Why aren't charges being brought? I don't understand.

Alleged actress/solipsistic Madonna: " .....wanna blow up the White House...."

Night t.v. host Stephen Colbert about our President, whether you voted for him or not: "....your mouth is good only for a
c--k holster for Putin..."

Actor Johnny Depp: " how long has it been since an actor shot a President? Might be time for it again...."

Alleged comedian Kathy Griffin posts a picture of herself holding up the bloody freshly amputated head of our President to social media.

Why aren't charges being brought? I don't understand.

In response to an article about SC education ranking last in America, I offered this response:

I think it's more a reflection of disappearing/definitely-changing social mores and family values, than it is about anything really changing or failing to change in SC education pursuits and standards.

Up to about the early to mid-1970s, two-earner incomes were not the norm in most families. Dad usually went out to slay the dragons, and Mom tended the home fires and was hugely responsible for molding the children. That has all undergone tremendous change, because home values have.

There are fewer two-parent, different-sex households than before. There are single-parent home-lives ongoing. There are grandparents in the child-raising mix. One parent is dead, gone, under the influence of whatever, or jailed. The all-important home stability factor has diminished in its numbers.
Teachers today are sometimes the only people giving students hugs and support. Schools sometimes are the only meal providers. We have police officers in our school hallways, down to the elementary level. These are all signs that societal fabric is tearing at its most important point, home life.

It is NOT the responsibility of teachers to expose children of any age to: basic manners, a love of reading, basic hygiene, basic dress code standards, self-respect, and respect for other children and authority figures. These responsibilities begin at home. They used to, and they need to again.

Classrooms and schools can have computers and SmartBoards and updated software in every room, but if students arrive with dissenting resistant attitudes of me-first, zero empathy for others, and no desire to learn or cooperate, then having them at the river is useless, since they are extremely poorly prepared to drink. There are few teachers available at any salary who can make that happen.

Fix the families, fix the schools. It's that simple. And that difficult. Respect for one's self, first, then respect for adults and authority figures. The Golden Rule, along with Don't Touch and Keep Thy Hands to Thyself, solves/avoids about 95% of every day's events. Parents play such a key role in student lives, and thus school and society as well. What comes out of the home, affects us all. Throwing more money at schools ain't necessarily the problem, although teachers are under-paid and schools remain under-funded, because we don't place high value on education in America. We simply don't.

Fix the families, fix the schools.

Somewhere in the middle of WW II, Wild Bill Donovan took the OSS spy agency off and running. It was once killed, allegedly, by HST after the war, but didn't really die. It was renamed the CIA and people like Donovan and the Dulles brothers put our country on a different path from which we have been unable to stop and get off of. Tons upon tons of war material stashed in the Pacific for the pending invasion of Japan, instead was split and sent half to Korea, and half to Vietnam. The manipulations of the populations of those two countries makes for fascinating reading by our Black Ops guys who took part. JFK came along in 1961 and thoroughly upset the status quo by pursuing world peace, calling for it in our lifetime. His American University commencement address in June 1963 was one of his last efforts to turn us around. He wanted us out of Vietnam and in fact signed the orders, which were ignored by his Joint Chiefs and Defense Dept, aided by the CIA and State. He signed a nuclear arms treaty with the Russians, which ticked off the establishment no end. He had us, and the world, both East and West, on a path to peaceful co-existence, using the Peace Corps as a primary tool. He sent us to explore the heavens and land on the moon. And it all ended in Dallas, the third of three cities selected that summer that he was visiting, in which to assassinate him. The same triangular field of fire was set up in all three cities. It worked in Dallas. The CIA got their way, the day after his funeral LBJ signed the document sending us to war. We haven't looked back. Ike warned us about the M. Ind. Complex, and we failed miserably to listen. War is the engine for economies, it has been argued. We will never know if peace would also work, because the powers behind Washington won't allow it. The development and use of the atomic bomb nearly ruined the cabal's plans, as using nukes would eliminate the needs for arms and that economy, and wouldn't do much for populations, either. The last 72 years have been miserable for a govt that once held so much promise. Today it is an empty shell of its origins and I doubt any of the FF would recognize it.

How to Improve Public Education:

1. Children may start school when they are ready, not by some arbitrary age.

2. Children may progress through required material at their own pace, and not be socially promoted based upon age or size.

3. No one gets past third grade without being able to read at a third grade level. No one gets past 8th grade without being able to read at an 8th grade level.

4. Starting in middle school, abolish all varsity sports programs. Your kid has some athletic talent? Great. Go pay his/her fees for some traveling team and better training/coaching. The rest of the ENTIRE student body must participate in at least two intramural sports in each school year from 7-12. Competition, learning about winning and losing, and being in decent shape are goals for all students, not a few talented ones who end up getting worshipped and receiving special treatment. No more traveling teams for any grade level and sport. No more Fri night football games to celebrate the skills of a few, or basketball, or softball, or whatever. Schools could trim hundreds of thousands off their budgets from supplies to coaching to insurance. A whole growth industry, teenage sports programs, is awaiting entrepreneurs. Schools could gain income from leasing their fields, arenas, stadiums.

5. Life skills classes for all students beginning in high school. Students will be able to handle a checking and a savings account; change oil and filter and a flat tire and an air filter; handle a washer and dryer and iron; cook more than one type of meal; first -aid proficient; type proficiently; basic computer skills.

6. All high schools would have two tracks: college, and immediate work force ready. World needs drivers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, painters, medical aides, and so much more, too.
Reduce the requirement for four years of English and Math. 

7. Let students find their passion, and encourage them to follow it. 

8. Turn off cell phone access to all campuses, period. You know where your child is. School has a phone. Nothing else is needed. Kids absolutely refuse to put their phones away. Critical thinking skills, basic writing skills, basic conversational skills, are all missing. As long as instant gratification can be done via devices, this will not change. 

9. Black studies must be made mandatory, not optional. If we don't discuss the past, the present will remain edgy and the future will remain foggy. 

10. Teacher salaries must be at least doubled, and their education requirements raised to either a master's degree, and/or national board certification. Salary scales must reward the grueling work these certifications require. Today they do not.

Until we value education in this country, and finally give up the agricultural attendance calendar and start going year-round, we will continue to lag the entire rest of the world we once led.

The Dulles boys' legacy.....starting since about 1943-44, a shadow government was formed and has expanded its reach into every facet of American life. Every nation controls its people through its ability to wage war. We have been blinded and led astray since the dawn of the Atomic Age. Ever notice nukes have never ever been used anywhere since Japan? That is because the Military Industrial Complex would have been out of business before it got going. It was the only entity they didn't plan for. All the landing supplies for our planned invasion of Japan: where did they go, because they didn't come back to the US. Half went to Korea, half went to Indochina and both stockpiles were used to perpetuate the wars in those countries. JFK had issued a National Security Memorandum ordering 1,000 soldiers out of Vietnam, and all U.S. soldiers out of Vietnam by 1965. He was killed for issuing that document. The day after his funeral, LBJ issued his own NSM reinstituting the soldiers and initiating the Vietnam War. Some 58000 lives later, all that can be shown for our involvement, is profit. The OSS/CIA kingdom, which effectively runs this country through its Pentagon affiliations, answers to no one, no branch of govt, yet they are continually funded. A certain number of prominent NYC law firms, certain banks, brahmin industrialists, all pulling the strings, manipulating international affairs to assure the continuance of war everywhere. War makes national economies hum right along. Next march on Washington needs to be done at nearby Langley instead, home of the CIA, and at NSA, and at the Pentagon. The three branches of our govt have long past into figurehead status. Read. Question. Read More. Rage. Get Angry.

Black men in America have problems with self-control, self-respect, the ability to interact properly in society. I want to believe that morons like this are in a tiny minority. I cannot in good conscience agree.

My local paper is full of violent crime stories accompanied by pictures of black men young to old

My national new media sites, all of them, are full of black men behaving badly, to the point of guns and gunfire being used practically in every instance.

I see this crappy behavior in my classrooms. I see it on the local news media, and national. I have observed it consistently and continually happening in my 65 years of passing through.

I do not understand. 

Blacks argue that they are only a couple generations removed from slavery, lynchings, de-humanizing treatment, banned from facilities, voting booth, yet allowed to die in our wars. They argue it takes time to establish family values. 

How long must we all wait? There aren't going to be any black men around to establish these values. Our prisons overflow with black men. Our courts overflow with cases involving black men. 

Anyone out there have any suggestions?

 Or is this all just me?

The letter I'm still waiting for:

My Congressional reps at both federal and state level send me a letter informing me that there were X votes for or against a bill and that in turn is how he/she voted, in line with the people he/she represents, as their employee, and not because of what he/she actually thought of the bill.

One of these days.....