For example.  When is the last time you heard anyone suggest that women should be playing in the NBA?  Or the NFL.  Why not?  Well the truthful answer would be that they can’t compete against much larger and faster men.  Technically that would make them incompetent (not qualified or suited for a particular purpose).  Everyone knows it and everyone accepts it – in sports competition.  What do you suppose the comments would be toward someone who suggested that because certain West Africans were genetically better-suited to long distance running that they should be in a separate class of runners.  Don’t they have an unfair advantage contained in their genes?  An unfair advantage is the basis in forbidding performance-enhancing drug users isn’t it?

To me, the best system is one where the best person for the job gets it.  Race, gender, height, weight, sexual proclivities, religion and other such characteristics should not be considered.  Just give me the best person for the job.  How does being homosexual have any relevance to an accountant?  Yet if a homosexual were running for the office of State Controller it would almost certainly be a factor as far as the opposition was concerned.

Really, you shouldn’t have it both ways – if you want equality based upon equal representation then apply the standard everywhere – in sports, politics, religion, business, government, universities, etc.

In my view that would be as stupid as requiring MIT or Stanford to educate the mentally challenged and give up places in programs which could be occupied by those who could really put that learning to use for our nation.  Or requiring the NBA to have equal representation among all races and genders – that would lead to some pretty dull games I think.  Not to mention bringing down the high-standard for playing to a much lower standard.

How would you like to find out that your surgeon was graduated from med school because she matched a particular “equality” requirement and not necessarily because she met the same standards as all the other graduates?  Wouldn’t you rather have the person who was the best at their specialty regardless of race or gender?  If you were in a serious car wreck would you want to be attended to by the first EMS person who could get there?  Or would you rather wait for the one who matched your diversity criteria? It is interesting to me that those who demand equal representation in business, government and politics  based solely on race or gender don’t seem to have the same attitude when it comes to other areas.

The problem is that the accusers are generally hypocrites.  Does anyone know of a single African-American without a story about mistreatment of African-Americans at the hands of a white cop?  The race of cops arresting African-Americans is always an issue.  Isn’t that racial profiling?  The assumption of unfair treatment is immediately on the table if the arresting officer is white.  How is that not racial profiling?  Another prevalent assumption is that an African-American cannot get a fair trial from an all-white jury.  How is that not racial profiling?

Sure, there are an untold number of instances of racial discrimination of African-Americans by whites.  That’s the point.  The number of instances is so large it can’t help but lead to profiling.  As humans we are pre-disposed to “profiling” in order to survive as a species.  We sub-consciously categorize potential dangers in order to make them easier to spot so we can take defensive measures when needed.

Imagine that you are driving down the road when you are suddenly surrounded by what appears to be the Hell’s Angels.  Don’t waste your time trying to convince me that you are not on high alert for potential danger.  Although most tattooed, bandana-wearing, Harley Davidson-driving motorcyclists are, in real life, middle-aged accountants and bankers hoping to re-live a youth they never participated in, some are meth-dealing thugs.   If I had to guess, I’d guess less than one percent of Harley riders are criminals.  But we profile them all as a potential danger.  UNTIL we have had the opportunity to evaluate them more carefully, our first response is to profile them and be alert.  If it was a gaggle of nuns you were suddenly surrounded by I doubt you’d be wondering if you had remembered to pack your baseball bat.

Many people strive to fall into a certain profile.  Its their choice.  Their reasons are their reasons, but when they are “profiled” it is because they have chosen to be profiled.  Kids dressing up like thugs is an example.  The root of the hoodie-wearing, pants-around-the-ankles movement is thuggery.  Plain and simple.  Dress up to look like a thug and people will think you are dangerous.  Guess what?  They do think you’re dangerous.  They profile you, initially, exactly the way you intended.  Wear a priest’s collar and some people will think you are trustworthy.  Race is a factor in some profiling.  Male African-Americans wearing suits and bowties might be profiled, initially, as Farrakhan-followers.  Whites dressing in the same way would not initially be classified at Farrakhan-followers (they’d probably be classified as professors).  Whites who look like the stereotypical skinhead are likely to be initially profiled as neo-nazis. African-Americans who adopt the “look and feel” of skinheads would never be profiled as neo-nazis – their race precludes that classification.

My point is that profiling is perfectly normal and it’s a good thing.  Racial discrimination is a bad thing.  They are not the same thing and pretending that they are is hypocritical and divisive.

“For years, journalists participating in the lockups have shown up at DOL at the appointed time, then entered a limited-access area to receive the new data and prepare news stories for release as soon as official embargoes end.

The system insures that major news organizations get the data as soon as possible and allows journalists covering the release get a jump on providing analyses and opinion about the data.

But Carl Fillichio, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis’ top communications advisor, circulated a memo earlier this week to interested media informing them that everybody is being required to re-submit their credentials requests.

He also offered a one-sentence assurance that ‘the department will not consider editorial or political viewpoints in making credentialing decisions.’“

Bullshit!  Don’t believe for a minute that a politically-appointed member of the Obama Administration won’t consider “editorial or political viewpoints in making credentialing decisions.” because that is precisely what they will do.  It is the entire purpose of the new plan.  The number of slots is limited.  They will use that to give an edge to those news organizations which favor them.  Granted, that is most news organizations already, but still…  They already do this with favorable treatment during press conferences.  If you don’t toe the line you’re out.

This is a Presidential election year.  Obama is desperate to keep his job.  One of his primary problems with re-election is the miserable state of employment.  Spinning employment statistics is critical and the first news releases are the ones remembered.  This sounds exactly like a scheme Rahm would come up with to make it sound like Obama is doing well, when in fact, the number of unemployed is disgraceful.  And the groups with the highest unemployment are Obama’s political base.  So basically the message he will send to his supporters through his favored news agencies is that everything is wonderful and if they don’t have jobs, its only a matter of a short time before they will.

“My personal feeling is that, as a young kid that was beat on by a bully, that was pretty much singled out—the guy [Zimmerman] stalked him, didn’t follow instructions from a superior officer, when they said, ‘Stop following the kid.’ That tells you everything right there. But my all-around perspective, I wasn’t there, I don’t know what happened. But it’s just so widespread and overt what happened. Even though this is the best country in the world, certain laws in this country are a disgrace to a nation of savages. It’s a majority versus a minority. That’s the way God planned it. He didn’t want to do something about it, He wanted us to do something about it. And if we don’t, it’s gonna stay this way. We have to continue tweeting, we have to continue marching, we have to continue fighting for Trayvon Martin. If that’s not the case, he was killed in vain, and we’re just waiting for it to happen to our children. He’ll have gotten away with impunity. It’s a disgrace that man hasn’t been dragged out of his house and tied to a car and taken away. That’s the only kind of retribution that people like that understand. It’s a disgrace that man hasn’t been shot yet. Forget about him being arrested–the fact that he hasn’t been shot yet is a disgrace. That’s how I feel personally about it.”

In 1992, Tyson was convicted of raping Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant contestant, and served three years in prison.

Let’s parse Mikes remarks:

“as a young kid that was beat on by a bully”  Every single witness, so far, states that it was exactly the opposite.  Trayvon beat Zimmerman.

“didn’t follow instructions from a superior officer”  “we don’t need you to do that” is not an instruction, it is an observation.

“I wasn’t there, I don’t know what happened.”  Don’t let that stop you from calling for Zimmerman’s death Mike.

“But it’s just so widespread and overt what happened.” This makes absolutely no sense, but he’s got the microphone.

“Even though this is the best country in the world, certain laws in this country are a disgrace to a nation of savages.”  Actually, I don’t have a problem with savages being disgraced.  In fact, I think it’s a good idea.  We should do more of it.

“It’s a majority versus a minority. That’s the way God planned it. He didn’t want to do something about it, He wanted us to do something about it.”  God has spoken to Mike Tyson and told him that in His infinite wisdom he planned that blacks would be oppressed so that they would be motivated to go against God’s plan.  If I were you Mike, I’d get me a new God…

“It’s a disgrace that man hasn’t been dragged out of his house and tied to a car and taken away.”  I presume you mean by someone other than the Police because tying SUSPECTS to Police Cars would be disgraceful.

“It’s a disgrace that man hasn’t been shot yet. Forget about him being arrested–the fact that he hasn’t been shot yet is a disgrace.”  These statements seem to reflect the desires of way too many in the African-American community.

Mark Davis is another matter altogether.  Davis has the ability to go National.  He frequently filled in for Rush Limbaugh, had guests of National stature and hosted a very high quality show.  I will miss Mark Davis if his absence is permanent in Dallas.

It is my understanding that KLIF and WBAP are “sister” stations.  That sounds like it means they are commonly owned.  And that makes me think the coincidence of both Davis and Bolton being off the air is no coincidence.  If that’s true, it sounds like the bean-counters are at it again.  Management decisions being made by people who have never participated (from behind the microphone) in the success of a radio station. Bolton, Davis and Ingraham had loyal followers.  Where do you suppose the loyal followers are going to go now?  Someplace where they get what they want, that’s where!  In the case of KLIF they will almost all go away.  In the case of WBAP, some will settle for the new guy.  But, the moment a dynamic new host of Mark Davis’ calibre comes along they will leave WBAP for that new guy.

In the cases of Mark Davis and Laura Ingraham, the decision will certainly end up costing them much more than they think they will save.  I imagine that the payment for syndicated programming (like the Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham shows) is predicated on building listenership to local advertising sold on the station.  Drive down the listenership with sub-par programming and you automatically drive down the revenue you recieve from your own advertisements.  Short term, that might seem to make sense, but ultimately it’s a death spiral.  I guess in the case of Laura Ingraham it was cheaper to drop her and replace her with Chris Krok – for the time being.  In the case of Mark Davis it just seems stupid to me to replace a high-quality, highly popular, rising star with someone who is not of the same calibre.

I might be all wet in my analysis.  I have no real idea how a profitable radio station is run.  Maybe these decisions are good ones.  On the other hand, maybe they’re not.  I guess time will tell.  But if the decisions made are bad ones, the cost of regaining the lost audience will be great.  And believe me, all the decisions cited will result in lost listeners.  If the replacements were of the quality that would add listeners to make up for the lost ones, then it might make sense – but they are not.

Trayvon Martin was an African-American Eagle Scout, a noted African-American scholar, a fun-loving African-American boyfriend and gave up his own Skittles to feed the homeless.  As he walked through a neighborhood, in which he didn’t live, he picked up litter as a community service (sometimes he found jewelry just lying on the ground).  Because the temperature had dropped into the mid-30′s he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt – the only outerwear he owned.  He was visiting his African-American father while on a school-sanctioned sabbatical to study neighborhood practices in regard to the locking of doors and windows.  Oh, by the way, he was an African-American.

George Zimmerman is a White Klu Klux Klan wannabe who was out that evening exterminating bunnies, puppies and kittens with his tripod-mounted .50 caliber machine gun while pretending to help keep his oft-burglarized neighborhood free of crime by pretending to notify the authorities of suspicious activity.  Zimmerman couldn’t find any bunnies, puppies, kittens or White people to exterminate but he did see Trayvon (an African-American) prowling his neighborhood while wearing a hoodie.  Hoodies are worn only by African-Americans.  President Obama’s pretend son would have been wearing a hoodie were he to be wandering neighborhoods.

As a pretext to his true intentions, Zimmerman called 911 and reported a “suspicious person”.  When asked by the dispatcher whether he was following the person he stated that he was.  The dispatcher told him he “didn’t need to do that.”  Anyone knows that when the voice on the other end of the phone tells you to do, or not do, something they speak from experience and authority because they have special powers to order people not to observe others in their own neighborhoods.  You should also obey voices in your head.

In spite of the dispatcher’s advice Zimmerman hunted down Trayvon to exterminate him.  Zimmerman got up in Trayvon’s face and asked: “watchoo doin’ heah boy?” Trayvon crouched so as to be on the same level as Zimmerman and responded that he was buying Skittles for the homeless and hoped that he wasn’t, in any way, causing Mr. Zimmerman any undue concern.  Zimmerman immediately smashed his face into Trayvon’s fist, thereby breaking his own nose.  Then in order to set the stage for his true intentions Zimmerman threw himself to the ground and smashed the back of his own head into the concrete over and over again.  Not yet satisfied with his plan, Zimmerman then squirmed around in the grass and pretended to call for help.  Only then was his diabolical plan nearly complete.  He pulled his hidden .45 and shot poor, innocent Trayvon and then danced around him like a lunatic laughing hysterically at how impressed his followers would be when he Tweeted his bold actions so they would know what a tough guy he is.

Being an authentic time-traveller Zimmerman then went back in time and planted marijuana residue, burglary tools and women’s jewelry on Trayvon in order to deliberately ruin little Trayvon’s reputation.

While George Zimmerman is the only one who know the facts in this issue, things continue to come out daily which seem to support his statements to the police.  In spite of that the media, in many cases (particularly ABC), seems intent on continuing to overlook facts and invent their own version of facts with the clear intent of stoking the “racial injustice” fires.  President Obama, Eric Holder, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are not helping matters by remaining silent on the subject of the BOUNTY the New National Black Panther party has announced for the capture of George Zimmerman (even though the authorities know how to find him).  Spike Lee remains silent on the subject of his erroneous “outing” of Zimmerman’s location which has caused an elderly couple who share the Zimmerman name to abandon their home and flee for their lives.  No one is calling for Holder’s head for, once again, allowing to New National Black Panther Party to act with impunity when it comes to the law.

I love corned beef hash.  Recently I bought 4 cans of Libby’s Corned Beef Hash at my local Kroger store.  They had several choices, but I chose Libby’s.

It was absolutely awful.

It looked and smelled like dog food.  I can’t say it tasted like dog food because I’ve never eaten dog food.  Frankly I think even a dog would turn up it’s nose at this stuff.

I know Conagra is a huge corporation.  You probably have an executive dining room.  I’d like to suggest that you begin serving your own products in your dining room.  Maybe if you and your executive team tasted the crap you’re selling to the public things might improve.

Having eaten the crap you produce for breakfast this morning I can tell you that I don’t feel too well.  Maybe it was the sight and smell of the crap that put me off, or maybe it is the crap itself, but in either case I don’t feel good as a result of eating the crap you produce.  This morning I ate the second of the four cans I bought thinking maybe the problem was just me on that first day.  The results were the same.  I’ve tossed the other two cans in the trash.

You should be ashamed of yourself for selling something like this to the American public.  I sincerely doubt you serve this crap to your own family.  If I were you, I’d be embarrassed.

I submitted a link to this post this morning on your website.  Although I intended it to go to Investor Relations in the hope that you might actually see it, it was re-directed to Consumer Affairs.  I guess you must get a lot of complaints sent to Investor Relations and they would prefer to spend their time seducing investors rather than dealing with the people who buy the products which enable you to earn the profit your investors are interested in.  I doubt anyone other than the Consumer Affairs people will read this and I suspect they are going to want to send me some coupons for more of your crappy food.  Please don’t – I wouldn’t eat it again if it were free.

In fact, the only response I would like is one right here where it can be shared with the public.

They’ve emailed me several times and each time I’ve “unsubscribed” even though I never subscribed in the first place.

Today I got an email offering 20% off a subscription.  Again I tried to unsubscribe.  Below is what I got when I clicked the “Unsubscribe” link in their spam.  If I hadn’t already made up my mind to disassociate myself from the Dallas Morning News, this would have been the last straw.

Dimwits.

The phrase “premature stamina” makes absolutely no sense.  Stamina is defined as “The ability to sustain prolonged physical or mental effort.”  Premature is defined as “Occurring or done before the usual or proper time; too early.”

So they are offering to relieve me of the ability to sustain prolonged physical effort too early.  And we all know what “physical effort” they’re talking about…

I don’t want to be relieved of that, and I really doubt any other men do either.  It’s obvious, to me anyway, that what they are proposing to fix in their advertisement is the exact opposite of what their treatment is meant do accomplish.

So what?  I’m about to tell you.

I expect those medical professionals to whom I entrust the treatment of my ailments to be educated and up to date.  That requires reading and comprehension in most cases, although I suppose it could be done with youtube.  Mens Edge Medical apparently has no one who can read or comprehend their own advertising.  Even a simple person such as me can comprehend their advertising script.  I don’t want a physician, who can’t even understand an advertising script, working on my man parts.  How can I expect that the doc who can’t understand simple advertising scripts will be able to understand complicated medical procedures?  What about drug interactions and side effects?  Doesn’t the doc have to read and comprehend to understand them before advising me?

Dimwits.

I’ve added a new category or two, a page for my Twitter Feed and a couple new posts.