What is wrong with us today?

Our kids have more things to do right this second, that we had our whole lives, yet I hear, " I'm bored" so much I want to slap the crap out of them. If I do, then I can go to jail for child abuse. WAIT, WHAT?

 

Child abuse was not taking care of your kids, and giving them cigarettes and booze when they were too young, or trying to sexually molest them, or starve them, or try to kill them. Not spanking them! Now I find if I swat my kid on the ass in public, not only is it child abuse but sexual assault too? Who the fuck came up with this lame assed idea? Say something to me while I am smacking my kids in Wal-Mart, and you're next! Everyone has to be worried about what everyone else is doing, but not themselves.

Speaking of Wal-Mart, I understand we are to boycott them because their employees don't get paid enough? Should we boycott schools because our teachers don't get paid enough? How about McDonalds? Burger King? The fact is, NONE of us get paid enough! Except for a certain small group of folks who don't ever have to worry about paying bills or buying groceries. But you can't only blame the wealthy fat cats, it really is on the shoulders of government. Not a political party, ALL of government. Once elected, officials start playing the game instead of actually making difference, thereby screwing you and me in the process.

Maybe we should look at how things work. If your wealthy, you pay less of a percentage in taxes, true it may be more dollars, but it is less of a percentage of what you make. If your poor, you pay nothing and get handouts from the government. Why are these people not employed by the government to do things like pick up trash or mow lawns in public parks, etc. if your in the military, you get a really raw deal. Once your service is completed, you get cared for, but at substandard levels, plus you get laid off. I have not understood why military isn't a full time, lifetime career. When they come back from war, why not keep them employed in government doing things they were trained to do like building roads, bridges and maintaining them. Running and supplying military installations, or just showing up and working out so we have the most kick ass forces on earth? Instead they get kicked to the curb and treated sub-standardly.

Meanwhile, the rest of us give 1/3 or more of our income in taxes. We may get 1/10 back when we file our tax returns if we are lucky. But then groceries, gas, taxes, insurance and all the other basics needed for life cost more so we are broke again, and when we try to get ahead, the government has these special taxes they charge to take what you make extra. Bonus checks are supposed to be taxed at 48%. I have been lucky so far, and not received one in a while, thanks to the economy, so I don t have to worry right now, but it is coming.

The government has to protect us from our own stupidity, since we as people don't know what is good or bad for us. Drugs that could make a difference are withheld because they are untested? I think it is government population control. We are not dying fast enough, yet they want to make other products safer?  

Along this line, I am puzzled by people who protest at executions? The killer has repented and is saved by God, so where is the justice? If he is saved he's going to Heaven, not Hell. I guess they look at it as WE are going to Hell for killing him? "Governments will be judged for their actions." I believe it is stated that way in the bible. I would tend to say, if they don't kill the bastard for the 22 people he killed on his 3 year, multi-state killing spree, they are not doing their job. But how do you send a government to Hell. Wait, we are already there? There was a reason we used to have public hangings on the square! It tended to keep crime down. Anyway, there is a greater plan that we will not know about till the end.

On to conspiracy theories! This week marks the 50th anniversary of JFK 's assassination. Talk about cloak and dagger shit! This has to be the biggest conspiracy in American history. If you are like the countless mindless sheep who believe the Warren Committee's report ha Oswald acted alone, good luck to you my friend. History has shown us the Oswald and Ruby knew each other ahead of time. There were more than three shots fired that day. Some reports count as many as 7. From multiple angles. The gun found was not the killing weapon, and wasn't even fired by Oswald.  Ruby mysteriously contracting cancer while in jail? This is part of the plot, Oswald worked on in New Orleans with others in a lab developing cancer strains to try and kill Castro. It mysteriously find Jack Ruby in jail in Dallas? Lost of people point to LBJ. Another person on that list could be George H Bush. Who was in charges of the CIA at the time and a fellow Texan! Hell, Gerald Ford was on the Warren Committee.

When Regan was shot and. G.H. Bush was VP, wasn't G.W. Bush at the CIA then? Texans work in groups, just saying, and they are all still afraid of LBJ, even dead!

If we are allowed to ask on question at the Pearly Gates, my generation will most like as about this? Or O.J. Or the Ramsey kid, or the Lindbergh baby? Great mysteries that evoke conspiracy theories.

Just goes to who just how BAD our government sucks and keeps us down!

The Lost Art of Customer Service.

While the title of today's installment may not surprise anyone who has been around for the last few years, I was reminded again today about the lack of customer service in our retail businesses today. to go hand in hand with this is also the fact that people do not respect other's space in the retail 

market today either.

Earlier today I was at the supermarket to purchase some butter. I also picked up a bottle of Coke and a Diet Coke. I made my way to the express line with my three items and stood in line. The woman in front of me was writing a check for $142. There were way more then 9 item in her basket, but she was a older woman, so the gentleman in me didn't mind too much.

My turn! I step to the head of the line. Without a word, the clerk slides my three things across the scanner. $6.03 she says flatly. I hand her a $10. She hands me a wad of bills and coins and my receipt, and without a word, starts scanning the next guy's stuff. Before I can even get my change in my pocket, she has scanned three items, bagged them, and set them next to mine. In the meantime, the fuckwad behind me has moved to within about 6" of me and is crowding me away from the bagging area. He clears his through as I pick up my items to which I shot him a, "fuck with me and I'll kick your ass!" look, to which he finally backs off.

 I'm thinking this guy has a problem of his own, but the clerk never says hi or hows your day or anything. Didn't even count my fucking change back to me.

When I was younger, people would get fired for that behavior. Our technology had made it to where people can't count change and society has just "accepted" that. While we are at it, lets just give each kid a trophy, just because. We won't keep score, and,,,,, uh wait a min, you mean we already do that?

 Wow, what a nation of pussies we have become!

Calgon take me away!

What is wrong with people today?

This week I started looking at a few things in retrospect. One of these was some iconic photos that had been colorized. The one that commands the most attention from me is the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square at the end of World War II.

This iconic photo has served as a symbol of the American perspective that the war as over. The man has never been identified, but the nurse has. Since I like the old B&W photos, I was a little torn to see it colorized, but hey, it did look cool. I started reading the comments thinking it would be about how cool it looked, or how it was wrong to color it.

What I read was nothing of the sort.most of the comments were negative all right, but about how the sailor was accosting and nearly raping the woman. They went on about how wrong it was to have this image saying it was OK to do this in public. "Screech!" Put on the brakes and hold on a minute there fucktards! This is not a crime caught in the act, this is the feeling of a nation who had been at war, in THE toughest conflict they had EVER seen, and their feeling of relief that it was finally OVER! 

The comments show what a nation of pussies we have become. Everyone is so "sue-happy" that NOTHING is sacred any more. People don't think like they used to and that seems to be the problem. When we were acting up, even the neighbor would get onto us. If we were lucky, he wouldn't call our parents and tell them, thus we would have abetting waiting when we got home.  Today, the kids would yell back at the neighbor, when he called the parents, he would most likely be told to mind his own business. 

You know progress isn't always progressive. Sometimes it's destructive. I am beginning to think our progressiveness is not worth it. Last night I watched Grownups 2 with my family. Ok, while I'm not usually a fan of part 2 through whatever, as it shows the lack of imagination of Hollywood, it did address the issue. Spoiler Alert!,,,, the local college punks portray exactly what our society has become, a group of spoiled, snot-nosed punks who have no respect for history or anyone outside their group of associates. They deserved to get their asses kicked by the " smelly old geezers".

Even today I read there is a group trying to ban residents burning wood to heat their homes becaus of air pollution? Well let's ban Smoking! That is more harmful air pollution than burning wood to heat a home. It is more offensive to me to be inside somewhere having some jerk wad blowing his Marlboro in my face, than smelling a distant fire on a winter night. When you say something to king ash, he threatens to sue you or hit you. That is usually till I stand up and tell him I'll shove his pack up his ass, I usually get an apology as he looks up at me then, but he still smokes indoors. Go shoot yourself in the head ass-wipe!

I notice the next several posts I have lined up are all about the same thing. More to come soon.