Huge AI Risks-Important But Ignored:

  OPINION and ANALYSIS: Here is an extremely important risk that no one has adequately addressed.  If we are right, the government is going to need an overwhelming amount of cash, at least in the near term, and it might well overwhelm our financial system.   At that point all bets may be off about the Read More …

NAVY STRIKES UNLAWFUL: VENEZUELAN DRUG BOATS

  OPINION AND ANALYSIS: This post contains the opinion of ChatGPT 5.1.   That which follows deals with the U.S. Navy’s strikes that initially destroy a drug trafficking boat and the, via a second strike, killed surviving crew members.  Defense Secretary Hegseth has come under a lot of criticism and may have committed a war crime Read More …

TRUMP DOJ ATTACKING JUDGES A RED LINE

  OPINION AND ANALYSIS Todd Blanche,  the number 2 at Bondi’s Department of Justice, issued a statement critical of what he terms activist judges, and parts of his statements, though alarming, may not have been improper. Nevertheless, there is significant basis to believe that the Trump administration  wants to play hardball with the judiciary and Read More …

Traffic Cameras Tailgating Geese & Guns

  OPINION AND ANALYSIS   For the sake of speed and convenience we are allowing our personal freedoms slip away. We originally did a video related to this subject back in June (2025). Here’s the newest one done on August 28, 2025. [P.S. When I say “you can’t legislate safety” I mean you can’t make Read More …

Trump’s America: Ruled by Thugs?

  ANALYSIS and OPINION This is a video and post about an extremely disturbing government prosecution of a person lawfully in the United States.  It involves torture albeit by a foreign power, but the torture should have been foreseen by the American government.  It’s also a story about the Trump/Bondi contempt for the rule of Read More …

2028: Our Early Democratic Pick

  [Opinion and Analysis] A brief discussion of who we think would be an electable Democratic nominee who, very importantly, could also unite this country and save democracy.  

TRUMP SAYS WON’T SEEK 3d TERM: Do We Believe It?

  [ANALYSIS and OPINION] Here’s the video we posted on May 5, 2025.  We should note couple of things about the video.  We were/are uncertain about whether it’s theoretically possible for Trump to serve jail time in New York.  He was not sentenced to any jail time in New York this past fall.  However we Read More …

Defund the Courts: Trump’s Latest Assault on Democracy

[ANALYSIS and OPINION] In Trump’s latest attack on the Constitution and our democracy he sent out his chief lieutenant Stephen Miller to suggest that the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia should be defunded by Congress.   House Speaker Mike Johnson seems to agree.  Why?  Because the DC federal district court has been enjoining/stopping Read More …

NO COOPERATION, NO DEMOCRACY, NO PEACE

    [ANALYSIS, OPINION, NOTES & TUNES]   [Welcome to another edition of TNnT which is short for “Tick’s Notes & Tunes”, where we start with “Notes” of interest on various, usually important, topics which are followed by “Tunes” which is the transcript of a fictional short wave radio transmission from where and when we Read More …