We still see the game being played. If the Messiah intones a profound promise to the people of the nation, you can be certain that what will occur as the minions labor in the bowels of the government will be exactly the opposite.
Now we've got Mr. Turbo-Tax in Treasury offering another "what the Messiah means..." moment:
You Will be Forced to Buy Down the Debt
Now, let's spell that out for the economically challenged here.
Step one has already occurred. Simply by pronouncement the Bamster has declared the recession to be over. Recovery is well in place. Did you notice?
Step two is ongoing. The government is increasing its involvement in the free market every day. Healthcare is next and the airlines won't be far behind. Look to agriculture and technology industries after that. That requires artificial insemination of outside cash to cover for the ineptitudes of bureaucratic mis-management. More money spent and higher deficits.
Step three is Geithner's tax increases for "the middle-class". Since the upper economic class is already receiving exorbitant tax increases, and the lower middle class--more than 43% of working Americans--don't pay federal tax, that means an across-the-board tax increase for everyone who does contribute.
Step four is the very basic economic truth that laying more taxes on an economy is inherently stifling. That will cause a resurgence in unemployment, a rise in foreclosures, and a decline in business success. This generates more bleating demand for government bailouts.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Skewering the WaPo
Try and deny the truth that the mainstream media, led by the NYT and WaPo with abetting by MSNBC, the three major networks and CNN, are in the propaganda tank for the Messiah.
Today in the quickly declining Washington Post, we have the assertion that the Prez has a "ready command of the facts".
Amy Ridenour blogs to give us some recent examples of his facts:
Would It Be These "Facts"?
It is easy to have "ready command" of facts which you make up on the spot. If it isn't correct on his teleprompter there is a great chance he will screw it up. If it IS on the teleprompter, there is still a high probability that his staff screwed it up.
Today in the quickly declining Washington Post, we have the assertion that the Prez has a "ready command of the facts".
Amy Ridenour blogs to give us some recent examples of his facts:
Would It Be These "Facts"?
It is easy to have "ready command" of facts which you make up on the spot. If it isn't correct on his teleprompter there is a great chance he will screw it up. If it IS on the teleprompter, there is still a high probability that his staff screwed it up.
Saturday Classic Rock
We had a version of this modified to fit the F-105 pilots in SEA--a warning from crew chiefs to their pilots not to go to the Takhli town where similar things could befall them.
Government Program
It is a familiar cliche. One asks what the government does well and the response is inevitably that there are no efficient government programs. The worst news you can hear when you wish to do something is that it requires a license, a permit or a government inspection and approval. That means you will be delayed, inconvenienced and thwarted without remorse or concern by a government bureaucrat who can't read the unplain English of a convoluted meaningless regulation.
That makes it all the more unbelievable as we watch the national meltdown of the US into a welfare-dependent nanny state. People clamor for more government programs. We want Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi in charge of our lives apparently. These are folks I wouldn't want over for dinner or a beer in the back yard.
The "Cash For Clunkers" program is filling the news. It's on and it's off, it's good and it's broke, it's nonsense or it's logical. Bottom line is that it is a government program, so we should know how it works out.
From no less a lib-source than the NYT blog site:
Money Give-Away Confounds and Destroys
What amazes me is how they managed to generate a 130 page government regulation on this program in the short time since it was unveiled.
What amazes me is how they determined the fuel economy numbers that qualify or fail.
What amazes me is how they know so much about how to destroy an engine.
What amazes me is why they can't salvage parts to allow poor people to repair otherwise functional vehicles thereby keeping transportation to work and allowing them to save and build their lives.
What amazes me is why the crushed cars are supposedly being sold to China rather than being recycled in US products.
I'm amazed.
That makes it all the more unbelievable as we watch the national meltdown of the US into a welfare-dependent nanny state. People clamor for more government programs. We want Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi in charge of our lives apparently. These are folks I wouldn't want over for dinner or a beer in the back yard.
The "Cash For Clunkers" program is filling the news. It's on and it's off, it's good and it's broke, it's nonsense or it's logical. Bottom line is that it is a government program, so we should know how it works out.
From no less a lib-source than the NYT blog site:
Money Give-Away Confounds and Destroys
What amazes me is how they managed to generate a 130 page government regulation on this program in the short time since it was unveiled.
What amazes me is how they determined the fuel economy numbers that qualify or fail.
What amazes me is how they know so much about how to destroy an engine.
What amazes me is why they can't salvage parts to allow poor people to repair otherwise functional vehicles thereby keeping transportation to work and allowing them to save and build their lives.
What amazes me is why the crushed cars are supposedly being sold to China rather than being recycled in US products.
I'm amazed.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Where They Play Discovered
Last night about 5:00 PM I was making the last mile to my destination. The two lane was empty. I hadn't seen another car for several miles. The country was broad and vast with clear skies, crisp air and broad grand vistas of rolling prairie, pinon studded hills and snow-capped mountains in the near distance. A movement caught my eye ahead and I slowed as a red fox stepped onto the road, glared at the interloper and then flounced across and into the field to resume his daily routine.
At my friend's house, we sat sipping an adult beverage looking over his newly cut pasture just beyond the barn where ten "gliders" were munching on their evening hay. Horses whose gait is so smooth across the mountain trails that the ride is a glide, they were sleek, healthy and happy. A quarter mile across the pasture the tree line delineated the Lower Snake River meandering past. Water level was a bit low as snow runoff had long ended so the trout weren't very active, but the beauty was incredible.
A movement caught my eye and I misidentified the brown backs in the distance as a pair of mulies. They rose and I realized either I was about to see a pair of deer walk erect or I was viewing something else. It was a mated pair of Sandhill cranes. Large and beautiful in flight, ungainly on the ground and with a strange, raucous call they live in the fields nearby and can be seen most of the day.
As the sun lowered in the mountains, the air turned crisp and two mule deer bucks in velvet stepped out of the river grasses into the field. Broad beams and good spreads made either a potential trophy in coming years. Now they were safe and content.
Back over my shoulder toward the country highway and across the main pasture a small herd of pronghorn grazed, overseen by a dominant buck with a reasonable but not remarkable set of horns.
When the darkness fell there was not another light to be seen except for the barn light in the distance of the nearest neighbor. The horizon displayed 360 degrees of total darkness with the only illumination coming from the half moon. A strange light showed in the east and we wondered who was out there, but it soon rose and revealed itself to be Venus climbing into the night sky. Peace reigned.
Tomorrow there will be a vintage tractor ride from Savory WY to Encampment. About sixty tractors, minimum age 50 years will "ride the divide" across the Continental Divide. Pure Americana!
I'd like to bring the Messiah here for a beer. Maybe he would understand that the environment doesn't need as much saving as he thinks.
At my friend's house, we sat sipping an adult beverage looking over his newly cut pasture just beyond the barn where ten "gliders" were munching on their evening hay. Horses whose gait is so smooth across the mountain trails that the ride is a glide, they were sleek, healthy and happy. A quarter mile across the pasture the tree line delineated the Lower Snake River meandering past. Water level was a bit low as snow runoff had long ended so the trout weren't very active, but the beauty was incredible.
A movement caught my eye and I misidentified the brown backs in the distance as a pair of mulies. They rose and I realized either I was about to see a pair of deer walk erect or I was viewing something else. It was a mated pair of Sandhill cranes. Large and beautiful in flight, ungainly on the ground and with a strange, raucous call they live in the fields nearby and can be seen most of the day.
As the sun lowered in the mountains, the air turned crisp and two mule deer bucks in velvet stepped out of the river grasses into the field. Broad beams and good spreads made either a potential trophy in coming years. Now they were safe and content.
Back over my shoulder toward the country highway and across the main pasture a small herd of pronghorn grazed, overseen by a dominant buck with a reasonable but not remarkable set of horns.
When the darkness fell there was not another light to be seen except for the barn light in the distance of the nearest neighbor. The horizon displayed 360 degrees of total darkness with the only illumination coming from the half moon. A strange light showed in the east and we wondered who was out there, but it soon rose and revealed itself to be Venus climbing into the night sky. Peace reigned.
Tomorrow there will be a vintage tractor ride from Savory WY to Encampment. About sixty tractors, minimum age 50 years will "ride the divide" across the Continental Divide. Pure Americana!
I'd like to bring the Messiah here for a beer. Maybe he would understand that the environment doesn't need as much saving as he thinks.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Getting In The Mood
Up to Wyoming today. Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, and eventually Dixon--you never heard of it. But, I gotta get in the mood. So, "pull your hat down low and just LeDoux it..."
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Strange Bedfellows
Escaping N. Texas for cool country yesterday took me to Colorado Springs, my home of 20 years. Along the way there are railroad tracks paralleling the highway for much of the route. The only thing they seem to carry is coal trains. Not a rolling boxcar did I see for the entire day.
I looked at the load data as the cars rolled by. A single coal car carrys a load of 110 tons--most cars indicate load limits in the range of 235,000 pounds. That's a lot of coal. Each train runs around 100-120 cars long. You do the math, I'm confused by numbers with all those zeros. They are pulled by three engines and pushed by two. When you run the road for a long way, you notice that there is a continuous stream of trains running at intervals of four or five miles between them. Are you starting to comprehend a lot of coal?
This activity goes on 24/7.
Now, consider how many people work to mine all that coal. Now, think of the machinery involved in that mining. How about the number of people building it? Now add the railroad cars and engines. Add the folks in that industry plus the ones who build and maintain the railroad infrastructure for the coal industry. Literally several million people are in that industrial chain.
The function of all that coal is to feed a significant number of America's power plants. They light our homes and power our lives. I'd be willing to bet that most of those miners, rail workers, machinery factory workers and electrical generating staff are union workers.
This flow of fuel was only the chain from Wyoming to Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. Add similar chains for the Utah/Arizona mines, the Minnesota mines and the Pennsylvania, Virginia, W. Virginia, Indiana, etc. mines. You've got lots of people whose jobs are related to that coal.
Now consider the cap-and-trade environmental proposals and the Messiah's clearly stated intention to wean us off of coal (which we possess in extreme abundance as a nation.)
These union workers in an industry which he has vowed to destroy overwhelmingly supported this President.
What's with that?
I looked at the load data as the cars rolled by. A single coal car carrys a load of 110 tons--most cars indicate load limits in the range of 235,000 pounds. That's a lot of coal. Each train runs around 100-120 cars long. You do the math, I'm confused by numbers with all those zeros. They are pulled by three engines and pushed by two. When you run the road for a long way, you notice that there is a continuous stream of trains running at intervals of four or five miles between them. Are you starting to comprehend a lot of coal?
This activity goes on 24/7.
Now, consider how many people work to mine all that coal. Now, think of the machinery involved in that mining. How about the number of people building it? Now add the railroad cars and engines. Add the folks in that industry plus the ones who build and maintain the railroad infrastructure for the coal industry. Literally several million people are in that industrial chain.
The function of all that coal is to feed a significant number of America's power plants. They light our homes and power our lives. I'd be willing to bet that most of those miners, rail workers, machinery factory workers and electrical generating staff are union workers.
This flow of fuel was only the chain from Wyoming to Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. Add similar chains for the Utah/Arizona mines, the Minnesota mines and the Pennsylvania, Virginia, W. Virginia, Indiana, etc. mines. You've got lots of people whose jobs are related to that coal.
Now consider the cap-and-trade environmental proposals and the Messiah's clearly stated intention to wean us off of coal (which we possess in extreme abundance as a nation.)
These union workers in an industry which he has vowed to destroy overwhelmingly supported this President.
What's with that?
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The Cowboy Way
Heading toward Wyoming this morning. Hope the welcome is more hospitable than this one. I'll be on my best behavior:
Monday, July 27, 2009
It's Only Business
If you ever harbored the notion that it was about athletics and role-modeling for the younger generation, you need only read this to be disabused of that error.
Does Anybody Want Him?
The NFL has been a cesspool of thugs and misfits for a long time. The disease seeps down into the college ranks and that dates back quite a while as well. Forgiveness is a virtue, of course, but morality is an absolute. Players should get suspended when they reflect poorly on the team. They should suffer penalties not only in the legal system but also in their profession when they act like sociopaths.
Michael Vick now has the blessing of the NFL to play football again. Is it possible that he is that rare a commodity that his behavior must be excused? It seems as though the league went on the last two years quite nicely without him.
The real question is not whether Commissioner Goodell is simply a tool with no judgment, but whether there is a team which is going to give Vick a job. I sincerely hope not.
And if there is such a team, I can only pray that the fans will boo him loudly, shower the field with their approbation and then rise as one to leave the stadium in disgust.
My hope will be dashed and my prayer will go unanswered.
Does Anybody Want Him?
The NFL has been a cesspool of thugs and misfits for a long time. The disease seeps down into the college ranks and that dates back quite a while as well. Forgiveness is a virtue, of course, but morality is an absolute. Players should get suspended when they reflect poorly on the team. They should suffer penalties not only in the legal system but also in their profession when they act like sociopaths.
Michael Vick now has the blessing of the NFL to play football again. Is it possible that he is that rare a commodity that his behavior must be excused? It seems as though the league went on the last two years quite nicely without him.
The real question is not whether Commissioner Goodell is simply a tool with no judgment, but whether there is a team which is going to give Vick a job. I sincerely hope not.
And if there is such a team, I can only pray that the fans will boo him loudly, shower the field with their approbation and then rise as one to leave the stadium in disgust.
My hope will be dashed and my prayer will go unanswered.
I'm So Relieved
She is disliked, distrusted, despised by more than seven out of ten Americans. That puts her right up there with the likes of Adolph Hitler, Sadaam Hussein and Idi Amin on the list of folks we wouldn't want to Facebook "friend" us.
She Could Modify Her Behavior
Of course she proudly declares that she doesn't care. She and her associates won the election and now regardless of what America feels or thinks, she will go ahead dismantling the country, socializing the economy, and disabling our freedoms.
I'm glad she doesn't expect me to like her along the way.
She Could Modify Her Behavior
Of course she proudly declares that she doesn't care. She and her associates won the election and now regardless of what America feels or thinks, she will go ahead dismantling the country, socializing the economy, and disabling our freedoms.
I'm glad she doesn't expect me to like her along the way.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
The City, the State and the Nation Explained
This explains so much about our society that it should be mandatory viewing for all Americans:
Hat tip to Breda over at The Breda Fallacy.
Hat tip to Breda over at The Breda Fallacy.
RSVP
I don't know what he is going to do, but if I were Sgt. Crowley I would be penning a polite RSVP this weekend.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the issue, Professor Gates is reaching out to his constituency with this:
It Isn't About Me
I've got to say that grabbing on that line might be construed as plagiarizing the Messiah's best understatement of the year. It is only a teaching moment if the lesson to be taught is humility, courtesy, and a total abandonment of the attitude of victization by the Doc.
It most definitely is about him.
Dear Mr. President,
Thank you for the kind and condescending offer to come to your place for a beer or two with my old acguaintance, Dr. Gates. We simply don't get together often enough, what with the time I have to spend on the streets of Cambridge oppressing black men each day.
I appreciate the fact that you've recognized my subordinate place in society and gone out of your way to have the staff prepare an appropriate six pack for my visit. As you are so well aware, we cops tend to go with less sophisticated social beverages than your university friends, but you've tried to make me feel at home. It's just exactly what we Irish cops always like to do on the weekends. Nothing better than sucking up a dozen beers, watching a game on the tube and then going out to beat up a couple of street punks because they aren't the right color.
Unfortunately, I've made plans already for that day so you and Michelle can maybe jet off to Chicago for some quality time with Bill Ayres. I checked my schedule and it looks as though my free time for that visit with you and Doc Gates won't open up until late 2012.
Regrets,
Your friend, Sgt. Crowley
Meanwhile, on the other side of the issue, Professor Gates is reaching out to his constituency with this:
It Isn't About Me
I've got to say that grabbing on that line might be construed as plagiarizing the Messiah's best understatement of the year. It is only a teaching moment if the lesson to be taught is humility, courtesy, and a total abandonment of the attitude of victization by the Doc.
It most definitely is about him.
A Teaching Moment
Went to TX CHL class yesterday. Some range time, some fingerprint/photo/notary time, and a lot of law lecture time made my day. About four hours of material mandated to fill a 10-15 hour training course by bureaucrats.
Interesting discovery. The several items that can each constitute disorderly conduct included "abusive or insulting language". An arrest for that gets your CHL revoked.
So, Prof. Gates couldn't have a CHL, if Mass. issued them, and the Prez would have been disqualified for a TX CHL because of his "acted stupidly" comment!--if either Washington DC or Chicago issued them.
Gotta love it!
Interesting discovery. The several items that can each constitute disorderly conduct included "abusive or insulting language". An arrest for that gets your CHL revoked.
So, Prof. Gates couldn't have a CHL, if Mass. issued them, and the Prez would have been disqualified for a TX CHL because of his "acted stupidly" comment!--if either Washington DC or Chicago issued them.
Gotta love it!
Friday, July 24, 2009
The Whole Story
Here is the best summary of the F-22 Raptor issue that I've seen:
VodkaPundit Tells It Straight
He's got it all down in terms that even the layman can comprehend. Maybe we can get some of them to explain it to SecDef Gates and the Messiah before it is too late.
VodkaPundit Tells It Straight
He's got it all down in terms that even the layman can comprehend. Maybe we can get some of them to explain it to SecDef Gates and the Messiah before it is too late.
Wages and the Free Market
The day that I ask a class of college students, "what determines a minimum wage?" and I get a correct answer, I will retire. I've been asking the question of these 18-20 years olds for more than a decade now and have yet to have a single one relate the minimum wage to the market value of the worker's labor.
Inevitably they bleat about cost-of-living, families of four and poverty levels. They look stunned when I suggest that raising the minimum wage is the surest way for a politician to gain votes without even spending a tax dollar. Simply mandate that a free enterprise business pay more.
If, I ask, $7.25 is better than $5.15 wouldn't $25 an hour be better still? Wouldn't they favor that? Occasionally a light will begin to dawn but with most of them immature greed trumps common sense.
Today, the federally mandated minimum wage goes up. Read this summary of the media coverage at Cato:
Wage Increases Not Enough Says Press
It's enough to bring a tear to my eye. My heart melts as I think of those poor single-mothers trying to raise their four children (all with different last names) on even this stipend.
Here's the Dallas Morning Fishwrapper's front page weeper:
It's a Drop in the Bucket
Poor Ms Greer! She became the sole provider for her three teen-agers when "her husband was sent to prison for parole violation..." Well, duh! Do we discern some bad life choices here? I would like to think that by the time a woman is 36 years old that she might have amassed enough work experience to be worth more than minimum wage. Notice that she lost her last job when her "sister-in-law commandeered her car" and she was late for work. Would that be the sister-in-law of the felon husband?
Did you read about the "receptionist" who is struggling to support a son and a mentally disabled granddaughter on $435 a month? So, where is the granddaughter's mother? Doesn't the son work? How many hours a month at $7.25? How about fifteen hours a week?
I wouldn't expect to support a family with that level of effort either.
Sorry, I can't support a mandated minimum wage at any level. It imposes an unrealistic burden on business, it costs jobs overall and it fuels inflation. That's as good as it gets.
Inevitably they bleat about cost-of-living, families of four and poverty levels. They look stunned when I suggest that raising the minimum wage is the surest way for a politician to gain votes without even spending a tax dollar. Simply mandate that a free enterprise business pay more.
If, I ask, $7.25 is better than $5.15 wouldn't $25 an hour be better still? Wouldn't they favor that? Occasionally a light will begin to dawn but with most of them immature greed trumps common sense.
Today, the federally mandated minimum wage goes up. Read this summary of the media coverage at Cato:
Wage Increases Not Enough Says Press
It's enough to bring a tear to my eye. My heart melts as I think of those poor single-mothers trying to raise their four children (all with different last names) on even this stipend.
Here's the Dallas Morning Fishwrapper's front page weeper:
It's a Drop in the Bucket
Poor Ms Greer! She became the sole provider for her three teen-agers when "her husband was sent to prison for parole violation..." Well, duh! Do we discern some bad life choices here? I would like to think that by the time a woman is 36 years old that she might have amassed enough work experience to be worth more than minimum wage. Notice that she lost her last job when her "sister-in-law commandeered her car" and she was late for work. Would that be the sister-in-law of the felon husband?
Did you read about the "receptionist" who is struggling to support a son and a mentally disabled granddaughter on $435 a month? So, where is the granddaughter's mother? Doesn't the son work? How many hours a month at $7.25? How about fifteen hours a week?
I wouldn't expect to support a family with that level of effort either.
Sorry, I can't support a mandated minimum wage at any level. It imposes an unrealistic burden on business, it costs jobs overall and it fuels inflation. That's as good as it gets.
What The Future Holds
If you have been asked to go "downtown" in a serious air war, you have a reasonable right to expect that the equipment you are given to do that will be the best that America can produce. It is your only hope for survival in the environment. The environment has gotten a lot more hostile since the days when I did it.
The good news, however, is that despite our political system and government bungling for the last twenty-some years, we have produced an airplane capable of doing the job. We've got another one in the pipeline to maintain the synergistic team that was defined by the F-15/F-16 force for the last thirty five years.
We are engaged now in a massive conversion of America from global superpower to groveling welfare-dependent Nanny State. That means that loyal administration functionaries stand up and spout things like Bob Gates does. "We don't need Raptors because they have little application in Iraq and Afghanistan." Of course we don't. We need them because they have massive potential applications both seen and unforeseeable for the next thirty years.
It is ludicrous to close an assembly line for Raptors today, capping the force at a puny four or five operational squadrons with the promise that we will be buying around 2000 F-35s. I don't believe the promise for tomorrow will be fulfilled. I know for a fact that the F-35 can't do the job that the Raptor does. I also learned this today:
Two Years Behind Schedule--The First Nail in the Coffin
Can you see the scenario now? Today we close the F-22 line. Next year we begin bleating about the "failed" F-35 program. The total buy gets cut to pay for welfare and healthcare disasters. With the lower buy, the unit cost goes up. Can't buy that many, so we cut further and stretch out the contract.
Somewhere along the way an adventureous enemy decides we are vulnerable, since we are. They attack, we lose.
End of story.
The good news, however, is that despite our political system and government bungling for the last twenty-some years, we have produced an airplane capable of doing the job. We've got another one in the pipeline to maintain the synergistic team that was defined by the F-15/F-16 force for the last thirty five years.
We are engaged now in a massive conversion of America from global superpower to groveling welfare-dependent Nanny State. That means that loyal administration functionaries stand up and spout things like Bob Gates does. "We don't need Raptors because they have little application in Iraq and Afghanistan." Of course we don't. We need them because they have massive potential applications both seen and unforeseeable for the next thirty years.
It is ludicrous to close an assembly line for Raptors today, capping the force at a puny four or five operational squadrons with the promise that we will be buying around 2000 F-35s. I don't believe the promise for tomorrow will be fulfilled. I know for a fact that the F-35 can't do the job that the Raptor does. I also learned this today:
Two Years Behind Schedule--The First Nail in the Coffin
Can you see the scenario now? Today we close the F-22 line. Next year we begin bleating about the "failed" F-35 program. The total buy gets cut to pay for welfare and healthcare disasters. With the lower buy, the unit cost goes up. Can't buy that many, so we cut further and stretch out the contract.
Somewhere along the way an adventureous enemy decides we are vulnerable, since we are. They attack, we lose.
End of story.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
It Keeps Getting Better
Ahhh, yes, the stupidity of the police. The inherent superiority of the Harvard professor. The prevailing climate of police brutality and racism in America...
But, how about the lead in this new story:
Hard To Swallow the Racist Rant
Did you get that?
I'm more convinced than ever...
Try this non sequitur on for size:
This guy is a Harvard law school graduate, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, professor of law or something at the Univ. of Chicago, and a former US Senator. Does he not distinguish that "what's going on with health care and the economy and the wars abroad" are totally unrelated to a policeman on duty responding to a breaking and entering call then being verbally abused?
The Messiah probably has asked, "if we can put a man on the moon then why can't we cure cancer?" It does, however, reflect the level of discourse in this publicly educated nation.
But, how about the lead in this new story:
Hard To Swallow the Racist Rant
Did you get that?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his Massachusetts home is a police academy expert on racial profiling.
Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley has taught a class on racial profiling for five years at the Lowell Police Academy after being hand-picked for the job by former police Commissioner Ronny Watson, who is black, said Academy Director Thomas Fleming.
"I have nothing but the highest respect for him as a police officer. He is very professional and he is a good role model for the young recruits in the police academy," Fleming told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The course, called "Racial Profiling," teaches about different cultures that officers could encounter in their community "and how you don't want to single people out because of their ethnic background or the culture they come from," Fleming said.
I'm more convinced than ever...
Try this non sequitur on for size:
The president said he understands the sergeant who arrested Gates is an "outstanding police officer." But he added that with all that's going on in the country with health care and the economy and the wars abroad, "it doesn't make sense to arrest a guy in his own home if he's not causing a serious disturbance."
This guy is a Harvard law school graduate, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, professor of law or something at the Univ. of Chicago, and a former US Senator. Does he not distinguish that "what's going on with health care and the economy and the wars abroad" are totally unrelated to a policeman on duty responding to a breaking and entering call then being verbally abused?
The Messiah probably has asked, "if we can put a man on the moon then why can't we cure cancer?" It does, however, reflect the level of discourse in this publicly educated nation.
White Rabbit
The red pill makes you larger and the blue pill makes you small, but the ones Obama gives you won't do anything at all...Go ask Alice:
The Last Refuge
I don't doubt that there is racial prejudice in America. It still exists and we must be aware. But, I'm frankly also aware that there is a victim syndrome that immediately responds with indignation to any encounter with law enforcement. I'm talking about this incident:
Harvard Professor Takes Umbrage
The scenario, apparently was that the good professor couldn't get his front door open. He went in the back way and asked his taxi-driver to help him by pushing at the front door to free it. A neighbor saw the apparent forced entry and, as we are taught by Neighborhood Watch programs, called the police.
When they arrived, the door was open and the officer inquired of Professor Gates as to what had happened. Gates then went into full rant mode. Gimme a break. He isn't a victim, he's a Harvard professor.
Here is a more detailed description of the events:
A Fair and Balanced Report
Strange, isn't it, that the local reportage should be so brief and superficial while the Bloomberg coverage describes the police officer's report and description of the events as well.
I can't fault the cop for checking what happened. It would be dereliction of duty for him to have done less. I suspect that Gates' home wasn't some ghetto crash pad, so the officer didn't think he was at a crack house. I default to the view that the officer was at least initially respectful. And, I can only be appalled at the knee-jerk accusations of Gates to the incident.
But then, Harvard has become a showcase of politically correct education and the indoctrination of tomorrow's leaders in the philosphy of professional victimhood.
And, always in character, the Messiah admits he doesn't know the facts but concludes the police acted stupidly:
The Reality of His Post-Racist America
Apparently he is so prescient that facts don't apply to him. He speaks, therefore it is so.
Harvard Professor Takes Umbrage
The scenario, apparently was that the good professor couldn't get his front door open. He went in the back way and asked his taxi-driver to help him by pushing at the front door to free it. A neighbor saw the apparent forced entry and, as we are taught by Neighborhood Watch programs, called the police.
When they arrived, the door was open and the officer inquired of Professor Gates as to what had happened. Gates then went into full rant mode. Gimme a break. He isn't a victim, he's a Harvard professor.
Here is a more detailed description of the events:
A Fair and Balanced Report
Strange, isn't it, that the local reportage should be so brief and superficial while the Bloomberg coverage describes the police officer's report and description of the events as well.
I can't fault the cop for checking what happened. It would be dereliction of duty for him to have done less. I suspect that Gates' home wasn't some ghetto crash pad, so the officer didn't think he was at a crack house. I default to the view that the officer was at least initially respectful. And, I can only be appalled at the knee-jerk accusations of Gates to the incident.
But then, Harvard has become a showcase of politically correct education and the indoctrination of tomorrow's leaders in the philosphy of professional victimhood.
And, always in character, the Messiah admits he doesn't know the facts but concludes the police acted stupidly:
The Reality of His Post-Racist America
Apparently he is so prescient that facts don't apply to him. He speaks, therefore it is so.
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