Today?

Most of you younger types probably think that this is the day that Barry Bonds pleaded 'not guilty' or when Michael Vick is due to be sentenced. Maybe it is the anniversary of some celebrity. WRONG!!! Today we remember the victims of the cowardly attack on Pearl Harbor ad the subsequent horror and torture perpetrated by the ruthless Japanese. All of you foreign car fans, look with pride on your Toyota or Nissan. They are made by the same industry that produce the ships and aircraft that killed thousands of Americans. After we had whipped their little asses, they tried to kill our auto industry. If you bought a car from them, you are helping them win the post war. The sleazy little bastards even had thought of us giving up and going home. Are we giving up now? Think about it.

It has rained upon me! The bitter cold has now turned wet. I need to be standing in the monsoon rains which come out of the sky at eighty degrees. Why am I not there? I've said it before, "stupidity." Anyway, Delano has once again failed the weather test. "F" for this miserable little village.

We have come to the end of the weirdest regular college football season ever. How the hell did Ohio Sate and LSU wind up in the national championship game? We desperately need a playoff system. I think the NCAA is corrupted almost to the same point as professional boxing. To add to the misery, the officiating sucks. What's more, if the officials are subjected to any kind of criticism from an NCAA school, the school and the players are severely chastised. If the system didn't suck so bad, nobody would blame the officials. No celebrating!! Major error!!! Don't make it fun. Make it a punishment tour.

In pro ball, a player can be fined or even suspended for violation of any one of a number of uniform rules, most of which make no sense. The NFL (No Fun League) will fine players big time money for minor uniform violations or celebrations. When I see the league steal ten or fifteen thousand bucks from a player, it really annoys me. I know the players can afford it. That's not the point. The point is that this is supposed to be a free country where things are equal. I cannot imagine the furor that would arise if some lame brained judge fined somebody for wearing the wrong suit

Which brings us to inequality in general. I know the Negroes had a tough time getting to where they are. I know that some Mexicans have hard feelings about real Americans. The problem, and it is one that is supported by our political system, is that we have allowed the "Politically Correct" left wingers to take over our very way of life. How is it that a black man can make as many jokes as he wants about the whites and get paid for it when a white man doing black jokes is castigated? A negro college? What is that? An insult? It is a double standard perpetrated by those who are interested in keeping our society segregated. I know that there are plenty of bigots out there to go around. They are assisted by whites and blacks who insist on categorizing people. I think of myself as an American. How many black guys think of themselves in the same way? How the hell are we ever going to get integrated if we make these distinctions every day of our lives? The people who embrace the concept of black-american or mexican-american are not the friends of unity. Rather, they represent the forces of enmity. In reality, there are no hyphenated Americans. All who have really embraced our Republic and our society are just plain old Americans. Skin color and origin should mean nothing to U.S. citizens. I wonder how much hate mail this little paragraph will generate? I guess it depends on how many readers have thin skins and thinner minds.