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How to Succeed in Business….

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I have no earthly idea why, but the old musical-comedy came to mind, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” It is, something of a genius comedy, though certainly not my favorite. I say genius because it is something of a miracle how it all worked out for the good at the end.

Thinking back over it, I am not sure how that happened. I guess I was too busy laughing to to remember it.

The main character is J. Pierpont Finch who starts out in the mail room and finagles his way to the top of the company by some rather irregular methods.

Thinking back over it, it makes me wonder. Maybe what some of the businesses in this country need are few more Finches. In the movie he certainly straightened out the one corporation.

I know. Just wishful thinking. Old Joe has infected so many of them with his communist ideas it just might have made it hopeless without a miracle.

If you haven’t seen the show, see it. It is well worth it even if you don’t musicals. You might even like 1 or 2 of the songs. Besides, we do need to cheer the real Finches on if they are to straighten anything out.

It’s All Important

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When I was in high school, I noticed the first 15 to 20 minutes of every class started the same, more-or-less. The math teacher told us that the world would nearly come to an end, if we didn’t learn math. Of course, all communications would cease if we didn’t learn English. It was a little more difficult for the chemistry teacher, but he did manage to open with a convincing argument for us to all learn chemistry. Finally, of course, the history teacher had to come up with the impossible task of making us realize the importance of learning about what the Egyptians did thousands of years ago.

In all honesty, I wish I had paid a lot more attention to my history teachers. Believe me, if you are in high school, pay attention to history. I know it is hard to believe it, but it really is important, boring as it may be.

When I was in school, I wondered why all the teachers wasted all the time. The fact is, I for one would have much rather been playing baseball. I’m very sure I had company. The reason we were there was that we had to be there. It was kinda senseless to explain why I should be there.

Then I went through instructor training while in the Marines. The first thing the instructor taught us was that students learn better when motivated. One way to motivate is to explain the importance of the subject.

Voila! The light was turned on. I finally understood why all those teachers wasted all that time trying to increase my interest, which, by the way never worked. I mean, the reason I was occupying that desk instead of trying to throw a 90 mph fast ball was entirely because it was required of me.

Nonetheless, I did learn very much in that first day of instructor training. I learned that everything is important to special people. Some folks get horribly upset when I use rather instead of whether. To them, proper English is all important. To a mathematician, knowing when to use a sin or cosin is all important. Hopefully, I don’t need to go through the whole list. Maybe you get the idea.

My point is this. It’s all important, depending on who it is.

I have noticed, from time to time, some will take this to an extreme. Some teacher or professor put the idea in someone’s mind the importance of the subject is all important, and they just might have a tendency to think too highly of himself.

Some doctors do have a tendency to think heart surgery is more important than everything. On the other hand, that doctor might not think so if there is an area power failure and someone needs to get out in the ice and cold to restore power to the hospital.

The computer wiz might like to think how extra important he is, until he is suffering heart pains and he is waiting for an ambulance.

Then again. There are those as me. I walk into a place where they make a wonderful sandwich for me at a reasonable price and I am very much impressed. Believe me. I know how hard they work.

It is the way our economy works. When there is an important need, someone will do it, even the thankless ones, as like garbage collectors. They, too are important

Das Kapital

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Actually, nothing new. It was tried by the Pilgrims and they almost all starved because of it. It was tried in a little town in the Mid-west. The city grew for a short time; then, quickly became abandoned when they discovered some worked while the rest lived off the fruit of the work of the others.

It is the reason real communism, no matter what label it is given never has, and never will work. It is seen as the the solution of everything and it is the destruction of all it touches.

In the case of the Soviet Union, 10 million died and a nation was forced into slavery for decades. The vast populace were forced into labor and the few leaders lived like royalty. They ate the best food and lived in the most opulent environment. In a few words, what the Soviet Union cannot be called communism, though it is akin to the serf system of medieval Europe where the few benefit from the work of many.

Moreover, there was only freedom to those who did as the leaders insisted.

China followed suit. I can’t recall for sure the body count, it seems the me it was around fifty million. In Vietnam, it was just a million or so. It seems to me too many. However, you can check it. Still, is too many, far as I am concerned.

Every time Das Kopitar has been forced on a country, people die, and not just a few. What they teach is communism but what they force on one country after the other is plane and simple empires where just a few are totally in control.

Capitalism is a horrible form of economy. However, it is the best we have ever known since recorded history. Certainly, it has resulted in far less loss of life. Moreover, it doesn’t have to be enforced. It just sort of works all by itself.

The only ones to cause it problems are thieves and crooked politicians, sort of the same.

Cease Fire! Cease Fire!

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There actually was a cease fire. Not one person was shooting. There was wonderful peace and music and celebrations. Then suddenly, there were rockets and shooting. There was rape and hotages and head severing.

Then Israel counterattacked. Two milliseconds later the cowards that call themselves HAMAS, hid behind their own women and children, whilst they called as loud as the could, “Cease fire! Cease fire!” It was a pretense, pretending Israel started it all. Suddenly they were the victims.

May I remind one and all, if Trump were still president this outbreak would have never happened and there would be peace in the Middle East… and Ukraine.

The hitch is many don’t believe the obvious. They don’t believe it because they don’t want to believe it. They close their eyes and turn their heads.

There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

Old Joe engineered both wars. It is why I absolutely refuse to call him president. It is what he wanted from the time he entered the Oval Office. I suspect, however, the only thing he wished he could change, he would have preferred it had waited until after the election. As for the loss of life, he bears no regrets at all for that. As far as he is concerned, it is the cost of gaining and maintaining power.

What Do You Want to Believe?

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I am something of an observer. Over the past few years it has occurred to me, maybe most people believe what they want to believe, regardless.

In spite of any proof otherwise, they hold steadfast to that which suits him or her. I find it utterly amazing the hopeless things that folks will hang onto, simply because they want to.

It does help to understand why the theory of evolution caught on, even though not one person has ever come up with one fact to back it up, only speculations, suppositions and more theory.

I am convinced Darwin, himself, tried to prove that which he knew to be true wasn’t, even to the day he died. It was as if, if he could prove evolution, it would disprove God and the Bible.

He never proved evolution. It is still only a theory, but one presented everywhere as fact. I suspect as Darwin’s death grew near, he feared he was going to be facing real judgment from God.

Even so, he never had any idea how he had set the world upside down. And now, very much of the world believes his theory, not because of any proof but because it is what the world wants to believe.

For if evolution is true, then there is no God, there is no 10 Commandments, and mankind is just another animal. It becomes a world where the laws are all from man and murder is the same as killing any other animal.

Indeed, the scopes monkey trial was the next step in proving we all came from the apes. And they have tossed God out of our classrooms, not because of what is believed, but because of what they want to believe.

It does make evolution something to believe in. That is to say, because there is no proof, it’s not science but religion.

Cats!

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I put the new AC in and everything was cool. Not apologing for the pun. Then I heard a noise. I looked over and saw the cat had broken through between the window side and AC. She tore the plastic and I saw there was no way to repair it.

Now did I hurt the cat? No. I looked the situation over and developed a plan, which didn’t work. I developed another plan, which worked even worse. Then I developed a third plan, which worked out really good.

As I look the thing over, I almost wonder if I should market it. It would definitely need some dressing up, but it is better than those things that came with the AC.

The hitch of course, the one that came with the AC came with no charge. If I am to make money I would have to justify charging a couple of few dollars. Too bad, but it is just kinda the way capitalism works.

So as I sit in my recliner feebly entering this post into my computer pad, I also consider how I just might make my millions off my new idea. And of course, the cat that inspired it, sits innocently curled up, contented and asleep in my lap.

Cat & Big Mouse

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Don’t have the foggiest, but every time we go somewhere, we have a cat that stations herself behind my almost new Nissan EV. Then upon returning, of all things she sits in the drive just before we pull into it.

As silent as the car is, I can’t imagine what clues her to our approach. However, coming or going, I must put the cat into the car long enough to keep her from getting run over.

Now, there is a new hitch. With her in the car, I back out and put her back in the yard. Then she runs and gets back in the car faster than I can.

It is a little inconvenience but mainly, I would just like to know why. I am also open to this little cat and mice game this feline likes.

Matthew 24:6 and ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars

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Many sermons have been preached on the passage including these words. Many times, the words have been quoted.

It’s not my intention to preach, just put forward an observation. As near as I can tell, things will unfold more rapidly from beginning to end.

As I look over recent history, I certainly see the wars and rumors of wars. Over the centuries, there have been a lot of them. A person could spend a lifetime doing nothing more than studying wars: what led up to them, the sequence of the war and results.

However, it does seem as if things have picked up some. If you look from 1900 on, there have been wars and rumors almost continually. Even during the time just before WWI threats were quickly building.

While there were no world wars for a while after the 1st war ended, there were skirmishes all over. In addition, no sooner did the first war end things started shaping up for the 2nd. In a little over a decade Hitler already started establishing his empire as did Mussolini. Hirohito was very close behind.

Though it was hoped peace would follow, Korea, Vietnam and revolution in China soon followed. Then the rumors of war came with the Iron curtain and the Bamboo curtain.

Then, suddenly, we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq, twice.

Israel has had it’s own wars. The seven day war, Yom Kippur war, a few skirmishes to the north and south.

And yes. How can a person forget nine-eleven. Maybe not a war but I think it does quality as a rumor of war.

I am sure I left some out.

As I said. Just an observation.