President Trump will soon travel to Atlanta and among other things they will set bail. I have thought about that. What if he decides to not post bail. I mean, he can certainly afford it. However, I don’t believe he has to.
Just what might happen? First, I doubt that anyone made any plans for it. It would mean that they would have to put the former president in jail. With him, invariably would be some Secret Service agents, maybe 5, maybe as many as 10.
Then too, just how much would it cost the county and or state. What kind of jail cell is he going to get? For him to be safe, he needs to live, sleep, shower and eat separate than the rest of the jail population.
Do you suppose, in light of the problems, they just might tell him to go to a hotel or perhaps back to Florida. Do you suppose they migh tell him to skip the bail.
As I said, a wild thought. I would like to see what would happen if Trump even made the threat not to make bond. You think that might send them into a tizzy?
President Trump would also have another big advantage. Old Joe ran his campaign from his basement. Trump will greatly out do him. He’ll run his campaign from the depths of a jail, and in a cell. It actually could be turned into a campaign slogan.
Moreover, they will have to feed Mr. Trump, 3 meals a day. I suppose they will also have to feed the secret service agents as well. They might even have to provide some kind of an operation center to work from.
Besides all this, it just might get Old Joe’s goat. He would not like Trump upstaging him. I mean, do you have any idea how much media attention it would draw.
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Relations in the Workplace
When I was younger, I saw no problem with workplace romances. I mean, how many romance novels are based on secretaries marrying their bosses? It does sound nice. Sometimes, it actually works.
After years of looking back over things, I do have a little different perspective. There are at least five possible problems that can surface with close relations in the workplace. There might be more.
- The obvious one. It has two edges. A person might show favoritism to a subordinate. I have seen this firsthand and it can get ugly. It can become a fast morale problem. On the other hand, to keep from showing favoritism, the person might be rougher on the favored one. That is almost as bad. It can hold back a person who deserves credit and advancement.
- While a relationship is great today, it might turn sour overnight. It can cause a disruption and might ever bring things to a stop in the environment. Many times, it means that one or the other; or both might have to leave.
- Fraternization during business can be slow progress and can be distracting, throughout the office. Anyone who has been around office life very long knows exactly what I mean. While the couple is supposed to be working, they just might be doing other things.
- It can result in love triangles. Now really. Is this what a manager wants in his office…outbreaks in the office of one person fighting another over the desires of the third. This can really get bad if more than three are involved.
- One or the other or both might be married. Now that’s a disaster waiting to happen. Need I explain?
I am far from being an expert in the subject. However, I have seen many instances of friction in the workplace without the romances. There is competition: anger because the other guy was promoted; so and so got the weekend off and I had to work; and so on. There is no need inviting more problems.
It is the small list of what managers have to cope with continually. I have seen it and I’m sure anyone that has had a job for a while has seen it too.
Of course, this is something to be decided by the leadership of each business. If the management can deal with, or if they think they must deal the problems, it is up to them.
However, it becomes an entirely different problem with the “office manager” is a captain and the commanding officer of a platoon. Guess what, if the battle is raging and shells are landing all around, the last thing that captain is going to want to deal with is a love triangle.
It does happen. It is the natural way of things. You get men and women in the same fox hole and the commanding officer is going to have problems. Worse yet, is if one of the people in the relationship is the captain. You talk about fireworks. You talk about moral and morale problems. Guess what? It is going to shred discipline. A well oiled company can be torn asunder just almost instantly. I mean, if you’re a corporal and you are competing with the attractive corporal who is having an affair with the captain….
It is why I don’t like women in combat. I think most of those who have seen combat firsthand will agree with me. However, it seems those experts, the ones who have never been shot at know better. That is the way they are trying to run these armed forces and they are weaker because of it. It is difficult to prove, of course because this country has not been in a really serious war in decades. The closest thing to it was Iraq, but considering the American superiority, it can hardly be classified as a serious war.
True. Some of our guys were killed, but compared to Iraq’s losses??? It was not much more than a training exercise, one in which we were able to test our equipment and tactics.
However, it doesn’t stop there. What if all those in your combat company are men. Then, right in the middle of everything, one of your men comes in and complains that the other man in his fox hole keeps hitting on him.
Guess what? When you allow homosexuals on the font lines, you get the same problems as with women, only worse. If I were a CO of a company, I certainly wouldn’t want those kinds of problems while I’m actually trying to fight a war.
As a S/Sgt in the Marines, I never had to deal with anything like that, thankfully. It was really difficult enough. Every one of the men I was in charge of wanted to be treated fairly. Being human as they were, some wanted to be treated more fairly than others.
Thank goodness, I never had to deal with romances, triangles or homosexuals. I think I would have asked for a demotion to private. I’d let others have to deal with that kind of thing, thank you.
One more, important thing to remember. When you have problems in the office, you can fire those involved. When you are in a battle and the enemy is closing on your position, you’re stuck with what you have. There’s no firing anyone. Indeed, in situations like that, a leader just might be forced to use a little physical discipline to snap those soldiers into shape. It does happen, though maybe not with the women.
Contradiction
While they meet in Nashville, TN to write new gun laws, the special prosecutor supposedly prosecuting Hunter Biden is bending over backward to keep from prosecuting a gun law we have.
This might seem odd but he explanation is simple. Old Joe knows if his son goes to prison, he might be as well. Though no one told me, I am sure that Hunter has told his Pop as much. Very likely it was worded something like this, If I go to jail, then so will you. Then again, it’s just a guess. You noticed no quotation marks because I can’t quote verbatim.
However, if you don’t believe it, maybe you can explain why Weiss is willing to risk his law license to save Hunter.
Progress
I’ve been doing some thinking. I know. As my wife says, “That is dangerous.”
However, I have lived quite a while and I’ve seen a lot of changes over those years. You might find this strange, but when I was in grade school, passenger jetliners were something talked about in Popular Mechanics. Few figured we would soon be flying coast to coast non-stop in about 6 or 7 hours. Would you believe now, a person can get on a plane in New York and fly non-stop nowadays. I actually looked up the travel time but forgot. In the days of the prop jobs, a flight between California and Hawaii was just about as far as a plane could go.
Color TV existed but it was very rare and flesh tones were often yellow or green. The grass in the football and baseball games was generally some shad of gray or even black. A color TV, at best, was about 60 or 70 pounds. It was just as well. There were very few color shows in color.
It was a time before movie ratings. All movies had to be decent. Now we have a rating. And of course, very few of them are rated G. Those that are rated PG are always pushing the envelope. On the other hand, some producers seek the R rating in order to draw more to the box office. I guess some call that progress.
Then we came up with cable, which allowed the R and X rated into our homes. I am sure there are those who call that progress.
The schools can no longer teach creationism. Instead, they must teach the religion of atheism. To be sure, the country is full of those who think of this as progress. To me, it is more like progressing in the wrong direction.
The newest, the most talked about progress these days, well, let’s just do away with the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights. It is just a bunch of old antiquated ideas anyway that were thought of centuries ago. All they do is get in the way of the new ideas. It would seem that all they do is get in the way of progress. They are simply out of phase with the bright new idea of communism.
And of course, we have changed who makes the decision. The mother can chose if the baby lives or dies instead of the baby.
How horrible the progress.
Missing the Point
There is a lot of hoopla about the way that hunter’s plea deal was thrown out. The point is that Hunter Biden was standing ready to admit to committing three major crimes. The fact that it was thrown out had not one thing to do with those three things but rather other things that he has not yet gone to court for.
This tells me two things. One, he is guilty of other things. That is why that was part of the deal. Two, that he is guilty of the three things to which he admitted, though he was not going to get anywhere near the punishment he deserved. One of those laws is a gun control law, for which the dems have been seeking. The law serves no purpose if it is not enforced, for poor and rich; for the small and highly influential. Why is it the Hunter get a break. We keep hearing no body is above the law. I guess I must assume then that Hunter is the no body they reference.
Bottom line, in essence, he is an admitted criminal, with friends in the Justice Department and a Dad in The White House.
What Recourse?
It is a question I have mauled over in my mind a few times. What happens when a person is charged with a crime and he has to mortgage the house and the wife’s wedding to pay for the defense. Then after it is over, the jury says “Not guilty,” what recourse has the man got.
He’s still left with the mortgage and, of course, he likely no longer has a job. The district attorney might send you a nice impressive apology letter, I don’t know. Just maybe it can be used to apply for another job.
So, people, like President Trump can afford the costs of lawyers. If one of those runaway district attorneys came after me, I’d have to rely on one of those lawyers provided by the state. Then, of course, if that’s not enough, then that won’t be enough.
There is a lot of power in the hands of a DA. He can break a man, though he be innocent. He can walk in and say, “Sign on the dotted line or get yourself a good lawyer; cause this is going to cost you a bundle.”
In theory, that is the purpose of the grand jury but you and I know, that rarely works. Pre-trials can help a little, but even that requires a lawyer.
Perhaps, if they come and knock on my door and tell me I’m under arrest for something I didn’t do, I’d just plead not guilty and sit there and wait for them to prove that I am. That way, I may end up in prison, but at least they won’t make me spend my last dime on the impossible.
Actually, that’s not the point. The state pays the bills for the DA. When he loses a case, he’s not out a dollar. He doesn’t lose his house and boat. He shrugs his shoulders, smiles and says, sorry. I really thought you were guilty.
I don’t know the answer to that. Like I’ve said, I have mauled it over for a while now. Maybe we need a third option for a jury. If the person charged proves his innocence, then the jury ought to come up with a decision of innocent. If that happens, the state must pay all the lawyer bills, plus 10% for the inconvenience.
Moreover, if a man can go back out into society proved innocent, he just might be able to get another job.
I’m open to suggestions. It is the best idea I have. However, we really do need to make these DAs be a bit more careful the way they throw their power around.
Please don’t get me wrong. Most DAs bend over backward in an effort to keep from putting the wrong guy in prison. It’s kind of like what I heard all the way through high school. It’s always the 10% that ruins for all the others.
Precipice
Precipice : a very steep rock face or cliff, especially a tall one. As many English words, it was borrowed from the French. From the word, we have developed the saying, on the precipice, which might not actually have anything to do with the lay of the land. That is to say, we might use the phrase to indicate that we are near a massive change, should we continue on. We might also say, if we keep going that way, we just might fall off a cliff.
Some of us, when we are told that we are headed toward a dangerous precipice, we will take note. This is true regardless if it is a physical or a figurative danger. Some simply will not heed the danger. Some go on and when they go off the cliff, they wonder why didn’t someone tell me?
Well, right here, right now someone is here to tell you. If you keep going, it’s your fault.
There are thousands of counties in the US. Each county has a prosecuting attorney of some kind. Of course, each county has a court and the means to try people who disobey the law. Sometimes these prosecutors get things wrong. Sometimes, they prosecute the wrong people. Sometimes, they prosecute when there is no crime.
Hopefully, we have judges and juries that keep such prosecutors in check. Then again these prosecutors can become determined to lock up someone simply because he dosn’t like the guy. Maybe he doesn’t like the way he combs his hair or what kind of cap he wears. Sometimes it does become political. That is the precipice of which I am writing.
When a man is elected to office, be he Republican or democrat, there are thousands of prosecutors that are of the opposite party. And so, the Republican is in danger of being charged by the democrat and the democrat is in danger of being charged by the Republicans. Hence, there is danger whoever is sworn in.
It is likely the reason that the forefathers wrote the Constitution so that the only way a president can be removed from office is by impeachment. It is why they were careful as to how this can be done. It would appear the democrats have found an end around process. Now, they not only charge President Trump, but also everyone who has been around him. It is the Midas touch in reverse.
Then, of course, should Trump regain office, just maybe he is going to start charging democrats with crimes. I don’t think so, but he might. It is a dangerous precipice. If we continue in this direction, we just might see the downfall of the greatest nation that ever was. More over, it might come suddenly. Those doomsday preppers just might want to re-check their supplies.
Our court systems are going to be filled with people being charged with being democrats or Republicans. The criminals will be ecstatic. No one will be paying any attention to them. Well, actually, the communists will be even more thrilled. They will just walk into to the mess and take over everything.
New Shot for the Virus
Recently heard about another booster shot for the China virus. If you ask me if I’m going to take it, that would be a no!
Don’t mind taking a shot or two when the effectiveness has not be proven, but this is ridiculous. After, what two or three years, not only can’t they prove it has any effectiveness, it seems obvious that the only effect it has is negative. People have died from that shot, you know. Yet, it seems it will not even slow the effect of the disease. Since I have had the shot, I have had the virus twice. I don’t think the shot works. I’d much rather take the Hydroxycloroquine. It has better proven results than the dumb shots. More important, I know it won’t kill me, as the shot might.
It is another reason I call the old man Joe. He tried to force the men in the armed forces to take an experimental drug. Those who refused to take it, he made them leave the armed forces. That’s not just nuts. That is crazy nuts. It’s one more thing he will not be able to explain to Jesus when he sees Jesus face-to-face. My best guess, from his appearances, form his mannerisms, that does not seem to be much into the future.
Recharging
I didn’t plan on another post tonight, but when I started talking about generators, the thought occurred to me that I might use a generator to recharge my new car. I am sure there are many variables that I am not aware of, but, as near as I can tell, right off the bat, I would need one that puts out 220 volts at 30 amps to charge the car in five hours… or there about. I am sure if I am wrong, someone will tell me.
The trunk of the car is big enough, though lifting it in and out might be a problem. Besides, I don’t think that is quite what Old Joe had in mind when he suggested electric cars. Still, if I am close to right, as near as I can tell, it would mean driving the car for three hours and charging the car for five.
I know I can’t possibly have the math right. I didn’t spend but a few minutes on it. Even though I know it is not practical, I do find the idea a little amusing, or is the proper word intriguing. The real point of carrying around my own recharge port is for emergencies. First. What happens if I get to the place on the map where there is suppose to be a charger and I find a sign, “out of order?”
I mean, you know, when an airplane takes off from an aircraft carrier, he is committed. He must be able to find and land on that carrier after completing his mission. There are no alternatives. Same with the car. You commit to the road trip and you are committed to finding a place that can and will recharge your car. Indeed, it just might be almost as difficult as landing that big jet on a carrier on a calm sea during daylight.
It is fine for me. I stay around the area. I know places where I can charge the car. I don’t need to recharge it for another week or so after that. I write this to let others know who are considering the idea of going electric. As near as I can tell, the infrastructure is just not quite ready.
My original idea was that gas stations would start having charging stations installed. That is a problem. At best the car will take 40 minutes to charge. While that is occurring, the car is occupying that real estate. That is an expensive proposition.
The more likely approach, and the one that seems to be taking place is that the chargers are being installed at restaurants and hotels. Some restaurants welcome the traffic. They sell more hamburgers. The car is going to take up the real estate anyway while the driver and family is eating. Sometimes this works out well but not always.
The hotel is more likely to work well. The driver can pull in for the night. While the car is charging, the driver is getting some needed shuteye. In the morning, the driver gets in his fully charged car and off he goes.
The thing is, what happens when you get to the hotel or restaurant and find out the charger is broke, being used by someone else, or, maybe the map your using got it wrong. Now you’re looking for another charger. If you bring along your own generator. No problem. You get out the generator, start it and hook it up to the car.
Five hours later, you can come back, pack up the generator and take off.
Well, there is one more possible complication. You know that friend of Old Joe. The thief that the judge refused to put in jail. Well, he’s on the loose and he just found your generator and ran off with it. It seems he thinks he can put it to use better than you.
It’s sort of the problem with generators. If you don’t nail them down, they have a tendency to wonder off, sort of, kind of, all by themselves. Then of course, no one sees it. No one knows which way it went. Now you just lost your generator. Worse, the thief didn’t even let the charge complete. You now have three hundred miles to go on twenty mile charge. That will not work.
Sounds like time to call a tow truck, or Old Joe. Which one do you think will be more reliable?
Second Thoughts
A few years ago, I posted a true story about a man who came in my house with a handgun. I called to my wife to call the police. Fortunately, the man ran off without firing a shot.
Since the occurrence, I have mauled it over in my mind a few times. Well, actually many times. At any rate, today, the idea came to mind that what I should have called out to my wife was, “Bring out the 12 gauge and make sure it’s loaded.” I told my wife the idea and she laughed. That means it is funny because, these days, she hardly ever laughs unless it is at me.
At any rate, I said all that to introduce my main thought. My guess is that most people who use a gun in the commission of a crime use it simply to scare the victim. Usually it works. In my case, I did throw the man a little bit of a curve. First, I told my wife to call the police and second, I soon had two sixty + pound dogs next to me. The police arrived in less than 3 minutes and they couldn’t find the guy. He pulled a disappearing act. He didn’t want to stick around and play twenty questions with the officers. Oh, and by the way, he was fortunate, I didn’t have a 12 gauge shotgun. At that range, they can do a lot of damage to a person.
So, (as with my previous post) I have come up with a really good idea on how to reduce the use of guns. Make sure that any time a person uses a gun in the commission of a crime, he gets 5 years tacked on in the federal pen, whether he means to us it or not, whether the gun is loaded or not, whether the gun is real or not…something that looks like one will do, even if it is carved out of soap and and doused with shoe polish. The extra five years will make a person think more about using the gun. Conceivably, it just might make the person think a second time about the robbery. On the other hand, he just might use a rubber knife. Those things can be scary too.
To be sure, there is another way to decrease gun violence. Decrease drug abuse. Oddly, it would seem they don’t want to do that. I mean, drug abuse is a non-violent crime. The druggy is not hurting anyone but himself, right. Well, that is until he runs out of drugs, until he runs out of money to buy drugs. Then guess what. He will resort to burglary, robbery, and even murder to get that ten spot you carry around with you. I suggest that close to half of all crime is drug related. I have talked to many in law enforcement that agree with me. It’s not just a number I pulled out of my hat.
Then again, I guess there is one more way to deal with that hoodlum with the gun. When he breaks into our house, we can use the 12 gauge on him. He won’t be causing anyone any problems. The hitch there is that when we use the 12 gauge on him, the district attorney just might come around asking questions. He might even decide to put you in prison. I mean, “Did you really need to use a shotgun on him.”, “You should have called the police.” I suspect he has two or three other suggestions.
The truth of the matter is, as long as the bad guys can use guns and get away with it, they will, regardless of the law. Bottom line, let’s just get the criminals off the street. That is the only sure way to stop gun crime.
Then again, that is not the goal of the dems. Their real goal is to disarm the populace. It is always the way the person who wants to rule the world thinks. In the old days they would not let the surfs have swords or such. That way, they don’t need to imprison the criminal element. They will have us all imprisoned. They will have us all under their control.
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