Warping the Concepts

You see large crowds with big professionally made signs with catchy sayings. What you’re unaware of is that about 75% of those in the crowd are homeless and or drug dependents who are there because of the dollar or two they’ve been given. Well, maybe they were promised a “free” meal.

Besides, this, of course, those working the cameras are coached on the right shots to make crowd look bigger. Moreover, the people in the crowd are told to hold the signs higher when the cameras are pointed at them.

The dems learned the trick a long time ago. I call it warping the concepts. It makes it look like something has far more backing. After a while, it becomes self fulfilling. People like getting on board with a winning idea, right or wrong. Used to be called getting on the bandwagon.

On the other hand, when someone tries to set up a Republican demonstration, the videos are taken earlier, before everyone gets there. They use angles that make the crowd look smaller. Then too, they have actual real, demonstrators. None are paid to be there.

Finally, most Republicans have real jobs where they must be or they will go hungry. Many of the dems are on the dole anyway. They don’t need to punch a time clock. Therefore, it is more difficult for Republicans to get away and demonstrate.

It all works together to warp the concepts of the demonstrations.

They Still Haven’t Figured it Out

The minimum wage for California fast food workers is now 20 dollars an hour. I would have thunk they figured it out. They obviously didn’t.

As I have said, I am not a prophet, but I don’t need to be to predict their future.

a. more U-Hauls will be leaving California.

b. less people will will be visiting the California McDonald’s

c. the number of tourists visiting California will decrease, which will counter all that advertising they’ve been doing.

d. finally, there will be far less fast food workers in the state. This will be because there will not be nearly as many fast food employers.

Let’s get this straight. The real purpose of any business is gain revenue by providing a product or service at a profit. Where there is no profit, I assure you, there will be no business, there will be no product or service, and there will be no customers. It’s kinda the way things work, unless the government gets in the way.

I’m Confused, Again

I keep hearing that when the Francis Scott Key Bridge was virtually destroyed, we lost the use of our biggest port. I see no reason why anyone should lie, but I thought that title went to the port of Los Angeles, the second busiest to Long Beach.

Well, I guess I could still be wrong but according to Mister Internet, I am right. Moreover, the port in question isn’t even in the top 10. NY/NJ port is the biggest on the east coast with Savanah and Miami next in line.

If the internet and I are correct why are all these reporters telling us all these fibs? If they are fibbing, just maybe we should insist on a correction and an apology.

Do you think we’ll get one? I’m not holding my breath. Is anyone else.

Swimming

Yup. That’s right. Moved to the wrong part of the country. Can’t even think about swimming in the Mississippi River. People have tried it. Not many have lived to tell about it. The closest decent lake is Sardis and it takes over an hour to get there.

I’m not all that great at it anyway. The neat part is, when I do swim, it’s a real workout. It takes 3 or 4 times the energy for me to go as far as others to travel the same distance.

My younger son had swimming lessons and he makes it look effortless. Now, I ask you. Can a person get any real exercise that way?

The best part about swimming for a workout, it’s usually real cool.

Daily writing prompt
What’s the most fun way to exercise?

Just Use a Drill

Are you tired of pulling on lawn mower chords to start them. I am. I solved my problem by going electric. Most folks don’t like that approach. I don’t know why. Mine works good and requires very little maintenance. For an old man, that’s kind of important.

I knew a man that had a little different approach. He took the cover off top of the mower, which exposed a large nut. When he needed to start the mower, he used a drill, that’s right, an electric hand drill.

I can’t say anything for the safety, but it worked for him. He had the adapter and a socket on the drill and the mower came to life every time for him. As soon as it did, he took the drill away and proceeded mowing.

As I think back over it, it makes me wonder, are we over engineering the self starting mower. Maybe all that is needed is a way to safely use a drill.

It sure would be handy for us 76-year-olds. We kinda get tired of pulling chords on those easy-to-start mowers, which are not so easy to start.

Can Our Society Afford Lawyers

When we first moved into Desoto County, there was a nice pool in Southaven we went to regularly. It closed. The cost of insurance made it prohibitive to remain open.

There was a nice spring that was converted to a lake over near Olive Branch. They even shipped in some nice white sand. For some the spring water was a bit cold, but for us it couldn’t be beat on a hot summer day. It closed. The cost of insurance was to high.

I guess after a while they will need to close the lakes and streams. Those insurance bills, you know. Then too, there are those pools they have at hotels for their guests. They have to pay insurance companies too.

I have singled out but a small segment of a very wide industry. Trucking companies, railroads, airlines all must carry insurance. Retailers, doctors and even private motorists must carry insurance.

Every time someone makes a claim it cost the insurance company. When the claims become too high or to frequent, the insurance company must raise the rates, cancel customers or go out of business.

I hear ads every day, effectively saying, let’s go after the insurance companies. They have endless supplies of money. If that attitude continues, insurance companies will go bankrupt and businesses will have to shut down. Then, of course, we will have to give up driving. We won’t be able to buy insurance at any price.

Besides, auto manufacturers will go out of business. They won’t be able operate their factories, or ship their cars if they could build them.

The grocery stores would have to close down and the druggists will have to lock everything up. Retailers cannot operate without insurance. The first big lawsuit would take ever penny from them.

It does beg the question, can our nation afford the money hungry lawyers? Or maybe I should ask the question, how long can we afford them before our society collapses?

Useless Information

I don’t even remember what I was watching but I heard a word I hadn’t heard in ages, nixie tubes. When I was in junior high and high school, it was a common term to me. Now, a person would have to search high and low to find a person who knows the word, let alone what it is.

Of course, I knew the word and I actually know, conceptually, how they work. However, they were all but well on the way to being replaced by the LED by 1980. Yet, had we not had Nixie tubes in the 50s and 60s, it would have made the computer revolution much more difficult.

I’m not going to tell you about it. It is useless information today. Yet, here I am, carrying this useless info around in my memory for no reason whatsoever. It isn’t lingering there by itself. You might find this odd, but I can build circuits using vacuum tubes, though it will do me no good. Easier, faster, cheaper and better circuits can be purchased.

So, here I am, wondering around with all this wonderful useless information in my mind taking up precious space.

It makes me wonder, would I be better off if I could rid my mind of the useless information and push more current more useful info into it. Guess that’s not up to me. Here I am, carrying around all this useless info. Then, when I want to use a very useful word, I search my mind without success, and I stand there at the counter, looking like an idiot, trying to order mashed potatoes.

Worse, when I want a tuna sandwich, I say turkey, and visa-versa. I will say one person’s name when I mean the other and know it immediately.

If you see the wrong word now and then in one of my posts, it’s likely not because I don’t know better. Sometimes, it just is my mind gets cross wired. If you think I’m bad when I write, it is far worse when I speak.

Just Words

The dems call it hush money. In the beginning Republicans fought the improper terminology but had very little luck. Today, on Fox News Sunday, they called it hush money.

Wrong though it might be, the deception is about 80 to 90 percent, which proves Lincoln was right. You can fool some of the people all of the time. I am sure that Shannon Bream knows it’s not hush money. She is a smart woman. I am sure she knows the difference between hush money and a Non-disclosure agreement, a legal term involving a legal and binding contract.

Now, it brings to mind, just why did she say, “hush money?” Most professionals call the agreements NDAs. It’s short for Non-disclosure Agreements.

I’m not a fan of people who twist words to deceive countless millions. It is disobedience of the Commandment in whole sale. It is done in greed of power.

Bream should know better. she was a lawyer. She might have even arranged NDAs.

So why did she use hush money. Was it because she was told to. Maybe, in her heart, she considers it hush money. I don’t know and likely never will. Regardless, she just told me, and everyone, she is not above aiding the real criminals. Moreover, she has made it clear that she just might be voting Democrat this November.

It is just another reason I am losing faith in Fox News, as well as Bream.

I know they are just words. However, misused words, abused words can help the cause of wrong and hurt the cause of the right.

Why Is There Air?

When I was a boy and people still knew how write humor, I saw a movie in which a college woman was going around the house asking why is there air, apparently something she picked up in college.

Her younger brother had the right idea. He said everyone knows what air is for, filling footballs and basketballs.

Okay, maybe he didn’t have it quite right but he was maybe a little more practical. Obviously, the Lord provided air for us, the animals and plants. Filling balls and incidentally tires seems a side benefit.

The characteristics of air is really very critical. Now, I am wondering just how that came about by accident, like the big bang theory would suggest.

When God created the earth He knew what He was doing. He made it before plants and animals, and man. Moreover, He made it with just the right mix of gases and the atmosphere had just the right thickness, just enough to provide the right air pressure for us.

We, as humans, survive on planet earth primarily because there is air. It also works out well that we can use it for planes too. Isn’t that nice. I guess that does sort of explain why there’s air.

We Call It Easter

Many say we shouldn’t. Wasn’t Easter a pagan holiday? When I was a little boy, Easter was dying eggs and looking for boiled eggs not so well hidden. It was big chocolate Easter bunnies and little marshmallow eggs. And of course lifeless, colorful, plastic grass.

Of course, back then I didn’t know much about anything. To tell the truth, I don’t know much more now. I do know this. Had it not been for the eggs and the bunnies, I likely would have never have known about Jesus and I would likely have never known about salvation.

The Roman Empire was a huge brutal civilization. There was very little good about it. Yet, within about 300 years, the plan of salvation was known almost worldwide. The great news spread so fast that it virtually took over Rome.

I can’t say for sure, but it seems to me Christianity spread about as fast or faster than any religion. It likely would not have spread so rapidly in a land of many languages and separate nations. Just maybe God planned it that way. I can only guess.

I would much prefer the day be called reserection day, or maybe empty tomb day. Sorry, best I can think of at the moment.

Guess the main thing is, as long as Easter keeps filling churches, as long as people continue to learn the plan of salvation because of it, as long as people continue to accept Jesus as their savior, who am I to complain. If God chooses to use Easter, who am I to complain?

Besides, I do like chocolate Easter bunnies. It does help to remind me, the day we call Easter is the day Jesus had victory over death so that I will live, forever.