Three Top Items (7 min) #1 - AI Update #2 - Gun Violence: Mis-Diagnosed #3 - Tomorrow's Decision #1 - AI Update: Heard of "The Hackening"? This new term refers to AI's growing capability to identify and exploit weaknesses in existing software systems. Of all kinds. Apparently new and coming versions of AI can search and expose vulnerabilities at unimaginable speed, thereby making timely fixes impossible. There have been a dozen cyberattacks in just the first two days of Oct

Top 3 #1 - France's Humiliation Accelerates. #2 - AI: Next Big Short? #3 - Grandma's a Problem Here Too. #1 - Not About School Hours Any More This past June I was having dinner while on holiday with a couple who lived in Paris. The wife was British and the husband was French. I made the indelicate observation that Paris used to be my favorite city but my last two trips there revealed things were no longer the same...and "not" in a good way. The pair took great umbrage at m

Top 3 Posts: #1 - Iran Update: Keeping Perspective By now everyone on the planet is fed up with U.S. involvement in the Iran conflict. We are sick and tired of its impact on gas prices and inflation. We no longer trust anything President Trump or the regime in Iran has to say about what to expect next. We see no end in sight. Amidst all the calumny and malaise, it is useful to keep some facts in mind: The Mullahs and their military thugs have been the world's greatest spon

Top Three #1 - Grandma's to Blame #2 - Iran: Same Old Same Old #3 - Fraud Update #1 - Euro Dilemma It's long overdue that European governments receive their richly deserved comeuppance after the absurd social contract they implemented post WWII. In a blatantly self-serving attempt to win back public trust after nearly losing the continent to Hitler, they gave away the store. Nationalized healthcare, five week vacations, no layoffs, and a cornucopia of other government hando

Top 3 Items (9 min read) Three Year Anniversary Iran Update None #1 - October 7, 2023 On this day, as everyone not living under a rock knows, Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel and murdered 1,200 Jewish citizens. 226 civilians and 25 IDF soldiers were taken hostage and stored in tunnels under Gaza. To put this in perspective...1,200 Israeli civilians is equivalent to 44,000 Americans being murdered within hours. Atrocities perpetrated with these murders included hundr

(6 minute read) Top Three Tags... Public School Spending: Mind Boggling More Education Bad News AI Safety Accords *** #1 - Public School Funding: Funding What? US public schools are given over $1 trillion in funding each and every school year. That averages out to $21,100 per student. Per-student funding was highest in NY averaging $37,500.  Think about it. The average classroom size is 24 students in NY. Thus, OVER $900,000 PER CLASS a year. Under $100,000 of that goes to

Top 3 Tags Netanyahu at UN Trump-Xi Summit - Ho Hum Iran: Oil's Back Flowing, just not Iran's Read time - 10 minutes *** #1 - When Haters Walk Out before You Start ...you know it's gonna be a cracker of a speech. Bibi Netanyahu, one of the very rare Good Guy leaders with stones (N.B., plenty of Bad Guy leaders have stones), let 'em have it at the UN General Assembly last Thursday. A mass walkout of delegates occurred before the Israeli Prime Minister’s address even started.

(Now that my uncontrollable urge to vent via a Letter to Donald, let's get back to business) Systematically Bamboozled Latest polls show Americans are 70-30 against the data centers upon which AI supremacy depends. This is not good. When asked why...water depletion is #1 and electricity is #2. Let's examine reality... Water: The vast majority of data centers under construction use closed loop water cooling, which means water is recycled not consumed. As such, datacenter wat

Dolly leaves us and... we are poorer. Dolly Parton passed away at 80. One of a kind. A Pure Product of America. Grew up dirt poor as one of 12 children in the Great Smoky Mountains. Was married for nearly 60 years. Her husband, Carl Dean, died just last year. Funny how that goes. So often one spouse soon follows another in "real" marriages. When asked how she kept on performing and writing songs at her age, she replied, "I ain't got time to get old." Dolly may be the l

(***Sorry, kind of a long one 'cause CME will be dark for a few weeks.) That's What Some Are Calling AI The thought goes beyond cocktail parties in the Bay Area. Wildly grandiose, even blasphemous? Certainly seems so. Totally far fetched? In concept maybe not so much. While AI, wherever it ends up, will never be supernatural or divine, more and more onlookers think this new super power will eclipse all predecessors by a wide margin. Dwarfing the impact and influence of t

Let's Try to Break It Down. .. Morally Justified? Important to National Security? I say yes. Among several reasons, there is one predominant one. You Don't Get to Kill Americans. Yes, Khamenei and his IRGC thugs massacred at least 30,000 civilians in their latest attempt to put down protests. Some say the actual number exceeds 100,000. Men, women, students, even children were slaughtered in the streets. Their own people. Yes, the regime has been the world's greatest spo

Foreign Policy Speech of Our Time? At the annual Munich Security Conference, an affair best-known for platitudes and navel-gazing, Secretary of State Rubio diagnosed the roots of Europe’s decline and provided a clear vision for how America and its European allies can unite to preserve the most important alliance in human history. It could not have come at a better time. Formed in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, the NATO alliance has underpinned American, European, and even g

Venezuela - Let's Break It Down As well chronicled CME is a strong supporter of President Trump and the actions/accomplishments of his Administration thus far. Trump has a mission and it's no secret. Do everything in his power (and, hopefully, within the law) to make things better for America and its citizens. No holds barred. No worrying about pushback or carping from the opposition. His latest action, invading Venezuela and capturing its President, is the latest - he di