Now Getting The Push, Push, Push! Network

 

I'm thinking of sliding (pushing along the rug) the table to under the other window, in the space I vacated by moving the TV to on top of the puzzle table.

But, the right side drawers on the dresser with the mirror need some room in order to slide open and it might be kind of a tight fit.

But, then I would be able to put the TV on it, and get it off the puzzle, so I could go back to working on the thing.

I discovered that channel 4, on which I watch golf on Sunday, but hardly anything any other time, comes in better with the TV on top of the puzzle. This is at the expense of channel 8, though, on which I watch Jeopardy both at 11 in the morning, and again at 6 at night; the former a rerun with Alec hosting.

Jeopardy can be fudged into existence by moving the cable to the "amplified" antenna around.

The improvement in the golf broadcasts is most welcome and worth a glitch or two during Jeopardy. It seemed like channel 4 would cut out as soon as any player hit a putt, at some point during the ball's journey towards the cup. The picture would freeze for a couple seconds and then jump right to either the guy taking his ball out of the cup, to the applause of what sounds like maybe 40 people, or it would show him standing there, shoulders slumped in dejection, to the groans of what sounds like maybe 40 people.

With this arrangement, I was in danger of not seeing someone in the gallery getting clunked in the face by an errant ball. That is just when the street car would pass by out front and obliterate the picture, like they do on the weaker channels.

When I plug my "amplified" antenna in, it makes all the channels worse. I can't imagine why this is so. When I attach it through the coaxial cable to the "external antenna out" jack, it improves reception, until I plug the thing in, to ostensibly amplify the weak signal, it makes it so I'm lucky if I get one station.

I guess it's time to Google "why plugging in my amplified antenna makes reception worse..."

But I can now the PBS on channel 12, when I couldn't with the TV not on top of the puzzle.

I call that the "push, push, push" network. As in push for social equity.

That's the station that, after the Trump/Biden first debate was over, cut immediately to Judy Woodruff.

She's the one with the cords in her neck showing visibly. These muscles are probably so well toned from the workout they get when she shakes her head "no" to evince incredulity, as she was doing when they cut to her and another female "journalist" to her left, whose head was synchronized with her head.

This was how their "unbiased reporting" on the debate began. With one reptilian looking woman shaking her head in disgust, alongside a lesbian looking woman, doing the same, before they took turns launching into name calling, seemingly stopping just short of saying "Please don't vote for him!" and keeping their heads going.

The sub-channels, 12.1, 12.2, etc. are constantly showing material with an underlying woke message to them. Like interviews of an otherwise unremarkable "first tran-sexual of color to direct a Broadway play" or yesterday, a documentary that followed that Greta Thunberg, as she went around talking to scientists and the like, in an effort to cool the planet down.

While it is a sin to leave the planet in a worse condition than you found it; when I was Greta's age, we worried about a large scale nuclear war that's fallout would kill both the winners and the losers of the war, and leave only scorpions and cockroaches to inherit it all.

So, everything is in a state of flux, except maybe for the worrying, which has remained a constant.

Lead Vest Advisory

There was a yellow and black "fallout shelter" on the bank across from the "telephone company" that my dad worked at (his whole life with the same company, btw) and there was one displayed on the YMCA, I remember.

I am curious to investigate what year it was, exactly, when all those signs got torn down. Not that the buildings became any less safe, in the part of it designated to be the fallout shelter proper; somehow, we must have all decided, as a society, to stop worrying about the flash of brilliant whitish-green light, followed by the appearance of the mushroom cloud on the horizon, and the need to run for the nearest yellow and black emblazoned building.

I wonder if it would have relegated the climate warming mongers to the back burner, had Russia obliterated New York City, Washington, D.C. and Columbus, Ohio (bad shot, Ivan) with bombs more powerful than the Nagasaki one, and the U.S. had, in turn, taken out, say, Moscow and the National Vodka Distillery; resulting in a world where the nightly weather reports had pink clouds added in with the rainfall indicator ones, including numbers indicating Geiger counts, with animated satellite imagery showing which cities the clouds were blowing towards -which areas are under a "LV (lead vest) advisory, type of thing.

Had that happened, and the whole planet as a result was now more radioactive; then would it be as much of an issue that "on top of all our other concerns, the global temperature is expected to rise more than a half a degree over the next 20 years" and "what this might mean for people living in coastal regions?"

So, picking up Channel 12 (PBS) by moving the TV was cool; they have a lot of interesting stuff, but they also have a lot of stuff that is hard to watch with an open mind.

Michelle Obama on channel 12 saying she is afraid that someone is going to see the backs of her daughter's heads "and make an assumption about them," is an example.

I think she was saying that, if they see the front of their heads, they will recognize them as being The First Children?, and that will dispel those nebulous assumptions?

That would be an armed police officer, assuming that the kids were dangerous because they can't recognize them as being Obamas. I would say that a racist cop isn't going to balk at disproportionately shooting Obamas, because, by the definition of racism, they are just the same as the common street black; you can take them out of the jungle and put them in The Whitehouse, but you can't take the jungle out of them, type of thing.

So, now you have even one more thing to worry about every time your kids take the car to the grocery store, or walk the dog; even if they have the front of their heads turned towards the truly racist cop; they are still in grave danger...

Why doesn't she tell her kids to do what I always did when I drove and got pulled over. As soon as the officer(s) got out and started walking towards my car, I would put both my hands on the door where they could see them. It worked for me..

But, it's good to have golf coming in without the glitches. It scares me to think that 12.4 on the Push, push, push! Network, is actually a children's channel.  

10 Years Ago, Today

It was ten years ago today and I had just been released from jail in Mobile, Alabama, and was cleansing from the diet and getting back to health. I believe I had not come to New Orleans yet, and I was hearing a lot of people telling me I should come here, when I busked in Mobile.

I was also hearing people say: "There is a reason they call it the city of sin!"

I would soon have my hand forced in that matter, after a new anti-busking lieutenant would take over the downtown Mobile beat.