Mild Rants

 Dear Vicky, Did you ever, during this ravaging plague called COVID Delta etc, contemplate the likely possibility that THERE IS NO GOD?    I am so sorry for your loss in the town named after Ira and Ann Yates not too far from Fort Stockton and Monahans Texas.  No disrespect to your faith in God Miss Zapata, but why would you pray to a God on Facebook who let the plague happen to begin with?  Do you think Iraan is being punished just like the people in the Old Testament who had been sinful? Why would you worship a "higher power" who would let this happen in the first place? Your governor is to blame by not enforcing masking and social distancing. The 1200 citizens of your oil field town are equally at fault for ignoring the Corona Virus prevention protocol. So after all their negligence, you still want God to bail you out?

 A higher up with WHO(not Canadian Rock group,  World Health Organization) is hanging his hat on a LAME ANALOGY.   He compares United States vaccine lack of generosity with steerage section of the Titanic which did not get any life preservers after ship struck iceberg.  For those not maritime inclined, the steerage section is group of poorer passengers including some workers and cheap ticket holders.  Leo DeCaprio won his ticket in a poker hand before his steamy banging Kate Winslet handprint on Windshield scene. Read Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Dana for more familiarity with ship life and vernacular.  Dr. Michael Ryan should stick to being damn doctor rathe than a moralizing first class versus steerage class kind of guy! Let's see Doc, the US did the R&D, absorbed the massive costs of production and distribution AND we are the bad guys!! Who gives a crap what your political views are when you are probably first in line for the booster jab.  

 Was reading the often repeated quote "forgiveness is just another name for freedom" trying to credit the quote to some guy whose name I am not recalling at the moment.  All I could think of was how could you forgive the RADICAL LEFT in the United States? Those weak minded bleeding hearts believe nonsense like: Mankind has changed the climate irreparably Won't acknowledge possibility election was rigged to elect a guy who should be in a nursing home  Rodney King is martyr when he was really a convicted felon who spent 3 years incarcerated and was frequently in trouble with the law. Defund police which would last as long as it would take for one of the daughters to get gang-raped in broad daylight  And all the stuff Clive Palmer says about numskulls down under.  So, NO I don't forgive liberal minded folks in the Biblical sense or in the way Byron Katie intended since conservative minds constantly have to deal with Karens and other messes created by their mindless actio

 Not ashamed to admit going all the way back to my Roswell High days, that I was quite the Subway Sandwich man. Always thought Taco Bell, MacDonalds were bad for your health. That is why I believe Dions out of Albuquerque has been a God Send. All 230 churches in Alien City should include an honorable mention in their Wednesday and Sunday Sermons. So we got stuck behind this NYC Empire State Yankee while waiting in line at Dions. No problema!  It is a free country and even Kamala Harris Lovers are allowed down South, but just look at this Yankee's bumper stickers which include Malcom X's infamous "by any means necessary" and Maybe George Orwell got the year wrong. WTF does that mean? Is this guy trying to start a race war in his Subaru Outback license plate JFE 2675?  We could not see if the driver was a Black Man. I work with some African Americans in the school district and have a lot of respect for them because they know their place. We even have some of them over f

 So let's get "What does CSAM stand for" out of the way before the rant goes full force. CSAM is an acronym for C hild Se xual A buse M aterial. It is a program that will scan your IPhone pictures while they are being uploaded to ICloud.  One concern of   LGBTQ parents is that Jerry Falwell type of conservative Christians consider that segment of the population to be deviant, perverted, exploitative and will be summarily flagged by CSAM filtering.  These type of "Christians" actually believe you can pray away what they perceive to be evil sexual acts.  They would welcome CSAM except that some Baptist preachers have been caught sodomizing women prostitutes which would obviously detected by CSAM software.  Thanks to  Michael Bussee for having the guts to realize being God fearing Christian does NOT a man cannot find another man attractive.

 When our family first moved to Roswell New Mexico, we were sooo happy to be breathing clean air, but I guess anyplace has clean air compared to Los Angeles.  We knew within the first two weeks, the place was full of narrow minded red necks who voted for Fascist Trump, but the people were friendly if you could just avoid politics and religion at Sam's Club and Farmer's Market.  We just loved some of the devoted middle school teachers even the ones that were imprisoned at Mesa. We thought of the classrooms as generally safe until recently when speakers at the school board meeting got out of hand intimidating everybody but the Mexican guy with balls of steel. That man does have cojones I would not mind milking.  This backwards town actually somehow has so far legally gotten away with ignoring government COVID health mandates. I have never been around so many ignorant people in my life who do not mind threatening the lives of elementary school students and the whole town by spread

 I estimate the average IQ of Chaves County in New Mexico might be almost 90. The fact that the county was three to one in favor of Trump in general election is proof of that. Newspaper man Juno Ogle provided us with more proof in the picture below featuring Stacy Wolkwitz. She threatened to have all RISD board members fired if they chose to continue enforcing the COVID masking requirement in school. Just like the dictator she voted for, Stacy wants to impeach the fairly elected members of the school board. The Spring River Luxury Apartment bankrupted many of the slumlords. Could not have happened to a nicer group of people!! If you follow the money, she is a landlord or property manager who may be getting wiped out financially. Not exactly someone who has the overall health of the city as a goal. Wolkwitz sounds like a German or Slavic name and may be one of the many slum lords who infest Roswell.  The only sensible member of the School Board is James Edwards who is not too fond of th

  Does anybody know what  "bcbs status" "not paid" means?  We logged into the Blue Cross Blue Shield Texas Claims center to see if we had been paid for an international claim.  Under the Claim Detail Section along with our Group Number and ID number, we got what appears to be some bad news rejecting the claim. However when we reviewed the FAQ(Frequently Asked Questions) "not paid" means something more like "in progress" or processing.  Has anybody else had a similar experience they could share?  We spent almost $2500 out of pocket in Thailand for stress test, chest xrays, eye, ear exams, prostate antigen screening test, bloodwork and a value added consultation with a cardiologist. We heard that BCBS is great about honoring medical care claims in foreign countries!!  Fingers Crossed  BTW $2500 out of pocket in Bangkok must less expensive than the train wreck called health care in United States of America.

 I wonder if the Cuban born business owner in Florida was a proud supporter of their head case governor who has repeatedly downplayed the effectiveness of Moderna's COVID vaccine until it was too late to save the very citizenry who elected the fool!  Frank Saks spent 65 hours a week at work probably exposing himself to the multitudes one too many times. One of his daughters indicated on radio that Dad was not vaccine hesitant but had heard of potential nasty side effect which deterred his decision to get the vaccine which would have given him many more years to be with his grandchildren. The side effect could not have been worse than his isolated death where his loved ones could not hold his hand.  Shame on Ron DeSantis for misleading Floridians!!

 A neighbor(likely a middle aged Trump supporting White Man) mistakenly called authorities in Wyoming, Michigan, stating that a black man arrested at a residence a week earlier had returned to the residence.  The truth of the matter was it was a law abiding African American and his son being shown a house by a black real estate agent. I want to KNOW THE NAME of the "neighbor" who abused 911 and emergency resources in the great state of Michigan!! Frivolous/Malicious use of law enforcement is punishable by fine and/or incarceration.  Thank you Aya Elamroussi and I bet realtor Eric Brown knows the name of the trouble making White man who is looking a race based lawsuit square in the eyes!!!! I get that any homeowner has the right to guard their property, but this is wrong and the racist phone calling informant needs to see his name on national news.

 I am new to this so there may be something in the definition of the term Microaggression indicating most are not intended.  I was strolling down the hall of my former employer passing by a new hire who happened to be Black. She had sort of a deer in headlight look in her eyes and I wanted to make her feel welcome. I asked our new accounts payable specialist who she like in the NBA finals. Her reaction caught me off guard as she seemed surprised and miffed choosing not to respond. She was not rude. I have not seen her since but do wonder if this counts as a microaggression according to racial specialist Spanierman. I did feel faintly guilty even though I am not certain that the new employee was even upset at my query or just overwhelmed on the first day of her new job. I do understand she might have thought something like "do you really believe basketball it the only topic I can comment on intelligently?" I will defend the White Race by stating how sad it is that we can be br

 The southeast Asian columnist downplayed the deleterious effect of bullying in school dismissing it as a natural riot of passage that will help so-called victims of bullying stand up and fight for themselves rather than cowering or seeking safe spaces or crying to their parents. I would ask this writer who also was bullied in school to understand the feeling of the parents and siblings of Sadie L. Riggs who hung herself in Bedford, Pennsylvania. Also ask Pastor Wayne Mcgruder  how difficult it is to officiate a funeral for one so young who thought there was no way out of melancholic dark abyss.  Antonio Contreras through his intelligence, verbal skills, overall adaptability and parents who were talented educators transformed being bullied into a storied career as a writer and motivational speaker, BUT Sadie's family was was much more splintered than the typical Pinoy Family. 

  Forgive my confusion, but I believe this picture was taken in Ho Chi Minh City in Viet Nam. Our family business takes us all over the world and we had just been released from a government chosen quarantine Hotel. We were so relieved to be out of the depressing situation of being stuck in a small space for 14 days that we were out snapping photos and enjoying life! We happened to catch this driver of a Weathertech Refrigeration & Airconditioning Company truck, who seem mildly upset that we captured him in smart phone picture image. You can seem him pointing or waving in our direction.(Not with his middle finger at least!)  We certainly meant no offense to the locals. Will travel to Japan, Korea, Australia, and the Philippines before traveling back to Canada. Will probably write book on the different COVID restrictions and inconveniences, but still had a good enjoyable time overall.

 The game show host was quite fond of the term ensconce(Establish or settle someone or something in a comfortable, safe, or secret place) to describe a Jeopardy contestant who had a commanding lead.  For example, Ken Jennings who characterized Alex Trebek as tepidly stern, was ensconced in first place going into Final Jeopardy probably around 50 times in his fabled career as a contestant and briefly as a host on the best game show in television history. Alex was the best, but had a few flaws. The biggest flaw was costing the players precious time by adding his commentary after each answer or reminding them there was a minute remaining consuming around 7 seconds of that remaining minute. The first contestant I noticed to aggressively cut off Alex was Arthur Chu. I only mean aggressive in the sense Chu would not let Alex complete his sentence with respect to updates on dollar amounts or adding additional unnecessary commentary to last answer. Alex was great about shutting up in order to

 The family had been pushed to the edge of the grief precipice and had actually contemplated a FAMILY SUICIDE. Their system of beliefs which presupposed the conviction, there is a loving and caring God, was pushed to its very limit! The money they made from a Netflix special TV piece  may have helped some. How could a benevolent God allow their son to have been viciously slaughtered in Forestall and Dauphine area of Cajun City where Drew Brees has magnanimously given his time and money to many hardship cases? Their son's murder was connected to the horrible Opioid addiction crisis that has paralyzed many small and large towns alike in the USA.  The simplest answer is THERE IS NO GOD in the Adam and Eve, Noah's ark, burning bushes, a man being dead for three days and all the other nonsense the Old Testament would have you believe.  I wonder if Dan Schneider ever came to that realization?