Love the idea or hate the idea.. We have been talking about it as a future shock possibility for years. A time when robotics have taken over the manufacturing and service economies..
I have a strange and silly notion that the wage floor could actually be quite a positive thing. Maybe that’s the part of me that actually does see glasses half full from time to time..
Imagine a future where your safety net is there.. Where you can produce things you want to? Work where you to? Be who you want to be.. All with a set wage floor.
And where the absence of such a floor wild lead to a revolution, panic on streets, and mass violence and chaos due to an ever changing economic platform that leaves millions (if not more) without work..?
A wage floor vs the ….the possibility .. Which would you prefer?
The park is in my back yard, almost literally..We get there as many times a year as we can. This year, with my son Ayden being 5 and going on 25 in his intelligence, he has finally opened his world up to more there.. The rides. The kfun. The kfanstasy. The kfood? Well he is still a bit picky..
But seriously.. let me just say: Knoebels may be the single happiest, best, and most amazing place on earth.
The little secret 90 years young, tucked away in the mountains of the coal region, is quite possibly the only place on earth where I forget troubles for a bit… where life as it is – out there – is on hold.
You can ride rides. If you want. Play golf. Maybe. Eat food. Whichever.. get soaking wet.. or just drive a slow train into the woods …
Whatever. The floor is yours.
I sort of am half and half… I want to tell the world how amazing Knoebels is. But also , sometimes, just keep it a secret …
But the secret is out.
Knoebels. IT’S THE PLACE TO BE IN THE NEW CENTURY.
There may be a large amount of people who proclaim that Trump cannot win in November. But consider, many of those same people said he would not win the primaries.
In Britain, many voices said that Johnson could not win. And that the Brexit vote would not happen.
See a pattern?
Picture a future state dinner with two men from New York leading their respective nations. Picture them both with intensely bad hair.
The world is going through a monumental sea change in 2016.
James Wan and Peter Safran are producing the ‘Conjuring" spinoff. Miranda Otto has boarded Annabelle 2, New Line’s sequel to its 2014 horror hit.
David Sandberg is directing the spinoff to New Line’s Conjuring franchise that has stewards James Wan and Peter Safran producing.
The script by Gary Dauberman tells of a dollmaker and his wife who, 20 years after the tragic death of their little girl, welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home. Soon, however, the nun and the girls become the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle.
The Supreme Court deadlocked Thursday on President Barack Obama’s immigration plan that sought to shield millions living in the U.S. illegally from deportation, effectively killing the plan for the rest of his presidency.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A masked man with a gun and ammunition belt opened fire in a cinema complex in the small western German town of Viernheim, near Frankfurt, injuring between 20 and 50 people and barricaded himself inside, German media reported on Thursday. Bild daily and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that elite police were on their way to the scene.
15-year-old Alabama girl had to be rescued by firefighters after she got her head stuck inside a giant Barney costume in a prank gone wrong.
Darby Risner said she wanted to scare her friends with the oversized Barney head when they came downstairs. She managed to scare her friends, but in an unexpected way.
Risner ended up stuck inside the Barney head, she told WVTM-TV
A good history lesson.. June 21 is the day in history when Schuylkill County Pa saw an enormous and horrible scenario develop.. One that changed history.
The area where this occurred is filled with history .. Today is one of those days.
Let me first say I sort of despise tofu.. I have been delved deep into the ‘veg’ diet for some time.. I have turned it into a lifestyle and am partially vegan–partially turkey and chicken eater, along with occasional fish. I have 1 meat day a week. And even with that meat day, I have been weening myself off more and more without much fanfare. The more you stop eating meat the less you’ll want it or need it.
I tried a low carb KETO diet for about three days. I may end it.. I got the KETOSIS FLU. A weak body and low energy level. I felt much better and healthier eating carbs in moderation with high amounts of vegetables, fruits, and good fats.
That all being said, I have really been trying to like tofu. Tofu, after all, is the perfect substitute. If only it didn’t taste like a wet sponge that has been soaking in dishwater, I may actually appreciate it. I envy those who brag that they can eat it, wet, right from the package. Not even preparation needed.. No, just a big sloppy glob of the nastiest material on earth.
But tonight, I made BBQ tofu in the oven, topped with green onions and hot and sweet peppers. It was edible. My wife enjoyed it more than me. My son turned his head in disgust–but he does that with lots of food.
Tofu.
Soy.. That is the problem.
I hear so many adverse things about soy–stop eating it, it will create breasts in men and increase female producing hormones we are told. But tofu, from what I see, is typically eaten by people awful thin and both men and women who seem to not incur the wrath of large breasts from too much estrogen..
I am really really trying to like tofu. I know eventually, say maybe a year from now, I will look back at this post and laugh at how I did not like the ‘Soylent Green’ of the vegan lifestyle. Or not.. Maybe I will just stick to dousing the product in endless amounts of undoubtedly high MSG-leveled BBQ sauce. The only good news is that the BBQ was high fructose free!
But not soy free, ironically. Nor was the plate.. Lurking below the tasty goodness of GMO free barbecue? Flaccid, nasty, gross tofu. Getting to know it is the toughest thing one can do.
