Lost our Edge

During a company meeting I realized I am not working at the right place.  The topic of checked vs carry on baggage was brought up.  The prized hire of the company said something to the affect of the reason we charge for bags is because that is the agreed upon model for the industry.  Immediately I thought, wtf?  We're gonna continue doing things this way because that's the way everyone else does it?  What happened to being fresh, edgy and sleek?  What happened to innovation?  What happened to when everyone turns left we turn right?  

I get that we're in survival mode - but doing things the same way everyone else does is stupid.  Just because that's the way it's done.  That's not playing to win.  That's playing it safe and being extremely risk averse.  We didn't start out doing things the same way everyone else did.  We started out by forging our own path and doing what's right (which was a novelty back then) and doing something different than everyone else.

So keep doing things the way everyone else does.  Who are you?  I don't even know who you are anymore.

Trump's pretty savvy

 I was pissed off all day about Joe Biden calling Trump supporters garbage.  He said what he said and he meant it.  The filter between his brain and his mouth is shot - just like the rest of his brain.  No amount of mansplaining by his unqualified dei hire of a press secretary can undo what he said.  And that's fine.  At least he said what they all think about us out loud.  The left hates us and everything we stand for.  I hate that man and every single thing he stands for.  He's the garbage.  The world will be a better place when he's gone.

And Trump being who he is, rents a garbage trunk and puts a Trump sticker on the side of it and rides to his rally in it.  Then while on stage for his speech he kept his safety vest on.  Touche' mother fucker.  Suddenly all was well in the politisphere.  Well played Donald...  Well played.

Now can we get this election over with?  I'm sick of all of it.  

Say what?

I was okay being called a basket of deplorables by Hilary Clinton. But today when I heard Joe Biden call me garbage I was angry. I can honestly say I hate that man and the world would be a better place if he had not been president. I wished someone would extinguish his existence just for a moment.

I was ready to lash out and in fact did write some very ugly things on Facebook and quickly retracted what I had posted. I'm sure it's now forever immortalized in the halls of social media justice. But whatever. Who cares.

It's taken me an hour to settle down after hearing Joe Biden call me garbage for supporting Donald Trump. I wonder if that's how my lefty friends feel when I call democrats idiots? Maybe that's why I don't have any friends.

You wanna know how I calmed back down? Listened to George Strait. King George makes everything better. He sings truth.

What scares me

Do you know what scares me most about Kamela?  It's not that she was installed. It's not that she was one of the last in the room on every policy decision with potato head. It's not that she's a hoe. It's not that she can't answer a question without word salad. 

It's the fact that she is a chameleon. She starts speaking in tongues or accents depending on who she's talking to.  The fact she can do it so easily is disturbing. 

I can't trust her. You shouldn't either.

The Quick Translation Guide To Kamala's Many Fake Accents dailycaller.com

All that’s left

When my parents die. When my kids leave home to start their own lives. When my job ends. All I'll have left is my wife. I better get a dog for plan b.

How can she say

How can Michelle Obama say Kamala understands me when Kamala doesn't even understand herself?

It’s always good

It's always good to driver a different car than the one I own every once in a while. I've been driving a Chrysler Pacifica for a few days. What a turd.

The leather is hard, it is noisy. The engine has no toque. Every time you get on or off the gas there is this knock in the front end. Like the axle is making contact with the hub and the cv joint in the transmission. The manufacturing tolerances are not very tight.

What's surprising to me is my car is 20 years old. It is better than the Pacifica in every way. You'd think cars would get better instead of worse in two decades.

The big boss

The big boss lamented that it costs more to take an uber from the home office to the city than it does to fly from city to Florida. The boss expressed frustration with this reality.

Maybe our planes should be deployed elsewhere.

I learned a few things this week

 Here's the deal.  I don't like my job.  And work is a four letter word.  It was reinforced on Friday.  I was on a conference call and got my ass handed to me in front of about 10 people for 20 solid minutes of being questioned, providing explanations and being told point blank that my performance is unacceptable and it has to change.  I don't know if that was meant as a threat, but that's how I took it.

A much younger me would have popped off with "if you think you can do better, come and show me how because everything I'm doing isn't working to move the needle."  

After that little exchange, I decided if they want me to quit, they're going to have to fire me.  A strategy a friend of mine employed.  

This whole idea was a disaster.  I'm not a "manager" per se.  I'm a trench worker that lead effectively from the middle.  Not from the top.  I'm a lieutenant.  Not a general.  Maybe that's a flaw.  Maybe I'm not effectively motivating my lieutenants. I don't know.

Today's activity was explaining why there were red and orange colors in my turn tracker but not a single delay.  What's more important?  Hitting in turn benchmarks or finding a way to salvage the on time departure.  They're both important.

It's speak up month.  I decided to submit mine today.  If you don't want to hear what's on my mind, don't ask.  This years was just as bad if not worse than the one I submitted two years ago.  Some of the questions were absolutely offensive.  Like I said, if you don't want the answer, don't ask.

I've also dialed in on the next chapter.  I want to work in a repair industry.  Cars, electronics, appliances, musical instruments?  I don't want to be a manager any more.  I want to work with my hands.  Or work with people that work with their hands.

Employment

I'm not the leader I was 5-10 years.  I was a better leader back then.  I had passion.  I had the fire in the belly.  

I finally landed the job.  I've been doing it for a year.  I don't like it.  It's a job I can do, I think but I don't know.  I've never been told I'm doing it wrong.  I've never been told I'm doing it right.  No news is good news, right?

I don't know if I've changed, the role has changed or both.  I don't feel good about the work I do.  I get through the days.  Get up and do it again.

The fruit was dying on the vine when I left and that hasn't changed up my return.  If anything we've given away every asset of value we had.  We've learned to do more with less.  The goals have gotten higher.  

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Vote

If you don't vote for me, you ain't black - Joe Biden

If you don't vote for Kamela you're a mysoginst and a racist -  Barry Obama

How about fuck both of you.

The democrats are stuck with a pile of crap for a candidate.  She didn't earn her position.  She was installed.  Just like they did with Joe. 

Unburdened by what has been?  

We've been to the border.  And I haven't been to Europe either.

What gets me is out of all the people in this country we have these to train wreck candidates to lead the country

Burn this shit down and start over.  Our government is rotted from within top to bottom, inside out.

What if I told you

What if I told you the processed food industry is doing everything they can to make you sick and big pharma is doing everything they can to keep you sick?

Sarasota takes direct hit from hurricane

 Sarasota fared better than expected, I think.  People's homes and businesses are messed up.  Infrastructure needs repair.

I'm reminded of a conversation had with a colleague just before the hurricane that occurred when I lived there.  My colleague said he hoped it be devastating.  Why?  We gotta get rid of all the trailer park trash.  If it gets destroyed we can build real homes in their place.  I was like seriously?  

My feelings toward that individual were forever changed after that conversation.  People used to retire in Florida because it was cheap.  And a mobil home wasn't very expensive - meaning one could retire in Florida without being rich.

I wouldn't want anyone to lose their home due to natural disaster.  These people were here before you, so leave them alone and let them go about their business.  

If one was to spend a considerable amount of time in Florida, they would realize certain parts of Florida are extremely wealthy and other parts of the state are poverty stricken.  Orlando is full of people making low wages working in the travel and tourism industries.  It's full of people cleaning hotel rooms, mowing lawns, operating attractions, etc.  It's not some high tech shithole like Austin. 

I don't think people realize a place like Sarasota started out as being home base to the circus people employed by John Ringling and his brothers.  They would spend their winters here.  The only person living high on the hog was Mr. Ringling himself.

If you ask me the ass clown that wanted destruction to people's mobil homes should be kicked out of town.  Go find somewhere else to live if you don't like it.

It bothers me because I knew people that lived in the mobil home parks.  They would ride their bike or the bus to work and put in honest work for their wages.  

Quote

 Your body naturally rejects the people, places, and things that aren't for you.  Listen to your body.

Sam's Club

 Sam's club is the Costco for poor people.  I don't quite know how we ended up with a membership to that store, but here we are.  I also don't quite know how we ended up at sams club for dinner last night.  You can get an entire pepperoni pizza for eight dollars and seventy five cents.  Cheap enough.  Anyway...

Look around at the patrons of the establishments... It a bunch of low class fat people with tattoo.  These people look like they have a hard life.  But anyway.

Watching them wheel out their carts, they're full of bottled water and unhealthy snack foods.  All of it in large quantities.

I did not like my sams club experience.  I'm not like those people.  Well maybe I am because I'm fat.  I don't want to go back.  I don't like looking at those kind of people.  That makes me an asshole.  Father forgive me for I have sinned.

I asked my wife to cancel our membership because I don't want to go in there or be seen with those people.  Ever again.

Tinfoil hat wearing nut job

 I was driving to take my wife car to the shop.   Sometimes while I drive I listen to conservative talk radio.  I know...  Big surprise there, right?  They were talking about the 60 minutes interview with Kamala Harris and I just had to weigh in on my thoughts on her interview from the clips I've seen.

I called the number.  It rang a few times.  The screener answers and asked what I wanted to talk about.  I told him.  He said he'll put me on their air and asked for my name and location.

My turn came up and I had a little 5 minute conversation on the radio with the hosts of the show.  It was really kinda interesting to be on the radio and talk about my perceptions.

I fulfilled a life long dream.  Absolutely amazing.  Kidding.  Kinda.  It was neat to participate in the town square and have a brief discussion on the radio with whomever else was listening.  I must not have been too crazy because we had a bit of dialogue - I got through and wasn't blown off.  

It would have been neat to call in to Rush Limbaugh before he died.  He always made a lot of sense to me.

Since traffic was light enough, it was the first time I was able to pick up my phone and dial when they announced the number that I've heard 100s of times.  

I put in on speed dial so I can call them again.  

Finite Resources

 They say all resources on earth are limited.  They've been saying we will run out of oil in the next 10 years for decades.  We're gonna run out of oil.  Coal.  Water.  Lithium.  Cobalt.  Silicon.  Gold.  Silver.  Titanium.  Copper.

I think they're wrong.  Peak oil hasn't happened yet.  None of the other stuff has peaked either.

When me and my wife got married we would vacation in Arkansas at Table Rock Lake with her grand parents.  They would take out the pontoon boat and we'd drop the anchor in some cove and swim.  We'd wear the life jackets like underwear putting our legs through the arm holes and buckling up so you kinda sat in the water.  It was always very relaxing.  We'd swim for a while and take up anchor and go somewhere else are head back to the marina.

When you bobbing in the water you could sometimes feel a warm or cold "jet" where the current was moving.  You could feel it against your skin.  It was interesting.

None of the resources on earth are finite.  I think the earth makes everything mentioned above.  Anyone who thinks fossil fuels come from dead dinosaurs is not super intelligent.  The earth makes oil.  The earth makes water.  Same with lithium, cobalt, silicon, gold, silver, titanium and copper.  Plus whatever else you can think of.  Like wood.  From trees.

The problem will be when we use all of these resources at a faster rate than the earth is capable of replenishing what we use.  That will be the real problem.  I guess that's when all those resources will run out.  I wonder how long and what conditions will need to be required to regenerate the resources of the planet?  That's for the scientists or the capitalists to figure out.

Will Earth end up a god forsaken wasteland as depicted in Wall-E?

23 and me?

Social media is say we should stop looking at Diddy and turn our heads to the entire 23andYou board jumped shift leaving only the CEO at the helm.  Stock valuation is less than 50 cents per share.

Suddenly everyone is concerned about what's going to happen to all the data they've collected as they've analyzed genetic data of some 14 million people.  The data collected relates to genetic potential for having certain diseases and what not.  

What could possibly go wrong?

The company goes out of business?  The company needs to raise money to continue operating and may sell the genetic profile of all the people who thought getting their genetic information analyzed from going Hawk Tua in a test tube.  I would think either the government, health insurance companies or pharmaceutical companies would be interested in this day.  

The biggest use of the data would be for insurance companies to deny you health care insurance before you're sick.  Just based on your genetic profile  Suddenly insurance is super cheap for some people and super expensive for others.  And things like age, income, education, zip code are not the (dis)qualifying factors.  Now it's your have a baldness gene, a Parkinson's gene, a dementia gene, a cancer gene, likely to get diabetes, cancer, lupus or whatever.

Now companies will be able to decide who they want to invest in and who they want to kill off.  They could send certain foods to different geographies to either keep you healthy or make you less healthy.  Interesting.

I promoted someone about a year ago.  He decided where he was gong to live with two criteria.  Was his place near a La Madeleine restaurant and or a whole foods market.  Why?  Poor people don't live near those kind of business establishments.  Effective strategy.

Another friend of mine also picks selects his dr knowing they participate in record sharing with other health providers and insurance companies.

I always thought these ancestry.com and 23 and me businesses were up to no good.  They're able to make too many connections between their users and their backend customers.  I wonder if this information is even used in the law enforcement?  I bet it is.  Participating in these businesses was never a good idea for anyone.  Now we'll see how many people get burned for doing so.

Will and his trans friend

 What's Will Farrell trying to do parading around the country with his trans friend?  Trying to earn brownie points with the freaks?

I can't take these trans people seriously.  I think they were all abused as children.  Either that or they're sexually dysfunctional.  How can a man possibly think he's really a woman and vice versa?  They guys really want to wear women's under things.  The women wish they had a penis.

I had a friend who went trans.  He wrote about the first time he tried on women's lingerie and being totally sexually aroused.  Well - there you have it.  Being a man is about taming the demons in your mind.  Not letting them take you down.  Rise up above them like a phoenix rises from the ashes - or else you'll get pulled to the underworld.  Not kill yourself to become a cross dressing homosexual.

He's parading his "friend" around like a trophy.  Look at me - I get it.  I get you.  You complete me.  Whatever.

I'd rather watch a movie called "What is a woman?"  It demonstrates the lunacy of the gender dysphoria running rampant in society - well - America.  It's not being treated.  It's being encourage to the point where people are voluntarily having their genitals mutilated.

Once again, if you ask me this is the work of the devil.  It will be interesting to see how this period in history is judged in say 20 years....  I hope they look back on this time and be like WTF were they doing?

My former friend bruce posted a picture of himself playing tuba music for Octoberfest.  I can't help but think his entire medical team failed him.  Instead of treating his gender dysphoria they encouraged it and in turn he had his wiener cut off.  It really is a sick society we live in when people do things like that to themselves.

Kanye West said this?

 This is what happens when you sell your soul to the d£vil for wealth, fame and power.

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

Kanye West;

" Diddy was controlled to do everything he did. I've been there, and I can tell you every Hollywood celebrity has a story to tell. There are people in power who control you, turning you into a d£mon so they have something to use against you if you choose to turn your back on them tomorrow. They give you everything with conditions and tell you they can take it all back if you don't follow instructions.

I had to be the brave one to tell them no, and they made it look like I was m@d. All the musicians with power are pup_pets to a group of influential people. They use them to win souls and when you are tired, they bring you down and continue their mission.

What's happening to Diddy is what I was talking about but y'all called me cräzy. The system is simple, first they monetize you and give you powęr just so they can cõntrol you and then when they can't cõntrol you anymore, they déstroy you."

"They're ãngry with me because they can't cõntrol me. They can cõntrol Jay-Z and Beyoncé, they can control Diddy and every other person they're controllîng but they can't contrõl me. They want me to be Kanye West but I'm Ye, I don't care who you are but I'm not taking any dîsrespect from nobody. The only person who can cõntrol and even dîsrespect me if He wants is God. My mother isn't here because she was sacrifîced. Michael Jordan sacrifîced his Daddy, Dr Dre sacrifîced his son.

When you're in Hollywood, you sacrifîce a lot just so they can give you the money and power and then cõntrol you. God loves me and that's why I realized myself and went back to him and became Christian Ye. When I refusęd to be controlled, they didn't have anything they could use agaînst me so they instead took awãy everythîng I had. And after they took awãy everything, Forbes Magazine who hâte me was so quick to write "Kanye West new Networth: $400-million). And I just laughed cuz I'm still a billionaire. Jesus is king and God loves me so I'm saying this truth out because as long as God is on my side, nothîng can happen to me."~ Kanye West

Bob Marley said, "Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold."

Listen to a Reggae song called "Gone Cräzy" by Admiral Tibet.

Lyrics; The people of this world gone cräzy, I said the people of this world gone mäd, all because of vanity they will do anything just to have, I heard someone saying the other day that life doesn't make sense living, they lost their fate along the way but Jah is always forgiving. I don't have to be rich to be a happy man, money can't buy you and I salvation. I don't have to be rich to be a righteous man, as long as my meditation is free from corruption. Some will sell their soul for vanity just to move up in society, all I need is Jah blessings, prosperity, eternally. I've seen many poor men live and I've seen many rich men dië."

That's why I keep telling you that Reggae is a vehicle, used to transmit a deep message to the people.

Exhausted

 After coming up with my breakthrough theory on concrete causing climate change (aka global warming) I am exhausted.  So much mental energy was burned that I'm blown.  Maybe I'm manic when my brain has these ah-ha moments and I race to put them down to journal.  I percolate over them.  I think about them.  I think my logic is sound.  Maybe I'm wrong.  Maybe I'm stupid.  

I was telling my wife about my global warming theory and she doesn't think I'm right.  I told her I'm not wrong either.

I wonder

Climate change is being blamed on the burning of fossil fuels.  I don't think that's necessarily accurate.  Burning fossil fuels is a byproduct to the causes of climate change.  

Concrete is the cause of climate change.  Say what?  Concrete.  I told my son this and he looked at me like I was crazy.  He disagreed.  I told him the concrete is reflecting the heat from the sun instead of going into the ground and being absorbed by dirt and other vegetation.  He's like, whatever dad.

I told him I could prove it.  How?  When we get home...  put your hand on the drive way...  then put your hand on the street...  then put your hand on the grass in the yard.

He gets out of the car and does what I had asked.  I asked him which was hottest.  The street.  Which one was the least hot?  The grass.  He was shocked.

So don't give me all this bullshit that global warming is caused by fossil fuels.  It's caused by taking away all the dirt, grass, trees and other vegetation.  The sun fuels life.  Without the sun's energy being absorbed by living things, it has no where to go and it reflects up and gets caught up in the atmosphere.  There simply isn't anywhere for the suns energy to go.  So it festers and ferments in the atmosphere.

How did you figure that out?  I'm brilliant.

No.  I figured it out through observation.  in the fact that sometimes rain goes around concrete filled areas and falls where the trees are.  My neighborhood is a prime example.   There have been multiple times where it doesn't rain from the interstate to my neighborhood....  but you turn into the neighborhood and the streets are wet.  My neighborhood has a lot of trees compared to the surrounding area.  Leave the neighborhood and it's dry.  Coincidence?

Or how about a storm moving across the terrain and it dissipates as it gets over the city and reforms when it gets past the city.  It's not about the fossil fuels.  It's about the concrete taking the place of soil, trees and the like.  It happens where I live.  It happens at the airport I work.

They want to say it's about fossil fuels?  It isn't.  They blame the fossil fuels because they are burned to drive over the concrete in distances ever further from the city.  The destruction of the natural habitat and destruction of the earth starts at the city and works it way out.  The fossil fuels have nothing to do with it.  Idiots.  If John Kerry had a brain you'd think that he would make the connection and stop flying around in a private airplane.  Why doesn't he?  Because he knows it doesn't matter.  They see your carbon footprint that they invented as a revenue stream.  That's it.  Stop building and developing every iota of open space.  The planet will heal itself.    

Yo sheep - stop accepting what you're told at face value and start using your own brain for something more than social media and consuming entertainment.  It's making you stupid.

I feel like we're being constantly lied to.  Like all the time.  By everyone in power.  They count on us not thinking things out for ourselves.  They count on us accepting their view of the world and how it works.  I think they're wrong.

Politicians make sure every problem on earth have a complicated and nuanced solution that usually involve large sums of money to solve.  The problems on earth have simple solutions but we can't accept that.  Maybe that's why they hate Donald trump.

From the archives

My will be done

Dear Believers - I've been watching the Americans and their media regarding the unfortunate loss of Bin Laden.  People using me and my good name to justify killing.  Are these people retarded?  I do not wish death upon anyone in the form of revenge or vengeance. 

I think a lot of people forgot my prayer. The key stanza for the day is:

"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us."

Please notice the word forgive.  Dear brother webster defines forgive as to stop feeling angry or resentful for an offense.  I'm saying let it go.  It happened in the past.  The unfortunate events of 9-11 can't be undone or taken back.  Killing the killer some how rights a wrong?  Revenge.  So not cool.

It's like the USA has been just waiting to take take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.  How much hate do you people carry around?  Remember, this is not my way nor what I expect of you.

What I do expect from my club members is forgiveness.  You see, forgiving has a strange affect.  It heals the forgiver more than the forgiven.  As a nation, the Americans might what to try it out and see how it works.  I find it works remarkably well. 

Love, Jesus. 

Laptop Class

Saw an article titled "Amazon tells employees to return to the office five days a week."  Apparently the employees are not happy.  They don't want to go to the office.  They want to work from home, or the coffee shop or the beach.  They claim they're just as productive and make all these arguments against going back to the office - which really boil down to they don't want to go to work.  They want to sit in their pajamas in front of their laptop.  Or pretending to work.  Or whatever they're doing.

I'm someone who doesn't have a choice but to go to work.  I also spend a lot of time on Teams meetings.  And I am offended by the "laptop class" (as Elon Musk calls them) working from their kitchen table, living room, or patio.  Like get your ass in to the office and work.  Telling me what to do from your living room or on your deck with a mountain in the background is bullshit.  Sitting there with your coffee and your dog.  I don't get it.  They talk about class warfare.  How about those that go to work vs those that work from home?!?!?!

Maybe I'm resentful that I haven't reached the level of success that affords me the luxury to work wherever I want.  Are people more productive in the office or outside the office?  Do laptop workers really contribute to the company culture?  Are they really subject matter experts when all they do is work from home?  It's like the nerd that is incredibly book smart but has no real world experience.  They have no idea how anything is done in the field...  yet they're telling us how things should be done in the field?  Do they bring a fresh un-jaded perspective to the working stiffs actually executing your bullshit plan put together by someone who has no operational experience in the last 5 years?  

I do think if the laptop class wants to work from home, their salary should reflect the reduce costs of going to work.  Reduced expenses for fuel burn, wear and tear on your car, etc.  Take that money and give it to the stiff that has to commute in to work.  Wait a minute.  Is that redistribution of wealth?  NO.  It redistribution of pay based on expenses required to get to work.  Seriously.  What a crock.

And all these whiners - STFU and either go back to the office or fucking quit.  The rest of us will be happier either way.  If things don't work out, there will always be another elitist with a laptop that can take your place.

Lizzo

I wonder if she was at a puffy freak off?

Control

 I've been outspoken in my critique of Hollywood and the players being the devil incarnated.  The arrest of people like Sean Combs, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein and the fact that Oprah Winfrey is friends with all of them is disturbing.  The culture and values promoted by Hollywood and politicians  is that of liberalism, consumption, violence, promiscuity and drugs use, defining the police, etc.  None of these ideas make sense to normal people.  Normal people are leave that go the direction the wind blows them.  Hollywood is the wind.  The moguls are they ones that set the agenda and the underlings comply.

What makes the underlings comply?  They have been abused psychologically, sexually and the moral parts of their brains have been compromised.  Compromised by being abused by powerful people.  Made to do things they would never have done in their previous lives.  Watch the disturbing videos of Justin Bieber interacting with Sean Combs.  Have you seen the picture with Sean Combs and Leonardo DiCaprio lubed up with baby oil wearing nothing but a towel?  Probably taking turns violating an unwilling victim. Explain to me who someone like Leonardo DiCaprio goes through 18 year old hoes like rolls of toilet paper - one after the other?!?!  I bet he's an abusive asshole and each one of his hoes signs an iron clad agreement that they can never speak of their relationship - how they are abused and exploited to be on the arm of satan's soldiers.

Hollywood and politics works by power.  The only way the stars in Hollywood comply with their moguls demands is through the destruction of their soul.  They are all broken.  They're all losers.  Their conscious has been destroyed because they've been violated on a fundamental level.  Either that or there is video or photographic of all these people either raping others or being raped by others while getting drunk are propelled into an altered state where they don't know what they're doing but there's evidence that exists of them doing unspeakable things that can't be made public or those involved will be destroyed by the rest of us.

Politicians, actors, singers and athletes know this.  That is why they do what they're told.  When their keeper says jump, the answer is how high.  When someone says dance, they dance.  They don't think for themselves.  They are the slaves of demons.

Tribalism

 Tribalism - the state of fact of being organized in a tribe or tribes.  Tribes are composed of groups that have temporary or permanent political integration and defined by traditions of common descent, language, culture and ideology.   

Diversity, equity and inclusion - organization frameworks which seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination  on the basis of identity or disability.

Racism - discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.  Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices.

All three of the above ideas are the same yet they are in conflict with one another.  

It is human nature to gravitate towards groupings with people that are similar to you.  Whether that be because of race, gender, socio-economic position, hobbies, religion, sports teams, political ideology, employer, etc.

DEI is the antithesis to tribalism.  Because the DEI movement is about wrecking tribalism.  It's about putting someone in a tribe because they're different.  Because they're not the same as the other members of the tribe.  It's about including someone into the tribe that may not be wanted by the tribe.  

Does diversity really bring some magical perspective to problem solving or thinking to the tribe?  Would a dude from Ethiopia really have the answer to some problem that has plagued an industry or company that no one else in the company could figure out?  Like a magical infusion of genius from India or Sri Lanka or Vietnam?  Or sending a woman from Poland to the space station because she's a woman from Poland?  Because she has the same qualifications as the American woman but send the Polish woman instead?  Get out of here.  She's has not been on the team, but send her anyway.  Like a rigged lottery because she's Polish?  But the lottery has always been in favor of white people? 

The lottery isn't in favor of white people but capitalism is in favor of white people.  Capitalism creates economic growth and economic growth creates opportunity.  Perhaps the white person is entitled and lazy?  They don't have to work as hard for what they get?  Maybe that's really what the DEI movement is trying to say.  I don't know if it's because of where I live, but I know many white people that are too lazy to mow their yards and clean their houses.  They hire Mexicans to do those jobs.  They even hire people to bring them their happy meal from the McDonalds that is less than a mile away from their house.  White people can't even go shopping.  They want their purchases to be delivered to them.  They're not saving the environment with online shopping.  THere's still a vehicle driving around, the purchase is put in a box instead of a bag and they're ruining Main Street, USA.  That allows companies like Amazon to break the trillion dollar threshold while all the stores in your community go out of business and people wonder why theirs no jobs and no stores.  

Back to DEI - it's a government or new world order thinking to break up the good old boy coalitions that have existed for a long time.  The poor nations don't like they fact that they're poor and that's America's fault.  And America should do something about it?

Think about the airline space - You don't see emirates hiring a bunch of Americans to be flight attendants in their planes.  You see a bunch of pretty international women.  Hooter's isn't hiring dudes to be servers.  Chippendales dancers aren't hiring overweight Mexicans with sombreros to table dance for women and gay dudes.  Apple stopped hiring normal people to work in their stores a long time ago.  Now it's a bunch of queer aka metro people with tattoos.

I'd rather be part of a tribe than a DEI conglomerate of people different than me.  A diverse potpourri of people from different backgrounds and cultures.  Potpourri is used to cover the smell of excrement or mothballs. Maybe that's the intent.  Maybe DEI is a way of being racist against white people for all perceived wrong doings of the white people.  DEI is a systemic form of revenge that is endorsed by governments and the supposed disenfranchised among us.

Emotional Guidance System

 I am a true believer in humans have an emotional guidance system that acts as a GPS system.  The purpose of the emotional guidance system is to lead one away from things that are bad and things can do harm to you; while leading us to things that are good and healthy for us.  And here's the deal - so many people are listening to everyone else in our culture besides the god and endowed emotional guidance system.  Humans spend so much time soothing themselves consuming social media consuming tv, consuming movies and consuming music that promotes promiscuity, drug use and hiphop - aka gangster culture, and getting tattoos / body piercings because the cool people are doing it.  They're not cool people. They are the devils minions.

Our emotional guidance system is being drowned out by the instruments of satan.  I believe humans instinctively know the difference between good and evil.  Yet we are numb or deaf to what our emotional guidance system tells us.  Either that or we choose to ignore it.  Or don't know how to listen to it.

A friend of mine meditates.  We've never really discussed exactly what meditation is.  I've been told it is the quieting of the mind and just being in the moment.  Another premise I understand is abstaining from judgement and accepting of what is.  I don't understand that part.  

But with meditation and tuning out distractions and being in a state of peace and acceptance, does meditation allow a person to tune their antenna to their own emotional guidance system?  Or is the idea to tune that out too?

I've been beating the drum about people making their living in front of a camera and or a microphone as being evil.  As in satan incarnate.  His minions.  Vehicles used by satan to take our culture down.  

Jeffrey Epstein was evil and he had the goods of having a lot of people caught in compromising positions.  I think his clients (victims) are corporate and political moguls.  Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, etc.  With the arrest of Sean fuckwad Diddy Combs, I think he has all the goods on the entertainment and athletic moguls.  I also think he and Oprah are up to their eyes in sex slavery, grooming, handling, etc.  And the only way people get to be "superstars" is to partake in the underworld.  A world ruled by Satan and his minions where the demons are Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxell, Sean Combs, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein and the like.  All these people are the king makers and the destroyers in entertainment, athletics and politics.  

Those who do not partake in this evil NEVER make it big.  They'll be stuck singing in some shitty bar in the live music capital of the world for the rest of their lives complaining about not being able to afford to live there or not having health insurance.  They'll be extras in movies or community impact reporters.  They'll never make it to the highest echelon of their industries.

These people and those that control them are actively destroying peoples lives and our society while making a TON of money.  So much money that they were once untouchable.  

This house of cards is going to come crashing down.  The question is, who is going to be protected and who is going to be sacrificed.  

Combs will probably get the Epstein treatment and their secrets will be safe from the rest of us.  But I tell you what - watch this house of cards crumble.

Those of us participating in these shenanigans of tattoo, boozing, promiscuity, body piercings, weird hair coloring, the trans moment and the DEI movement are ALL wounded and are being taken taken advantage of.  They are nearly dead inside.  Their souls are wounded.  They lack moral character.  They look to these villains to fill the void in their lives that comes from not listening to or tuning out their emotional guidance system.

Prove me wrong.

PS - It wouldn't surprise me if George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Tom Hanks or Oprah Winfrey are behind ALL OF IT.

Swap Meet

 The local audiophile club had a swap meet today.  I wanted to go - but not enough to get in the car and drive to Hutto.  They had pictures of the swap meet on the groups website.  It was a bunch of dudes slinging their unwanted equipment to others and probably some socializing.  

I told my wife I was thinking about going.  She said don't buy anything.  I'm not looking for anything and I'm totally satisfied with my system.  So what's the use in going?

I figure everyone socializes and talks about their gear.  While these conversations are going on, I am sure everyone is comparing their system to the one the other guy is talking about and everyone is doing a mental pecking order of audio gear.  

There were some guys there that sell gear all the time.  I don't know if they like to compare, or what the deal is.  I only sell gear once I've purchased something else to replace it.

I wonder if this would have been a corvette club experience where I would enjoyed socializing with like minded individuals or if I would have thought what a bunch of geeks and nerds and thought it was a waste of time.  Maybe I'll find out next year.

I really don't see the point in talking about my gear to other people or listening to people talk about their gear.  I'm sure the conversations would have evolved into what is your favorite music to audition gear.  We all know what I used to audition gear.

What I've found is most people's taste in music is horrible.  Why do they spend so much money listening to garbage?  They probably think the same thing about me.