From a friend via the Internet…

God promised at the birth of time,
A special friend to give,
His time on earth is short, he said,
So love him while he lives.

It may be six or seven years,
Or twelve or then sixteen,
But will you, till I call him back,
Take care of him for me?

A wagging tail and cold wet nose,
And silken velvet ears,
A heart as big as all outdoors,
To love you through the years.

His puppy ways will gladden you,
And antics bring a smile,
As guardian or friend he will,
Be loyal all the while.

He’ll bring his charms to grace your life,
And though his stay be brief,
When he’s gone the memories,
Are solace for your grief.

I cannot promise he will stay,
Since all from earth return,
But lessons only a dog can teach,
I want you each to learn.

Whatever love you give to him,
Returns in triple measure,
Follow his lead and gain a life,
Brim full of simple pleasure.

Enjoy each day as it comes,
Allow your heart to guide,
Be loyal and steadfast in love,
As the dog there by your side.

Now will you give him all your love,
Nor think the labor vain,
Nor hate me when I come to call,
To take him back again?

I fancy each of us would say,
“Dear Lord, thy will be done,
For all the joy this dog shall bring,
The risk of grief we’ll run.

“We’ll shelter him with tenderness,
We’ll love him while we may,
And for the happiness we’ve known,
Forever grateful stay.

“But shall the angels call for him,
Much sooner than we’ve planned,
We’ll brave the bitter grief that comes,
And try to understand.”

The Republican Party won a large victory on the promise that they’d fight President Obama’s executive overreach – but it seems those promises were nothing more than a ruse to gain votes and power. And jus’ so you know what the hell I’m talking about when I write that the GOP and the Democratic Party are one in the same:

During a House Rules Committee hearing on legislation to curb some of the overreach in President Obama’s executive action on immigration, Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Tex.) said he was working with House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) to push a bill to make sure that not one illegal is removed from the United States “unless they were dangerous to this country and committed a crime.” Sessions also said he personally would use all his “assets and resources” in 2015 to work out a deal whereby illegal immigrants can “be in this country and work, and where not one person is quote ‘thrown out’ or ‘deported.’”

With acts of betrayal like this – it shouldn’t be a surprise when the GOP fails to repeal Obamacare as they claimed they would.

1974

(Note: This is a comical review of the species Homo Sapiens, i.e. Human Being. It is intended as a basic guide for all persons who are people watchers.)

‘People watching’ is something most persons do when they are bored or jus’ being nosy.  And yet some persons make it their business to study people and their behavior patterns .

I have studied people, because truthfully — I am naturally nosy.

Okay, so something’s haven’t changed in the last four decade about me.

That doesn’t mean my nose is unusually large, but it does mean that I want to make other peoples business, my business. In relative theory it is simple, it’s jus’ the words are hard to understand.

Like everywhere, something has to begin somewhere. And it is a generally well known fact that everything (or something) has to start at the bottom.

Now whether you believe ‘Man’ came from the sea or from the like­ness of God, that does not matter. What matters is the basic element and fact that ‘Man’ is here!

Do not concern yourself with “here”, because actually “here” is “nowhere”, but just some­ where in a wide unknown galaxy.

Adam, as we all know, was the first man and Eve the first woman. They were workers — trying to survive in the garden of Eden.

That means both of those people were basically “Classites.” But doing genealogical studies of persons in the past is much harder, because we cannot fully comprehend their world, we can only imagine.

People of today are different from them in style. We speak differently and understand more.

But we still have classes of people. Not jus’ Black, White, Yellow, or Red, although before the turn of the century colors did have something to do with it. It seems much simpler, all color-coded, but it was ruled unfair for very obvious reasons.

Now, we rational people have a different way of doing things.

Obviously, I was talking out my ass.

First there is the “Burnout.” This person generally has money, more money than most people know, but they don’t care about it, or actually about anything.

Because they can afford it, they usually use drugs. A “Burnout” is a class five of our species.

A number four species is a “Greaser.” This is someone who, like the burnout doesn’t care for anything.

And they dress like they don’t care. One main reason they dress like they do is for simple fact they can’t afford to.

Now in a society like ours it is a privilege to be an athlete. This type of Homo Sapiens is called a “Jock.”

A “Jock” is usually combined with a “Classite” type of specie. Most “Jocks” and “Class­ites” are intermingled, both work and are superior in physique and mental attitude. Classites are generally workers, Both blue collar and white collar.

OOPS! Color coded again!

As in all societies there has to be a top rung to the proverb­ial ladder of the Human Being, and that is the “Socialite.” This is the most outwardly happy and successful type, but in reality the most dangerous.

They associate with the rich (also type one) and keep to themselves. Sometimes a few will get together and appear in public view of the other four species.

While they seem to be on a higher plateau or level of thinking, they aren’t. They are generally a rather nervous breed.

But still they are no different than most other people, yet they have that certain color about them. And that color is green. Money.

That means power. Therefore they are to be adjudged dangerous.

Now that light has been thrown on the subject, it is time to say everyone has these basic traits, and some more than others.

Everyone, or just about everyone has used drugs. (Aspirin, anyone?)

And have dressed according how how they felt. Everyone has done something mentally and/or physically inclining to the sports world, whether that thing is crossword puzzles or the decathlon.

They have also worked, and had more money and have known persons with more money than they…thus making them equally richer or poor than someone.

So everyone is alike — even though may think your better than someone else, jus’ remember everyone is the same, give or take a little bit from one or the other.

Our national media is failing us and we are letting them.

More of you know who Michael Brown and Eric Garner are than about the nearly 45 young Black men shot over Easter weekend in Chicago.  While the media is feeding the frenzy of ‘racial mistrust’ – there are events in our nation that will have a world-wide effect on the future of our country and it seems we are being lead away from what is relevant and to that which is hog-wash.

You have yet to realize our national debt now $18-trillion and growing, or know the name of the American teacher stabbed to death in Abu Dhabi, not to mention where Abu Dhabi is located. And you haven’t heard about the failing Iranian nuclear negotiations or the Arab-backed U.N. resolution to force Israel to show its nuclear program and submit to U.N. IAEA monitoring.

And while the House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill that strengthens the U.S.-Israel alliance, you haven’t heard of it. Neither will you learn about the Obama administration’s plan to imposing sanctions on Israel for continuing construction on Jewish homes in Jerusalem.

Some may recognize the names, but few know what federal mandate Jonathon Gruber worked on or why U.S. war vets are upset over the release of Bowe Bergdahl. Hardly any of you has heard about Hillary Clinton’s advisement that the U.S. should “respect and empathize” with our enemies or know who Ashton Carter is, and what makes him a good or bad choice for the position he’s been nominated to fill.

No doubt you’ll hear that someone vandalized Bill Cosby’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by scratching the word ‘rapist’ in it three times, but you’ll have no idea who Luke Somers might be. Some of your favorite 2015 Grammy Nominations will be highlighted in the evening news  – but not the importance of the run-off between Mary Landrieu and Bill Cassidy in Louisiana.

As the old African proverb goes: Lack of knowledge is darker than night.

It’s a video you won’t see in the mainstream media, which starts with Ferguson, Missouri protesters burning an American flag, then kicking it into the street. This is followed by one man using the flaming flag to light his cigarette.

It then cuts to a car speeding by as four Missouri National Guardsmen and a police officer calmly walk across the street towards where the flag was burned.

The videographer asked the cop if he knows anything about an incident where someone was removed from a vehicle. The officer tells him that he does, but that he cannot comment on what happened.

Next, the police officer announces to the crowd of demonstrators, “Just so you know, the Guardsmen have come over to look for pieces of the American flag that got burned.”

“Why is that?” the videographer asks.

“Because it’s an American flag,” the officer answers.

“It’s a piece of cloth,” he says over and over, finally adding, “I appreciate your guy’s service, but it’s a piece of cloth.”

“But it means something to us,” one the Guardsmen replied.

“It’s not their flag,” the videographer complains to the surrounding rioter, but his protestations go unanswered as the officer and four Guardsmen return to the opposite side of the street with the remnants of the burned flag they later disposed of properly.

Thomas Lincoln was known for herding his goat, through his mother’s tea parties, appointing himself toll taker on the White House stairway, making everyone give him a nickel before they could pass, and for once interrupting a Cabinet meeting so his father could sign a “pardon” for one of his dolls.  Teddy Roosevelt’s children, especially Quentin and Alice Roosevelt were also “terrors’.

For example, when younger brother Archie was confined to his room with measles; Quentin got the family pony, Algonquin, on the White House elevator and up to Archie’s room. Alice smoked on the roof of the White House, drove at breakneck speeds, fired guns at telegraph poles from a moving train, jumped into a swimming pool fully clothed and sometimes appeared with her pet boa constrictor around her neck.

In fact, after repeatedly interrupted an important meeting, a visitor insisted that the Roosevelt do something about his daughter.

“I can either run the country or I can control Alice,” Roosevelt replied. “I cannot possibly do both.”

Margaret Truman began a career as a concert vocalist, appearing on Ed Sullivan’s “Toast of the Town” TV show.  However, in 1950, she gave a concert in Washington that was reviewed by Washington Post music critic Paul Hume.

Hume trying to be diplomatic called her “a unique American phenomenon…extremely attractive on stage,” adding, “Miss Truman cannot sing very well. She is flat a good deal of the time.”

Harry Truman threatened to kick Hume’s butt if they ever met.

Susan Ford was criticized for wearing blue jeans in the White House, had her high school dates critiqued and humiliated when her mother told a national talk show that she “wouldn’t be surprised” if Susan had a premarital affair. Ford also busted out of the White House on one occasion running from secret service.

Luci Johnson was reprimanded by the public for her “poor grades,” and Chelsea Clinton was made fun of for her looks and even mocked on a Wayne’s World skit on Saturday Night Live. Mike Myers later sent an apology to the White House after her parents complained.

Jenna Bush was nailed for underage drinking twice, and both she and her twin, Barbara attempted to ditch their security agents. And for April fool’s Day 2005 spoof, Maxim published a photo illustration of Jenna and Barbara Bush, plumage in the air, sporting lingerie in what was meant to be the aftermath of a pillow fight.

Amy Carter, who was ordered to go to state dinners by her father; she brought a book to read and was assailed for not showing the proper respect to heads of state. One reporter called her “a lamentably spoiled, perpetually tired, whining brat with miserable manners.”

The Obama girls, Malia and Sasha, are not exempt from this – though Progressives everywhere wished they were.

Tennessee’s Stephen Fincher’s spokeswoman Elizabeth Lauten criticized the sister’s teenaged behavior as their father issued his annual Thanksgiving turkey “pardon.” In a social media posting, Lauten told the girls to “try showing a little class. At least respect the part you play.”

However, many think she took the chastising to far when she added, “Then again your mother and father don’t respect their positions very much or the nation foe [sic] that matter, so I’m guessing you’re coming up a little short in the ‘good role model’ department.”

Following the social media shit-storm she found herself in and a lengthy apology, Lauten resigned.

While there is nothing extraordinary about her resignation, as a father, I would never let her posting go unanswered as President Obama did, allowing instead, his minions to do battle on his behalf. Rather, I would have defended my kids and ripped her a new one.

It was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”

The FBI collects records from local and state law enforcement every month as part of their Uniform Crime Reporting system, which is what they use to produce official reports on crime rates in the US.  Those records tell the FBI how many crimes were committed and what type, but it doesn’t say much about the characteristics of the victim, offender, or crime.

Statistics show that Black-on-Black crime is far more common than the case of a White-on-Black crime. From the 2011-12 FBI files — 193 Blacks were killed by Whites, while 448 Whites were killed by Blacks and 2,447 Blacks were killed by Blacks.

This isn’t surprising given that the U.S. is about 63 percent White and 12 percent Black.  So it isn’t hard to see how more Blacks might die in confrontations with police than Whites.

There were 41 teens, 14 years or younger, reported killed by police from 1980 to 2012. Twenty-seven of them were Black; eight were White; four were Hispanic and one was Asian.

There were 151 instances where police noted teens they had shot dead had been fleeing or resisting arrest at the time of the encounter. Sixty-seven percent of those killed in such circumstances were Black, while 15 teens shot fleeing arrest from 2010 to 2012, 14 were Black.

Forty-four percent of all those killed by police across that 32 years span, were White. Black officers account for 10 percent of all fatal police shootings and of those they killed, 78 percent were black.

White officers killed 91 percent of the whites who died at the hands of police. They were also responsible for 68 percent of people of color, killed.

Seventy-seven percent of ‘undetermined shootings’ (those that didn’t list the circumstances) were black. Meanwhile, from 2005 to 2009, “officer under attack” was cited in 62 percent of police killings.

What the numbers can’t show is ‘intent,’ ‘motive’ or ‘belief system.’

Larry McQuilliams targeted several buildings in Austin on the morning of November 28, including the Mexican Consulate, the United States Federal Courthouse and Austin Police headquarters within a 10-minute period. Police Chief Art Acevedo said at least 100 rounds were fired within that time frame.

Now Acevedo wants the residents of Austin to turn friends and neighbors into the police so they can investigate them.

“… It’s important for us as Americans to know our neighbors, know our families — tell somebody,” Acevedo said. “If you know somebody that is acting with a lot of hatred towards any particular group — especially if it’s somebody you know is a gun enthusiast or is armed with these type of firearms and they’re showing any kind of propensity for hatred — it doesn’t mean we’re going to take them to jail, but we might want to vet these people.”

The danger isn’t so-called ‘police brutality,’ or ‘White cops killing Black men,” or a ‘militarized police force,’ it’s that men and women in positions of authority like Acevedo wants people inform on neighbors like the Gestapo or Stasi.

Zemir Begic came to the U.S. from Bosnia in 1996, moving first to Utica, NY, before settling in Waterloo, Iowa, then moving to St. Louis where he married Arijana Mujkanovic, six months ago. Begic died early Sunday morning in St. Louis after four kids walked up and began beating on his car using hammers.

Mujkanovic was in the car when Begic got out confronting them and saw the teens striking her husband with the hammers, before running way. Begic died at St. Louis University Hospital after suffered multiple injuries to his head and abdomen.

After news spread of the fatal attack, resident Bosnians took to the streets to voice their frustrations over what seems to be a developing trend in violence targeted at their community.

“Some of the demonstrators recalled other recent Bosnian victims of violence,” reports St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “including Haris Gogic, 19, who was fatally shot in May 2013 by a robber in his family’s Bevo Mill convenience store.”

Police arrested two male teens, ages 15 and 16 and are still looking for two others, a 16-year-old black male and a 15-year-old Hispanic male. Authorities have yet to release a motive for the attack.

Many are why the mainstream media has yet to cover the newlywed’s death. Unfortunately, the answer is simple – it doesn’t fit the progressive narrative.

Dear National Media types:

Every evening, while watching ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX news, I see your field correspondence having trouble figuring out where they are reporting from within the ‘Golden State.’ Please allow me to help.

This is Northern California.

This is NOT Northern California.

Thank you. You can go back now, to your regular self-appointed position of being lapdogs for Progressives.