It’s been a rough year. The job turned out very differently from what I was told it would be like during my interview and I’ve been unhappy with it for the last year.
Last week, out of the blue I was inspired to look for a job online for something I really want and something I’m very good at, and lo and behold it was there. I put in my application and heard back right away.
I had the interview on Monday and am scheduled to have my follow-up interview next week.
This is a job I did before and loved and would give anything to do again with a different company.
The thing I’ve been wrestling with is that I hate moving and was not wanting to relocate.
So I’m going to take this as a sign from the universe that I need to relocate.
I rarely ask for anything but I’m going to ask for your thoughts and prayers.
That this is not going to be a long stretch of unemployment, that I will get the job, and that this is just the turning of a page to a much happier chapter in my life.
A followup on J.Kb’s True story about Alabama and the North East Southern Hospitality
Different areas have different cultures, this is very true. While most of the world will poke fun a Texans, I would much rather interact with a full of themselves Texan than somebody from NY.
When I say “interactions” I’m not talking about friends from NYC as such, but those random strangers that you run into and have to deal with.
If I see a car with New York plates I expect a certain type of driving from them and allow for it. Same with a few other states.
Fortunately for all of us, we don’t wear our license plates on our backs. We just have to interact with each other.
Most people have a level of pride in where they live. This doesn’t include the transplant that is always complaining about how it was better wherever it was they came from, this is the people that live where they live because they want to.
This is how you end up with “The Big Apple” and how every person from NYC seems to believe it is the greatest city ever. The people of San Francisco are proud of their city and or state. You can see this in “school pride” where just because you went to a particular university or high school you are proud of that institution.
Say “Go Trojans” and everybody knows. “I’m a Packer Backer” and everybody knows. This is human.
The problem with attitudes is how people deal when they are not in their territory. The Texan that advertises with a $200 to $500 Stetson hat. The NYC person does it with their “big apple” attire.
But it is when people open their mouths that you find the difference.
“Everything is bigger in Texas” or “It is better in Texas” comes across as crass to the person that knows that theirs is better.
The alternative statement is “your _____ is shit”.
That is the big difference. Somebody from the south is likely to say “Ours is better.” while somebody from these entitled liberal bastion are more likely to say that yours is bad. There is such a huge difference in perception of “ours is better” vs. “yours is bad”. People take offense from those sorts of words.
Those elites have a horrible habit of looking down at everybody that isn’t part of their clique. It doesn’t matter if you are in their territory or they are in yours.
Most cops I’ve interacted with have been polite and helpful within the limits of what the interaction is about. My one interaction with a NYC cop was an example of that “You’re not a NYC person so you’re garbage.” I was on my bike, I asked for directions to a restaurant. The restaurant was actually just down the alley from where we were. You could see it. I didn’t.
The cop was not happy to have somebody talk to him. He heard the request and gave me directions. I thanked him and rode off following his directions. And almost ended up taking the Holland Tunnel right off the island.
Came back around and on the fifth attempt finally found the restaurant. That is the attitude I expect of people that think they are elites.
What this means is that people that have this sort of city elite attitude push it when they are in other states. They are often loud, out, and proud. Not talking about just sexual orientation. You see this in bumper stickers and other car stickers. People on the left will often decorate their vehicles with all their stances. Baby murder stickers. Anti-Trump stickers. Gun Free Zone stickers. coexist stickers. They are all out there. They are never really afraid that somebody is going to react in a physical way to these statements, in their own enclaves.
They know exactly how they think of those low life deplorables those knuckles drag when they walk. They know how they would act if one of “those people” were to dare to enter, no invade, their enclave. They expect the same response when they go elsewhere.
If they would be willing to do evil to somebody because of their stance on a political position, they expect others to do the same to them. The project their actions onto others and are fearful.
It reminds me of the Trump yard signs in the town just north of me. They are a very elite leftist town. The people that put out Trump yard signs were reporting them vandalized or stolen constantly. The police didn’t really do anything. The news media played a tiny violin for those yucky tRumptsters. It wasn’t a big deal.
Then people put out some BLM signs. A few, a very few, were knocked over. The police immediately released a press statement about how hate doesn’t belong int eh community and that they would find the horrible evil people that were vandalizing signs.
The funny thing was one person that reported that they had had more Trump signs vandalized or stolen himself than all the reported vandalism of BLM signs combined.
This is the problem. They know that they would do it. Thus they expect others to do it to them.
I never fear travel in urban and rural areas. I’m going to be polite and most of the time the people around me are polite right back. I worry about moving through cities. There seems to be much more violence in those areas. It is very hard to find confirmed reports of people being attacked because they were “leftists” or “progressives” or such.
This person would have no problems traveling in the southlands if she kept her opinions to herself. The problem she has is that she doesn’t have the self control to keep her mouth shut. So she will say offensive things to strangers and then confirm her biases when they don’t just roll over and take it.
My husband thinks I'm crazy because I refuse to visit or even drive THROUGH a red state because I dont feel safe. Would you drive through Kentucky or Texas with NY State license plates? Am I being obtuse?
Rent Control vs Non-Rent Control. Mountain View Voice
Free market competition has a history of creating jobs, creating new products, new opportunities and wealth. Government control of the market fails.
Thomas Sowell points out in Basic Economics IIRC, that you can’t compare the official government prices in places where the government controls prices. Instead you have to look at the blackmarket price for goods. Since the blackmarket is almost always a free market, it is much more likely to be properly indicating the correct signals.
A signal is how much a person is willing to pay for a good or service.
If somebody is staying in the same job, even though they aren’t “getting paid enough”, then the company is being signaled that they price they are paying for labor is correct. If they can’t hold personal and/or they can’t hire new personal then they are being signaled that they are not paying enough. Paying enough includes all the extras a job includes.
Maryland has a fairly high income tax. The income tax is both a state income tax, a county income tax and a city income tax. Originally there was no limit on what the county and city tax rate could be. The different counties had different rates. People made decisions on where they lived based on those rates.
In order to “help” the people from being ripped off by the county and city taxes legislation was introduced that set the maximum rate that could be charged. With fanfare it passed.
Within a very few years every county and city had exactly the same tax rate. That maximum allowed by law.
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“Shotguns at the right range with the right load will physically remove a chunk of shit off your opponent and throw that shit on the floor. And you have to get someone to come in and clean this shit up with a shovel.”
Today we turn to California on this topic.
In the video it appears that the robber still has his arm, but only God, he, and his trauma surgeon know what condition it’s in.
But at that range (say 25 feet) a load from a 12 gauge would be devastating enough to mostly sever a limb.
Note how the other guys getting put of the SUV with guns reversed course as soon as their compatriot came out scrraming with a shotgun wound.
An 80-year-old liquor store owner in California has called out politicians after his trigger finger helped him fend off armed robbers, claiming ‘I’m not going to let them get the shot off first.’
Craig Cope, 80, said ‘the crime rate is escalating and it’s going to continue to escalate until they start putting the people away that are doing the bad things’ after his harrowing shootout was caught in dramatic surveillance footage.
While he refrained from ‘naming names,’ he said ‘there are a whole lot of them that are creating major problems for business owners,’ and complained ‘a lot’ of criminals are ‘career criminals, (and) they need to be locked up.’
The old man is not wrong.
Cope was behind the counter of Norco Market & Liquor shop in Norco, Calif., when he noticed a gang of men armed with guns creeping up to the door just before 3 a.m.
‘There wasn’t much time to think about’ what to do, Cope said, as a 23-year-old man entered the store with an AR-15 raised and ready to shoot, forcing Cope to immediately fire off his shotgun, hitting the man in the arm and sending the group scrambling.
‘He shot my arm off! He shot my arm off!’ the man can be heard shouting as he frantically runs back to a black BMW SUV that deputies later said was reported stolen.
The store owner described being forced into action in an interview with Fox, saying: ‘When you point that gun at me and you’re that close to me and I see what you’re carrying, I’m not waiting.’
He’s right about his tactics too.
Cope said his shooting skills come from being a young boy in Illinois, where he owned a single-shot rifle and hunted small game. ‘Ammunition was expensive’ he said, so ‘you don’t want to miss.’
Beware the man with just one gun, he probably knows how to use it.
Cope will not face any charges in Riverside County, unlike the New York City bodega worker who was charged with murder for fatally stabbing an attacker in self-defense.
‘In this case, a lawfully armed member of our community prevented a violent crime and ensured their own safety while being confronted with multiple armed suspect,’ the sheriff’s department said in a release referring to Cope’s case.
That’s the best news. Good on the Sheriff for upholding the obvious.
When a thug points an AR at a law abiding citizen and gets a free prison issued prosthetic arm as his stupid prize, all caught on HD security camera, it’s best just to let it go.
I should point out that this shooting also disarms the Left’s position on AR-15s turning criminals who wield them into unstoppable killing machines.
In Greenwood, a criminal with an AR was taken out by a guy with a CCW pistol.
Here, a criminal with an AR was given a Grosskreutz with a pump action scattergun.
It’s not about the gun, it’s about the mindset.
This old man was going to do what needed to be done and did it with one shotshell.
