Maybe you'll be lucky you'll hear this after Thanksgiving dinner. Because so it won't be awkward.
[00:17:38] So you can just think back. You can think back. Thanksgiving dinner. Are you going to a restaurant for Thanksgiving dinner? You know, as opposed to going to going to your mother's or hers, where Grandma and all the aunts are, have brought, each brought their specialty and have, lay out a big spread or are you going to a restaurant or are you buying a meal from Trader Joe's or some of these other places that will sell you a Thanksgiving dinner?
[00:18:10] Now, if there's men involved... Now, the men are, they're like buying the bird, going and getting a fresh one that wasn't ever frozen, and they're smoking the turkey, or they're brining the turkey and then roasting it, or they're deep frying it, just, you know taking charge of getting the bird cooked.
[00:18:30] And, you know, all these... shows where they're remodeling the kitchen and the women are picking out stuff that is not at all practical. You know, like putting in a, you know, a hardwood floor inside the kitchen or put the farmhouse sink you can't wash and you can't do anything with them and glass cooktops instead of a decent gas stove and they can't even cook.
[00:18:58] Nothing wrong with not being able to cook. Well, maybe there is, but that's not, that's not the point here. The point is, , you're setting up your realm. Go out in the the guy's shop. He's looking for all the stuff that works the best to do whatever it is he has to do. So you got while the guys are out in the garage.
[00:19:21] Hope they're not burning down the garage with the big turkey fryer. The women are inside arguing whether the best pies come from Costco or from Sam's Club. And this isn't idle criticism, just I think our culture needs to, needs to get an idea on what essential jobs are. So you have What we typically label essential, the nurses and the teachers, it's all relative.
[00:19:48] As in much of life, it's relative. You don't really need a teacher or nurse as much as you need a farmer and a mother. And those are the two essential jobs. Number one, farmer. Number two, mother. Because without a farmer, You're not, the mother's not going to eat. And without the mother, you're not going to have future generations, but without the farmer, you can't take care of the generation you got.
[00:20:16] So number one, father, farmer, number two, mother. And, and, and that's, you know, the mother, that's the number two job. It's more important than nurse or teacher. And if you talk to the men, the men are proud to be farmers. And they're also more than happy to cook, because they know cooking is important.
[00:20:38] Meanwhile, our women, they're all trying to, not all, many are trying to get out of being mothers, and they're not doing it so they can farm. They want to do what men do. Well, they're not trying to get out of being mothers so they can farm. They want to get out of being a mother so they can be the head of marketing.
[00:20:59] Which is several steps lower in, in being essential from a nurse or teacher. And we'll wrap this up saying if you got an example of women are better then oh, then what? Write it down and tie it to a pigeon and send it. Comment on the the Facebook page, 10th Man Facebook page.
[00:21:22] . Moving to Lifeboats Kill. I'm going to say Remember the Eastland. Subtitle, Lifeboats Kill. Remember the Eastland. Subtitle, Safety is Deadly. Or, You Can Be Too Careful. All coming under the heading of, Useless is Worse Than Useless.
[00:21:44] We talked about the Eastland steamer that was... Sunk, capsized with great loss of life because it had too many lifeboats on it. Nevertheless, I'd have to say uh, It's not all bad. Technology does advance us. This is the time of year when 20 years ago, you'd drive down the road and see a car coming at you and it'd only have one headlight. I just remember we used to have a game we used to play. The first one to see a car with no headlight would say something, I don't know what it was. The sign of fall, there'd be all the burnout headlights. We don't have that anymore because we have way better headlights. For the longest time, Thanks to the well meaning hand of government, unintended consequences, we had horrible headlights. It pains me to say, very painful to admit that the Europeans had better headlights than we did.
[00:22:44] They would sell cars here. They'd have to put different headlights on, headlights on them just to satisfy the requirements here. And that's true everywhere. Everybody has different safety requirements . And car makers have to spend a lot of money to make sure the vehicle they're building can be compliant in both.
[00:23:02] And they'll have to change it. For example, I think glass, the glass thickness is greater in, in the United States.
[00:23:10] But the problem we had with our headlights was back in the 1940s, well probably late 30s is when they were invented, the sealed beam headlight. Before the so called sealed beam headlight, A car would have a a polished metal reflector and a bulb that you would change and that's, that's what comprised the headlight.
[00:23:34] The reflector could corrode and it wouldn't be shiny, so somebody invented the sealed beam whereby the whole envelope was sealed. Okay, you had this big glass envelope and the reflector was part of it. And whenever you threw away the headlight, you were also throwing away the reflector and the lens.
[00:23:52] Everything was one complete package. So what the government did was say, this is a really good idea. What we've invented here in the United States and we always invent good stuff and that's true. But what they said was all cars have to have sealed beam headlights. Instead of saying all cars have to have headlights that don't corrode and stay shiny.
[00:24:18] The fact that we had got a new lens and reflector every time we replaced a headlight because the bulb burned out, well, it was wasteful, but not only that, it meant that they couldn't make very good, they're, they're building stuff that had to be thrown away, so they couldn't do as good a job on it, whereas in Europe they could make a they could make a a precisely shaped lens, excuse me, reflector and a precise, that would focus the light exactly where it needed to be.
[00:24:48] And until the mid nineties, it was illegal to have those here. So now we do have those with, okay. With the now the other unintended consequences are that every, every car has a different headlight bulb. Whereas back then there were only let's see one, two, three, four. There were the big ones in the small ones.
[00:25:07] There were the singles and the doubles. So there were six different. Lights total, you go to the auto parts store now and there's probably six dozen different ones, but the lights are better So here's where the technology goes wrong. Here's where they went wrong. It's a time of year where we're using our remote start and somebody has decided that You can only remote start your car twice.
[00:25:36] Then you have to get in and turn the key. So what happens to people, it happened to me just the other day, decided to decided to jump in the truck and go up and buy some ice at the store. And I started it up. And somebody came to the party early, parked behind me, I said no problem, so I got in the car instead.
[00:25:59] And I must have used two starts, because then, two days later, I got up early, had to be someplace, and the wind was all iced up, so I started the truck up, went out, and looked, and it had never started. Because I'd used up my two starts. Now, I'm not even going to get into the argument of I don't see why I can only start it twice.
[00:26:22] Why would you even have that feature? Okay? But if you, if you sent the programmer to write that code to say, you can only start it twice, then you gotta go drive it, I'll accept that for the sake of argument. But how come the same programmer can't figure out that those two starts were two days ago?
[00:26:47] Write your 10 lines of code that would make it still work again two days later. Because, and it's as simple as this. The functionality is lost. If I can't use the remote start when I need it, never mind your silly safety rules. Because, you gotta remember, the mission comes first. The mission is to be able to warm up the car before you get in it.
[00:27:16] We're not going to debate whether that's a valid mission. That's a different topic. The mission is that you can debate, the mission is that you can warm up the car before you get in it. And I couldn't do that. Bad technology. If the functionality is lost, it's bad technology.
[00:27:37] Let's talk about the mass shooting du jour.
[00:27:42] November 21st. Two were killed yesterday, this is, at 1 a. m. in a California bar. And two others were injured. The two dead, a man and a woman. And the other two, two other women. And we noticed right away, this was not a park. It was not a church. It was not a shopping mall. It was not a city street. It was a bar at 1 in the morning.
[00:28:14] And remember what remember what grandma always used to say, nothing good happens after dark. The victims, well, the criminal and victim probably knew each other. Odds are they knew each other. So rest in peace. It's sad and it's a crime and we should work on stopping crime.
[00:28:38] That said. It's not what people think of when they say we have a mass shooting. When we have a real mass shooting, like a Lewiston, Maine, a madman goes, goes berserk and kills as many people as he can in a short amount of time. All right. When that happens, then they say, we've had hundreds of them this year.
[00:29:00] This is one of the hundreds they're talking about. And it's not what people think of in a mass shooting. It's actually a as crimes go. A mundane one. Maybe what they should be talking about is Yesterday being the anniversary of the Waukesha vehicle ramming attack. Two years ago. January 21st, 2021.
[00:29:26] Where the guy with a car killed six people and injured, how many? Sixty two. Sixty two. So nearly 70 people hurt by this, by this guy. In a car, truck, SUV, whatever it was. I think it was a Ford Ranger. Didn't hear anybody in the news talking about it. But we'll be approaching the anniversary of a of some targeted school violence, and I'm sure that will be in the news.
[00:30:00] For today's school shooting, a North Carolina woman was arrested and And charged with a felony after someone saw a holstered gun on her belt. A holstered gun on her belt. The gun was not drawn. No shots were fired. No criminal intent seems to have been present. Just an evil, evil gun. The school went on lockdown after this mom dropped off her child and left the police catching her outside. Strange, everybody knows it's white boys shooting up the schools, not black mothers. That's a half sarcasm, whites are underrepresented in these crimes. She should go to California and in 11 separate trips, cause you can't shoplift more than 1, 000 at a time, she could steal enough Nike shoes to pay the 10, 000 bond.
[00:30:58] Again, the reason we have so many school shootings and mass shootings is, we don't.