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.