The luck of the Irish did not rub off on Trump during the celebratory day before St. Patrick’s Day (that is on March 17) and with a special visit by the Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny. The problem is that Trump’s beloved Irish proverb is NOT an Irish proverb. Trump’s so-called Irish proverb originates from multiple sources, and most of the sources are NOT Irish: “St Patrick's Day: Trump's 'Irish proverb' provokes derision on the web” (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/17/trumps-irish-proverb-causes-derision-on-the-web). Even the Irish sources are of questionable authenticity.
During the Trump administration, the White House Shamrock Ceremony should be renamed to the Sham Rocking the White House where Trump dresses as a lepre-con-artist.
Trump boasted he knows the best words, but Trump probably did a quick Internet search for Irish quotes, and he did not bother to check the factual details. President Trump has a history of cherry-picking unreliable Internet sources to incorrectly justify his egomania. Apparently, the smartest Trump is unaware that anyone could upload anything to the Internet. President Trump blunders through everything, because, as a businessman, Trump’s modi operandi are his spoiled rotten ego, sales hype, inattention to factual details, and shifting the debt and/or blame to others. Under the presidency’s public spotlight, his blunders go up, up, up, and his credibility goes down, down, down.
President Dumb-Old Humpy Tramp is a colonial blunderbuss trying to compete in a hi-tech age of fully automatic assault rifles, precision artillery, remote-controlled bombs, and guided missiles. The Great Orange One needs to cheat the system and get lucky to stay competitive. President Swindling Orangutan and his loyal chumppanzees are addicted to “alternative” facts, because their delusions of grandeur struggle to exist in the real world. Trump’s top adviser or chief strategist is Steve Bannon, who claims to be a global leader of superior Zionist-Christian white-culture, but Steve Bannon has a history of hypocrisy and pathological dishonesty: “Empire Files: Abby Martin Exposes Steve Bannon” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HelSaMSy8HY). As expected, his Wikipedia biography was heavily edited to downplay his failures and promote his successes.
The Trump Administration claims to be highly based on meritocracy and patriotism, but, in reality, it’s based on double-standards, sales hype, and mythological self-worship of Zionist-Christian white-culture. This is why the Trump Administration struggles to genuinely achieve realistic successes, and currently fails to fix ObamaCare (which is based on Romney-Care) or improve Americans’ health and fitness. This is totally par-for-the-course from President Puffy and chief strategist Darth Bloated. Expect the continuation of lucrative bullshit like these:
* According to this report, the typical American doctor and nurse are ignorant about medical prices, efficiency, and the more effective treatments: “Medical Waste: Why American Health Care Is So Expensive” (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/medical-waste-american-health-care-expensive/).
* Americans pay premium prices for medical care, but they receive mediocre to sub-standard medical care: “U.S. Healthcare: Most Expensive and Worst Performing. In a new international ranking, the United Kingdom ranks first, while the U.S. performs poorly across almost all health metrics.”
(https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/us-healthcare-most-expensive-and-worst-performing/372828/).
* Here is another report about the overrated benefits and understated drawbacks of psychiatric drugs: “Fourteen Lies That Our Psychiatry Professors in Medical School Taught Us Med Students” (http://www.globalresearch.ca/fourteen-lies-that-our-psychiatry-professors-in-medical-school-taught-us-med-students/5575023).
* Nearly two-thirds of bankruptcies were due to medical-care costs, and, of these medical bankruptcies, over 75% had health insurance. Health insurance protects you against minor costs, but health insurance is ineffective against major costs. However, health insurance is suppose to protect you against major problems and not against minor problems: “Health care related bankruptcy is on the rise, study says” (http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2009/06/health-care-related-bankruptcy-is-on-the-rise-study-says/index.htm).
* Correlation does not equal causation, but correlation is a good start to formulate hypotheses, null hypotheses, and counter hypotheses: “Yale University Study Shows Association Between Vaccines and Brain Disorders” (http://www.ecowatch.com/yale-vaccine-study-kennedy-2246059411.html).
* According to international and domestic reports, America has a major problem with prescription and recreational drug abuse: “America's Opioid-Use Epidemic: 5 Startling Facts” (http://www.livescience.com/56248-america-opioid-use-epidemic.html).
According to some studies, white people and black people abuse drugs at more or less the same rate, but white people usually have more wealth and political connections, thus, black people are more likely to be arrested, punished, and imprisoned for drug abuse.
* The war on drugs was and is clearly a mandatory expensive failure. During the 1980s, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar conspired with the CIA: “Pablo Escobar worked for CIA – son, biographer” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxhPMyoybt4).
* At Florida, three old women paid thousands of dollars to treat their macular degeneration, but the treatment was an experimental stem-cell test, thus, the women completely lost their vision: “Three women blinded by 'off-the-charts dangerous' stem cell trial that was meant to cure mild vision loss” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4317778/Women-blinded-charts-dangerous-trial.html).
Random thoughts:
According to some sales reports, the market for tablet PCs is saturated, thus, tablet sales have peaked: “PC market at 2011 levels as tablets fall for the sixth quarter” (https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/pc-market-2011-levels-tablets-fall-sixth-quarter). For the past few years, tablets have largely replaced the low-performance laptops and desktops, but tablets are facing increasing competition from larger smartphones, and tablets’ small form factor cannot and will not compete with higher-performance laptops and desktops.
Android tablets are good for consuming data, but Android tablets are frustrating for creating and editing data. For one example out of many, Android tablets still struggle with very simple functions such as undo and redo:
* Here is a year 2015 article: “How to Undo and Redo Text in Android, and a Whole Lot More” (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/undo-redo-text-android-and-more/).
* In late 2015, Google finally added standard undo and redo functions for the more recent versions of Android OS, but the functions are unreliable: “How to use redo and undo features in Android Marshmallow?” (http://gadgetguideonline.com/android/android-marshmallow-guide/how-to-use-redo-and-undo-features-in-android-marshmallow/).
The alternatives are Apple tablets, but Apple tablets have their own peculiar restrictions. Both Android tablets and Apple tablets are based on the touchscreen interface. The touchscreen interface is superior for portability, but inferior for productivity. The touchscreen interface cannot match the speed, accuracy, and abundant functions of a mouse and keyboard. In my opinion, all tablets should have a highly accurate and responsive touchscreen that comes with standardized and plentiful functions (e.g., copy, cut, paste, undo, redo, highlight one or multiple words, home, end, backspace and delete, drag and save web links, and a mouse’s left click, right click, and middle click). These functions should be easily accessed by sliding the right side, left side, or bottom side of the touchscreen. The touchscreen should have very reliable handwriting recognition.
In my opinion, tablet PCs, smartphones, and laptops need batteries that are easy and affordable to replace. The short-term usage of electronics is a waste of natural resources and money. We should have the option to use any tablet as a smartphone. A tablet with a wireless headset or wired headset could easily function as a smartphone and tablet, and this versatility should get rid of tiny cellphones and smartphones, enhance portable processing power, and prolong the usage of tablets. Consumerism-gone-wild is an increasingly outdated economic policy. Until we develop efficient recycling options, electronics should be designed, built, and supported to last at least 5 years.