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| Approximately 30 fence posts in the back of the truck |
The high point of my morning was hearing a Redwing Blackbird singing from the top of a tree. Spring is springing.
Yesterday was a productive but tiring day.
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| Picture taken before I filleted out the wood that was usable for fence posts and firewood. That left the tops in the pasture. |
My work-day started at 7:25 when I took care of the livestock.
Then, I dragged brush out of the pasture and deposited it back into the woods. That took a little more than an hour. Zeus kept me company. He likes my dragging brush better than when I am running a chainsaw.
Another 90 minutes was spent loading fence posts into the back of the pickup and driving them up to the house. That is when I noticed that my work gloves keep turning off my stopwatch. That is when I switched to using my smartphone to time my breaks.
I took a one hour break to gobble down a couple of sandwiches and to buy a new battery for the riding lawnmower. Sitting while driving counts as a break.
Then it was another hour of moving the fence posts out of the back of the truck and stacking them in an 8' by 8' pile until needed.
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| A minor casualty was experienced while moving the wood but it was superficial and I did not need to call the big, toe-truck for aid. |
Finally, I went over to Southern Belle's house to supervise the installation of drain tile so they can avoid (maybe) their lowest floor flooding.
Suddenly, it was 4:20 p.m. and I was whipped. Oddly, the times didn't add up. Some of that is because when the alarm on the smartphone goes off, it is just a "reminder" to take a break after I complete some part of my work sequence. If I am close to finishing loading the truck then I finish. If I am close to having it completely unloaded, I keep working. Another thing that screwed up my "timing" is that my gloves kept hitting the stop button on my watch.
Incompetent Communists
There are two ways to tell a lie.
One is to tell the truth in such a such a ridiculous and unbelievable manner that it is not believed.
The other way is to weave 1% falsehood into 99% truth.
Maybe it is ironic, but there are a lot of "truths" woven into the Communist mythology to make the hook palatable to the fish.
It is a sad fact that I, a blogger who would be considered a "moderate" twenty-five years ago, am a "better" communist than Zamdani, perhaps the most most powerful person in America who openly admits he is a Communist.
For example: I believe that power blossoms from the barrel of a gun. Modern Commies like Zamdani believe it comes from having a pen and a phone.
I believe that controlling the means-of-production is critical for long-term viability. Zamdani appears hellbent on driving it away.
I believe that "From each according to their ability and to each according to their needs" starts with EVERYBODY works...no free rides. Any receiving happens AFTER the work. I also believe that "needs" means subsistence level supports. That is, 2500 Calories a day of basic foods like rice, beans and lard that need to be cooked. Zamdani wants to throw resources at EVERYBODY with no reciprocal obligation.
I believe that if you pay me with imaginary money than you can also imagine that I am not a threat to your fantasy and you can leave me alone.
I believe that we are in crisis because the vast majority of people in rich countries feel betrayed and alienated by the rapid changes in society. From a pragmatic standpoint, if they/we feel betrayed, maybe we have been trusting the wrong people, the wrong sources of information and need to make better choices.
From a work report to very insightful commentary. No wonder you're my daily read Joe.
ReplyDeleteI believe that if you pay me with imaginary money than you can also imagine that I am not a threat to your fantasy.
As that old Soviet joke went, they pretend to pay me, I pretend to work.
As jokes often reflect reality on the ground that pretend system eventually ran out of as Margret Thatcher said Socialism is fine until you run out of other people's money (or food or repair part or..)
AND the wheels fall off.
I believe that we are in crisis because the vast majority of people in rich countries feel betrayed and alienated by the rapid changes in society. From a pragmatic standpoint, if they/we feel betrayed, maybe we have been trusting the wrong people, the wrong sources of information and need to make better choices.
While I love your optimism Joe, trust once lost is difficult to regain.
It's easy to destroy, but one serious betrayal of a marriage shows that. Or one "mostly peaceful but flaming bottle" tossed by a blue haired freak shows.
It takes the LONG TERM sustained effort of many men of one intent to build a House, a bridge and so on.
That requires REAL MONEY (maybe shown as 2x4's steel beams etc, not electronic keystrokes so NOW an extra Trillion Dollars are in the SYSTEM), Real WORK and that odd combination of trust and teamwork.
We have a serious lack of trust, real work ethic, don't seem to remember what teamwork is and so on.
Our crisis is far deeper than MAKING better Choices friend.
"While I love your optimism Joe, trust once lost is difficult to regain."
DeleteOn the other side of observation is that most humans have a hard-wired need to trust SOMETHING, a tribal affiliation with some tribe. We have a need to believe.
On the other side of observation is that most humans have a hard-wired need to trust SOMETHING, a tribal affiliation with some tribe. We have a need to believe.
DeleteYes I agree. That's why I posted that link about
https://mydailykona.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-plays-thing.html
That you renamed the Liberals search for meaning.
Nihilism is very popular with the young liberals. It eliminates that "What am I doing Wrong" and firmly places the BLAME on others.
It's a toxic sweet that allow them to live without old Bible limits and You Only Live Once (YOLO) syndrome flourishes.
It's also the toxic sweet that allows them to OTHER folks AKA anybody I disagree with is a Nazi and it's OK to Punch them, run them over with a SUV, place them into reeducation camps and so on.
Those who prefer to live and let live (I suspect you and I, sir) need to tribe up if there is to be a remnant.
Yes, but your not a good communist yet, cause you ain't dead. 🤣 That's ok, I much prefer you the way you are now.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I appreciate that.
Delete...imaginary money than you...?
ReplyDeleteERJ, I believe I have related the story before, but I once listened to a lecture from an unreformed and unrepentant Stalinist (this was in the early 1990's, right after the fall of the Berlin Wall) who firmly believed that Stalin was completely mis-represented in history and most of the things attributed to him were not his fault, but rather the fault of his followers.
ReplyDeleteThe reality is that almost everyone in the West that proclaims such things 1) Believes that such things should be funded/enabled while the system that sustains it is allowed continue (unlike the early Communists in the Soviet Union and China, which implemented the whole program); 2) Believes that there are only ever good outcomes of such things and any issues are the result of the system fighting against them, not the fact their ideas are flawed; and 3) Believes that they themselves neither need to live under the system nor will be impacted by it.
The biggest social problem in Western culture is that we have educated too many individuals in the bureaucratic arts, more than the economies need or can absorb. This has created a class of people who have failed to obtain the employment and status they expected in college and have become seriously embittered. Communism is always a revenge project of the middle class, never the workers.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia has a "Russian political jokes" page with a lot of wonderful Soviet humor. My favorite was always: "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us."
10x25 - I had never thought if that way before, but it makes complete sense (says someone who is trained in "The bureaucratic arts"). People do now expect a certain status of life upon achievement of a college degree, instead of understanding that a college degree is both the end of a process (formal schooling) and the beginning of a process (employment).
DeleteIf Mamdani can find his 'Iron Felix', it is all over for NYC.
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