A wide variety of things are on my mind, and I really don't want to talk about the presidential race today. I said my piece a couple of weeks ago, and nothing much has changed. Lots of smaller items are on my mind.
I look at the stats for this blog. You're all very kind. Thank you for reading. There are 15 official followers (whatever that means) but many more page views. It is interesting, and perhaps alarmng, that Russia and China generate page views. Who is reading me in Russia?? Are these Secret Service mirror sites to avoid identification? Am I being tracked by SS, CIA, or others because of my socio-political views? I hope not. I have not threatened anyone except those attempting to cross our border illegally. Whatever.
Any remaining questions about Obama as socialist need to be tossed. Look at his campaign slogan. Forward. This was the slogan and cry for socialist labor from 1890 on. Their magazine was named 'Forward'. You're naive if you think this is a coincidence.
I increasingly think the best solution, described here before, is to just let the states vote on whether they wish to be democratic or republican. The democratic states would become 'Neuvo California' and the republican ones 'Republia' or whatever. After a state votes those who wish to leave can pick up and leave, just like India and Pakistan. The democrats liking this idea always insist that businesses and people would stay in the state, thus 'assigning' the aircraft industry etc to whatever state has it now. It really looks different if you let people move and go where they want. if Boeing could build anywhere they want, without the interference of the idiot Labor Board and unionized contracts they would be in South Caorlina so fast it would require their jets to transport them.
I love the line from 'Quills'- Is your God so weak that he cannot stand in opposition to mine? Well, let's look at ideas. To parphrase, are your ideas so weak they cannot stand in opposition to mine? If the democrats' social policies and spending priorities are so good, then why are businesses expanding in republican states and why are people moving there? Ideas are a free market, as are people and labor, and they are all flowing to states run by republicans. If Washington state and their unions are so good for Boeing, why does it want to go to South Carolina? Right.
You know you've lived in the South a long time when you begin to feel the wrong side won the Civil War. Slavery was and is revolting. No questions there. But the states' rights issues lost in the war altered the balance of federal and state power forever, and in the wrong way. Slavery would have been ended anyway.
I love when a bureaucracy is inefficient and then blames the producers. Where I work there is currently a 30 million dollar deficit. Those of us hired to teach are told we are unproductive, that we create a deficit. Well... you're right, we do. Education takes time and is therefore inherently inefficient. But you can't have it two ways. You can't ask for efficiency and then boast of being a teaching institution. I personally can do a lap hyst in 60 minutes, start to finish, and have the patient home in 4 hours. Or I can teach someone, taking them through the steps, in 100 minutes, and the patient goes home the next day. What do you want?
But what really gets me is that after complaining that I don't make enough money and have to be more productive I see the summary stats on billing. Receivables show 40% older than 90 days (normal 2%). Billing is submitted on average in 35 days (normal 1). And their record keeping is so bad that we are shown doing 3 deliveries monthly. Uh, it's 40-50 people. And exactly how bad do you have to be to confuse those two numbers? This is a difference of an order of magnitude, of being off by 15 fold. Like syaing someone weighs 16 pounds when they weigh 250. that's confusing a 3 month old baby with an adult, overweight man. And then, in order to buy any piece of equipment, we need 6 signatures in 6 different offices including the CEO and the CFO.
Wow. How proud you must be. I want to look those people in the face and ask them 'Are you proud of what you have done?' Are you? Can you really ask for higher productivity from me, compromising the teaching effort for which I was brought here, when your efforts are execrable. Not just bad, or 'inefficient', but absolutely, spectaculalry bad. Any biller in a private office who did this bad would be summarily fired. You ask for private practice productivity from me? Go do it your damn self first!
And lastly, on a day of ranting, let's get a life about what is and is not harrassment or inappropriate behavior. If a man compliments a woman on her appearance, that is not harrassment. We can all think of ways this is done that is harrassment, but simply saying 'you look great', or 'really nice skirt' is not harrassment. Asking a person to dinner is not a request for sex, just company. If you don't want to go, don't go. But making a federal case out of it is just weakness. Or spite. And when you complain about being held back by the glass ceiling, or sexism, you might just look at the size and weight of the chip on your shoulder. Maybe it's your attitude and not your sex that are the impediment.
OK, ranting over. Next time I will return to a more organized essay.
Ted
I look at the stats for this blog. You're all very kind. Thank you for reading. There are 15 official followers (whatever that means) but many more page views. It is interesting, and perhaps alarmng, that Russia and China generate page views. Who is reading me in Russia?? Are these Secret Service mirror sites to avoid identification? Am I being tracked by SS, CIA, or others because of my socio-political views? I hope not. I have not threatened anyone except those attempting to cross our border illegally. Whatever.
Any remaining questions about Obama as socialist need to be tossed. Look at his campaign slogan. Forward. This was the slogan and cry for socialist labor from 1890 on. Their magazine was named 'Forward'. You're naive if you think this is a coincidence.
I increasingly think the best solution, described here before, is to just let the states vote on whether they wish to be democratic or republican. The democratic states would become 'Neuvo California' and the republican ones 'Republia' or whatever. After a state votes those who wish to leave can pick up and leave, just like India and Pakistan. The democrats liking this idea always insist that businesses and people would stay in the state, thus 'assigning' the aircraft industry etc to whatever state has it now. It really looks different if you let people move and go where they want. if Boeing could build anywhere they want, without the interference of the idiot Labor Board and unionized contracts they would be in South Caorlina so fast it would require their jets to transport them.
I love the line from 'Quills'- Is your God so weak that he cannot stand in opposition to mine? Well, let's look at ideas. To parphrase, are your ideas so weak they cannot stand in opposition to mine? If the democrats' social policies and spending priorities are so good, then why are businesses expanding in republican states and why are people moving there? Ideas are a free market, as are people and labor, and they are all flowing to states run by republicans. If Washington state and their unions are so good for Boeing, why does it want to go to South Carolina? Right.
You know you've lived in the South a long time when you begin to feel the wrong side won the Civil War. Slavery was and is revolting. No questions there. But the states' rights issues lost in the war altered the balance of federal and state power forever, and in the wrong way. Slavery would have been ended anyway.
I love when a bureaucracy is inefficient and then blames the producers. Where I work there is currently a 30 million dollar deficit. Those of us hired to teach are told we are unproductive, that we create a deficit. Well... you're right, we do. Education takes time and is therefore inherently inefficient. But you can't have it two ways. You can't ask for efficiency and then boast of being a teaching institution. I personally can do a lap hyst in 60 minutes, start to finish, and have the patient home in 4 hours. Or I can teach someone, taking them through the steps, in 100 minutes, and the patient goes home the next day. What do you want?
But what really gets me is that after complaining that I don't make enough money and have to be more productive I see the summary stats on billing. Receivables show 40% older than 90 days (normal 2%). Billing is submitted on average in 35 days (normal 1). And their record keeping is so bad that we are shown doing 3 deliveries monthly. Uh, it's 40-50 people. And exactly how bad do you have to be to confuse those two numbers? This is a difference of an order of magnitude, of being off by 15 fold. Like syaing someone weighs 16 pounds when they weigh 250. that's confusing a 3 month old baby with an adult, overweight man. And then, in order to buy any piece of equipment, we need 6 signatures in 6 different offices including the CEO and the CFO.
Wow. How proud you must be. I want to look those people in the face and ask them 'Are you proud of what you have done?' Are you? Can you really ask for higher productivity from me, compromising the teaching effort for which I was brought here, when your efforts are execrable. Not just bad, or 'inefficient', but absolutely, spectaculalry bad. Any biller in a private office who did this bad would be summarily fired. You ask for private practice productivity from me? Go do it your damn self first!
And lastly, on a day of ranting, let's get a life about what is and is not harrassment or inappropriate behavior. If a man compliments a woman on her appearance, that is not harrassment. We can all think of ways this is done that is harrassment, but simply saying 'you look great', or 'really nice skirt' is not harrassment. Asking a person to dinner is not a request for sex, just company. If you don't want to go, don't go. But making a federal case out of it is just weakness. Or spite. And when you complain about being held back by the glass ceiling, or sexism, you might just look at the size and weight of the chip on your shoulder. Maybe it's your attitude and not your sex that are the impediment.
OK, ranting over. Next time I will return to a more organized essay.
Ted
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