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.
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.
Does Anything?
I guess, when I was young, my father did. The fear of failing grades in school did.
Certainly when I had a wife and two kids to support, that motivated.
Nowadays, it is a little difficult to get me out of the house. If it weren’t for my wife, I’d likely stay at home for weeks. I try to take her out at least once a day. Sometimes we go out two or even three times. We really should go out more often.
I have looked for a place for old folks to get together but it seems there aren’t many around here. Most of our friends have either moved away or passed on. Most of the neighborhood aren’t interested in hanging around with an couple like us.
My wife loves to talk, even when she has nothing to say. We go out to eat and she will strike up conversations with anyone. Sometimes, the strangers don’t understand her, but most remain friendly.
The way I figure it right now, my job #1 is making spoiling her for as long as I can. If I can do anything else, that will be good too.
One Thing Learned About Our Taste in Movies
Not too many with the same taste in movies as me. Looking back over the results, it looked pretty broad. Few of the writers had the same favorites. I guess that means most of us have varied taste.
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.
Very Interesting
Over the years I have seen many good movies and to call out just 10 would be very difficult. I guess “Fiddler on the Roof,” has to be my very favorite. Overall it just had a very good plot, which quite frankly opened my eyes to the way the Jews were treated in Russia. Before the movie, I simply had no idea.
More than that, it had a lot of humor, far more than I expected. If you saw it, I’m sure you know of what I speak. The music is very likely the best or nearly the best of all times. It was very good, but more, there was a lot of it. Many of my favorite songs came from “Fiddler on the Roof,” especially Sunrise, Sunset; Matchmaker; and If I were a rich man. It is a movie I have watched many times.
Then there is “Support Your Local Sheriff.” This one really surprised me. The movie just simply had me laughing almost from beginning to end. It is likely the best thing James Garner did. Also, loved Walter Brennan. The bit with red paint and the jail really caught me by surprise. The cannon at the end, though…it still makes me laugh at it as I think about it.
It’s kind of a toss up between “Support Your Local Sheriff” and “Kelly’s Heroes” for second place. Perhaps the Local Sheriff was more humorous, but “Kelly’s Heroes” had more of a real plot. Besides, I really love the theme song, “Burning Bridges.” I could just about listen to it all day.
From here on out it sort of gets jumbled up. There are the Musicals of Oscar and Hammerstein and those of Sigmund Romberg. Most don’t even know who Romberg is. Nonetheless, Desert Song is my favorite of his. However, I have repeatedly watched “New Moon” and “Naughty Murrieta” many times. Should I live long enough, I’ll likely watch them many more times.
Incidentally, Oscar and Hammerstein did not seem to be afraid of attacking a few social matters of the day. The lieutenant took up with the native woman and the nurse married the old French man with the native children. Most movies of the day simply didn’t get into things like that. Nowadays, it is taken for granted.
I suspect that there are many movies I have slighted. Every now and again something will happen to make me remember.
Oh, yes. Can’t forget Bob Hope in “The Pale Face,” “Eight on the Lam” and “The Seven Little Foys.”
As I said; I is difficult narrowing it to 10. Maybe 25.
Sorry folks. Just cannot include “Gone With the Wind” or “Ben Hur.” Had a hard time staying awake through them.
Key-less
This afternoon, the wife and I got in the almost new (about a month old now) Nissan Ariya. It’s just really hard to break old habits. I got my keys out and actually started to insert them in the ignition. That would not work and I knew it. Still it took a while for me to realize error.
You see, the car has no place for an ignition key. In fact, normally it doesn’t use a key at all. Because I had a fob in my pocket, I was able to simply touch the door handle with my finger to unlock the door. Then once inside, the normal procedure is to put my foot on the break and press the power button, (about the size of a quarter just to the right of the steering wheel). Then I put the car in reverse to back out of the driveway. Without the fob, none of this would occur.
I don’t totally understand all the workings, but it would appear to me as if it is as close as possible to being the highest security possible for a car. It operates on a proximity basis. When the fob gets close enough, I can control the car. If I don’t have the fob and the door is locked, I cannot unlock it. If I push the power button, it will have no effect.
The beauty of the system is that I am very unlikely to ever lock the fob in the car. I just put it in my pocket and keep it there. When I leave the car, it is unlikely I’d leave the fob behind. I don’t have children, but if I did, it would be almost impossible to lock them in the car with the keys.
In fact the system is so good, I would love to have it in my home. If fact, I have no idea why they haven’t had something like that already, not only for homes but also for businesses. Well, it that case, I would assume the fob would need an on/off switch to keep the door from being unlocked while you are inside.
I asked about that at the Nissan dealer. He told me that the system knows when I am inside. Once I am in and the door is locked, I am safe, that is unless someone broke the window.
The system they have is one of the biggest reasons for me to chose a Nissan. Never did enjoy carrying around all those keys. Never did like the idea of locking myself out of my car because I left the keys in the ignition. Maybe it isn’t the perfect system, but it has to be close to it. It gives me the security of locks while still allowing me the convenience of no locks. If I am in a hurry to get in my car at night, with my hands full, there is no fumbling for keys.
There is of course, no steering column lock as on most modern cars. However, I tried to turn the wheel while the power is off and it is just almost impossible. I don’t know if it is intentional, but it may as well be.
Now, having said all this, I must back up and say there are two exceptions. First, the car can be unlocked by Nissan in an emergency. Secondly, for those who get the app to download on their phone, not only can the doors be locked or unlocked remotely, but it is also possible to control climate control remotely. I don’t have any idea why you would want to, but you can do it from anywhere you can get an internet connection for your phone. I’m not sure about needing the internet connection by the car. It might use satellite.
Now, if I can just get used to leaving my keys in my pocket when I want to go somewhere.
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.
My Motive to Write
I found this prompt intriguing. When I was a kid, I hated writing. Now I have several full sized books. Some people actually enjoy reading them. However, it has gotten to the point I would write if no one read any of it. Needless to say, hardly anyone does.
I originally started writing posts in hopes of bringing some to my author’s page. Then, of course, the idea was that I would start selling books by the millions. Unfortunately for me, it didn’t happen that way, although I have had some success in getting a few more to read my books.
My first book, “The Secret of the Ring,” I began in the mid eighties in hopes that I might discourage people from abusing drugs. The hope that someone might enjoy it was somewhat secondary.
Some people liked the book and encouraged a sequel. Now I have about 35 and I am working on two more. Unfortunately, I don’t have the money for a good professional editor. I have problems with words like there, their, and they’re. I know which ones to use but if I am not really careful, I’ll use the wrong one.
Then I see this question, “What do you enjoy about writing.” I’ll tell you. I don’t know. I simply did not realize till now I had not thought about it. I guess, to some degree, it is in hopes of doing some good, but it’s more. I just sit down at a keyboard and, next thing I know, words start appearing on the screen.
The hitch is that they are not always the right words. Worse, sometimes I leave words out or I use too many of them. I have a tendency to use 12 words when 8 are better. There have been a few times, while proof reading, I can’t figure out what I was trying to say. I end up having to rewrite a page or two. No one, not even I will know what my original thought was.
Then there are times it simply does not turn out the way I want it. I restarted “The Other Mission” many times, throwing away 50 or 60 pages at a time. One time I have it starting out one country. The next time, I started out in another country. I’m still not really happy with it, but, if you like a story twist, you will like this one. As I wrote, even I didn’t believe it. Yet it all worked out perfectly. I wish I could say it was as I intended.
I guess, in a way that is one reason I write. I rarely use outlines. As I write, the story unfolds before my eyes somewhat as if I were reading the story.
Also, strange as it may seem, I try to take on the characterization of each character. It means, at times, I must think as a villain. It sort of scares me to realize how much I enjoy it.
When I started the posts, I explained from the beginning that I had no intention of writing on any one thing. Sometimes, it’s politics. Other times, it’s Christianity. I have hoped to do some good on both subjects.
Then, of course, there are the advertising and advertisers. Sometimes they can be really dumb. I guess one of my latest subjects I’ve been hammering on is the advertising of marijuana products on TV and radio. Some would consider that progress. Many of the same people like the idea of letting dangerous criminals out without bail. It is sort of a pattern with them. The never want to take a good look at the consequences.
It has likely done little good for me to get on my soapbox and write. However, it doesn’t stop me from trying. If somehow, maybe by accident, I do some good, I’ll settle for that.
I know I didn’t really answer the question. Then again, when I don’t understand it myself, how can I.
Oh, just before posting this, I thought one reason to write. Legit complaints. I hope, some of those CEOs will read what I wrote. Then maybe, just maybe they will stop packaging things so we need a butcher knife to open them. (That is dangerous you know)
I found this prompt intriguing. When I was a kid, I hated writing. Now I have several full sized books. Some people actually enjoy reading them. However, it has gotten to the point I would write if no one read any of it. Needless to say, hardly anyone does.I originally started writing posts in hopes of bringing some to my author’s page. Then, of course, the idea was that I would start selling books by the millions. Unfortunately for me, it didn’t happen that way, although I have had some success in getting a few more to read my books.My first book, “The Secret of the Ring,” I began in the mid eighties in hopes that I might discourage people from abusing drugs. The hope that someone might enjoy it was somewhat secondary.Some people liked the book and encouraged a sequel. Now I have about 35 and I am working on two more. Unfortunately, I don’t have the money for a good professional editor. I have problems with words like there, their, and they’re. I know which ones to use but if I am not really careful, I’ll use the wrong one.Then I see this question, “What do you enjoy about writing.” I’ll tell you. I don’t know. I simply did not realize till now I had not thought about it. I guess, to some degree, it is in hopes of doing some good, but it’s more. I just sit down at a keyboard and, next thing I know, words start appearing on the screen.The hitch is that they are not always the right words. Worse, sometimes I leave words out or I use too many of them. I have a tendency to use 12 words when 8 are better. There have been a few times, while proof reading, I can’t figure out what I was trying to say. I end up having to rewrite a page or two. No one, not even I will know what my original thought was.Then there are times it simply does not turn out the way I want it. I restarted “The Other Mission” many times, throwing away 50 or 60 pages at a time. One time I have it starting out one country. The next time, I started out in another country. I’m still not really happy with it, but, if you like a story twist, you will like this one. As I wrote, even I didn’t believe it. Yet it all worked out perfectly. I wish I could say it was as I intended.I guess, in a way that is one reason I write. I rarely use outlines. As I write, the story unfolds before my eyes somewhat as if I were reading the story.Also, strange as it may seem, I try to take on the characterization of each character. It means, at times, I must think as a villain. It sort of scares me to realize how much I enjoy it.When I started the posts, I explained from the beginning that I had no intention of writing on any one thing. Sometimes, it’s politics. Other times, it’s Christianity. I have hoped to do some good on both subjects.Then, of course, there are the advertising and advertisers. Sometimes they can be really dumb. I guess one of my latest subjects I’ve been hammering on is the advertising of marijuana products on TV and radio. Some would consider that progress. Many of the same people like the idea of letting dangerous criminals out without bail. It is sort of a pattern with them. The never want to take a good look at the consequences.It has likely done little good for me to get on my soapbox and write. However, it doesn’t stop me from trying. If somehow, maybe by accident, I do some good, I’ll settle for that.I know I didn’t really answer the question. Then again, when I don’t understand it myself, how can I.Oh, just before posting this, I thought one reason to write. Legit complaints. I hope, some of those CEOs will read what I wrote. Then maybe, just maybe they will stop packaging things so they can’t be opened without t butcher knife. (That is dangerous you know)
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