Murderous Cops

I am 100% sympathetic to the indignities upon black Americas particularly black men at the hands of police. Because of some bad actors they are all lumped together and treated as potential criminals.


However, time will come, and soon I hope, when black Americans will stop trying to make martyrs of every shooting victim and start laying the blame where it belongs: the victim. Ninety percent of those shot were resisting arrest in some form. In the police’s mind, “Will I go home alive today?” runs through their brain. I doubt very much that they purposely go looking for a black man to gun down.


On the other hand, there have been instances where the police did act recklessly. The no knock warrant is a good example; especially true when they have the wrong address. How many fatal shootings would have been avoided if the police had issued a warning, they were serving a warrant?

The woman who was fatally shot is an example of the no knock warrant. The boy friend didn’t help by firing a shot through the window thinking it was an intruder he heard. The police responded the only way they could.

All this nonsense of defunding the police is just that: nonsense. The police do need some better training and better psychological testing. Some cops are just thugs with a badge and should never have been allowed near the public. 


My mantra is: Respect the gun. Police have a job few of us would take. Good or bad they deserve our respect.


Someone reading this might say, “You’d think differently if it were you.” Well, I have been there.


A few years ago, I was stopped by a Grand Prairie policeman. It was around 4:00am and I was on my way to work. He asked for some id and I handed him my driver’s license. My co-worker didn’t have any id and gave a phony name. he was immediately hand cuffed and put in the patrol car. He then told me he was going to handcuff me while he ran a search on my co-worker. It could have gone very bad very quickly but I said ok. A little later he uncuffed me and let me go. My co-worker went to jail.


On another occasion a black man was thrown and roughly treated because the police were looking for a white guy that had just committed a robbery. Now, that was an act of overzealously. How can you confuse a black man when you are supposing to be looking for a white guy?

A few years ago, I was stopped by two Pantego motorcycle cops. Now, Pantego is a hick town surrounded by Arlington Texas. I guess they didn’t want to be annexed and Arlington just grew around them. 


I was driving a wrecked car from a repair shop back to my house. I don’t remember but maybe something was dragging. Anyhow, the trainee cop told me I could drive that car in that condition on the street. The other cop was a few feet away with his hand on his firearm. I felt like asking the young cop, “If I were a white woman would your partner have his hand on his gun also?” but, I wisely kept my thoughts to myself.


I was working for a security firm at the time so I told my supervisor my experience. He had been a Dallas policeman. He proceeded to tell me that the guys that washout of the Dallas PD wind up joining the smaller police forces. He also said these are the guys that are just looking for an excuse to use their firearm. Lucky me.


I also once worked with a guy who was wanting to be a policeman. He was really gung-ho and I just knew if he ever made it into a police force, he would be killed or kill someone.


My advice when stopped by the police: keep you hands on the steering while and always announce your movements.

Finally check out Chris Rock on YouTube. Look for the clip “How not to get your ass kicked by the police”. Funny but good advice.

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Voter Are Stupid

Voter Are Stupid

If you vote a straight Democratic ticket you are a stupid voter. If you vote a straight Republican ticket you are a stupid voter. And, if you base your decision on some radio or TV commercial or news paper ad or a mailer of some sort then you are a moron.

Candidates are no more than cigarettes or beer or cars: products to be sold to a gullible public. You should invest in a couple of seasons of “Mad Men”. In case you don’t know, it’s about ad agencies and how they work to convince the public about a product.

It’s no wonder we have a dysfunctional government. Too many voters have given their brain to CNN or some fat talk show hosts, sitting behind a microphone and living in a gated community. These guys make a hundred times what a typical listener earns yet they can influence the low brain crowd so easily.

The lying season is in full gear. Politicians in both parties are making charges and counter-charges and attributing to themselves powers they will not have and the stupid public believing every word.

Here in Texas the Republican candidate for governor is passing saying the FBI has opened an investigation on his opponent. That case was closed months ago with the Star Telegram reporting no “issues worth pursuing”. And the Democratic candidate is accusing her opponent of defending the wrong people. She should know by now that lawyers can do what is criminal for prostitutes.

Lawyers go where the money is. Their belief is that whether their client is guilty or not is up to a jury.

The Tea Party has taken over the Republican slate. I look for my state to be in for a bumpy ride. I voted early and I did something I have never done: voted a straight Democratic ticket. Not because I believe the Democrats are better but because I perceive the Tea Party candidates are worse.

I have been voting in the Republican primaries for a number of years because I believed the candidates then in office were doing an OK job. No more.

Our governor Rick Perry started out well but in the past few years he has sold out the good people of Texas to the deep pocket interests. Look no farther than our state highways; many of them have sold to private interests to be converted into toll roads. Even our great grandchildren will be paying for them. But, we have “no new taxes”.

Unless the Democratic Party wakes up, Texas will remain the reddest of red states.

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Black Cop, White Cop

Black Cop, White Cop

I hate surveys.

A few days ago “the news" reported a survey that said 47% of the respondents said the Ferguson PD should more representative of the population it serves.

Hell, I’m an infidel but if you were to ask me “Should everyone receive $100.00 for Christmas?” my response would be “Hell, yea.”

Now the trouble with surveys is that they make it easy for a gut response with no room for an answer other than yes or a no.

I have yet to see a survey where the respondents would have to do some thinking. For example, “How can the city of Ferguson have a more representative police department?” No, it wouldn’t be “Hire more blacks.”

The problem is blacks don’t grow up saying “I want to be a policeman when I grow up.” I don’t know this for a fact, but I believe those men and women that do go into law enforcement picked up that motivation in the military.

Then, there is the preselection that goes into the mix. Some jurisdictions require a minimum number of college hours. Now, a few years ago, Miami decided it needed more Cubans on the police department and under citizen pressure relaxed their standards with horrific results. Many turned out to be nothing more than common criminals with a badge and a gun.

Many blacks that could be good police officers won’t go into law enforcement because even though blacks may say they would like to see more black officers will turn on them and call them all kinds of names when they come up on the wrong side of the law. It thuf work trying to be a good policeman; it’s even harder if the policeman is black.

If blacks want to see fewer of their people die shot by police they need to learn respect for the police. They need to stop making excuses for the dead beats and stop projecting them as martyrs and using language like execution and murder.

Way too much of America needs a reality check. Real police work is not the sanitized version projected by Hollywood. Police are not like Shemar Moore talking perps into giving up their guns. A policeman’s job, black or white, is to get home to their families at the end of their shift.

And, believe or not, 95% of policemen have NEVER had their gun out of their holster other than to qualify maybe once a year. So, when a man or woman has to draw his/her weapon for the first time the adrenalin is running high. They may empty their weapon and have one or two hits. And, forget about shooting to wound; a suspect can close a 20 foot gap in mere seconds so he/she must keep shooting until the treat stops.

Some moron reporter was asking “Why can’t the police just back away?” Sure, and lose control of the situation?

I am not naïve. I know there are cops that believe they are John Wayne. Luckily, they are in the minority and other cops will report them to internal affairs. That should be reason enough to not get smart elecy with the police because you never know when it’s your misfortune to be stopped by a ticking time bomb. You never know what will set one of these people off. Better to make it home alive than to risk bodily injury or worse, death.

This is especially true in a hick town like Ferguson. I once worked with a black man that had be with the Dallas PD. I was relating to him about a police stop in a hick town. The young fellow giving me the citation was very curious but his partner was standing in front of my vehicle with his hand on his weapon. I started to ask him, “Would you be standing there with your hand on you gun if I were a white woman?” My better judgment prevailed.

But my co-worker told me these are the guys that could not make it in the Dallas PD. They are looking for something to happen: the John Wayne syndrome?

As I’ve stated on other posts, most policemen are alright people trying to do a job we wouldn’t dare attempt. We need to stop jumping on the bandwagon right away when thing goes terribly wrong. We are not in the 60s when the police were thugs with badges. Thugs eventually get fired or wind up in prison.

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Living in fear

Politicians have made it an art form of appealing to fear.

The problem is, politicians create the problem and then place blame on outside forces. Someone wrote that politicians are the only ones who create laws then campaign against them.

Allow me to look at a few fears. First there is the “Fear of immigrants”. Let’s be blunt and say fear of brown people. But why have the gates seemed to have opened up to illegal immigrants?

Well, look no further than NAFTA. Just Google it some time. Seems we were promised all kinds of benefits: mainly cheaper goods. We were told that with NAFTA, Mexico would create hundreds of jobs and that the flow of illegal immigrants would slow down to increased opportunities in Mexico and immigrants would no longer have to sneak into the U.S.

The reality is that the beneficiaries were the mega agricultural businesses. With their corn subsidies, they could grow and export corn into Mexico cheaper than what Mexican farmer could. Mexican farmers could not compete. So the only option was to abandon the farm and seek employment elsewhere.

And, so we hear the promise to “Secure the border” and all the dummies will vote for them without realizing why we have an influx of immigrants.

Then, there is the “Fear of crime”. Sure, there are more murders in Chicago and Detroit than any other city in America. But at the local level everyone running for mayor on up to state rep or governor seems to have jumped on the band wagon. The mantra of the nightly news seems to be “It it bleeds, it leads”. But just exactly, how much crime is there in your city? Just check out https://www.crimereports.com/; you may be surprised.

Crime is not a problem for 95% of us but the politicians would have you believe that you can’t step outside your house without becoming a statistic. What this country needs are more lenient gun laws. What we get instead are laws that restrict personal freedom (and being able to defend oneself is a personal freedom) and punish the law abiding citizen more than the wrong doer.

We are sending too many young people to prison for doing something stupid. What we need are more probation officers and fewer prison guards. But probation workers should be more than report takers in a 9-5 Monday-Friday office. The county should demand that they work nights and weekends. They should do ride along with police in the neighborhoods probationers live.

I myself was on probation eons ago when I was younger and the only time I saw my probation officer was once a month when I submitted my report. He in no way new the veracity of my answers. The only time he knew I was in more trouble was when I would get picked up by the police.

Finally, we have the “Fear of taxes”. Politicians, particularly Republicans, like to tout their record for reducing taxes. But if one goes to the trouble of checking out these claims, it seems the Warren Buffets of the world are the biggest winners. Everyone assumes that lower taxes mean lower income taxes.

Here in Texas, there was a proposition to the Texas constitution to exempt veterans and their surviving spouses from paying property taxes. As if exempting senior citizens isn’t already enough. Isn’t it any wonder that public buildings are in decay, schools are failing and roads are in need of repair? Lower my taxes.

And at the state level, construction of state hiways and bridges is falling behind. Again, our governor has seen fit to turn our roads over to some foreign entity to convert them into toll roads, roads paid for with our tax dollars. He has certainly been a “No Tax” governor and I fear the dummies will keep voting for the lower tax candidates

Isn’t fear wonderful?

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400 Years

I am constantly amazed by everyone trying to jump on the civil rights bandwagon.

Whether it’s the gay rights or the amnesty crowd, their’s is a civil rights struggle in their minds.

They seem to forget that the black struggle for human decency did not begin in the ‘60s. No, the black struggle began with the first slave brought to the Americas. Has everyone seen the movie “Amistad”?

Runaway slaves were a constant. Every time America needed help in its wars, the freedom carrot was dangled in front of them. Seems that the first casualty leading to the Revolution was a black man. And when America was fighting for its survival in the War of 1812, blacks were promised their freedom if they fought in the war only to go back into slavery once victory was ours.

The American Civil War saw blacks fighting on both sides. And contrary to what Hollywood was portraying in the 50s and 60s, the West was not won by John Wayne and a whole bunch of white guys. Had anyone heard of the buffalo soldiers before the 90s? Or the Tuskegee airmen? And how did Uncle Sam repay these brave men? By infecting them with syphilis.

So, when Martin Luther King took to the streets, it should not have come as a surprise but it did. How did America respond? With dogs, water hoses and clubs.

So, gay people and amnesty people think of what the civil rights movement was about and the history before it.

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Let them eat dog

If Marie Antoinette was to visit 2013 America and hear about all the so called starving people and the pets we put to sleep every year and all the strays running around, I’m almost sure she would have said, “Let them eat dog.”

I got the idea for this post from a blurb I heard on Univision this morning. Seems some exporter got caught trying to ship something like 200,000 dogs to Vietnam. And, no they did not want them as pets; they were for food consumption.

We Americans have so many food biases.

Two horse prosecuting facilities were shuttered in Fort Worth because animal activists forced, yes FORCED, the city to shut them down. Never mind all the people that lost their jobs or that people in Europe were willing to buy our horse meat for food consumption.

Just think of all the people we could feed if the wild horses or all strays could be used for food. Spices make everything taste better.

I wonder what folks will do when the delivery trucks quit running or are cut off from Walmart.

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This Could Be Heaven, This Could Be Hell

Ah, the 70s and 80s. Seems like the best music produced was during this period. I won’t even count country as it seems to be a perennial favorite.

This post isn’t even about the Hotel California. I just liked the words for a title.

When you get old, seems like you have more time to philosophize. Since I don’t drink, golf or watch sports, I have a whole lot of time to ponder the mysteries of life.

For a lack of a better word, I want to share my thoughts on fate. The ancient Greeks believed there were three goddesses or Fates and that man was powerless in determining his destiny.

Maybe I’m a little mad for spending my time thinking about the past and how I arrived at this point. What if my mom had told my dad, “Not tonight, dear”? Or if my dad had married a different woman? What if I had never met my wife? What if I’d had different parents? What if I had had sons and not daughters? I think I would have been a lousy father.

Would Oprah be a one name dynamo if she hadn’t bombed as an anchor in Boston and since she couldn’t be fired because she was under contract and the station had to come up with something else for her?

I believe there are hundreds of thousands of talented people the world over that will die in obscurity because fate did not smile kindly on them. I’m reminded of the winners on America Has Talent that would never had their 15 minutes of fame had they not appeared on that show.

I’m reminded of the movie “Sliding Doors”. This from Netflix, “Two wholly different universes unfold …. about alternate realities, the reliability of subway schedules and the role fate plays in shaping random lives.”

I’m betting 98% of folks go about life with nary a thought of what might have been or what life altering event may be just ahead. I for one wonder how my life might have been without my wife (not very good) or if I had finished high school or graduated from college or gone into the service.

Too many possibilities to spend so much time on. Fate is an unforgiving bitch.

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Field Trip

 

I took grandson number 1 on a field trip a few days ago. We went to my hometown and I showed him where the first house that I remember was. It is now a restaurant parking lot. Across the street was the Methodist church where I went to kindergarten. My grandmother’s house was down the street about a block away.

Next I took him to the site of the first Hispanic/Latin Assembly of God church of which my parents were founding members. We did not get to see the site as a train was blocking our way.

My grandson got to see the elementary school which my siblings and I attended. It sure wasn’t as big as I remembered it. The school has gone through such a transformation. There are all kinds of buildings that have been added for a growing population.

There is also a great demographic transformation. While my siblings and I were the only students of Mexican descent, 100% of the present student body is either Mexican or of some other Latin American parentage.

The school seems to be doing quite well as it has exemplarily status.

The ride to the old homestead was not quite the same as we were in a car. I would have liked to have walked the mile home so he could experience that. But, now, because of all the child predators and other freaks, I realize that may no longer be an option.

Finally we arrived to where our first home had been. It was literally across the tracks. I told him of how we lived in a street car the first winter we were there. The street car was on the property when we move in. The whole area is now an industrial area.

I get disgusted with all the people with cable TV, cell phones and on well fare. My parents did the best they could without any help what so ever. But, that was 60 years ago. We didn’t have a daily drum beat reminding us of how bad off we were and how we deserved better at someone else’s expense.

I hope my grandson got a better understanding of his dna and that life must go on.

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The Presidency

The president of these United States has a difficult job. The job ages the man by a good eight years or there abouts.

I like to think of the country as a very large family, each member vying for Dad’s attention. And when we don’t get what we want we like to think he doesn’t like us as much as any of our other siblings.

White people seem to believe that President Obama is all for black Americans. Black Americans seem to believe that the Prez owes them. Hispanic/ Latinos seem to believe the Prez isn’t doing enough for them. Conservatives seem to believe their voices aren’t heard.

Then there was George W. Bush. Black Americans really believe he was the white man’s president. Hispanic/ Latinos seem to believe the Prez didn’t do enough for them and conservatives believed their voices weren’t heard.

I have come to the conclusion that folks must have slept through civics class. The President is neither a magician nor a dictator though at times I believe President Obama wishes he had dictatorial powers.

Let me remind everyone: we have a three tiered form of government. Although at times it seems they are working at odds to each other and the will of the people.

Remember this: the President proposes but Congress disposes. The best a president can do is proposing the legislation he would like to see enacted by his party. The party leadership then goes to work and get everyone behind the president.

But, if you believe the average citizen has a chance then you haven’t heard of the all powerful lobby. There are 400 lobbyists for every one congressman and they have deep pockets. There are lobby groups for everything under the sun. The lobby group could care less about the general public. Their main focus is the bottom line of the particular interest they represent.

Don’t be lulled into believing your congressman has his constituent’s best interests at heart. Any talk of bringing jobs into the district is a payoff to some big contributor.

Long ago I read one of Will Durant’s books in which he stated when you make someone equal, you make someone else unequal. It’s a tricky business; someone’s got to loss for someone else to win.

Like in a large family, not everybody is going to be happy.

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Democrats and Poor People

When will blacks and Latinos learn, “the democrats are not your friends”. Everything they do is to take power away from the individual and consolidate it unto themselves.

Case in point:

http://www.mail.com/news/us/374770-us-mom-pleads-guilty-school-enrollment.html#.7518-stage-subhero1-4

NORWALK, Connecticut (AP) — A homeless single mother has been arraigned for allegedly stealing educational services by sending her son to the wrong Connecticut school district.

Tanya McDowell pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony larceny.

She is accused of using her babysitter's address to enroll her son in Norwalk schools last fall. Prosecutors say the 5-year-old belonged in Bridgeport, where McDowell had her last permanent address.

She is charged with stealing $15,686 worth of education.

McDowell told police she lives in her van and sleeps at a Norwalk shelter or a friend's Bridgeport apartment. Her son now lives with relatives in Bridgeport and attends kindergarten there.

Her attorney is asking to move the case to another courthouse because the top prosecutor's father is Norwalk's mayor, who has been outspoken about the case.

Had she had access to school vouchers, she wouldn’t be in this predicament. But, alas, dollars to donuts, I’m betting she voted for Barack Obama and other Democrats. And, I fear the lesson has not been learned; she will continue to vote a straight Democratic ticket.

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My Trinity

Let’s see: first there was the Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Then there were “The Three Musketeers”. Much later there were “The Three Stooges” and “The Three Amigos”.

Seems like the world thrives on threes.

This got me to thinking, “What are my threes?”

I came up with this list. Number one would be my leftist friend Bob. Were it not for him, I may have missed out on college. Granted, I didn’t graduate because life got in the way. I guess he is also responsible for me meeting my wife.

Which will be my number two. After 40 years of fussing, all I can say is, hopefully I’ve left a good example to my daughters. Kind of reminds me of the song “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden”. My wife has been the rose and I admit, I’ve been the thorn in her life.

I like to tell my Christian brother in law that if there is a heaven, I’m going  to get there hanging on to my wife’s skirt.

Finally, my third would be my sister Mary who has always been my most reliable sibling. Through the highs and lows of my life she has always been there for me. I must buck up and now be there for her.

Do you have your three?

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A Nation of Idiots

I am sick and tired of juries that, “want to send a message.”

I don’t care if it’s a civil suit or a criminal case.

Does anyone remember the lady that sued McDonald’s because she burned her croch? Stupid, stupid, stupid. If I buy a cup of coffee any where I expect it to be hot. I’m not putting the thing between my legs. If I do, I should be slapped for stupidity.

But, no. Somehow it was McDonald’s fault and they were sued for negligence. Now when you buy a cup of to go coffee there is a warning on the lid, “Caution, Contents May Be Hot”

Just how ignorant can people get? Must they be warned of the smallest thing like little children? Hell no. Someone should slap the stupid out of them and do society a favor.

Another case involved a woman who ran over a homeless man and went home with said individual stuck in her windshield. She went home and parked her car in her garage and called friends as to what to do next. Someone came over and helped her dispose of the body in a park.

“Conservative” talk shows were all over the case saying she should be thrown in jail for a long time. Just another case of a jury “wanting to send a message.”

Incarceration serves no one. I’m talking of minor stuff not hard core criminal activity. To my way of thinking, she should have been given probation and as part of her rehabituation, made to stand outside a club every Friday night for a couple of hours with a sign saying she killed someone while being under the influence.

It might save a life and it would certainly save the state thousands of dollars. Now, THAT would be sending a message.

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Morons

It seems the more degreed people I know, the more disdain I have for higher education. Or, maybe it was successfully advocating and winning both sides of the gun control issue. Or, it could have been the introduction to philosophy or economics that shaded my thinking and slowly converted me into a skeptic.

I was listening to my favorite Jew (Dennis Praeger) this morning and he was playing excerpts from the prez’s speech last night and all I heard was toro caca and the morons applauding him.

I hear so many of our university trained people heaping praise on the president for all that he is trying to accomplish not realizing that everything he proposes costs money. Where is the money going to come from? Oh, I forget; the rich.

Boy, does he like to beat that drum. We don’t have enough rich people to pay for all his grandiose plans. What gets me is that people who supposedly are smarter than me, can’t seem to see thru the hype.

No wonder the saying goes, “Don’t talk religion or politics.” Seems I’m always thrust into the middle and it comes to the point I just can’t hack people’s ignorance any longer so I have to throw my two cents worth. Jesus or someone else was right, “Don’t throw your pearls before the swine.”

Seems like people on the left AND the right like to jack each other off. Nobody knows “the Truth” but they and the rest of the world are just a bunch of ignoramuses.

Guess I’ll just join the rest of the world.

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Hyphenated Americans

African-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American. Oxymoron-American. That’s what I think of hyphenated Americans.

If I see a black person, I don’t have to guess where his ancestors were from. Anyone who sees me knows, should know right away that my ancestry is not European or African.

What chaffs the hell out of me is the number of white people that seem to want to know how long I have been in this country. Sorry, white folks, but you have some REALLY dumb people or people who do not know their history very well.

We never hear about German-Americans, Anglo-American, French-Americans. We may hear of some Americans of Irish or Italian descent. Hopefully, you get the picture.

Why marginalize ourselves. If we were to return to our ancestor’s homeland, we would be looked upon as traitors especially if our children no longer spoke the language of our ancestors.

Every holiday I have with my children, I thank god for being an American.

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Social Security Will Be Saved. Not

We keep hearing the promise that social security will be saved by gradually increasing the retirement age to 70.

What a load of caca. Social security will go belly up before my adult children reach age 70.

Don’t believe me? Well, take yourself to the nearest all you can eat buffet o hamburger joint and take a look at all the fat people gorging themselves. I know; the pc term is obese. Any way you say it, these people are fat, fat ,FAT.

In the not so distant future some bureaucrat will be ok-ing their disability application because after all it’s not his money

Being fat is not a disease or disorder. It’s loss of self control plain and simple.

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Deadly Force

I am amazed at the flack police get whenever they have to resort to deadly force.

Now, with every TV news department having a facebook page, anyone can be a commentator. “He should have used his tazer.” “He should have shot him in the leg.” “He could have subdued him.” Yada, yada, yada.

And, TV dramas leave the impression that the police can talk down anyone with a gun in his hand. The public is so dumb they can’t distinguish TV drama from reality. An actor gets to come back next week to battle the forces of evil. A cop may only have one chance to save himself and any public that may be in danger from some deranged person.

The very same people that call the police when some situation may have gotten out of hand generally seem to be the first to turn on the police if deadly force is used to defuse the situation.

It’s easy to quarter back a situation from the comfort of our home and on the testimony of some witness. How many innocent persons are now in prison because some witness testified that he saw a defendant commit a crime?

I personally don’t get emotional because I wasn’t there and witnesses are notoriously wrong most of the time. What is totally lacking in our times is a dose of skepticism. We have a news media giving too much credence to witnesses and a rush to judgment before all the facts are in.

We have all kinds of counseling for the victims. But, what about the cop? Will he be able to walk away alive the next time he finds himself in the same situation?

Police Brutality

“There is more law in the end of a policeman’s nightstick than a decision of the Supreme Court.” Inspector Alexander S. Williams-The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury p.219

Cops can’t catch a break. If something tragic happens, they get blamed because they “should have done something”. If they kill some dumb ass, the family and the whole community come out demanding “justice”. Never mind that the dumb ass brought the shit down on himself. It’s the “racist” cops always at fault.

A few years ago, a cop was caught on tape (there always seems to be a camera somewhere) beating up some dumb ass. Here’s what happened: that idiot took off with his girl friend’s kids and wound up being pursued by the police. For some reason (this happened quite a number of years ago) he abandoned his vehicle and tried to escape into some nearby woods. The cop that caught him started to beat on the ass hole. He wasn’t aware of the news helicopter overhead.

I have no problem with cops expending some street side justice once in a while. We all need to occasionally get some licks in even if it’s vicariously.

A couple of years ago I was invited to a summit at a black church. There were blacks, Hispanics and Muslims in attendance. When the moderator, who just happened to be black, began to inquire into how many blacks there were in the police department, I thought, “Oh, hell. Here we go again.” So, I promptly left.

More recently, a Fort Worth policeman shot a dumb ass after said dumb ass rolled up his window and drug the cop two blocks before being shot. The community was outraged that a policeman would shoot someone with his kids inside the car. They even had one of the kids at a news conference commenting, “He shot my daddy.”

Hello! Maybe if daddy hadn’t been a dumb ass he’d still be alive.

Anyhow, blacks and Hispanics need to stop defending bad asses and dumb asses. I couldn’t care less if some drunken Mexican got shot while going for his cell phone. The cop’s duty is to go home to his family at the end of his/her shift.

In all my years of driving, when stopped by the police, I have always kept my hands on the steering wheel. I don’t tell cops, “You should be chasing some real criminals.” I don’t speed anymore, so it’s been quite a while since I was last ticketed. I’ve even had police thank me for my courtesy.

I’m not making a blanket endorsement about police departments. They are not all perfect but they sure are a hell of a lot better than 40-50 years ago. Well, at least in the metropolitan areas where they have to undergo extensive training. Can’t say the same for small town cops.

Recently, we watched the movie “Crash” again. It seems everybody was fighting his own private battle. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. And, if you haven’t seen it in a while, see it again.

One last word: I’m sure white people don’t look at a cop’s race. He could be red, yellow, black or white; they don’t care.

Fit or Fat

Go into Barnes and Noble or do a search on Amazon and you are presented with hundreds of choices on healthy cooking, dieting or fitness. They all promise miracles with very little on your part.

I read an article over 50 years ago, probably in Readers Digest that the cure for a healthy body was to either to eat less or get more exercise. Nothing has changed in the intervening years.

I have never forgotten that article but it wasn’t until I had a stroke that the full impact finally hit me. I’ve had spurts where I would jog or exercise then fall back to drinking beer. It’s only beer, right?

Same goes for eating. Pizza, fried chicken, chicken fried steak, tacos, hamburgers, shakes, French fries. And, of course, beer.

I see pictures of myself from just a few short years back and man; I was fat; not obese but an unhealthy fat. I haven’t fully recovered from my stroke and I don’t know if I ever will. I sold my guns because I know I cannot get out into the woods like I would like. I don’t blame anyone but myself thinking I was bullet proof.

I motivate myself to go walking or to the gym. I walk around my neighborhood because if I walk a mile I know I have to walk back. It’s not as easy as just getting off the tread mill.

I have to remind myself that the extra weight didn't magically appear. I put on that weight by having certain habits, not exercising, eating an unhealthy diet, or not getting rid of stress.

Take this as gospel and act accordingly

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Buzz Words

“Ronald Reagan conservative”, “secure borders”, “fair share”

All these and many more have special meaning to particular people.

“Ronald Reagan conservative” is spouted by some conservative, but what does it mean? I heard Michael Reagan a while back that the term “conservative” has a different connotation different than it did 30 years ago and that Ronald Reagan probably could not get the nomination today. So apparently the term “Ronald Reagan conservative” only means something to a select few.

Likewise secure borders mean we have too many Mexicans so let’s stop the flow. And yet people shop at Wal-Mart.

People that pay no taxes are up in arms when it comes to taxing other people. Idiots; half the people in America pay no Federal Income Tax so what are they bitching about. They ride on highways paid for by other people or ride on public transportation paid for by other people. If they don’t own a car, their groceries get to the store on trucks driven over the highways paid for by other people.

Don’t even get me started on food stamps. Every time my wife and I go to the store, we see healthy people driving better vehicles than ours and paying with a Lone Star debit card (that’s the Texas replacement of food stamps).

Call me jaded but I’ll be glad when the dog and pony show called the elections is over.

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You will know the truth

and the truth will make you mad.-John 8:32

^{John 18:38} Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?

Now a days everyone seems to know the truth. Not I; I believe the only people to know the truth are mad- like nuts or insane. The truth can be a powerful thing. That is why most people would rather give their thinking over to someone else. Jack Nicholson was right in the movie A Few Good Men when he told Tom Cruise, “You can’t handle the truth”. If I remember correctly he was taken out of the court room babbling.

Maybe it’s a good thing not knowing the truth. Maybe delinquents turn to violence because they see no future. No home, no education, no one to love.

Far be it from me to make excuses for anyone. We have always had an underclass. However now more than any at other time we have do gooders telling people they should expect more and not settle. So, if they can’t have, they take and anyone that gets in the way be damned.

Truth can make people mad and not in a good way. During the Crusades, good Christians killed in the name of god. In Iraq and Afghanistan fanatics kill themselves and other innocents in the name of Allah.

Don’t tell me these are sane people.

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