do ignore that old man shuffling along alone...

I have seen him before many times, wearing clothes from thirty years ago, clean pressed and like him out of fashion. Does seem I am looking in a mirror more and more. Do ignore that old man, he had his chance and the world is a mess just because he didn't do it right when he had the chance.

President Barack Hussein Obama was on television today, speaking well of fatherhood, since he didn't have a working one and is doing so much better than his sire did. I don't have to pay any attention, I had a father, that had a father, that had a father and so on and so on. My son has a father, and his son has a father -- and what got me about the President's purpose in talking about fathers, is the government is going to work on making it better!!!!! What kind of fool idea is that? The government is responsible for supporting unwed mothers (fathers need not apply just leave some DNA) the government is working seriously on making same sex partners into one or the other of the parental figures no matter what their sex (that one goes way beyond my reasoning ability, so I have little to add to that). Which brings me to another Congressional foolishness of recent history...

They, our elected representatives, have voted to apologize for Slavery and Segregation. This is the same body that passed several amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America after the Civil War, the War Between the States, or the Second War of Independence (lost). Those amendments ended slavery and segregation, or should have. Since the Federal Government in its enlightenment knows what caused Segregation, why do they still require that I mark what RACE I identify with? Why are they trying to pass out benefits based on race? What ever happened to judging me beyond my skin color - I get tired of being called a Red Neck, Cracker, or White-supremist. I don't even like being called White nor Caucasian (England and Ireland not out of Georgia by a long shot). They still don't read the English in the Constitution the way I do, do they?

I don't even want all those that are descended from slaves to tip their hat and thank me for my ancestors that died at Gettysburg to win the war and free the slaves, although freeing slaves was only an objective after just saying "Save the Union!" didn't impress the neighbors. The best thing to come from fighting all those years and killing all those men and horses and destroying stuff that was in the way - was the freeing of the slaves, making everyone equal would take much more time. Equal means I don't get favored for Supreme Court nomination because I am a White Man, I have to have judicial promise - which would be so much better. So why was that woman, Hispanic, nominated?

Well, as you see, there isn't any real reason to pay attention to that old man shuffling along. Wiser people than I from states that never had slavery, weren't states at the time of slavery have decided to apologize - that gets that load of guilt for stealing California, Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Nevada and Utah from Mexico doesn't it? And how was Utah annexed? It must have been less bloody than the liberation and annexation of Hawai'i wasn't it? Do we have enough time to go back and apologize to every American Indian Nation, that are defined in the Constitution, that the Congress made treaties with and then went out and broke them, over and over. Oops, we let them sell tobacco products and have gambling houses to scalp the fool white men with, guess they have got their apology.

I guess I am going to leave Hawai'i soon, will miss the grandson but someday I hope he will not just run off from the old guy shuffling along at his best clip. I hope he has time to listen to my view of the world as I listen to his - because the PC-X generation will really be beating his brain to mush if they have their way.

The picture is from the Daily Mail, Any grumpy old man will tell you, ... and they will.