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When Things Go Wrong

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I’m a project manager by trade and I am 100% used to things going wrong.  In fact, I know more about things going wrong than I do about everything going right.  But I’ve never missed a date.

This is true in regular life, too.  Case in point. . .

I signed up to be an assistant coach of my daughter’s cheerleading team simply because I wanted a jacket that said “coach” on it.  I had never been a coach.  I had never been a cheerleader.  I never wanted to be a cheerleader.  I wanted the jacket.  That’s it.

The team itself consisted of 10 year-old girls who could have been called the “Bad News Bears,” for those of you who remember the movie.  They goofed off.  They barely qualified, by a half of a point, to compete in a premier cheerleading competition called JAMS that was being held in Las Vegas.  And they wanted to go.  They weren’t good enough.  Their coach (the real one) quit and took half the team with her.  That should have been the end of the story.

Unless you have a dozen little girls begging you, “Mrs. Sheppard, please.  Please, Mrs. Sheppard.  We want to go.  We want to go to Las Vegas.  Please, can we go?”

You don’t know how difficult it is to say, “no” to so many little girls, one of whom you love more than life itself.

Did I mention I had never done anything cheerleading related EVER?

There had to be a way.  But I knew, I couldn’t do it.  This is the moment where I want you to pay attention.  All avenues seemed closed.  The City would not let me take them unless I could guarantee they could place and they weren’t even close.

As I was trying to figure out how I was going to disappoint all these little girls, my daughter turned on one of those cheerleading movies.  I stewed all the way through the movie until the credits began to roll.  Out of curiosity, more than anything else, I wondered who trained the actresses in the movie, none of whom were cheerleaders.  I was surprised to learn that it was a studio in L.A., a mere 30-minute drive from where we lived.

Then it came to me.  I picked up the phone and called the studio.  I told them the situation and asked how much it would cost to whip the worst team ever into shape so they had a chance of placing?  I answered all their questions.  “Yes, the had a routine.  Yes, they had won competitions in the past.  No, they weren’t anywhere close to being ready.  No, we had no flyer.”  And so it went.

There was a brief silence and the woman on the phone said, “$200 a head.”

So, I talked to the parents and we agreed it was worth a shot.  (Finding a hotel without gambling was harder than getting the team in shape!)

Cut to the end:  We came home with 4th place and we would have taken 1st if our best team member hadn’t screwed up one little thing which happens on occasion and another hadn’t decided she couldn’t do a cartwheel necessitating a change to the routine 1 minute beforehand.

The point is, YOU don’t know what you can do about something seemingly impossible until you stew about it for awhile.  It’s only then that ideas come to you and it’s my experience, they generally do.  We’ve got challenging times coming up ahead.  Don’t forget this story.

And watch the following.  It’s all of 8 minutes and it’s good!

 

Comments

  1. The Way of Death:

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/tim-walz-justified-chinas-horrific-one-child-policy-and-repealed-a-ban-on-forced-abortion/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa

    (1) Tim Walz … As governor of Minnesota… overturned a law that made it a crime to coerce women to get abortions.

    (2) ‘Abortion is, according to Vice President Kamala Harris, “a woman’s most fundamental right,” meaning that, in her view, it trumps freedom of speech, freedom of religion, or even freedom of conscience.’

  3. Since Big Pharma refuses to do the safety studies,
    we can do them ourselves.

    Join the Control Group:
    https://vaxcontrolgroup.com/

    and get yourself a Vaccine Study Card [Must NOT be vaccinated]:
    https://vaxcontrolgroup.com/vs.html

    You will be part of a legitimate scientific study.
    It seems well worth the small cost to me.

    Apart from the personal protection angle,
    if enough people join,
    it will destroy the WHO mandates.

  4. Since Big Pharma refuses to do the safety studies, we can do them ourselves.

    Join the Control Group:
    https://vaxcontrolgroup.com/

    and get yourself a Vaccine Study Card [Must NOT be vaccinated]:
    https://vaxcontrolgroup.com/vs.html

    You will be part of a legitimate scientific study.
    It seems well worth the small cost to me.

    Apart from the personal protection angle, if enough people join,
    it will destroy the WHO mandates.

  5. Ben Bartee | BRICS Alternative Currency Near Realization,
    American Empire Death Imminent?
    https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/brics-alternative-currency-near-realization

    ‘ When I was younger in 2010, during a brief stint as an English teacher in Saudi Arabia that didn’t end harmoniously for the involved parties, I was struck by the fact that I could buy cigarettes from the corner store in dollars.

    I had a vague appreciation prior of the global dominance of the dollar, but it had never occurred to me that it could be used to conduct mundane transactions halfway around the world.

    Those days are, if not over, soon to be over.

    Via Business Insider (emphasis added):

    “Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said BRICS countries are developing a payments platform that will allow them to bypass the US dollar, per TASS, a state news agency.

    The initiative came from a summit of the BRICS countries in Johannesburg last year where the group — which includes the key members of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — called for more trade and lending in their national currencies.

    Lavrov said on Monday that the platform will improve the international monetary system and allow payment in national currencies for mutual trade. Russia is keen to move its trading partners away from the dollar because it faces significant sanctions from the US and its allies.”

    The U.S. government cannot print its way out of this mess because the only value that it derives from the dollar, it being based on nothing, is based on global demand. When no one wants its trash anymore, it becomes just that.

    When it prints money — a misnomer anyway, because it’s actually just digits in a computer — the whole operation is predicated on people and entities wanting more of it.

    But the world has apparently had enough of the Ponzi scheme, so shit’s going to get super weird, which is bad news for anyone who loves empire and great news for anyone who hates the U.S. government in its current form. Massive pain is on the way, but it’s coming one way or another and something better might just come out of the other side.

    When empires collapse, reckless wars tend to begin to try to stem the bleeding and unite the discontented domestic audience behind a new cause. It rarely works out well for the empire, which, out of hubris and desperation, stretches itself too thin. The barbarians then storm the gates, as it were, and the rest is history.

    The parallels of the current American empire to the Roman empire’s final days are uncanny.

    Via Fox Business (emphasis added):

    “The BRICS bloc of countries led by China and Russia are moving ahead with their efforts to move away from the U.S. dollar with an announcement that they plan to create a payment system based on blockchain.

    The five-nation BRICS group, which also consists of Brazil, India and South Africa, will work on creating a payment system based on blockchain and digital technologies, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said in an interview with Russian agency TASS late Monday.

    “We believe that creating an independent BRICS payment system is an important goal for the future, which would be based on state-of-the-art tools such as digital technologies and blockchain,” Ushakov said.”

    From a self-interested perspective, this is not a development I welcome, as I still deal in dollars even while living overseas. But reality is reality.

    On the positive side, though, the U.S. government won’t be able to waste nearly a trillion dollars on “defense budgets” any longer to start global wars, nor will it be in a position to export child trannyism or any of its other degenerate machinations throughout the world by leveraging its financial dominance. As long as finances matter, it also won’t be able to exert the same degree of domestic political oppression and surveillance as it once did — although it will certainly try to continue doing all of those things, possibly via World War III to try to maintain its global position.

    Ben Bartee is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. ‘

    “Oh well – you know what they say…”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoaktW-Lu38
    [Video – 03:19]

  6. When things go wrong – then and now…

    1) *THEN*
    Dr Anthony Fauci: “If you’re vaccinated you don’t have a risk
    and that’s the reason why we say it’s as simple as black and white.
    You’re vaccinated, you’re safe. You’re unvaccinated, you’re at risk.
    Simple as that”.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrjMLONm-Bw
    [Video – 09:01 – Timestamp – 05:41]

    2) *NOW*
    Dr Anthony Fauci: “I got infected about two weeks ago.
    It was my third infection and I have been vaccinated
    and boosted a total of six times.”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNjOSGkWvAA
    [Video – 10sec]