Why if you suffered make others suffer?

I remember a lot Anti-antisemitism as well as anti-black comments growing up on Long Island. My father was an Irish-Catholic living in Protestant Scotland that is why he came to this country where he hoped there would be a little less prejudice and always said don’t put anyone else down for you could be next. I don’t understand people who came from ancestors that suffered prejudice could turn around and do it to others.

Who is smart and who isn’t

I know that history is filled with what really big thinkers have said about this subject for thousands of years so I think it is time for someone who just wishes they could be as smart gave their thoughts of what makes someone smart and what the hell is smart anyway.

The more education one gets the more facts that are thrown at him/her, some are able to use those facts and learn from the mistakes of those that came before us. They advance the Society they live in through their talents There are others that go through the higher education system to become doctors and even run for president of the USA, but when the talk about history or the bible they get facts that a grade school student knows is wrong. So my guess is that facts are useless without reasoning power. You have to use logical reasoning power to know which fact are probably true and which are probably false. It seems that some people have reasoning power and some don’t which brings up the question are people born with Logical Reasoning Power or is it learned as they grow up? 

50 years later Selma march Continues

In 1965 I was in the US Army at Fort Benning Georgia where they were suddenly giving us riot training and in March of that year they woke us up early in the morning and load us up on trucks with barbwire on the front of it. We never went anywhere, but I was always wondered what that was all about. Now I realize that it must have been the march on Selma.

Even with all the reforms that have happen since 1965 and the improvement in communications people seem more misinformed than ever. Civil right leaders of today are hated not only in the south, in the whole country.  People just asking for justice for  blacks are called all sort of names it can only be hoped that future generations will be more educated so has to change the culture of this and many other countries.

                    Obama's Selma speech was his best ever, if only people would listen. It should be replayed just before November 2016 so people who tend not to vote therefore giving their power away maybe will listen to him and vote.

Brian William’s War story

A lot of people especially Vets seen to be upset that he exaggerated his story to sound like the helicopter that he was in was hit by ground fire when it was the helicopter in front on him.  Now I don’t care if he was shot at or not, but it seem a lot who served do, but what I remember from my time in the service is that some soldiers were exaggerating even before they left the service. Now I am sure once they left they turned honest about their service.

          If as Brain said they were flying in formation wasn’t the people on the ground shooting at all the helicopters, but just hit one so his story isn’t that far off. Why is such hate for a mere broadcaster? Maybe they are just needed a new person for their hate, the hate of the month.   

Police facing dangerous persons

The police of Ferguson and Saint Louis on confronting black teenagers that they thought might be threatening to them, so they emptied the pistols into the black teenagers. It seems to me that they panicked which I might have done myself in that situation.  Unlike me the police are supposed to be trained to handle dangerous situations.  The officers in Saint Louis were said to have tasers that could have just stunned him and he would be alive. I guess the police are use to using their pistols and don’t trust their tasers.

          The police culture seems to be them against blacks because black commit most of the petty crimes, but it’s always been that petty crimes are commit by the poor.  It is true that not all poor are black, a higher percentage of the blacks are poor than the whites if the police didn’t find it easier to pick on the blacks they would come after the poor whites and Hispanics.

          So I think the answer is better equipped and trained police as well as better educated populous. This might mean higher taxes for everyone; it would be well worth it to live in a safe and free country again.    

A Prince is born

A Prince is born

Today the great news was that a prince of the World of born and this is a great event because it gaves us continuity and a look to the future were the new born prince will be King long after we have passed away from this planetary plane and something we have known in our lifetime will continue into the future of mankind. We were once ruled by Lords and princes that told us how to live and had the power of life and death over us, but they needed us  to feed them, build their castles, and fight their wars, but in turn the cared for our welfare fore they knew they needed us.

Today our rulers don’t think they need us anymore that they can play us against each other or let machines do the work we use to do. They are wrong future generations will united the workers of the world (not just one country) their machines will need us to operated them, but we will be one people of the world. Now this may many generations after us, but rest assured we will win in the end and we will have our prince to lead us

My Father, JFK and the Workingclass

My Father loved JFK, more because he was an Irish Catholic who had made it. Unlike my Father raised in a Protestant Country (Scotland) Kennedy made my father’s life long suffering worthwhile, yet I saw Kennedy and another sell out to the enemies of the working class, that portended to be with us only to stab us in the back in the end as many Democrats do.  My Father like many others left the country he loved and he did love Scotland and even England if they were fighting a common enemy. After being discriminated against in job after job for being an Irish Catholic he took to the streets, he once said the his proudest moment was when he put a brick through a Orange party Base drum during the Orange parade in Glasgow.

Don’t get me wrong the Kennedy Family did a lot for this country working within a system that heavily favors the elite class over the working class, and Ted Kennedy did a lot the improve health care in this country, which makes me think that senator if worked right can be more powerful than a President.

I think the fight goes on, but not just for Irish Catholics, but for all workingclass people around the world, and yes it looks like an impossible dream, but so did a free Ireland.