Five Thoughts

 1.  This 'war' down south with Venezuela?

Look, the cartel guys are thinking all this chatter they do....routes,  instructions, packages....is secure.  It's not....the Pentagon is listening in and have the schedule and route.

Trying to say it's a war?  Well....it's been at this level since Reagan's days.  Nothing new.  

Along the Caribbean/Gulf of America and east coast....along about early December....there's going to be a massive shortage of drugs going on, and junkies won't be able to afford their drugs.

2. Amazon letting 30k management jobs exit shortly?

Well...who is hiring  right now?  No one.

3.  If you've been unemployed for 6 months, and get a interview chance.....if the HR guy asks what you've been  doing  for 6 months....you need a pretty decent answer.

4. If you own a bank, and have 10,000 car loans on the books, and 7-percent are likely to fail before the 96th month (8-year loan).....the odds are you will be getting a vehicle landing in your hands.....without adequate value,  and unable to get it sold for what you want back.  Your bank will eventually fail.

5. Another .25 cents off the prime tomorrow.

Relationship With One's Self

 Some Hollywood gal came up and said she was 'self-partnered' recently.....I had to go and read up on this condition.

It refers to being intentionally single and in a some type of fulfilling relationship with oneself, rather than viewing singlehood as a temporary or negative state while waiting for a romantic partner. 

In simple terms....it's self-love and independence....no husband/wife....no BF/GF....no drama....no heartache.  

Emotional completeness without needing a partner.  Course, I am assuming she has a cat or two, or dog or two....to make up for things.

I thought about this for a while, and rationally came to the conclusion....rather than screw up things....with some dimwit who drags you along eight hours per day on some faked-up drama.....you might be better without the partner.

Inspection?

 Over the weekend, I noticed this odd Air Force story.  The top brass announced that they were ordering complete 100-percent immediate inspection of all barracks Air Force-wide.

There were two mandates.

First, if conditions were crap.....discovered in the inspection....they were to remove the 'boys-and-girls' from  the situation...ASAP.

I paused over this...thinking....maybe in the 70s and 80s....there were barracks like this (I was in one in Louisiana). By the late 1990s....I didn't think anyone could complain about conditions.

Second, if any barracks had renovation situations....list them and what'd it take to bring them up.

What drove this?  No one says much....other than new leadership entering the picture in the last six months.

What I find funny.....at least though the 1970s and 1980s....the barracks all had a once-a-week inspection.  Things like they suggest...would have been  noticed and improved.  It just makes me wonder if they halted inspections  over the past decade.