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Getting various pushes to participate in one of the boycotts tomorrow.

The “meh” response became even more emphatic after reviewing the organizing group’s website.

They list six core principles, all of which are “positive rights.”

Anything that requires another’s effort is not a right. If I’m being forced to provide those things, I am your slave.

I won’t be participating. If you are, you should read up on some of their really coercive means of accomplishing those goals.

I really wasn’t feeling well after trying to breathe through a face diaper again. Oops.

I did have things on in the background. Right now, I’m listening to KRenner talk about finding gigs from an HR perspective.

It’s interesting, but I’m inclined to think that much of this is now OBE. Despite the robust economic latching on with a big company and advancing there is a thing of the past.

Really sour on most things HR after the past few weeks. I saw something on X about Lowe’s killing of its DEI programs. That was right on the heels of the news about FacH^H^HMeta doing the same.

A lot of that stuff is from HR staffs. Will they ever get the message? I

I’m not holding my breath.

There’s still a certitude about where the future is headed.

But they’re wrong. And it becomes quickly apparent that there’s just nothing there at all. Going on in may different places.

I was distracted yesterday with the thoughts that wrought that memory.

Last two days of the year are workout days. My legs are sore.

Fantasy football resulted in two disasters yesterday. So, second place in my league, and seventh in the other Yahoo league.

Obviously, most of the pods are on holiday break, but there’s been a few things I’ve filled back in.

I need to get to the doc to get this weird finger thing I’ve got going on checked.

More later, maybe.

That’s a nicer than saying they’re both stupid.

After bailing on Trump’s interview with Sharyl Atkisson after hearing again, nothing worthwhile, I stumbled across Neil Cavuto interviewed Mark Cuban about his support for Kamala

They had a back-and-forth about Trump’s bad monetary policy…..without any mention of how really bad Biden/Harris have been.
Both candidate are relying upon just ungodly amounts of circulating money. Nobody ever expects that the spigot will ever close.

But it will. It has to. The maths don’t work otherwise.

Trump came out either yesterday or the day before with a proposal to limit credit card interest rates to 10%. Much like his pitches for no taxes on tips, and Social Security Income sounds good at initial listening, but they don’t fix anything.

Stop taxing tips? The deficit in Social Security gets worse; the “trust fund.” (That doesn’t exist because no politician has been willing to raise the retirement age even though life expectancy is now probably close to twenty years more than it was they bumped it the last time…) Social Security Retirement is out of money, and there’ll be mandatory cuts very soon, now. Taking off contributions on tips.

Meanwhile, nobody is willing to actually reduce spending, raise taxes, and raise interest rates.

No, NeoHips, the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!!1! didn’t have a damned thing to do with every single TSA agent being a Federal employee.

But Kamala, and Alsobrooks are going to make sure grocers don’t soak consumers in pursuit of their 1% margins.

Nobody has a plan. That’s worse than it’s ever been.

The NFL came back on Thursday night. Very good game, and my strategy for my primary fantasy team worked very well.

I actually, kind of by accident, ended up drafting bth Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes.

The latter ended up getting traded for a couple of wide receivers who may provide good numbers for the year.

The Ravens-Chiefs game Thursday night was very good. I wrote last time about the situation with the game in Brazil.

I’d considered scribbling down the names of the companies that supported the debacle, but why? I don;’t care about either of the teams, and, probably most of the companies advertising aren’t things I’d typically buy, anyway.

Still, if you think what’s going on in Brazil is a good thing, or any of the stuff they’re doing, I really don’t want anything to do with you.

If you’re a politician who speaks out in favor of penalizing jailing murdering people who disagree with you, there is absolutely zero chance I’ll ever vote for you.

Sorry, Officer Harris.

Sorry WLAF Commissioner Walt.

So. What’s on tap for the week?

Probably a ton of work. No medical stuff, thankfully, though things start again in earnest next week.

ComXfinity has an AI app I can use. Unfortunately, I can’t figure out how to make it work for Fantasy Football.

Writing because I have a few minutes.

And refusing to work. I really feel like there’s things I ought to be doing.

Actually, no, I should be doing what I’m doing.

Looking at probably five straight twelve-hour days this week.

But I think I’m ready. TV viewing has kind of been offset by Olympics being on. I watch a bit, but it’s really not something I’m terribly interested in.

I could dive deeper into the mess that is politics, but that might be more disappointing than many other things.

Watching the sputtering economics happening. NYSE started deflating. What’s Trump’s solution? Stop taxing Social Security income. What’s Harris’s solution? Tell the world that Trump is worse than Hitler because he doesn’t want to raise taxes on corporations. (That don’t even pay taxes, anyway…..)

1-2-3 Plan. Set interest rates to 1% above inflation. 2. Halve discretionary spending. 3. Triple all tax rates and fees.

Not Voodoo Economics.

I’m planning out this summer’s travel. I always am tempted, and maybe this is a remanent of being very poor, but, I have to remind myself that I need to run the quick math on what I’m trying to do, how long it’s going to take me to save money, and how much I could save. If I would charge a hundred bucks for something that’ s going to take me four hours, it’s not worth it.

Just pay the extra and move on. Maybe I forego dessert a few nights. I probably should do that, anyway.

So, flight was booked last weekend. Casino hotel room booked. Let’s go.

Otherwise, with the NFL being off, I’m really catching up on a lot of entertainment.

On in the background. I did watch the Tom Brady roast. There were a few jokes that might have gone a bit too far….BUT…that’s how it’s supposed to work.

He did get in a 9/11 joke at Drew Bledsoe’s expense.

But it’s been more than twenty years. You call tell jokes about that now.

And, as is so often the case, I’m getting distracted.

Hm. I should email $person. Hm. Maybe if I got back on the schedule of writing over the summer again.

Nope. I’m not supposed to do it.

I’m listening to a Soho Forum debate. One of the participants is one of the many I’ve kind of turned off.

It’s a good talk. I wonder if I was slightly biased against one side because of my distaste for one of the debaters.

I should just move my focus away from other things that bother me.

I’m really bad about doing that.