Charleston

After that insane 21 year old asshole killed 9 people inside a church in Charleston, S.C.  a good portion of the aftermath conversations centered on gun issues.

GUN ISSUES?

I'm a strong advocate of getting rid of assault weapons and increasing the intensity of background checks when it comes to purchasing a firearm.....BUT seriously the MAIN issue at the core of this horrible event goes so far beyond gun control that I'm rather startled.

 

THIS INCIDENT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GUNS!

 

It's like saying that in 1957 when a black man was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi that ROPE and TREES should be eliminated and controlled.

 

The scary part of this is that the asshole might have been motivated and pushed to action by the numerous police vs black incidents over the last six months....but rest assured that his racism isn't a newly discovered personality trait.

 

AND WHAT IS EVEN SCARIER IS THAT SOMEHOW THIS IS A TANGENT OF HOW A RACIEST PERSON RESPONDS TO HAVING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT A BLACK MAN IS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

 

I have no idea what would motivate a person to walk into a church, sit down and talk to people for an hour and then kill them.  Of course I don't have the gene which dictates I could kill someone unless it was unavoidable to protect my daughter. 

 

MOTIVATION is the key word while trying to understand the chaos taking place inside one's mind.

 

I'm going to be very surprised if the asshole's parents worked on either of the two Obama campaigns.  Pretty sure there weren't HOPE signs on their front lawn in 2008 or 2012.

 

The issue of racism is by far away the main issue involved in this incident and maybe the main sociological issue facing our country.   So many of us thought it was a issue that seemed to be disappearing.....of course that's easy for my Scottish, Irish and German white ass to say.

 

It would be rather ironic that when Barry leaves office in January of 2017 that suddenly everything started to clam down regarding violent racial confrontations.

 

Each one of us has to examine our personal prejudices and we need to do the examination on a regular basis.

 

When doing the exam it's important to subject both your family and educational stimulus to  a thorough form of scrutiny.  From jokes to stories one must realize the undercurrent of how racism takes shape.

 

EXAMPLE

From a personal moment in my youth. 

 

When I was in the second or third grade I had a nun( Sister Mary Margaret) tell me "that if I received communion with a sin I committed, and didn't confess, then as I was walking back to my seat  my skin could turn BLACK."

 

ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY!

 

Once I finally realized that the nuns were batsh*t crazy I was able to let that nonsense fly into the neverland of HUH??? and not let it affect me (maybe).  Of course I think I was 16 when that awareness took priority and my social viewpoints started taking a personal direction.

 

I was very lucky to meet a friend around that time whose entire family of 9 had been raised Catholic but didn't seem to be affected by the irrational silliness of their educational upbringing....and whose parents were sensible, reasonable and loving people.

 

Of course I have no idea if they were those type of people really, but since my friend is the smartest most eloquent liberal I have ever known, I must assume that it was their parenting.

 

He will probably say it was ALL HIM.....which might be true.

 

The point I'm making here is that when someone does what this asshole did in Charleston then I would think there's a BIG chance that the asshole's family has to take some of the blame........HOW MUCH OF THE BLAME IS THE MAGIC QUESTION?

 

ENOUGH WHERE THEY SHOULD BE HELD FOR QUESTIONING?

 

I THINK SO......MAYBE NOT CHARGED WITH A CRIME BUT AT THE VERY LEAST QUESTIONED ON THEIR VIEWPOINTS REGARDING RACE RELATIONS.

 

Is that over the top?

 

IT SURE AIN'T EVEN CLOSE TO BEING OVER THE TOP COMPARED TO WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT HISTORIC SOUTHERN AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH.

 

And once again I'll say......

 

THAT MOMENT IN TIME WHEN HE CHOSE TO END 9 PEOPLES' LIVES.....HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH

GUNS.

 

HATE IS HATE AND TOLERANCE AND ACCEPTANCE DO NOT ENTER THE PICTURE WHEN SOMEONE HATES SOMEONE

BECAUSE THEY HAVE DIFFERENT COLOR SKIN

 

TOLERANCE AND ACCEPTANCE

NEED TO PLAY A MUCH LARGER ROLE IN OUR SOCIETY

 

COULD I BE ANY CLEARER?

 

Michael Timothy McAlevey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thoughts on few recent events

Tim Hunt, British Nobel laureate and biochemist, resigned his post at the University College London school because he said...."Let me tell you about my trouble with girls (which already makes millions of women crazy...as I recently learned from a police woman in Santa Monica)...three things happen when they are in the lab: You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them, they cry."

He actually was knighted in 2006 by Queen Elizabeth II

....and at the time he said she smelled like a little girl....and she makes love like a little girl....and then Bob Dylan sued him for plagiarism and he had to pay $12.56 cents to settle the case.


ONE OF THE ABOVE THREE ITEMS IS NOT TRUE........but each one seems just as silly as the other two.

Oh....you don't think being knighted sounds silly in the year 2015.  Only the Brits could keep such an antiquated system in play for hundreds and hundreds of years.

And on top of that...........all commoners seem to love the system.....which just makes me say.....huh?

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al-Qaeda said last week that the Islamic State (IS) is a extremist group and they are going to crush them.

THERE ARE SO MANY DIRECTIONS ONE COULD TAKE WHILE TRYING TO ANALYSIS THAT STATEMENT.....I KNOW NOT WHICH DIRECTION TO TRAVEL.


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If the GOP allows every Republican, in office, any office, to run for President then it will be official.

THEY ARE ALL GOOFY!

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Rick Santori needs to go to Pope school....and Rick Perry thinks glasses are going to make the difference this time around.

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Jeb is announcing today and Hillary announced over the weekend and that's pretty funny since both have been collecting money for the last three months.

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Fast tracking a trade pact that would seem to create more off-shore jobs doesn't make any sense.  At the very least it should be discussed COMPLETELY.

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The Steve Jobs book by Walter Isaacson is a must read for anyone interested in technology, business, early LSD trips, meditation, not blinking, and of course design.

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Over the weekend I listened to various Republicans claiming that Obama has no plan to defeat The Islamic State.  IS HE SUPPOSE TO REVEAL ALL ASPECTS OF HIS PLAN? it seems that US air strikes, combined with Kurdish ground troops, are making headway in Syria's northeast.  It was reported this morning that 250 towns and villages have been taken away from IS.  THAT APPEARS TO BE A PLAN.....DOESN'T IT?

IT'S STILL A SUNNI VS SHIITE WAR IN CASE YOU'VE FORGOTTEN.

If we hadn't gone to Iraq in 2003 it would still be a war between those two factions of the Islamic faith.

CAN WE REALLY CHOOSE A SIDE IN THIS INTERNAL BATTLE OF ISLAM?

And please remember that they have been going at each other since 700 AD.

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I'm seriously excited about TED 2........pretty sure TED was the funniest movie I've ever seen.

I'm practicing my laugh right f**king now......

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Unions and what you haven't considered

There appears to be definitive correlation between the diminishing middle class and the reduction of labor unions.  I think I might know one of the reasons that unions seem to be out of favor with the general American public.

First you have to accept that labor unions were a vital force in helping to build the American middle class.  Outside of full employment because of WW11, labor unions created income advancement unequalled since the beginning of the industrial revolution. If you don't accept this premise than the rest of this article is going to travel about four inches over your dome.

One of the major problems with unions today is that certain organizations use the word union when in truth they aren't unions but exclusive clubs for a limited amount of people who make huge amounts of money.

The Major League Baseball Players Association should change their name to.....

"PRIVATE BASEBALL ORGANIZATION" 

There are 800 men playing Major League Baseball and the starting salary is $450,000.

The fact that every few years the MLBPA goes on strike SIMPLY BLOWS PEOPLE'S MINDS AND THEY SUB AND NOT SUBCONSCIOUSLY
HATE
UNIONS
(and especially people who belong to actual unions...which is weird because they don't like hating themselves)

The contracts are comparable to CEO contracts.  Get fired....get full pay for length of the contract.....even if you have completely sucked at your job.

Privilege is the first word that comes to mind when I think of professional athletes

Union is the last word.

AND PEOPLE ARE TURNED OFF BY THE ANOMALY OF WHY THESE ORGANIZATIONS NEED A UNION TO FIGHT THEIR BATTLES.

THE PROBLEM COMES DOWN TO THE MAN OR WOMAN, WORKING FOR WAL-MART OR SAFEWAY, WHO THINKS THE PART TIME EMPLOYEES SHOULD UNIONIZE SO THAT PERHAPS THEY CAN SECURE FULL TIME JOBS.....KNOWS THAT IT CAN'T HAPPEN.

BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE WILL STEP IN AN TAKE THAT JOB  AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC WON'T STOP SHOPPING AT WAL-MART BECAUSE THEY HATE UNIONS AND THEY HATE UNIONS BECAUSE THE ONLY TIME THEY EVER HEAR ABOUT UNIONS IS WHEN MAJOR SPORTS STARS SAY THEY ARE GOING ON STRIKE.  AND THE AMOUNT OF MONEY INVOLVED IS SO LUDICROUS THAT NOTHING MAKES SENSE AND THEREFORE IT MUST BE THE PLAYERS UNION CAUSING THIS NON-SENSICAL EVENT.

WORK WITH ME HERE......

First you need to do a little research and verify the reduction of labor unions over the last 30 years.

Then you need to tie in the inequality of income over the last 25 years.....

I understand that outsourcing both service and manufacturing jobs is a huge part of the equation but please note that many of the corporruptions that adopted their off-shore positions did so because there are no unions in Viet-Nam or Mexico....besides no minimum wage.

The profit margin increase needed to satisfy a shareholders position is also a factor.

The United States government employs 22,000,000 and that's one powerful union.  Imagine if powers that be informed all government employees that they would immediately be working 20 hours a week and that their pay would reflect the time reduction.  There would be no more health insurance for anybody working less that 40 hours and the only 40 hour employees would be upper management.......like Congressman and Senators.

The Middle Class is evaporating for many reasons and whether or not the young entrepreneurs in this country come up with ideas that aren't just app related for the smart phone and start making things again....then it's going to get much worse before it gets better.

IT WILL GET BETTER....BUT IT PROBABLY WILL TAKE A MAJOR
EPISODE
FOR THE TIDE TO TURN
AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS LABOR UNIONS MIGHT BE IMPORTANT ONCE AGAIN.

BECAUSE AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE......LABOR UNIONS ARE SIMPLY PEOPLE BANNING TOGETHER TO GUARANTEE A FAIR SHARE OF THE ECONOMIC PIE.

Baseball, Football, Basketball and Hockey players do not belong to a UNION.  it's an exclusive men's club that gets a whole chunk of the pie.   And by the way.....professional golfers don't count because they only get paid by performance.....and it's not a team sport and no one owns them. 

And truth be known I've never joined a union and I most likely never will unless of course I sell one of my scripts and the Screen Writers Guild forces my hand.

As an artist I've got about as much chance of joining together with other artists to form a union
as I have of a monkey flying out of my ass.

Actually I've got a better chance with the monkey dealio.

Anyway.....quit thinking of unions having anything to do with professional sports.

Unions are vital to make sure the worker gets treated fairly.

Not every owner of every business is a money hungry son of a bitch.....but when one looks at how businesses have been run since the dawn of employment....the stats don't favor the worker.

Unfortunately the dawn of employment is slave based labor,...so it's a hard trend to break....unless you are a member of one of the four major professional sports organizations.

You not only broke the slave labor enigma................you obliterated it.  But unfortuantely there are less that 5000 of you.  Like I said, it's not a union....it's a club....a very very private club.


Michael Timothy McAlevey