Rump
Chuck
Shank
Prime Rib
Short Rib
Rib Eye
Tenderloin
Sirloin
I guess we don't waste much in a dog eat dog world!
The poor cow is tasty to eat, but what did she do to any of us? ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 28, 2020
It's Good To Know What You're Eating
Rump
Chuck
Shank
Prime Rib
Short Rib
Rib Eye
Tenderloin
Sirloin
I guess we don't waste much in a dog eat dog world!
The poor cow is tasty to eat, but what did she do to any of us? ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 27, 2020
Wow, Not Bad For A Toy
Design is an art, whether for cars, homes, fashion, and more.
Those that get design right make things not only functional, but incredibly beautiful.
And when function and design come together in perfect harmony that is no toy! ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 26, 2020
Planning Ha Ha
So in retrospect, in 2015, not a single person got the answer right to 'where do you se yourself 5 years from now?'
Where you gonna be in 2020?
Stuck at home for almost the entire year!
But you are a fortune teller and are so smart you should've rolled your dice in the ever exploding bubble of a stock market.
Oh, that's right, you did! ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 25, 2020
Even Dogs Wear Masks
- If giver doesn't wear mask and receiver does - 70% chance of transmission
- If giver wears mask and receiver doesn't - 5% chance of transmission
- If giver wears mask and receiver wears mask - 1.5% chance of transmission
That's doggie good statistics to avoid the Coronavirus plague.
People can learn just like dogs. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 24, 2020
My Blue Thumb
I got a new spray bottle from Home Depot and I put the Fantastic cleaner it in.
Thinking about the new bottle, I accidentally picked it up to water the plants.
I sprayed the cactus and immediately realized what I had done!
Oh sh*t! I just poisoned my cactus. So quickly, I poured water in to try to dilute it.
I thought to myself how the plant would react and I imagined how a person would react if they drank Fantastic.
Sure enough within a couple of days the cactus was reeling.
But I think a person could probably recover if it wasn't too much, so I'm hoping the cactus will too. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 23, 2020
Wow, Good Enough To Eat
July 22, 2020
Bucket List
I replaced an almost 16-year old 4Runner with a new car that I had been eyeing for some time.
I never thought I would actually get the new car, but I am so very grateful to Hashem!
My father used to say:
It's just something to get you from here to there!
And he was right, but it was still nice to replace the old clunker. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 21, 2020
Short Man Tall Man, What Do You Say
July 19, 2020
PTSD Gets Around
The Jewish people are a nation recovering from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), where memories of trauma flood our national psyche and can trigger emotional (and even physical) symptoms. Whether fear of the next “evil decree” against the Jews, to another pogrom of crazed rapists and killers rampaging through a Jewish town, or even of genocide itself, the Jewish people have known plenty of deep-seated persecution and have to deal with the accompanying fear and anxiety of being the quintessential “strangers in a strange land,” almost everywhere in the world and over a very long period of history.
PTSD is very real not only for our suffering veterans, and for individual people that have been sexually abused or experienced physical violence, but it can also be a national psychiatric disorder based on collective trauma that affects our mood, anxiety levels, and behavioral reactions to events. Suffering from exile, persecution, and helplessness from thousands of years does not go away in a generation or even a century. It is a long road for our national recovery where we can learn to once again live healthy and productive lives absent from the fear and anxiety of another bad Tisha B’Av.
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 17, 2020
Homemade Self-Defense
This is what the future for protection of innocents in this country looks like?
If you take away legitimate police and their efforts to protect citizens then this will force people to buy, build, and use even more weapons in their own self-defense.
Anarchy, chaos, lawlessness, and the wild west will be sure to take over as the new normal.
We don't need more out of control gunslingers, gangs, and vigilantism battling for our streets.
Reform the police, protect the innocent people, and put the bad guys away. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 16, 2020
Missing Florida Vacations
Just missing getting out and down to Florida for a little vacation.
The palm trees. The sun. The beach. A little fun.
This isn't forever, right?
Hopefully, let's pray, Covid will be over and we can live again in freedom and without fear of contagion every moment of every day, day, day. ;-)
(Credit Photo of artwork: Andy Blumenthal)
July 15, 2020
Don't Lose Your Head
Woman are notorious in the Bible for taking men’s heads—and I mean taking them!
The great news is that women are awesome fighters, the bad news is that your head is a very valuable thing to lose.
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 14, 2020
Looking at you, Looking at me
July 13, 2020
Awesome Elbit!
Love this Israeli defense company, Elbit Systems!
They are Israel's largest defense company with brilliant defense, homeland security, and national security solutions.
Proven on the battlefield on land, sea, air, and space.
From the advanced F-35 Joint Strike Fighter helmet mounted display to the Iron Fist active protection system to drones, lasers, C4ISR, cyber, electronic warfare, electro-optics, countermeasures, combat vehicle systems, and artillery, mortar, munitions and more.
Elbit offer high-tech solutions that uniquely combine brain with brawn!
Defending the Holy Land and other countries around the globe.
In the fight of good over evil, I'm proud that Elbit is one of the good guys! ;-)
July 12, 2020
IMHO Warning: Stock Market MAJOR Correction Imminent
This is a few weeks into reopening phase 2!
I expected people would have pent up demand and be swarming the stores even while keeping their social distance.
They weren't at the mall!
The stores were nearly void of people.
The shelves were virtually empty of goods.
Whatever merchandise there was seemed to marked "sale, sale, sale" even on the already deeply-discounted clearance items.
It was completely frightening--like the economy is dead or on severe life support!
Most stores had 3 or more associates standing around or sitting twiddling their thumbs.
This while the stock market keeps ticking up and the NASDAQ is reaching new highs almost daily.
Coronavirus is surging again across much of the U.S. and there is almost 140,000 dead in the U.S. after just 5 months even though much of the population was in self-quarantine.
The economy looks to me in sh*t shape, despite the U.S. pumping $3 trillion dollars more of debt to artificially prop up the economy and the fed lending out money at super low rates.
It makes NO sense for the market to be hitting all time highs as if everything is all roses when the economy is still a true mess!
The New Yorker magazine wrote back in May of a post coronavirus "decade of depression" with an L shaped recovery, yet we keep seeing a V-shaped one and no one seems to be able to offer any plausible explanation for it.
Two-months ago, even before the recent stock run-up to higher levels, Business Insider reported that "the Stock Market is trading at its highest valuation in 18-years."
Last month, Forbes reported that "the stock market appears to be reaching unsustainable highs."
Yesterday again, Bloomberg reported that the "economic recovery is faltering."
Almost daily, I read that companies are laying off their workers (in Travel, Transportation, Entertainment, Retail, Energy, etc.) or declaring bankruptcy (e.g. Hertz, JC Penny, Neiman Marcus, Chesapeake Energy, and more).
This while we are still, in the best case scenario, maybe half a year away from the possibility of a tested, approved vaccine. And then it will still need to be mass produced and mass distributed to hundreds of millions of people in this country and billions globally.
In the meantime, we certainly could be up for a second wave of Coronavirus on top of the flu in the fall/winter. And then the Coronavirus may mutate and become more virulent requiring annual vaccines like the flu shot--more hit or miss.
All this while U.S.-China trade war is imperiling our economy further, and arch-enemies Iran and North Korea remain national security threats.
To me this all points to that we are nowhere near out of the woods and perhaps that there is a wildfire raging and no one seems to be paying any attention!
The stock market euphoria is a common trap and is the definition of "irrational exuberance" but comes after investors have been robotically indoctrinated to buy the dips!
IMHO, buyer beware, beware, beware. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 11, 2020
Super Cufflinks
These will definitely make you feel special.
Maybe like a quasi Superhero.
Some may think you're a little arrogant and all that.
But maybe you just are hoping to be super at whatever you do.
It's good to have an imagination and aspiration, and maybe a little sense of humor and fun.
As long as you don't let it go to your head or to your pompous a**. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumetnhal)
July 10, 2020
Yesterday a Dog, Today a Cat!
July 9, 2020
Man's Best Friend
July 8, 2020
Controversy, Yet Agreement
July 7, 2020
The Purge
PURGE the things that no longer bring PURPOSE!
Yikes! I wonder who or what got purged from this person's life recently.
Yet, perhaps it is a good lesson against hoarding and just accumulating junk (things and certain people) along the way of life.
When things have a deeply negative impact on your life (or they're just dead weight), perhaps it is time to consider letting go.
I'm not talking about relationships of commitment (e.g. family), which have a stronger and timeless bond in my mind, but of those that earn their right into your life by virtue of being ongoing positive, productive forces.
There is no blessing in gluttony or hoarding--stay trim and fit, travel light and with what is truly meaningful and necessary. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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