Musing For Today

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.

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"

...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.

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?

                             Gotta Love Summer ....

...Death Valley temperatures and frequent monsoons with tornadic winds

 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

                         Musing For Today

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

....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" ........

                         The Faux "Poor"

What does the government consider "poverty level"?  $45,000-a-year or below?

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

....yet they can still afford to finance brand-new $80,000 S.U.V.s, $1200 phones with 5G, home internet, cable/satellite TV .....

Why are such swanky proles considered in the same category as those making $1200-a-month or less than $1000-a-month?

                           The Florida Condominium Collapse

              Well, that's the sum total of American architecture for you .....structures made out of cardboard and tin, not much better than a mud and grass hut

One way to irk any poor person

       ...is to hear some wealthy famous black celebrity or athlete go on about "white privilege"

....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

...and just wish you could trade places with them and live the same type of "privileged" lifestyle they do.

Once again:  it's not just about race or religion---it's about economics, social status, and social standing as well.

There ARE also other forms of discrimination.

 The U.S. Postal Service is still struggling financially, cutting back on services, creating even further delays in mail delivery time

....yet they STILL have Saturday service instead of only operating Monday thru Friday

A Great Career Opportunity For All You Jehovah's Witnesses Out There

Being that you're already used to going door-to-door soliciting total strangers, a new program recently initiated by the U.S. Federal Government may be the perfect way for you to earn extra $$$$ part-time.

Starting soon, individuals will be needed for the purpose of going door-to-door to check on the vaccination status of their fellow citizens.  And who better qualified for this type of structured intrusion than those already adept at such practices?

So do consider this (what may be a) once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. 

                                                 Musing For Today

How many of you, upon hearing HEY JUDE for the first time, spent a good three minutes or so "waiting for a return to the main verse during the middle part"

....only to finally realize it wasn't a "middle part" but, rather, an elongated final chorus?

                                              Adage For Today

Too many things in life are tantamount to an unmarked railroad crossing in the middle of the night----something you need to know that you don't learn about until it's too late

                                                       PELOTON

 Nothing like a virtual Simon Legree barking orders at you incessantly

 "Okay, honey, I'm heading out to the store now.  In case I never make it back home you know where the Life Insurance policy is."

"In the top left-hand drawer of the bedroom dresser."

"You got it!"

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