tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post3589802517802447798..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Obama Sows Racial DivisionStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-26355803542610752932014-12-08T06:10:13.939-08:002014-12-08T06:10:13.939-08:00"During the 3-1/2 years of World War 2 that s..."During the 3-1/2 years of World War 2 that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, “We the People of the U.S.A.” produced the following:<br /><br />22 aircraft carriers,<br />8 battleships,<br />48 cruisers,<br />349 destroyers,<br />420 destroyer escorts,<br />203 submarines,<br />34 million tons of merchant ships,<br />100,000 fighter aircraft,<br />98,000 bombers,<br />24,000 transport aircraft,<br />58,000 training aircraft,<br />93,000 tanks,<br />257,000 artillery pieces,<br />105,000 mortars,<br />3,000,000 machine guns, and<br />2,500,000 military trucks.<br /><br />We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb, and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.<br /><br />It’s worth noting, that during the almost exact amount of time, the Obama Administration couldn’t even build a web site that worked."<br /><br />Instapundit.<br /><br />When one has as dismal a record on almost everything Obama touches one can understand the false narrative the administration is using. Its the war on women, race relations, et al when the vast majority of this would disappear if we had a vibrant economy with people working, getting real educations vice indoctrinations and we were working to improve the lot of families and small businesses.<br />At some point the "victim communities" are going to have to recognize that the real enemy is the one they see in the mirror every morning. How can one spend decades voting for the same people who have done little to improve the lives of their communities, education, et al? When one sells themselves cheap they become cheapened.<br />Being smart and also wanting to be a cop is not "acting white." Police forces around this country do a lot to get minority policeman, but face the specter of "acting white" as a deterrent. Complaining about not having enough of this or that and then not joining would seem to me to be counter productive. As the old joke says, "You have to play the lottery in order to win the lottery."<br />Until alleged "victim communities" start being a part of the solution instead of destroying their own we will continually deal with these problems.<br />I would posit that the vast majority of this is agenda driven, pushed by a leftist media from "blue areas" and those who gain power from the misery of others. Until people start realizing that allowing fire starters into issues that we could actually ameliorate it is always going to become a fire.<br />Hopefully one of the lessons we learn is that voting for someone because they are black or a woman only serves to exacerbate the problem. When one becomes an advocate then one thens to not see the whole picture or represent all of the people.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-33425171717278031732014-12-07T20:56:00.001-08:002014-12-07T20:56:00.001-08:00"Leftists love calling for national conversat..."Leftists love calling for national conversations." They don't want to HAVE one, and they certainly will fire heavy artillery at anyone who speaks up with a non-leftie/"liberal"/progressive POV.<br /><br />"Not so Obama. He cannot admit to his own failures so he is embracing Al Sharpton and scapegoating white police officers.<br /><br />That’s why the nation is dividing on racial lines."<br /><br />I think that noticeably exacerbates it. Barry's been a racialist from the first, and more people are finally catching on.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-4596959080943501492014-12-07T16:00:13.555-08:002014-12-07T16:00:13.555-08:00re: People who are absolved of moral responsibilit...re: People who are absolved of moral responsibility will naturally conclude that bad behavior is a good thing… at least, for them. People who cannot take responsibility will be more inclined to break the law. <br /><br />I don't think it can be so simple, or at least bad behavior is a two way street, and I think there is a sort of "accumulated desperation" of poverty and that abuse of authority that leads people to act badly, and its not always just "excusing bad behavior" of one side by acknowledging the other side needs attention too. There's a closed loop of madness here unless we can break it.<br /><br />I read some of the transcripts from the Ferguson grand jury. It looks like there's never going to be an answer to Brown's bad behavior, and refusing to back down to police, getting himself shot and killed.<br /><br />But if I lived in a world where police officers were shouting daily at me "Get the fuck off the street", and the like, that would affect me.<br /><br />Americans do love the vigilante who stands up to bullies and injustice. I remember a Michael Douglas movie "Falling down"<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Down Falling Down is a 1993 crime drama. The film stars Michael Douglas in the lead role of William Foster, a divorcé and unemployed former defense engineer. The film centers on Foster as he goes on a violent rampage across the city of Los Angeles, trying to reach the house of his estranged ex-wife in time for his daughter's birthday party. Along the way, a series of encounters, both trivial and provocative, cause him to react with violence and make sardonic observations on life, poverty, the economy, and commercialism. Robert Duvall co-stars as Martin Prendergast, an aging LAPD Sergeant on the day of his retirement, who faces his own frustrations, even as he tracks down Foster.<br /><br />There is something insane inside all of us, and if we say "This insanity is only over there with those people" we miss the point of our own participation.<br /><br />Social justice is a mess for me. I can't wrap by brain around any of it, and it can be simply "enabling immaturity" at a deep level, but in the very least people are paying attention to police excessive force and bruality, and willingness to use a gun when there's no legitiate threat to immediate safety.<br /><br />The hashtag I've seen going around is "#blacklivesmatter", and a part of me wants to say "But facts are more important than distorted narratives", so its a manipulative meme, saying "We're not going to cooperate until these abuses of authority are addressed."<br /><br />I don't approve at all, except I see everyone would rather go back to sleep to anything that doesn't affect us personally, and that's how we got here in the first place.<br /><br />Anyway, the whole problem with blame is the people acting out most aggressively are already "on a death wish" and all they need is a self-righteous half-lie that makes life at best crappy or tragic for many other people, and it never ends if you definite justice on the simplest terms of who can be blamed and punished at the moment.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com