tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21581006635507012962024-03-08T15:00:38.279-08:00The Silent ForumA voice never heard nor paid attention to
...yet it still speaksTal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.comBlogger1023125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-91641135579537056212022-02-27T10:32:00.004-08:002022-02-27T10:41:25.545-08:00<p> <span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">I know all-too-well what a "Social Credit Score" is</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">...it's when you either "kiss ass", or "suck up to" select favored individuals, practices, or ideologies---or wind up losing your right to even as much as live a normal everyday life.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">It's like all the abusive parents, all the kids who either bullied you or made fun of you in school when you were growing up, all the mean teachers (who obviously also didn't think too highly of you either), all the pretty girls who rejected you, all the employers who wouldn't hire you, all the places that refused to rent to you, anyone who managed to find "something wrong with" you---are now the ones fully in charge of everything, with the government unconditionally taking sides with them.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>Did you know</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">..."Smash-and-Grabbers" get a 100% discount on all merchandise in every store?</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Why are so many "normal" people concerned about "freedom", "independence", and their "Constitutional rights" when all most people do is imitate each other anyway?<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">The above 3 are my </span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Musings For Today</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"> </span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-88225011873849117692022-02-27T10:19:00.006-08:002022-12-14T07:47:01.313-08:00<p> <span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">ATTENTION!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Looking to sell or just get rid of your present home? Or any unwanted property?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Then <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Jen Trefi Home & Property Buyers</span> are the people you want to call to get the highest price possible for your unwanted properties.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We buy up all kinds of properties---houses, commercial, residential, even vacant lots.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We'll purchase your place as is---no need to bother cleaning it up. Go ahead and trash it even. Take a dump on the floor, even. That kind of shit (oops---a pun) never phases us any.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Why?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because we're just going to demolish the fuckin' structures anyway, either replacing them with five-story residential buildings comprising $2500-a-month units, or just leaving the plot a vacant lot so as to collect tax credit on the "absence of potential rent profits".</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-72297150491401344832022-02-27T10:06:00.004-08:002022-02-27T10:07:54.854-08:00<p> <span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>If Anne Frank could have had access to mental health services would she then have been able to handle the stress of living in a Nazi labor camp?</i></span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-5052076939092473092022-02-09T07:10:00.000-08:002022-02-09T07:10:14.448-08:00Work Ethic<p> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The only one real assurance of diligence and commitment is if the task in question comprises a subject the participant is already enthusiastic and passionate about.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Afterwards, the best you can do is subsidize this person with enough finances and resources to perform and complete said task(s), and to give this person an environment with minimum interference and interruptions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Then "knock on wood" and hope the finished project(s) show a "Frank Lloyd Wright", "Nikola Tesla", "Charles Dickens", or "Thomas Edison" was at work, not a "Unibomber" creating some "weapon-of-mass-destruction".</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-41983310337275676632022-02-09T07:00:00.001-08:002022-02-09T07:00:31.119-08:00<div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><i>"Some of the oddest people I run into consider themselves 'normal'"</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">It stands to reason that if one figures themselves to be "like everyone else" that notion is liable to blind them to any idiosyncrasies they may have.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Likewise, if someone is considered "odd" or "weird" those judging that individual are most likely to be blind to any characteristics said individual may have in common with most people, focusing only on differences.</span></div>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-4669963425021922092022-02-09T06:49:00.004-08:002022-02-09T06:49:48.615-08:00<p> <span style="color: #800180; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Two reasons why I can't stand the current social climate</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>....too much partisanism and too many ingrates</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>....too many proprietors and not enough curators</b></span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-62633244279379594772022-02-09T06:45:00.004-08:002022-02-09T06:45:42.032-08:00<p> <span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> Musing For Today</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Whenever anyone criticizes me for not wanting to multitask I simply throw this adage at them: One should never clean the bathroom and eat lunch at the same time</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-32539787869651504162022-02-09T06:41:00.001-08:002022-02-09T06:42:02.562-08:00<p> <span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">ATTENTION ALL "SMASH-AND-GRABBERS"!!!!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The earlier you enter the stores of your choice the better the chance of finding what you're looking for.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">If you wait too long the stores are liable to be out of desired items by the end of the day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">(...of course the "supply chain shortage" is to blame ......)<br /></span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-48952889572056560952022-02-09T06:35:00.001-08:002022-02-09T06:35:11.994-08:00<p> <span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">This recent snowstorm had a lot of folks "panic buying", loading their carts full with food and essentials.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Personally, I hope, with "tornado season" around the corner come spring and summer, for the homes and residences of all these greedy narcissistic/hedonistic "S.U.V. Caesars" to be the ones in the direct path of the worst of any EF-5 twisters.</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-7816187289920417822021-09-02T06:29:00.002-07:002021-09-02T06:36:14.042-07:00<p> <span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>Reasons for the sudden uptick in COVID cases .....</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>...besides the fact that COVID-19 never went away in the first place. It's been still lingering around here and there.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I think the biggest factor is simply population density, the fact that one has to converge onto a lot of the same areas as everyone else: shopping at the same stores, riding the same buses and commuter trains along designated routes, dining at a lot of the same restaurants, just all-around being given only so many choices of where to go to conduct certain types of business.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">For example, getting a new drivers license or state I.D.. There are only so many branches of the motor vehicle department, hence whichever one you go to you'll still find yourself standing in a long line behind others.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Personally, I think even more so than whether or not one wears a face mask or has been fully vaccinated this "default" interpersonal congestive bottlenecking is probably what's most responsible for increasing exposure to this (or any other) virus.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">That said, I still contend shutting down again is not going to help any. Because, sooner or later, we'll need to reopen once more (you know, to keep our social and financial ecosystem from totally collapsing). Then all this will continue happening all over again until this COVID-19 virus finally wanes a bit.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Ultimately, COVID-19 will just have to run its full gamut, no matter what we try to do about it.</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-81848000774050875862021-09-02T06:10:00.003-07:002021-09-02T06:10:55.993-07:00<p> <span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>"Your rights end where the other person's rights begin. And right now that 'other person' wishes to expand his personal space another 40 acres, so you'll just have to pack up and move somewhere else."</i></span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-54468134345933729192021-09-02T06:06:00.009-07:002021-09-02T07:54:07.936-07:00<p> <span style="color: #800180; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Musing For Today</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Any time there's a conflict of any kind 99 out of a hundred times two elements are always present among all the others: lack of transparency and a low-to-nonexistent atmosphere of trust</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Adage For Today</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Any time you change your address or phone number you make yourself hard to find</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-3106866316886821242021-08-12T06:12:00.005-07:002021-09-02T06:31:04.442-07:00<p> <span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> Musing For Today</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">You know, ambulances don't exist anymore. They haven't existed for at least the past 30 years or so. They've since been known as "paramedics".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">....which means injury law firms haven't been "ambulance chasers" for quite some time. They're "paramedic chasers"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">...hence, instead of "Amber, Lance, and Chase" they should be titled "Perry, Maddie, and Chase"</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-90569899579383031072021-08-12T06:06:00.001-07:002021-08-12T06:06:18.963-07:00<p> <span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><i>The ousting of New York Governor Cuomo over allegations of "sexual harassment" is a lot like when Al Capone finally got nailed----for "tax evasion"</i></span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-4795504246748002602021-08-04T07:04:00.005-07:002021-08-04T07:47:16.804-07:00<p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Remember 24-hour restaurants and the weekend "bar rush" from late evening till the early A.M.?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">When I was hitchhiking around the country back in the 1980s I'd be at a Waffle House or Denny's late at night, especially on a Friday or Saturday, and one crowd after another would stroll on in, "flooding" the place and practically "taking over" the establishment with their obnoxious personalities and loud mouths.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">If the establishment wasn't very friendly they'd often tell me I "had to leave" in order to make room for these fraternal "butt fucker" crowds. Which makes sense----who do the managers and servers stand to make the most money off of, some lone vagrant nursing a cup of coffee for two hours or a bunch of affluent drunks with wallets full of bills or multiple credit cards, coupled with a guarantee of huge tips galore?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">And the folks in these crowds would always order something to eat, never be able to finish their food, throw up half of their late-night meal in the parking lot, but still they dutifully paid their tab just the same.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">And the police would always be "taking their break" at the same time in that establishment as well, no doubt observing who was taking off staggering and stumbling out to their car and calling in the description of that person's vehicle to a colleague waiting up the road.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">These days I don't think any place stays open past 10:00 or 11:00 P.M.. Anymore, even the bars themselves close early. The concept of the "all night cafe", "24-hour restaurant", and "24-hour convenience store" has become quite an anachronism overnight.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Hey, check out a blog site titled "Living Stingy" on Blogspot.com</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-1376735646659182212021-08-04T06:43:00.006-07:002021-08-04T07:14:32.770-07:00<p> <span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Have you ever noticed .....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">...that mass shootings are usually directed toward upper-middle-class environments?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It's true! Most take place at concerts, or in shopping malls, or restaurants, or in swanky clique bars, or suburban schools, or grocery stores, or large outdoor gatherings, or on university/college campuses.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The primary targets seem to be mainly privileged "trophy" type people.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As for the average inner-city or "trailer park" rabble, those types are more likely to end up being victims of local street violence. Whenever those "lesser" types get shot or stabbed it's usually by another individual or small group from the same neighborhood or general area.</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-7145471766905130402021-08-04T06:37:00.001-07:002021-08-04T06:37:07.441-07:00<p> <span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> Musing For Today</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">You know what makes performing so many tasks such a drag? The fact that most anything you do has to be done piecemeal. Even the simplest chores seem to require a "10-step instruction manual".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">For instance: In order to clean the floor in your living room you have to move all the furniture, tables, bookshelves, and cabinets to another room, then fill a bucket with soapy water, wipe up, rinse rag, dump out the dirty water and refill with soapy water again.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Then, when finished, move all that furniture and other stuff back into the living room where they were. Sort of like "working for a moving company" and "doing janitorial work" at the same time.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Just about any task you take on, whether mandated or by your own free choice, has to be done in a similar manner: doing laundry; washing dishes; going shopping; transporting yourself to an appointment; filling out forms; logging onto online accounts (e-mail and password); even engaging in hobbies or certain forms of recreation entail a lot of "preparation" beforehand.</span></p><p><br /></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-50001740308221156272021-08-04T06:25:00.003-07:002021-08-04T06:26:03.670-07:00<p> <span style="color: #800180; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">A lot of people get "stark" confused with "harsh"</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> ...and "blunt" confused with "abusive"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">One thing to be said about the "Wokesters" and "Cancel Culture": a lot of what used to be reserved for the social misfits (the oddballs, weirdos, freaks, malcontents, lunatics) has finally trickled down to the quintessential "average" Joe and Jane.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Then:</u> Anyone behaving "strangely", not just irrational and psycho but even simply acting weird or saying off-the-wall things, stood to be committed to a state mental institution involuntarily. And once collectively judged to be "crazy" would lose all credibility as a person.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Nowadays:</u> Anyone who contradicts, or points out any discrepancies or inconsistencies in or within popular narratives put forth by the current social, corporate, or political environment or by favored "special interest" groups stand to be banished from social media sites, or even fired from their job (or removed from their profession), or ignored altogether by most major media outlets.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Then:</u> Students get expelled from school for using obscenities or for disruptive behavior</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Nowadays:</u> Employees and even bosses lose their jobs or positions over "hate speech", "inappropriate statements", or "saying something 'abusive'".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Then:</u> A lot of establishments reserved "the right to refuse service to anyone". And were big on enforcing laws against "loitering". NO HITCHHIKERS OR VAGRANTS. VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED FOR TRESPASSING was a common notice on the entrance to a lot of truck stops, and even a lot of restaurants would refuse entry to anyone carrying a back pack or duffel bag.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Nowadays:</u> Facemasks or proof of vaccination for COVID required to enter.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">This sort of ostracizing and humiliating is nothing new for us "malcontents", "undesirables", and overall "unwanted". But for the average "respectable" normals, so used to being entitled to "mandated" unconditional general respect from others and "having command over" their lives and everything around them, it's probably quite a traumatic experience to suddenly find themselves being treated like some kind of "menace" and "threat" to others around them.</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-25072024364454992092021-07-22T06:25:00.002-07:002021-07-22T06:26:27.277-07:00<p> <span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> <span style="color: #2b00fe;"> Musing For Today</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Why, when companies, businesses, and government agencies hire individuals for higher positions (such as managers) they never seem to hire single people. It's always someone who's married.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And married people always, somehow, manage to have "family issues" or a spouse or offspring with some kind of medical or mental health issue that necessitates a need for frequent "time off"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">...which makes getting in touch with whoever's "in charge" often quite difficult-to-impossible. Hence, when a critical issue needs to be resolved it can be quite frustrating and stressful.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Wouldn't it make more sense to hire someone who's single for the positions with more authority and/or oversight? Theoretically speaking, wouldn't someone with little or no ties be more freed up to be better able to focus more on their job and also be more readily available?</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-90670300482737264362021-07-22T06:10:00.003-07:002021-07-22T06:11:48.536-07:00<p> <span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>Gotta Love Summer ....</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">...Death Valley temperatures and frequent monsoons with tornadic winds</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-12887468915667521212021-07-22T06:06:00.002-07:002021-08-04T07:05:59.484-07:00<p> <span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>The way the barbarous have pretty much taken over society, even if they were to "defund the police" a lot of us probably wouldn't notice any difference</b></span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-61885679025662914902021-07-14T06:35:00.002-07:002021-07-14T06:40:33.309-07:00<p> <span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> <span style="color: #800180;">Musing For Today</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">With all this concern over the Chinese government having an online "Social Credit Score", where individuals who fall below a certain rating are barred from the essentials and spoils of society, such as: the right to attain any kind of employment; riding public transit; being allowed in businesses, stores, and restaurants; being allowed to have a place to live or reside; entitlement to any kind of government benefits; the right to socialize or freely associate with others</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">....it should be noted that all throughout history----long before the existence of any internet or sophisticated satellite systems, going all the way back to (and well before) medieval times where communication was strictly the printed page and word-of-mouth----social network systems of this sort have always been the norm in ALL societies. They simply went by "reputation", "social class", "social status", "arrest and conviction records", "school records", "employment records", "community involvement", "character references" ........</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-17352809096511079982021-07-14T06:18:00.003-07:002021-07-14T06:20:12.337-07:00<p> <span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"> The Faux "Poor"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">What does the government consider "poverty level"? $45,000-a-year or below?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">This sort of thing kind of gets to me---those who are clinically "poverty level" and, as such, are eligible for benefits like SNAP (food stamps/EBT), Medicaid, subsidized housing, and what-have-you</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">....yet they can still afford to finance brand-new $80,000 S.U.V.s, $1200 phones with 5G, home internet, cable/satellite TV .....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Why are such swanky proles considered in the same category as those making $1200-a-month or less than $1000-a-month?</span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-68378220412023135332021-07-14T06:07:00.008-07:002021-07-14T06:57:39.293-07:00<p> <span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">The Florida Condominium Collapse</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> Well, that's the sum total of American architecture for you .....s</b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">tructures made out of cardboard and tin, not much better than a mud and grass hut</b></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158100663550701296.post-81118035564750850782021-07-11T10:36:00.005-07:002021-07-11T11:55:10.620-07:00<p><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>One way to irk any poor person</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><b><i> ...is to hear some wealthy famous black celebrity or athlete go on about "white privilege"</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><i>....I have a great suggestion: Next time you cruise around in your Lexus or BMW S.U.V. (or whatever luxury vehicle you own) take a trip down to, say, eastern Kentucky and look around at some of Appalachia and just envy all those "whiteys" and the shacks they call home, a great number of them still having to truck out to outhouses just to take a crap---even in sub-zero temperatures mid-winter</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><i>...and just wish you could trade places with them and live the same type of "privileged" lifestyle they do.</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Once again: it's not just about race or religion---it's about economics, social status, and social standing as well.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">There ARE also other forms of discrimination.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p>Tal Hartsfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.com0