Deal With it

I will be representing Guyana at the office open house. When the folks upstairs asked me to participate they did not expect me to represent Guyana. In general I don't participate in these events, but the chance to add to my legend as Extra Crispy Persaud is too funny.

Watching Forrrest Gump, where even slow Americans punch out Commies. Go Forrest go punch out those lefties. It is even better than watching John Wayne knock out commies in Big Jim McClain.

A public service to hack writers

We interrupt  this holiday to talk about piss poor creations. Although, I may disagree with the Duck he has taken the time and effort to craft a persona. This is not to difficult as there is an actual bio behind the blather.

When one deals with a troll one gets no bio and a melange of ignorant remarks.

A well crafted persona should have depth and substance. For example, I could create a persona Narine, a Guyanese Hindu logistics person. The fact that I worked the vocation in question and am fairly familiar with this culture would make pulling it off easy. However, as my bio has never changed, I have neither the desire nor the inclination to craft such a persona.

Oddly, at various points in my blogging history I have been accused of being an Assyrian or Copt impersonating a Jew. I have been called a gay rights militant.  The critique by some commies was that I hide my Judaism to brainwash non-Jews like AOW, Mr. Beamish and the late Dr. Yeagley into supporting Israel.
The new critique based upon my bio is that I am a self hating Jew. Other lefties criticize my choice of romantic partners as not inclusive enough.

Sorry, but my bio hasn't changed because Beakerkin is merely a pen name.

At least provide your troll handles with a bio cumwads.

The Beak as Uncle

One can tell quite a bit from a limited meeting, In a previous meeting I summed up a previous boyfriend as a cheap Shaggy clone in seconds. The latest clown is severely disturbed, does not make eye contact nor has the ability to interact socially. This one is a well bred psycho loser. He is a sad improvement from a pathetic previous relationship.

In his case he grasps assholes should not talk.

Grandfather again

I will be a grandfather again. I do enjoy a loving relationship with my grandchild and my daughter in law. In the end the time spent as a father and grandfather are the best moments.

Not Understanding Individualism

I work with a close friend who is an elite university graduate from a Muslim country. What still amazes me is his inability to understand individualism. He falls back at each time, but you are Jewish.

The fact that I am Jewish in ancestry does not bind me to a preset political positions. He points out that I would never date a Muslim woman. This might sound amusing except that the person saying it has married a person from his own country. Similarly, when I started a relationship with Sunbeam there were those who were upset I did not date a Haitian  woman first. I don't understand where these obsessions with my private life comes from. However, my tastes are quite eclectic and more varied then those of my critics.

I am not bound by tradition to practice a faith. Unlike far left phonies I have more then a passing familiarity with the faith that they are completely ignorant of. This does not prevent them from screaming I am a Jooo
outraged by whatever. Actually those lefties never were Jews. They are Marxist drone followers of a death cult.

I am free to define my political views with the same intellectual freedom as the next person. I find it odd that this person does not grasp this basic concept of Americanism. There are those who blame his country of origin. I blame the University Intellectual Gulag that imposes far left conformity at the expense of critical thinking.

But He Wanted to Be A Hero

The point of public service is public service. Unfortunately, there are those who seek to become heroes at the expense of the public. The essence of public service is the person across the desk. When it becomes
about you then the essence of public service is lost.

Unfortunately, some serve for entirely the wrong reasons.

More Jeff Bezos jokes

Sticking with the theme of silly publicity stories

6) Bezos asks the Psychiatric association to name a mental health disorder after him. Biden has a planet named after him but Bezos wants a mental health malady...
7) Bezos creates Amazon extraterrestrial. His real interest in space is a cheap ploy to get new Amazon customers.
8) Bezos creates Amazon family. Unhappy with your family no problem. You can use Amazon to recast the roles of your annoying relatives. Say goodbye to loud and boorish cousin Milton. You can recast these relations using Amazon family. Replace loud cousin Milton with Thomas who does not speak a language you can understand.
9) Bezos considers creating a new application for those of us with difficult life choices. Ever wonder what type of wine goes with possum hit by a Volvo ask Amazon life coach. Ever wonder how to get your husband to put down the toilet seat or ask for directions ask the Amazon life coach app.
10) Bezos creates an Amazon Prime Afterlife Option. Imagine long after you are gone an app to reproduce your spending patters into eternity or however long it takes your actual family to consider you are deceased.

Now this is all in good clean fun. I ask that anyone who wishes to create their own Bezos jokes keep them in good taste. We will not publish jokes making fun of a person based on his physical appearance or ethnicity.
The sad part is the real Bezos might actually get some ideas from these jokes and get motivated to find ways to generate new revenue.

Not a fan of Jeff Bezos

I am not a fan of the cult of the egomaniac Jeff Bezos and the 24/7 publicity machine. Examples of this endless desire for non stop publicity are the news stories about drones and paying employees chump change to quit. This egomaniac should be rife for all types of comedic skewering.

As Bezos is fond of insane self promotion.

1) Bezos ponders asking American to chip in 25 cents each to get him to quit placing these stupid stories in the newspaper
2) Bezos prints a special edition of a Christmas Carol where Scrooge is renamed Jeff Bezos
3) Bezos considers the possibility of the creation of robots to spray bathrooms fouled by people whose movements could be considered a cross between a landfill and rotting flesh
4) Bezos creates Amazonian apps to allow tech nerds without a life a chance to have an actual social interaction.
5) Bezos buys a circus so he can hang out with clowns.

Got out in time

Vermont is about to become the Mecca for high taxation. No doubt had I remained this latest scam involving single payer would be at my doorstep. Even though I was on assignment there for three years, I did pay NYC taxes and had NY health care options. 

No doubt the snowbirds and transplants who relocated to VT and elect deranged socialist lunatics are now going to have to pay for their insanity. How many of them leave for NH or upstate NY remains unknown.

Goodbye J&R

It is with great sadness that this crusty New Yorker conveys this. I should have seen this coming. First the oldies section disappeared, then the records. There are those that love Amazon and the turd of a CEO Jeff Bezos. The factories where the workers assemble the orders are as close to sweat shops as one get.

I miss the old dusty book and record stores. No doubt there are those who miss other forgotten parts of our life like diners with a competent soda jerk. Actually, this is a lost art and I still craft an oldie or two for the daughter upon request.

I miss the mom and pop stores and the small merchant. The days of knowing the guy who ran the hardware store or pharmacy are a thing of the past. We are not better as a society when local institutions die and are replaced by yet another frozen yogurt place or endless sandwich shops. If you have the luck of living in NYC Lennys is the apex of this genre and Potbelly is acceptable. On principle I will not eat in a Subway where the food is dreadful.

I will remember the joy of hunting for gems in J&R. Finding that rare nugget was always a joy that a person of my age will remember.

Fatherhood First

I want to state that the happiest moments of my life are spent with my daughter, daughter in law and granddaughter. This was not a role I intended or thought would happen. Being there as a dad even with the bad moments means everything.

I exchanged emails with a friend who was a true Christian and recently passed. Even though my family is Hindu and I am Jewish I celebrate the Christian holidays with my family as well as the Hindu festivals. On a certain level you will grasp my non thoughts about many things.

I have never been theologically inclined. My view of the matter is that religion is a complimentary function of a well balanced life. At the center of that life are personal ethics and values. Without a healthy core any religion is merely window dressing for hypocrisy.

I remember the Judaism of my youth and it wasn't always annoying. The best of it was the time with my grandfather. We would bring the family together for a Passover Seder. The focus was the family and the Seder was merely a means to an end.

My disdain comes from seeing a mania and Felix Unger type on nonsense from my brother over the most idiotic of small details. Instead of bringing the family together his mono-focused mania and rambling over minutia make his visits annoying. His children are basically headed to a future of mendicancy and cultural impairment.

The battle between myself and my brother is typical of those in many homes. The culture of entitlement is something of a moral and mental defect impacting parts of my community. The impositions of the religious upon their more secular family is never really discussed. When my brother visits he brings his extremism and ignorance with him. Save religious texts and vocation my brother is a cultural zombie and a first class bore.
The house gets transformed into a medieval dwelling and his endless visits become a source of anger.

At the center of this conflict is the sense of entitlement. He is religious so it is peachy that he hold his hand out and live a joke of a life. His wife would be sent into industrial therapy with symptoms remarkably similar to classic inner city conditions that are commonly seen in drug addicts. She has no sense of time, organization,
has zero social skills and can not hold even the most menial of jobs with an advanced accounting degree. Her sloth has burned through resources that should have been intended for other family members. When my brothers car broke rather than get a new one, he pressured my parents into taking mine.

He rushes from party to party giving gifts he can not afford and comes with his hand out. His son is finally in a college attempting to get a degree but years of substandard dedication to secular studies, cultural isolation
and bombastic fixation on Torah will no doubt lead to a life of mendicancy. The best of this pathetic lot is the niece who will likely marry and have kids she can't afford with a theologically obsessed drone.

As a father I made sure that these conflicts do not exist in our home. The holidays serve as a vehicle to bring
the family together. We do not obsess over banal details and the focus is family first. My daughter understands that hard work is part of life and being self sufficient is the only way to live. In essence I recreated the spirit of my grandfather in my own family.

Now some of you may be shocked and appalled, but my grandfather would understand my angst. His life as well as that of my maternal grandmother embodied the following values family, hard work, honesty and self reliance. The notion that one should study theological texts on the dime of others would not be something he would have approved of. Pushing away others with religious boorishness and mendicancy would not be acceptable.

I will be with my daughter at an Easter dinner and there will be no seder this year.  I chose family and substance first. Religion is a way to bring families together. When it divides families or becomes a chore the
essential essence of the faith is lost.

A Happy Passover and Easter to All

This week Active Shooter Training

Due to the series of workplace shootings Federal Employees are now mandated to undergo active shooter training.In the event a deranged crazy nut comes to the job my response will be. How are you doing Warren Wilhelm or whatever you are calling yourself at the moment. The mayors office is that way.

Frummies from Hell

After a long hiatus, the planets worst house guests have returned. They never go home on time and are still here as they drag out their painful toxic visits. The brothers wife has gotten fired from yet another job. The folks are upset that I disinherited his entire family in my will. I am so annoyed at them, I purchased burial space in Guyana to get away from them.

I despise the frummies and the best of this lousy lot is the niece who elected to stay home. They are not bound by things like jobs and responsibility. God takes care of them, usually at my expense and I am sick of them.

I am at the point where I will be writing a will. My parents are steaming, but I gave them nothing except a scathing insult.  

Interesting discussion with peer

Frequently, I disagree with my peers on a range of subjects. Most of the time it is on vs fact and what we can prove. Also if the US Government makes a mistake it increases the burden of proof.

There are a whole range of words that are not supposed to be said in Federal offices. If I hear something perceived to be a slur, I will usually intercede immediately. Most of the time I remind people that this is a legal proceeding and that those words are unacceptable and make you look inarticulate. The most common word that comes out in this context is bitch.

The term retardation is a term that was socially acceptable in an earlier era. When used by a person over 60 it does not have the same pejorative context. In cases where testimony about this subject comes up usually Autism or Downs's syndrome is the term. My peer pointed out that the public has a right to be offensive. He is 100% correct, but in a legal proceeding there is really no need for that. The presiding official is responsible for the tone.

In my case I was cringing because a Stroke survivor used the term multiple times. My discomfort was so great that when my boss called me out the first words out of my mouth were "I didn't encourage that". She was listening and said." I know. However, the woman described everything perfectly. Get her out of here".
My boss was 100% correct and had I not been so disturbed by those offensive words I likely would have made the same decision earlier.

In general there is no place for slurs or even pejoratives in government offices. There are more creative ways to describe people. I refer to one obnoxious peer  at times as Batman, a vampire and as a front man for a horror film. These are descriptions of his style and if anything are insults to vampires everywhere.

My friend is 100% correct that our rights do include the right to be boorish and offensive. However, most of the time a gentle reminder is all that is needed to refocus the applicant. There are certainly more creative ways of expressing  your former wife's annoying habits than calling her a bitch. I also remind people that the officer is more pleased when people admit up to their own failings in an honest manner than blaming others.
It is a gentle reminder that we are in an official proceeding lets respect the forum and the process.

Basic Litteracy

Our friend Duncy has failed basic literacy. The changes at work are not aimed at me. I am bothered by having to perform odious tasks due to the general incompetence around me. Officers mistreat cases because they have never grasped how to perform this job from day one and I am tasked with performing odious tasks to correct these errors. In fact all of the more responsible officers are left with the same anger.

It has been a long time since I was a pariah. In my area I am a healthy role model for the new trainees to aspire to. My denial rate tends to be lower because I understand the law and know when to stand your ground. My boss asked me Beak what do you think of this one. I told them its is a losing proposition and to cut it free and I did so. The folks who prioritize what goes in front of the judge appreciate my efforts. Oddly the person who does that is a leftist. She understands the judge is a last resort for cases that need to be there. She performs the mental calculus at the next level. When she wants something done she knows who to ask. Likewise when odd problems arise she usually covers my back. I had a classic one where I warned an attorney, if I can't solve this your client will either have to go back to a war zone or submit DNA. The attorney preferred my approach and with the help of the language lab no DNA was required. I understand the options and present the plans of action.

I am a survivor of work place bullying and live each and every day with PTSD. In my case, I was doing the job right all along and was a model employee. My abuser has remained in the rubber room for four years.
My points have been amply proven.

Classic by Duncy

Our Commie bird brained waterfowl has some strong words for classic liberal Gov Cuomo. I am no fan of dauphin. However, his efforts to govern responsibly and reign in the dangerously insane Communist clown DiBlassio have made him look better. Even the deranged Socialists of France have figured out that milking tax the rich and soak corporations does not work past a certain point.

Lefties are far more obsessed with Joooooos than the Ostritch brigade acknowledges. Who was that Duck who claimed Joseph Lieberman represented Tel Aviv. Sounds like those whose past is synonymous with treason are projecting their  crimes on others.

Amusing

We have our cliche Communists discussing my ideological armor. This comes from a clown with rather over the top anti american obsessions and not one iota of intellectual independence.  

Not Worth the Wait

I finished With Musket and Tomahawk volume two in one evening. It is an enjoyable book if you are not familiar with the Battle of Oriskany. As I have read several books on this subject it didn't add much I didn't already know. However, if you are unfamiliar with the events in question it is excellent light history.

Those enlightened lefties part 2

We have had some unusual claims over the life of this blog. At one time the Jooooo obsessed 167 claimed that I hide my Judaism and tried to get non Jews to support Israel. This was amusing in that I seldom write about that subject unless a lefty is on an obsessive tear.

The newest rant is a commie classic "self hating Jooooo" by our own Duncy. He could be basing this on any number of factors. However, as a Jew familiar with the practices of the community I have the right to intellectual freedom. Unlike Marxist drones, I posses cultural literacy in the faith and the history of my people.

This term is an accurate term usually used to describe Marxists who happen to be Jewish and have pathological obsessions with Jews like Gnome Chimpanzee, Norman Finkola and former Jew Nature boy
Joel Koevell who has converted to another faith. They spend their days screaming from the top of their lungs
and are well compensated " I am a Joooo who is outraged by Israel for whatever." In actuality these are political lunatics with off the wall political philosophies that are a surrogate religion.

The Duck could be reffering to my general disdain for Rav Roov and his family whose toxic religious practices are usually at my expense and impact my personal liberty. He could be talking about my disdain for the fringe religious cults whose utter disdain for gainful employment is a source of conflict in the community.
Some of these groups are so despised by the larger community that outside their community members deny their membership in the individual sect.

Once again with the familiar story, I was born into a mostly secular family. We did practice the major festivals but were clearly not religious. My older half brothers and sisters never spent one second in a Yeshiva. I was ripped out of the local public school and placed in a Yeshiva in third grade. I had no desire to make this move as I was placed in a class with kids whose cultural practices were different from my own. I was secular in my outlook and fought to return to my world. The battle took place over many years and I was not able to return to a secular school until ninth grade. I was then sent to a Yeshiva in thenth, but convinced a violent Rabbi to let me return. Ironically, the Rabbi never laid a glove on me because he knew that violence in my case was pointless. Hitting me wasn't going to change me or get me back in line. I never denied what I was accused of and just accepted whatever punishment was given. I also did not discuss my views or attempt to undermine the views of anyone else. If a Rabbi asked in private, I stated I was secular and that all debate was wasted. I did not deny my heritage, but rather I defined myself as secular.

Thus our Dunce could be talking about my Guyanese family that is Hindu or Northwind who was French Catholic and Abenaki or a UN of various other relationships who included Jews of varying   religious commitment from several countries, Asians, Latinas and Caribbeans. Who I select as my significant other
is a personal choice. This is my personal preference and an amusing Muslim lefty with a wife who is also
from his own country infered I was bigoted because I would not date a Muslim. Actually a check of my bio does include a short relationship with a sultry Albanian girl in College who was secular but this is not something I would hold up as indicative of anything. However, I view the choice of long term romantic interest as a personal matter.

In general I have my own issues with the larger community. In my day Yeshivas were committed to excellence in their secular studies. Sadly, as costs spiral upwards the quality of the education has gone downwards and the more religious a school is in general the lower quality of secular education it provides.

The practices of the ultra Orthodox have nothing to do with Judaism and are cult like veneration of imagined ghetto life. As people who came from those small towns were members of my family and community I have a passing familiarity with the actual lives of people that lived in that era. The Jews from the small town were pious, but they worked hard for very little money. If there was an extra dime it was those even poorer.
The village had a Rabbi who led services and was a leader of the community. He provided normal spiritual guidance. The Ultra Orthodox are actually cults with a Jewish motif. There is nothing authentically Jewish about the clothes, music or cuisine of these communities. In fact the get up is a period piece but somewhere people can start a variant wearing Nehru Jackets and Goodluck Jonathan hats later. Self sufficiency and hard work were normal practices venerated in my community long before the Chasidic community was conceived.

Jews have a different relationship with Europe and for the most part did not consider themselves members of the nations they lived in. In my case my grandfather was a Polish Cavalry man who fought for Poland against Bolsevik clowns. He did not consider himself a Pole. Communists prominently describe Jew as a nationality
in Soviet documents.. Communists often deny this, but as my job requires extensive contact with all types of official documents I have the fact in front of me each and every day. Now that it is politically expedient to stoke populist bigotry Commies frequently say "Israel is a religious state and is an anachronism". These same Commies have no issue with ethnically cleansed states with an official religion and theological law just as long as it isn't Jooooish.

It is not politically expedient for Jewish people in the current age to say they are Jewish. In the presence of other officers I never deny what my faith is. However, I elected to define myself as Guyanese and do attend community events on a regular basis. Fellow coworkers who are Poles, Ukranian, Russian and Hungarian will point to a common heritage but Guyana has been listed as the group I identify with. I support Israel for political reasons and am a secular member of the Jewish community. I have not converted to another faith
and doing so would not even accomplish anything. According to the traditions even if I converted I would still be considered Jewish but non- observant by the community. My desire to be buried in Guyana is a family dispute with an obnoxious mendicant relatives than a rejection of my community. The Guyanese heritage is
part of a running joke at work and at the diner.

This is another amusing attempt by Commies to define "authenticity" and shows typical obsession with Joooos. Does our local Communist even know what AOW's ethnicity or religion is? Commies spend their days playing a version of the Howard Stern game who is a Jew. In this case they are more interested in my religious practices than I am.      

Those enlightened Lefties groan

Lefties like to rant about their enlightenment. They are more hateful in style and substance then your average KKK clowns. Any visit to your average Occupy Wall Street sites or alleged Peace Protests shows thinly veiled over the top obsession with Jews, paranoia about the rich and a series of criminal behaviors including links to terrorism. A visit to Tea Party events show not much out of the ordinary other then a few people obsessing over the Obama birth certificate.

Lets all rant about the 1% while not bathing.

Weapons Grade Awful

One has to really love your kid to endure Titanic and High School The Musical. I did luck out somewhat when I noticed the Tranquil Sea did not leave any food for the kid. I went off to the grocery store looking for food my daughter could prepare quickly. As she is growing rapidly and is very thin it is okay to load up on the dairy products. I did pass up my favorites and purchased her some strawberry ice cream. I found a few cans of chicken soup, some microwave pancakes and she reminded me twice on cell phone about fruit roll ups.

On the way back there was a huge fire on Liberty Avenue. I used the crowd to my advantage and headed straight for the hallal truck. She said she wasn't hungry and ate my lunch. I then went to the roti shop for daluri and baigan choka for the mossus.

Unfortunately, while I returned the ship was still sinking. I was actually rooting for the writer of this script to get hypothermia. I have no idea why people went to this dreadful film in droves.

However, that was a minor irritation when compared to High School the Musicl. Idiotic spoiled shallow blondes, pretty boy jock who rebels against his basketball coach day and math wiz minority are a dreadful mix of pc cliches. The singing, actingand writing of this had me yearning for the dreadful drug comedies of the 80's.

I am currently reading Rutherford's New York. One should not expect Mitchener or Kenneth Roberts who do this genre better than Rutherford. That being said thus far the book is better than advertised, but I am still in the Revolutionary War era.

The death cultists proclaim there is no such thing as intellectual independence.

Marxists are forever repeating precanned cliches when presented with things they just cant explain like facts history and logic. They are herd animals marching behind a deranged cult leader trying to pass off failed ideas that do not work along with toxic amounts of anti Americanism and not to thinly disguised antisemitism.

My views are quite easily discerned from any basic reading of this blog. They are discerned by those who work with me. Those who see me every speak louder and with more authority then deranged drones who can't buy a clue.

The best way to have a healthy disrespect for governance is to be in its employ. Rules and procedures protect the public from abusive government. This is something I am familiar with first hand. I am not amused by those who seek solace in the power of the almighty state. The ends don't justify the means and we can look plainly at the debacle at the IRS as a classic example of abusive government. Unfortunately, basic integrity at the IRS has been lacking for years.

The herd animal bleats out precanned garbage about Rand. I have never read Rand. This is a classic response of the herd animal to those who are hostile to the Children of Class Genocide and Theft. The other rants are usually about talk radio and Faux news. One does not have a chance to listen to Talk radio when commuting on Public Transportation. I also haven't been able to watch Faux news in years as my schedule does not allow for it.

The Death Cultist need to lump all of their intransigent opponents into neat groups. The death cult fails to understand its opposition to its criminal pathology is as unique as the general population it disdains. Of course we will now hear the rant about false consciousness, serfdom to corporate interests and so forth.

Sorry, but I am an American in spirit and substance. My rights are God Given to me as an individual. The State exists to serve my fellow citizens and rules and procedures exist to protect the public from imperial government. My country like any other has had its share of moments where we failed to live up to our ideals. However, when the same standards are applied to its critics they rant and have no answers. The sons of Marx are political criminals and cultist drones. It takes zero intelligence to follow a herd or blindly repeat party lines and idiocy from the party approved texts.

Of course when the people revolt against Marxist thuggery the Duck calls them spoiled rich kids. This would describe the Keystone Marxist terrorists like Bill "Imbecile" Ayers and company.

The cult can not deal with facts and logic.

Giving Back

I spent the morning as a guest lecturer. One does not feel old until one has made the transition from the chair to the front. Apparently the students have a very positive reaction and it was covered in the previous students comments. The class was twice the size of previous years and I was not prepared for such a large class.

When I teach I tend to be interactive in style. I allow the students to use their own instincts and place them in the role of the professional and the public servant. I remind them that public service is a responsibility and great honor. I show the subtle nuances like making contact and subtly establishing the tone of the process.

I am told the students had a very positive response. I also reminded them about cultural and economic biases in interviewing and assessments.  

Self Deception

We have an ignorant death cultist who illustrates my points entirely. Communism is a mental health defect and a moral failing. I don't go around life jealous of those who have achieved success. Communists are driven by paranoid delusions about the undeserved wealth of other people. In truth the death cult serves as a guise to rationalize theft of property for those whose skills and mental health defects have marginalized their earning potential.

They also feign that they "care" about the under privileged.  Actually, they only use their plight to rationalize theft and thug like behavior once they get into power. Gitmo has better health care and food then Cuba. In fact if Cubans were ever shown the food that our prisoners eat the locals would storm the prison trying to get in.

Anon has a pathological hatred of the USA that hysterically extends to the Communist party endorsed comedian President from a deranged Marxist family who hangs out with spoiled rich Marxist terrorists. None of these facts ever gets into mind of the deranged death cultist. They merely run around in an ignorant stupor usually ranting about the wealthy, spreading mindless Jooooo hatred or rationalizing whatever stupidity the party elite toss out their anus.

When actual people who work with the poor and various community groups seek assistance they mysteriously find me. These are professionals dedicated to serving the actual poor as opposed to seeking political power and stealing property based upon whatever.

As far as the rant "see me in the streets". Communists would be better served in insane asylums then in the streets. In fact a classic example was the attitude when actual homeless types camped out with OWS idiots. The OWS imbeciles didn't want to share their food and complained about theft of property. the name of the game is for the communists to steal from the wealthy in the name of the unwashed masses who are not worthy of getting actual food or sharing their spaces.

Sorry, but I will continue my public service to all types rather than stew in ignorance like our death cult ignarantii.

Let the EU deal with Putin

I am tired of all the hysterical EU types who drone on and on about America crying about the Ukraine. Let the useless EU do something without the USA. Let all the Obamabots tell us about the leader of the clueless one. When and where has Obama ever led anything?

Times a changing

I have spent seven years in one place in the NYC Office. I rose to be a mentor from a rags to riches story. I formally asked for a transfer to another unit. I have done my time and wish to move on. Unfortunately, I am a valued member of my home unit and my wishes may not be granted.

I fought for a type of peaceful process. My fight was long and had many turns. Now that this is the accepted practice it is time to do other things. Of course there will be some opposition, but new tasks beckons.

The Vanishing Record Store

It seems there are less places to comb through the shelves of CDs, Books and DVDS. It is sad that my granddaughter will never know the fun of looking through bins for a gem. It is rare that I get down to the Princeton Record Exchange but it is well worth the trip.

The human side of all of us

Dr. Yeagley was a friend. Like any other friend we disagreed with each other on many things. He was brilliant, personable, a man of faith and loved America.

All of us journey through life and grow over time. Hopefully, most of us move past our hangups and challenge our assumptions. I am not the same person I was in college and over time I will not be the same politically five years from now.

All of us need to challenge ourselves.

The obituary I just wrote could be written about any of us. We need to evolve over ideas and not cling stubbornly to prisons of our own creations. However, in life there is always another challenge to overcome
as the music stops and our journey ends.

RIP Dr Yeagley

Dr Yeagley passed away yesterday. He was and will always be my friend in spite of some odious views. The Doctor and I shared a love of America, but we had different concepts of Americanism. In my heart, I still believe in the big table of equals open to all who share a common set of beliefs. America and Christ ( he was a man of faith) are egalitarian in that all who believe in a common set of ideas are part and parcel of the community.

Although the Dr's views at times were considered offensive, he remained a friend I strongly disagreed with on many things. Unfortunately, people were not able to look past these flaws and see the person. I knew the person and from my perspective in his heart he was a good man.

The heart of the confusion lies in does DNA make you whatever. There are those among us who think they are the arbiters of authenticity. They look down their nose and based on their fealty to a death cult decide who is authentically Jewish, Black or in Yeagleys case Indian. In many respect Yeagley's individualism and the right to define himself were the most authentically American parts of his persona. Americanism and the love of Christ were at the center of his heart. Sadly, at times he was mistaken about the core concepts or was unable to move past some hangups.

All of us have hangups of some sort. Unfortunately, he was quite vocal about his hangups. For the record, I have alabaster skin and mostly green eyes that also have shades of blue. My hair is blonde in the center with Black tips that give it an odd glow. It is seen in relatives on my mothers side. These are just personal traits and I really don't think about them any more than shoe size. My family is Indo-Guyanese mostly Hindu with some Christian. There are times my daughter or grandaughter look at my skin or my eyes and say I wish they looked like yours. I pointed out they are perfect the way they are and I wouldn't change a thing about them.
Despite what many of you may think the Dr. was very supportive of me and my family and was well aware of the ethnicity of my family. We had a long discussion on line about my first Christmas. I am there as a member of a family despite my different views and beliefs. The fact that members of my family have a different faith does not change the fact that I love them as family members. I am there as head of a household and fully supportive. The Dr. understood I had not converted, but was partaking in holidays as a member of a family.

In my last exchanges the Dr. seemed to understand time was running out. His thoughts were of Christ that he embraced from the core of his persona. He also understood the Jewish roots of messianism. In a classic sense Christ is the fulfillment of the Jewish prophecies and taking Christ into your heart allows the gentile to be a part of this bounty. As I am not theological in thought much of this is above my plane. Jewish folk don't really dwell on the topic unless they are devotees of Chabad who seek to make people more Jewish. They do not look for converts, but seek to usher in the comming of the messiah by bringing back those who have assimilated. My response to the query are you Jewish is I am Guyanese. I prefer to keep a healthy distance
and don't wish to partake in ceremonies or rituals.

I will miss Dr. Yeagley as a friend. He wasn't perfect and he had his issues, but he was always my friend and always his own man. In the end there are not many of us who can say that.

Time

I spent some time with the family in Queens. It is always good to see the daughter and daughter in law and granddaughter. I arrived after a long day interviewing and processing. The old dinner that I went to for twenty plus years was sold and all the workers are gone. Yet even after renovations I sit in the same seat seamlessly watching the TV and eating better food. The new staff recognizes me instantly and knows my quirks. The owner knows my daughter wants a dessert or waffles. I stroll across the street to the barber for a haircut and a shave. I am so relaxed I fall asleep as my hair is cut. Then I stroll to the candy store and find my families favorites and a trusty diet Mountain Dew.

I take the bus home and meet former peers from another job. The Obama recession has hit those of us who work with their hands the hardest. It pains me to see one of the men that worked for me in such sad shape.
I treat him to West Indian Style Chinese food and a beer. He tells me of the desperation looking everywhere for work. He gets 29 hours at one job and is still looking for a second one. He recalls moments we faced impossible odds at work and asked why I left. He told me the story that was told was it was over a woman and that was partially correct. At that point I was needed at home. It was also time to do something else. The industry was in trouble and I didn't want to be a relic clinging to an industry in its death throws.

I arrive at home to see my family. The two small dogs are all over me. The daughter is all excited and everyone awaits as I unpack the bags. There is something for everyone as eyes light up as things I found along the way find  their intended owners. It is odd that my beloved granddaughter grabs the soda and says Doooooooooooooo.  I enjoy the moment but at tired.

I go to sleep and the dogs sleep at my feet. I don't sleep the whole night and head to the Halal truck with little Rex at 1AM. The man at the truck knows the order and I bring roast lamb for the dogs and ponder the next day.

There is changes and the workplace is evolving. I point out to my peers that the new boss is not as cute and cuddly as the previous one. She is okay and has some admirable qualities. I point out how I have been through stupid, cruel, incompetent and one insane boss and survived them all. All things come to pass and so will this boss and the next before the music is over. The new boss wants me to think of a more managerial role. Unfortunately, the scars of PTSD from long ago have not healed and will likely never heal. It is difficult working closely with those who bullied you. The sad part is that over time it has become apparent that those in the crowd were less skilled than the target. A person in power selected a target and tried her best, but in the end numbers don't lie, nor do the outsiders who viewed the spectacle from afar. Those in the crowd
were not skilled as the person they harassed. I started to notice it when I was assigned the task of repairing errors. Normally, we laugh it off and learn. However, when people walk around like they own the joint and abuse others it is something different.

I think of how the family has sustained me through bad times. I think of how the dreams of the person across the desk sometimes required some extra effort. Many things sustained me in the bad times but my family, community and the public kept me going when a smarter man would have given up.

Lost on many, the ends don't justify the means. I never had to learn that lesson. I also knew how to treat the support staff and be a brother to my peers. Bullies are not cool. When you bully at the behest of someone in power you are a toady. I despise toadies and flunkies.
 

Lab Rats Learn Commies Don't

I am amused at the silence of the faithful at the implosion of yet another lie. The thought that these workers paradise states are an illusion does not register to the brain impaired death cultists. In many ways the crazed jihadist types who seek a global caliphate are more reality based than the sons of treason.

The responses from the mendicant moron believers exceeds the length of my post.

When belief fails

I am amused by the silence of Troutsky and the defenders of the latest Marxist failure. Marxists are not capable of reason or rational thought. No doubt this latest failure will be given a series of party line excuses. The next savior will fail and so forth.

Meanwhile the death cultists will ramble on in vain exercises of pompous intellectual self delusion. The faithful will peddle Utopian dreams and the myth of Eden while rationalizing theft and all manner of crimes.

The people want jobs and consumer goods and the death cult response to this desire is to believe the masses are not intelligent enough to make their own choices. When dealing with Marxists, facts, logic and reason are pointless.  Do the masses have the right to make their own choices? Who decided that bug eyed cultists know more about the masses then the masses themselves?

Of course seeing the light when Utopian dreams crash yet again is above the IQ of Marxist drones.

Going to miss the boss

I am going to miss my boss for his skill, humanity and dedication to our profession. He was promoted because he was better then the next guy. He also was far and away the most qualified man for the job. There was some grumbling he got the job because he was gay, but that died quickly and he proved his worth multiple times.

I am proud to have served with such a high caliber person especially during the roll out of DOMA. There were some who were uncomfortable with this law and as an open Conservative I was suspected of being a ring leader of that group. In fact, I was vocally against any effort to mistreat any applicants. We don't have second class citizens in this country gay or otherwise. What all of us can learn from gays is be yourself and the hell with others who can't deal with it.

As a giant of a person and officer and a person we had similar views on use and abuse of law. Respect the law and use common when at all possible. If a situation needed outside intervention, do it. I remember a situation where I was pondering how to resolve an embarrassing gaffe committed outside our office. I told the lawyer if it blows up have no fear as we would resolve the issue at our level. My boss and I looked at each other and we knew the best solution was to bring the matter in to the local level for a more detailed inspection. The matter was resolved quickly and when dealing with advanced seniors time does matter.

My boss is leaving for family reunification and I understand that. There are many days I would like to return to Vermont, but my family is here. I miss the open country and the more industrial type of atmosphere of that office. It was easier to just  go out and get things done. I also miss driving to work. My daughter and granddaughter are young once and need me home. I also enjoy my time in the local Guyanese community and had to decide between personal comfort and professional growth. Every day I spend with the family reminds me I made my choice and it has to be that way. The attorneys also remind me that I am needed at the front.

There has been some grumbling about the new boss. My previous boss reminded me that the greatest prisons are those we construct ourselves. In reality he is 100% correct. With all the crap I have been through including years of workplace bullying my fears were stupid. I tell the boss why I am doing something and she understands. Example, I would like to get this task done now, but I have two problems. It can be done at a later date once those matters are resolved. We have taken x steps to put this to rest. She is not my previous boss and should not be expected to be. She is herself and that is all we can ask anyone to be.

Obama the jokes is on Us

The world looks to Obama for leadership in the Ukraine crisis. Of course expecting Obama to do anything
competently should come as a punchline to a joke on the American people. Sorry, but endlessly droning on about hope and change behind a Pepsi knockoff logo does not make a leader.

At least we are almost done with the failed Presidency of excuses and ineptness. Of course Hillary will feign she hardly ever knew Obama.

Little Phonies

The usual suspects are in bunker mode. Let a couple of Arabs throw rocks and they rail about Jooos. When people rail and start throwing rocks at Commies the usual suspect feign ignorance and start making excuses.

As University Commies defend this crap it is time for boycotts. No aid for student loans Until Commies and Anarchists are removed from the faculty.

No fights

People fail to grasp that if I am really upset, I stop talking. After certain lines are crossed I move on and have nothing to do with the annoyance. Fighting is just a waste of time and when bothered it is just better to go elsewhere.

At work the person next door has constant coffee clatches. In general, I am quite tolerant until the ring leader of the gang that bullied me showed up. I addressed the matter politely and were this mere passing through it would not concern me. The issue was multiple daily visits that last an hour or more and are not work related.
 I pointed out my concern and got a lecture. My response to the lecture was you are 100% correct. However, as my space is next door I can decide what to do with it as well. Kindly, don't talk to me or ask for help.  This person did ask for help multiple times and as a peer, I don't mind helping out. However, don't ask me for help and make my area into a mess.

Now I keep my door locked at all times. I discourage visitors and prefer to do my job in peace. I am still the same sweet guy to the public. However, I really prefer to hang with the old timers who grasp the full history in our area.

A job and toilet paper

I want to point to the rhetoric of the demented Troutsky as yet another Workers Paradise implodes. The Fish molester ponders about people wanting to return to the days of Blacks and Browns being ordered about by whites.

This is a rather amusing look at a country where crime is out of control, basic consumer staples like toilet paper are unavailable, property of political opponents are nationalized and jobs are as real as bigfoot.
Now it doesn't take any real IQ to predict this because other than crime this is what happens every time an idiot decides to follow Marx.

Maybe Cuba is next.

Spent Time with my daughter and grandaughter.

I spent an evening with my daughter. I am exhausted from work but my kid and my grand kid come first. It is odd that Emma adores me because I am just so odd. The again my daughter in law notices the pets also gravitate towards me.

I am somewhat surprised about the grand child relationship because initially when this child was very small she feared me. I used to joke about it and play with the the dogs or do something else. The grandchild loves me very much and does not like to leave with her mom when I am home.

Someday, when she is older she will get that many of the stories have a point. The land of Snow and Beer is actually Vermont. My younger brother, the annoying Beaker, is in many of these stories. Oddly, my grandfather did the same thing and at times my father introduces the truth. For example my great grandfather emigrated to the USA. The legend of him being thrown out was a comedic image painted by his son in law
to his grandchildren. He also left his wife and many children behind, but World War One, the Flu of 1918, the Depression, the Holocaust and World War 2 and scores of smaller events got in the way.

We seldom think about things now that we live in a global age. I chat effortlessly with family in Guyana or friends who are on assignment elsewhere. Some lunatic coworker swears he heard something close to the Surf Music in my office in a doctors office in a Muslim Middle Eastern country. One century ago friends and family did lose contact.

In my case as I am not one who looks back I would not maintain friendships after I moved on. There is a coworker who retired who is an exception. I can be located with ease if someone is looking. However, I am usually glad to see them and discover that I have little in common.

My trip to the jungle may be delayed by civil unrest in the adjacent  country.

Rebel Against What ???

I met a younger peer from the area. He claimed that others followed my lead after I decided to leave religious schools. While I did notice others did follow it was something I did not encourage or had anything to do with.

In my case, I simply never was and would not be forced, coerced into traditions I wanted no part of. I did not defy or make my actions public. Mine was more akin to just opting out. I refused to write any answers on tests and left papers blank. I did not participate in class discussions and just said modestly I don't know when called upon in religious classes. I obeyed the rules, never tried to set an example for others and just was granted my freedom. Even the Rabbi's who were prone to violent reactions did not bother to hit me. My reactions were never defiant. I did not debate theology or get into arguments. My point was this is not who I am. I respect your beliefs, but I have no desire to be a part of this community. I did not deny wrong doing that was trivial and always accepted punishment but was never subjected to violence of any kind. I remember one said "You are an affable guy. Violence wouldn't change anything and I can't make you something you aren't or never were. I told him my sole desire was to leave quietly without fanfare.

Apparently, others did notice and made similar decisions on their own. I never encouraged this or discussed my situation when formally asked. I simply walked away and never looked back. There were those who did seek me out, but I never discussed the matter or why I left. In my case, I never had the inclination nor desire to be a part of the community in any way. There was an amusing period where after I had left being a "bad boy" was irresistible to religious girls. They did frequently contact me and show their interest, but I wanted nothing to do with them. I dated girls from the local public school. For me there was no rebellion and I wanted to be away period. Dating a religious girl, would have placed me into contact with a culture that I had no desire to be a part of.

Even after the passage of years I am perplexed by the impact my actions had. I am shocked others remembered things I had forgotten. There was an odd bully who unlike a traditional one had good grades. He was a company man and I was just disinterested in the company. I remember he tried to provoke a fight and debate me. My response was "What is there to debate? I respect your views and have no interest in discussing my own" I turned my back and walked away and this person challenged me to a fight. I told him and what are we fighting over your ego. I really don't care about you or your ego and if you hit a man who has turned his back and is walking away it says more about you then me". If this persons grades were lower his mental health issues would have been noticed. I remember a crusty English teacher told that little nut job
"Don't kid yourself. He is smarter then you will ever be." The teacher demonstrated his point and that is what set off the exchange as this person never lost anything. He dated the flashiest girl. He got better grades and threw it in your face. He was a dirty player in every sport, but almost always won. In my case I had beaten him with no effort nor concern. The teacher was making a point to this arrogant jerk that he was not quite as smart as he thought he was.

When I went to leave there was a discussion. Many Rabbis predicted I would turn out to be a criminal. The crusty English teacher asked me why I was going. I merely stated "this is not who I am. I belong in public school". He pointed out " You are not a Sweat Hog" and pointed out that despite my lack of effort my grades in secular subjects were high. The Principal stated " we can not make him into something he is not".
He also pointed out that he enjoyed having me around and liked me personally. They weren't asking me to leave but as my heart was not into it it was for the best of all. There is something to the adage if you love something set it free. If it loves you it will return. In my case, I left and never looked back. I refused to fake outward appearances and just lived my own life. Oddly, the person who did turn out to be a criminal was the fellow classmate who tried to fight with me. In his case if his grades were lower his mental pathologies would have been treated. Had he spent any time in a real public school he would have gotten beaten up and learned his lesson. Oddly, he became just as secular as me and added criminality to a bad personality.

It is funny how I really don't think of those years, but others do. I don't go to reunions and prefer not to discuss those days. They are mere parts of my life story. My reaction to those who wanted to discuss the events and most had to find me was rebel against what. As I was never a part of the community my departure could not be viewed as rebellion it was merely a logical outcome. When others followed my path I avoided them and many did track me down. I pointed out I wasn't embarrassed of where I came from I merely found where I belonged. I just went on about my business and really never thought about the past I walked away from. At one point there was a girl who made a similar journey who was persistent. We dated briefly and I walked away. I had forgotten about her entirely but ...... The less said about that mishap the better.

Just Watched an Entire Golda Meir Interview from 1968

Funny, I watched an entire interview from 1968 and never heard the words Palestine or Palestinian. The far left apparently has passed the greatest con job of all time. The contexts of the wars was Judenfrei real estate. However, that close to the Holocaust Nazi verbiage was unacceptable. Thus the bait and switch from Joooos into the sea to the creation of a bogus ethnicity created by the far left solely for the creation of stoking populist Jooooo hatred.

The far left is far more filled with Jooooo hatred then imaginary Conservative animus against Blacks. Of course lefties like Duncy hurl all types of racial epithets at Black conservatives while feigning some sort of disdain about the genuine Blackness of Black conservatives. Last I checked Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain and Thomas Sowell did not attend nearly all White Prep Schools or pass their days as a stoner.

The real truth is that the overwhelming majority of Joooos obsessed with the destruction of Israel are Communists or the members of a criminal pseudo religious cult. The criminality of the Satmar cult are quite evident. Where else in the USA does a religious disorder set up ethnically pure enclaves with welfare and poverty rates exceedingthe worst areas in the USA.

I want to point out the faux culture of this disorder is far more akin to a cult then a branch of Judaism. The emulation of the Jewish ghettos is neither correct in substance or fact. Unlike, actual residents of the ghettos
these clowns disdain work and spend their lives on the dole. The actual residents worked back breaking trades and studied at night. They learned scripture and the talmud and did not need cult like Rabbis to tell them every aspect of their life. They fostered and craved intellectual freedom. Of course anyone of my generation would have vivid memories of these people as they were our Grandparents and Uncles.

We have covered the religious roots of Marxism before. I am not a theologically inclined person but evolution is quaint. However, Marxist economics has been lethal in every application. Marxists and Anarchists should be treated with the same disdain as Nazis given their body counts.

Now that there are protesters in Hugo's crack den where are the cameras? Funny when actual popular protests against a criminal leftist regime take place the Bolshevik MSM feigns ignorance.

Family returns from Guyana

My family will return from Guyana tonight. Calling there is so expensive that doing it without a phone card is a burden. I should be going in late April unless I return to VT for Maple fest.

Going to try

Yesterday work was canceled. Today we have a delayed opening. My tour of duty has been pushed back. These storms suck.

Damn

My boss is moving to another State. The person replacing him comes with a very nasty reputation. Part of it was managements fault. When promoting a person to management one should move people out to a new area. The sole exception was a peer who was so loved by her peers and was my boss that could overcome this unwritten rule.

I am happy for my boss in that he is returning home. The new boss comes with caveats and it would have been best had she been removed from the area. However, the infighting was to severe and the damage will follow her.

In my case, I am the peasant and though the peasant may or may not like the Lord of the Manor I remain attached to the land. The Lords come and they go and most were missed. I am tied to the land like a peasant even though the climate for me to move up has changed.

The damage of the previous administration has left me unsuited for anything else. In my case I no longer believe in management even as it embraces many of my ideas. My experiences with severe workplace bullying have left me a shell of the person I was. The reality of the extreme brutality just does not go away in seconds. Unfortunately, I have to work with my abusers lackeys and this is very difficult. The newer employees don't grasp my disdain and revulsion. My departing boss got me to dial down this disdain for one
person in particular. This boss had the ability to do this, but it is very hard being around a self proclaimed genius who screws up leaving messes I have to clean. I have started locking my door because I do not trust this person being around my work space so frequently.

The odd part is the incoming boss likely has an obvious solution to her woes, but lacks the introspective aspect of the persona to grasp the solution. The common denominator was the inability to communicate with peers. Of course being very humble at work is my natural state. When I get letters of commendation, I shift the focus onto the team. One person even got a Presidential award for my actions and I am okay with it. At the time every action including was tuned into a negative. This is the reality of work place bullying. Being able to laugh at one's self would solve 90% of this persons issues. One boss who is very difficult and has a grammar fixation turned an annoying moment into a moment of love just by laughing at herself in the key moment. I was exasperated with her corrections and in one case she corrected a comma into a semicolon. I looked at her exasperated and said, I don't suppose you can articulate the reason for that correction. She looked at me and said"actually I can and started". I looked at her and we both started laughing at ourselves and it turned a moment of exasperation into a moment where the boss was lovable. To this day, I have a soft spot for this boss who at times was very difficult to work with. I also credited her with many of the innovations that improved efficiency and named certain procedures after her.

The sad part is that this persons major issues are easily remedied with a few self deprecating jokes and a touch of introspective humor. My outgoing boss knows he does not have to ask me to do anything. He also allows me the freedom of action to pick moments to excel. Use your judgement and I will back you later.
An example of this was when another unit outside NYC made gaffes that would have been really damaging to the agency I took the initiative and imported the work. The natural tendency is to let the other unit fail and then repair the damage. In this case the recipient was an advanced senior citizen and permitting that to snowball just seemed absurd. In that case I repaired the damage quietly and moved ahead. Showing workers that you trust their abilities goes a long way.

My ability to laugh at myself and with others really got me through moments that would have made others snap. Not everyone has that ability and it really goes a long way. In a very difficult case, I had to thank a supervisor I detest. My ability to describe a serious problem modestly and bring it to her attention saved the day. In fact I conceded points incorrectly and was overly generous to a legal opinion in a serious matter. The area in question was procedural rather than a results or legal issue. In my world procedures exist to protect the public from out of control government workers. I then thanked this supervisor for her help and apologized for her having to read the disturbing case, That case was so venal that I could not even discuss it with my supervisor.

Trust in a supervisor is a very important issue. In the original case, I really needed the trust of my supervisor to handle that case. My supervisor at the time was a lovable woman who I really respected and could tell me don't be absurd trust your instincts. In most cases a mere glance did the trick. That case was so disturbing that when I asked to take a break and gather myself she knew something was wrong. I told her something in the file hit a raw nerve and I had t o get a Diet Mountain Dew and a big bag of chips to gather myself. I returned and she saw enough of the file to see what did it. I looked at her and asked if she wanted to reassign it to a more suitable officer. She told me you can handle it and that my reaction was normal. In that particular case with really odious information my dedication to procedure and legal restraint was actually a positive. A more gung ho type would have grandstanded this high profile matter. I just wanted it resolved correctly the first time and off my desk. If I didn't have total trust in my boss I could not work this case that was a walking EEO time bomb. I also had to discuss a word that I call the dreaded R word, recidivism. I refuse to ever use that word in formal correspondence.

I am going to miss the outgoing boss. He was a breath of fresh air and I was luck to work as closely with him as I did. He never did persuade me to leave my office. In my case, my office is my resting spot. I survived stuff that would have broke an ordinary person. Moving on was just beyond my abilities.

Annoying Media Circus

In general I do support the right of gay people to live lives of respect and dignity. The one thing we should learn from gay people is be yourself, unless you are a jerk. I don't have gay friends. I have friends and coworkers who happen to be gay. In reality it is no different at work then having someone who is left handed.

The media circus with gay athletes is nauseating. Coming out of the closet is a choice people make every day and it is no big deal. An unknown prospect who is likely a backup is not Jackie Robinson redux. Nor should stories about gay athletes be run every two seconds in the sports pages of every paper.

There has been plenty of speculation about atlettes in the past. I think the speculation about Mike Piazza started when he got an absurd hair color. This is not something traditional men do. At this point if he were gay, he would have said so long ago. There were plenty of athletes that stated they were gay after their career.

The NFL draft process is almost like a meat market. Players are measured in every aspect height, weight, hand size, arm length, and so forth. Their ability to run, jump, throw and various strengths are measured. Their intelligence is measured and scores that should remain private are regularly leaked to the press. One athlete who played for the Jets many years back became more famous for his low Wonderlic score than his brief playing career. Of course the media is unlikely to talk about the stigma of being labeled stupid. We have Presidential candidates and Presidents who will not show people their transcripts so do we really need to leak intelligence scores of athletes. If Barak Obama does not have to show his grades or is not pressured by the media do we rally need to know Tebows intelligence score. 

Unfortunately, Pro sports is a business with a serious criminal and mental health issues. Players often bring criminal, drug and mental health issues to the work place. There are just some players who can not be reached even by the most dedicated humanitarian people such as Dick Vermiel. We are constantly learning about arrests of athletes that were covered up by their schools. We did learn plenty about these incidents after the player gets arrested or released. Rarely, does a player who gets arrested come as a shock to people who really read the newspapers. I think the sad story of Dave Meggett who was really loved by the fans and came across as a great person show the rare instance where the public was fooled.  The fact that Tiki Barber would act like a jerk blame others for his failures should not be a surprise to those who grew tired of his antics in NYC. Only NBC was stupid enough to think Barber would be a media star.

Gays are part of lives in every community. We don't need media stories each and every day and to discuss the matter endlessly. A Hassidic Jewish NASCAR driver would really be a great story. An NBA player with an Accounting degree would also be a great story. A 400lb professional ballerina would be a great story. A sports illustrated swimsuit model that looked like the girl next door 5'4'' and a size eight would be a great story. Senior Citizen boy bands would be a great story. Yes, sometimes the wheel chair basketball game at halftime is more interesting then the New York Knicks.

We really need to move past the media obsessions and look at our workplace and lives. Is it a shock when Sid in human resources or Joan in payroll say they are gay. For the vast majority of us, we don't care. The era of Black QB's and coaches being media stories ended a while back. The issue should be treated as a detail and not an event. Meet player X we go through the entire bio and he has a same sex spouse.

The issue is not whether gays should play in major sports. They have likely been there from the earliest of times. Just as gays served in the military with pride long before the media made it an obsession. The days of people having to live in the closet are long over. However, we don't need media circus sideshow events each and every time a person says they are gay. The sports section should be about the game and the event. A single story or a passing reference is fine, but this is overkill. 

         

The Sam Follies

The NFL has had several gay players. The decision of Sam is not quite as a big deal as the media has made it. In the process of vetting players this information would have come out. Apparently, teams are looking for this sort of material. However, in a league where criminality and drug abuse is common being gay should be viewed as quaint. We likely won't have to worry about this player having multiple paternity suits unless he gets a series of concussions.

This announcement really should not have been on the front page of the NYT and all the sports pages.  Gay people are part of the American community. My supervisor was a terrific officer who was promoted because of his skills. He is a great leader and manager who happens to be gay. His orientation has absolutely zero to do with his promotion. If anything his being gay makes the job more interesting. It was very interesting seeing the office vamp not get that her target was quite immune to her charms, actually this was priceless. In an office where nepotism and incompetence by management was the rule competence is a breath of fresh air. I don't have to worry about my boss having multiple sexual harassment suits and this indeed was a problem at work. The reason I don't have to worry is that he understands and embraces the genuine notion of customer service. When there was grumbling he was promoted because he was gay, I was the first to point out he was more qualified than 3/4 of the present managers.

This brings me to the next part of the Sam story. Sam is essentially a player without a position. Defensive linemen tend to be 6'4'' and around 270.  Linebackers tend to have his height but run a 4.6. Sam is a productive player whose skill set does not translate to the NFL. Of course the Tebow bashers pointed this out and it was all over the place. However, there are only a few articles pointing out that he is a tweener who really is a sixth round prospect based on the numbers. in the NYT article that never should have been on page one they mention this at the very end. My guess is there will be a team that drafts him early for publicity purposes. hopefully, it will not be the Miami Dolphins or Cincinnati Bengals which seem to have an abundance of jerks. He belongs with a team like New England that values versatility and players that can play multiple positions as a sixth round prospect.

There have been plenty of gay players. this would have likely been better handled had a player established himself first and then said as an after thought announced this later. Unfortunately, we live in a media age where this would have become public knowledge shortly. However, given the criminal issues and irresponsible behavior of NFL players being gay is almost akin to boring. The person with the multi page rap sheet whose life is like a train wreck needs more scrutiny then a gay player. For better or worse you can count on Sam to show up and give you his best effort. The player with drug and criminal issues is a time bomb that may go off any second. Its just amazing in a league with plenty of criminals and character issues that gays should even be a concern. This is not to say that gay people don't have character issues, but homosexuality by itself is not an issue.

The Farrow Follies

I want to point out that the NYT is a disgraceful disgusting paper at certain points. Over the last few years Mia Farrow and her brood have been continuing a media vendetta against Woody Allen. Woody Allen was never married to Farrow, he never lived with Farrow and employed her in many of his films.

It is probably a very stupid thing to start a relationship with the daughter of the woman you are dating. In this case it was a stupid and inappropriate thing and Farrow had a right to be angry. At this point the couple in question has been married over 15 years and Farrow needs to move on.

Farrow has poisoned the relationship between what was his purported biological son and adopted daughter. This is fairly common when divorce or long term relationships end.

It is very hard to make the at times loathsome Woody Allen appear sympathetic. Shame on the NYT for printing this spiteful garbage years after the fact. The story is long over and there is more credible evidence in the Juanita Broderick story the Times ignored than this garbage.

Time for Farrow to grow up and move on.

Circle of (Ice

I awoke at the usual time planning my commute. The message had been given delayed opening. I watched SVU and prepared for a later bus. I found a later bus and upon arrival roughly three miles away had been told office closed,

At that point my task was to turn around and make it home. First I had to pick up the newspaper and the amazing Hot and Crusty Bagels in Penn Station. From there it was fairly simple as the One train leaves one 30 feet from the ferry terminal. After a harbor crossing the bus was right there and it dropped me a block from my house.

Along the day I heard a strange noise that sounded like dimes falling. It was sheets of ice coming from the trees outside. Ice storms are usually the most dangerous event in my area as trees snap under the weight of ice.

There is another big storm on Sunday exactly when my family is returning from Guyana.

Been Busy

Been working 12 hour days at the office. Very tired.

The Legend

Sometimes if you hold to your values it isn't always popular. The one thing I learned is that 1/3 will do as they are told, 1/3 will do the right thing and the other 1/3 are up in the air. For better or worse, I know where I stand and so do the stakeholders.

Along my way, I held to my values and fought tooth and nail for a different approach. I find it odd that the so called elite are trying so desperately to reinvent themselves. I remind them of their roles in the debacle and keep them at a distance.

Among my peers, my stance became almost legendary. I stood up and held my ground when it wasn't cool. Now the winds have shifted towards the values I held. It wasn't that I was ahead of my time, but I stood up against people that made themselves bigger than the process. Numbers are great, but they must mean something. Generating numbers that are meaningless for self promotion is lower than prostitution in my book.
Yet the guilty still hold themselves up to be heroes long after I and others have had to fix their folly.

The techniques of working fast and efficiently date back to my days in the fashion industry. A logistics man must be decisive or find another trade. The answers need not be optimal, but effective and move on. The techniques in the clerical phase were indeed influenced by passing through sweatshops. The last phase combined psychology and Borscht Belt humor all into a blender.

Anyone can be a victim, but turning misfortune into something unique is novel.

My job was in many ways more fun when I was the cool rebel fighting the system. Now that I am very much a part of the system it is not as cool but being a mentor and a role model are new challenges. I remind the students that the story is greater than I am or ever could be. However, when working with losers, incompetents and jerks competence stands out. I also remind the students that there are many great examples here. They don't need to advertise like the old incompetent crew. They just do their job quietly day after day. Oddly the bullying of the old guard and the insane behavior only made my legend grow when the storm passed. Had I been left alone, my achievements would have been overlooked.

One of the things I remind my charges is to never brag. When you brag or feign expertise you literally set yourself up to fail. As I never tell anyone about my expertise and sing the praises of others any error I might make seems small. However, when the old guard makes multiple mistakes they have a long way to fall.

Also it is never acceptable to bully a peer. You should always have your hand out to lift your peers up. If their heart is not into it let the appropriate people deal with the issue. I was asked to train many and I could not reach a certain student. I pointed out my approach did not work perhaps their is another way. However, when a person is seldom there and shows no desire to learn this is beyond my ability. 90% of being great is being there and having the desire to improve. When neither is there it might be that the task is above my abilities despite multiple attempts.

The Obama Follies

The Obama apologists have missed a couple of classic nuggets from the incredably stupid Obama. The latest classic is Israel is encouraging anti-Obama backlash. Funny, but given the stupid policies of this administration Americans of all stripes are upset at the circus clown President who blames others for his failings. This line of thinking is clearly antisemitic. Obviously Jews are incapable of having their own opinions about the failed policies of the circus clown President.

Obama has deluded himself into thinking he knows more about Jewish history then actual Jews because he has read a few books and had a few deranged radical friends. No doubt a person making such idiotic pronouncements because he read about Malcolm X and hung out with P Diddy would be correctly called a moron.

The sooner Obama goes into retirement the better this country will be.

Do not coddle idiots

There is an imbecile from the far left who has taken to commenting here. Communists as a rule deny they are communists and use other terms to hide their history. The results of this madness has been pointless deaths and other then that they excel in excuses.

The historical record speaks quite loudly when the far left decides to promote a new death cult. Communism despite its claims is a religion albeit one with no redeeming qualities. Actual Christians build orphanages and hospitals and communists build gulags and fill cemeteries.

We do not play the game most people play with Communists. I do not wish to understand them or debate them any more then I would attempt to reason with a rabid dog, Sorry, but at least a rabid dog was once a loved family pet and thus deserves more respect than a Communist.

Mistake number one is attempting dialogue with people who frankly are too ignorant to have an independent thought. They are exponents of a failed criminal ideology that has proven deadly in every application. They pretend that their verbiage blights the historical record, but it does not. When I speak with fellow Americans
we disagree on a series of topics. Communists are not American in spirit or substance. They are a cult and if we had rational people running our mental health industry it would be treated as a mental health defect.

Now there are those who say Communists are entitled to free speech. I agree that they are entitled to free speech and that the rest of us should react to their speech with laughter and ridicule. They are exponentially more prone to treason and terrorism then the general public and should be subject to 24/7 security scrutiny and prosecuted for their crimes without mercy. The government should also not protect them when they involve themselves in foreign policy. The local governments should handle the matter with no lectures from Washington.

Sorry Cumwads, you will not be tolerated here.

Fish Molestation is an actual crime

One can google the term Fish molestation to find this is an actual crime. This does not involve sleeping with the fishes in urban English nor any libidinous proclivity towards fish. However, as fish can not assent to such activity this should fall into some form of deviant behavior.

Our Webolutionary imbecile friend should stop exploiting fish for his wealthy Capitalist patrons. Also he wouldn't have a single customer if he stopped playing a faux commoner. Sorry but paying customers won't endure Marxist jargon and baboonery.

DiBlassio Fails

This was a minor storm and the circus clown Mayor failed the test. It just so happens that enclaves that did not vote for the freak did not get snow removed and had long commutes. Of course the New York Clinton Times never gets around to looking at anything that reflects negatively on anything far left.

Of course one could imagine what Mayor Shaggy will do when a 9-11 or Sandy hits. He probably will call for Scooby and go out for some snacks.

Stretching s meal

I went to the butcher store and purchased 7lbs of lamb. I intended to boil it with barley, potatoes and onions for the cold. The Tranquil Sea Curried it and stretched it into several meals. Maybe, I don't get much but I don't think about less. For me lamb and odd goat meat are not luxury items. I can not cook beef or pork as my Hindu family objects. I would eat much more fish but the daughter is difficult there. That pretty much leaves Chicken and Lamb.

The dogs prefer the lamb but that is mainly for the bones.

Not a Victim

The experiences I endured are a clear case of work place bullying. While these experiences are regrettable they were an accepted and condoned behavior by management. There was always the feigned, but I did not know from those in the chain of command. Those in the chain knew and the veiled face saving apologies were just plausible deniability.

For whatever it is worth it took the Miami Dolphins story to really bring this problem home. The notion of condoning this sophomoric behavior became abhorrent. No longer was it acceptable to mistreat subordinates.

In the end, I survived and my experiences made me a better mentor to those that came after me. I spent my time helping newer officer adjust to the hectic pace. I spent my days doing what I like best serving the public. I did my time and emerged from it albeit with a few bumps and scrapes, but more determined then ever to be an assert to my peers and the community. 

My abuser is quite miserable in the rubber room. It has been years and she still has not learned anything from her experience. She remains just as hateful and twisted as the day she entered. Her henchmen sought power and glory and they are in the same place I am. The dreams of power and glory are lost for now. Promotions are good if they are earned. However, being a toady for an unfit manager does not qualify one for bigger and better things. 

I remind those that came after me the best among us need never speak it. You see it in word and or deed each and every day. If a person brags how good they are and makes themselves an expert you are likely dealing with a clown. Even when times were bad I let others sing my praises and I praised those around me.

The saddest part lost in all of this is the most important person is the one across the desk. When public servants forget that we are here to serve the public they are missing the key point of the job.

I am neither a victim nor a survivor, just a public servant. My job is one of the few where I get to share special moments and get a thank you that comes from the heart. Anyone who has walked in my shoes for a moment or two would understand this.

Does Bob Morgenthau come with a laugh track

Bob Morgenthau wants to know if ICE Attorneys jail people to meet quotas. If District Attorneys did their jobs instead of turnstile justice no discussion about these numbers would be necessary. It is common for anyone involved with immigration to see people with multiple arrests that should have lead to deportation reduced to disorderly conduct.

I know plenty of dedicated ICE professionals who want to do their jobs and protect the public. They could do their jobs quite fine if political cartoons like Morgenthau would stop the turnstile justice and prosecute alien criminals and allow ICE and the Immigration judges to do their jobs.

This point is not aimed at Morgenthau specifically as many people in the criminal justice system have failed to protect the public. While the individual stories of hardship make great reading for the folks at the Times no press ever seems to get around to the victims of the crimes committed by Aliens. There is no attention to the aliens who played by the rules who obeyed the law while others knowingly broke the law.

Statistics and You

Most people do not know a thing about statistics. Lefties like Duncy are forever talking about statistics when expedient and feign ignorance when they are in the way of their pet projects. It turns out that Communists and Anarchists who make up less than 2% of the population are exponentially over represented on University hires.

This is a classic case of adverse impact. Lefties like to delude themselves that they are more intelligent then the rest of the society. In fact it takes little intelligence to repeat idiotic failed philosophers and be a classroom yes man. Our President is a classic example of a campus Yes man. There is claims his position on the Harvard Law Review is proof of intelligence. In fact, it was an elected position and he published all of one article. This was one more article than he published as an academic. How he maintained his job in spite of the lack of published articles is a mystery.

Those of us at any job can point to the Yes men. These are the baboons who kiss the rear of any leader and
get unearned promotions and accolades. No matter how bad an idea they scream yes sir and toady all day.
In my case, when given a difficult task I altered the technology and techniques to meet the goals. It wasn't that I was looking for favor, but I work smart not hard. I also mentored new employees and stressed these techniques. Eventually, our technicians learned to duplicate some minor alterations and everyone shared in the bounty. The boss only learned of one innovation when I changed offices in the morning with a peer. Why did you and X switch offices? She is using my computer for half an hour because it is configured differently. Our technicians were then charged with replicating the innovations as requested.

Thus there are statistics that Blacks are incarcerated at higher rates than whites. All of these factors come with other variables including income level, family structure and so forth. These discrepancies are not as pronounced as the exponential over representation of Communists and anarchists in University faculty. The failure of Universities to address this problem requires outside intervention. Student loans for anything not related to business or the sciences should be halted.

Lefties like the Duck scream academic freedom. Okay where are the anticommunists and conservatives on faculty. Are people discouraged from entering these professions by a hostile work atmosphere. Maybe when the faculty is intellectually diverse we can get actual scholarship.

We are going to do an experiment. We are going to use the same excuses the Duck provides for this disparity and see if it would pass his own racial standards.

Unexpected Class

The top boss who is retiring this week visited me a few times. He pointed out his regret at the sequence of events that had me enduring workplace bullying. I had no idea you were this good. The problem is that managers do not take enough time to review the work of their subordinates. In my case he knew that his subordinate was noisy and unstable. Sadly, he never really took the time to evaluate the situation himself.

A younger man might have been bitter. The scary part is that the absurd novel disciplinary actions should have set off an investigation but didn't. The sad part about workplace bullying is the utter lack of accountability that managers have. This behavior was tolerated long before I got here. I did stand around and see it end. Oddly the person responsible for my ordeal has spent more than three years in the rubber room.

It is not sufficient punishment for behaviors that were deliberate and malicious. One key thing with bullies is their lack of comprehension of the magnitude of their crimes and they continue to blame others for their failings.

Small gestures don't seem like much but they are appreciated.  

Retirement of a boss

One of the bosses is leaving after close to 40 years on the job. He represents another era in our agencies past. He was promoted up the ranks, but his big break came when his father in law lobbied for him to get a position in management. He was less educated then those he supervised and seldom had vision. 

His quirks have damaged my career. Yet in the end he did something that showed class. He apologized for some of his actions and inaction. It showed class and believe it or not it means plenty. I will attend his retirement party and wish him well.

Is Bill DiBlassio Shaggy from Scooby Doo

The reality impaired and intellectually lazy Bill DiBlassio has another hidden secret. If you look closely at his earlier photos he does appear to be Shaggy from Scooby Doo. Unlike DiBlassio, Shaggy does get things done in the end.

When his poll numbers drop watch him adopt a dog and name him Scooby. Then he will bring out Velma and Daphne. He will bring out the Mystery Van on election day.

A Crock of Crap from the Feds

The Feds are continuing to be a joke in their blatant partisanship. The latest load of rubbish is accusing a genuine leader, Chris Christie, of misappropriating, Hurricane Sandy relief funds to promote himself in commercials.

Lets see the face of NJ is Chris Christie. The ads were to promote tourism and not Chris Christie. This is a highly partisan abuse of authority by the administration. Funny, where is the actual investigation of government money spent on line dancing or Star trek parodies at the IRS.

The growing list of Obama scandals that have not been investigated is staggering. Terming the misuse of the IRS to punish and harass Obama opponents "phony scandals" and then appointing an Obama donor to investigate the matter does not pass the ethics smell test.

Actually, on the topic of ethics the US government really does need serious reforms. The notion that close relatives should be allowed to work in the same agency is something that needs to really be looked at in many agencies. Sons and daughters have plenty of Federal agencies to work in without setting up shop in the same agency.

Reduce Funding for the IRS

The United States Citizens should demand that the IRS budget be frozen and no bonus or travel expenses be paid until an actual investigation produces the culprits who targeted political foes of Obama. The administration has not made any effort to ascertain the facts and indict the guilty. Let all the members of the agency suffer until the agency cleans house.

The ethical lapses at the IRS are inexcusable and criminal. There are no excuses or rationalizations of this type of severe ethical lapse. Those in management responsible deserve termination and forfeiture of  pensions and time in the Federal Penitentiary. Employees who conducted this should be offered immunity provided they testify against their superiors.

Turning up the financial pressure on the entire agency will force people to co-operate or find other jobs. An immediate hiring freeze should also be imposed on the IRS.

There is no place in the government for abuse of authority for strictly partisan purposes. Those who do not understand the basic concepts of ethics have no place in government. The government exists to serve the people. It is unfortunate that pro Obama clowns forgot about the Constitution and wanted to create Diet Hugo Chavez in the USA

Mission Altered

I am doing more mentor ship and relief work. Previously, I had been assigned to a large docket and assisted others with their docket. I am being held in reserve due to my reliability. It is easier to have the guy who always shows up plug holes.I will be spending time with Congressional inquiries. However, working with this boss is amazing. A top boss asked about one case that was over\due and I told them three days. I explained the drafts were done but it is in the editing phase. The second document was important because I was working with a style that could shave hours off the most complicated high profile cases. The top boss told me to let my supervisor have a crack at it. The case was resolved in less than an hour. More importantly, the innovation I was working on became a reality. It will save around one hundred hours minimum on subsequent cases. Instead of these cases taking days they will now take about two hours. My idea was viable but it took collaboration to make it viable.

Christie shows leadership and Obama shows ineptness

The Christie matter in reality was a minor scandal. Yes people were inconvenienced, but in the course of the year it is one stupid experience in a series of many. Christie found out acted and terminated the employee.

I contrast this with cowardly Obama who feigns ignorance of every scandal. The IRS scandal alone exceeds anything in the Watergate scandal. The administration feigns ignorance and lies and we have not gotten to the bottom of the IRS scandal. Despite the NYT claim, Benghazi was not a spontaneous demonstration over a video. That whole story reeks of protect Hillary 2016.

Bottom line is Christie can lead and is a man of action. Obama is a spineless political clown whose every action is suspect. He irritates allies and has our enemies laughing at us. The economy is a disaster and full time jobs are becoming about as rare as Bigfoot directly tied to Obamacare.

Wimping Out

The record cold in the region has altered my work schedule. As stated before I was on a special project working cold cases. I had a hunch a few coworkers would not show up. I dressed for interviews and took the early bus. I got the call about an emergency. I told the chief that I can convert my office back for interviews in under ten minutes and toss on a tie.

For the record about extreme cold.

1) wear two pairs of dress socks under sweat socks.
2) wear gloves seriously
3) Cover head with a hood
4) Turn face away from wind
5) minimize bus waits by knowing the schedule
6) stop at stores along the way to buy items. The ten minutes out of the elements makes a difference.
7) Keep moving
8) go to the bathroom right before leaving home or work
9) If possible skip shaving
10) wrap face in scarf.

The First Amendment and uniforms and leftist hypocrisy

There are those on the left who want to punish people for speech they don't like. The rather stupid comments of the Duck dynasty moron were a classic example of offensive speech. The speech was made by a private citizen and those offended by it have the right to react and boycott. I don't watch Sean Penn films and will walk out of a room where Streisand music or films are played.

Once again we revisit the limits of free speech. In the case of Chris Kluwe whose speech I agree with lines were crossed. When one is a visible member of a public organization one should stay out of the public fray.
In this case Kluwe's job is to kick a football and if he wants to be a pundit he should do so after his career is over. He may be correct that his speech cost him his job. However, those who are cheering loudest for this matter to be investigated speak entirely differently when a lunatic at DHS ran a racist web site calling for racial war. The lunatic who ran that site never identified himself as a federal employee and the views expressed there are repugnant.

Lefties seem to forget this point frequently. Noam Chomsky and other leftist imbeciles trumpet their positions when playing activist 24/7. The fact that the University and the Alumni may not share his off the wall political idiocy is not considered. We had this with the hate group known as OWS where a low IQ Marine and an Ex Philly Cop paraded their uniforms for self promotion reasons. Perhaps if these two clowns found an Indian, a Cowboy and a Construction worker they could sing YMCA next.

When I attend a political rally I do so as a private citizen. I do not wear my work uniform or speak out on behalf of the organization. The media is quite fond of trying to place microphones in people's faces. We actually have a public relations office for that function. I am quite adept at telling members of the media please seek out the office.

Behind closed doors, is a separate matter. Officers do engage themselves on a variety of work related topics and the conversations are not always amicable. While I do not deny the rhetoric is sometimes heated describing this would violate internal ethics. I will say my positions are close to Kluwe's, but who I engaged in these conversations with is a private matter. Those attorneys and coworkers who work with me closely know exactly where my sentiments lie. In fact the attorneys had a better idea then top management.

RIP Bob Grant

I have been a fan of Bob Grant who is an institution in local NYC talk radio. Many of the top names in the business from Rush Limbaugh to Howard Stern have paid tribute to a poineer. Grant died at age 84. Somewhere in the afterlife he is probably saying to fans Get off my phone and Straight Ahead.