Florida Democratic Governor nominee Andrew Gillum spoke up and said that for Florida needs a Medicare for all system, saying: “we would have to do it as a confederation of states. We could not do it by ourselves solely here in the state of Florida.”
I sat there and read the comment five times....a black Democratic candidate saying....yes, we need a confederacy of states. Course, he meant something different, but here's the thing....100,000 idiot Floridian redneck guys will read this comment and think....yeah, he means a Jefferson Davis 'Confederacy'.
Well....this is how stupid we've become and how we use words in the wrong way.
Over the next month or two.....thousands of Florida guys will gather at bars and backyard grillings.....chatting over the enthusiasm for the confederacy, and we finally have a guy to offer bringing it back.
Social media? I suspect the Russians are hard at work....trying to figure some social media message to chat up about the confederacy and how Gillum is the guy who will deliver the new confederacy. Some crazy Russian will suggest that it requires a black guy to bring back the confederacy and the idiots will all buy into this fake confederacy idea, with the black guy in charge.
Thursday, 30 August 2018
CNN Story
In the last hour, I sat and looked over some clip of CNN's Camerota talking to John Sununu....over John McCain.
She spent about four minutes doing the honor-McCain chatter, then she shifts over to the anti-Trump chatter.
Sununu? He basically says no....he's not there to chat over anti-Trump stuff.
Camerota pushed back, and Sununu kinda smiled, and pushed her back a full step or two.
Here's the general spiral of CNN....it's like a network of 9-year-old kids who were put in charge of something and there's no adult leadership in the room. They fumble around....impress you with graphics....then bring on some characters who were apparently noted journalists of the 1970s/1980s....who most people don't really recognize today, and seem to think they can sell you something without any factual information.
She spent about four minutes doing the honor-McCain chatter, then she shifts over to the anti-Trump chatter.
Sununu? He basically says no....he's not there to chat over anti-Trump stuff.
Camerota pushed back, and Sununu kinda smiled, and pushed her back a full step or two.
Here's the general spiral of CNN....it's like a network of 9-year-old kids who were put in charge of something and there's no adult leadership in the room. They fumble around....impress you with graphics....then bring on some characters who were apparently noted journalists of the 1970s/1980s....who most people don't really recognize today, and seem to think they can sell you something without any factual information.
Court Story
I sat this morning and gazed over news, and this one small item lay there....a C-SP*N/PBS survey. They went out and asked around a thousand 'likely voters' (hint: not regular people but people who say they usually vote)....about how familiar they were with the Supreme Court.
Roughly fifty percent could not name a SINGLE member of the current court.
I would suggest that if you'd based the poll off just regular people at some flea-market....it would have even gone down to maybe 20-percent naming one single guy/gal off the Supreme Court.
But the real question here....is it important to know the members of the court? Basically....NO. It doesn't change your life or improve your disposition. It doesn't comfort you at 11 PM at night when your husband is still out drinking, or having to talk to some idiot teacher in the school because of a poor grading system with your kids. Frankly, it doesn't matter for the bulk of us.
For journalists, or the PBS crowd? Well....they'd like for people to get all pepped up and care.
Can folks name all the NFL teams? I would imagine among likely male-voters...more than sixty percent can name two-thirds of the teams.
Can folks name their two senators? I would take a guess that barely a third of all likely voters can name both senators from their state.
Does any of this matter.....that's really the big question.
Roughly fifty percent could not name a SINGLE member of the current court.
I would suggest that if you'd based the poll off just regular people at some flea-market....it would have even gone down to maybe 20-percent naming one single guy/gal off the Supreme Court.
But the real question here....is it important to know the members of the court? Basically....NO. It doesn't change your life or improve your disposition. It doesn't comfort you at 11 PM at night when your husband is still out drinking, or having to talk to some idiot teacher in the school because of a poor grading system with your kids. Frankly, it doesn't matter for the bulk of us.
For journalists, or the PBS crowd? Well....they'd like for people to get all pepped up and care.
Can folks name all the NFL teams? I would imagine among likely male-voters...more than sixty percent can name two-thirds of the teams.
Can folks name their two senators? I would take a guess that barely a third of all likely voters can name both senators from their state.
Does any of this matter.....that's really the big question.
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Business Management Style by Mennonites
My brother and I had a short chat on business changes, and I offered the opinion that one might want to adapt to the Mennonite business culture. The thing is.....no one has ever written a book on the topic. I sat and pondered over the subject, coming to ten basic Mennonite business topics:
1. Everything you do....has to be done in a frugal way. You would not go and put a $500,000 statue up in the entrance of the building. Nor would you offer leased cars to any of the executives. Nor would you let people stay in four-star hotels while on business trips. Nor would you pay some loser-employee more than what they are actually worth.
2. Never overstate your intentions. Mennonites don't hype things much....either it works or it doesn't. If you developed a product that does exactly what it was supposed to do....you simply stand there with your arms crossed against your chest, grinning from ear to ear, and state your success in a very limited way.
3. No booze or drugs. Clean lifestyle is expected, period. If you need to celebrate something....coffee and cheesecake are acceptable.
4. Trashy talk and how to handle it. Basically, you take the employee into a private toilet area, and wash their mouth out with soap. If they can't handle it....take them to HR and let them go.
5. A true Mennonite comes into work prepared to stuff twelve hours of work into a normal eight-hour day.
6. In a true Mennonite business culture....every joke that is told in the work-place....is clean enough to tell Grandma.
7. In a Mennonite work-place, you don't waste money on AC or extra heat. You keep the windows open. And none of those modern screens for the windows either.
8. If you cheated the customer.....you should expect to be shunned.
9. You tend to rise at 4 AM, drink an abundance of coffee, face the rising sun with almost tears in your eyes that you can only work till the sun goes down, and feel enthusiasm burning in your gut.
10. You feel a sense of wickedness and sorrow, when having to touch anything built with technology beyond 1890. The guilt bothers you daily, and you just hope that folks wise up eventually and resettle to the 1890 way of life and business.
1. Everything you do....has to be done in a frugal way. You would not go and put a $500,000 statue up in the entrance of the building. Nor would you offer leased cars to any of the executives. Nor would you let people stay in four-star hotels while on business trips. Nor would you pay some loser-employee more than what they are actually worth.
2. Never overstate your intentions. Mennonites don't hype things much....either it works or it doesn't. If you developed a product that does exactly what it was supposed to do....you simply stand there with your arms crossed against your chest, grinning from ear to ear, and state your success in a very limited way.
3. No booze or drugs. Clean lifestyle is expected, period. If you need to celebrate something....coffee and cheesecake are acceptable.
4. Trashy talk and how to handle it. Basically, you take the employee into a private toilet area, and wash their mouth out with soap. If they can't handle it....take them to HR and let them go.
5. A true Mennonite comes into work prepared to stuff twelve hours of work into a normal eight-hour day.
6. In a true Mennonite business culture....every joke that is told in the work-place....is clean enough to tell Grandma.
7. In a Mennonite work-place, you don't waste money on AC or extra heat. You keep the windows open. And none of those modern screens for the windows either.
8. If you cheated the customer.....you should expect to be shunned.
9. You tend to rise at 4 AM, drink an abundance of coffee, face the rising sun with almost tears in your eyes that you can only work till the sun goes down, and feel enthusiasm burning in your gut.
10. You feel a sense of wickedness and sorrow, when having to touch anything built with technology beyond 1890. The guilt bothers you daily, and you just hope that folks wise up eventually and resettle to the 1890 way of life and business.
Tuesday, 28 August 2018
Amount of Time to Hype McCain?
The news media has until noon on Thursday to hype Senator McCain. At that point, the funeral is done, and only the matter of the Governor picking the short-term successor remains.
Does anyone care about the hype? No.
I would take a guess that forty-percent of all Democrats saw nothing much to appreciate about Senator McCain. And I suspect at least fifty percent of all Republicans feel the same way. The fake hype won't really do much to change public opinion of the guy. Most folks are locked in for respecting or disrespecting the guy.
Does anyone care about the hype? No.
I would take a guess that forty-percent of all Democrats saw nothing much to appreciate about Senator McCain. And I suspect at least fifty percent of all Republicans feel the same way. The fake hype won't really do much to change public opinion of the guy. Most folks are locked in for respecting or disrespecting the guy.
Consulting the Right People
As a kid going up, we had a pair of brothers in the local area who were noted for 'creativity', jeopardy, and peril. Basically, they wandered around and asked....if you did 'A' and 'B', what would really transpire?
A good example was an open field, a truck with no rear window left in it (don't ask why), and then asking could you set the truck off in first gear, climb via the window (both of them), get to the rear of the truck to touch the bumper, and return to the interior of the truck, all in the space of half a mile (before the truck plunged into a 10-foot revine)?
In the 1970s, you could do stuff and somehow survive. Today? I think you'd push the envelope even further, and their risk assessment would go way off the charts.
Generally, after the summer pause, you'd return to school and get a run-down of what they'd accomplished in the summer vacation period. School in some way, limited their activities, and probably kept them from far more dangerous stuff. I would imagine that they could accomplish at least a hundred acts in that 40-odd day period that were worth discussing.
Most other kids wanted to hear of the exploits of the two, but would generally condemn the behavior as risky. Course, the two had scientifically proven various ways of handling wasps or bees, or how to handle the encounter with a disturbed bull on a rampage. In today's world, I think they'd have three or four recipes developed for explosives.
Here's the thing though....in today's world, if you were going to step out into some crazy scenario with a high rating for danger, you'd likely prefer to go call up someone like this, and consult with them. There's a high probability that there's some history existing and you might learn one important lesson out of epic moment from 1974 where danger was thrown to the wind.
A good example was an open field, a truck with no rear window left in it (don't ask why), and then asking could you set the truck off in first gear, climb via the window (both of them), get to the rear of the truck to touch the bumper, and return to the interior of the truck, all in the space of half a mile (before the truck plunged into a 10-foot revine)?
In the 1970s, you could do stuff and somehow survive. Today? I think you'd push the envelope even further, and their risk assessment would go way off the charts.
Generally, after the summer pause, you'd return to school and get a run-down of what they'd accomplished in the summer vacation period. School in some way, limited their activities, and probably kept them from far more dangerous stuff. I would imagine that they could accomplish at least a hundred acts in that 40-odd day period that were worth discussing.
Most other kids wanted to hear of the exploits of the two, but would generally condemn the behavior as risky. Course, the two had scientifically proven various ways of handling wasps or bees, or how to handle the encounter with a disturbed bull on a rampage. In today's world, I think they'd have three or four recipes developed for explosives.
Here's the thing though....in today's world, if you were going to step out into some crazy scenario with a high rating for danger, you'd likely prefer to go call up someone like this, and consult with them. There's a high probability that there's some history existing and you might learn one important lesson out of epic moment from 1974 where danger was thrown to the wind.
Monday, 27 August 2018
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