Tuck's Tales

This is not negative thought day its lets call it like ya see it day.  I’m not sure we will or can ever remove race and religion from politics.  With an agenda driven country seeking satisfaction based on a desire to advance themselves forsaking all others, we will never fix this.  How does the government of the people by the people remain unbiased while trying to appease every social agenda imaginable?

Race and Religion, mix in some politics in America and you have a recipe for disaster.  No sense in beating around the bush.  Lets try for a minute to look past what you have been conditioned to believe is fair and use the common sense God gave you.  Can we do that with an open mind?  Is it a prerequisite to attack an alternative thought than affects you even if the logic rings true? 

Anyone of color (I love that, isn’t white a color?) who lived in America from the 1700′s through about oh about 1970 has a right to bitch about despicable treatment. I will not downplay the horrible events that occurred before I was even in kindergarten.  So since I had squat to do with that why is anyone mad at me?  Seriously folks unless you are much older than me, shut the hell up! You are not trying to fight for equality you are trying to get more than you deserve because of your race.

Amongst those I am familiar with, exists not the true definition of racism but a growing irritation at the belief that different makes you special.  The entitlement clause as it were has gone awry. Does racism exists today? Yes and it benefits as well as hinders.  As long as there are close-minded idiots raising their kids to hate for no reason then there will be a fraction of the world f’d up, no other way to say it.

The flip side are the folks who knowingly fight for programs designed to pacify, as if no federal programs exist to protect all people from blatant unfair treatment.  It’s the crazy militants in the forefront pushing for advancement and special treatment, not equality, that goads every news organization in the world to jump all over purported acts of racism simply because conflict sells.  Aren’t we smart enough to see through this.  Both acts erode any possibility of civility.

Even within the hierarchy of races treatment is fickle. When can you remember a high level firing like Don Imus due to something he said about a Chinese basketball team?  How is it that Michael Vick goes to jail and everyone says, well he shouldn’t have killed those dogs, yet that crazy SOB OJ gets off with a wink and a nod.  Come on now, I love dogs but um damn folks.  Somewhere is someone crazy enough to think well that’s about 100,000 to two!  Should we even the score of past injustice to promote peaceful existence.  I know, I know how could I possibly understand, I’m Irish, my people no nothing of hardship and torment.

OK what about this doosey, lets collectively disregard law and allow an entire race of foreigners who some Americans are historically related to enjoy protection under a constitution designed for its legal citizens?  Is citizenship so watered down now that we mitigate their law breaking by changing their moniker?   Once again race loyalty overrides common sense and even seems to suggest that legal rights be earned based on relationship.

If you haven’t noticed because you were too busy being pissed off at the man, the man has changed.  Regardless of your race has your life changed?  It might in the future. According to Supreme Court Justice (the nomination is a given) Sonia SotoMayor, the richness of her experience will allow her to make better decisions than the white man. What does that say about the rest of us? Did she just say, I am a racist Puerto Rican and my intent is to advance only those that fall into a category that I feel strongly about?  No she did not, so why in this land of the free are there programs and people who are federally protected in their belief and promotion of separatism and divisiveness.

Those that benefit from these programs like SotoMayor know inside that fairness is being sidestepped.  IMHO She believes that ultimately the drive for diversity overrides all.

Why is there such uproar and name calling when a different class/race cries foul, are they not entitled to a dream also?  Talk to the firemen in New Haven, Conn.  It all comes down to agendas.  Still, makes you wonder about her statement if it were reversed.  She would be changing radio stations also.

If you believe in God good for you.  I do too, so what, does that make us better than someone who doesn’t.  No!  Now tell a Christian that there is no heaven and that when he or she dies there is no life after death or tell a Buddhist that there will be no reincarnation.  Then try to convince a Mormon not to go on a mission.  Good Luck with that, you will get an argument but you will not get blown up at a street side café.  Talk about an agenda. Oh peaceful Islam, good thing not everyone takes the whole “smite at the neck thing” seriously.

I don’t care if a statue or monument or tablet or pylon and obelisk throughout the land bears the name Moses or the Ten Commandments or Ben Hur.  Seriously, can you bitch about history?  Sure you can, but you don’t get to change it just because it offends you.  Get over yourself Atheist and the associations that drop a lawsuit in support of your craziness.  Jesus Christ people (oh no the Christians just stopped reading) then on the other hand…

Oh holiest of rollers – Stop trying to decide who’s more right, you won’t know for sure until your dead and then you don’t get to come back and say see asshole I told you.  Some religious organizations spend more time bashing each other.  Have they forgotten the big picture?  Isn’t it all about faith?  I believe this and it’s ok if you don’t.  Look around you are you seeking a stone to cast heathen?

So where is the tie-in?  Right here:  Jefferson whom I believe to be the smartest of our fore-fathers in a letter on Jan. 1, 1802, to an address from the Danbury (Conn.) Baptist Association contains a statement “a wall of separation between church and state.” This phrase has become well known because it is considered to explain (many would say, distort) the “religion clause” of the First Amendment to the Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion …,” a clause whose meaning has been the subject of passionate dispute for the past 50 years. Did this mean that Jefferson did not believe in religion?  No I think he rightfully expected it to be separate but still play a role in the hearts and minds of men.

“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation”.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.  – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men”.

This is in my opinion the meat of the agenda issue.  Let your heart and sole be lifted by the satisfaction you feel in support of what you consider important.  Do not expect me to do any more than respect your right to do so.  Do not think for a moment because you are somehow different entitles you to shite.  Americans are all different.  That’s what the country was founded on, separate states with equal interests.   Different ideals within a commonality of geographics.

Should the government splinter fairness today based on the reprehensible actions of the past?  Would we have the government pass judgement on people based on their own faith based beliefs.  Thank God for the Supreme Court (OH crap there’s a hearing coming up isn’t there?)   Never will I agree with any legislation that benefits one group more than another, unless of course its a veterans group.