You Can't Win

We live in this Alice in Wonderland world of paradoxes.  On the one hand you have David Cruise talking about these college four year graduates.  They may have had stellar grades in College but find the real world of the job market a whole different ball of wax.  David says that most archetects for example, do not go on to be archetects.  These grads are burried alive in tuition debt but that's only the tip of the iceburg.  First of all there are the basics we learned at Chris College and ROP about always over-dress a little and make sure your shoes have a spit shine polish.  Make sure your hair is well manicured and that you are positive.  But don't count on sending out a lot of resumes as a way to land a good job.  Because now they have these software filtering system where they search either for words that should NOT be there or essential phrases that BETTER be there or your file goes in the round file without any human being actually reading it.  If you thought you would work a forty hour week,  perhaps you should go into business for yourself.  He suggests if you can't be a regular attorney then start up your own firm working for one tenth the salary rate.  My problem with that is that's what they said about domestically produced energy.  They kept saying "If we just produced more domestic oil and allowed fracking to get natural gas and suspended a few polution regulations then energy costs would plumet.  Well, we have done All of those things and energy costs have only risen.  You can't "produce your own oil, and sell it at a fifty percent discount and undercut the market.  It doesn't work that way.  The AMA has a thing or two to say about how many practicing physicians there are and I imagine the American Bar Association would take a dim view out of your undercutting the competetion from the good old boy established Attorneys.  David Cruise says you may have to work fifteen hours a day six days a week to start your own business.  He says "If your old background of now obsolete then redirect what skills you do have tword something that IS relevent today.  All I could think of was "Gee, I'm sure as hell things weren't as bad as this when I was in my twenties".  As much as I have suffered a downgrade in my style of living over the past twenty years- - I was for a moment feeling guilty about taking tax money from one of these people David Cruise was talking about today- making an effort to succeed.

I was picking up vibes of "someone out there -alive or dead" who feels they got a royal screwing from their Record Company.  I've seen documentary movies about artists who get exploited by record producers.  I happened to think of Mary Wells.  She began putting out single 45's in 1960 but landed her first big hit in early 1962 when she signed with Motown.  She continued to have a string of top twenty hits in the next two years and finally hit Number One with "My Guy" in May of 1964 knocking the Beatles out of the number one position they had hogged for months.  But then something funny happened.  She began to be slighted and she accused the head of MoTown, I guess that would be Barry Gordy, of promoting newer groups such as the Supremes.  Up to the first half of 1964 the Supremes had one minor hit that came and went.  But now that Mary Walls seemed to be passed over- - it's as if Dianna Ross and the Supremes sucked out all of her power and charisma - - and from then on it was the Supremes that had all the number one hits.  Mary Wells continued to hang in there.  She apparently tried to exploit the connection she had with the Beatles.  John Lennon said that she was his favorite American woman artist- - but strangely the Beatles never did a cover track of any Mary Wells song on any album.  In her later years at 1990 approached she got cancer and for a while was in remission.  Her old colligues from MoTown rallied around her and even gave her moral support in some of the legal suits she was waging.  (David Cruise says legal suits are the lazy man's way to go)  But the cancer came back and it did her in and she died in late July of 1992.  I guess I remember that period as the one in which Ross Perot had decided he would end his run as President.  He was another of those people whom the Media had suddenly turned against starting about mid June of 1992 for inexplicable reasons, so far as I can see.  The way I see it "The media did it because they CAN".

You know- - when you look at Congress and how all else may be sacrificed but dare you tamper with so much of one day of our vast scheduled vacation time.  Congress seems to be on vacation this well WELL over half the time.  The trick is to find some time when they are actually in session doing their jobs, and having committee hearings and holding votes and horse trading with their colligues- - the way normal politicians of old do.  They don't even care.  They just want to take our money and retire to their summer homes or travel overseas.  Apparently now the inmates are controling the Assylum both in Texas and in California.  Because- - in both states there were scheduled prosecutions of White Racist terrorist organizations.  I guess the Aryan Brotherhood in Texas has become a major drug running cartel, and of course now their Attorney in Rodney Dangerfield style says "My clients ain't getting no respect for just how powerful they ARE".  (?)  But in Florida there was a massive government investigation in Ociola County there where this massive terrorist conspiracy was uncovered and fourteen people were scheduled to be prosecuted and the trial was to start this week.  But then at the last minute the government dropped virtually all conspiracy charges without reason.  I haven't read up much on this but you can beat me to it and read it for yourselves.  It's so funny that when Romney was running for President- - how President Obama was accused of not doing his job because of course we covered up those four US deaths in Libya and all and didn't you know if college grads were having trouble getting employment- - it was all President Obama's fault.  I chafed at this statement knowing that in any other situation students or anybody not with money would be accused of "Playing the victim" if things didn't go their way.  But Mitt Romney would have President Obama be the repository for any grudge of any kind you've had in the past four years.  Nobody was talking about pollution or global warming.  Nobody was talking about the "path to citizenship" for people now in limbo status.  Nobody was talking about gun poliferation in this country.  Given how poorly the President ran his campaign last fall and how limp wristed his defenses were- - it's a wonder how he won reelection at all.  But I'll tell you it was a hall of a lot closer than liberals would ever admit.

You know -  there are just too many SECRETS AND LIES.  Now we go to fiction where nothing is supposed to be Real, but one has some kind of expectations that what you see dramatized on the TV screen is at least - - Plausable.  You have Nick Fallon- - and frankly I am ready to abandon my "never say die" stance on this guy.  I've been saying stuff like to keep a stiff upper lip and stay the course and stick with the game plan.  But now I'm throwing in the towel.  Here is a guy without a friend in the world and Enemies everywhere he looks.  If I were he I'd look at my own Bride and see someone whose support was wavering and at worst is secretly in love with the biological father of her unborn child, but is too coy to come out and admit it.  You have Kristine di Mira who is being blackmailed now by one of the thugs she hired in a true case of "The chickens coming home to roost".  Then we have Clowie.  Dr. Daniel Jonas comes home and calls for his one time wife almost frantically eager to talk to her, and she strolls in cool calm and collected and says "homey, you seem a little agitated.  Besides I thought you were in San Francisco this week" and he goes "I've been trying to reach you for hours.  Don't you ever answer your phone?" and she goes "Oh darling, I was just having a little Me time at the spa.  There's nothing wrong with that, is there?"  But as upsetting as Clowie's lies were I was more personally rattled by Jennifer's lies.  Because there it hits home.  You have these Christians playing the Morality card.  They will say "I don't date' or "I can't date you" or talk about being a virgin on their wedding night.  Or there is crap about how 'it takes a year to get over a former relationship" and the lies go on and on.  And I've heard this same sort of shit from Christians for over forty years and I've gotten more than a little sick of it.  They'll put the whole thing on you that they've somehow turned around on a dime- - and don't see it as the least unusual- - and you're too much of a dolt not to know beyond a doubt that every word passing out of their lips is a complete and total lie.  The thing is that Clowie was able to gauge her response in advance and she was completely correct.  (Maybe they should hire her at NASA or the CIA)  Clowie is someone who can look at you with those big innocent eyes being genuinely concerned that somehow- - you don't regard every word as though it came from Mt Sinai itself.