Post by #HEEL Dark Lord on Oct 5, 2005 17:25:45 GMT -5
10/03/2005: "Fishing is Great in New Orleans, it's the Attitudes that Suck. "
Some of you believed my fishing trip picture was insensitive. Not p/c. Funny, I never recognized that this bothered me. I appreciate though that you attempted to bring it to my attention.
Frankly, I couldn’t help myself, having tired of the negative whines and howling cries of victimization, and also the lack of direct attention on the incompetents running the government down there.
Yes, there were tragic instances. But giving airtime only to wacky, pessimistic, irrational voices (as media across the board did--even FOX) was just too much for me to tolerate for too long. Anyone who expresses sentiments like “How could they let this hurricane come here and do this to our lives?” is a kook as far as I am concerned. Those that somehow believe people are directly to blame for the happening of a natural catastrophe don’t deserve to be heard. In fact, they should to be told to shut the hell up. These kinds of people contribute nothing toward repairing things to a better state. Truth is, these people thrive on despair and disarray. Chaos -- mentally and physically and in the way they conduct their lives -- is nothing new to them. They forge their whole lives in and around it. This hurricane to them was nothing more than like rearranging the furniture. If we could be shown what general conditions they lived in before the hurricane, we would see that had little respect for what they did have. We would see just how unorganized, unclean and dysfunctionally they lived. They never gave a care for order, cleanliness or function before, but now that they can get someone’s attention who will possibly take over the responsibility of their life for them, they go on these tirades about how their life has been ruined. Their lives were already in ruin -- self ruin. Ruined by the bad choices they made over and over.
Beginning with the choice to sit on their ass expecting someone else to hand them a wonderful, beautiful, healthy and wealthy life. And excuse me for being the one to say so, but if you have a dozen kids and no husband to be a father, there are some ‘holes’ in your life plan that should be sewed up. Everyone makes mistakes, but only stupid people make the same ones over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Why should reasonable people have any sympathy for those that do this, when they have absolutely none for the helpless dependent children they go ahead and bring into the world when they know they don’t even have their own life act together? Continuing to have children when you know the man who plants the seed is not going to be around to help in the raising and when you can’t afford to even raise the ones you already have, is stupid.
These kind of people are the ones I am talking about when I say there are those who need to sit down, shut up and just get the hell out of the way. These people should be thankful all humans are not undisciplined, promiscuous, depressing, doom-and-gloom maniacs like them. Some of us care to do better all the time, make better the quality of our lives day in and day out, not just in the face of disaster when someone else will do the work and pick up the bill. Hell, if all people were like these, it wouldn’t only be New Orleans that was a toilet bowl right now, and it wouldn’t be so because a hurricane caused it. It would be because people didn’t give a damn about making something better out of their lives and, thereby, contributing something better back into the world. I’m sick of hearing how you must have been born with a silver spoon in your mouth to have one. This is the exception, not the rule.
Natural disasters happen and there is only so much we humans can do to mitigate the consequences they throw down on us. It’s real simple. Francis Bacon said: "For nature to be commanded it must first be obeyed." Mankind has, indeed, come a long way and figured out many things. But when Mother Nature throws a fit you better do more than just duck -- you better relocate until Her madness dies down. Get married if you aren’t and you’ll get the hang of this drill rather quickly. There’s a reason why it’s called Mother Nature. lol....
Question. Why was it too much to ask that we get to the bottom of why 200 or so buses sat flooded in water? Just why was it too much to keep pushing on this till we had a truthful answer? Can we just stay with this line of questioning, first? Would it be possible to make nothing else matter until the Mayor and Governor are backed into a corner, like the rats that they are, and they admittedly blurt out the truth: “They sat there because we’re incompetent and unworthy of being called leaders and we screwed up really bad and people died on our watch.”
It’s funny that whenever government -- local, state or federal -- has a problem within itself, it never begins its investigation at the start to discover what went wrong, first. And when you approach problem solving this way, the true reasons for failures don’t get found or acknowledged, nor do problems ever get solved. Even in the simplest life instances this does not work. If I have a problem to handle of any kind, I can’t just skip some of the preliminary and overall steps that have created and brought the problem to whatever stage it may be at. I can’t just demand a different starting point where I want to begin to figure out what went wrong. I can’t do this to others and I can’t allow that it be done to me. It’s nuts and it is not how real life works. You don’t get to know how a problem began if you refuse to go and start at the beginning -- and assign blame, there, if it is due. If two wrongs don’t make a right, as they say, then pointing out the first wrong is something we should make pretty damn important.
This is one of the problems with government that I always talk about. In Washington, DC they make it seem like they are creating societal solutions -- this is how they fraudulently keep their jobs -- but they never take into consideration how people think and behave to begin with. You can’t fix societal problems if you skip objective review of how people think and act and refuse to pass judgment on what you find.
So many of those so much smarter than you and I claim it would be outright indecent right now to assign blame. This is bs. Since when has acting indecent ever been a problem politicians and bureaucrats are bothered by? They do this all the time and are even proud of it. No, the true problem is getting a politician or bureaucrat to own up to the blame they need to accept in the first place. All of them know that NONE of them can or will do it, so, collectively, they give one another a pass and shitcan assigning blame, altogether.
Today, it IS just too much to ask that wrongdoers be taken to task for the wrongs they commit. It’d be great to just one time watch them sit sweating under the pressure of finally knowing they must own up to their wrongs. Holding someone -- anyone -- accountable is not a thing we can do anymore. It’s no wonder that I have over the last couple of years, since being actively involved and paying strict attention, become so sickened by the adults in politics, the political media machinery and other professional positions extended automatic, unconditional respect. They are all nothing but enablers of the deterioration of the country they claim they so much want to save. Not one from any side has the integrity to put their paycheck on the line to get us -- THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO CONTROL THE GOVERNMENT -- the truth. NOT ONE.
Now is not the time to point fingers? Just when would it be ok to do so? Pointing fingers, they say, is not a good idea right now because it keeps us from getting to the work at hand. Why, I ask, can’t we point the finger at those to blame, first, and do so with a force to skewer their waste right on top of the pile of rest of the damaged, no-good-for-nothing debris? Get rid of them, NOW. Why the delay in doing what the reality of my own everyday life demands? Would it be only so we can forget about it 24 hours later? So cockamamie Attention Deficit Disorders can work hand in hand with not having to pass judgment? Thought so. Well, that doesn’t work in my life as I go about making decisions that have consequences. Does it work in yours? Those with the forums and visibility are so damn politically correct, passive, and bought-off, pointing fingers at those truly to blame will never, ever happen. “Judgment” is no longer a concept in our vocabulary. It’s pathetic -- and no one who does this will I ever call “like-minded” or a friend.
Some of you believed my fishing trip picture was insensitive. Not p/c. Funny, I never recognized that this bothered me. I appreciate though that you attempted to bring it to my attention.
Frankly, I couldn’t help myself, having tired of the negative whines and howling cries of victimization, and also the lack of direct attention on the incompetents running the government down there.
Yes, there were tragic instances. But giving airtime only to wacky, pessimistic, irrational voices (as media across the board did--even FOX) was just too much for me to tolerate for too long. Anyone who expresses sentiments like “How could they let this hurricane come here and do this to our lives?” is a kook as far as I am concerned. Those that somehow believe people are directly to blame for the happening of a natural catastrophe don’t deserve to be heard. In fact, they should to be told to shut the hell up. These kinds of people contribute nothing toward repairing things to a better state. Truth is, these people thrive on despair and disarray. Chaos -- mentally and physically and in the way they conduct their lives -- is nothing new to them. They forge their whole lives in and around it. This hurricane to them was nothing more than like rearranging the furniture. If we could be shown what general conditions they lived in before the hurricane, we would see that had little respect for what they did have. We would see just how unorganized, unclean and dysfunctionally they lived. They never gave a care for order, cleanliness or function before, but now that they can get someone’s attention who will possibly take over the responsibility of their life for them, they go on these tirades about how their life has been ruined. Their lives were already in ruin -- self ruin. Ruined by the bad choices they made over and over.
Beginning with the choice to sit on their ass expecting someone else to hand them a wonderful, beautiful, healthy and wealthy life. And excuse me for being the one to say so, but if you have a dozen kids and no husband to be a father, there are some ‘holes’ in your life plan that should be sewed up. Everyone makes mistakes, but only stupid people make the same ones over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Why should reasonable people have any sympathy for those that do this, when they have absolutely none for the helpless dependent children they go ahead and bring into the world when they know they don’t even have their own life act together? Continuing to have children when you know the man who plants the seed is not going to be around to help in the raising and when you can’t afford to even raise the ones you already have, is stupid.
These kind of people are the ones I am talking about when I say there are those who need to sit down, shut up and just get the hell out of the way. These people should be thankful all humans are not undisciplined, promiscuous, depressing, doom-and-gloom maniacs like them. Some of us care to do better all the time, make better the quality of our lives day in and day out, not just in the face of disaster when someone else will do the work and pick up the bill. Hell, if all people were like these, it wouldn’t only be New Orleans that was a toilet bowl right now, and it wouldn’t be so because a hurricane caused it. It would be because people didn’t give a damn about making something better out of their lives and, thereby, contributing something better back into the world. I’m sick of hearing how you must have been born with a silver spoon in your mouth to have one. This is the exception, not the rule.
Natural disasters happen and there is only so much we humans can do to mitigate the consequences they throw down on us. It’s real simple. Francis Bacon said: "For nature to be commanded it must first be obeyed." Mankind has, indeed, come a long way and figured out many things. But when Mother Nature throws a fit you better do more than just duck -- you better relocate until Her madness dies down. Get married if you aren’t and you’ll get the hang of this drill rather quickly. There’s a reason why it’s called Mother Nature. lol....
Question. Why was it too much to ask that we get to the bottom of why 200 or so buses sat flooded in water? Just why was it too much to keep pushing on this till we had a truthful answer? Can we just stay with this line of questioning, first? Would it be possible to make nothing else matter until the Mayor and Governor are backed into a corner, like the rats that they are, and they admittedly blurt out the truth: “They sat there because we’re incompetent and unworthy of being called leaders and we screwed up really bad and people died on our watch.”
It’s funny that whenever government -- local, state or federal -- has a problem within itself, it never begins its investigation at the start to discover what went wrong, first. And when you approach problem solving this way, the true reasons for failures don’t get found or acknowledged, nor do problems ever get solved. Even in the simplest life instances this does not work. If I have a problem to handle of any kind, I can’t just skip some of the preliminary and overall steps that have created and brought the problem to whatever stage it may be at. I can’t just demand a different starting point where I want to begin to figure out what went wrong. I can’t do this to others and I can’t allow that it be done to me. It’s nuts and it is not how real life works. You don’t get to know how a problem began if you refuse to go and start at the beginning -- and assign blame, there, if it is due. If two wrongs don’t make a right, as they say, then pointing out the first wrong is something we should make pretty damn important.
This is one of the problems with government that I always talk about. In Washington, DC they make it seem like they are creating societal solutions -- this is how they fraudulently keep their jobs -- but they never take into consideration how people think and behave to begin with. You can’t fix societal problems if you skip objective review of how people think and act and refuse to pass judgment on what you find.
So many of those so much smarter than you and I claim it would be outright indecent right now to assign blame. This is bs. Since when has acting indecent ever been a problem politicians and bureaucrats are bothered by? They do this all the time and are even proud of it. No, the true problem is getting a politician or bureaucrat to own up to the blame they need to accept in the first place. All of them know that NONE of them can or will do it, so, collectively, they give one another a pass and shitcan assigning blame, altogether.
Today, it IS just too much to ask that wrongdoers be taken to task for the wrongs they commit. It’d be great to just one time watch them sit sweating under the pressure of finally knowing they must own up to their wrongs. Holding someone -- anyone -- accountable is not a thing we can do anymore. It’s no wonder that I have over the last couple of years, since being actively involved and paying strict attention, become so sickened by the adults in politics, the political media machinery and other professional positions extended automatic, unconditional respect. They are all nothing but enablers of the deterioration of the country they claim they so much want to save. Not one from any side has the integrity to put their paycheck on the line to get us -- THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO CONTROL THE GOVERNMENT -- the truth. NOT ONE.
Now is not the time to point fingers? Just when would it be ok to do so? Pointing fingers, they say, is not a good idea right now because it keeps us from getting to the work at hand. Why, I ask, can’t we point the finger at those to blame, first, and do so with a force to skewer their waste right on top of the pile of rest of the damaged, no-good-for-nothing debris? Get rid of them, NOW. Why the delay in doing what the reality of my own everyday life demands? Would it be only so we can forget about it 24 hours later? So cockamamie Attention Deficit Disorders can work hand in hand with not having to pass judgment? Thought so. Well, that doesn’t work in my life as I go about making decisions that have consequences. Does it work in yours? Those with the forums and visibility are so damn politically correct, passive, and bought-off, pointing fingers at those truly to blame will never, ever happen. “Judgment” is no longer a concept in our vocabulary. It’s pathetic -- and no one who does this will I ever call “like-minded” or a friend.
