Friday, 2 August 2024

Just Things I Notice In My Older Age

 1.  About one-third of folks just shouldn't be public figures,  political types, or journalists....because they can't concentrate enough to say a very limited amount of words.  

2.  I think 70-percent of people between ages 18 and 30....aren't on a budget, and just accidentally still have money left at the end of the month.

3.  Sometimes....just two lines of text is enough to send a message.

4.  The median age of a Fox News viewer is 69.  Just begs the question.....is this the only channel at old-folks homes?

5.  It just seems like people are getting more into fragility....as they age.  I'm mostly the opposite....my hard-ass nature has doubled since age 60.

6.  The whole selling point to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)?  Basically, you get 'programmed' in some way to accept lesser people (qualification-wise) in positions.

So you walk into a bank and find that the teller can't give you any competent feeling over your money.  Or you walk into a pharmacy and ask a technical question....with the bachelor-degree pharmacist unable to answer.  Or you go to a mechanic....who doesn't seem to know much about cars.  So the DEI  program is there to teach you to accept this fact and not challenge the fact that society is getting more stupid.

7. There is just nothing wrong in being arrogant or an ass-hole...after age 65.

8.  It just seems like a lot  of people want to talk about and share their distress.  I'd offer the advice....try to give them 60 seconds of free time to talk over this....then settle up the 'score' and tell them times were tough in the 1970s....people didn't seem to whine much in those years.

9.  There's about 500,000 man-hours being spent by political hacks, Senators, House members and their staffs....yearly....which leads you down of path of marginal accomplishments.  

Q-and-A

 1.  This chatter of the Fed bringing down the 'rate'?

Well....based on talk yesterday, I'd say in early October.....it's going down 1-full point (currently at 6.86-percent).  So the new rate in mid-Oct?  Around 5.6-percent is my bet.

Does it really change much of anything?  No.  If I were shopping for a home, and I did have 30-percent for the down-payment.....then maybe it's time to quickly move.  If I don't have 30-percent for the down-payment...then NO, just keep saving.

Oh, and what happens in January?  It'll go a full-point up (back to 6.8-percent, and another half-point by March.

2.  Did DA Harris, in her days as the SF prosecutor, rig up various deals for guy who beat their girlfriends or wives?

Well....yeah, there's a fair amount of history where she made deals.

3.  All these white-men and white-women groups for Kam?

I'll just say that it resembles junior-league KKK stuff, and leave it at that.

4.  Biden-team members likely leaving by the election?

I'm just speculating here, but I think every other week....one or two big-name folks announce that they are moving on.

5.  Boeing CEO gone?

Yeah.

6.  The border-crisis and migration moving down in terms of Presidential-race priorities?

NO.  By the time you add up chaos in Chicago, crime around the nation relating to migrants, assaults' by migrant, and drug activity....both President Biden and candidate Harris are in a mess.  Trying to say that abortion or anything else rates as the top priority for the election...simply doesn't work.