Its either a birthday or an anniversary today

Sunday 04/05/2020 at 6:00 a.m.

Knock knock
Who's there?
Open the door dumbass, you saw me through the peephole,

Hello people persons who achieved maximum human waste control with the use of clean water,

Once upon a time in Indiana my parents got married. Later they also celebrated the birth of my youngest brother. One of those events took place on April 5th and the other on April 6th. I'll be damned if I can ever remember which one is which. So between today and tomorrow happy bithaaversay Geo. I can't ever get it right. I could cheat and look at my calendar, but wheres the fun in that?

Unidentified mental objects from the Multiverse

1. I live in Georgia. Our illustrious Political leader, Our Brilliant Governor of the (R) behind his name variety, the brilliant man who gave us shotguns pointing at children in his political ads, the Brainiac who as Secretary of State for Georgia enacted reforms which kicked thousands of legitimate voters off the voting rolls because of the use or non use of commas, the man who did not know the meaning of the word asymptomatic until Wednesday despite several and repeated attempts to educate him, that guy, Brian Kemp, has decided to re-open the states parks and beaches as part of his stay at home and shelter in place order. Stay at home and go to the beach. OK. Huh?
   
   He's also decided that any local leader who refuses to do so, faces jail time for disobeying his executive order. I shit you not. Please do not ask me to explain the logic  it as I have no understanding of stupidity as complete as this. It is as completely faulty logic and is as ignorant a thought process as I have ever seen. This man is a complete idiot. He will probably get re-elected.
2. 10 Million people have filed for Unemployment in the last two weeks. Without regard for your political bias in understanding or explaining these numbers, that's a lot of fucking people out of work at once. Not including any of the people they never count anyhow, KA-Pow - Bam no job. See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya.Too bad so sad, Little Timmy has to put water on his cereal now. Even if they get unemployment, it won't be anywhere near what they are used to receiving from their jobs, and won't last near long enough to pay the bills.
   
   3.3 million last week and 6.6 million this week.
   
   To make matters worse guess what infrastructure is not robust enough to handle this kind of unforseen influx? That's right, State unemployment web servers, who have been crashing like a 16 year old taking driving lessons from Ferris Bueller. Not to be a purveyor of doom and gloom, but the projections say this could be in a range of 20-40% unemployed before it peaks and no we ain't even close to peaking yet, nowhere near it.
3. In the same vein of data mining but a different kind of  mineral, overall numbers don't tell the complete tale. As bad as those dumbass numbers sound here are some even more ignorant ones. Depending upon where you live and what size your town is, those numbers could be even worse. If your city has a vibrant and diverse employment base then you may not see anywhere near this kind of damage. You may never reach 15%. Yay! Silver Linings huh?
   
   However, if your town is largely dependant on a single style of industry . say like carpet mills for example, and you live in a town or county  of say 40,000 folks, you could be looking at the higher end of the scale. Image if your town suddenly had 16,000 people unemployed and all of them had to stay at home. Booo- No Silver Lining Huh? Just be glad you don't live in a coal town that they are going to revitalize somehow.
   
   Talk about a growth industry ? The criminal and divorce lawyers will be having their best year ever. Geeze. I hope I am so wrong I get laughed at and it never happens.
4. You remember Samuel L. Jackson  reading the book "Go to fuck to sleep?"
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb0t9TUNLpg
   
   There is a new one. Samuel L. Jackson has a new reading called " Stay the Fuck at Home."
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOaLKJHsFRQ
   
   Both are vulgar and both are funny as hell.
   Be forewarned, both contain the "F" word.
   Click the links to watch them.
5. You can tell how bored people feel and how isolated they are if you read Facebook a lot. Where Meme's used to rule the day, there are now posts with actual user created content. Haven't saw that for 6-8 years or so. I've been asked to play along in several categories this week alone. Specific  Pictures, songs, Camera rolls and what not are all being used to stir up creativity. Also more and more quizzes and things like what does your astronomy sign say about you. One said because I was a Sagittarius that apparently because of that, I am Satan. Go figure.

Go have fun kids, play outside in your own yards, and stay in the backyard. Don't let the damn dog out either. Mommy and Daddy have to finish making the bouncy construction noises. We will let you know when the doors are unlocked again.

Bye-

BigMike

Skeletons are not scary prove me wrong

Saturday April 04,2020 at ah I don't know about 9:25 a.m.

Hey you organic meat bags!

There is an old saying I have heard occasionally about how everyone has skeletons in their closets, or how occasionally the skeletons fall out of the closets and in haunted houses the skeleton jumps out and scares people to death. I understand the sayings but dont totally agree with the impact, as I don't think skeletons are all that scary. Remember that scene in one of the terminator movies where the T-800 was doing skin or eyeball repair? He was splashing blood and tissue in the sink and making a mess? See the skeleton wasn't scary , It was THE MEAT ! The meat is scary as hell. Just think, on the average 150 pound person there is over 100 pounds of living, breathing , bleeding MEAT, that you have to get through before the bones even matter.

That's the problem with this virus. It isn't a broken bone or something we totally understand how to treat and heal. On this thing we think we get the basics maybe , and I am talking about cell repair and regeneration and stuff like that, yet we have no clue how to prevent this disease nor do we know yet how to inoculate you from it's most serious symptoms. We have a rough understanding of how to save your life and prevent you from dying, IF you know enough to get to the doctor soon enough, IF you have a way to see the right kind of doctor and IF your doctor has the information, equipment , space ,medicine and training he/she needs to begin any kind of treatment regimen designed to keep this thing from killing you. And those are all big fat IF's too.

The ridiculous nature of life gives us too much thinking time

1. Several things I've often wondered about and really never said it out loud before. They are ridiculous things I know, but they bug me sometimes. Things like :
   
   A) Why do we revere old people as wiser versions of ourselves when actually it's just US , older, still dumbasses and somehow we survived the mistakes? Generally speaking they are just as dumb as us, but with way more experience. My grandfather used to tell us that a sock soaked in bacon grease and tied around our neck would cure a common cold , or a migraine, or just about anything else too come to think of it. He was about 80 and that's pretty dumbass. How did he survive?
   B) How old were you when you realized there is / was never no parenting manual? That nobody knows what the hell they are doing and that in fact  EVERYONE is winging it and making it up as we go? Same thing with relationships, marriage, growing old and every other damn thing there is?
   C) How did evolution occur that turned certain words in certain societies into bad words , which later made into slang or curse words then become offensive words, but only when pronounced in a certain way in your language? (Words like shit, fuck and so forth)
   D) There are TV shows about these 600 pound people on now. Everything from how they want to be bigger, to they are too big,  to they now want to lose weight. What I want to know is if our society is getting to be obese, and 65% of us are fatties now, How do the Ultra Fat among us wipe our asses? Why don't they ever show any of these folks trying to straddle a normal sized toilet? Is there an underground society of specialized tools sold on fatty only websites to allow them to wipe their asses? And if there is , then why hasn't the rest of the world heard about it, since most of us are fatties now? What gives?
   E) You ever see the pictures of the women with the 10 foot long fingernails? So how do they do anything requiring the use of their hands? One woman had 28 feet 4 inch nails according to the Guiness Book of World Records. My God! And in relation to Point D above,hows that happen?
   F) Why is there braille' notation of the drive thru ATM Keypad?
   and the beat goes on.......
2. I saw a meme the other day that said that the year 2020 was written by Stephen King and the movie was directed by Steven Spielberg.  My response was just to say I'm glad it was not directed by Michael Bay. Can you imagine?
3. I reconnected with an old friend last night. A Man I really like and whom I call friend (and a helluva fisherman) and I don't use the term lightly. I am one of those people who know I have a big mouth and know I irritate folks sometimes. He asked me what happened? Why we are not friends on FaceBook anymore? He basically asked me if he got on my nerves? See that's my problem, I recognize it when I am running my own big mouth and I hate to bring disruption to anyone's life.
   
   See? I had already done that to another friend , whom I considered a very close friend and it cost us the friendship, she basically just stopped talking to me and I was pretty sad about it. It was over before I understood it, and I have regretted it ever since. It's never my intention to offend you or to make you want to shoot me. If I have done so , I am very sorry. It sucks to know that my opinionated loud mouthed ass drives people away. Normal life is a restraining order. I hate having too much time to think.
4. The Mayor of NYC is asking for a National Draft of Health care workers, calling up those who have retired, left the field, served in the military, couldn't get credentialed here but were trained in other countries, etc. He says we need thousands of people , hundreds of thousands of volunteers. Can you imagine a knock at the front door, and some FBI agent or an Army captain is standing there saying "Hello, are you named such and such? Can you pack a small bag and come with us please?", I'm telling you , gurneys in hallways, people dying in tents, civil war medicine. It's all coming. Crap.
5. The absolute correct term in order to describe society right now is "EffinShitShow". As bad as it is , its only get gonna get worse, because we have not peaked yet, ya feel me DAWG?

A friend of mine whom does not own or watch TV, does not receive much in the way of news just found out about the stay at home order yesterday. He was pretty shocked as I explained it to him. Made me sad.

PhuckiePoopie.

BigMike

It puts the mask on its face or it gets the Lysol

4:25 a.m. on Friday April 03, 2020

This link is RAW and Its Is Gruesome, be warned.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvbEhBKUdTQ&t=9s

Hey there kids,

Way back in time oh I don't know maybe 50-60 years ago before any of you were born or thought of , the US was involved in a little dust up of a battle called "Vietnam". You may have heard the 25 year old  guy on the corner of the interstate who was begging for cash and holding a sign that said he was a Vietnam vet talking about it, but more likely it was 3 questions on Mrs. Johnson's social studies quiz in 5th grade that said "Vietnam was a : Pick the best answer on a pop quiz. You may even have a relative who served over there and who won't talk about it, however that's maybe how you even know the name.

At any rate one of the weird things that began during the reporting of that war was this strange obsession the news (or maybe the military)  had with body counts. That is what the youtube link in the beginning of this story is about. It's raw news footage from ABC News that's about 3 minutes long and BE WARNED Its is RAW and Its Is Gruesome War footage. News reporting from the field sort of looked just like this and you can see more just by typing Vietnam News reports into the youtube search bar. Every news broadcast had a body count segment buried in it somewhere and it became a key metric the US Military had for measuring success when it came to winning this war. If they were not directly talking about it, they were broadcasting dead bodies blown apart and shot up live and in color.

Mix 2 parts reporter with one part number cruncher and you get 

1. I am seeing the same thing using almost the same style of leads and the same intensity when it comes to reporting on this pandemic about the Covid-19 virus. I almost fell into the trap myself in my last 2 or 3 post where somewhere in it I talked about how many were reportedly infected  and how many deaths have happened.
   
   I've came to the conclusion however that not only is it not needed in order to write about it, factually its not necessary. Not one bit. Here's why. No one cares, until it hits close to home or it in your family. 50, 500, or 500 deaths really don't mean anything to anyone until its one of your family members or somebody you know. The point is CoronaVirus or COVID-19 reporting feels like combat reporting. It's some scary shit.
2. The problems surrounding the treatment of this disease are voluminous, and have a variety unlike almost any other. We have almost no experience on this planet at treating something like this. It hits us where we are weakest, where we are most unprepared and where it hurts the most. It turns out that blaming the politicians while fun and very popular is not real productive and is a complete waste of time.
   
   We are weakest in the areas that it attacks. That's what we need to think about. The number of ICU beds , the number of beds overall, The numbers of staff to treat it and the equipment needed to treat it are all areas where we have no experience, numbers or relevant background or ready made off the shelf plans that will lead the way in fixing the death spirals. No one can pull the emergency Pandemic play book of the shelf because quite frankly, there isn't one. We are making it up as we go.
   
   Gurneys of people sitting in Hallways are coming. Volunteer call ups are already needed, we can't train people fast enough to make a difference and all the Ramp up memos in the world will not fix a system that has no statewide or federal system wide capacity to fill it.
3. You will keep hearing this refrain for a long time into the future. - "We need to Flatten the curve", and what that means is that new case transmission numbers have to be attacked so we can get in front of this thing and have a snowball's chance in hell of fighting it effectively. The point is that every place, every state, every locality has a different curve that is molded together to make a National track on this plague.
   
   Iowa and New York will peak at very different times because of a lot of factors, however primarily it is because of when it began in each area.  What we actually need to do is recognize that and deploy resources on a rolling basis. We may need 10,000 ICU beds and Ventilators in LA this week, but 3 weeks from now those beds and that equipment will be needed in another place like Texas or somewhere else. The point is you seriously cannot expect 50 seperate states to be able to manage that.
   
   That's where we need a Federal response. I wonder how fast it will be recognized by people with the education and schooling and experience? So far I've seen nothing to indicate that that have even became aware of this. According to the task force, "..each state has to make their own decisions." In other words, "Good Luck Pal,you're on your own."
4. OH BY THE WAY? You remember that Federal stockpile of emergency goods like masks, gloves and ventilators and such? Well it turns out we misunderstood the purpose of that stockpile. They were gracious in sharing it with the states, but that stockpile was never intended for you, it was intended for us. It was never intended to be for the states to use, it was always intended to be for use by the Federal managers and the Federal agencies.
   
   At least that is something that has been discussed with and directly attributed to Jared Kushner, of what in the hell his job is anyway at the White House. He said (sic).."The Federal Stockpile wasn't for the states to use anyway, it was for US, it's our stockpile" (I am not 100% sure about the actual quote , therefore the sic notation). Thank god for the clarity provided by the experienced real estate magnate leading the charge. He made it so much more clear.
5. FACT: - Science does not care if you agree. Science does not care if you believe. Science does not care if you can memorize and quote the entire bible forwards and backwards. Science doesn't care if you are smart or are the stupidest Human being alive. Science doesn't care if you are confused, mad, a democrat or a republican or if you are even aware of how deadly this disease is. Science doesn't care if you live under a rock and have never talked to another human being in your life. If you do not take this virus seriously and do not take the precautions that are being broadcast everywhere you look, Science will KILL YOU. 

Whew I'm just a harbinger of good thoughts ain't I?
As Bugs Bunny once said "Aint I a stinker?"

Big Mike

Everybody wants to be a comedian

its 05:10 am on Thursday April 2nd, 2020

In recognition of your many years of faithful service we acknowledge your presence, and present you with this wordy and fun filled blog post. Good Morning fellow sufferers, what you just heard ? Well that was the sound of another PING on your device, either a computer but more and more likely it was your phone, and it's an oblique reference to the 2020 equivalent of the 1950's newspaper hitting the front porch. Only this aint a newspaper and I occasionally curse. Usually I mean to, however occasionally it gets sorta out of control and gets carried away with itself and takes on a life of its own. I hope you know what FFS means and if not ask somebody before you read this post.

I remember telling people that I say the "F" word so much that it takes on a staccato rhythm  that it breathes fire into my thought structure, that it no longer exists as a separate element but rather as a complimentary thought. Like "Fuck, that was fine!". It feels natural to me. When someone reacts negatively or says please don't curse, I probably look at them like they have a third eye or something because that's so strange to me. Weird huh? Even I think that has a pressure valve sort of element to it. Full disclosure, in case you didn't know, my real life wife is a Registered Nurse with over 38 years of experience in many disciplines including some where people suffer and die on a regular basis. She's dealt with daily tragedy so often and in so many different waves that the first thing I give her every day is just a hug. Just a good old hug, because I cant make it better but I can help to absorb it , even if just a little. She just recently stopped working in a large hospital ICU department and F word am I happy about that. Just being in a hospital is scary enough FFS.

Facebook always say "What's on your mind, Michael", and then no one reads it because without pretty pictures they don't have the patience. I guess if you made it this far, you can read and probably can spell too, so I'm not in the mood to try to waylay you with nonsense today.

Here's my deep dive.

1. All the talk right now is about how we need to "Flatten the curve", referring to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. At this point we have 211,000 confirmed cases with over 4,700 confirmed deaths, from all areas of the USA. This is what they came up with after a quarter of a million infections? Well it seems to be a damn fine brain trust if you ask me. Flatten the curve and wait on Mike Pence to tell you what to do. We need to STOP asking the dumbass politicians what to do if you ask me. The state governors (Left and Right) say there has been no real orders to lockdown anything from the task force of the US, and Mike Pence , the VP, and head of the task force, says they prefer it to be handled individually by the states. #KeystoneCops crap. The Governors of Florida, Georgia (where I live) and Mississippi, have all said until recently that they didn't actually see a need for a stay at home order, Florida and Georgia only issued partial ones yesterday , and The Governor of my state said that he was unaware until yesterday , on April 1st, 2020 that people that were showing no symptoms (asymptomatic)could  infect others.
   
   The Federal response has been grossly mismanaged and their ignorance is going to directly KILL hundreds of people.  I don't know about you, but I am so impressed with all of them, FFS.
2. You remember that National stockpile thing we talked about a couple of days ago? Well it turns out that there is no stockpile, not really. They have emptied it already sending out broken ventilators and equipment to people and places that didnt even request it. It also turns out that American Warehouses in american states, with PPE stocks on their shelves are sending that equipment to other countries (yes things like masks and face shields) because no one told them they shouldn't or couldn't. Let that sink in. Doctors, Nurses and Patients WILL DIE because no one told a warehouse manager he should not just sell to the highest bidder, that he prioritize and should help his own country first.
   
   Allegedly roughly 280 Million masks were shipped to other countries last week and the Governors of Washington State, New York State and 2 others are on every TV show they can get on saying their supplies are limited and they are begging american manufacturers to suspend their own products and start making equipment to get in front of this. FFS I can't understand this. That aint capitalism, that is feckless irresponsible impotent leadership at every single level, Independent, Democrat and Republican. Why not a Defense Production act order?, Why no Federal directives?, Why No Federal Response?, why are we piecemealing this and allowing thousands of real people to die? 
3. I am SICK TO DEATH of the left versus right nonsense and the nonstop Bullshit when it comes to News reporting how people react to it. The invocation of the term "Fake News" when someone reads or hears a story they either do not like or do not agree with is so stupid it makes me brain boil, do these people know how to think critically?
   
   We need a radical change in this country regarding this and I don't care what you think or what this sounds like to you. I do not want the government in control of the News, I'm not talking about the State run media. We do need to Nationalize news coverage is the following ways i think however.
   
   A.) It should be Federal Law that any show labeled as "NEWS" should be immediately 100 % about the facts only.
   B.) There should be no room in the news for Political Opinion of any kind.
   C.) It shouldn't matter what show you watch, the facts are the same. The only distinction they should be able to make is whether to cover a story or not.
   D.) All the talking Heads shows should either comply or they will be clearly labeled as Entertainment with their party designation attached.
   
   People Like Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow can still have shows, it would be the label that would change. That way you moronic and ignorant one track mind simpletons would not think either one of them are news shows like you do now.
   
   They would be called something  "Rachel Maddow - Democrat Entertainment Show" or "Sean Hannity - Republican Entertainment Show". What we do now is blatant, irresponsible BULLSHIT. Information and public news that serves a profit master and is for sale to a sponsoring ideology is garbage and has to stop and Rupert Murdock can go fornicate himself.
4. I have friends in the Restaurant business and in talking to them , I'm just going to say I am very proud of their creativity and how hard they are working to try to survive this economic tsunami that has hit our economy. They are doing things I'm sure they never imagined they would have to do in order to stay in business. One person has laid off 70% of their workforce (350+ people) , restructured their workflow, pared down their menus to eliminate waste and dozens of other things in order to survive.
   
   They've seen traffic drop 60% from last year (or more) and their guest counts are down as much as 75% . What they have done may not be enough, but at least they didn't give up and tuck tail and run, declare bankruptcy and walk away. Employee and Manager Hours have been slashed, full time is 25 hours a week, management has started working hourly, overtime has been virtually eliminated, the owners have stopped taking a salary and even all of that may not be enough.
   
   It really proves the old saying that the CEO's primary job is to ensure the continuation of the business, beyond everything else. My friend who is a Truck Owner operator says he is staying very busy , but he has had to adjust where he runs, and what he carries in order to keep moving  which is the maxim in that business. A stopped truck is a broke truck. What are you doing to survive? How are you coping?
5. Lastly, several people have expressed to me that in one form or another "They are bored and are tired of being stuck home." I did not say anything mean in response because it seemed wrong to do so given the tough times that are here and the storm that is coming, however in a general sense to everyone and not singling anyone out, WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?
   
   People are dying, they say 250,000 deaths will probably occur as a result of this thing, that it'll kill you no matter who you are and I am the target audience. We cannot stop this thing. We can only take preventative measures and forestall it until it sorta burns out.  Staying at home, not traveling and not visiting others without good cause seems like a small tiny price to pay to keep from killing Grandma wouldn't you think?

Stay well my friends, get pissed off if you want to but don't throw the phone, you may not have a job next week,

BigMike

Bill Gates has spoken PAY ATTENTION you peasant

April 1st, 2020 at about 4:45 a.m. or so

Good Morning carbon based life forms,

There are famous folks that are well known and they are forever linked to exact topics. For example,  I might say Albert Einstein and you might respond with "E=mc2 or The Atomic Bomb" or something like that. I might say Clark Kent and you may respond "Superman". I could go on however the point is to say that we forever seemingly link names to events, good and bad. As a society we sort of always have. It exists in every facet of our personal consciousness and truly amazes me that this is not more widely discussed in some fashion. Maybe it is and I missed it. Famous people become known for a certain topic and then magically they become experts on everything else. Mark Cuban cashed in on the dotcom bubble before it crashed to earth, became a billionaire, bought an NBA franchise and suddenly he is an expert in all things basketball. He's not really, but that doesn't stop broadcasters from asking his opinion on everything under the sun related to basketball. He has parlayed that into TV show appearances and knows more about sponsoring new businesses in  a venture capital sense because , het he has money so that makes him smart right? He has a net worth of 4-5 billion dollars so that means he knows more right? I mean he is a strategic thinker right?

WTF are you talking about BigMike? Well I'm glad you asked that because this is one of those moments that make me go hmmmm, lets talk about some stuff. I think that I'm talking to myself and a readership of about 3 people including family, however for me this is an exercise in processing my own random thoughts more than anything else. I told my wife yesterday that I would not recommend a trip through my brain to anyone, because of the sharp drop offs, the sudden turns and the dark scary alleyways that exist in there. But I digress.

My 5 WTF Moments from today are :

1. One of the biggest news stories today is an article written by some schmuck asking Bill Gates how he would solve the nightmare created by the coronavirus. If I were President this is what I would do - Bill Gates, Since he is is one of the founders of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and is one of the wealthiest people on the planet alive, it only makes sense that he should know how to get us out of this mess right? The guy who knows how to buy and close up other software companies the fastest , the guy who knows how to write crappy half completed software and call it a "version" , to be updated online after its sold would know more than anyone how to solve this right? I get it, and I know I'm being snarky and smart-assey when I say this , however give me a break. This guy doesnt know more than anyone else, he can just afford to buy the best helpers with PHds who do. It's like that with all of them. No wonder they classify janitors as essential workers.
2. Ronda Rousey has a knack for reinvention. She is really good at it too. Maybe it is her ability to remain genuine and keep smiling that suckers us in and maybe it is that smile, but somehow she can start left and turn right and we just smoothly follow without realizing there has been a turn. I remember watching her at the Olympics and thinking she was going to be a star and not for Judo either. Olympian, actress, homemaker, wife (sort of), reality star, model, MMA fighter, wrestler , I mean what's left? I am certain she's going to show us and it'll probably be good. This week she is known for being in Quarantine with her mate , Travis Brown and talking about anal sex (which I'm a firm NO on ) with apparently no , zero, repercussions unless you count the comments from assholes littering her twitter account. Amazing.
3. Why do I blog anyhow? I have about 253 articles , videos, pictures and topics I've written about since 2005 and I just keep writing. Is it fame? Nope, no fame. Is it money? or the chance that one article may be picked up by a rich person to be made into a movie or a book? Fat effin chance of that wouldn't you say? I think I do it to communicate with my associates and family because I am so bad at staying in contact with them. It also makes me happy and fills my spare time better than activities that would require me to get off my fat ass like volunteering at the animal shelter would. Realistically I do not believe there is anyone except me who has read a single post all the way through or who has read all that I have published. I wrote two different books to, no one bought those either. I read them, I think that's it. Prove me wrong.
4. Do you have a need for some type of computer or electronics cable. If you do please let me know, because I am getting ready to clean out my office, which will include throwing out about 1000 different types of computer, printer, phone, electronic and charger cables. I've got a ton of crap that has gotta go. FREE. FREE. FREE.
5. If you have ever wondered , I value you as a family member, friend or associate no matter how lousy I am at returning phone calls or answering the phone. Everyone and I mean everyone from my brothers to business associates has told me about this from time to time, about how I never return calls or seemingly never answer the phone when you call. Or maybe it's that I never return your call after you have left a message. I have no excuse , I'm a bum. This is something I am lousy at, except if you have ever left me a message on Skype. For that I'm working on figuring out how to be notified that you've left a message. Right now, I don't have a clue if you called on skype and I don't know why either. I'm working on it.

Have a terrific day and please don't get sick,

BigMike

Everybody Poops

Tuesday March 31, 2020 about 7:45 am

Hello fellow humans,

If you are looking at this then the chances are that (1.) You are bored or (2.) You are looking for something to laugh at or (3.) Wondering what my goofy ass is up to now.

Hard to figure and tough to answer as I really don't have a process that I go through daily when I write these blog entries and I do not see myself as either a journalist or as an astute observer of life. I just sometimes wonder ? WTF ? What the Hell was that??

When I have a WTF moment I like to write them down so my family can read them and laugh or so my family can read them and then shake their heads or so in the future my children and grandchildren will have a little piece of me that they can read and know what I was like. It's the same reason I record videos on youtube and facebook. I'm just trying to leave something behind for them to share and laugh about when I'm gone instead of sitting around all mopey and crying for some dumbass reason.

Listen !!Everybody Poops. At the end of your life when you expire, all muscle tension releases and you poop, maybe just a little, but it still happens. You probably pee a little too but hey! I do that already. I've beat this into all of them. Laugh don't cry !! Everybody Poops.

My 5 things are weak ones to day , I mean not everyday is all star day.

1. I don't know (and truth be told, respectfully I don't care) what a Tiger King is. I get the basic story, roadside gay zoo owner gone bad, sentenced to 20+ years in prison. I don't know and don't care about the details. Is that bad? Supposedly , allegedly this show is the number one show on streaming services. I've never watched a minute and don't know anyone who has (or they know better than to tell me). 
2. I think I spend about 20 minutes everyday looking at various video sites. I used to watch youtube a lot, however I got SICK TO DEATH of being pestered by their ADS and free trial shit and started looking elsewhere. Now I spend more time looking at Digg.com than anywhere else. Its where I eventually landed. It used to be MilkandCookies.com, but all their content restrictions and nutty code on their site finally drove me away. 
3. All day , every day on every source is COVID-19, everything you could ever want to know and then a little more. TV is now beginning to produce specials and have video of people who are reporting the tragedies from the front line like NY City and LA. I think I will stick it out in small town USA, and avoid everybody (like the plague?), follow the instructions and see if I can not get sick and not die from this crap. I am not going to watch it unfold in living color as they follow funerals and see people expire and or watch as Hollywood produces and shows specials about the brave men and women who are fighting and dying trying to treat people who have this disease though. It's too tragic, too sad, too close to home. My wife is a nurse. I worry too much as it is. No way Jose`.
4. According to recent reports the Mafia (especially NY City) is taking a big hit right now because all of their traditional sources of income are sidelined and shut down because of COVID-19. Well, it could not happen to a nicer bunch of people.
5. Is it just me??  or have the ads at the bottom of news and internet pages getting worse and more gross and becoming more stupid by the day??  I know targeting advertising uses what you've searched about and things like that but I clear my browser tracks every day. I erase cookies, sites, passwords and a lot of other internet debris , so how  they pick the ads about "How a Top Surgeon keeps telling ME TO PROPERLY EMPTY MY BOWELS" I'll never know.

That's all folks !! ThankX for reading.

BigMike

Be a Vigilante Superstar

Monday 03/30/2020 about 6:30 a.m. EST, from the studios of BigMikeRant Enterprises.

Morning people sunrise is about 30 minutes away,

Today's look at things or theme if you will I'm gonna call it "Be a Vigilante Superstar", and I really don't mean get a gun and go shoot people either or go enforce the law either.

There's enough of you keyboard Warriors to go around already. It's amazing some of the things I see and read online that folks will type into their browsers or make comments that you know good and well they wouldn't say out loud. They damn sure wouldn't say it around their kids, and if they said it around their significant other you know they would smack them upside the head for saying crazy crap that's in your brain,  out loud.

So why do you think people are so brave and run their mouths so obnoxiously online when you know they wouldnt do it in person? That's the folks I call Keyboard Warriors. They remind me of the kids that are pictured sitting at a window with a keyboard and mouse looking out the window with the caption" Reality- Worst Game Ever !!"

It's almost like playing Halo online and hearing some 12 year old tell you to "Shut up you old fart blanket", or some such nonsense. Its funny because they can't curse effectively yet, and they can't put words together that make sense anyhow, but they are also brave because they know Mom isn't listening and she's making lunch and they know that they can say whatever they want to as long as she doesn't hear him.

It's funnier than hell. I'm not an online gamer anymore but I would always do my part and teach them effective cursing at the very least. HA !

Tips to being a Vigilante Superstar

1. I've seen a lot of so called temporary changes in response to the Covid-19 virus pandemic that is sweeping the globe. Some of them make sense and some of them I am struggling a little bit to make sense out of, however its nice seeing people try trying to accommodate their fellow citizens in some manner. My doctor has a big sign outside his office that tells you to Stay in your car, Call the office and they will come out and get you when its your turn. No more waiting room. They come out wearing masks and gloves and escort you right back. My last appointment, for the first time ever was by telephone with my doctor. It went OK, he sounded very concerned and had a lot to say. That was unusual. I've also saw shuttered churches that have switched to online streaming only. My Friend Dr. Brooks Green conducted his sermon yesterday to an empty building but they live streamed the service. That was cool. Innovative thinking, Politics is busier than normal, somehow. For some reason I thought this would shut everybody up, sadly No. Coolest thing I saw was the Mayor of Chattanooga TN authorizing the delivery of sealed beer so you didn't have to go out to get it. BEER DELIVERY? I didn't see that one coming.
2. There was an article in the newspaper (Crap I'm old huh?) , about How to Prepare for and then Spend your stimulus check. DUH. As if. Stay in lockdown, pay your bills, when lockdown is over you are gonna get evicted if you don't pay your rent somehow. Seems like a stupid topic to me however I never account for stupidity well enough.
3. Liquor stores are an essential business however Hobby Stores like Hobby Lobby are not. Apparently Football, Baseball , hockey and Basketball are out but Golfing on the other hand is OK. Good to know I guess. Who Knew.
4. Spring has sprung where I live. I'm glad sitting on my ass winter is over. However this 6 meals a day quarantine is not gonna help and I am fatter than ever. Bring on the Zyrtec, However my wife has eliminated Ibuprofen from our pill consumption routines and switched us to Tylenol. I got the mandatory patient education warnings too. Okee dokey. Treat the asthma, Emphysema, COPD and full sinuses with everything but the NSaids. Boy am I glad she is around to manager that crap. I think we are about 12  days into this isolation quarantine stuff.
5. Liberty University students in SC, were told to come back to campus by the President of the school, Jerry Falwell Jr. He reopened the campus, said the wait is over and moved on. 12 students promptly came down with Corona Virus symptoms, 8 of them are in intensive care. What a dipshit.

Remember kids, it took 50 years to develop a vaccine for Polio , There is still no vaccine for the Zika virus, Aids, Ebola and a couple others. Like the coronavirus, no one has ever cured the common cold either and on average it takes about upwards of 16 years to make a vaccine that's effective. If you're looking for a quick cure, Its probably not gonna happen.

Thankx for Reading,

BigMike

Sorry about Your Luck Pal

03/29/2020 Sunday about 7:15 a.m. or so

Good Morning Blogheads !

Hey if you get a minute go on YouTube and look up a movie called " Trailer park shark", I understand that's the only place where it's at and it has a friend of mine in it. I don't have any idea as to it cinematic value or the storyline I thought it would be cool to  promote something that somebody else has done, that I know. I have no idea if she is even proud of it. I'm going to take a minute and look at it after while.

I was scanning through the happenings on a couple of news sites this morning and the theme for today is "Sorry about your luck pal", as I'm reading about insurance companies that cover business losses when they have an interruption of their business, that have had the foresight to write into their coverages a condition that says will cover you for loss of business except in case of your business being interrupted by viruses or bacteria. I have no idea how in the hell they figured out that they needed to exclude that, however it is amazing how insurance companies make more money than most other companies (one company makes more money than most other companies combined) and they figure out a way to not pay claims continuously,  so amazing.

Anyway here's my top 5 for today.

1. The National Enquirer reportedly is cutting their payroll by 23% with the stated intention of doing so in order to not have to lay people off. Apparently that includes all of the AMI company publications, or at least 9 of them as the way I understand it. This takes effect somewhere around April the first and they are calling it the death knell of that company. Not to be political but just to refresh your memory this is the company where the CEO or the president was chummy with President Trump and did the old capture and kill on stories that were negative about the him. Supposedly they had a whole safe full of bad stories he didn't want published.  In their heyday at the height of their history they had over 4,000,000 in circulated readers now it's somewhere South less than 100,000. Sorry about Your Luck Pal
2. Like I was saying before,  business interruption insurance is an insurance policy sold by insurance companies supposedly to cover businesses, I guess when they lose revenue due to unforeseen circumstances with the most common ones being things like fire and etc. It's supposed to replace income after a covered loss and just about every small business owner assumed that something like the coronavirus would be a covered loss. OOPS Not really, um  yeah, in about 2006 (because of the other bugs are hanging around like the swine flu and E coli in the bird flu and all those) they put a rider on all those policies excluding coverage because of viruses or bacteria although they didn't really publicize that they were excluding coverage for that. It seems like they are actually in the business of collecting money or premiums and denying claims . That's how they do business, although their marketing indicates that they collect premiums and pay claims. Seem like there is a big assed disconnect there somewhere. Sorry about Your Luck Pal
3. Also in the news this morning is the daily dose of facts and figures that say the death toll has passed over the 2,000 mark. Also I found out that one of my cousins is in the hospital in Indianapolis with this virus. CRAP. I am praying for him, he doesn't deserve it, he's a great guy, Husband and father. I hope he gets well soon. The governor of California Mr. Newsom reports this morning that 170 ventilators that were sent  to California by FEMA , DON"T WORK. Can you believe this crap? So they loaded all of them into trucks and vans and took them right to a repair shop that is fixing them supposedly as we read this. Amazing. Incredible. Idiotic. Supposedly also things like Evictions, utility cut offs and etc are going to banned through the end of May. On June 1st ? You guessed it, Sorry about Your Luck Pal
4. The NRA and other groups are in the process of suing California, Gov. Newsom and other elected officials over closing Gun stores and declaring the non essential businesses, meanwhile the Industry is projecting that by May 15th, the USA will be out of condoms. Allegedly this is due to manufacturers being retasked to make PPE like gloves and etc. I guess sex toys are next and we are screwed in more ways than one. Sorry about Your Luck Pal
5. Here is a good one. My prediction is that this one will create a true american incident and somebody is gonna lose their mind over this and come back to work with a huge handgun and a lot of ammo. Apparently a few employers are thinking that because their employees (I dont know who, the reporting is sketchy about this) are going to receive stimulus checks, they can deduct the amount from the pay they are due, thereby reducing their payroll costs and saving money. I would not want to be a supervisor at one of these places if they do. Holy Frijole` , that's goona be UUUUUgly! Sorry about Your Luck Pal

Ya'll have a great Day, 

Thankx for reading,

BigMike

My goofy observations maybe the top 5

Saturday , March 28th, 2020 about 5:40 a.m.

Good Morning,

You can subscribe to my blog without being on facebook if you would like. Look around, there's a button somewhere.

I wonder why old people get up so early in the morning? In my previous life when I was working and I had a purpose ,  it was hard to get out of bed. A lot of times I was known as the guy that was always gonna be 10 minutes late and that was pushing it (Rita Mae could tell you, she used to get so pissed off at me, especially when it rained). I had a boss tell me one time that if I didn't want to be late I would not be late. I said oh yes I love being yelled at, I love having your foot up my a**, I love having everybody and there brother mad at me, I love having to adjust 10 time records everyday to make sure the people that were there on time got paid even though I was late, it was a blast. He said I needed to work on my attitude as I was a little bit of a smart a**. I said I haven't had any coffee I don't know what you expect.

For the first time by the way I am using a feature of Windows 10 which allows me to talk into a microphone and it transcribes it to words. I'm sure at some point it is going to screw up my English however I figure it can't be anywhere near as bad as I do on my own. Let me know if you see obvious transliteration errors and I will do my best to correct them however, even as I see the machine do its work and I proofread it I know I'm still going to miss some of them.

I call this the top 5 because I think that's all most people can take of me I could probably go on and on and write a top 100 and I think only I would read them. It's hard to hit a homerun every time you step up to the plate so a few of my postings are pretty good and others are probably boring and they suck and it's just the way it is.

I do my best and you are stuck with junk, sometimes.

Here is today's weird observations.

1. I'm noticing as I watch the various TV news and entertainment shows that the host of the shows and the talking heads and the reporters,  announcers and all the people that work on the shows are doing their shows ,from their house. You can see it in the way that the camera work is done and the sound work is done and you can notice it in the quality of the picture but I guess that's a good thing unless you like watching reruns all the time. I pretty much hate that so , so however they want to do it is OK with me. I'm also noticing on YouTube and then on some of the news stories I follow there's been a lot of entertainers, actors, rappers and etc. that are showing up on Skype and services like them. One observation I have is that there should be a ton of new music or a ton of new albums when this is all over because that's one thing you can actually do very well at home, which is create new music and stories. The comedy should be amazing.  Something else I noticed is a trend and is that Walmart is reporting that they are having a run on clothing but they are only selling clothing  tops. Their sales of bottoms like jeans and pants and etc have exceptionally low sales at this point however the sales of tops are through the roof. They are attributing that to work from home and conferencing. I guess there is a dress code when you are on camera. Who knew. Go Figure.
2. Funny factoid of the day was a video I saw of entertainer Seth Rogan making his Alexa make fart sounds. It was kind of comical. Try this quote "Alexa play fart sounds" , she will respond with various sort of comical responses like that was a wet fart or that was just a little pooter would you like to hear more? I found that to be sophomoric and good for a laugh for a couple of minutes. Some of this stuff I like other times I think he's an idiot but it's all in good fun. Try asking for a "cheek wobbling fart". Hysterical.
3. I did not know I was a theologian until the other day. A friend of mine said it should be in the Bible that you can slap stupid people. I said I think you just have to know where to look and look at the right verses. Then I sent her the following response and it generated big laughs. This is probably sacrilegious and it'll probably p*** off one of the people that read this, but it's all in good fun. Don't get your panties twisted .
   Yea verily though I strode through  the the valley of death , Thou art with me, thy stick and thine pistol they comfort me, thy attitude be with me, my hand be dry from oil, my holster be tight and true ,my coffee cup runneth over with the finest blend. Crap you shall not take from the stupid for they not know the depth of thine anger, the width of thine ability nor the pure assholiness of thou responsiveness.  -  (from the book of Mike 1:1)
4. Here's something thing I've also wondered about. There are hundreds of thousands of very vulnerable people in the USA, people like heroin addicts, crackheads, Methican Americans that are addicted beyond belief, porn stars, prostitutes  the homeless, and a lot more I'm sure that I have left out but or can't think of at the moment. The people that fall through the cracks of society into every other normal circumstance. Nobody is talking about them right now, and I mean I haven't heard a single report about any of them. There are cities where the homeless gather together in larger numbers than some small American towns. It seems like if this virus ran unchecked through a homeless encampment that it would basically kill him all because none of them ever go to the doctor . At the very least there would be a lot of sick homeless people. I don't think there's an outreach program on this planet that could help this situation. I wonder what they're gonna do about this. This is one of the goofy things that I think about, wondering how 3-6  months ago , they were all talking about the large homeless population in America and today nobody is talking about them. It doesn't exist. I also heard today that we have more than 100,000 cases (More than anyone - Yay!! we're #1) We have 100,000 confirmed virus cases,  but that we also have the worst testing regimen in the industrialized world. So they're telling people that show up to a hospital sick that they aren't sick enough to be hospitalised and they should go home until they get deathly ill and then come back . People are soylent green.
5. Hundreds of thousands of stories have been written about the hoarding of the toilet paper, hand sanitizer, paper towels, sanitary wipes and about a dozen other things. If they hoard coffee there is gonna be serious trouble. There has even been stories about how the influx of flushed wipes have backed up toilet systems all over America and how they have had to come out and clean out of toilet system that are overwhelmed by sanitary wipes. Now I'm reading that although demand for the product is outstripping our ability to supply them the manufacturers are running it more than 120% of capacity trying to build back up the supply in each store but we're still seeing empty shelves,  basically after every delivery because people are walking in and still buying everything that was just delivered. Who are these idiots? So if this is panic buying and people are hoarding because they are afraid that there won't be any when they need them then why are we running out of things like toilet paper. it does make any sense. 12 packs of toilet paper being sold in record numbers and they say the average 4 person family needs a new 12 pack about every something like 40 to 60 days. so if you bought 7 packs then you have enough for a year and a half. Now even if my math is wrong, the point is still valid that you are going to have more toilet paper then you can use in about a year. Was that to eliminate the ability of anyone staying in your guest bedroom because it's full of toilet paper or are you trying to keep your mother in law out of your house is that the idea? I don't think there's a prepper on the planet that would support the idea of taking sleeping space over with supplies of toilet paper.
   
   Thankx for reading,  

BigMike

The Defining Moment In a national crisis

It's about 8:55 a.m. on Friday 03/27/2020

Good Morning Y'all,

These are just my observations from my twisted point of view where I am walking 45 degree to the sidewalk and You aren't.

My topic today is this. In just about every crisis there is defining moment or a defining act that makes a lot of people remember the moment. It's one of those "Where were you when this happened", kind of things. Obviously depending upon your generation, some of you weren't born when certain things happened, however the point remains. Once the date is burned in our consciousness , the collective memory remembers it forever.

• Where were you on 09/11/2001?
• Where were you on 11/22/1963?
• Where were you on December 7th, 1941
• Where were you on January 28, 1986 ?

For example, During the tragedy in New Orleans that was hurricane Katrina , a hero emerged from the chaos named Lt. General Russell Honore`. Almost everybody remembers him coming on the scene , telling the soldiers to put their guns down and help these people, this aint no war zone. The link below opens a youtube video about this incident.

Lt General Russell Honore`

In the civil rights movement there was Dr. King spoke about his dream.

I have a dream speech

during World War II Harry Truman said "The buck stops here."

The buck stops here

President Roosevelt said "All we have to fear is fear itself

All we have to fear is fear itself

So have we ever faced ANYTHING that is as big of a culture shock as this pandemic in our modern era? Have we faced anything that strained our consciousness to the limit the way this has? I've heard a lot of things this month that I've not heard in person ever before. I've seen a lot of reporting and heard the talking heads wondering out loud about subjects that you would just assume are handled in advance planning or are modeled and it's something we should have prepared for thousands of times.

It turns out that in this crisis we have fallen very short in a lot of ways. For example some very smart people in the medical field are learning how to share a ventilator between patients so that you can use one ventilateur to serve 2 critically ill patients at the same time. It has limitations such as both patients must be on the same settings and it is very hard to get the pressure to be the same but it seems to be something bad may help to solve a shortage. Who knew we would have a shortage a ventilators like the one that is predicted to happen within 30 days. Who knew I would know that N-95 is a model number of a type of mask that nurses and etc will need? Why do I need to know that?

It seems to me that we are coming up on what could be best described as a Mad Max scenario. The states are bidding against each other for personal protective equipment. One governor said he discovered that one of his biggest rivals for equipment (that he was bidding on) was the federal Emergency Management Agency.

Who would have predicted that FEMA would be bidding against a state for personal protective equipment for first responders, doctors, nurses and others. There is a now bed shortage predicted that is unrivaled in history. A lot of the experts are saying that our hospital capacity which is almost full now, will be overwhelmed within 30 days and we need to at minimum triple our current capacity of ICU beds. Triple. I don't think anybody saw that coming. Then they said its likely higher than that! Higher than Triple? Crap.

The National Guard and the military medical commands of all of the United States military services are conducting voluntary recalls of retired nurses and doctors worldwide. To be clear, right now it is voluntary. I can envision a scenario where people that retired from the military would be recalled to service, in a similar fashion that people that want to retire are prevented from doing so under stop loss orders. I reckon that's not the way we want it to be, however it may be one of the only ways we have to staff A shortage this severe, and the President has the authority to do so. If you've ever served you are subject to recall.

Personally I believe that recall orders from the president and from each service is forthcoming. I think that folks that have been out of the military for a long time could be recalled under direct orders from the president. They are building mash type hospital beds everywhere you look in the high volume infection states right now. I think it is only a matter of time before you start to see that where you live if you aren't seeing it now.

I saw an interview with the commanding general of the army corps of engineers who talked about keeping things at its most simple, with the  basis being to let out contracts working with independent contractors, with the the government of each state identifying and using things like dorm rooms, hotel rooms, convention centers, sports stadiums and the like in turning them into either hospital beds for patients.

The man's name was Lt. General Todd Schonite, and he is the commanding general of the army corps of engineers. During this interview he said that currently we do not have the ability nor the capacity to be complicated and that we cannot build from the ground up hospitals. The best we can do is to convert existing structures into negative pressure rooms that will serve the same purpose on a temporary basis. He talked about building metal pole structures on tennis courts or on places like on soccer fields. He talked about converting college dorm rooms into negative pressure ICU facilities. He said it in such a way that it was believable. Is this our moment? Does this define the crisis? Somehow I do not believe that president trump's quote that  "It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear”, and because of that I'm still waiting to hear from that leader who will step up and rise to the occasion and give us that defining moment. I don't think I've heard it yet, I don't think I've heard anyone say it yet and if you have I like to know what it was.

Thankx,

BigMike

The daily dose

Hey Y'all

Thursday 03/26/2020 at about 8:30 a.m. est

Sometimes I just get this glimmer of how deep the madness pool is in my surroundings.  I run into this crap everyday and every now and then I think I must be so out of step with the mainstream that the reason I see this as goofy is because I am the outlier. I am actually the idiot. Maybe. Just maybe it's possible that I am crazier than the lunacy that I write about?

No? Read on.

Here's my top 5 for today.

1. People are dumping their beloved family pets at their locals shelters because as one put it "I'm afraid he's a gonna get the corona and spread it to me and my children." They are afraid that the DOG is going to give them the virus. Um, Uh, what? Wait? Where did they hear this? Where did the dog get it? The dog hasn't been out of the house either right? No one , not even the hated LIBTARDS are reporting that dogs are spreading the virus right? I've not heard this one until today. Shelters are allegedly posting notices telling people not to drop off their animals for this reason and they are somewhat overwhelmed by it. Can you believe this ? Is it just me? 
2. Something I didn't know. There is a national stockpile of  ventilators somewhere. Apparently governors have to request them or something along with hundreds of other items in the National stockpile. Now I don't have an opinion as to whether or not we should or should not have a stockpile , I'm just curious about something? How long has this been going on? Do we have an outdated stockpile of Iron Lungs too? How is the stockpile updated? How long does something stay in the stockpile before its outdated or obsolete? How is it replenished? I don't understand how it works but I hope a medical professional in in charge of triage on how to distribute the items, otherwise politicians will be and we know they are not capable of good decisions.
3. There are numerous places where you can go on the Interwebs and find rates of infections, length of quarantines, rates of death etc. Its amazing how detailed it is. You can watch what happened in Wuhan and Italy and hundreds of other places day by day charted against what they did to curb the death rate and everything else. One place is the CDC and another is the National Institutes of Health (NIH). There are hundreds of other places including every media site. That being said how can any group of politicians see the same charts and not see the same or close to the same answers? Stay at Home or shelter in place orders appear to work in curbing the rate of infection. No matter, several Governors say "No way Jose`, we aint doing it!" So, um why not?
4. There is no stay at home order right now in Florida , Idaho or Mississippi despite evidence that orders such as these do a lot of good in preventing infection, overwhelmed hospitals and healthcare  in general and a flattening of the curve in death rates. The governor os Mississippi has even signed legislation that effectively says if a local Mayor or council has ordered something different than that state has, well crap,  its null and Void and the state order or lack of one takes effect instead.  I mean is it just me or is this stupefyingly stupid?  Florida just now started closing beaches because I suppose they didn't want to kill their tourism economy. One college kid was on the news saying "(sic) Hey man, if I get it, I get it. Oh well." This is a college senior who doesn't understand if he gets it then statistically he will spread it to 1000 other people before he even shows symptoms. Great, The next generation of dumbasses.
5. Oh and UH Saudi Arabia and the rest of the world are fighting a price war over oil. This was driving down the price of oil to record lows, lower than its been seen in 20 years. I don't know if its good or not but The President has bought a bunch of oil at cheap prices to fill the SNR (Strategic National Reserve). It remains to be seen whether that's a good idea or not but the price war and our added pressure on prices hurts our own gas and oil industry. The businessman  president is making decisions that hurt American Oil Businesses. When it was mentioned to him you know what his answer was? , "Oh well. Cheap oil is cheap oil."

CoronaVirus and the Quarantine

Hey Y'all,
03/25/2020

Today is about day 5 or 6 of our self imposed quarantine from this virus.
We are all coping fairly well with it and I have some observations that have occured to me. They've  more than likely occurred to you too, but I only have one blog so you will have to get your own blog to publish them ! HA!

Here are 5 thoughts I had.

1. It only took a couple of days before the stupidity started. Somehow this is all a hoax and the conspiracy theorists have already began to come up with their usual nonsense in trying to explain it to the rest of us. The twisted logic used by some many posters on social media is staggering. It's not a virus , it's a chip implanted in us to begin mind control. It's a hoax, there is no virus, just implemented by the rich to control us all. It's a ruse began by the Chinese in order to destroy America. It's another in a long list a supposed  hoax diseases that are spread year after year by the LEFTIST mainstream media in order to advance their socialist agendas. The amazing thing is the facts don't matter, the deaths don't concern these idiots and they have bassackwards logic for everything. Totally stupid.
2. It's the beginning of the apocalypse, therefore the only way to save yourself is to buy all the toilet paper on every shelf, every bottle of hand sanitizer and all kinds of soap . Except now you are pissed that Costco and every big box store and grocery won't take it back as a return and every sale site like ebay and Amazon won't let you sell it for Triple the normal price in order to make a profit off others misery. Amazing. I love dumbasses. 
3. The industries being decimated by this virus are just staggering. They are talking about 6 trillion dollar bailouts (in America alone), not counting what the other 265 countries are trying to do in order to stave off a total collapse of our societies. Its gotten so bad in some places that gun and ammo stores are being forced to close and no where is as bad as Italy is , yet.
4. Retired nurses and doctors are being called back into service in huge numbers. HUGE NUMBERS. More than 400,000 alone in the UK, thousands in New York and California. The demand for hospital services and care is already outstripping our ability to deliver it. Hospitals are under all kind of emergency restrictions. No elective surgeries, no visitors, demands to increase beds by 50% or more, reusing face masks because they are not enough to go around. Its nuts already and it ain't even peaked yet. I can't wait to see what they think of next.
5. Our politicians are all across the board and most are clueless and useless. Governors, mayors and local officials are being left to make their own set of rules according to how they feel about the impact of the virus on their communities. The Governors of Washington and California are going full on lockdown and meanwhile the Governor of Idaho doesn't seem to give two shits what goes on. It's business as usual in Idaho. Go figure. 

This is a Public Service Announcement -ID-10-T Alert

This is a Public Service Announcement

ID10T Alert

Getting stuff done

02/23/2018

We have all faced a time in our lives where we needed to get a lot of stuff done. Everyone has felt the pressure of accomplishment. It's inevitable that at some point we all figure out that we either have to come up with a plan or something will have to change. Hopefully you figure that out before your boss decides the thing that has to change is you.

Here is one system I've used over the years to get stuff done. Feel free to steal it, change it, make it your own.

Just get better everyday and we'll call it even.

You are raising ADULTS

https://youtu.be/5Kph8lfOIT4

We have a problem. Here it is.

There is no Kid raising manual.

Everybody is winging it, your parents are still winging it.

You do not get to get a degree is poopy Butt !
You're not raising kids!

You ARE raising ADULTS !
Think about that.

we oughtta do somethin!!

Why BLUFF, BLUSTER, RANT and RAVE

There OUGHTTA BE A LAW !!

We need a new law to go on top of the laws already being ignored

because we oughtta DO SOMETHIN!!

Thoughts and Prayers, but we oughtta do somethin!!

https://youtu.be/6OTcJAMfutQ

Spring Cleanin

How about that weather?
Time fer Spring Cleanin!! (and Fishing)
My Roomba and the 7 dogs story.

See it in youtube at https://youtu.be/I96YSy61NwQ

Communication ! You're doing it wrong!

Communication is important. 

You're doing it wrong I'll bet.

C'mon you know I'm right...

Planned Obsolescence

Come back soon and do not be afraid to leave a comment.

5 things guaranteed to make me Grumpy

5 things that are Guaranteed to make me Grumpy!!

Click the Link to see it on Youtube

My youtube channel
is https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelJordand5wtko

No More Politics

Good evening everyone. Welcome to the bigmikerant

today is January 27, 2018 and we are making a change to the Rant today. No more politics. nobody cares, nobody wants to hear it, ranting about politics never changes anybody's mind and you just sound as crazy as that Alex Jones dufus, or wiki leaks or Steve Bannon or Rush Limbaugh.

I don't aspire to be any of those folks so starting today no more politics.

Have a great day!!

Another Stupid Shooting

There was a new shooting incident today where two more innocent people lost their lives. Stupid and sad.

I am a curmudgeon

According to a lot of folks, people my age are “curmudgeons”. That is we ain’t cool, we ain’t hip, we don’t get “it”. I have never really been sure what "it" is however being this old design sucks and it seems as if it is something I don't have according to a lot of folks anyway. Then I look around at what passes for news and information and the things that people ought to know and I see garbage. I don't mean to disrespect anyone's talent level or anyone's news source or any of the kinds of music that they listen to or any of the TV shows they watch or what their activities are, or god forbid where they go out and have fun for the evening. Far be it from me to say what is right or wrong.

On the other hand there is a long laundry list of things that I just must be so out of touch with that it is incredible. Sometimes I'm a bit stunned over what is referred to as news by sources that used to be credible. What I mean is used to be able to turn on a television show and see something called "News" and actually get news. See this is one of those things that I guess I don't get as I can tell you everything and bore you to tears with how a computer works but apparently I don't have enough "it" whatever that is, to define what news is anymore or music or clothing or something that should be important to everyone or anything else. 

I now understand why my parents said getting old is hell.

Here is sort of what I mean, you see I thought Albert Einstein was a genius, apparently I was wrong. Apparently Kanye West is a genius.

See I thought this huge media cycle that's been ongoing for the past month or so about this airplane being missing in the Indian Ocean was terribly important. Apparently however the more exciting and important news is that the group OutKast is reuniting at Coachella and Johnny Depp has been subpoenaed to testify in a murder case. The fact that he doesn't know anything about the murder case at all is irrelevant. The news is that he is going to testify or has been subpoenaed, I am not sure which is more accurate. I can read everything I want to know ad infinitum about Tori spelling and her lack of sex with her husband and barely a word is printed about Russia taking over the Ukraine.Unbelievable.

Basically we told Vladimir Putin that it better not be that way when we got home from work or there'll be hell to pay when our father got home or some such nonsense. I mean we shook our finger at him real hard. Oh and Stephen Colbert is apparently going to take over the late show for David Letterman when he retires at the end of next year. I cannot stand that guy and I don't know what they see in him but okay I have already said I am a curmudgeon. I'm too old understand I suppose.

It seems to me that John Stewart would've been a better choice, however the powers that be like that moron over someone with talent. I suppose his mother thinks she's funny I don't know. Basically I can't stand to listen to the man talk in character or out. Is that wrong of me?

I don't know see, and I don't understand or like "The Amazing Race", have never watched one single minute of any show called "Survivor" anything, and  I do not understand why some moron runs around the uninhabited parts of our planet trying to prove that he knows how to survive in it while he's getting filmed. Seems to me the guy that should be called the survivor there is the cameraman but what do I know. 

There is a whole slew of television programming starting with a show like Dancing with the stars and ending with one that is called American Idol that I just don't get and cannot make myself watch. They suck and everything like it sucks. Most of the programming that is called "reality television" is just garbage. 

It is the detritus of our society, crammed into a plastic bag,  surrounded by inane crap filled advertising and product placements, then endorsed in so many ways that you go to sleep singing the jingle and want to go on a rampage. I think that is where this shooting madness comes from. Constant never ending barrages of advertising. Most of it is annoying to me. 

Other people call me laughing or excited and say did you see blah, blah, blah. Either I answer affirmatively and let them talk or I piss  off my friends by saying why do you watch that shit? It just makes me wonder if they have anything to do at all that involves their own life that is important to them.

I could care less and will never care what Paris Hilton, Britney Spears or a single member of the Kardashian family did yesterday. I don't care what they're wearing, do not care what kind of car they drive, do not care where they drink their alcohol or eat their dinners and cannot understand why someone thinks I care who they have sex with or how frequently. I don't want to see their crotches when they get out of a car. Hell I say "Put some panties on you sluts !! Your kids are going to see this someday when their friends ask them about it. Damn, have a little respect for yourself. 

It is insane to me that there are paid photographers following so-called celebrities around in droves making their lives miserable for a society that has an insatiable need to read news about the size of one woman's ass. It makes no sense. 

The television show TMZ makes a living, a very very good living, talking about whether or not Justin Bieber had a hangover or had some run-ins with the law. I just don't understand why anybody including any respectable news outlet pays attention to these guys. Nowadays, if anything happens in the entertainment world and it's being reported, I will guarantee you that all the major networks will now use them as a source. That is what is stunning. A gossip rag using unverified no source based crap &  purveyor of celebrity nonsense is a credible news source for CNN. Unbelievable.

Microsoft has spent the last six months scaring the entire world into believing that windows XP is the second coming of the Antichrist and that if you continue to run Windows XP after April 8 it will melt down your system, start your house on fire, impregnate your dog, turn your car into a YUGO and other assorted bad things. 

The truth is this is a cleverly designed and well executed marketing plan that is designed to sell more surface tablets and more copies of Microsoft Windows 8.1 and that is just about all it is. Guess what? When they end support, what that really means is they will not provide more updates and they will not provide programming updates for free anymore. Everything they have already provided is still there just like it is for Windows 2000 and Windows NT. 

Now I am not advocating that you should stick with old equipment for the sake of sticking with old equipment. That is not my point. My point is that while most of their marketing points were true, in a sense, they were also huge gaping fat ass false holes in that there were a intentionally huge errors  of omission and the media followed right along with them. 

The reason the media followed right along with them is that they know which side their bread is buttered on. Most all of the technical reporters and writers went along with whatever Microsoft said because they wanted to be able to still talk to all of their inside sources next year. They knew that if they went against Microsoft in the reporting, in any way,  that they would not be welcome at all in Redmond. This smacks of the old movie studio system that controlled all the images of their contract stars. It was easy to spot and you could tell that Microsoft controlled the message, no matter who was writing it, just by paying attention to how lockstep everyone at Microsoft was in all of their talking points as they discussed it. Every writer reported virtually the same thing. It was impressive.

See here's what nobody ever said. 

What equipment is Microsoft trying to sell right now? Oh, it's that tablet thing, the Microsoft surface tablet. It is touch screen and is  less than a laptop computer but more than a smart phone thingy. You know the commercial where they have the dancers with the snap on keyboards? 

What operating system does their latest tablet run? Oh coincidentally Windows 8.1 (or to me more accurate it came out with Windows 8). It is the Microsoft answer to the iPad. IPads are all about touch screen. How the world are they going to get you to give up your Microsoft XP equipment and buy a Microsoft produced tablet running the latest Microsoft software unless they somehow convince you that there is a compelling reason to do so? 

One of those sort of "The only way were going to win this war is if we have the help of all the country" kind of things. Sort of like food and gasoline rationing in World War II, this marketing campaign was designed to tell you that the world will end if you continue to use Microsoft Windows XP in any version and in order to prevent that you should get a Microsoft tablet running Windows 8 or some other version. 

So they began a very intricate and multifaceted campaign to get rid of XP in order to help them to increase sales and profitability over last year and the year before by introducing a new version of Microsoft office that is based on a month-to-month subscription, by propping up flagging sales of the Microsoft tablet and by achieving new sales of their latest operating system by replacing older machines running Windows XP. 

All of those were done at the expense of the consumer and with our hearty congratulations for a job well done. Every technical writer in the country is patting them on the back for the great job they did in executing this campaign.

Except wait a minute, most of the automatic teller machines in America are running Windows XP (or some version of it), sometimes an embedded version and I read that 20+ percent of the world is still running Windows XP and millions of users in China are still using Windows XP and millions of users in America are still running Windows XP and that some 30% of the Fortune 1000 is still running windows XP, and a very large portion of small business is running Windows XP. A very large part of our own government still runs older computers and a very large part of our military uses proprietary technology that is built upon the XP framework.

Anyone that is willing to pay for service above and beyond the ability to look up a problem on the Internet and actually talk to somebody at Microsoft or to have a patch created that goes directly to the heart of a problem, they have to pay for it. Microsoft is going to make a projected $800 million on the support strategy alone.Companies are going to pay for this because they can't roll out new hardware right away (cannot spend the money) and they are faced with a fight with their own shareholders to get proprietary software updated and to make the transition to newer machines. 

See they have told us for the last 90 days or so the Microsoft Windows XP is the worst thing that you could possibly do and then they're going to turn around and sell everyone that still runs it in a large organization updates. So the updates will still be made available, however you don't get them, unless you pay for them and at a very hefty rate.  But somehow getting rid of XP is a good thing. 

I do not get any of that either.

This is a test, this is only a test. if this had been anything except opinion you probably would've seen it on Google.

I have a few questions. 

Is anyone aware that there's a problem with the international space Station right now? And if so do you have any idea what it is? Do you know what the new prototype is that NASA has created for their Mars missions? Do you have any idea what has been grown in a lab this week to replace what was not there when someone was born? Have you heard anything about the experimental hepatitis drug that cures 95% of patients, in a recent clinical trial? What new company did Condoleezza Rice go to work for (well as a member of the board anyway). What big change did Face book make this week to privacy settings and to the news feed that has not been widely reported? What 2 large automakers have recalled hundreds of millions of cars in the last month or so? And what for? Who made laptops that catch on fire? Have you seen the video about the self parking car? The one where you actually just get out of the car and go do whatever you're going to do and it goes and finds its own parking space and parks itself? Is juicing really good for you? I wonder why it is that more people do not register as organ donors? What big scary disease is making its way through what country right now? Why are the feds investigating Herbalife? What women's clothing store filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plants close every store they have by summer? How much is the initial public offering worth for Tinder? And finally which company is offering dissatisfied employees money to quit them?

The only reason I asked any of those questions because if you were watching the size of someones ass or how often Lindsay Lohan got drunk or were paying attention to something that Oprah had to say you may not had a shot at reading any of the real news. 

I didn't even scratch the surface. I didn't talk about Russia, I did not talk about politics, I did not talk about computers except in a general sense, I didn't really ask anything that had anything to do with business or the economy or unemployment or the politics of any of those situations or the politicians that run them. If I had , you would never have read this rant because that would've went on for days. 

I just don't understand why any of the things before my questions were news. I understand why they would've been in the Inquirer magazine or on the TV show TMZ, because they are gossip rags and it is instant gratification. 

What I don't understand is why it is on the same show labeled news?

I think this is the dumbing down of America. It sickens me.

They, who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

- Benjamin Franklin

Thanks for reading my rant,

BIGMIKE