Posted on 09/10/2024 1:13:53 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy
P NPYJ YCK DSE VCQ VSEYI S XQSY IQ XCKSN YCSY YCK DSE QH VQDSE VCQ NHQUOXKI YCK XTQYC VPTT IYSHZK PE YCK NHQXKII. — LKEGSDPE CSHHPIQE
The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogr)am).
Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated, you’ll be solving them all within a few days. If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.
PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.
You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!
I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.
You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter.
One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.
Enjoy today’s cryptogram
The Obama-Biden Administrations
AND Kamala Harris if allowed or stolen
Hint: It's not the President.
-PJ
OK. Now what?
QXCA AXW SCAWDKUGGCD SCGGO AXW WJI FP AXW QFDGI, AXW LCOAWD SCGGO C RBAAWDPGM. DUSXCDI RCSX.Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
WHAT THE CATERPILLAR CALLS THE END OF THE WORLD, THE MASTER CALLS A BUTTERFLY. RICHARD BACH.
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Best I can do is $1.35 an hour
Maybe the cloth maker should find another occupation?
The temptation for politicians to set wages and prices is almost irresistible, but resist they must. The effect of minimum wage laws is to price some people and some occupations out of work. Like automated fast food joints in California. Or to send jobs overseas.
Not every job, e.g., bagger at a grocery store, may support a family. Some jobs provide part time income for teenagers or supplement retirement. Pricing these people out of work provides them no benefit. Black teenagers had very low unemployment rates before minimum wage. Pricing them out of the labor market knocks a couple of the lowest rungs off the employment ladder.
If we insist on supplementing the incomes of the lowest earners, it should be done in such a way (e.g., negative income tax) that does excessively penalize work and productivity, and we should absolutely refrain from subsidizing unproductive and unnecessary “jobs”.
“If we insist on supplementing the incomes of the lowest earners... “
I’m more and more of the belief that government should stay completely out of the “charity” and “compassion” business.
The reason is because a government bureaucracy is incapable of either true charity or compassion - it is simply bureaucrats blindly following rules.
There was a time when that was the case, when charity was the domain of private individuals and organizations who determined who was deserving of compassion and charity. Was it perfect? No. But better than the current system which creates irresponsible behaviors and multigenerational expectations of entitlements.
As Benjamin Franklin wisely observed -”there has to be discomfort in poverty”. If you’re made too comfortable being poor you’ll never escape it.
I agree that government should stay out of the charity business, largely because governmental charity always devolves into wasteful politically motivated largess. There are people who through no fault of their own are unable to care for themselves, and a decent society cannot abide their plight if they are left to beg. Nazi Germany applied Euthanasia to the erbkranker. Out of sight, out of mind. People like Barbara Streisand talk a good game (at least in her own mind) but will she, and her type, open their checkbooks. Not likely.
When I was growing up, I remember we actually had rag pickers, people who would go through trash looking for material, like newsprint, they could sell. Newsprint used to sell for about a penny a pound. A rag picker with a handcart could make a dollar a day, enough to eat on, when Campbell’s Tomato Soup was 10 cents a can.
Thanks.
Or better yet, perhaps the government should not set “price controls” … prices set so low the business cannot make any profit at all. This is what Harris has stupidly proposed as the cure for inflation.
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