Unusual nightime diversion

 Unusual things I sometimes think about at night when I can't sleep.

Unintended Conquinces..ie the riots, the looting, the destruction of establishments

 Unintended Consequences

It boggles my mind to see the lack of short-term forward vision on the part of elected officials in mostly the Democratic run jurisdictions.  Is it not obvious that if you do away with policeman when you need a policeman there won't be any.  What good is a call to 911 if there's nobody there or if the telephone operator has nobody to send. .

I saw in the news today where a store owner in Baltimore said he planned to sue the city for not protecting his business when it was looted twice.  This he actually believe that the city of Baltimore is going to be giving him money to rebuild his business under the current conditions.  Is this not a pipe dream on his part or what.

I believe the major cities that we see on the news every night with the riots, pillaging, theft, etc. will very likely not rebuild any time in the near future.  Why would a rational person or for that matter, a commercial insurance company support that kind of activity knowing the history.  The idea that anyone or any organization or government is going to come in and provide free money to these entrepreneurs is more than just wishful thinking.

The federal government, i.e. years in mind tax dollars, have no obligation to fund or rebuild the destruction in Portland, Oregon or other liberal towns that fostered rioting, personal injury, and most importantly, the disrespect de-funding and nonsupport of law enforcement.  As the Queen purportedly once said, "let them eat cake".  No sympathy on my part.

Were I a police officer or other law enforcement person in any of these democratically controlled cities or states, I would be looking for another place to live.  I was told that Houston, Texas is advertising they need 400 new officers and would welcome any of these mistreated law enforcement persons.

As recently as today, 23 August, I read were City Councilman in Chicago and at least another major city is out there requesting law enforcement support.  Now that the peaceful protesters are showing up in their neighborhood.  What gall these people have.

The fate of todays HS and todays college graduates

My vision of the newly graduate experience

A look at what it might be like for a current year graduate being thrust into the business world of the virus economy.

In the main, today's college graduates have a much more liberal education than past generations.  Graduates in the core subjects of science, mathematics, nursing, etc. minor to the graduate degrees in subjects like social studies, art studies, general studies, psychology and ethnic studies.  This second group virtually contains no marketable skills and require some other kind of training to be income productive.  It is not unreasonable to believe that a young person seeking a paying job without a marketable skill set will have a significant problem finding employment and what they believe is there education trained area.  Not to mention the fact that many, if not most, leave college with a substantial student loan debt.  Because of their age and maturity.  Many have wasted that money on consumable items versus restricted use paying their education cost


It is also believable to think of these people, having graduated will wind up moving back home to live with their parents.  If not financially supported by family, recent graduates will need to find employment to provide some kind of financial support.  While there seem to be many jobs available in the market today.  Most college graduates are naïve and egotistical enough to believe that regular manual labor is below their social level.  The older held attitude that believed "any job is honorable" an acceptable particularly if you need the money.  Of particular note was the movement prior to the pandemic that minimum-wage workers in the fast food industry somehow deserved and ought to be able to dictate an hourly wage believed to be unsustainable by the market.  As of today's date, that movement seems to have faded and reality must be setting in at some level.

While the self perceived upwardly mobile set of students/graduates have been viewing young people that, for whatever reason chose to go the trade route direction as somewhat lesser individuals either socially, mentally or educationally.  Yet, it is not difficult to envision a situation where a young person involved in the trades is not only having an easier time finding a job that is also making good wages.  My current experience, with the young people I know in the trades, is that they are not only doing well but are seeing the prospects, after serving what used to be called an apprenticeship and journeyman experience becoming business owners and hiring employees.  It is also vision-able to see a situation to where college graduates, without marketable skills needing to work for businesses that do things such as plumbing, air conditioning/heating, landscaping, etc. as laborers supporting the skilled worker.  This being an almost complete reversal of working relations that have occurred over the past decades.

My observation is that beginning and skilled trade workers in occupations I've mentioned above seem to be in short supply.  I think a lot of that is due to the fact that, particularly high schools, have reduced or eliminated their shop training programs and trade schools have become unpopular for government funding.  Also, there was a time when trade unions had internal training programs associated with union membership.  Designed to upgrade the skills of their workers, thus improving productivity and income.  Trade unions over the years have mainly become unpopular due to corrupt leadership.  Trade unions didn't used to be a bad name as it is today.  Like so many things the pendulum swings too far one way and then swings back too far the other way.  While I have never been a fan of the union concept.  It is perhaps time to revise and reinvent some of the positive features of trade unions.  Of course, that pendulum would wind up swinging too far the other way also.  I cannot currently perceive of the time in the future when the population won't need plumbing, air conditioning, construction, and all the rest of those activities that produce the very underpinning of a modern society.

Know your Customer

Do you know who and what your customer IS?

New Orleans Saints.

 

Have you forgotten and forsaken your customer, the paying fans. Any business and you are an entertainment business, that does not know who buys the product you sell cannot flourish. 'Entertainers (i.e. the actors (players) are not those who put their money down. The players, such as Drew Breese are employees who should be doing those things that support their employer, who should be doing those things that encourage the customer.

Who are the NFL and New Orleans Saints customers you might ask? Why its the FANS. In the main, they are Conservative, pro-US Military and veterans of wars in foreign lands. They are working people in the main and middle to an upper-middle class that earns paychecks. Many are also NASCAR fans, proud of the SOUTH, and display the Confederate Battle Flag as a symbol of that PRIDE.

They are patriotic Americans who are incensed when they see anyone desecrating the symbol of the USA. Foreign countries throw that FLAG on the ground, walk on that FLAG, burn that FLAG and display it in manners insulting to Americans. That makes the patriotic American Citizen's blood boil and of course, that's why they do it. These are our ENEMY.

  It is not hard to know that from watching even if we don’t understand the language.

The National Anthem is such a symbol. Patriotic Americans of all persuasions stand with hand over heart in respect when its played. Those with military associations render the traditional hand salute. The one that shows all that the bearer does not have a weapon in the mighty Right Hand.

What manner of common sense is it that motivates an organization (and encourages its employees) to do that which Is known to irritate, conger high levels of negative emotion up to that the level that makes a person wish to take action?

Who amongst the NFL dos not wake in the middle of the night and realize “What have we done”? Yet, that does not seem to be so.

Double down. Hire Kopernick, encourage high visibility employees to insult the FLAG, the patriot, the warrior that gave some (those that gave all aren’t here).

What should you expect of your ‘brand’? Who will embrace, support, and buy the product? We shall see….. but not ME.

Many Things

May 26, 2020.
Today I'm going to try to start up my blog once again, seems like the only time I choose to use this when there's some kind of crisis either in the works or just finished.

Well this time it's my health.  It seems like last May 29, on my birthday.  My GP Dr. Robert Moore look at my chest x-ray and pronounced that he saw cancer.  Well I did.  The mass showed up at a roughly 8 cm spot on my right lung.  In the world of cancer, that size comes out to be a stage three A.  The cancer was confirmed by a PET scan.  In treatment was begun immediately.  I attended the Rapide's original cancer center where I retraced received intravenous doses of drugs once a week for about 11 to 16 sessions.  During that time, I received radiation every day.  On the cancer spot on my long.

One day in the summer of 2010 I had driven Dena to Dr. steers for a steroid injection of her hip.  Although memory is failing me.  I was waiting in the car and must have had a spell, not unlike a stroke and needy rushed me to the emergency room at rapid regional where I was pronounced with pneumonia.  I don't know how long I stayed in there but it must've been around a week and was released home.  Not long after that on a trip back to the cancer center.  I evidently passed out of the seat of DD's car and she rushed me over the emergency room where they evidently pronounced me with pneumonia again.  This time they put me in a long-term recovery hospital where I received at least 10 solid days of medicine nurses would change the bags and sequences that consisted of a three bag regiment took about 20 minutes for each bag to drain and then after all three had completed it.  Give me a look like a one hour break and will start the process all over again.  Evidently pneumonia I had was pretty bad.  After release from the hospital.  I was put on a program called immunotherapy, which is a bag of chemicals that is designed to break down the mask cancer has on the human immune system.  The program consist of 26 weeks of one bag takes about an hour to download.  I got through roughly half of that program and then had what might be described as a stroke.
Randy and I were outside of the house measuring for a metal carport for Denahwhen Randy said I was acting funny and we came back in.  After Denah heard me talk.  He said I sounded like I had a mouthful of mush as she rushed me to the emergency room.  After the normal test and a CAT scan.  They evidently sent the information electronically to Tulane University where I got a video examination by Dr. there.  He said the CAT scan did not show any signs of a stroke, but it did show a spot on the right side of my brain which should be investigated for cancer.  That investigation on an MRI showed that there were two spots on the right side of the brain.  As of May 2020, I'm taking radiation treatments for those two spots.  Evidently they have a new radiation software/hardware that is extremely good on small cancers.  So far I have had one treatment and expecting a total of 3 to 5 treatments, which really sounds like a very few.

So, how do I feel the days have their ups and downs.  Some days I feel like I'm 90 years old walk with a slight shuffle and experience loss of feeling in my left fingertips.  The feeling appears to come back every now and then but a much-reduced scale and I doubt it will never totally return.
As is right now, it's 2 o'clock in the morning and I was tossing and turning, couldn't get comfortable, and couldn't sleep.  One of my blessings is a Wi-Fi bedside radio where I can listen to the nonsense talk shows at night when I wake up and can't go back to sleep for I guess 10 to 20 minutes maybe.

So as it is, I believe I'll try to work the blog again.  Although I am almost sure nobody reads it.  More to come

Policeman of the World

On the subject of Policeman of the World – It is rarely controversial to believe that the vast majority of citizens of these United States believe that We are too involved in the disagreements of other Nations amongst themselves as well as with Us. Thusly this country has been referred to as the Policeman of the World, mostly in a negative context. The current subject de jour is Turkey and Kurd conflict. Like most conflicts, the usual ‘bone of contention’ is LAND/Politics and who controls the land in question. To the layman, our sending troops to keep the warring parties apart, supposedly until we can negotiate a peaceful settlement is a good thing. In the etherial mind, perhaps that sounds good and noble. In practice, our experience has shown that the opposite is true. I’ll not discuss WWII and older as the more current will take up enough time. Remember the Korean Police Action? OK, War. We invaded to keep the North Koreans from overrunning the South. Lots of people died (i.e. Americans) and we are still there with a line drawn across the country dividing the N from the S. The important part is We are Still There. Vietnam pretty much the same thing except we lost, retreated and now we are doing business with unified Vietnam we fought so hard to prevent from happening. Loss of life (ours) was pretty high for such a low rate of return, thinks I. The only positive thing I saw was that we did not go back and rebuild the country the way we have in so many cases.

Extracting the troops from all these volatile places around the world is an election pledge that appears to be in progress with this Administration. But, as we see, actions have consequences that sometimes don’t play well in the media (read TV mostly) and in the nieve hearts of the young, minds of peace (almost said Mush) and that of the old hippy of yesteryear. If I have not insulted your age group yet, be patient. The fact is, this country did not start most of these conflicts we have stuck our troops in and once we leave, no matter how long we stay, they will go at it again. Heck, they’ve been doing it for centuries now. The truth be told, if it doesn’t affect us, we really don’t have an ax to grind there.

At one time, this country had a military that was so configured that we could fight two wars simultaneously. A lesson learned from WWII if you’re old enough to remember that. Over peaceful time, came the belief that conscription via the draft was not a good thing and going in the military should be voluntary as some folks just didn’t want to do that kind of work. And so it was written. Then the wisdom was that men and women were equal not only in mental ability but physical ability. So the idea that women should not be denied entry into whatever branch of the military was addressed. Women in combat was a sticking point along the way but appears to have been resolved. Then came along LGBTQrstuv question. Which has not been resolved yet? The result of events since the last war has been to degrade the effectiveness and resources of our own military to the point we cannot fight two wars, we can’t even fight one effectively. Our volunteers are tired, undertrained, physically weak and ill-equipped. Unless this changes when we need them they will be in another country, wearing a UN hat and guns with plastic bullets.

But, I seem to have drifted from the subject. Which was being the policeman of the world and the benefits associated with it.

The situation we find ourselves in at the moment is having wished for a leader to get us out of these conflicts, is actually having one. All the talk over all the years and now we have someone that is taking action in that direction. The thought pattern has been ‘get us out of the policeman role’ without regard to what happens next. The obvious happens next, the two sides do what they want to do. Duh. In most cases, it seems they have just been waiting for us to leave so they can git back at it. Our naive ideas of fairness, compassion, equality, forgiveness, and all the other standards we, in this country, profess but don’t live up to ourselves should apply to others. Course, they don’t do what we think they should and why should they? It’s time for us to get real in our thinking as to other countries, nations and ethnic groups.

The inhumanity of it all. Unless you’ve traveled a great deal and spent time in other countries it's hard to understand why they do things or how they think. China, North Korea, Asia in general, will all act the way they act and won’t change because Americans think they are wrong. Get used to it. As bad as it is, its what they do and we can’t change it. As a country on this planet, we must deal with these countries. Some because we trade with them, they pose a potential threat and others just because they are there. Isolationism like socialism doesn’t work and attempting to redo is a waste.

What we can do, however, is preserve our way of life. We have enough battles here to occupy our time. The swamp and its swamp life are being uncovered and the stench realized. The effort to convert this country to a socialist/communist one is now out in the open and the fight is on. This war would not have been realized were the 2016 election different. We have dodged one bullet, here come some more.

Concern yourself not so much with the trials and tribulations of other countries, focus on this country and do something or support those that are doing something.

February 2019

As it is on the Farm

Today is Thursday, 21, February 2019 and all is well.

Some of the interesting things that are going on right now include the black actor Smollett and his attempt to fake a racial attack in Chicago.  Seems that when he made his claim that two white guys with MEGA hats on attacked him with racial slurs and hung a hangman's noose around his neck.  The news media and the Democrat presidential hopefuls all climbed on board until the facts started coming out and then like Nancy Pelosi began to abandon ship.  All this brings my thoughts back to the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings for virtually all of the Democrats kept saying "you have to believer".  Even when the facts were undeniable that she was misinformed or just downright lying.
The bias and double standard cannot be more obvious.

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) a newly elected Representative from a postage stamp district in New York City, NY.

Democrat Party Platform (?).  I .  E.  Socialism

1. Total 'economic security' for everyone... even those Unwilling to Work

Basic income for all (not just citizens). This has been tried and failed in several cities within in the USA. Latest effort is a trial in a city in California. Five hundred dollars a month for nothing.  Cost of such a fiasco is still being calculated but at last.  Looking is more than twice the US GDP.

2. Government provided jobs for everyone

3. Free child care

4. Free college education

5. Replacement of every combustion-engine vehicle (AOC) –

6. Carbon free within 10 years – except that she predicts that if we don't solve the global warming problem the country will be gone in 12 years.

7.  Infanticide (i.e. Murder) – the state of Virginia and a few others has already voted to allow abortion up to and including birth.

8. No Borders

9. Tear down the existing border walls

10. Upgrade/replace every building (i.e. green)

11. Uni-sex bathrooms and dressing rooms

12. Solve 'Cow Fart' problem

13. Choose your SEX

14. White Privilege problem –

15. Reparations for Blacks (i.e. give money to blacks whose ancestors were slaves)

16. Give up on God and your Faith

17. Dad's aren't needed in the home

18. Trust the government to make decisions for you