One year ago today: December 2, 2021, seven deer.
Five years ago today: December 2, 2017, Japanese history.
Nine years ago today: December 2, 2013, so much for improvement.
Random years ago today: December 2, 2002, from lifting 250,000 toothpicks.
One thing okay about Florida is it usually doesn’t have trouble deciding to rain or not. It started off such a pleasant day I got started on the yard work before 8:00AM. Then it started that intermittent spitting which reminded me why I don’t live on the prairies much anymore. There are two types of people around here, those who have tried my onion-bacon grits and those who have no idea what they are missing. Fortified with that, I got the shelf in the van moved over to the passenger side and took the dogs out around the subdivision the long way.
I can explain that. Most of what people consider secure on-line isn’t really. An example is VPN. It is not a private network. Some think so just because certain details do not read in plain text or display readable data. There is always a known start and end point and that is enough for the snoopers to zero in on you. Without too much detail, think of it as ordinary traffic analysis. If I can find out enough about the when and how, I can find out who. He says I can find all I need on crypto on-line but that is precisely the wrong approach for me. I don’t have the time to sift through all the bull. Some things I learn better when somebody shows me the easy way. I can fill in the blanks on my own.
That Yeti is quite the disappointment, but I’m well past the return date. I had used it with small computer fans and it worked fine, but I have not tested several features including the 110V sockets. The one that I’ve put through the paces is the “cigarette lighter” port and it could be that is limited to a smaller voltage or amperage. So far, all it has done is power lights, fans, and done a little recharging. For that it works, but so would a $50 battery and any of the old solar panel controllers I’ve got around the shed.
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No response from Miami, but I’ll tell you what I’m thinking. Remember years and years ago how Harry got a point or two here and there. He never paid much attention, it was things like speeding and carelessness. The points expire so he just got used to driving that way until one day they added up to 15, which was the limit back then. Things got serious quickly, they took away his license, if I recall, for something like six months. Well, from here things are sounding similar. I’m due there in a few weeks so we’ll get to the bottom of things. But you cannot live in Miami without a vehicle unless you are some kind of shut-in.
It’s time, I think, to go over something that’s pissed me off for years. I’m all for equality and all that—as long as people achieve it at their own expense. Does that make sense? It seems too many people have some loco idea that the fastest way for them to get equality is not to work for it, but take a bite out of somebody else’s pie. That’s where I draw the line, folks. My best example was the union job I had long ago. Everybody in the same work category was paid the same. Sure, I had to pay my own way while most of the others were rich kids who just banked their paychecks. But nobody got more by taking away from others.
Remember “Just Once Mark”, that’s what I’m talking about. At 35 he mostly played soccer, drew cartoons, and dropped his laundry off at his parent’s place out on University Heights. I didn’t like the guy, but I never begrudged him a penny of the money he earned and in fact, would have defended his right to get paid the same. However, that attitude was not the norm. You see, other departments who did not get paid as much (because the work was of a different nature) felt it was somehow unfair that we were paid more than them. Well duh, satellite technicians don’t grow on trees. We are not clerical workers. My point is if anybody benefitted from clerical workers being paid less, it was the company. If anyone should pay to equalize wages, it should be the company, not me.
Stop for a moment and consider that. Over the previous decade, I had already gone without certain things I merited for this demented concept of “equality”. I lost job bids to underqualified women and was subject to ridicule because I worked in a clerical department. My job category was open to anyone, but there were few takers. Why? Because they only wanted the pay, not the responsibilities. When they entered in the wrong data, it was a typo. If I entered it wrong, it went on my performance review.
ADDENDUM
This trip I may have time to read up on the NWO, the New World Order as it is being implemented by American-style corporations. The bad guys spent a lot of years and money to get corporate regulations angled so they could pull this off. I grew up while it was transitioning. At first it was just an American corporation building American car parts in Korea (or something) to sell to the American market. It kind of made sense because everybody know the unionized assembly workers in Detroit were being so grossly overpaid people mistook them for stevedores.
Soon the car parts became most of the car, then the whole car. And for the world market. A lot of people got suspicious with the NAFTA agreement, but they were scoffed (as conspiracy theorists). The focus was on the loss of jobs the real change was now American corporations running entire supply chaines and factories overseas for a global market designed to get around taxation. This is where my interest wakes up. While I can't blame the corporations for fleeing taxes, the governments will use the excuse to clamp down on citizens who had nothing to do with it all.
The argument for globalization follows from this disrupted situation, where every nation is in it for themselves. Governments never did like that situation, they want everybody serial numbered and marching in unison. Hopefully I pick good research material as I've no time to find out who is looking into what. For one, I would like to see America keep the dominant position, not because they are the best or even good, but because nobody else is even remotely to be trusted with the task. I don't buy the argument that I would not feel that way if I wasn't lucky enough to live in America. I've seen how other countries have a culture that grabs everything for the elite. In America you can't say the same because 80% of today's big shots were not even heard of twenty years ago.
If there's time, I'll delve into aspects that affect me. I know that free trade is not fair trade. That's why there were riots in Quebec and Seattle. It seems the average person has no clear idea how long and subtle the process of taking away their rights has been, always under the disguise of punishing a few wrongdoers who had the audacity to protest. The right to assemble, once taken, is never returned.
