THE KIDS ARE GETTING STUPID PART DEUX

I fear for our future. Author and commentator Pat Buchanan writes that our culture has no guarantee that we will last forever. Citing histories of others once thought to have ruled large portions of the planet and no longer exist, so too, he feels, our dwindling IQs seem to signal that seem inevitability.
     Public outcry over lack of credible local candidates for jobs from doctors to taxi drivers forces American industry to beg, borrow or steal from abroad. Late night TV hosts joke about Middle Eastern New York cab drivers and 7/11 clerks from India, while recent studies show whole towns in our country staffed by doctors from Arabian, Middle Eastern locals and Pacific Rim graduates.
     An immediate example that comes to mind is Yuma, Arizona where it's worth your life to get a doctor who was born in America, Anglo Saxon and speaks English. Former city administrators from Yuma, religious leaders and other folks of mid level importance, mount their automobiles and travel to San Diego or Phoenix for their medical care, eschewing local docs.
     Yuma has one psychiatrist from India who in her late 80's.
      As a result, medical costs to the public are through the roof.
      Our educational system not only fails or current crop of children, it doesn't seem to even care. Swayed by the politics of the moment, one can move from class room to class room and flip a coin as to the probable curriculum in each location.
       Meanwhile, our children are fed a diet of action movies where not one, three or five testosterone driven actors shoot up the screen, blow up each other or strip naked some poor defenseless actress for $6,00 a ticket, it's considered an " art-form." Police report some of the crimes in the movies are beginning to appear on the street. Some fun.
       Television backs up the inevitable collapse of the mind bending tortuous fall from sanity with reality shows that tweak the bottom of creativity. "Real Housewives" of someplace or other show adults acting like children, Motorcycle shows highlight huge brutes breaking down motorcycles that look like something out of a Hollywood horror movie, these guys are extras from a Muscle show, and the evening's entertainment runs the gamut from the 60's Leave it to Beaver down to today's "Abortion on Demand" and where to find it.
        Mom and Dad (if he's still around) are busting their humps making a living, the kids are latch key, a hold over from the 80s, if they bothered to go to school at all, and if the parents are lucky enough, they don't have to do guard duty in the school security office for having beaten up a 65 year old teacher.
        Not enough jobs for the young people?
        Bill O'Reilly's program on Fox News hosts " Watters World" an interview show where the young man hits the street stops young people and asks tough questions like, " who is the vice president?, or Who Won World War II?"
        No. They usually cannot answer correctly. Usually, Watters catches them on the beach, tennis court, at lunch, generally at play. NEVER WORKING.
        Not as many students are applying for college. And, those that do, more are girls now, than boys. Colorado just legalized drugs. You know what happens when you do something like that?
         Nothing. Nobody cares anymore.
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WILD BUFFALO WYATT HICKERODY

( dedicated to and authored by the late Glenn G. Boyer, author of many biographies of the Earp Brothers of Tombstone)

The gosh true ballad of Wild Buffalo Wyatt Hickerody
who was near as pizzen as the bad man from Bodie.

His job was on a bar stool down in sunny Arizoney,
fillin' them funny tourists full of historical baloney.

He rid the pine forest with Custer when his grand dad was a boy,
and camping with the James Boys was his other standard ploy.

He fit Injuns with a Bowie knife, he erred and he bowed,
and you should have seen them pizzened broncs that he hickerode.

Injuns are his specialty, why podner, he knows the oldest one alive.
For sure, he looks, 70, without the balooney, he's only 65!!
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WATTER'S WORLD ----O'REILLY FACTOR ----FOX NEWS

I watch O'Reilly practically every night. I"m hooked. At times, I have to turn him off, his constant interruptions of guests and interviewees is too much and I turn on the music channel - I admit it.
      But, when he has Watters World on, I watch him faithfully. This is not funny to me, it's sad. Note the news clip. His weekly contribution to the collective ignorance of our younger generation is beginning to frighten me. Young druggies hanging out on beaches living on government hand outs while we cater to foreigners with advance degrees to fill in hi-tech jobs here in the US has my hair falling out with worry about our future.
      Watters World on the street interviews are much like this. What I fear most is " THE KIDS ARE GETTING STUPID." And, like the flu, it's catching,....upward into the news media. Look at this stupid paper.
       They actually paid some reporter AND editor to publish this moronic story.
       I know I'm above average in the IQ department, people have told me, but pulleezzee, this is too much. This must have gotten past two or three fact checkers and editors to even get into print.
       A collage of occurrences - what else in print is this egregious? And where?
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HILLARY CLINTON, PRESIDENT??----THE GHOSTS OF BENGHAZI

Four Americans caught in the gunfire, running out of ammo, desperately looking for a helo, caught on a roof top in Benghazi. CIA people told to cover a base in Benghazi, an ancient base of ours that goes back beyond the second World War where we once launched B-24 bomber attacks against the Nazis in Europe.
     Our Ambassador, now dead at the hands of the savages bent on killing everybody, seek out the last remaining Americans. Coded messages for help.
     Remember the TV ads for president? Who is going to answer the 3 am phone call in case of a national emergency? Remember? Well, guess who DIDN'T ANSWER?? Hillary Clinton. No where to be found.

     Troops were ready to go, " an order" was given to STAND DOWN.

• WHO GAVE IT?
• WHEN ISSUED?
• WHY?
• HOW FAST COULD THEY HAVE GOTTEN THERE?
• WHERE WERE THE JET FIGHTERS?
• WHEN COULD THEY HAVE DONE A FLY/OVER?
• WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE?
• WHY COULDN'T THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SEE/HEAR THE HEARINGS WHERE ALL THOSE RESPONSIBLE COULD TESTIFY TO THOSE QUESTION
• WHY ARE THE TRUTHS COVERED UP? THE ARMY/MC CARTHY HEARINGS WERE MORE OPEN THAN BENGHAZI. WHAT IS HILLARY CLINTON HIDING? " WHAT DOES IT REALLY MATTER?" HILLARY. FOUR AMERICANS ARE DEAD.

Before Americans rush head long into electing another ERROR, we need to clear up this mess. Answers to this national disgrace should be brought before the American people for decision. 

     To say nothing of the lying and cheating over MISSING EMAILS.

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IN PRAISE OF AMERICAN INDIANS

I don't know what your experience may have been with American Indians, or Native Americans as they like to be called, but I doubt that it has been in depth.
     Here's mine, having worked with them for years.
     They deeply value old folks, Indians venerate elderly tribal members to almost an exalted position within the tribe. They often seek them out, listen to their words and revere them for their " wisdom's."
     Younger Indians face modern day pressures left far behind by older, mature, elderly Indians and often they seek guidance from these council members. They, having traveled these trails of tears and often give advice in shedding their own tears to the young people. Tribal Councils often are peopled by seniors and they usually have the last word on what happens on the reservation.
       The old ones, they say, we stay on the reservation to stay close to them. That is a good thing, Many have told me.
      Another family quality not found outside the Indian Reservation is their habit of having children at home, at the dinner table at a certain time. No excuses, no lateness - home, supper. Mom and Dad.
If one of the children are absent at the proper time, it's a major problem. I've known Indian fathers in their trucks, riding up and down darkened roads, checking other houses looking for their " strays."
     Their community means the world to them. When they make a decision that affects them all, they meet in a large open house called a Hogan, Long House, Kiva Room, or other names depending on the tribe. Chairs are placed around the edges of the room and everyone in all the families sit in chairs,      The chief sits in the large chair by the door and conducts the meeting. He carries a big, very ornate, tribal stick, or truncheon. While holding it, he talks about the subject at hand and the decision that must be reached by the whole tribe. When done, he hands the stick to the first person on his left who begins to speak his mind for as long or as short as he wishes.

     The process takes a long time, going from person to child, to person around the entire room. When done, they decide. The whole community must be on the same page or they do not move on the subject they discuss. Total agreement, total uniformity.
     These are some of the warm and wonderful aspects of the Native American peoples that I've observed in the decade I've worked with them in Oregon.
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THE KINGSTON TRIO - TODAY

Back in the 60s there was a musical group called the Kingston Trio out of San Francisco. Can't remember what club they hung out in, the background for the photos was a brick wall. Years later when I worked for an airline I flew out there, and caught their act in that club. Loved it, they became my heroes. They had a signature song.

     Now, in my mid 70's I find myself humming it again, because so much of what goes in around me, in my neighborhood, in my town, certainly in America, and now in the world - brings back the uneasy, unsafe, jittery world of the Kingston Trio's song.

     " They're rioting in Africa ding, dinga ding, ding. ( musical notes.) Their starving in Spain. There's hurricanes in Florida - dum, dumde dum dum, ........and Texas needs rain. 

      The whole world is festering with unhappy souls: the French hate the British, the Germans hate the Poles. And we will be happy, and tranquil and proud, for man has been endowed with a mushroom shaped cloud. 

       And, some happy day, when someone will pray, I will set the spark off ---and we will all be blown AWAY.!!!"

      (Reprise)

      We all felt that way in the mid 60's when Johnson sat in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Funny, now, that " The Amateur" as author Ed Klein paints him (into a corner) our national conundrum seems oh, far worse? 

       " they're rioting in Africa........'

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BERNARD GOETZ RIDES AGAIN

REMEMBER GOETZ?  Way back in the hysterical days of Jimmy Breslin author of " the gang who couldn't shoot straight." Bernard Goetz had it up to " HERE" with black punks riding the New York City subways intimidating white riders (remember the movies - "Death Wish?" starring the late actor, Charles Bronson.), so Goetz packed a .38 caliber pistol

and started a payback in Manhattan.
     Memory fades on how many he gunned down that day, but I recall the weeping and gnashing of teeth by Breslin and the left wing of the political spectrum. "Oh, ....those poor boys never had a chance."
     To say nothing of their victims. White on black, call Rev Al, black on white, New York Times is hiding in the mens' room.
      The cops threw the book at Goetz, trash can, City Hall, the works. Hell, that was over twenty years ago, and he may still be in jail.
      Since the race riots of Ferguson, New York, and the uncounted insurrections connected to it around the country, mostly black crime on targeted white people, it baffles me how the Goetz syndrome hasn't taken hold in the populace.
l      Bernard Goetz must be puzzled. Or giggling.....or reloading.
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