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Thursday, July 6, 2023

"Help wanted signs and how Biden could cement his legacy..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #351)

 

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  
and amongst things is a satirist.
Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i.
                                                                                
                      
                                            Sunrise/Weather Photos, July- 2023
                                         These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now
                   Blog #2105~Kimo's world #351                                         
      Help wanted signs and how Biden could cement his legacy 

The generation of participation trophies and not being spanked has grown up and they

all seem to want to start at the top and be CEOs. Many are not working and live in their parent's basements and mother-in-law suites if allowed.

On Kauai, this is also the generation of over 33 valedictorians to a class of 258. You heard me right. It always amazes me every June when I read of the Valedictorian and it's not one person but a group of people. How can a group

of 30 or more people be the smartest? This is another extreme example of the participation trophy concept. This helps explains why a good percentage of young people are not working when so many think they were the smartest in their class when in essence there can only be one smartest.

Along with folks getting

used to all the many benefits of COVID for food and rent assistance and working at home, people just plain and simply don't want to go to a regular job anymore even though the pandemic is behind us.

I am noticing more and more businesses asking folks to download their apps if they have

a smartphone to save themselves and their employees much-needed time since most of the employees are now doing the work of two to three people.

Customers are afraid to send undercooked and incorrect food items back when eating at a restaurant for fear that the employees will be offended and quit or deliver their new meal with ex-lax or spit in it.
Employers will not fire their help, even terrible help, because they cannot find help, they figure, anything is better than nothing.

We are now trained and

accustomed to not complaining when there are long lines or long waits because we may get reprimanded for how hard they have it and how they're all working double shifts just to serve us. Nobody wants to be shamed. 

Self-checkout is now the norm in Big-Box, Grocery-stores, and discount stores. Fast food restaurants now encourage you to order on their apps to speed up service and not bother with their counter help. Amazon and Walmart.com are now the norms for shopping versus having human interchange. A manager at Costco told me very soon Costco will have a kiosk in their food court where you place your own order, and pay on a credit or debit card and your order will be waiting for you at the counter. Since the consumer is doing so much of the work shouldn't we get a discount or at least be invited to the employee Christmas party?

It won't be long before

robots and apps replace all the help in America, unless of course the illegal immigrants are denied welfare and housing and forced to work as what was once the American way.

Maybe it's time to make lemonade out of the lemons since the Mexican border is out of control with record numbers of illegal crossings, just maybe these illegals can help solve the work situation which is in despair.

Just maybe Biden could

cement his legacy with a 'Biden Doctrine' which to me would help make him a legitimate president by solving the work situation by putting illegal immigrants to work in lieu of giving them free housing and food and making America prosper again!

Should anyone get free housing let it be the houseless veterans who have served our great country, not those who came here illegally.

May God bless America!
'A Hawaiian Garden/Banana Spider
photographed on one of my recent walks'

Hana Hou!(Encore)




Thursday, June 29, 2023

"Trump and the media..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #350)


James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  
and amongst things is a satirist.
Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i.
                                                                                
                       

                                       Sunrise/Weather Photos, June- 2023
                                            These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now
        Blog #2104~Kimo's world #350                                         
                 Trump and the media

Trump, Trump, Trump, the media 
still don’t get it.

The first question of any potential presidential candidate of either party is always about Donald Trump. 

The national news opens each evening newscast with news on the former POTUS. 

Even my favorite periodical (TGI) frequently runs national Op-Eds and political cartoons on 45. 

Trump has many times quoted the infamous PT Barnum quote, “There is no such thing as bad publicity!”
Keeping your name out there,

name recognition whether good or bad means people are talking and remembering you.  Trump speaks of this method of winning and making money numerous times in his books. 

If the “Fake News Media" really wanted Trump to disappear and not become President again they’d quit talking about him and stop making everything about him, in fact, that's exactly how he won in 2016.

The cable news and fake news both know Trump sells and won’t let it go.
Like it or not, good or bad, Trump is a ratings magnet and that translates to dollar signs.

 Ironically, should it happen, many of the media will all wonder how Trump got elected again. It’s all because of them.

It seems the media is not only fake, they're really not all that smart.  

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
 
Hana Hou!(Encore)


Sunday, April 30, 2023

"Rest in love and peace my best friend..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #349)


James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  
and amongst things is a satirist.
Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i.
                                                                                
                          
                                       Sunrise/Weather Photos, May- 2023
                                            These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now
   Blog #2103~Kimo's world #349                                         
Rest in love and peace my best friend

I had 15 wonderful years with my service dog by my side. We went everywhere together and never missed a sunrise.

We went on the bus, some of her favorite places were Costco, Panda Express, and Micky D's. I think maybe because she learned that from me.

I am blessed to have had such a loyal and loving friend. I still go on our daily walks without her just to keep a routine. It feels naked on my walks without the leash dangling off my left

wrist and bending to pick up her business in the special designer plastic bags.

I miss sharing meals with her, I miss her checking on me when I take too long in the restroom. I miss her riding in the basket on my bike and co-piloting.

I bought a roasted chicken

the other night for $5.00 Fridays at Safeway, one of her favorites and it just didn't taste so great without her.

When we first encountered each other at the  Kauai Humane Society fifteen years ago, I took the basket off my bike

and brought it into the different puppy cages to see if any dog would walk into the basket and stay. She was the only one that climbed into the basket and stayed, and as often happens this puppy adopted me.

I had her to many

veterinarians the last month hoping for a different diagnosis, however, her kidneys and liver had both failed and with many tumors and a chronic disease it was time.

The hardest thing I ever did.  I needed to go to the Humane Society even though I was working with three other caring vets, only because

the Humane Society was where she adopted me and I rescued her. They call it the Humane Society for a reason they really treated us special, very humanely. Plus it was full circle...

It was the vet's last day,

she invited us to a private appointment, consoled me as a psychiatrist would, and reassured me I was doing the right thing. 
Just seconds before my sweet dog was euthanized I gave her chocolate-covered Kirkland almonds. Dogs love chocolate but can be deadly. 
... And then the stress and pain disappeared from her face, she looked at peace.
Always in my heart. I miss her so... I love you Ivanka. "Boms" Obama
Rest in Love and peace. 
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A shortened version of this appeared in the 05-03-23 edition of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. They were kind enough to send me a link to the letter since like many newspapers these days they have a paywall. This is the 150-word version of the original 388-word blog...
And on Saturday 05-06-23 this blog appeared
 in full as a Letter to the editor in the Garden Island News!
Ivanka "Boms" Obama
December 25, 2008- April 26, 2023
Rest in Peace and Love

The Garden Island News published and memorialized a  photo
 of my best friend in the Friday, May 19th, 2023 edition!
 
I had tears in my eyes when I read my mail on Sunday-May 14, 2023! 
 The Kauai Humane Society send me this note card below! 😎❤️🙏

Looked what my friend Carrie had made for me!
Hana Hou!(Encore)