But I am reminded of my one experience trying Chef Boyardee spaghetti and meatballs....hoping it would turn out OK.
It was crap and after two minutes....I gave up and dumped it down the toilet.
Maybe by next year....I'll feel that way also about the Biden years....that it was a total waste and not something to really remember.
After a military career, a decade in contractor work, and 3.5 years in Pentagon work....I came to a number of lessons learned on supervising an office. There are three essential talents you need....if you want a happy team.
1. Ability to delegate.
If you don't feel enough trust within your group to delegate a fair amount of the work, then you will be working fifty-plus man-hours each week, and burn yourself out in six months.
2. Having a decent amount of intuition.
If you are passed some task, and it looks like 80-percent crap....then it probably is crap, and you need to dump it.
If your organization is headed to some leadership debacle, and you can see various signs of this....either rectify the situation, or leave as quickly as possible.
3. Finally, having a sense of humor and seeing positives always in some manner....brings confidence to the team when chaos confronts them.
This is often not something that you can train for or develop.....either you have it or you don't.
1. Family-friendly drag shows. It's like talking about family-friendly stripper shows, or family-friendly bull-fights, or family-friendly swinger parties.
2. Probably one-third of American society is today intolerant, and it's cranked up to the turbo level.....almost daily.
3. Dog yogurt is a product marketed and sold for around $3. How did dogs survive for centuries....without it?
4. People seem to be graduating from high school.....who appear to be just as bright as they were in the 8th grade.
5. How horrific will it be....if Maricopa County, Arizona....has to redo their entire election? Will people be throwing themselves off their step-ladders, or hurling themselves against the pavement of their driveway?
6. Oddly enough, the minute that someone utters that 'so-and-so' is a 'math-wiz'.....my BS-meter is probably pegging '7' automatically unless the kid/adult can give me a simple 10-word explanation for square root.
7. When I see 'Jesus-status' handed to some political figure....I'm likely in a state of disbelief. In 1980, this problem never came up.
8. Being TRIGGERED in 1980 usually meant you dealt with something after downing a pitcher of beer. Today? TRIGGERED people need hours in some closet, a coach to unhinge you, and a vow to isolate the guilty party from your life.
9. Trying to spends tens of thousands a year on a single homeless guy, who won't clean up his drug problem, or put any enthusiasm into a 40-hour week.
10. More polar bears exist today.....than 1960s....and a dozen times a year.....I get some woeful news that they are dying left and right.
11. Society depends on rational human beings. The minute that you start to have 50-percent in some irrational way....society won't last long.
12. If you asked a hundred people to explain probability.....only those who took engineering courses, or statistical classes.....would be able to define the word.
13. Lot of chatter in the UK.....up to four inches of snow predicted in the next week. The suggestion is....four inches....will be enough to shut down the entire country. Yeah, it's pretty comical.
Three things:
1. A professional top-class accountant did them....something that 99-percent of us can't afford.
2. Every credit....goes back to tax code written by idiot politicians over the past hundred years.
3. Nothing illegal will be dished out....although we will probably get four hours of tax accountant chatter via CNN....which bores the hell out of us, and we end up at the point of watching a 1956 cowboy-love drama movie instead.
Defining a scam: basically, a dishonest fraud, that you fell into....either with your heart, your money, or your vote.
Was FTX crypto currency a scam? Yeah.....without any doubt, and you could have identified as such....maybe even two years ago.
Is the democracy we live in (the US) a scam? You have a bunch of dishonest frauds elected and serving there.....taking your money. So yeah, it's scam.
Is the university system now a scam? Twenty years ago, I would have said no. Today, I'd say about a quarter of the people graduating (non-engineers, non-science types, etc)....are about as stupid or marginalized....as they were in the 10th grade of high school. So yeah, it's a scam.
Is Covid a scam? As a virus? No. But if you go and talk about treatment, the vaccine business, or any of the hundred connected topics.....it's a scam as well.
Is the food pyramid a scam (the one you had in 8th grade health classes)? People are all different, and your diet plan ought to be individualized....what works for Joe, might not be the best diet for Marty. It's a joke and you can flip it either way....as to being a scam.
We live in an odd world....where we have a new scam introduced probably every single week.
Ten points:
1. I don't think Fox will carry much of Trump-related air-time or commentary....it's likely to be one-tenth of what you saw in 2016. But does it really matter? No.....between Twitter or Truth Social....that's probably all he really needs. Hannity? I'm guessing that Hannity will be gone by late 2023...one way or another.
2. The Bush-Romney-McCain-Cheney wing of the Republican Party? They are in a rut and trying to sell their 'brand' is going to be an issue in 2024.
3. This being a Obama/Biden/Harris 'brand' for 2023....versus Trump? Yeah, and it's probably not something that you'd want to go walking into the primary season of 2024. The Democrats really need to introduce Governor Newsom as their national candidate, and lessen the current brand. By early spring of 2024....Biden needs to limit all public appearances.
4. The House really needs to avoid asking stupid questions over the FTX cryptocurrency business, and the money-laundering....going back to the various candidates in the US. This SBF-character (their CEO)? He really needs to disappear badly. Questions will come up.....who got PAC-money that came of FTX.....leading back to various prominent politicians.
5. The recession needing to end? Trump will drag up the lasting affect and how various things need to be done. Biden? His handlers are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
6. Covid to return as a 'hot' thing? No, it's finished at this point.
7. Trump likely to bring in idiot on his team like in 2016? Well....they will realize quickly that the FBI and NSA are listening in, and likely creating diversions.....which will be comic relief in 2024's election.
8. CNN's fade to anti-Trumpism? I just don't see them willing to sink further in ratings.
9. The odds that this Arizona Kari Lake gal is likely to be hired by Trump as a campaign director? I'd give it better than 50-percent chance, and she's likely to be the VP for him in the end.
10. This being a Trump-Newsom election? Yeah, and it's troublesome for both individuals. Newsom is not that big of a success in California ('male model' will be uttered by Trump a good bit). Trump has simply become a magnet for people who want some weird victim status.
1. Noticed how Hunter Biden's art sales aren't discussed in the news anymore. Why?
2. This big shooting in Bolder, Colorado over the weekend? Lot of hype for 24 hours....then the whole bottom dropped out over the gay-lesbian bar shooting. Why?
3. AG never mentioned this appointment of the Special Prosecutor over Trump....to President Biden....beforehand? Why?
4. Major banks in the US sent 150 or more reports of suspicious banking activities to the federal authorities....concerning the Biden family. Why?
5. FTX CEO still walking around free? How is this possible?
