The Parasitic Thought Process

Do you remember when public pools had diving boards? How about long car trips with the family and lying down in the back of the station wagon to sleep? How about your dad letting you steer the car on deserted back roads while you sat in his lap? Or even riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm afternoon?

I miss those things. I think the reason I miss them is that I now have a son who will never get to experience them. Some of the activities or items listed above were removed from society because of the populace at large not being able to take responsibility for their own actions – more to the point, their own stupidity.

I am speaking specifically about the diving boards.

Little Bobby-Joe climbs up onto the diving board and jumps off, landing in the water and closely supervised by his mother or father, wading in the deep end to encourage him and help him if needed. Next up is Marty. He is in his upper teens and wants to impress a young thing that has caught his eye. Marty’s parents are not at the pool, as he is old enough to swim alone. He jumps off of the diving board and tries to splash the object of his interest by jumping to the side instead of jumping to the middle, like anyone with any sense would. He overdoes the jump and lands with a sickening crack on the side of the pool. The lifeguards jump up and do their job; paramedics arrive and take him away.

Marty’s parents – hell, it could have just been Marty himself – decide that the city of Austin (where the pool is located) and the diving board manufacturer are to blame for the complete loss of use on his right side. So what do they do? They file a lawsuit. Not only that, they win it because the insurance company is the only one that pays, right? It won’t hurt the insurance company. They have TONS of money!

This is a true story that happened at a pool at which my brother and I worked. It is my belief that the inability to accept responsibility for one’s own actions, coupled with a desire to hit a big payday and have no more financial worries, is the reason some – NOT all, but SOME – of our innocence as a society has been lost.

It is further my belief that the loss of this innocence will only continue until we act as a majority to really hit hard those individuals and organizations that file these frivolous lawsuits and try to frame up the “big corporations” to get rich.

These lawsuits are more than ridiculous, they are evidence that we, as a nation, are only in it for our individual selves; that we, as a nation, truly are the laziest people on Earth.

This has no hidden racial or ideological message. People of every race are guilty because this is a SOCIETAL dysfunction. We have to work as a society to rid ourselves of this parasitic thought process. Regain the pride in doing a good job. Make more of yourself than what is expected of you.

I now step down from my soapbox.

The demise of Western Civilization Continues

I have to agree with some of the critics of this "Pizzas for Pesos" marketing plan instituted by Dallas based Pizza Patron: I just don't see the benefit. We are too far from the border to really use the "it's a convenience to our customers who return from Mexico with extra pesos in their pocket" line. Think of the logistical headache of figuring the conversion! Damn! More trouble than it's worth, I think.

Targeting a specific demographic? Not a bad idea, but why now? Why bring out this specific plan right now, when the illegal immigration topic is at such a fever pitch?

It's like they are saying, "Have you just snuck over the boarder and simply haven't had the time to exchange your currency? Being chased by INS and can't risk going into a bank? Hungry? Come on in! You can pay with your worthless pesos!"

Are other companies really considering this tactic? Is this a business plan that we really want to emulate? It seems to me that it is no more than pandering to a special interest group for publicity. In some of my business classes, if I remember them right (it was a couple few years ago that I took them, lol): "Any publicity – even bad – is GOOD publicity. It gets the name out to the public… makes them start talking about the company or product." A few years ago, it was the "black culture" that was in the spotlight. Now it is this.

Wake up, people! Why are we just sitting around, waiting for somebody else to fix the problem? Should the government step in? Can we actually rely on the government to act on our behalf (by "our" I mean, of course all of the LEGAL folks in the country – not just the American citizens)? We put the people that run the country in those positions of power, so why are they not listening to the obvious majority of the voters? Is it the majority that is speaking out against this, or the other way around? Again, for the slow people in the audience, I am speaking of and to the LEGAL inhabitants of the USA.

If things continue to progress in this way, I foresee a lot of American citizens leaving the USA and moving to other countries. Not all countries are 3rd world, even compared to the USA. Some even have enough balls to stand up to the immigrants and make them conform to the country, instead of the American way of having the country conform to them.

I'm just sick of this shit! Everybody is complaining, but no one is actually doing anything. Well, I'm going to take some action on this one. I will start by gathering as much information as I can and then start spreading the truth. I will stir up the masses so that the "elected" officials HAVE to hear the will of the people. I will openly refuse to do business with any companies that use illegal labor or pander to a minority, and strongly encourage others to do the same.

What will separate me from the morons? I will completely respect your right to continue patronizing these establishments. I don't expect everyone to share my ideals, but there are some that would with just a little encouragement.