Do y'all think we not see?

The liberal media is working hard to use Trump to make Christians in this country seem and feel like Nazis, but the fact is that the same media chose both candidates. There almost shouldn't even be a vote. The news people should just write their story or their screenplay and save everyone billions of dollars, or maybe not even write the story and waste readers' time but do something even more efficient, which would be letting the people who work at news stations automatically be the electoral college.

People on their feet all day are sitting ducks

Everyone knows these are dangerous times with absurdly random bombings and shootings, which should be the final straw that keeps the billionaire losers from underpaying all the service employees who work with the public. It was one thing when everyone complained about waiting in a long Wal Mart line for twenty minutes to pay a cashier that they all knew had to stand there for 8 hours without being able to afford basic food and shelter, but now people are literally risking their lives to take people's groceries to their cars.  These workers should get paid for their time, and paid also for the other thing that people somehow don't see: their effort.  There can't really be any reason that everyone would want to pay cashier salaries twice by paying retail prices, and then paying again with taxes for food stamps, unless maybe watching everyone get underpaid makes some people feel better about being on the wrong side of the counter.

Three opinions about high school and college grading

There should be diplomas all along the way for every year so students don't lose everything by dropping out in eleventh grade.

The lowest grade possible on any assignment should be a 50.

Failing grades should not go on transcripts or especially be calculated in GPAs.  Bad grades should be dropped and the student should simply not get credit for the class.

Ok I have one more to add which is that it should be normal for 4 year bachelor degrees to be broken into sections that include a two year associate's degree.

Bordering

 In one of my other posts, I mentioned Mexicans, and I don't know if I got it right, or if it came across wrong, but I want to say that I think that the both the greatness and the suffering of the Mexicans is right in our faces and there is no excuse and hasn't ever been an excuse to not do everything we can to welcome them and help them. If anything should be built on the border it is not a wall but maybe a few more statues of liberty.

Bad News

I read the news a lot online and today and yesterday was reading it a little extra and I am a little upset everyone because I think there are some problems with a lot of our news.  I usually read NBC news online because Fox news has a lot of pornography in the margins and the New York Times is complicated in a way that makes me wonder if maybe they don't really want me to understand what is going on.  Anyway I read NBC and I feel so upset so often because of so many problems with that site.  In addition to editorialized headlines that sound like middle school gossip, they often have videos where you can tell they have chosen to present those stories as videos because there is something horrible that probably should not be watched and made public.  And yet that is the appeal they are counting on.  It goes so far as to include stories about other news agencies posting inappropriate videos, and the story is basically something like "Can you believe this other news station posted this video of two heroin addicts passed out while their child was sitting in the car with them?" And then they show the video clips with an abused and neglected child sitting there online for everyone to see them in their moment of horror.  Another terrible thing on the site is the "sponsored news" where it is a supposed news article but paid for by an advertiser.  And yesterday after the bombing in New York City, there was a sponsored news article featuring... New York, New York, like maybe trying to get some accidental clicks from people trying to find out what was going on.  The article was really about a random product other than their usual credit card companies advertising for student loans by talking about people who won millions of dollars or got rich quick in some way.  This is all mixed in with their normal headlines, and these things are part of their news page every single day.  An article I missed is any kind of reporting of ethical journalism being a thing of the past. I don't know how I would have missed that story if they had reported it, unless maybe it was in the middle of that video they posted "about" the bystanders watching someone being assaulted repeatedly on the beach.

Now is the Time

It is election time and something that is very apparent is that many people in this country have a problem pretending that they live in different time periods.  People act like we live during the American Revolution, they act like it is World War II and the Holocaust, they act like it is 1965, and some people even seem to think they are living during the Protestant Reformation.  The best people out of all of them are the people who think they live in an Ayn Rand novel, and I think they are the truest Americans there are besides the Mexicans. But it is crazy to be fighting pretend fights with all that is actually happening and people have opportunities to literally save the world through basic human decency.

Not Nice

          A few years ago, I noticed that Keebler had copied the girl scout cookie recipes, and I was a little shocked, because okay, those are supposed to be girl scout cookies.  Today I noticed that the Walgreen's "Nice" brand has also copied them.  So I guess that is that, you know, because recipes I think are considered public domain and do not have copyrights.  I do think that is a good policy and yet wow I thought maybe people would go ahead and let the girl scouts have something special and seasonal.  And another thing that bothers me everyone is the fact that probably I will eventually break down and buy some of those caramel delights I mean of course I will and the peanut butter patties and yeah ok the thin mints, and they know I will, you know all those ad wizards and marketers and food sharks, they know that I will not be able to stay loyal to the girl scouts.  And it is true that the girl scout cookie industry became such big business that it is hard to see it as just little kids selling cookies anymore, which might be part of it too, and maybe this final acquisition, I mean copying, of the girl scouts is some kind of representative decision and conclusion that the girl scout cookie business can't honestly be called a fundraiser anymore and is part of a gillion dollar food industry.  But I am kind of sad to see it happen, and I am also sad to see pretty much all those other Keebler brands and any other well marketed food brand to now have a store brand competitor product next to it for cheaper.  So basically the stores with the power to decide shelf space get to squeeze out the brands that first developed the food products.  But maybe this, too, is a representative decision and conclusion that those days of power are over for those brands, and now people have other ways to decide what to eat. This also could be related to another market trend of rejecting all those brands with preservatives and making room for the organic foods and hippie market.  That was crazy of me to say hippie wasn't it, especially when all those people might have saved the day for everyone with food allergies.  Anyway, I am rambling a little bit, and maybe some other people have cracked the code on all of this, and I can see how I haven't really made a single clever joke like I would have hoped to do in a post like this.  But maybe that is because it really isn't funny to me, and my brand loyalty actually goes far enough to care about the people behind the brands, who I think might not be getting the merit badges they deserve.

OK 147 and 91, not 119, okay, why is there an adding machine

Hi everyone, I want to tell y'all about a little scuffle I recently had at a hotel.  I was trying to go somewhere cool during the heatwave because I did not have air conditioning.  I go in and I say hi the computer rate said such and such well do you have anything cheaper and they are like yeah but you have to make your reservation at those phones over there.  (They did not want to do a transaction in person.) So I go to the phones and they say okay how about 119 per night. I go okay and pay with credit card. They say okay it is non refundable. (that is why they did not want to do it in person.)  So then I go to check in and the guy wants me to sign a screen saying the rate is 147.  Well that is not what they told me so I try to cancel.  They say it is too late we already charged you and you are checked in. I say I am not staying here and I will not take the key and I think it is unreasonable to not let me cancel when I made the reservation ten minutes ago and you are telling me a different rate.  So then I talk to the manager and he says okay you can cancel but your name is going to go on a list for twenty years.  And he says the refund money will not show up in my account for a few days.  So anyway there is a charge on my electronic bank statement saying 380 which was a hundred more than the deal was supposed to be and then a few days later it doesnt get refunded but simply disappeared.  So I think they did some kind of wheeling and dealing with a bank in a way that did involve me getting my name put on a list or was he talking about my credit rating and called it a list to be deceptive.  If so that is over 7 lies that took place during that whole transaction where no one would have a normal conversation with me.  I have not checked my credit rating I mean do I have to buy a credit report from trying to get out of the heat for two days and then not being able to? Anyway I might wait until there is a problem and then get a lawyer.  I have a screenshot of the charge that disappeared.  Hotel Pennsylvania, see you on Judgement Day.

Three things that I am mad about right now:

The way Papa Johns requires all job applicants to sign an agreement waiving their rights to settle disputes in the American court system and instead promises to let any work problems be resolved by a private arbitration company paid by Papa Johns. ("Pizzeria Law")

The way Bank of America thinks it is perfectly okay to hold checks for seven days before the money is available and also refuses to cash their customers' tax refund checks from the United States government.

Stores and restaurants that deliberately play bad music as loud as they can in order to speed up store traffic and get customers to leave faster.