Money Dysmorphia?

 I had to look the phrase up.

Its when you have a fake or distorted view of your personal finances.

You could be making $6,000 a month on take-home pay, and be under some mindset that it won't work....that you are broke.

Sitting and thinking about this feeling.....when I was a E-1 in the Air Force...bringing in $300 a month.....I just never felt this way.

The ideal that you make 6-figures income, and you marginally make it...yearly?  Yep....same deal.

Some folks have been polling the public for several years and report this as a major problem now...folks claiming $150,000 is just 'poor'.

How would you recover from this 'illness'?  I'm not sure.  Maybe you could get folks onto some 3-month recovery situation...surviving off $100 a week, and realizing that even $3,000 a month is not 'poor'.

Washing Feet Propaganda?

I had zero interest in watching the Super Bowl from last night (I haven't watched a single NFL game since early 2013).  But I ended up watching a couple of the commercials from  the game.

So the one that 'poked' interest in me?  This Christian theme campaign ‘He Gets Us’. The basic sales job?  Christians washing people’s feet.  

AI-creation....an alcoholic getting his feet washed by a Christian....a migrant getting his feet washed....gay guy getting his feet washed....an activist of some  type getting his feet washed.

All of this is to convey that you will accept them and show Christian acceptance.

So I sat and pondered.

Since 16 December 1620....when the first real settlement folks arrived in Amercia...no one has been bathing anyone's feet.  Washington didn't bath anyone's feet.  Folks crossing the prairie....didn't bath anyone's feet.  Guys going off in 1917 to France for the war...didn't bath anyone's feet.  In the midst of the depression era....no one bathed anyone's feet.  To get two guys on the moon.....no one bathed anyone's feet.  In the midst of the 2008 economic spiral....no one brought up bathing someone's feet.

What I found interesting is that they had to do this via Artificial Intelligence (AI)....since a real scene could not be conveyed.

A propaganda piece?  Well....on my index of propaganda-developed crap....it's marginally a '5' (1-to-10).  

On the Jesus-factor?  As much as the Bible lays out the story....Jesus does go and offer up a foot-wash as being neighborly.....however, in a slanted way....Jesus is saying while in the act....you screwed-up....you did some folks wrong, and sinned yourself into a hole.  I'm absolving you of the guilt, but I'm not condoning what you did.  

This commercial being mostly thought-provoking?  I would imagine next Sunday....probably a quarter of all ministers will attempt to work this into their sermon (mostly out of desperation of material for a 30-minute sermon).  Most guys sitting there....will be thinking over what kind of heavy-duty soap would Jesus use in modern-day foot-bathing.  Most women will be thinking over modern-day foot bathing and what kind of Hydrogen Peroxide that Wal-Mart has on sale (preferring the extra strength stuff to get rid of 'stinky-foot').  

Pardon me....if I don't buy into this BS.

How Far We've Fallen

 I sat and spent about 15 minutes reading this story out of Canada....probably doing a 2nd and 3rd read.

First, it's not the regular police....it' the transit police.

Second, they admit they have a sexual assault (no doubt about that).

Third, they have a person as a suspect, but they can't reach a conclusion whether the person is male or female.....EVEN with semen evidence in some bag.

Ten years ago?  Same crew....same scenario....same semen....it would have been a 10-second conclusion about the male-female business.  Today?  No....they can't reach such a conclusion.

It's just another example how stupid people have gotten.  In another ten years....whether the person is black or 'other'.....will be non-conclusive.  

Q-and-A

 1.  Do I believe Michelle Obama is 'qualified' for the Presidency?

She is as qualified as 99-percent of American society...meaning your local gas station clerk, your choir-director at the church, your burger-flipper niece, the neighbor with $88,000 in college debt, the septic tank salesman, or the one-eyed Veterinarian that you take your dog for his shots.

The problem is....how would sell such a person with a 3 x 5 inch index-card resume?  Plus you have to go and convince people that the past four years with President Biden were a magnificent success....because of his 4-page resume and selling Michelle Obama in the same way.

2.  Is all this Biden-cognitive chatter....pushing people to ask more questions about their own relatives?

Well....yeah.  And in some cases....the target-person, upon realizing his relatives are pro-cognitive testing.....ought to be (themselves) cognitive tested.

3.  KFC 12-piece chicken bucket....now $30 (with tax figured)?

Yeah, and guys over the age of sixty are shaking their heads because they remember when it was $12.  

But here's the thing....by 2030....that 12-piece bucket will likely be close to $45.  

4.  Florida driver's license rules changed in the past week....where you can't use more than 2 genders.  

Oddly, this got a fair number of folks disturbed....who suggest their lives were 'determined' in some way.....with the extra gender rules.   It's hard to imagine....one single card....with incredibly small font...with a extra letter or two....made people complete.  

My Theory On Significant Numbers Of Chinese Men Crossing Into Panama And Onto The US?

 Just a theory of mine.

The only thing making money presently in China is Fentanyl production and sales.  Shocker?

So, these guys have figured out.....why only produce and deliver to some logistical group in Mexico?  Why can't they be maker, distributor, logistical movement around the US, and be the sales people as well?  All in one.

I think China hub gave this some thought, and figured....we  can get 40,000 Chinese men into the US by mid-summer 2024.  We can set up over 300 hubs around the US.  We can get another hundred-thousand men there by early 2025....to  be salesmen on the street.

We can double production....double distribution....taking out all of the cartel action on Fentanyl.

We can buy silence with city and county prosecutors.

So, it would make sense....bring in the hub crew....get ready for expansion, and own everything from production to sales.   

Three Things

 1.  I was offered one single chance to join up with a DC gov't employee 'union' back in 2010.  There were a dozen of us new hires in the room, and NOT one single person was interested. 

I noticed this graph today....going back to 1990....almost 20-percent of people were union members.  Now?  It's down to 10-percent, and I would imagine by 2030....it'll be near 5-percent.  

Adding to the spiral?  Well...folks used to be hand-cuffed by the union to vote along union 'picks', and that has been lost as well.

2.  I sat and watched this AM...one of those stupid videos of a 22-year old gal....finished with college and hired-up somewhere (never saying where or with what company).....all miserable and extremely negative about life.

In an average week....I probably watch five of these.  Generally....always a female, and always in the age group of 21 to 25.

It's always a passionate moment....lost on enthusiasm....dwelling on the terrible life they are living.  The pay is never enough.....they don't have time for friends...they seek fulfillment but can't find it.

I feel like taking them out to the hay field in August, and letting them spend a day at 95-degree F....hauling hay and getting this miserable feeling transformed.  

3.  Each day that passes.....it feels like propaganda-A, propaganda-B, or propaganda-C is being fed to me.  It'd be nice to delete the news entirely, and just watch the Three Stooges or some Japanese monster movie.

I'm Not Really Against Stupid People, But......

 I think around the last year of high school in Bama, when it occurred to me that at various times....I was dealing with stupid people.  

A year or two into the my Air Force era....I came to start a ranking system (Stupid-level 1/2/3).  Level-1 people were OK, and you could manage to educate or bring them out of the 'pit'.  Level-2 stupid people were mostly people you avoided.  Level-3 stupid people were people with extremely low IQ....probably in the 80-to-85 range and you felt sorry for.  

By the end of my Air Force era (1999)....I'd even come to realize that folks with four years of college or even a Masters Degree....could be stupid as well.

Over the past twenty years?  I've come to realize stupid people exist in the medical arena...the news media....Hollywood, and even work to sell themselves in some religious fashion...as stupid.

I've probably developed myself to immediately assess stupidity.  It's nothing personnel....but if you walked up to me and I seem  preoccupied after your introduction or tale of woe.....asking me what my mind was on....I'd respond with 'one', 'two' or 'three'.  Then you'd be hoping I gave you a 'one' or 'three'.

If I were offering advice to some high school kid?  Yeah, I'd explain the stupid people issue, and get them hooked onto my grading system.