Rainy Day Thoughts

 It is raining in the Valley today and quite naturally my thoughts turn to recent events of which we must all by now be aware...  Jussie Smolett was convicted on 5 of the 6 charges related to lying to the police about being mugged...

What I found most interesting about this case is that former President Obama, Presidential candidate Biden, and Vice Presidential candidate Harris ALL STATED how horrible it was for something like this to have happened here in America and blamed it all on President Trump for causing all this hatred to flourish.

Two years later and we find our that Jussie Smolett LIED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT, neither Obama, Biden, or Harris are commenting...  GO FIGURE???

FIRST THOUGHTS:  Should leaders jump to conclusions?

But...  what gets to me more than anything else is how EVERYONE has been and continues to blame Trump for everything...   now, I did not vote for him mind you, but I think the way he was treated was horrible, especially when one compares Trump to Biden in terms of accomplishments.

Thanks to Biden, we now have:

• Highest inflation in 40 years
• Highest Illegal Immigration in our history
• A Supply Chain Shortage
• Increases in urban crime and violence
• Influx of illegal drugs from Mexico
• Distrust of all our Allies
• Repercussions of an Afghanistan withdrawal debacle
• CRT being taught in public schools
• Highest government spending ever
• Potential of tax increases
• Highest debt level ever
• Judging people on color not character
• People leaving law enforcement
• A weakened military
• A decreasing quality of education
• A reduction of STEM students

Did Jussie Smolett cause all of this?  HELL NO...

Did Trump cause all of this?  HELL NO...

America is being influenced by Liberals, Progressives, and Radical Blacks who apparently do not like America as she presently has developed...   Sadly, no matter what anyone does whether it is conservatives, liberals, progressives, or blacks, THE WEALTHY will continue to get WEALTHY...  that is just the way that economies aamre set up...  The only way to keep the wealthy from getting wealthy is to have our FEDERAL GOVERNMENT own everything...

Can you imagine our Federal Government owning:

• Microsoft
• Apple
• Dell
• The Stock Market
• ALL Banks
• Walmart
• Lowes
• Hollywood
• All music companies
• Sam's
• Starbucks
• Dillards
• John Deere
• All airlines
• All Train companies
• All commerical bus companies
• All Trucking companies
• All grocery stores
• All Professional Sports Teams

UNFORTUNATELY, most of us 80%-90% WILL NEVER BE WEALTHY no matter who owns what...

Democrats cannot stop the wealth

Republicans cannot stop the wealth

Progressives cannot stop the wealth

Blacks cannot stop the wealth

Socialism cannot stop the wealth

Crime and Violence

We have had the second amendment since 1776 and while this amendment is designed for law abiding citizens, any half way intelligent person knows that criminals are going to find a way to provide themselves with weapons...  and, if the government and other reasonable people think that making it more difficult to own firearms is going to cut down on shooting deaths, then perform a GOOGLE search and see how easy it is to find step by step directions on how to make a bomb.

If a crazy person wants to kill people for whatever reason, would you rather have those deaths be the result of a bomb explosion or bullets from a semi-automatic weapon?

Personally, I don't want either to happen but how do you think AMERICA is doing on its war with illegal drugs?

Why do Americans purchase more illegal drugs than anywhere else in the world?

We have all sorts of police forces and narcotics squads trying to stop the flow of illegal drugs and yet those people who want them always find a way to procure them...  

Should we do away with the police because they cannot stop crime?

HUMAN NATURE dictates that the more you tell me that I cannot do something the more I am going to want to do it...

Right now, our police department is perceived as being NO LONGER APPROPRIATE to regulate Americans in cities...  but, those complaints are coming from BLACK AMERICANS not WHITE AMERICANS.  It would appear that WHITES have no problems with police and BLACKS have a problem with police because they perceive that LAW ENFORCEMENT (including both whites and blacks) are RACIALLY PROFILING them.

SO...  why is a black law enforcement person, RACIALLY PROFILING another black person?

There are ENLIGHTENED POLITICIANS called LIBERAL DEMOCRATS who believe that if we pour a ton of money into our cities and give blacks a better place to live, better education, better healthcare, and a reason to grow up successful, that it will reduce crime, especially in our inner cities.

HELL...  I think it is worth a try...  and, we should with all due haste dismantle our police departments and use that money to give blacks more opportunities.  Perhaps, we should give them THE EXACT SAME OPPORTUNITIES that the blacks perceive the whites received automatically.  NOT MORE...  just the same.

WHAT DO WE DO WITH ALL THE LAID OFF LAW ENFORCEMENT employees?

Who gives a shit about them...  we just care about BLACKS...

It is important for BLACKS TO PERCEIVE that WHITE AMERICA EMBRACES them in the same way that it has embraced whites...  except, the embracing that this country does is not for EVERY WHITE...  just the WEALTHY WHITES...

60% Versus 12%

 According to the most recent census data, the percentage of whites in the US population is 60% whereas the percentage of blacks in the US population is 12%...  In other words, there are FIVE times more whites in America than there are blacks.

What does that mean?

ONE out of every FIVE Americans are black...  and yet, minority group wants to control everything that is going on in this county from law enforcement to politics to Hollywood to Professional Athletics to Musicians and Artists to those CEO's who are managing our companies.

Blacks want to receive preferential treatment because they were brought to this country in 1619 against their will...  that is over 400 years ago...  and 157 years before we gained our independence from Great Britain; however, just because the whites gained their independence does not mean that the blacks actually gained their independence as well...  NO...  it took another 87 years for the blacks to actually receive their independence.

WHY...  did it take so long?

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS (All of them) WERE RACISTS...  there is no doubts about that fact...  now, here is the interesting question:

DID PRESIDENT LINCOLN FREE THE SLAVES TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF HIS ARMY AGAINST THE SOUTH OR DID HE FREE THE SLAVES BECAUSE HE WAS AGAINST SLAVERY?

Lincoln's wife owned slaves...

We, that is to say Americans, treated the Native Americans almost as bad as we treated the blacks...  and, to compensate them for our bad treatment, we allowed them to operate GAMBLING CASINOS on their territory only...  but, they get all the revenues.

That was really white of us to do that.

Interestingly, the US Constitution that governs our country was actually written for the WHITES not the BLACKS even though they were included by an amendment...  but, in the minds of most blacks that did not correct the injustice; however, what will correct the injustice will be that REALITY where ALL WHITENESS is removed from the way Americans live...   that is to say that the 60% should bend over backwards to pacify the 12% as a form of compensation.

What does that mean exactly?

That means BLACKS no longer want WHITES to be White...  because if WHITES continue to be White, then that is racism and racism negatively impacts 12% of all Americans.

It means that laws should be rewritten to favor blacks over whites in the courts of law.

It means that Blacks should get preferential treatment at college and university over the WHITES.

It means that Blacks should be hired before Whites are hired even if they are less qualified because it was the Whites that manipulated the system that forced them to be less qualified in the first place.

However, I don't think Blacks want to be first in line in the MILITARY since being first there might result in a loss of life...  but that is just a personal opinion and not based upon any solid evidence or facts.

I am also not sure how this relates to selling illegal drugs either because most of the dope dealers are black and most of the dope users are white...  and, I doubt very seriously if they really want to change places.

Because blacks were slaves they should be given every thing they want or they will revolt in the streets, burn, and loot to show their disappointment.  And...  since the law enforcement is systemically racist, then we should do away with the police force...  or at least have NO WHITE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS so if blacks are killed by police, they will have been killed by black police.

IT IS TIME THAT WHITES LISTEN AND STOP BEING WHITE ONCE AND FOR ALL...  white should not even be a color or for that matter a word in the dictionary.

Retiring Law Enforcement

All over the United States, law enforcement personnel are retiring and/or leaving their jobs because the general public no longer has respect for them...  in addition, the general public is calling for the defunding of the police departments and some members of the US Congress want to abolish the police altogether...

I think this a great idea for America...

We do not need the police...

However, if the general public cannot have the police then elected officials should not have the police either...  whereas, if you are wealthy you can do anything damn thing that you want to do...  and, believe it or not...  the wealthy have been doing that for decades...

I like the idea of violent cities that perpetuate the increase of illegal drugs and crimes...  as long as it stays in these larger cities, it will not move out to the rural areas of the country...  where people like me live.

My wife and I are going on vacation soon and it would be nice to drive as fast as I want to without concern that highway patrol are hiding behind some blind spot trying to give people like me speeding tickets instead of protecting the citizens against violence.

Keep up the good work...  those of you who want to defund the police...  I support your efforts.

Also, I think more and more law enforcement people all over the United States should retire and find some other kind of job like building solar panels or windmills.

Crime Data in the USA

According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention  whites commit more crime than any other ethnic group.  Of the approximately 10,000 crimes committed in 2019, 7,000 were committed by whites, 2,500  by blacks, 250 by Native Americans, and 150 by Asians.  This data reflects both juvenile and adult offenders...

According to the HAMILTON PROJECT:  Black and white Americans sell and use drugs at similar rates, but black Americans are 2.7 times as likely to be arrested for drug-related offenses.

The article goes on to say...  The disparate criminal justice experience of black Americans has played an important role in reform discussions. Differences in incarceration rates are stark: in 2007 a black man between the ages of 18 and 25 without a high school diploma was more than three times more likely to be incarcerated than a non-Hispanic white man of the same age and education level (Raphael 2011).

However, it is challenging to relate rates of criminal activity to differences in punishment. Data limitations make it helpful to focus on one type of criminal activity—drug-related crimes—and to allow for comparison by race between reported rates of selling and using illicit drugs to drug-related arrests, sentences, and incarceration.

Being a white male, I have a problem with this data because it clearly denotes an ARREST BIAS in law enforcement...  and all arrests should be made equally or else the law abandons it purpose to serve and protect the people...  and, if I was a black person and came in contact with this information, I would be OFFENDED.

WAKE UP AMERICA...

Disrespect For Limits Causes Accidents/Deaths

An early morning scheduled PET-CT Scan had me up at 5:00 am and on the road by 5:30 am since I could not eat or drink anything 6 hours before my arrival time of 6:30 am...  This morning, it was dark, foggy as best as I could tell, and raining as if Trump had won the election and the world was going to end.  Usually, I drive with one hand on the wheel, but today I had both hands and could feel the vehicle sliding a little to both sides as the rain pounded the windshield.

Once in the city limits of Knoxville, the traffic was thin and moving rather briskly until all of a sudden traffic was stopped, backed up, and slowly moving to the left as emergency vehicles creeped past us with sirens blaring.  Fortunately, most of the drivers (including truckers) were polite, allowing every other vehicle to merge left from 4 lanes down to 1 lane that was actually the pull over zone for disabled vehicles.

As I drove by the wreck, it looked like 4-5 vehicles were involved and that a few had been injured since there were 3 ambulances.  One of the vehicle involved in the crash was facing me as I drove by, the front end of the car completely smashed up against the front seat and the driver was still pinned in behind the wheel. 

I later found out that all the vehicles involved were driving too fast and following too close and with the amount of rain coming down on the road and hydroplaning conditions in place...  it was the perfect storm for an accident.

I would suspect that there are twice as many vehicles on the road in 2020 as there were in the 1960's and I have personally observed that unless there is a highway patrolman or cop in plain sight, NO ONE OBSERVES the speed limit and that includes:  Old/Young, Black/White, Male/Female as well as Hispanics, and illegal immigrants.

Personally, I don't care who lives or dies anymore because when I drive, I assume EVERYONE IS DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE and watch my speed, keep my distance, and am constantly on the lookout for asshole drivers.

It's nothing personal, just the world that we are living in today.

Defund The Police

One of the major reasons why I like driving in the State of TN is because there are LESS HIGHWAY PATROLMEN in TN than there are in the States of:  NC, VA, and MD in which I have driven and been awarded SPEEDING TICKETS being an out-of-state driver...

REASON:  MORE COPS IN THOSE STATES THEREFORE ODDS INCREASE...

And, while Highway Patrolmen are not City/County Police, they are still part of law enforcement and the more COPS you have, the LESS CRIME IS COMMMITTED...  it's just logical.

Defunding the police movements are currently underway in several cities in this country and if those police department are in fact defunded, then crime will increase...

WHY DO I SAY THIS?

Common sense is the answer...

Americans CANNOT REGULATE THEMSELVES to follow the LAW.

We can easily see this when it comes to voluntarily wearing face masks in public during the COVID-19 Pandemic...

Once local authorities made it mandatory, people when being observed followed the mandate but if there were no monitors around, their masks were removed...

Americans buy more illegal drugs than any other country in the world.  It is a FACT that people under the influence of drugs commit more crimes.

You are being silly and foolish if you cannot see this...

Americans need law enforcement otherwise they will not obey the laws...

I Dislike COPS

COP -- the term “cop” was a derogatory term used for police officers in England. Petty street criminals referred to English Bobbies as “cops”, and police officers found this so derogatory that England made it illegal to use the term “cop” to speak of a police officer.

The other name for law enforcement in England was COPPER which referred to the copper buttons on their uniforms.

COP or COPPER or Police, law enforcement by any other name is still law enforcement, but the law enforcement that BOTHERS ME THE MOST are the HIGHWAY PATROLMEN and I used the word "men" because I have never been confronted by a female highway patrol person. 

MOST EVERYONE driving their vehicles on the Interstates exceed the posted speed by 10-15, sometimes 20 miles per hour. This is the NEW NORM... and, I have witnessed, males, females, young, old, and clergy willingly and voluntarily breaking this law on a regular basis.

Now I do think it is appropriate to remove DUI DRIVERS from our roads, highways, and Interstates but speeding is not ever reckless unless one is trying to get around a 18-wheeler and the driver's actions may seem erratic and bold and all of a sudden... but, depth-of-field issues are not the problem.

If Highway Patrolmen feel particularly FRISKY, they will stop the LAST CAR in a PACK of several cars all of which are exceeding the posted speed limits. Typically, these COPS do not mess with PACKS OF CARS.

When I see the phrase PROTECT AND SERVE on a police car nowadays, I laugh inside because their REAL MISSION has very little to do with protect and serve. They are never really protecting us COLLECTIVELY but they do protect one or both parties from domestic violence issue or other assault issues that might develop among people at a bar. 

Otherwise, the drive around or hide in an effort to catch speeders. Hiding to catch speeders is not protecting and serving, it is generating income for the city or county. If someone is driving fast in a residential area, that person should be stopped, but COPS are not around because they are trying to catch speeders on roads that are traveled more frequently.

Oh YEAH... I forgot... they investigate accidents too...

POWER... WEALTH... INFLUENCE

IN MOST COUNTRIES...  the freedoms that Americans take-for-granted do not exist in other countries...  and for that, we should consider ourselves lucky...  but, therein lies the problem because most Americans make no considerations at all in this regard; instead, they are controlled and ultimately influenced by those who have POWER and/or WEALTH.

• 20% of Americans are wealthy
• 60% of Americans are average
• 20% of Americans are poor

Then we have,
1% of the whole are extremely wealthy
while
1% of the whole are extremely poor

STATISTICALLY, we have a perfect bell-shaped curve...

On the far left-hand side of our diagram are the 1% wealthy whereas the 1% poor are on the far right-hand side.  On either side of the middle "-2 to +2" we will find the 60%.  From the center to the right, wealth gradually increases and to the right, wealth gradually decreases.

From the model, we can also conclude that WEALTH, POWER, INFLUENCE gradually increase from the center out to the left and gradually decrease from the center out to the right.

ALL AMERICANS BELIEVE VERY STRONGLY...  that they have free will and make their own choices...  but, that is simply not true...  If you don't have wealth and power, then your free will and choices are influenced and controlled by those who do have wealth and power.

However...  and, this is your right, you may not believe this to be true, especially since everyone makes choices all the time some of which influence one's life and one's life direction substantially; but, those choices are still influenced indirectly by wealth and power whether you realize it or not.

You drive the speed limit when there is a cop in sight...  that is power
You pay your taxes each year...  that is power
You receive a salary from your employer...  that is wealth and power
You are regulated by medicine...  that is wealth and power
You do what your supervisor tells you to do...  that is power
You obey the lifeguard at the beach...  that is power
You are quiet in Church...  that is power
You make monthly debt payments...  that is wealth and power
You control the choices your children make...  that is power