De-Vice

De-Vice-to lose ones vice. Hence it needs to be so with our new found wonderland of interconnected, real time, HD, bluetooth  accessible, WiFi infiltrated, 5G kill grid, overamplified cell phone tower installations and all other weaponized platforms to put an end to humanity.

Turn off your blue light function on your cell phone. Lose the wireless routher. Go ethernet cable.

Turning 50?

Welcome I say, Welcome...I am 53 so I believe I am well versed in this topic and have some insights to share with you.

The first thing is - don't worry - at least your not turning 60! You will now have a much finer and refined perception of everyone who is only one year older than you. Your mind will tell you, "....shit, he or she is older than me..! what a relief!.." The realm of 50 somethings is akin to the teenage years whereby every year seems like a drastic difference and everyone is immediately judged as to their age status. This is normal in the human condition. It sucks, but it's normal.

You will sense a wide chasm, an abyss if you will, between you and everyone under the age of 30. They will appear as alien shape-shifters from another dimension that not only cannot be understood but they are always wrong, don't know shit and most likely need to be put sternly in their place. Hatred is a very strong word however these feelings will arise, once again, perfectly normal and it does suck.

Knowing that you are know officially 'Over the Hill' and closer to retirement age than your care free 30's is a heavy realization. You will feel a sense of mortality creeping in. Is there a God? Is there life after death? What happens when I die...? How long will I live?....Did I refill that statin prescription..? Man I hope I don't end up with some hideous incurable disease and lose all sense of motor and bowel control... These as well as an abundance of other questions and concerns will have you pondering your fate and ultimate demise. Enjoy!

Time is a curious thing and we all know it seems to move faster the older you get. Realize this- it doesn't only seem to move faster - it actually does! When you are one year old, one year is 100% of your life. When you are 5 years old, one year is 20% of your life. Do the math. When you are 50, one year is 1/50th of your life and so on and so on. Time really is moving faster for you now, embrace the accelerated ride to your death!

Has your vision gotten better? Probably not. This is the situation with all of us 50 somethings. Where are my damned glasses!? I thought I left them over here..wait a second, they're over here! Feel good that your memory is not yet completely shot to hell. You need to begin to embrace the little victories like finding your glasses, not feeling hungover and having some form of financial stability. It is all you have left.

Remember when birthdays were fun and care free? Not anymore. Your head will drop down a little, you will try not to think about it and maybe even curse people that send you birthday cards- especially if they are younger than you. Birthdays are just another reminder of how little time you have left to live.

The above listed mental aberrations can be offset in a surprising number of ways. First off, realize that you are now completely free to speak your mind to anyone, anytime about anything, for you are over 50 and officially don't give a rats ass about what anyone thinks or feels. Be thankful that you were raised in an internet free, pre-digital world. There are many advantages to this. You were more active , learned to speak to people and look them in the eye. You developed a keener sense of intuition and can smell bullshit a mile away. You know what it was like to have to go to a library, check out a book, write a check and probably have developed a strong work ethic, unlike your poor bastard under 30 clueless idiots. Moving out of your parents house was seen as an obligation around age 18 or 20, not a fear -ridden drudgery whereby you clinged to mom and dads house until you are 26 and have no sense of purpose other than useless texting and no ambition.

Privacy, in all of its forms is probably important to you. People under 30 don't even know what it is. They willfully give up all vestiges of it to post meaningless bullshit on twitter and Facebook just to be better surveilled, classified and watched by the NSA and their cronies. They are truly some stupid M'er F'ers..You will feel a sick joy in this fact. F'em, they are on their own.

The best thing about turning 50 and beyond is that you begin to dispense with the meaningless trivialities of life. The real important stuff like family, interpersonal relationships, and letting go of the unnecessary become paramount and this is a good thing. Enjoy your new found freedom to be the Natural Person you were born to be. Now the fun starts....

A Chaos of Clocks

Daylight Saving Time changes have never been about saving fuel or helping farmers. The idea was first introduced by a man named William Willet in 1905 in England whereby he lobbied for an extra 80 minutes of time between the months of April and October so more people could enjoy plentiful sunlight. He published a brochure called "The Waste of Daylight" espousing his idea and died in 1915 never seeing it come to fruition.

We owe the insanity of unnatural time changes to the Germans during WW II to try and conserve electricity. Britain followed soon thereafter. After the national repeal in 1919, some states and cities, including New York City and Chicago, continued to shift their clocks. National daylight saving time returned during World War II, but after its repeal three weeks after war’s end the confusing hodgepodge resumed. States and localities could start and end daylight saving whenever they pleased, a system that Time magazine (an aptly named source) described in 1963 as “a chaos of clocks.” In 1965 there were 23 different pairs of start and end dates in Iowa alone, and St. Paul, Minnesota, even began daylight saving two weeks before its twin city, Minneapolis. Passengers on a 35-mile bus ride from Steubenville, Ohio, to Moundsville, West Virginia, passed through seven time changes. In 1966, the Uniform Time Act was passed which standardized daylight saving time from

the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October, although states had the option of remaining on standard time year-round.

All of the above ridiculousness and uncertainty proves the fact that we do not need nor do we benefit from Daylight Saving Time. "Springing Forward" has actually been proven to damage peoples health. 

More Heart Attacks

Being tired can decrease productivity, concentration, and general well-being. Studies have found that setting the clocks forward for spring increases the risk of heart attacks, road accidents, and sleep problems:

• A Swedish study in 2008 found that the risk of having a heart attack increases in the first three days after switching to DST in the spring.
• Traffic accidents increase on the Monday following the start of DST. Tired drivers are the main reason.

Depression Trigger

Losing 1 hour of afternoon daylight after setting the clocks back to standard time can trigger seasonal depressions like Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) or winter depression. A Danish study found an 11% increase in depression cases during after the seasonal change. The cases dissipated gradually after 10 weeks.

However, when it comes to car crashes and DST, there were less accidents after switching back to standard time, probably due to another hour sleep.

Disrupts the Body Clock

• It can feel a little harder to get out of bed on Monday morning after springing forward 1 hour on the Sunday morning.
• It may be difficult to get to bed at the normal time on Sunday night after the start of DST.
• Children may feel tired and cranky for several days after an hour's change in their bedtime routines.

Daylight Saving Time needs to be done away for the health and prosperity of the nation. It is useless, harmful and downright annoying. No one enjoys "Springing Forward" and there is no benefit derived from it. We must end this chaos of clocks foisted on us by the German war machine and rely only upon our natural bio-rythym to tell us what time it really is.

$10,000 for the Mayors Radio Show

Mr Nobile - 

Thank you for not falling victim to the groupthink mentality of the Palm Coast City Council by voting against, (4-1), the mayors $10,000 expenditure for a radio show.

We live in an age of laterally scaled, freely distributed , interactive media via facebook, twitter, youtube, instagram and other collaborative sites. No one listens to am radio in Palm Coast, I can't even when I try, because I live in the L section.

That money could have gone toward street lighting, maintaining the new Old kings Road extension in the L section which is wildly overgrown or any number of other things to directly help the community.

If this is the way this new mayor rolls, she won't last long,

Best Regards,

Zarathruster

Don't Ask

If you have a question, think twice before asking. Questions are great opportunities for the person being asked to flaunt their perceived superiority over you.  They love it and you can see the sarcasm and superior attitude begin to formulate on their face right after the question is asked. This is their way of affirming their status and speaking down to you. It is a petty power play to make them feel superior in their minds to the person asking the question.

Delays and not answering are also tactics of the feeble minded to try and get under your skin. They know damned well that the question is simple and can be dispensed of in a matter of seconds however they prefer to delay, not answer and pretend the question was not asked. This increases their perceived superiority.

Another tactic is to throw the question back at you and ask you for an answer that you do not have. This tactic is used when a manager wants to put an employee in their place. The employees asks “… hey – can you take a look at this proposal and let me know what you think? Them manager responds with,
well, what do you think?” Answering a question with a question is a well-worn tactic. Examples of this are “..well ,what is the real question?”  This type of answer pre-supposes a motive behind the question that is not being presented indicating lack of trust and an expectation of ulterior motives and dishonesty in the original question.

Asking a ‘higher up’ or in this case, the attorney about what other roles and responsibilities she might have in the organization other than contracts can also get you questioned. This will be seen as an affront and an insult to the attorney. How dare you ask her about what other activities or tasks she has! How dare you speak to her at all! You will be confronted with “I heard you asked the attorney about what else she does..” “She took that as an insult about her capability…”   Good, I thought. If she’s that mentally weak, maybe her capability is lacking.

The biggest problem with all of this cloak and dagger, smoke and mirrors chess game of asking a simple question is the culture of distrust and negativity it breeds in the people that run a company, its managers and employees.  Lower rung employees instantly glom onto the preferred method of answering questions with a question, deflecting and becoming obtuse and sarcastic. Before you know it, the entire staff is a miserable, aloof and confrontational bunch whose presence you cannot stand while the mere sight of them makes you want to take the stairs instead of the elevator.

Attorneys

Should we all bow down and worship the ground attorneys walk on? Does an individual become a demi-god when they become an attorney? You would think that they do based on their superior , holier - than - thou attitudes toward the lowly non- attorneys in the world.

Ever notice that attorneys NEVER call you back or respond to you as other people would in the normal non attorney world? I should just send a letter of apology to every attorney in the state , apologizing for not being an attorney and existing in the same mortal plane as them. Is the attorneys status one of Overlord and Alpha-Omega in the human realm? Are we even allowed to speak to them without their express consent? Next time I pass an attorney in the hallway I will simply get on my knees and shield my mortal eyes from them. I certainly don't want to upset them, for they hold the keys to life, death and your income within our existence.

When having to work with an attorney at your company ,you might find that THEY are the ones that call the shots, make the decisions and determine your income and ability to succeed. Not the President of the company, not the CEO and certainly not a manager or a VP - its the attorney that decides. When communicating with the attorney ,(if you are allowed that privilege), by all means be as direct as possible and make sure your communication is absolutely perfect - or you will have hell to pay. If they ask you for help with a particular definition or nuance of a company description, you better make sure you get it right! If you don't, you will be summarily chastised, scolded and berated in the permanent record of a legal document. Then you will be scolded again if you email them but do not properly upload the correction in the exact place of the document even though it was an informal request. They determine reality! It is not the normal reality we are used to - it is Attorney Reality - which changes as they see fit and will be lorded over you every chance they get.  God help you if you have to submit a one sentence clarification and a change of a number of usernames which is really no big deal and easily approved by management. The attorney will sit on this 30 second change for 3-5 days before deciding whether or not your deal will be approved. It is their nature to continually lord over you and control as much of your income , destiny and sanity as possible. 

Do not ever ask the attorney a question outside of your exacting definition of your role within an organization. You will be quickly told, "..you are not allowed to know that.." and "..I can't answer that question, you are not supposed to be asking that.."as though we are 5 year olds and need a spanking. The Attorney Reality follows them as they waltz through the halls of your building with superior stares and lofty looks. They truly believe that they are above the common rabble! Their belief is that they are Gods among men! I believe that their lack of response and time delays for simple one word changes in contracts is due to them justifying their existence and perpetuating Attorney Reality on all unsuspecting non- attorneys. Just like the Shamans in ancient villages that danced around the fire in colorful tribal headdress and paint and wailed for hours under the influence of hallucinogenic plants - the attorneys do the same by delaying, waiting and generally not communicating with the common folk. Their lack of communication and unbearable delays are their shamanic ritual to let you know that THEY are in charge, they determine reality and only they can provide the solutions!
It is truly a demented and twisted way to make a living., for it is based on delay, trickery and lofty perceptions of regular people that happen to have passed the bar and now call themselves attorneys. 

Shamanic ceremonies end in a catharsis of the shaman as he twists and turns and takes on the spirits to determine a better outcome for the village, the attorney is no different. His mind twists and turns over the obvious and simple and he or she makes a big deal out of sitting down and reading a document which he or she will eventually sign off on in a week or so, this is their dance and catharsis they perform for all unwitting non attorneys. They just want to make sure that you believe you are getting your moneys worth, hence the delay, the wrangling and all the drama leading up to a 30 second decision that they know can be completed quickly. Without the delay, the dance and the cathartic act of signing off on a trivial detail to a contract, how else would the attorney be able to prove his or her status of demi-god amongst men?   They need the drama, the shamanic ceremony and the cathartic act of signing which we are so happy to finally get that we continue worshiping the self appointed demi-gods as the village elders of our time when in reality they are nothing more than overpaid shills perpetuating a false reality and an overblown ego.

Beating Back the Bastards

Most people have had those moments of little victories that defend their day and gave them fleeting hope of justice in the universe. Institutions and corporations both private, state or federal that overstep their bounds in one's personal life are truly in need of a correction and at times an old fashioned beat down. These wannabe overlords will drain you of your income and deprive you of your liberty if you don't know your rights as a Natural Person, free upon the land.

The next time an electric company, in this case, FPL, demands a deposit of $400 for being late on your electric bill twice in a year, please do tell them to pound sand and F off. Ask to speak to one of their executives and simply quote chapter and verse of the Sherman Anti Trust Act that states that no company shall act as a monopoly thereby eliminating your choice of power provider and hold you hostage for a needless additional $400 deposit. They will begin grovelling at this point and offer you no deposit and better terms. They know they are bastards.

When a state authority such as the Florida Dept of Insurance sends you a letter in all caps threatening the STATE OF FLORIDA VS YOU demanding $5000 or license suspension and a 3rd degree felony over a vague charge, do not comply. If you've done nothing wrong tell them and refuse their demands. Unless they have ironclad evidence of wrongdoing they have nothing. People pay out of shear fear of the document however that's all it is, a document - meant to intimidate and shake you down for your cash. The bastards of the state have no concern for you except as a potential blood-bag taxpayer serf to be drained.

If you ever have to deal with Child Protective Services you are in for a real treat when you do. These people are not only bastards but jackals as well. Expect them to 'interview' your children behind your back while they are at school, violating their constitutional rights as well as yours. You can also expect them to send no-nothing dullards to your home that have not even read the case file they are showing up about. When this happens ask them directly "Have you read the case file?" When they answer "..no, I haven't had time to yet.. " Let them know they are incompetent and tell them to leave your home. Repeat their incompetence to them and let them know that they are not only in dereliction duty but they are now presenting a clear and present danger to you and your children. Hopefully they will tear up and start to cry as you forcibly eject them from your premises. Attorneys will refuse to deal with the 'hybrid' court of Children and Family Services, do no let this detract you from letting these idiots know they are bastards and they need to be beaten back.

The best $750 I ever spent was to pay an attorney to get a $5000 alleged debt dismissed after the company demanding payment was a third party debt collector that bought the debt for pennies on the dollar.These low life scum bastards are the real bottom feeders in society. The company that wrote off the debt and sold it to the third party hyenas was bailed out by the federal government. I had no moral compunction to pay, where was my bailout?

Out of control megalomaniac "bosses" in the work place need a good beating when they ride you like a mule with micromanagement and downright ignorance. Simply keep a record of all of their late night emails, insulting innuendos and threats. Make sure all communications are time date stamped and put them into a cogent document that their bosses can read when you leave. When leaving the corporation, make sure you get all of your back pay, then send the document to their bosses boss and know that you have done everything you can to beat back the bastard boss that thought he had you down. The pen is mightier than the sword and chances are he will have to answer for his transgressions.

Beating back the bastards might not change the world but at least you know you did your part to make it a better place.