Miscellaneous Rant

I’ve been trying to pick one topic to write about but there has been so many things that I’m just going to RANT for a minute. It will be my own form of therapy (since is seems that everyone has to go to therapy to be successful or to seek redemption for some transgression), and it’s a lot cheaper than throwing my coffee mug at the TV.

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Speaking of going into therapy and seeking redemption, I am WAY PAST being sick of hearing about Tiger Woods! First let me say that I don’t agree, approve, or condone what he did. Having said that, he is a human being and as I’m sure we all can admit human beings make mistakes. This is between him and his family, and in addition to Tiger being to blame, don’t we deserve a little blame? We as a society love to find someone with a talent who becomes a success at something, then we put them up on a pedestal and praise and emulate them. Once we’ve put them up on that pedestal, built up their ego and made them rich, we knock them down and pummel them. It is like a sport to us, but we’re not satisfied with that, then we have to drag their family through the mud as well. Don’t we also deserve a little of the blame treating celebrities’ as if they are a better class then we are, which inflates the ego even more and in some cases makes the person believe that they are allowed to do whatever they want because they’re special.

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Those of you that know me, or have been kind enough to follow my writings know that I have been a law enforcement officer for over 29 years. I’ve also been involved in one form or another in an organization representing law enforcement officer for 23 years. I’ve also been on the management side.

I have got to the point that I REALLY have to practice restraint and keep from throwing something at the TV, or ripping the radio out of the dashboard when I hear these “talking heads” and other so called experts start blaming government employees for the country’s economic situation, or generalizing about unions and saying that they are to blame for the economic woes! Those types of generalizations are the same as saying that reporters plagiarize and/ or fabricate the articles and books that they write.

While we’re at it why don’t we blame Al Gore for all the child pornography and child exploitation that is taking place, after all he once claimed to have invented the internet and a lot of these crimes are occurring via the internet. I’m going to write more about this later.

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If you believe the latest studies my life expectancy is approximately another 23 to 25 years. No matter how much time I have left I only hope I live long enough to see the day that George W. Bush and/ or Dick Chaney won’t be blamed for a current problem. OMG, ENOUGH ALREADY, PLEASE!!!!!! Now they’re being blamed for the Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Federal Government’s response is another item that I will dedicate more time to, but do we have to politicize EVERYTHING? At this rate we’ll be blaming Benjamin Harrison, or maybe Zachary Taylor for the next problem or disaster! I’ve got a novel idea; fix the problem and then figure out who’s responsible! WOW, imagine what would happen if that was what occurred. People might actually have respect for, and confidence in the government again!

Along that line of thought, not all republicans are bad and not all democrats are good. There are good honest caring people in both. I believe a big part of the problem was demonstrated in some of the recent primaries when an incumbent that had been in Congress for over 20 years talked about his loss ending his political career. That’s the problem, Congress was not intended to be a career, the thought was that you go to Congress for a couple of years deal with some issues of concern to your area and then return to your life. You were supposed to have a profession other than Congress.

It is getting harder and harder for me to keep my breakfast down when I hear a member of Congress complaining about the pay and benefits government, or union workers receive. Let me ask you a question about your current job, can (or could) you retire after only working for six (6) years and receive a minimum pension or approximately $66,000.00 a year for the rest of your life as well as health insurance? If you said yes you are a member of Congress.

I seem to remember an old saying that everything old is new again. If that is the case I long for the day when personal responsibility is in fashion again.

THAT’S MY OPINION, WHAT’S YOURS