Monthly Archives: June 2023

Seeking an Answer

Posted in Being woke, Biden, Cable TV, CEO Princeple, Crazy Nuts, Customer No-Service, Going Green, Liberals, Politally Correct, Socialists by

If I may digress. This post reminds me of a song, “A Lover’s Question,” sung by Clyde McPhatter. I certainly am not a country/western music fan, but this one is pretty good. It’s got a good tune, some thoughtful words, and yes, even the backup group is good. It’s the kind of song that just might haunt you all day. You might even find yourself singing it without realizing it. More than that, you might find yourself identifying with it. If you can, you might look it up and play it, it is well worth your while, even if you don’t like country music.

I came to the above title from name of the song in a somewhat roundabout way. Originally, I started with “A Customer’s Question.” Didn’t feel that was apropos. I mean, we are speaking business, not love relationships. I was still somewhat tempted. It is kind of a catchy title. Nonetheless, I decided to use something not quite as good, but more accurate.

Now, getting down to the question and the reason for it. I would really like to know why big corporations like to (figuratively) shoot themselves in the foot. They make decisions they know are going to affect their bottom line and they do it without much true consideration. Consider Budweiser. Those that have read my post very long know that I don’t approve of alcohol at all. But this, this is really dumb. They have lost, what 7 billion dollars just to make a commercial that is friendly to homosexuals and unfriendly to their customers. And now, they can’t even issue an apology. The best they can do is march their Clydesdales out and hope for the best. I am sure that their stockholders have had a few things to say about that. They have likely said that they are desperately seeking an answer to why they did such a dumb thing. (Why did they do that?)

At one time, I had Xfinity cable and internet. I likely still would. However, one day, they started calling my home and suggesting we need a box for converting digital TV to analog. Don’t know if it was intentional, but they left both the wife and me with the impression that there would be no charge for it. We said no. We have but two TVs and they were both hooked up to cable. After the sixth call, one that I took, I agreed to let them send it. However, just to make sure there were no misunderstandings, I said that the first time they bill me for it, I’d pack it all up and take to the local store. They did, and I did.

They shot themselves in the foot. Why did they do that? It wasn’t so much the amount. I suspect that I could have returned the little box and had the cost removed. It’s the idea. They were dishonest. I told them what I’d do, and I did. My guess is that they didn’t care. At that time, they likely had enough customers, losing one or two wouldn’t hurt. I don’t know. Maybe they did have too many customers and they decided to prune a few.

I went to AT&T for cable and internet. Oddly they don’t love their customers either. I lost service so I called them up. Because I could not give them a 4-digit pin number, they refused to fix it. Fine. No problem I told them. I asked for an address to send the equipment and disconnected that day. Why did they do that? I guess they simply did not want to keep the over 2 hundred a month I was sending them. It must have been well decided on their end because I talked to two managers on the phone. Naturally, no face-to-face conversations here. No such thing these days.

It happens in local businesses too. I no longer go to McDonald’s, Wendy’s or Walmart. They have proved to me that they all have too many customers. So, Walmart has lost around two to three hundred a week. Sometimes more. They’ll never miss it. If they were to read this post, they’d not care. It would seem that they don’t like their customers. They just put up with them so as to make their billions off of us. I now go to Kroger. Maybe I spend a little more, but the service is far better and friendlier. Why did Walmart do that?

I could likely write thousands of words on this subject. I would suspect that there are many more who could. Those guys up in those board rooms just don’t seem to get it. They really do need customers. When they lose them they will lose their income. They just don’t seem to get it.

Being woke might impress one group of people. Going broke. Well. That could be a problem.

Success

Posted in Christian values, Dyslexia, Education by

I was prompted to look back over my brief history of writing posts. Or is it posting that which I wrote. Whichever. I looked back and realized that I have been posting for over four years now. I wish I could say it was with success. I’m afraid that would be somewhat stretching things.

However, every now and then, I see a change a short time after I post something related to it. Of course, I’d like to lay claim. I’d like to say that that change was brought about by something I wrote. For instance, I noticed that Tide has come out with a new tide, less irritating. I did have one post specifically about how the original tide caused my wife great problems with itching and irritation. I suspect that few experienced the problem, but I felt it would be good to get the word out there to those few that did have problems.

I don’t know. Did the makers of tide read the post? More likely, someone with a little more clout wrote to the company and suggested they tone down the chemistry a little. The again, who knows, I might have been the one who told someone who told someone about the post. Then, that person with clout realized the reason he itched so bad was because he used tide. At any rate, maybe I can tell myself I had something to do with it.

I have written many posts on salvation. I am sure many disregarded it. Maybe they were even angered about it. It’s okay. If it got one more person(s) into heaven, I’ll put up with the figurative arrows. I will even put up with a few complaints. The hitch is, if I did do any good, this side of eternity, I will likely never know. So far no one has said something in the remarks.

I would hope that in four years of writing posts, one or two just might have done some good. Perhaps, I would have had more success if I had a college degree. People who have more respect for those who hav degrees, especially people who have degrees. To some degree, that is my fault. As I said in one of my posts, I have a tendency to put things off. However, it is not likely that I would have gotten a degree anyway. I’m dyslexic. Some of you who have read a few of my posts and books will notice that I have problems with words like there and their; with words like its and it’s. I know the difference between them. It just is that I habitually use the wrong one and I have a very difficult time finding them during editing. Also, I leave words, or complete phrases out. On the other hand, sometimes I use them twice. Then, sometimes I use also at the beginning of a sentence and too at the end of the sentence. I think they call that being redundant.

I also read very slowly, about 200 words a minute. I have heard of professors who assign five and six books at a time for reading. Even if I were to skim through them, I’m afraid I’d never make through two. Then there is the English part of it. Considering the way I write, do you really think I would pass a college English course. Do you think I could ever turn in an acceptable term paper. And, of course, back in the sixties, there were no word processors.

After one semester of junior college, I gave it up. I had not one clue why I did what I did. I just knew I did and that I had no hope of getting through college. So, I turned to what I did know, electronics. Oddly I had strengths in electronics everywhere I didn’t have anywhere else.

I went through aviation electronics school in thirteen weeks, second in the class. It was a sixteen-week school. I don’t have a clue as to why. When I got into electronics, I was right at home. A short time after returning from Vietnam, I went through instructor training and became an electronics instructor for three and a half years.

It was only about ten or twelve years ago that I realized I was dyslexic. Well, maybe I can’t truly say that. I have never been tested. Let’s just say I have all the traits, every one of them. Strange. When I was in school, no one seemed to notice. I had problems in reading, spelling, stuttering and the whole bit. I suppose, for fear of being found out, I covered it up. I did not want anyone to think I had a learning problem. I certainly did not anyone else to know. That would be very embarrassing.

So, here I am. Plugging away. Trying to help others avoid the mistakes I made. Trying to help people see some of pitfalls along life’s way. I hope I have helped others. I will continue to try to impart my little bit of knowledge that I have acquired, not in college, but in the school of life.

And, oh yes. Every now and then, if I can, I will bring the plan of salvation to those who have not yet heard it or understand it. If I can do that alone, I won’t mind so much being dyslexic. I will have had a life of success.

This is an addon, a postscript, so to speak, which I thought of right after posting this post It is intended for parents. From third grade on, watch your child for signs of dyslexia. They can’t cure it, but they do have ways of living with it. Look for problems with spelling, slow reading, reading aloud. For a full list of symptoms simply look up the word. If you have suspicions, most modern-day schools have experts who can help you, if you put enough pressure on them.

If you do this, your child might not have to go through what I have.

He Who Counts the Votes

Posted in Abuse of Power, Biden, Border wall, Cheating, Christian values, Communism, Deceit, Elections by

We here in the USA vote using a secret ballot. That is to say, after we vote, no one knows who we voted for. While this is true individually, it is not true in groups. We turn our votes in by precinct. And while no one can tell who I voted for, they can know who the precinct voted for.

It is mostly by necessity. I mean, while we want our votes to be kept private, we want then to be counted. When counting by precincts, we can verify that there are exactly so many people who voted in my precinct and for whom. If they are not accounted for by precinct, it would make it very easy to have unfair elections.

To be sure, it has been said, he who counts the votes wins the election. To prevent this from coming true, every vote is counted at a local level. The totals are counted by total ballots and by totals for each candidate. The total votes counted should agree with the total number of voters. The total votes for each candidate should agree with the total number of votes.

If this method is followed carefully, then fraud ought to be easy to see. I mean, if there are a hundred votes, fifty for each candidate, then there out not be a hundred and five votes in the precinct. On the other hand, there out not be 98 votes.

There are three hitches. First, folks voting outside their precinct. It happens frequently. Although illegal, it generally does not create too much of a problem. The numbers simply aren’t significant. Moreover, as long as the person votes only once in one precinct, the spirit of the law prevails, at least in general part of the election. It can throw off local elections so we ought not do it.

The problem does become significantly worse when many people do it in multiple precincts, which allows them to vote multiple times. Not only illegal by the letter of the law, but very much illegal by the spirit of the law. If something like this happens in mass, it can throw off local, state, and national elections. It is difficult to catch as there are few effective ways to catch it.

It is why we use registration. It is why we should be more careful with our registrations. First, it should be required to register two months in advance of voting. It permits, if they will, cross checking between precincts, counties and states. If someone is registered in two or more places, their vote should not be allowed in any of them until the registration problem is corrected.

The second problem is the simple illegal vote. This is when a person or persons perform the voting for others. This can be people who are no longer living, people who simply have no concept of what is going on, frequently in nursing homes, and people who simply chose not to vote. There is significant evidence that this was happening in 2020 in real numbers.

Again, the answer is registration. More important, we need to clean the registry regularly, probably every ten years. We should look for people who are old and possibly deceased. We should check their residence. If they are not living at the home of record, they should not be permitted to vote. If a person moves, they should still be able to vote, but only if they provide a valid change of address and make sure they are removed from the former registry. This is especially true of people moving into nursing homes.

The third problem is what I call remote voting. This method is full of fraud. The simple way to fight it is to make sure the voter has a real reason to vote absentee. The ballot, before it is sent in should be notarized and the notary needs to know he can go to prison for falsely notarizing, especially in bulk.

Finally, to avoid fraud, all voting for a given state should be in person and on one day. It should start at the same time and end on the same time throughout the state, even if the state is in multiple time zones including absentee votes. Moreover, if I had my way, no results should be reported until all states are done voting. It would keep the results from the eastern states from coloring the results in the west.

Finally, more important, Let’s make sure we don’t follow the above saying. Just because someone counts the votes, he should not be able to alter the outcome. Most important, all those who are taking part in the election, no matter how small, no matter how great, must be required to follow the law. And the law should have teeth to back it up. In at least three cases in the 2020 election, officials did not follow the law and they did not spend a day in prison. Actually, they didn’t even get their hand slapped. At least one proudly announced it.

If we don’t make the officials follow the law, how can we expect people to respect the results.

Knowing What They’re Saying

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Learned a new word a couple of days ago, ubiquitous. Now there’s a word for you. I heard the word used on TV by a news anchor and figured I had no idea what she was talking about.

So. I looked up the word. Didn’t understand the definition so I looked it up again. Then I looked for synonyms. Oddly, the word has dozens of them. Made me wonder why the woman used ubiquitous when other words would have explained her point more clearly. Then I figured it out.

If I may use another fancy two-bit word. Maybe four bits. Her purpose was to obfuscate her meaning. I guess there are a few folks in this country that know what ubiquitous means, but not many as like me. You see, I don’t have one of those sheepskins, so I don’t know all those big words like that.

Well, to be honest, it’s not really that big. It just is that a person might read a dozen or so books without seeing it. It just is not that common. Up until a few days ago, I can’t remember hearing it. It is one of those words where you go out of your way to use it. It is also a good word for obfuscating things.

I mean, if a kid ask his dad to stay out till midnight, he might say, “Gee Dad. It is ubiquitous these days.” Then of course, rather than to admit to not knowing the meaning of the word, dad decides he must let his kid stay out till midnight, or maybe even one.

On the other hand, mom can say, “Does that mean that if jumping off a cliff is ubiquitous, does that mean that you should do it?”

Okay. I admit. The examples might not be so accurate. I just might be stretching it a little. However, I’m sure you get the point. I mean, we all knew the woman was smart and what she was saying was accurate. Otherwise, how would she know all those fancy words. It is a trick of double-talkers. Use fancy words and everyone thinks you know what you are talking about.

In her case, she was trying to make the point that pride month, or whatever it was she called it met ubiquitous approval, a lie. I think if a secret ballot were held on it, it would have fallen far short. It just was someone in the government thought it was a good idea and no one dare object. I mean, people have lost their jobs over such objections. People have been ousted from country clubs. Whoa if any public teacher object. You and I both know what that would result in.

And so, the only thing really somewhat ubiquitous about the idea was that no one dare object. If someone does object, before or after, don’t dare come to their rescue, else you will suffer the same consequences of the politically correct crowd.

I guess, there is another point to this post. If someone uses a word you don’t know, look it up. Make sure you know what they are talking about. Agree or not, you should know what is being said.

A Little Advice, Worth Every Cent You’re Paying for It

Posted in Customer complaints, experience, Fast Food, Pride, Vocabulary by

Any time that you are looking for employment, if you get to the point of an interview, I suggest you promise that you will keep your mouth shut and do your job.

Well, I suspect that just might overdo it just a little. Sometimes talking, such as in sales, requires talking. Nonetheless, there are those who think talking is their job when it isn’t. Indeed, talking may irritate customers and coworkers. Moreover, it can actually reduce productivity. The boss is not paying you to discuss last night’s date or the score of yesterday’s ball game. When it drives up the din in the dining room, it can actually drive customers away. It can become an irritant.

This is especially true when yelling and, or foul language is used. Believe it or not, there are still some of us who prefer a dinner in a restaurant where such language is not common. Even though I spent 9 years in the Marines, I am still irritated by such language.

Finally, when a person who is supposed to be taking orders is talking to a fellow employee or on a cell phone, it prompts people like me to look around. If there is another place across the street, maybe we’ll just go over there. Worse, we might discover we like the other place and never return to your place. It happens.

In summary, there are some places where loudmouths are not appreciated, especially in the workplace.

As a side note, the rest of us should remember that when in a restaurant, we customers really ought not be obnoxious to the other guests. As guests, we are encouraged to carry on conversations, not yelling contests.

A Victory and a Loss

Posted in Abuse of Power, Biden, Build the Wall! by

The Supreme Court just handed down a victory for Old Joe, which was also a loss for our nation and our national security. No matter how you spell it, it’s horrible news. It means keeping the southern border wide open. I feel for the ranchers who will continue to have to put up with that.

That, of course, means welcoming the illegal aliens, permitting the drugs and most of all, the cartels get to throw a big celebration party this evening. Old Joe might or might not be in league with them. However, if he were, would he do anything differently.

BUILD THE WALL

Must be a Shortage of Orange Jump Suits

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It’s all out now. The investigation is done. Even the dems are beginning to admit to The Virus starting in a lab in China. That is where the deaths of millions of people started. That is where all the suffering started. Incidentally, it is also where President Trump’s loss of election started. Old Joe would have not been able to hide in his basement had there been no virus. He would have actually had to make appearances, which would have uncovered his lack of reality.

One who has a little reasoning ability just might get the idea that it was all intentional. Naw. Never happen. That would mean a man named Fauci arranged the death of millions worldwide just so as President Trump would lose an election. Absolutely no human on the face of the earth would be so cold, so monstrous.

However, regardless, Fauci did arrange the financing of the research. Fauci fought every effort to gain control over it. Fauci did all he could to ruin the lives of every man woman and child in this country. He knew the masks were useless and yet he fought for them. He knew children were relatively resistant to it. And yet he closed all schools, well except for a few Republican states.

I’ve got to believe that if they could convict him of a crime, they would. I mean if anyone should stand trial for murder, he ought to. Yet, he isn’t. He created his havoc, and he made his millions. Then he retired and is not suffering one bit for his intentional sufferings.

Could it be that we have a problem convicting him?

Oh! I GOT IT! I FIGURED IT OUT! I KNOW WHY HE WILL NEVER SEE THE INSIDE OF A PRISON. I am convinced I know the reason. We have run out of orange jump suits.

Maybe, perhaps someone will be willing to offer one of their own; maybe one that is used. Then we can put that monster in the place he deserves to go for the next thousand years.

(How can this be. Make sure, after he dies, he does not get buried until his body has finished his term. It would serve there as an example for future would be monsters.)

Son of a Joe

Posted in Biden, Crazy Nuts, FOC, January 6, law enforcement, Lawyers and Representation by

Isn’t it nice to have a father named Joe? When we have a father named Joe, who just happens to be the Occupier of the Oval Office, we can do just about anything we want. When we don’t want to pay income tax, no problem. We just don’t report them. Sometimes, we have to admit it, but we never need to spend a day in jail.

Any time we want, we can lie on federal documents. No problemo. We just admit to it. Someone slaps our hand and says don’t do that no more and, behold; the problemo disappears into the outer limits.

And by the way, we can take all the drugs, legal or not and no one will ever arrest me. No one will mention it in the media… well not much anyway. Makes no difference anyway. No one will complain about it.

The really neat thing about it, should I do something else wrong, all I have to do is to mention that I have this really bad drug problem. Now that’s what I call using my problems to solve problems.

Now for all you all; the rest of you. You’ll never have it so easy. Especially, if you have a big R after your name. Especially if your father’s name is Trump. Especially if you worked for or have a friend named Trump. For those…. You all just have to get used to putting up with (here goes, the intended pun) TRUMPED UP charges for anything and everything.

Take Adam Schiff, Please

Posted in Adam Schiff, Christian values, Collusion, Controllers, Deceit, Lawyers and Representation by

For months, years even, Schiff claimed he had evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia. He claimed to have videos of Trump performing unmentionable acts with prostitutes. He claimed that Trump lied and misled the people of the US repeatedly. I know. I saw him while he spoke on TV live.

Now, until recently, he is silent. He has shown us no videos. He has shown us no documents. He has no evidence of any witnesses. That tells me he either has no evidence or has told one big lie after the other. Considering it all, I suspect he has not an ounce of evidence, not one single paper, not even one single video. That tells me that he likely sets the congressional record for congressional whoppers.

Then, when he is censured, he reverts back to saying that Trump and republicans lied. Strange. I didn’t hear him say he had any proof.

Don’t think Schiff is going to get away with it. He will either pay for the lies in this life or the next. Better for him if God extracts the punishment while his heart still beats. Paying for it after will likely make him wish he hadn’t made the acquisitions. Forever is a long time to pay for a Whopper lie like his.

Will someone please take this man away. Even the dems should confront his lying. I would think that he is even starting to embarrass the dems. I mean, even they must realize that he has become an anchor weight to even the dems.

Policeman or Baby

Posted in Being woke, Crime, law enforcement by

Whenever I suggest to anyone that punishment should be greater for someone killing a policeman, I always get the question, why is a policeman’s life worth more than… say a six-month-old baby?

First, the question is a red heiring. The person asking it generally does not mean to challenge my idea based on logic but emotion. They don’t like the law. In some cases, they place little import on those that are recently born. They simply don’t like the idea of a law that protects police.

It does go far beyond that though. Someone shooting a policeman does not respect the law. The shooting of the officer proves it. They use an element of society that just loves to rebel against the law and the uniform represents the law. Let’s keep in mind, those officers really represent us. When they pour liquids on an officer, that is a visual display of their lack of respect of the law and us. It is open visual rebellion. And, when they shoot a policeman, that is the ultimate disrespect against us, the law and those who enforce it.

There is another aspect that many don’t think of. That baby is not intentionally putting his life in danger to protect society. Okay. I get it. The baby is incapable of such a thing and is considered the essence of innocents. However, that officer has taken an oath to protect people, especially such as the baby. Without the police, how would we be able to hold on to our property or our lives… or the lives of our children?

The especially good part about such a law is that it would act as an invisible shield. It is a good thing that the criminal think twice before shooting a policeman. It just might stop people from indiscriminately executing them. More important, with that invisible shield, he can do his job better, knowing that the criminal will be less likely to use his gun on a man wearing a badge. And, by the way, if the criminal is less likely to shoot, then the officer is less likely to have to shoot. So, it sort of helps the criminal too.