Actors not people

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I have liked Tom Hanks ever since I saw Forrest Gump. And that's the only person I see in Tom Hanks, a doofus. A well-meaning, light on the IQ, incredibly insightful, well-sheltered human being. And later in his role in Castaway he propelled that BRAND to new levels while still reminding me, that complete nobodys can lead an amazing life, and have still a lot left to live for. The same goes for his recent movie with Julia Roberts. People like him should have the movie crafted around his character or his brand, because when it comes to GIANTS like him, people are coming to see the character, not the movie.

Tom Cruise is another example. All I see in all of his characters, from Jerry MacGuire, to Legend, to Mission Impossible, to Jack Reacher, to Vanilla Sky, to Knight and Day... is Maverick. Yep, I see a "one of your snot-nosed jockey doing a fly-by on MY watch tower, I've HAD it. I want some BUTT. " So basically I see a guy who gets away with stuff because he's so charming and then he gets SLAMMED and poof a great movie. It's not hard. In fact that's why Rock of Ages was such CRAP is because he didn't get his ass handed to him in that one. Plus I have done some Karaoke in my time and WAY UP HERE are people that know singing because it takes years to get there and I don't think those people had the the chops yet, though it sounded about low 80ish out of 100 on singing quality. And you know, btw, Oblivion would have been much better if he had a little bit more of a paradise before getting his butt kicked. I really wanted to imagine that world with him and that girl in the middle of nowhere.  It was nice and SHE was nice-looking without looking OMG like Katie Holmes.  

Just saying.

Angelina Jolie is another example. All I see now in all her movies is Lara Croft. Does that ruin it for her? I don't think so, although I imagine doing a jet-ski flip might have made playing other roles, slightly less comparable.  Wanted was great example of Lara Croft and when she suicided, I teared up because, I mean LARA!  And yet in her role in The Tourist, totally different.  Not a lot of action, no invincibility. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, invincible.  I mean in The Tourist she is just wasted. She is sexy sure but I dunno. She NEEDS to play Wonder Woman, AS THE GODDESS DIANA, if you know what I mean. That's who I attribute to her character.

So all of this is leading me to Brent Spiner. I know, who the HELL is Brent Spiner? He's the guy that played DATA on Star Trek : The Next Generation(TNG). I was giving him some advice on twitter on roles he could play like mostly robotic roles because of a reference he made to not working so much. But it hit me later that maybe I was stereotyping him. I love DATA in many of the same ways I love Tom Hanks' characters. Yet it occurred to me that the person you are tweeting may have a very different actual personality than the character he plays. And he said it once or twice that he isn't DATA and that to treat him so is to belittle his real person right? It seems so, but I mean how can I be a fan of him if he is different?

He confused me.

And for many similar reasons, I remain confused about William Shatner. I grew up as a child exploring the world, yelling and pitching fits(over-acting), and giving lessons to my little brother, much like Kirk would do on his shows to Spock who was his superior in many ways(my brother has always been the better looking one) and yet his subordinate. He was a role model for me. 

The CHARACTER, not the actor. 

So I shouldn't really care about the actor, right?  

I mean if you think about it hard, ALL THOSE FANS adore a bunch of LIFELESS HUSKS that had their roles written for them, their clothes prepared for them, their faces done for them. 

Us FANS are a bunch of MORONS!

Yet, that is my lesson for you actors out there from the best at the top to the not-so-famous. In the end, your BRAND is going to be what people look for when they see your name. Much like people expect a Big Mac to taste the same at every McDonald's, they expect to see some of the same character in all of your roles. Maybe different because situations can come in ALL different forms; but you need to keep that shining example of what is best about you, that Big Mac, always "at the ready" so people can go,

"Yeah, you guys go ahead and get whatcha want, I already know I want a Big Mac. " 

EDIT: I just want to add, that in Netflix when I find a great somebody I search for their other movies knowing that they will be quality movies because the actor successfully charmed me.
　
ps. And rememeber that u have a lucky piece of real estate when people are writing about u, because there is only so much real estate in my mind, much like there is only so much space in a supermarket.  I can't be bothered with Troi or with Spock or with Brad Pitt or Patrick Duffy or Jodi Whatley because-- IT'S TOO MUCH, so count your blessings and Merry Christmas. 

pss. this post ws so much nicer when I first wrote it.

Rip off

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One more thing, is that new OMEGA commercial a complete rip off of the CASTAWAY theme or what?

It makes you feel good... and then you think, "What a rip off."

Still, I like remembering the movie.

WILSON!

I have my favorites

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I have my favorites. So I am gonna tell you who they are. I like SECupp. She is like a new-age Gillian Anderson. They should name the building she works in as "SECupp works here." I am beguiled sometimes. I follow her twitter and offer my few renditions of what I call logic. I read her articles, probably edited by some major IQ types all following her around like chicks to a hen, and never once do I imagine her breasts or her butt or even her hands. I love to imagine a woman's hands, but nope not her. For her it's all in her face. Every new still picture of her is like gazing into a winter-morning pond that has it's icy layer steam away the more you look at it.

I get chills.

Yet if there were a girl more good-looking I guess I wouldn't look at her so much. Truth is, I like Erin Burnett about as much as I like her and honestly I am just a sucker for a lovely set of blue eyes. In fact, thank GOD for Erin Burnett because otherwise I would feel weird about liking SECupp so much and why.

I mean why ask why.

I guy was ranting over and over at Ann Coulter and saying how all of her work was just for the sake of drama. Every time someone loses their mind, she makes money so she must WANT people to lose their minds so that she can make more money. So untrue, but even if it is, isn't there a whole lot of effort going on there? Why ask why?

Ok so I am getting off-topic. My point is that following SECupp is like following Aphrodite. You HOPE she knows what she's doing, but you don't really care. You HOPE that she has some major brainer types nearby but if not, it still might be ok.

I different style of that is Sarah Silverman. She IS the major brainer type. It's nice that she's pretty and I'd like to see MORE of her sure. In her case I do imagine her boobs maybe or think about what her butt might look like from behind (cringe) maybe, but mostly I like the way she thinks. I follow her because she seems like a female version of me. Critically analyzing things and grossing you out instantly if you creep her out at all.(Does she really play the piano?)

PORN! DOODY!! HUMANITY!!!

Still another version is Ann Coulter. Unlike the complete inanity of following SECupp around or the imperilled comfiness of being near Sarah Silverman, following Ann Coulter would be closer to feeling empowered as a man. Now is the best time to check your balance though because unlike most chicks, you had better pull your own weight intellectually as well as financially. A conversation that turns to politics is sure to be one that makes you feel like you are sitting next to a GIANT And because she is slightly older than the others I imagine all Mama's Boys have NO PROBLEM getting their heads patted down by the GREAT Ann.

And lastly, sorry Alex I like u too but meh, lastly there is Rachel. I don't have to say her last name because there is only one Rachel. I can't tell if she is better than Ann because honestly, Ann is good at justifying the spirit of the Republicans in a way that doesn't make them ALL seem like the self-serving, five-broke people equals one of me, needy people suck, cannibals that would otherwise make you wonder where your chains are hidden. On the other hand, there is SO MUCH MATERIAL that Rachel dealing with it on a daily basis, making it funny, LIVING the life of a witchhunter, puts her on top of Ann. I could build a shrine to Rachel and people would come. I could random play a show of hers and no matter which one it was... people would be spellbound 5 minutes in.

Rachel Maddow is the best.

ps. Merry Christmas

It's not hard

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I used to live near Monroe, Louisiana. It was a straight shot north from Alexandria and I spent 3 years near there at a Baptist College.

So let's talk bout them ducks, from Duck Dynasty.  I never liked their show.  I tried to watch it once but it was too boring.  Ironically, they have about as disparaging a view of gay people as I have of them directly. They are a people living out in the wild, roughin' it, both in their appearance and in their clothes.  Still, I remember the weather up there and unlike New Orleans it was always on the cold and windy side, so having plenty of layers of clothes was a good idea. The plenty of trees there gave the college town it's name, Pineville.

One thing I DO like about them is their religion. It reminded me of the culture of the entire area.  It was the site of the Southern Baptist Convention.  It's exactly what you would expect from EVERY SINGLE person at the college. Even the ones that went out to the bar, had to check into chapel every Wednesday like the rest of the college. 

 And to say that shying away from a vagina for the sake of an anus is stupid, does an incredible disservice to the difficulty of getting that vagina.

Sex is hard.

Now I'm not gonna "boo hoo" all about my missed opportunities at college, because there were many.  I recommend everyone send your kids to a college campus and tell them to get married there if they know what's good for them. I have never since experienced the SLUMP of available women that I did right after leaving college.  

Now I am not going to tell you that people that shy away from gays are evil. Fact is, gay people are out of the ordinary and in true form should be treated with surprise and then acceptance, much like the Duck Dynasty would have done if they ran across one in real life, much like Alec Baldwin would have done if HE was involved in a normal conversation with one, much like any clop with trot with a job wudda dun. 

Much like I would do if I ever came across the Duck Dynasty in person.  I would treat them with surprise, and then, acceptance. 

It's not hard.

Hairlip

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So I just postponed my updates for 10min and while in the middle of writing this blog, it closed my session. Thanks Windows.

SO STUPID!

(edit: ok so the draft was saved somehow, I just found it)

I was watching MSNBC and there is a commercial running about kids that have a cleft lip and it asks you to send money to have that repaired as a charity. Good idea.

But it reminded me of this girl that had a "hairlip" as they called it and I used to look at her and think hmm pretty good looking, except for the hairlip. Her body was fantastically thin and lithe with unnaturally large boobs which were common for 19 year olds at the time and I remember having an intimate conversation with her one time about sex.

A lot of those old conversations have new meaning to me now that I wonder about people gossiping and what they must have been thinking oh so many times as they tried to lure me to do "questionable" things. It occurs to me now that this happened all throughout my life with me doing what was expected which was to not take the bait.

This conversation with this girl, who is really good-looking and fine except for this hairlip goes to a personal confidence she shares with me about having had sex with a guy. This shocks me and excites me too since I was in a Baptist college and generally people there got married before sex. I told her my true feelings which were that she should wait and I told her that meh, I would have had the sex also but it never occurred to me that maybe she was sizing ME up for sex (though probably we were both thinking it). 

But I have a MUCH different view of ugly now. People that are ugly, or have a mark, are treated as such. They catch hell and then they gotta shell it out to survive. So remembering how many of the guys called her "hairlip", even though I never did, makes me wonder if she was trying to find out if I would have sex before marriage, which of course allows her to go back to tell all the girls to ruin my reputation. Hmmm. And that makes it one step closer to getting ME to sleep with her. Hmmm. Yeah, a lot of lights going on lately about disloyal people that I didn't treat as such.

But maybe not, right? Maybe she got tired of me not noticing her all the time (even though I was attracted to her) and finally "manned up" and made her feelings known the best she could?  Who knows.  

I was no saint though. I had already slept with a girl before going off to college and was spilling my load on every other porno I could find. But I was only 18 or so. I was still wondering about how I would get married. You see, my parents didn't want me to get married because they married too young and struggled with having a poor life with children. At every turn they would stop me from considering it, explaining that I should have a career first and my education first and marriage later. Yet I was desperate to get laid. It didn't help that my girlfriend from New Orleans refused to follow me when I asked her to come with me. And it seemed "unholy" to ask a girl for sex just to have the sex.  If I wanted to have sex and marry her I should really really really be sure she was that forever girl right? And that proved impossible. I wanted to date but I was too scatterbrained to understand what my goal was in those years. I wanted to be popular as much with the Baptist Student Union as with the bar crowd which I thought were not so bad a bunch. But YOU try to accommodate both of those and I promise you a headache.

And it seems like ever since then, I have been repeating the story. I go to bars only to drink and sing karaoke, eventually I end up getting offers that I refuse and soon it's time to find another bar for some reason as people begin to comment on how arrogant or "too good" I am for them.  

And this REPUTATION, as someone who doesn't accept offers but spends all his time in the bar, kind of MARKS you doesn't it? 
And now, much like her, "I" am the one with the mark or the hairlip.  Despite my good looks and education and work experience, my hairlip is the first thing a girl sees, and now I am going to have to be the one to be upfront with someone... hopefully open to dating a "hairlip".

Those tweeking congressmen

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So in my dicussion of MBAs you probably now get that "opportunistic" MBAs are nothing like regular MBAs. There is maximizing value that is done much like "tweeking" your checkbook. 

There is also maximizing value that includes invading your wife's checking account.

In the first variety, you clearly identify your clients, make totals more often to minimize errors, you might even use a spreadsheet so the debits and credits allow you to double check your math. People that make up most of your income or spending might go into a separate checkbook yeah? You might even want to KEEP THOSE receipts because the business there is so large that quantifying business there is significant and you could deduct those costs because of the value it does to the country. Good idea.

This is the work of an MBA or an accountant or an economist or maybe even a banker/financial expert/money man. You make the government of your affairs lean. 

Lean government is the goal people!

OH wait there's a REAL government. Why don't people do it that way for the government?

So that's my purpose today, is to advise you that politicians are supposed to be like these people. Tweeking, adjusting, accounting, should be the goal of a congressman. He should not be CREATING value. That's the boss' job( aka the population's job). These people should be servants of the population not their bosses.

MBAs should be servants of demand, they should not be creating it.

Congressmen should be servants of the population's needs, they should not be creating it.

So healthcare... needed? Maybe. Pipeline... needed? Maybe. Welfare, Tax, Immigration reform... needed? Maybe. Gun control... needed? Maybe.

But in your mind, it should not be clear that for the most part, Congress should be doing NOTHING!

It's so wrong

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The hardest thing to draw  for me is the ear. I can draw the body of a man or woman to some degree but when I get up to the ear and the face, I have to use reference points and I still manage to mess them up to some degree. It's funny to me to find myself in front of a woman's little ear. I wonder if that is a fetish.

I remember the first time a girl blew in my ear I was so annoyed, I wondered WTH are you doing? She was like "it's supposed to turn you on." But it didn't.

Fast forward to a couple of years later when some girl decided to breathe and moan in my ear...

Kapow!

That's the sound of an imminent explosion going off in your pants!

So after that ravishing experience, I started to do it to women and sure enough what works for guys, works for girls just fine. I have always been curious of women's parts and not just the ears and the obvious. 

And yet sometimes a woman is so manly that it kinda grosses me out. If they have crap behind their ears or if their coochie smells funny or their feet smell, it has it's effect. I don't mind the smell of sweat but I do mind it if the smell is rank of old clothes or somethin.

I love women that have small little tiny ears. In fact, this is a good time to mention that I like short women. There is something mystical about a little woman being able to give you A LOT of satisfaction.

It's SO wrong.

Ann Coulter's quote

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I put Ann Coulter up on my wallpaper because yeah, she's a great person. So while I am reading her past about Bill Clinton and while I am totally recanting on my view of the Clintons, I realize some of her past is a bit more feisty than the person I know on twitter. So below is one of her quotes that were on one of her bios on the internet.

"Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster."

I have quite a few philosophical principles.

I am not a fan of contracts and am even less a fan of quotes. This quote is by Ann Coulter. Now at any given moment, or on any given Sunday, we have the capacity to evolve in our views so taking someone's quote or reading his signature on a contract, or blaming someone's character for some long ago act, is a bit like the devil and his half full soulgem.

If he fills it up all the way, then it's time to take you to hell!

Well how about we don't use soulgems? Yeah, it's a bit opportunistic to say you must do what I say or I will tell people you tried to kill your brother once or stole some candy or had your ass licked and you liked it. It's the people that are willing to blackmail you that REALLY deserve the soul gems.

Let's see now, how do I tell them apart from the good people?

Well, let's forget about hell because the truth is there is no such thing. At least in my mind. But I DO understand what hell is to some degree and by that notion so do I get what heaven is. But before I piss off all religious people, let's skip it.

The quote up top proports to provoke all non-registered voters into registering. OR ELSE. Or else what? Or else you are an idiot. A retard. Someone less able to process thoughts than your average person. You also may have the maturity of a fourteen year old. What an insult. But I can't fault her too much because, after all, she has been plowing away at ridiculousness for decades and it would be an immoral act to push her aside for saying something while disregarding so many other great sayings. But in true-to-form comedy or punditry or "cleaner of oil from ducks with dawn" fashion, I'm going to bring to the fore what it means to be a swing voter.

My father was a registered Democrat. He is a big fan of the Clintons, not the least of which is because they kept their marriage together through much hardship much like my parents did. When Hilary ran, he was all for it. Myself I don't like the idea of another DYNASTY like the Bush era, where all the same people come back and know in much better form how to make themselves rich er uh.. I mean do their jobs better. But when Obama was the candidate, he had a change of heart. So he goes to the poll and his vote is rejected. He had reqistered Democrat so all he could do was vote Democrat.

Is this really what we want in this country? Do we want to have "registered" voters? If you are registered Democrat and you can't vote Republican, why even have the election? Why not just have everyone's vote counted on the day of and poof, no controversy, no counting, no runoff. People can know the outcome pretty much weeks ahead of time.

OH, swing voters that's why.

Because I myself am not loyal to a political party but it seems that the people in charge DO want you to be loyal... to their party MORE than the country. Anyone thinking Heritage Action yet? Yeah because it sounds like a good time club but it ends up my religion or theirs.

Swing voters are the people that keep people honest. The extremist that is not so extremist. Before a Democrat starts espousing principles like world order, (which is not so bad in theory it's just the people that mess that up) a swing voter is going to slow that up. Same goes for Republicans that like to claim God and Country while being cruel to their fellow man. Only swing voters are gonna slow that up.

It is the swing voter that remains the best choice when you don't know who is saying what and don't have the time to follow who's the who in your local area or on the national stage. And by the way the only people that have the time to involve themselves in politics are people that have people running their business's for them, aka. rich people. So when you begin to see people waiting in lines or stopped from voting because of invalid ID or having their votes thrown out because they moved recently(which only happens to non-business owners who rent), then it's time to hook up with your local swing voter agency, and NOT lock yourself up in a political party that is being run by rich people on both sides.

And since she probably wrote that quote before she was forty, I'm gonna let her off the hook with my own quote.

By the age of fourteen you might be either liberal or conservative but by the age of forty you should be quite a bit more conscious of the need to have two sides to ANY argument, which means having more or less govt...

is not really the point.

What normal is

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I guess it should be obvious that I get into moods.  I have a long spell of irritated, followed by long spells of happy followed by depression followed by hopefulness.  Some might call it bipolar disorder.  I would rather call it normal. 

People on drugs are people that are "unnaturally happy".  Drinking does this.  Cocaine and Marijuana do this.  Even people playing a video game could be said to be "unnaturally happy".  All of these are substitutes for what should be making you happy in life.  All of these are substitutes for sex. 

When you visit the extremes of what you can be in life you can use that to become a better thinker of where the center should lie.  First of all you should know what you are talking about right because all we can be is either completely controlled or wild.

I am about to tell you what normal is.

To be completely controlled is to be completely civilized or sophisticated.  Like me.  You have to have no urges to do anything.  All actions are for a set purpose.  Once you realize that you need to pee, eat, masturbate, poop, sneeze and clean your eyes and ears, you can do those with increasing levels of effectiveness.  The government could be run this way to achieve maximum levels of civility.  It could clean itself on purpose.

So at one end, to be completely in control of yourself is to be completely civilized.  This is hard to do and it must be done intentionally I might add.  You can't accidentally do something civilized. 

At the other end, is what wild is.  This is the natural order.  To do this takes no effort.  You are stomping your enemies,  seeking revenge, pissing your pants and humping the first girl that doesn't give you too much trouble.  This is what NO civility looks like.  Pure emotion.  Some people would call me THIS too.  

If two people at these opposite ends were to meet then you might have a discussion about what is wrong with you. (Lawrence, you are in my thoughts) So you might wonder to yourself, HOW DO I FIGHT this guy? Was I wrong to post a selfie of my wabbajack online?

No.  Remember that you are REQUIRED to respect the law of diminishing returns in life.  Some people will be more of the other while some are too much of this.  So when Lawrence gets too WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU on TV, it's time to add up your life and defend the 50% of people that are like you and not the other 50% that are not like you. 

If are brave, you are not cautious.

If you are brazen, you are not thoughtful.

If you have a lot of sex with questionable women, you are not very innocent and may not care for that sort, making you heartless. 

If you have a large prick, you are more likely to have trouble finding the hole. 

Simple things remind us that NO MATTER WHAT, there is some counter to any attack we may be under.  So if you find yourself being called a jackoff because you are so arrogant that you will not allow sex until it is the perfect person, then you know what to call that other person that is so wild that he would do it with anyone including his mother. 

There is a lot of value in playing it safe.

I am sorry to attribute everything to sex.  My sister says often says this, but it seems to me to be the best way to explain why we do things, as opposed to basing desires on fake needs. 

Earlier, on twitter, there was mention of Bill Clinton and his affair and it reminded me of how it was at the time to listen to people SO OFFENDED that he would cheat on his wife, but at the same time them not giving any value to how difficult sex is sometimes.  It's frustrating to me to hear people talk about how easy sex is.  It's not easy for me.  Earning money is easy, having sex is not.

Sex is hard.


ps. I know, more ps, I am editing and here goes the unforeseen addition.  The law of diminishing returns applies to life as well.  If you experience as much as there is to experience in life as fast as possible, you may live out the rest of it bored yet if you take no risk at all you may not ever achieve a sufficient level of joy so it's important that you realize the value of SLOWING things down.  Slow your life so that pictures of your great day in the mountains don't become a life long yearn to look out an office window and pine for that long ago moment.  Everyone's life follows the normal curve.  Meaning that eventually it slopes off and then you are on the downside.  Slow things down. Get your fix.  Get your too drunk bar fix, your questionable sexual moment fix, get your I played an RPG for 3 straight days fix, get your I ran across the highway fix.  But don't make those things normal in your life. 

Or just maybe you can make doing those things the goal, in case finding that perfect girl didn't work out so well.

Witch doctor in plain view

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And there goes the perfect example of a "witch doctor".  Did you guys see that guy doing sign language at the Nelson Mandela memorial?  Bunches of people "suspected" that he was full of crap.  Some few "knew" he was full of crap.  But NOONE was gonna walk up there and pull him off stage in front of a million people because "what if they were wrong"?  What if some of it is true?  What if he is some secret member of an assassination plot and here you go and get shot first while the TRUE assassin sets his sights on whoever at the same moment?

That's what makes witch doctors indomitable.  Noone has the BALLS to tell them they're wrong.

Reach

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I can't restate this enough, false neighbors, be careful of them.

So today we should talk about how far our reach extends. Can we help the children of Syria, or should we? Who should? We cannot even stop hospitals from overcharging or banks from capitalizing and we wanna stop dictators from killing their own people.

My mother came back from her trip and all is well with my grandfather so we had a small get together at the main house. This includes my recently divorced sister, her son, my brother and his wife. We served enchiladas, but the way we make enchiladas is that we take a tortilla and fry it open and then put sauce then ground beef, grated lettuce, hot sauce, parmesan cheese on top and then a slice of hard boiled egg. Pieces of chopped tomatoes can be added. Sounds like a delicasy and it is. Noone makes them and it used to be standard fare at our family get-togethers in New Orleans but we haven't lived there in 20 years so, for us, it's rare.

In the various discussions that we had about various subjects, came the subject of the cat. The cat was shuffled off to live with my sister and soon thereafter, fleas overtook my father's house. Now whether to use the almost required "one drop" medicine that works wonders hinged on whether paying $75 was too much to spend. At that point I suggested sending it (the cat) to the pound, which my sister suggested was cruel, to which I suggested that cruel... was to allow Syrian rebel's children to continue to be "roach-sprayed" like so much obsolescense from an inventory list.

Then I stretched out my hands and explained, "Reach. We can only deal with the evil, that we can reach."

Secret of Steel

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Does putting a 2 year old next to the a rich black man's dog remind me of Michael Jackson? Nope. Not one bit. Send MORE children to the White House, because WHOLE GROUPS of people supporting the President have sense somewhere they just gotta FIND it.

I can't restate this enough. False neighbors, be careful of them.

So my message for today is from a Superman. Yeah, you know I wrote about him a while back. He flies above the law and what not but it's ok because his funny red boots let everyone know that it's okay it's not a bird or a plane, it's THE MAN. So here goes a famous quote that I quoted from different sort of "Man of Steel".

Don't let the STEEL work you, YOU work it.

Important words about survival and duress. You may not be able to take a million hits all lined up against you, but as you shape these hits into something you can use, you have to remember to not get too worked up. (This is similar to that last scene in Shaolin Soccer where the unemployed female Master of Shaolin uses her skill of the Ying Yang to shape evil into something awesome).  This quote was taken from steel workers that shape and weld steel onto ships. The patience that it takes to do this is the basis for the quote. And so does harassment make you stronger if you manage the hits enough to survive and not lose control of your temper. This is what I call the riddle of steel. It is something about managing yourself after the evil you unleashed comes back to you... possibly like a whole ship down on your hand.

I was just watching Alex Wagner. I have to say she does NOT like Rob Ford but she's funny about it in a way that is not cruel. She displays her facts and sheer dismay with an OMG face that frankly I share.

I wonder if that would make a good campaign strategy for me to just tell people we are going to do all the things we know we shouldn't do and wait to see how many poor people show up to elect me. I might win... you think?

I have another quote.  The Secret of Steel I call it.  It's from Conan the Barbarian the movie. I'm not gonna tell it to you but when you figure that out, you go up a level. Understanding it makes you see what makes the SWORD so necessary. What makes air so different when breathed by you or by me or by some rich person. It's a valuable lesson but you have to learn it for yourself, I can't just TELL it to you. 

It defines all of life.

 

Burning the company

BLM:90 WHM:90 SMN:90 THF:90 WAR:90 DRK:90 RNG:90 PLD:90

Well I have Gillian back on my wallpaper again. Mostly because she is supporting a cause to have people in Europe that fish, watch what they do so as not to destroy coral reefs which are take ages to create and which house huge amounts of animals and such. Fishermen, instead of fishing conventionally, have begun to scrape the bottom of the ocean to sort of "cheat fish" but this destroys reefs. 

The picture is a lovely picture of her with a thick bottom-dweller snake covering her sexy parts.

I wonder to myself if I should put Sarah Silverman up on my wallpaper. I think I tweet her too much.  And I don't trust myself not to like her too much. Nah, I better not, even though she is lovely in a more butch kind of way. I could see her grabbing my shirt and throwing me this way and that and asking WELL?

In a good way. She's the kind of girl that you could talk to her in the dark and you don't worry what she looks like because she is so interesting. 

Ok, there's goes the not liking her too much.

So my latest thing in politics is to support the revolution in Kiev. I have to ask myself, "if these people weren't white, would we care?" The more I hear about it though, the more I care because it seems to me these people are much more civilized than say Pakistan or Serbia or even Syria, oh wait OF COURSE Syria!

Julia is in a much better mood lately it seems and I am glad. I wonder what it would be like to work there at The New Republic? I know from that movie Shattered Glass, that the job is like top notch. I hope she stays the way she is through the coming years. So that brings me to my moral for today.

Masters of Business Administration. (MBAs)

These are people that for some reason thought it would be nice to major in Art History and then figured out oh wait get rich first THEN know about art! The MBA is really not much more than a glorified Accounting/Finance/Economics degree. Noone with a regular Business degree need get this unless you need two more years studying what you already know and hey, now you can finally date while achieving a 4.0!

One of my managers from Citibank told me early on, which is why I went and got accepted to business school, that if you wanted to ascend past a certain level, that this was a checked box that was part of that ascension. 

So if it was so important why did I not complete it?

Here goes why. I was studying with a girl. She left.  This gave the professor the perfect opportunity to "teach me" about the real world by making me finish the case study on my own, while the other teams had 3 and 4 people.  When we drew straws to find out whose project would go first, it was me.  

Fail.

K, so fast forward to I can't afford it and work won't pay for it and the school won't let me try again--stress for about a year. My life sounds easy ya? I was working full-time while trying to finish. 

Sidetracked.

Ok flashback to when I was an undergrad.  After a long series of courses and a conversation with a caring teacher later, someone will ask you "what is most important?" This is a test of your knowledge and a gauge to see if you are clueless. As a Finance major(my major) the most important thing is to know how to read a company. You are a credit analyst... of a company. In this capacity you must be able to know ROI, earnings per share, ROE and your basic net income and AGI.

See that? I just alienated a bunch of people by using jargon. Yeah, the best things in life are simple.

If I wrote those terms out so that you could understand them easy, you might not think Finance was all that hard? And this might cause your best friend, like mine did, to ask if you wasted all that money you spent on your education? And that is what happens in car repair, in medicine, in drugs, even a bartender might be like "what's a scotch and tonic?" because if I knew what I was talking about I would order a "scotch and water". Hmmf. Yeah we don't think that huge masses of people are out there creating their own language and gang/group, but they are. They want outsiders to not question them and in so doing they allow prices to go up, and demand and interest to increase, mostly because of the "exploration" factor that comes with not knowing what AGI is on a financial statement.

Oh, let me getcha a Certified Financial Planner to tell you what that is! Which sounds like you just ordered a doctor to chart your heartbeat, but it's not. Sadly, trust is a factor. So if you have a "hidden knowledge" field like finance or medicine or even BILLIARDS it's time to get your gang together that provides certification in the field and of course... there's a fee and to make it MORE interesting... there's an oath so that the "gang" can later REVOKE your ass out for any one of many things that THEY decide makes you a liar.

Oaths are overrated. I think the Bible doesn't support them but I haven't thought about it much.

Ok sidetracked, the focus today is on the burning of companies. It makes sense to make as much value as possible so that this "technological leap" (aka. your company vision) makes your investors happy.  Maximizing stockholder value is drilled into your head over and over in business school.

The most important thing on a financial sheet is ROE. This stands for Return on Equity. It would take a long time to explain this but basically it is just a proportion of your stock's worth as compared to the company's income. A good ROE means you have successfully achieved value. So now you can just skip everything else taught in business school and just use this to "cheat" your way through stocks.

I know, I know, I am giving away the farm right? But if you do the same thing in car repair, it should be easy right? Same goes for medicine. We should be able to put in symptoms, churn up the processing, and get a list of possible causes.

Ok so what is happening as you "choose" to maximize value. Your company starts off incredibly rough. Let's say you just started earning enough to cover your overhead. Overhead is the total of your building costs. But there are all sorts of tweeks and choices you can make to cut costs or improve profits. As you do this, you company makes more money. This "work" really has nothing to with demand.  Demand responds to the viability of your vision and how "needed" your product is.  Getting your MBA makes you an expert at tweeking. And yet the business can afford to pay you 60k. How?

Remember that we are keeping demand the same for now. Sooooo, how will you increase value after you have done all the tweeking possible? 

Lessee, we can take all that profit money and invest it, we can buy or lease stuff based on a NEATO calculation, we can use accounting methods like LIFO or FIFO which organize how you pack your inventory. Anyone bored yet? Remember that NONE of these has ANYTHING to do with demand. Your whole education is basically a glorified financial planner teaching you how to manage your checkbook.

Lessee, hmm what could we do that would show people that our job is important? If I was a mechanic, I COULD ruin something else. Yeah because if I am always fixing your car, I come across as a nice guy AND people everywhere see me as BUSY, especially my neighbors who like to wonder what I do with all of my time, esp other mechanics. To make even more money, let me just replace stuff instead of fixing things, because that's what people want right? And, turns out, I do less work yet charge more by just upcharging the new item.

Yeah, that's the MBA. If I want to make your company improve I just ROI this over here while making that equipment obselete and on THIS graph we see how awful that girl is at her job. Witch Doctor status achieved! Billiards is like that, medicine is like that, politics is like that.

Some people are so well-respected that they just Nine Ball you into thinking you aren't very good at pool yet after a whole lot of lingo research you find out that basically you knew LONG AGO what you spent all that time learning.

Studying the Bible is like that.  

But I am off track again. If you wanna burn the company you will need to make sacrifices yet ALL the sacrifices you make didn't really have to happen except to make YOURSELF look like you got a job to do.

This is how dictators operate, eg Kiev. They provoke the opposition and when they get a response, it's time to introduce fear. WHO BETTER to introduce fear but the person in charge. And as people wonder what could happen after escalation, the "witch doctor" directs your view to the oppositon.

I can do that as a business leader. Zucker is about to take CNN on a ride down Bourdain avenue so as to maximize profits. So instead of covering the news and fulfilling the funcion society needs, it's time to make his job more important so as not to get replaced. And if he is motivated by profit, all of this questionable "journalistic license" crap can just be thrown out the window.  If the President calls, well there's no morals to consider... just money. Theoretically, someone must have threatened his job for this to happen. 

I wonder why?  Are journalists being threatened out there you think?

Or let's focus on Amazon for a moment. Yeah,  I can't figure out why an online book authority would want to mess with journalism, although all of that official historical data and its storage, probably needs to be secure somewhere... safe.

And when Citibank bought AT&T UCS whose CEO later helped to oust the legitimate CEO of Citibank, who later joined with an insurance co who then later helped sell "auto-bill" wallet security insurance on people's credit card which was something the first credit card thought of. Yeah, no conflict of interest there. I just been like a fly not knowing nuthin about Citibank.

Do you see how all of that time spent and all those years I worked there, all of that created a VALUE that was mythical. It was all BS. Nothing happened. The incredible profits created were NOT because of efficiencies achieved but because of "questionable projects" that had nothing to do with the credit card business.  The business of interest on a customer's debt.  

The law stated that customers didn't owe more than $50 if their card was stolen and then used, but customers bought the insurance anyway, being the responsible people they are and not knowing what the law was.  Our leaders they went along with this insurance and even auto billed it if people didn't "catch" the message saying it was going to happen if you didn't check a box.

Can you believe it?  Some elderly people had hundreds of dollars billed to them and would not even dispute the charges because they didn't understand them and we had to sit there and watch customers go PAST DUE because of what WE initiated. 

Ok I am tired so instead of beating you with the notion, I will just say that the business cycle MUST be respected. Every company has it's day, no, every industry has it's day and then it must be allowed to fail. Cars should not be being used. We should all be using bikes and trains or maybe electric cars but people get addicted to speed and they don't realize that gasoline causes the cancer that is killing us or is warming our environment. 

Our electricity needs to be purchased and managed by each of us but instead we TRUST the utility. Don't get me started on what happens when water and electricity gets privatized.

Privatization equals dictators. 

Why? Because of what I just told you about my life. There IS NO value past a certain point, yet after that point is reached, value goes down or MAGIC takes over. 

It's like a 40 year old trying to have sex with a 20 something like in the movie Five Year Engagement(Emily Blunt is great).

"Go faster Tom." 

If you use magic to get ahead, be prepared to sacrifice people.