Saturday, February 22, 2025

A diary of commentary on our current predicament - February, 2025


2025


February 22


Dear Efficiency Department Agents,

The American people require a weekly report on your work in the following areas:

1) Reasons for termination of every employee

2) Impact statement of the consequences of the firings regarding services that will no longer be provided by those terminated 

3) assurances that all lost services will be restored with a detailed list of target dates, including a guarantee that newly hired replacements will be fully qualified for their positions. 

4) a report about the possible Constitutional limits to your work. 

5) Mandatory listening to online testimony from employees you have terminated, followed by an apology note to each person.  Please provide a detailed list of notes composed and sent. 

Thank you.


February 22


Hey, folks in charge, why do you think that every woman or person of color in a leadership position is a DEI hire?  Maybe they were the best qualified people, a result of meritocracy!  Stop firing them!


February 19


The attack that began this war and all that ensued is a human tragedy.  Taking this family and others on 10/7/2023 was unnecessary and has led us down a road that did not need to be traversed in the midst of this decades-long conflict (centuries, perhaps).  May their memories be for blessing, and may peace, somehow, still be a reachable destination.


February 19


Frauds looking for fraud will claim that there is fraud where there isn’t fraud to try to prove that they aren’t frauds or to try to impress their fellow frauds.


February 19


(I HAD VERY LITTLE FUN WRITING THIS, EXCEPT THAT IT REINFORCES MY BELIEF IN THE ORIGINAL TEXT)


A revised translation of Exodus 23:1-9 for diabolical authoritarian leaders, whose bible took a somewhat expected turn. (See the original below) 


1) Spread falsehoods and play fast and loose with the truth, and while you are at it, join with your fellow felons or potential felons to skew testimony in court with evil intentions. 

2) Persuade your followers to side with you because of your power and influence, and encourage them and your allies, as well as your attorneys, to fashion testimony and arguments before a judge that will favor lies over truth. 

3) Always show favor in treatment and in court to the more powerful person. 

4 and 5) Show no respect or consideration to your enemy, whether from the “enemy within,” reporters from the media outlets you despise, or people with whom you disagree, who deserve no mercy from you, only retribution. 

6). There are no poor people, just undeserving individuals who aren’t as lucky as you.  Treat them without respect, and that includes people whom you have dismissed from jobs en masse. 

7)  Don’t worry if you have been accused of fraud; your fixer will get you out of it.  And if someone else takes the blame for you, whether or not they were involved, make that false charge stick, even if it destroy’s that person’s life and livelihood without reason or evidence. 

8 ) Offer as many bribes as you can to get your way, and zero in on recipients who will allow you to do exactly what you want, even if it violates a law. 

9)  There are no strangers, only people who came here illegally and don’t belong here. Even if your parents or grandparents were immigrants, it doesn’t matter.  In fact, cover up that part of your story. And treat people whom you consider different with as much derision as possible.   


THE REAL THING - THAT SOME OF US STLL BELIEVE 

Exodus 23:1-9

1] You must not carry false rumors; you shall not join hands with the guilty to act as a malicious witness: [2] You shall neither side with the mighty to do wrong - you shall not give perverse testimony in a dispute so as to pervert it in favor of the mighty, [3] nor shall you show deference to a poor man in his dispute. [4] When you encounter your enemy's ox or donkey wandering, you must take it back to him. [5] When you see the donkey of your enemy lying under its burden and would refrain from raising it, you must nevertheless raise it with him. [6] You shall not subvert the rights of your needy in their disputes.   [7] Keep far from a false charge; do not bring death on the innocent and the righteous, for I will not acquit the wrongdoer.  [8] Do not take bribes, for bribes blind the clear-sighted and upset the pleas of the just. [9] You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.


February 15

Visiting a concentration camp one day does not excuse meeting with the head of a Neo-Nazi party soon after.   The latter shows that the former taught not one lesson to the American political leader in question.

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