Monkey see, monkey do: The epidemic of school shootings.

If we, as a society, continue to glorify how fun it is to shoot opeople, whether on games or on TV and movies, we will continue to see more and more school shootings. But you won’t see any studios owning up to that fact. They will, however, continue to blame the guns or mental health (which are BOTH part of this issue) without seeing the real and most logical reason which I just just laid out in the first sentence of this opening paragraph.

When we start there then we can start healing our youth and society as a whole.

You People…

When Papa Bush was in office, all of my Democrat friends were calling for his impeachment.

When Clinton was in office, all of my Republican friends were calling for his impeachment.

When Bush Junior was in office, all of my Democrat friends were calling for his impeachment.

When Obama was in office, all of my Republican friends were calling for his impeachment.

When Trump was in office, all of my Democrat friends were calling for his impeachment.

Now Biden is in office, all of my Republican friends are calling for his impeachment.

And the only difference between you two groups is that you never look back on how we got here in the first place. You all just look back to the last guy and blame everything on him. And none of you ever look at the root cause: money.

Every time there is a conflict around the globe, the defense contractors and corporations are raking in record profits paid for by your tax dollars. And you know all those bombs and guns and ammunition that the US military just left for the Taliban? Yeah, that wasn’t a mistake. If there is no war there are no profits. And the war machine loves conflict.

But hey, as long as you can watch your movies and go out for drinks, everything is peachy keen. So don’t worry about it. Just wait for Biden to celebrate ending the Afghanistan war on the 20 year anniversary of its commencement. Because he will do that. Because that’s what politicians do.

With war comes profit, and there is no profit in peace.

Make it a great week, everyone.

Freedom of Speech

Regarding Gwen Berry, the athlete that turned her back on the anthem. And, yes, I know this will upset some of you. But I don’t care.

It’s called freedom of speech. Freedom of speech doesn’t just apply when the majority of people don’t want you to have freedom of speech. It applies always. Including if someone wants to yell out “fire“ in a crowded theater. (SCOTUS be damned.) That would be a dick move, but that person will probably not be allowed back in again and rightly so.

While I, as a military veteran of three tours overseas, don’t appreciate her actions I can respect them. I put my life on the line for her right to be a dick. That’s called freedom. She wasn’t putting anybody else’s life in danger, so if that’s how she wants to protest then I’m OK with it.

Why is there a national anthem again? Didn’t we get out from under the thumb of the Crown so we could start a new country free from dogmas and superstitions? Why do we have compulsory pledges to a flag in our public schools? (I know why, but do you?)

So, yeah… If she wants to do that, OK. We live in a partly free country. (But that’s something I will be addressing in my book.) But if you’re going to be upset about something, how about we stop bailing out banks, sending our troops overseas to help the banks get more power, stop setting one set of laws for one demographic while the wealthy demographics have a different set of laws, stop having different rules for drug users when cocaine gets you 10% of the time of a crack user, stop sending our troops to VA centers that don’t give a crap about the veterans, etc etc etc.

But yeah, totally be more upset about a US citizen protesting at a fucking game.