12 August 2022

Protect Our Children-Keep Cell Phones Away from Children and Teens!

Don’t blame the children! Don’t blame the young people for their behavior! Blame the adults and mostly blame technology. Sure you are supposed to be 18 to visit a porn site, but are there really any safeguards to prevent kids from viewing porn? And I started with the worst thing, but I’m sure social media isn’t good for kids. It’s not really even good for adults-at least in my opinion. Smart phones have made us all dumber. The way our society works is, technology and discipline have made Tom Brady have a great football career. And maybe made him even better. But all the people watching football on tv have gotten dumber, lazier, and fatter because of the technology we have.

We need to protect our kids and our young people from technology. If I try to use arguments to prove that technology is bad. Here me out on this one. Technology is the reason we are all fatter. Between tv, air conditioning, and central heat, our bodies don’t need to work as hard to regulate our temperature-warm blooded people, and we move less than we used to move- a lot less. So technology has made us fatter, and our lives worse because of it. Think Diabetes or just morbidly obese people.

We are dumber because of technology. Sure we have all the facts, but technology makes things too easy for us. And fine, adults can use smart phones and look at porn. But kids should not. We should make sure they don’t have access to these devices, that make our lives easy and make us dumb and lazy.

Ok, maybe just lazy, but let’s protect our young people from social media and porn. Let’s ban smart phones for those under 18, but at the same time, not spend any money on enforcing this law! (Get my drift…. So, it’s a law, that schools can enforce, but not law enforcement agency. We don’t know what goes on inside a home and that’s fine. But we need to protect young people from bad things. And I don’t think we-as a society and country- are doing a very good job of it!

Ban smart phones to those under 18!

Sincerely,

GCNOF

06 August 2022

Stand Up to Trump

 

Stand up to Trump

I totally understand why Trump has power. Because of fear. People are afraid, when they get death threats. Crazy people send death threats. Trump supporters, almost by definition, are crazy or at the least not very rational thinkers in some ways. You've got to assume that at least 1 in 1000 Trump Supporters would send death threats. Maybe 1 in 500,000 from someone randomly drawn from the entire population. Agree with those numbers? Too low? Too high? I don't know people that send death threats, but I know they get sent.

So not only would you get a bunch of death threats, Trump is also connected to Russia. And the Russians are really good at the whole killing the opposition peoples. So, you’d get death threats from crazy Trump supports with the Russia know-how to kill people very skillfully and creatively. I can’t think of any reason, why you shouldn’t be afraid to stand up to Trump from this logic.

For the one in twelve: Fantasy Football and Mental Health Hotline

For the One in Twelve

Are you a professional athlete with stress? You feel there is too much pressure on you to perform? You must love fantasy sports then. Where people make money on your performance, benefitting from all the work you put in, just by drafting you on their team.

In Football, every week, about 1 in 12 fantasy players want you to have game of your life. (and 1 in 12 really want you to lay an egg). But I think we can all come together on this issue. Well maybe we can’t. 11 in 12 of every fantasy football players are happy you got in a car accident, drove drunk, got injured, got arrested, can’t perform at your best for whatever reason. Because you aren’t on their team.

Only your fantasy owners care about you. 1 in 12. .0833, 8.33% of the fantasy population. The numbers actually say, because of fantasy, way more people are rooting against you, than for you. Sorry about that!!

But here, we have compassion, and let you know that even though only 1 in 12 fantasy players are really rooting for your success, as a role model, we ask you to please live responsibly and make sure to keep your body in shape, no injuries this season.

I would raise money so that the fantasy players can help the professional players with mental health issues, but that’s like asking the poor to give to the rich. And I know you are not like Donald Trump. He’s one of a kind! Thankfully!!!

So instead, I’ve created a hotline. Actually, I haven’t one has already been created.

Are you a professional athlete needing advice or stuck in pickle? Feeling like you might go up to 126 mph when you drive your car? Drunk a lot and thinking you’ll get behind the wheel? Having thoughts of dragging your wife into the elevator? Taking a stick to your kid? Hitting your wife? Taking more painkillers than you really need? Speeding reckless until your car crashes into someone, needlessly ending their life, cause you are an ass?

Please don’t. Call 988, the new mental health hotline. Save your season! For the 1 in 12! (12 teams are generally in one fantasy league, hence the 1 in 12 for fantasy football.)

Ok. Reading this. I realize that the suicide hotline, might not be the right number to call. Are you a professional athlete that is worthy of being on a fantasy team? (Sorry Craig Breslow. but appreciate your charity philanthropy work!)

Think you are going to make a bad decision. Call. 1-800-DO-RIGHT 1-800-367-4448 or 1-800-NO-WRONG 1-800-669-7664. Operators are standing by. Use your credit card and pay extra to talk to one of models, otherwise you'll probably be talking to a fantasy football player (male).

 Let us help you to call an Uber or remind you to just get out an take a walk. (make sure you identify yourself as an professional athlete upon being approached, let's not have another Travon Martin situation, as you walk to cool off (emotionally) in your gated community). 

Picking between two girls, and they are not into a ménage a trois. One of our fantasy studs will come and meet you, so you can pawn off the uglier one. Though no guarantees, some women are weird (self-loathing) and won't actually want to date a professional athlete. (They do, they just don't, don't ask questions, but even accountants need dates! So thank you professional athletes for not taking all the women!). 

05 August 2022

Financial Advice related to Financial Advisors. From yours truly!

“Reading articles on the internet (Yahoo Finance/Marketplace). I’ve lost 20%, or I’ve lost $70,000 in the market this year. Should I fire my financial advisor?”

No, you are a moron. It is better you are not managing your own money! If you knew the market is down 20% this year, you wouldn’t have asked the question. Everyone, ok almost everyone, is down about 20% this year. Most people know why and don’t blame their financial advisor! 

Keep your head in the sand, where it belongs!! (in response to your money in the market, especially money managed by someone else)!! Let your financial advisor do their job, assuming you did a good job of vetting them in the first place.

I’m down 20% too. The only difference is I don’t pay a fee to someone else to manage my money.

-GCNOF