SCOFFLAW…ARE YOU KIDDING

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I read an article in my local newspaper, the Green Bay Press Gazette penned by Keegan Kyle about how state policing agencies do not always register all of their chases…(a Wisconsin State law dictates that this be done) and they do not register civilian injuries or deaths. Aha…paperwork is burying law enforcement and what would you rather have your local, county and state law enforcement doing, patrolling the streets for violators, or filling out reports?

 

The thing that got me was a word that appeared in Keegan Kyle’s article’s first paragraph was the use of the word “Scofflaw,” now I’d like to tell you that I know what scofflaw means…and that I use the word during the course of a conversation…but I can’t, in fact I never even heard of the word until I read Kyle’s article.

 

My point here is simple...the word, simple is exactly what I am talking about…”keep it simple stupid.”  I wrote about 10,000 words a week during the course of my responsibilities with a small Midwestern newspaper, and I use all sorts of verbiage…and like my wife, who proof-reads all of my prose says “Don’t be so wordy.”

 

She of course is right, and in this instance…”Keegan Kyle” got way overboard in her first paragraph…scofflaw, wow. The word has been around only since the middle 1920’s and was first used during the prohibition era, and meant a person who drinks illegally. Over time the word grew, “In some quarters” and today includes “One who flouts any law, especially those laws which are difficult to enforce, and particularly traffic laws.”

 

The word, scofflaw, was the winning entry of a nationwide competition sponsored by the Boston Herald in 1924. The word was submitted by two separate entrants, Henry Irving Dale, and Kate L. Butler who split the $200 prize equally. The word scofflaw was deemed the best and most suitable out of 25,000 entries.

 

Again I reiterate, as writers we have a responsibility to make the reporting of the news as easy to read and follow as possible…and if we can add a bit of humor, so much the better. In many instances the news that is reported is drab, filled with hard cold fact, and the reader can be distracted almost for no reason.

 

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE

I am a big proponent of understanding that our elected officials, law-makers, and law enforcement officials aren’t any better than we, the general population is. We all have a tough time with daily temptations, shortcuts that aren’t really prescribed in the workplace, and at times we are all just plain lazy…(it’s a burn-out thing).

 

However in the United States today, there is one issue that touches us all, and that issue is how our law enforcement has moved several levels out of the control of the public. “Oh what’s that…you forgot that law enforcement, the law-makers, and our elected officials actually work for us,” well it’s true, and unless we stand and voice our dissent as a single body, that ability to control some of the shenanigans that goes on every day will be lost.

 

Cops are not above the law; they need to be diligent in following the rules and regulations that are laid out for all of us to follow. Law enforcement needs to understand that if we don’t all follow the laws of the land, the country in affect becomes lawless. After all, we are a nation of laws, but the execution of these laws throughout the United States on a daily basis is becoming a sad joke.

 

Not filling out required reports is just the tip of the iceberg, especially reports where injury or death might occur. When a cop doesn’t do his job, several things can happen, not the least of which might be death or injury. And I don’t know about you, but if one of my family members was treated shoddily I would be the first in line at an attorney’s office.

 

Here in Wisconsin, between 2002 and 2013 there was an astounding 13,800 police chase’s that were registered, and it’s estimated that there were more, like thousands more. I used to drive a semi over the road, and I saw civilian-police chases, they’re dangerous. I never saw the eventual completion of a chase, but I have seen times when cops had stopped a perpetrator, and had them spread eagle on the ground, and I always wonder…”was that necessary.”

 

When we read about police shortcomings or frailties we need to call them out, we need to let them know for certain that they (cops) are not above the law. And when they are caught with their hand in the “cookie jar,” we need to act swiftly, and fairly, after all we really are under the same laws. And we just need to report the news in an easier format., and language that we can all understand without looking up the word.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!

18 DAYS TO CAPITULATION IN VIENNA

18 DAYS TO CAPITULATION IN VIENNA

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I woke this morning, and did my usual duties…I’m sure I don’t need to draw you a picture, anyways after my lightly butter toast, jelly and a cup of coffee (decaffeinated), I returned to my bed for a 30 minute power nap.

 

Refreshed, I casually snapped on my computer to get the overnight and early morning breaking news. First thing I saw was a picture of 8 old looking men and one lady, Federica Mogherini from Italy who wasn’t bad looking, actually a fox, standing in a full length photo op with the headline “18-day negotiation yields landmark Iran Nuclear accord.”

 

I read the accompanying article by the AP’s George Jahn and Matthew Lee, and as I read, there was a little corner of my mind that begin a low pitched question…“Why would a country…any country give up, and give in to something that really isn’t anybody’s business…but Iran’s.”  As I read on the “low pitched question” gained momentum in volume, and spread to the rest of me…I discovered that I needed more answers then the article was giving.

 

And like the fool that I am, I begin a little research, I wanted to know who has nuclear capabilities, has nuclear weapons, and what they use their nuclear technology for? The United States is one of just eight countries that has nuclear capabilities, and one of only three other countries who possess nuclear weapons…or as the information states, “warheads.” 

 

China, India, Pakistan and North Korea all have nuclear capabilities, but nobody knows who many warheads that they have. Another country, Israel is suspected of having warheads, but nobody knows for sure.

 

I’m reading this information, and I begin to get another research headache, it’s the same players all over again, and their paper thin rhetoric about all of the dangers associated with the nuclear question. It’s a tired refrain that pops up every so often…kind of like saber rattling. And I can’t figure out why the rest of the world allows the United States to be so vocal on the issue when the U.S. is the only country in the history of mankind that has actually used the contraption.

 

Well over 100,000 civilians were vaporized in an instant in August of 1945…and the world knows of the carnage that those two devises caused. It’s well documented; everybody who is anybody knows what nuclear weaponry can do not only to humans, but to the atmosphere as well as the countryside. And possibly the very worst part of the entire issue that was the bombing of Japan has been, that the United States is unapologetic.

 

And yet, the world seems to allow the US to be at the head of the table…possibly because hundred dollar bills keep dropping out of Secretary of State’s John Kerry’s brief case. I do suspect this, the Iranian nuclear deal is most probably about fossil fuel as opposed the nuclear threats.

LET ME LAY A FEW DROPLETS ON YOU

I never write a blog unless I know at least a little about the subject matter, and I think that blog is all about power and money. Sadly little in the world today isn’t moved by the chance to make not millions, nor billions…but trillions. The figures that these jokers are playing around with, makes the average citizen…in any country…dizzy. I looked up the oil fields of the world, and although I am sure that the reserves of oil are depleting…there’s still a whole bunch of barrels in the ground, or under the sea.

 

Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar Field produces 5 million barrels a day, and although the reserve totals (oil left in the ground) is disputed, there’s still 75-85 billion barrels, and the rate of decline is about 8% per year, or Saudi Arabia will be pumping oil for the next 12 years. However it’s in the Saudi’s best interest to keep the world on fossil fuels because they have a total of around 150 billion barrels at each of their 6 sites and another that they share with Iran.

 

Russia has a whole bunch of little oil fields, distributed throughout their property of at least 25 different places, with a reserve of about 60 billion barrels…and none of these properties are being developed at the present time, or at least as of May 15, 2015.

 

Now let’s switch to Iran and her oil fields…there are 10 locations, and one that is shared with Saudi Arabia which contains 10 billion barrels. Iran is only producing oil on three sites and that production is just 2.2 million barrels a day. Wars and sanctions have effectively shut off the spigot on the countries oil production, leaving the country’s 90 some billion barrels of crude untapped.

 

Let’s take my hypotheses a step further, and count up the oil that lies under the sand in Iraq, like 83 billion barrels, Saudi Arabia and her 150 billion barrels, and finally Iran, and the 90 billion barrels, and if you tally these three countries total number of tapped and untapped oil you are looking at a whopping 323 billion barrels of oil…and gazillions upon gazillions of dollars.  

 

WE NOW COME FULL CIRCLE

I don’t trust, or not trust Arabs, they simply have different cloths, different customs, and eat different food that Americans do. I think that they are people just like any other on the face of the planet, and have their own way of doing things and settling differences of opinion.

 

I think that there is a justification for some of the hard and harsh feelings that people in the Middle East have against the United States. The reason…the last time I checked, the Middle Eastern part of the world was thousands of miles from the United States, and with little exception Middle Eastern people stay in their own back yards.

 

However the United States has poked her nose into all sorts of trouble in the Middle East, has instituted leadership change a time or two during the 20^th century, and backed some questionable people in leadership roles.

 

So when somebody talks about denying another country half way around the world from possessing a power source that has little to do petroleum products, I kind of get an itchy feeling that backroom deals are being made.

 

I guess I don’t mind the United States having a footprint in a foreign country…let’s just not be wearing combat boots to make the imprint. We’ve waged wars in the Middle East for well over a decade now, and haven’t won a single one, and really have made a bad situation worse.

 

I feel that the United States continues to be digging a hole that will eventually be impossible to get out of. Fossil fuel, nuclear power…both are destructive…which one is worse…depends on who you are talking with, you know what they say, “everybody has an opinion” “and you know what everybody also has…”

HAVE A NICE DAY!

GEORGE W. BUSH SPEAK

GEORGE W. BUSH SPEAK

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How much does it cost to have former president George W. Bush speak at you’re fund raiser, banquet, or organizational event…”hold on to your panty-hose,” $250,000, that’s right, Mr. Fumble-Fingers who, on occasion hacks and dices the English Language. Yup a quarter of a million, plus transportation, and expenses…it seems kind of pricy to me, but who am I anyways?

 

As Benjamin Sarlin once said, “The lecture circuit is the fate that awaits all ex-presidents of the United States.” Before Bush left office he was talking with D.C. lawyer Robert Barnett, who helped managed Bill Clinton transition from the White House to the “gilded podium.”  In a 2007 interview with Robert Draper, Bush wondered what he’d do to replenish the ol’ coffers, and figured to accomplish the feat on the lecture circuit, where he could make “ridiculous money.”

 

Most experts figured that President Bush might have an initial problem with selling himself on the speaking circuit because he was hugely unpopular directly after his term in office ended. There was initial distance from Bush, and his administration members who were looking for speaking engagements.

 

However as everybody knows, Americans have short attention spans, and generally are a forgiving lot, and by 2012 G.W. Bush was earning $100,000 an engagement. Not to be outdone, first lady Laura Bush expects between $20,000 and $50,000 for her melodic tones.

 

Today George W. Bush’s asking price has risen to a quarter of a million for almost any speech that he gives. It would not be a stretch to figure that Mr. and Mrs. Bush annually knock down several million a year talking to people about…I’m not sure.

 

I have never been a fan of inspirational or motivational speakers,  to me they are mostly two faced with their subject matter and  lack substance, and have little to add to any political conversation. The one area I do think that these ex-presidents can pay for themselves is at a fund raising dinner or speech. But here again, organizers need to balance their fund raising levels with the price of their speaker…in some cases the initial layout is not worth the effort.

 

SPEAKING TO VETERANS FOR $120,000…WHATS UP WITH THAT

The crux of my blog is the fact that Bush charged $100,000 as well as a private jet to travel to Houston where the Texas based Helping A Hero is located. The charity, which helps provide specially-adapted homes for veterans who lost limbs and suffered other severe injuries in the “war on terror” in Iraq and Afghanistan, said that the expenditure of $170,000 was justified because the former President and First Lady offered discounted fees and helped raise record amounts in contribution at galas that were helped in 2011 and 2012.

 

However Politico stated that the Bush’s charges were, during this time, (2011-2012) around the $170,000 figure. As one veteran said, “you sent me to war, I was doing what you told me to do, and I did so gladly and I have no regrets. It’s kind of slap in the face when you speak at a function and get paid to do so.”

 

Former U.S. Presidents have turned the speaker’s circuit into a major source of income in their post-presidential years. Ronald Reagan once accepted $2 million dollars for speeches in Japan. Bill Clinton has brought in more than $100 million dollars in speaking fees.

 

It used to be different, George H. W. Bush never charged a fee to address any military event, whether a fund raiser, or just addressing military members. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has been the featured speaker at numerous military charity fundraisers, as has Jimmy Carter, and neither charges a fee for these functions…makes you wonder doesn’t it?

HAVE A NICE DAY!

 

PROLIFERATION OF MILITARY VETERAN HELP GROUPS

PROLIFERATION OF MILITARY VETERAN HELP GROUPS

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There are several hundred military veteran help groups in the United States today, each soliciting funds so that they can aid returning soldiers from the different war zones that the United States military maintains. Military intervention throughout many parts of the world today is big business…unless you figure that the Pentagon makes war with sticks and stones, and soldiers fight for free.

 

I have long struggled with this topic, whether to write about it or not; for several reasons, but readers can rest assured that I am not pointing a finger at the soldiers that are serving in the military.  I do not blame them for the seeming endless military insurgencies that the United States carries out in a vast portion of the world today.

 

My old man used to say “what the world needs is wars to thin the herd,” and sadly I guess that he might have been right. Between 1901 and 2015 more than a 10^th of a billion have succumbed to the grim reapers military sword. Almost without exception every country on the face of the planet has been guilty of some sort of organized military skirmish.

 

In the sanctity of my basement man cave I regularly watch American Hero’s Channel, the History Channel and the Military Channel, and I basically begin a slow burn by the first commercial, and by the last commercial and past anger, I’m right into being flabbergasted. The stupidity that our fellow human beings have wrought on their fellow man is simply unbelievable.

 

Usually there are two or three veteran commercials that advertise helping a returning warrior, or how veterans can get a loan to purchase a house…and it’s almost guaranteed by some retired military mucky-muck. These ads usually put me over the top, and I turn my television to Tru-TV to catch up on a bit of some sanity.

 

WHAT DOES WAR TEACH US

I used to visit an old timer when I was a kid, Walt was his name, and he wasn’t my mentor or my teacher, he had a knack of telling really interesting stories, and I just loved to listen to him. Walt had been in World War I, and wasn’t a hero, a sergeant, or a leader, nope not Walt, like he’d say, “I was a follower.”

 

One story he told me was that he and four other soldiers were ordered by a lieutenant to go up a hill and see what was on the other side. Walt looks at his buddies, looks back at the lieutenant and says, “if you’re so interested in knowing what’s on the other side of that hill…you go.”  Obviously nothing happened, because Walt came home in one piece, and also with a handful of medals that he showed me.

 

The thing that Walt took away from his time in the European arena of the war was that war solved absolutely nothing, not when one considers the cost in human lives. I don’t recall him ever talking about the financial cost, or that war industry was profiteering from the calamity and carnage that the war was.

 

What has stuck with me all of these years from old Walt was the fact politicians make war, and then the populations fight the wars. Another thing that he told me was “once a war is over…never make war again.” Some of this stuff I’m paraphrasing, after all its 55 to 60 years since I had the privilege to sit and listen to the old stone cutter.

 

The average guy on the street doesn’t think about making war…trust me, I know, I study these things. The guy on the street is worried about his house payment, car payment, and the fact that he forgot the list that his wife wrote and left on the kitchen counter. With little exception citizens walking on America’s streets figure that living day to day is a full time job, and they don’t know the issues of…whatever, they don’t want to be bothered.

 

I also know that with little exception Americans detest military confrontation, not so much for what harm it’ll do, but because they don’t want to be bothered. Self-absorbed, you betcha, blissfully ignorant to the issues of the day, absolutely, patriotic, wildly, just about the same as anybody who doesn’t really know the issues, and doesn’t have a qualified answer.

 

Down through the annals of world history men have fought men for a variety of reasons, usually with little or no justification. Also the casualty list of worlds wars…of all times numbers in the millions, and yet man continues to fight man…are we really that dumb a species?

 

TO MY POINT

Vary simple, war is to be avoided at all costs, without conscription (a draft) there is a percentage of people in the United States who are of the mind-set necessary to serve in a military atmosphere. Their comfortable doing the bidding of their superiors…and the president, and Congress, depending on who occupies the White House, the president may simply circumvent Congress.

 

The 2015 fiscal defense budget is $496.1 billion and includes all sorts of listed expenditures, and can be read in its entirety online. The proposed 2016 defense budget will increase by $38.2 billion dollars to $534.3 billion. According to the printed information the Management of the Military Health System will be $47.8 billion, with some 9.2 million military personal, their family members and retirees.

 

Of course this Management of the Military Health System will be contingent on how many military operations that the United States might be involved in. Another serious military confrontation will drastically alter the $47.8 billion price-tag on what returning wounded soldiers need for medical care.

 

There is Tricare which was formerly known as the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Tricare is simply an insurance company that specializes in civilian health care for military dependents, military retirees and their dependents. 

 

Initially Tricare, which came into existence in 1997, was managed by Tricare Management Activity (TMC), under the authority of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs). In 2013 TMA disestablished and Tricare responsibility was transferred to the Defense Health Agency.

 

Confused yet…let’s try the Military Health System with Doctor Jonathan Woodson as agency boss, and the Executive Director, the Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. I guess between these two people, and some department heads, the collectively oversee 137,000 employees and administer a $50 billion dollar budget that is not included within the Department of Defense (DOD) budget.

 

Did you ever wonder how many military bases were located in the continental United States…well I did, and the number is 117 in 49 states around the nation. In addition there are 151 military installations that have been closed for one reason or another. The active bases serve as billeting for soldiers, training centers, and medical clinics for medical treatment.

 

There are, at the present time 142 military hospitals that are scattered around the country that are in every state except Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and the Virgin Islands.

 

The costs to operate, maintain and keep secure these installations can’t be found on the DOD 2015 budget, or the proposed 2016 budget. Possibly I’m missing something, I’m only human, and as such am prone to making a mistake here and there. But in the light of day, in 100% transparency, these facilities and related maintenance costs have to run into the billions.

 

IN CLOSING

I have guarded respect for the country’s military personal, I use the word guarded because frankly I think some of our service men and women are psychopathic, and needed care way before they enter the military.

 

Possibly I’m way off base, but I think that we need to go back to the draft, believe you me, 50% of our military skirmishes would cease, and the other 50% would be diligently debated out from behind closed doors, and those smoke filled rooms that meet late at night.

 

The country’s military members should have every ounce of care that they need or desire, their dependents need access to the same care and transportation to and from any health appointments should be provided whenever necessary. All travel expenses incurred of any kind should be covered, and child care also provided at no cost.

 

There should be no need for Wounded Warriors or any of the dozens of other help organizations that advertise for civilians to individually aid returning veterans. To my way of thinking that financial burden should be shouldered by the taxpayers of the United States. Some of our elected officials and the vast majority of the military industrial complex throughout the world initiated the war, or military skirmish…and for electing these fools to office, and than sitting back while they wage wars throughout the world, for that transgression, we should all pay in spades.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!

SHOOT ‘EM UP IN AMERICA

SHOOT ‘EM UP IN AMERICA

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I think that I am weird, I think about all of the carnage in the world, and I look for ways to stem the tide, and make things better for everybody. And without exception, when I get into one of these moods, I end up with more queries then answers. The reason… I still have faith in humanity, even though I’m usually disappointed with the final outcome. People it seems tend to think short term, and many of the world’s problems need long term answers.

 

My latest soap-box issue is gunshot deaths in the United States, and how completely asinine the problem is here in the United States. Baltimore, Maryland is number 40 in the world with regards to gunshot deaths with an average of 33.92 deaths per 100,000 citizens. New Orleans is number 28 as 39.61 people out of a 100,000 die by gun. Detroit comes in at number 22 with 44.87 deaths per 100,000, followed by St. Louis, Missouri with an astounding 49.93 deaths in 100,000 citizens.

 

South American countries dominate cities with the most gunshot deaths, and without exception crime, low household income and the rate of people living below a countries published poverty line are huge contributing factors. Many of the cities and countries on the list that I used for this blog were in a civil disorder…but I can tell you this, Baltimore, Maryland, New Orleans, Louisiana, Detroit, Michigan and St. Louis, Missouri are “not” in any sort of civil disobedience, yet each made the list of the top deadliest cities in the world.

 

So what’s the problem here in the United States, or as some call “Camelot,” maybe it’s the water. I read an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about homicides in the first six months, and how they had doubled from last year’s count…going from 37 in 2014 to 74.

 

Lost in all of the bloodshed is the impact that a shooting death has on the decedent’s family, the void most probably, is almost unbearable. Not ever having been around the gunshot death of a family member, I have no clue, as does the average person on the street.

 

SEVERAL ISSUES INVOLVED HERE

The political community comes out of the woodwork in full force, as does the authority figures, each wanting answers, and offering solutions to the human carnage. Almost without exception their words have a hollow ring to them, and the problem solving suggestions are little more than window dressing.

 

There is talk about the families of the victims, of how a community is being robbed of the possible potential of a gunshot death. How the level of violence is “totally unacceptable,” how many political and city leaders are angered by the deaths.

 

What these authority figures initiate is little more than feel-good initiatives, with absolutely little chance of doing anything about the core problems. The overall problems can be directly traced to color, employment, education, and neighborhood of a victim’s residence.

 

Let’s face the hard cold facts of a victim’s race, education, and station in life…come on now, most victims are black…and most of the shooters are black, at least here in the United States. What is so hard for people of political clout, or position of authority have with admitting the obvious?

 

I’M A WHITE GUY AND IT STILL EMBARRASSES ME

I don’t have a brother, so I don’t understand how black people figure that some black guy on the street is their brother, even when they are only related by color. But let me jog a person’s thinking a bit, if I considered all white men my brother, if the average shooting in Baltimore or Detroit was committed by a white guy, it would embarrass me to know that my brother was shooting another white brother.

 

I suppose that some will view the above paragraph as the rants of a racist…and I don’t care, my point is simple, if more brothers found that blacks shooting blacks was not only embarrassing, but completely unacceptable, maybe then things would start a slow change.

 

To allow the numbers of people that are being shot to death to continue is what I call “enabling and it’s got to stop. Nobody can depend on a community’s political leaders, or civic leaders, or the authority figures.

 

Like always…meaningful change has to come from local citizen effort, it’s always been that way and probably always will be…and for good reason. When there is civil unrest, and people finally come to a decision that something is completely unacceptable…that thing is eradicated, it’s how a society works, at least in the United States.

 

It is time for the average citizen to get involved before some loon-owl orders military response to the stupidity and carnage that is going on in the streets and neighborhoods of America. Education, employment opportunities, and a resurrection of “my brothers keeping” is now in order before its too late for all of us.

Have a nice day!

 

WHAT’S THE BIG HUB BUB ABOUT THE CONFEDERATE FLAG

WHAT’S THE BIG HUB BUB ABOUT THE CONFEDERATE FLAG

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President Obama used the “N” word, Confederate flag flies on South Carolina Statehouse grounds, skin-heads, supremacists groups advocate people of color (especially blacks) return to wherever they came from, and many in the United States are upset by racially motivated killings, and harassment by authority figures (cops) against people of color (mostly blacks.)

 

And the United States is the greatest country that the world has ever seen…hum, maybe we’d better stop here for a moment and evaluate that belief. I am patriotic, red-white and blue all the way baby, I love my country, however I am perceptive enough to understand that the country is made up of many different people, with different ethnic backgrounds, values, and traditions. It’s one of the things, this diversity, that makes the United States so unique and neat to live in.

 

We are supposed to have freedom of speech, be able to pursue health, happiness, and be able to make enough money to live comfortably on. Oh I know, the last part of the previous sentence, “making enough money to live comfortably on” isn’t written down in any preamble, or the US Constitution, but I think that’s what many people believe, want to see and experience.

 

Right now the country is all “het up” about that stupid, sick individual who shot all of those people in that South Carolina church. Sadly that punk’s actions were simply the tip of the iceberg, and there’ll be more to come.

 

I make my home in Green Bay, Wisconsin, home of the Green Bay Packers, and about 103,000 people. The percentage of blacks, Hispanics, Orientals and Native Americans is probably around 15%, not considered enough to make the overall population of the city diverse.

 

You can go into almost any tavern, any day of the week and listen to the conversation that’s going on between patrons and catch the racial slurs, especially on a Packers game day. It is not uncommon for people to use the “N” word…nigger…throughout the game, and in fact get worse as more alcohol is consumed and the game nears the finish.

 

Racial tension here in little ole Green Bay is not heightened depending on a situation, or whatever event is going on. As one guy I know has said to me, “our niggers know how to act,” what a sad, sad commentary.

 

There is an element here in the United States that figures that the black man-women needs to be cared for, like the old attitude of paternalism. Blacks are stupid, by and large, and therefore need to be cared for. The attitude sickens me, and is part of the reason that hate groups seem to thrive in certain parts of the United States.

 

THERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN

Number one, US citizens need to come to grips with the fact that the United States is a racist society. In the workplace, in neighborhoods, at the super-market, and on our streets, with little exception black people are not safe.

 

Whether its blacks shooting blacks, or whites shooting blacks, or mostly white cops shooting blacks…black people might need to consider themselves an endangered species. I don’t know how many black people are shot every year, but I know that it’s more than any other race.

 

And those blacks that are shot in neighborhoods, on street corners, on their porches, or while they are watching television in their homes knows no identity. Old, young, man, women, and sadly children, these killings are at an epidemic pace, if they were white people, the US Government would have stepped in long decades ago.

 

Number two, no matter the statute or law, no matter the issue or event, racism needs to be dealt with swiftly and aggressively. Old laws that favor the “Jim Crow” thinking need to be jettisoned from society.

 

And finally number three, an extensive background check for every potential gun purchaser needs to be in place as quickly as possible. The mandate should come from the Federal Government, should be all inclusive, and enacted within 90 days.

 

There should be a moratorium throughout the country until this background check becomes the law of the land. In addition every single gun shop would come under heavy scrutiny, and those that do not meet government standards will be shuttered…forever.

 

The United States has a problem, and when a country, any country, has a problem…every single citizen has the problem. It’ll take work and due-diligence by government, local, state and federal, gun owners, and those of us who do not own a weapon. It’s time for the human carnage to stop!

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!

    

THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT A PERSON IN UNIFORM

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It’s true, I know for a fact that women seem to be attracted to a man in uniform, I can remember that…and it was neat. Of course I’m talking about a military uniform, not a cop, or a janitor, or garbage collector, but a sailor, or soldier. I don’t know how it is for women in uniform; I can only speak for me…”women in uniform never did a single thing for me.”

 

And now we come to a new troop deployment to Iraq, a war that ended on December 31 2011, hooray, and hooray. Personally I never figured that Iraq was over; there was simply way to many loose ends. And now the president is going to order more troops back into the country and retired and serving US mucky mucks are heralding the president’s requests.

 

The US waged war in Iraq for parts of at least nine years with varying degrees of success as well as failures…and through it all not a single sole learned a damned thing. Am I the only one speaking truth and reason…I sure hope not.

 

The United States does not belong in Iraq, the US was responsible for getting rid of Saddam Hussein, the United States is responsible for leaving the country in turmoil, and the US is responsible well over 100,000 civilian casualties…minimum. And now we’re going right back in there with 500 military troops to train Iraqi military and police…”like that’s going to work like it did during the Bush administration”.

 

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that Iraqi Security Forces “showed no will to fight,” at least in Ramadi from falling to ISIL. If that is true, which I’m sure it is, what in the world is the Obama Administration sending more American troops to train Iraqi’s. If they won’t fight…any matter the reason, no amount of training or weapons is going to change that kind of attitude.

 

HERE WE GO AGAIN

While Americans suffer here in the greatest country ever devised in the history of man, “it’s what many conservative fools think and say,” our president is strongly thinking about adding military bases in Iraq! Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the United States military dismantle a whole bunch of military facilities at a cost of millions to taxpayers?

 

Call me silly, but I got to ask the question, “who exactly is running the loony bin,” I want to get this issue crystal clear in my feeble 71 year old mind, “we build um, we use um, and then we tear them down…and then we re-erect them?” Sounds like somebody with a whole lot of time on his/her hands is running the country; so much for financial conciseness, and the best interest of us taxpayers.

 

I guess that price tag for close to $2 trillion dollars for the war on terror hasn’t made a dent in those hard headed authority figures that are running this country. It’s why, for me, it’s getting harder and harder to vote for a president to operate our country. I’m not endorsing isolationism…yet, but I guess I’ve got to ask the question of “how much longer are we going to allow our elected officials to run rampant with our tax dollars.”

 

We have a national debt that is out of control, we have people who are uninsured, “even with the Affordable Care Act,” and we have people living out of card-board boxes under bridges, and we have people living from hand to mouth…no money, and a majority of US citizens continue to turn a blind eye towards our massive military force and buildup.

 

STEPPING ON TOES

I’m going to lose some readers, and possibly even some friends, but this needs to be said…the United States is an aggressive military state who fancies itself as the world’s policeman. This feeling surfaced during WWI and was further developed on the run-up to World War II, and has been refined during the 1950’s through the 1990’s.

 

September 11, 2001 was a wake-up call for this country’s leaders and how woeful the country’s intelligence was. The wars that have raged since that date have taken hundreds of thousands of lives. The blood-bath has marked this period in human history, given the fact that many countries and citizens have supposed to have moved on from the butchery and carnage that man does to man, has been extraordinary.

 

With the amount of secret situations that are going on right here in the United States, with the huge amounts of money that is being misappropriated, and the people who are foolhardily signing up to protect America’s freedom and way of life to me is ridiculous. Talk about your misguided individuals…they’ve swallowed the bait “hook, line, and sinker.”

 

That bait; that these people are protecting US citizens from terrorists, or as they like to phrase it…”from bad people” is complete crap. We need to look at ourselves in the mirror, the United States is not lily white, there are ulterior motives as to why the US has meddled so much in the Middle East…one word sums it up…petroleum.

 

The people that have the most to gain from any military action in the area are those petroleum related industries and the military industrial complex. I understand that using the phrase “military industrial complex” all sorts of visions of the late 1950’s and 1960’s, but the phrase is still spot on in explaining who is pushing.

 

THERE IS A REASON UNIFORMS SHOULDN’T RUN A COUNTRY

The United States needs a military presence…in the United States, like the National Guard, however unlike the National Guard; the country needs full time military forces to deal with all sorts of domestic issues, forest fires, floods, weather events, and actually helping the police departments around the country.

 

There is a reason why the United States has been run by a civilian individual, because a military type person mostly knows just one way, confrontation. With little exception, military individuals are used to getting their way which can be very bad for a country.

 

I am not say in any way, shape, or form that the United States is the best country in the world, or that it has the best pattern for building a governing body. I am saying however that the country does give a citizen a chance to grab at the ring of individualism. How important that chance is, is pretty much beyond me.

HAVE A NICE DAY!