Fred Brown replied to my latest rant with a few questions that make one pause to think. Have we surrendered our country to a person who is somewhat of a clown?  Why do the brightest minds not run for office.

This year, like all elections is predicated on money.  The evidence of this is supported and refuted by “the old socialist ” who is giving Hilary fits.  Bernie is drawing his support from the young and sometimes disenfranchised who are tired of the moneyed making the decisions.  They are out to try and prove that money doesnt count.  They are probably not going to succeed.  Money does count in politics.  Trump is popular among people who are tired of the status quo.  He makes outrageous claims and people eat it up like the offerings of an old time tent evangelist and his hell fire and brimstone sermons.  These old preachers scared the hell out of all the parishioners for about a week until they figured out that the world was not going to end on Monday after the revival was over.  If he is elected his aura will fade faster than a swaybacked nag running in the Kentucky derby.

Why arent our wisest citizens running for office?  Simple, they are too damned smart to get down in the mire with those people who do politics for a living.  Being smart doesnt help much when you get involved in a beer joint knife fight.  Does that speak volumes about us who are the voters, who keep these people in power?  Yes!

I have not made up my mind on who I am voting for.  I will not vote for Trump or Hillary.  I am too smart to vote for either of those people.  However, I am not quite smart enough to figure out who would make the best president from the pack that would be left.  Kasich is my favorite I think.  Why?  Maybe as simple as the fact that he doesnt incite me to do civil disobedient things.  I wont riot in the streets for or against him.  I just happen to think he might be smart enough to lead us through some tough times.  If I was watching a John Wayne movie I would be for the guy who shot first and then went thru the bodies to see who he had killed.  Being the Prez is going to take a bit more than that.  We need a Statesman/Economist/Accountant/Banker/Teacher/Plain ole country boy type to lead us for awhile.  We need to put people back to work, calm the minds of the people, show our citizens that this country is as good a place as it was when our parents were in control.

Fred wants to hear some opinions about this matter and I agree.  Use this forum to tell your classmates just what you think and how you got to that opinion.  I wont castigate you for giving your opinion.  Hell I give you mine on a fairly regular basis.  You probably have some wisdom that would convince me that your choice is the best choice.

Chuy (the electorate) Cowan

I do believe in a higher being.  I have seen his work at Yosemite, the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone.  I have read and heard of his promise to return.  I think the time for that to happen will be dependent on the actions of the ants in this ant farm.  And I also think we are getting pretty close.

Recently a school teacher in our fair city was fired for having sex with a student.  Not a young man who was in her classes but the football star.  He was 17, she a bit older. She was discovered because the young man had video taped their encounter with his cell phone and then put the Metro Goldwyn Meyer on the situation by distributing the film to a few thousand of his nearest and dearest friends.  This made him so popular that he was voted homecoming king at the high school.  The teacher was positively identified by the tattoo across her butt that read “insert tab here”.  She was surprised when she was fired because she said that the boy was 17.  However she did plead no contest to another similar charge with another student.  You would think that her dismissal would have ended this event.  No NO monsieur , quite the contrary.  The teacher then sued both the boy and his mother.  The boy was sued for the unlicensed distribution of the film and the mother for defamation of character. The teacher said she did not give her consent to the filming or to its release.  She also didn’t care for the mother of the boy referring to her as a slut.  Sweet Jesus of Nazareth , can a person get any stupider ?  Yes, they apparently can.  Last week the teacher , her attorney, the boy, his mother and their attorney were all guests on the DR. PHIL television show.  The teacher was seeking an apology on national TV from the mother and her son.  Didnt happen.

Back in the “good ole days”, something like this would have been a very rare occurrence .  First, because the teachers apparently didn’t start their teaching careers  until they were in their late 50’s and second there were no cell phones and damned few tattoos on women.  Can you imagine you having to pause in the midst of what you were doing to get your partner to pose for the shot you were taking with your Kodiak brownie?  Can you imagine circulating the picture of you and the English teacher?  No, none of this would have aided you in your attempt to become Homecoming KIng.  What would have happened is that you and the teacher would have been quietly escorted to the edge of town and told never to cross the county line again.  Oh, that would be after the scarlet S was branded in the teacher’s forehead.  But we live in a different world.

We live in a world where this kind of behavior has become common place.  We live in a world where the odds on favorite to become our next president is a buffoon who announces on national TV that he would like to “punch him in the nose”, referring to someone in the audience.  We live in a world where dignity has vanished.  Airing dirty laundry is commonplace and is best washed before an audience of millions through the use of television talk shows.

I am pretty much entertained these days by television shows concerning nature and the Alaskan wilderness.  I try to refrain from watching any show that points out just how stupid we have become.  It’s hard to find enough shows to keep me entertained until around 9:00 pm which is the time I figure I have seen all I can stand for the day.

Chuy (in disbelief) Cowan

I didn’t watch all of the half time show because I personally don’t care to watch big assed hip hop musicians.  If the gal that was the star made the show into a protest then I am glad I didn’t watch it.  I am fed up to the gills with political correctness and the racial issue.

I am sorry there was a slavery issue.  However, being sorry is about as far as I am willing to go.  I didn’t bring anybody over from the home country and not too sure that any of my relatives did.  I have never owned a slave nor do I think I would like to have one.  Having a maid is about as burdensome as I care to get.

I believe that many  of the problems that minorities feel keep them from advancing in our world are problems caused by their own lack of education, lack of ambition and the failure of their families.  I fail to believe that, as a group, that they are held back because of some super secret plan to keep them down because they are black.  I have seen too many instances of people of color being successes in all fields.  Those who are successes are those who decide early that they are not going to be held back.  They endure.  They dont take the easy way out .  They dont stand on the corner, waiting to loot a liquor store or to sell some crack.  Those who dont succeed are the ones who stand around with their hands out for a series of free rides through life.

I am truly fed up with every woe of man kind being blamed on someone other than the person who is truly responsible.  If you dont like your circumstances, identify what it takes to correct those circumstances and get off your ass and do it.  Dont wait for some half naked hip-hop singer, champion your cause.  It is not going to work with me.

Gary