Who to believe

One of the things oldet folks miss is being able to trust. Things like "I give you my word", and a promise with a handshake are a thing of the past it seems. In our personal lives and professional lives the last almost eight years have been every man and women for themselves. Nowhere is this seen more than in current American politics. A politicians word is automatically taken as a lie. Politically stated promises especially on yhe campaign trail are brushed aside automatically as bluster. There seems to currently be an epidemic of lying about one's sexual adventures as in Spitzer, Weiner.

When I lived in Tennessee in the early 90's a young republican ran for congress. I can't remember his name and he may even still represent the state. When the candidate felt that his might actually have a chance to win he called a news conference. The move was poltical gold. The future congressman let out every skeleton in the closet. Told about drugs alcohol, rehab, marital issues and how he paid for those as a young man learned from the mistakes and started a business that became successful in spite of having done all those potentially disqualifying acts. To my amazement the man won, having received the sympathy and respect of the public for showing them he struggled just like they did.

I certainly respected that. If I were to ever run I would have to have a reality show just to have the time to get the mass grave of things I have done out. I expect those that represent me to be real. I understand you're human and you might have to spank your kids or have a fight with your wife, that's life. I wish that we the public would stop trying to put people in office we feel are above reproach. I don't trust a squeaky clean individual. I find something abnormal with not having a few scars or phobias. These men and women we send up there should be like us. Imagine the mom or dad who's family member got sick and had to file for bankruptcy, that person understands insurance and the need for reform.

Honesty and purity are two different things. We keep wanting our elected officials to be pure instead of honest. I want honest. You cheated, got caught, confess, in a real way. Don't suggest you have some psychological problem because you wanted some strange, men get it. Sure there are behaviors and acts we can't tolerate of our representatives, but imagine how little a guy who's let it all out can be pressured or blackmailed. I want a person in office who really lived life. Can you name a presidential candidate that didn't come from means in the last twenty years? I say if you are considered rich stay rich and keep out of politics. If you have a particular gift at creating enterprises or managing foreign affair ok I'll give. I give you my word I'd prefer an honest person in the White House.

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George and Trayvon

Not since the LA riots have I heard such nonsense coming from left and so called black leaders. I got to watch the Zimmerman verdict and trial and as a retired law enforcement official saw no other verdict outcome. The almost defunct MSNBC was acting and sounding as if the world was just about to end after the verdict was read. All of the progressive haters of the constitution were out in force crying, "no justice no peace" and calling for their lap dog Eric Holder to makeup and create some fake charge so they can feel better about themselves. Jesse Jackson was making statements that Trayvon didn't get a fair trial because their were just women on the jury so it was not a jury of his peers. In my best Carlos Mencia imitation, "duh duh duh". Idiot the jury is supposed to be made up for George Zimmerman. The peers are George Zimmerman' s. The trial was to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that George murdered or committed manslaughter. The jury resoundingly stated he did not.

Now the true racist come out of the wood work. Al Sharpton and the like are calling for civil disobedience in a hundred US cities in response the the justice system having done it job but not gone their way. They sound like they were raised by parents who constantly told them, "everyone's a winner". Since Obama called Trayvon his almost son they word went out to the Obama zombies in the administration that any outcome other than imprisonment for Zimmerman was the white man getting away with it. Another stupid comment being made into a mantra is Trayvon was shot with his Skittles and ice tea. It must have been very challenging for Martin to punch, grab, and beat George with those in his hands. Racist like the ones that are praying for riots don't care about evidence or verdicts or laws ot judgement. All these people want is revenge.  Revenge because they have been weak and their lives have not turned out how they wish they had. This type of person never blames themselves for their problems, their finger always points at others.

It is a horrible damn senseless thing that a young man. Yes I called him a young man, not a damn child like all the NAACP wackos are referring to him as. Horrible that this young man is dead. Why is he dead? Trayvon is dead because he chose violence. For a couple of years you could see him slowly turning to the dark side with the guns and street fights and petty crimes he committed.  Trayvon is dead because we have a part of society that has not been able to elevate themselves fully beyond the material. In parts of the black community gangsta is a badge of honor. The word n@#%a is used as a greeting. To be a millionaire drinking Crystal and rolling in a Bentley is considered success, no matter what you do to get it. Trayvon died in a rare event, 97% of the murder of blacks are committed by other blacks. Why aren't the leaders of the black community crying out asking what is wrong with us.

George takes part of the blame, he could have walked away sooner. All of this is hind site is 20/20. Even if did he deserves the ass whooping that he got from Trayvon?  No. What we as a nation should be focusing on is what led these two men to make assumptions of each other. What within each of the cultures created the atmosphere to incubate the right circumstances to end in a deadly force confrontation. Nobody is asking that.

No one is asking why society could not create two men who at the moment they met could have done the following scenario. "Young man, hey where are you going, I'm with the neighborhood watch", "We've had a ton of problems and I haven't seen you in the area before". "Oh sorry it's raining and my pops lives near by, I'm just taking a short cut after grabbing a snack at the store". "Oh OK, hey it's late you should be home, I'll give you a ride to your dad's". "I will call and tell him you are, thanks". "I'm George". "I'm Trayvon".

Reverse discrimination

As a former Dallas Police officer. I have seen and have been ordered to use reverse discrimination in the hiring process. When I was hired in 1995 I was brought in early to work for the department before the academy started. My job as a Spanish speaker was to call Spanish speaking candidates and invite them to the upcoming exams. I found very little interest and many sub par candidates. Most of the educated individuals that had filed applications had found much better paying jobs in the private sector o they turned down my offer. The weeks went by and I began to run out of Spanish speaking candidates to call so I asked my supervisor to allow me to call on whites. I was quickly told that they were "not interested" in whites, they were a dime a dozen.

I looked at the massive stack of white applicant files and noticed many more highly qualified persons in this pile than of Spanish speaking pile I wad working on, so I took iy upon myself to call them. Not too long after I started calling did I start getting yes answers to my invitation to test for Dallas PD. I wonder how many officers are still skillfully doing their jobs on the streets of Dallas because I disobeyed orders? After I was on the department for a few years and was eligible for testing, I started hearing from people testing to be promoted that they were not the right skin color to promote, they were white. Promotions in Dallas were determined by testing and with certain ranks a presentation to a board. I assumed that all one had to do was to be the top grade and they would chose from the top down depending on the need. I assumed wrong when I was educated to the term "passed over". The term passed over means not promoting a more qualify candidate and you pass them over to take the less qualified minority candidate. This did not bode well with my Anglo friends and lawsuits began.

My white friends of course won their discrimination suits and were back paid and promoted. The city decided it had another trick up it's sleeve by rigging the promotion board. I had seen this happen on numerous occasions. A white candidate for promotion walks into the board have scored a 90 on his written test, so almost certainly that person would be promoted.  A minority candidate would come in with a test score in the 70's. I bet you cam guess what happens next. Some how the white person bombs his board and is placed at the back of the bus for promotion. The minority tester walks on water and is giving extra credit for his presentation to the board once again passing over the white officer.

This practice fractured our department turning officer against officer. Each throwing racial discrimination accusations against the other. There were times when white officers and black officers sat on opposite sides of the detail room. I had an incident where I stopped a black person, in a black neighborhood with numerous violations and my black partnet accused me of stopping them because they were black. I quickly ended the traffic stop and drove to the station and dropped my partner off and informed the sergeant. I didn't want to spend six months going in and out of internal affairs ovet a few traffic tickets.

The Zimmerman trial has rekindled this memory. To hear that my tax dollars were spent by the Department of Justice to support groups that promote black on white racism, black on white violence is almost more shocking then Benghazi. The president again is to blame, he gave the order. Obama stated, "If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon". Every Obama zombie in the government went on overdrive trying to think of what to do to avenge the presidents "son". In the minority community there is this sense of entitlement. Where did hard work and sacrifice go? We have so many rights nowadays that we don't realize the wrong we do.

America must fail

There are lessons to be learned in failures. Someone who wants to be successful has failed at what they do, more than once. Failure helps correct and perfect. When metal is super heated it becomes liquid and the impurities can be cleared away. Was it Nietzsche that said survival of the fittest? Even in the human body the place where a facture takes place thickens with extra bone when it heals.

Looking at American history some of our best decades have been the years after our biggest failures. Americans became motivated, tougher, hungrier and powered through the rough economic patch. This was the mistake of the stimulus and the bailouts. The natural selection that is part of a bankruptcy was not allowed to occured to hundreds of companies. Now we see the same bad practices and people in place in corporations that should have gone extinct. Would scientist bring back a T-Rex? Nature chose to perfect reptiles in some more enduring form. Why should we have allowed all thoses banks and private businesses that were responsible for their own shortcomings?

Nature seems cruel and though I believe in God I can see how nature can be used to move us closer to human perfection. The natural processes should be a part of our economic and political philosophy. Reproduction, birth, growth, ageing and death should be seen as a normal part of everything we do. As of yet nothing can be immortal, and to continue to keep a business or a political policy on life support benefits no one. Companies and bad governments must be allowed to fail and die.

Will America die? I am uncertain. Are there currently forces and mistakes being made that are making the US ill that could lead to it's death, yes. I have to admit that I say mistakes just to be polite. I actually feel that the current administration is purposefully creating the climate and conditions that could end our role or position as a world leader. Obama and his kind has for years stated that America has been too arrogant. Obama has stated that we must end American exceptionalism. Progressive policies if allowed to continue will turn us into a borderless land with no true singular identity or distinction. We will become a land of hyphenated Americans.

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