Introduction or "This has been another useless fact".

That this is my first blog will come as no surprise rather quickly. I had not ever planned on doing a blog as I generally find them a waste of bandwidth for someone to go on about themselves. I figured that since the world has as many opinions as rectums why would I want to clutter it up with more ? But when I registered and saw the blog entry set-up I figured, "what the hell".

Most of my opinions are more than well enough expressed on the threads that I respond to. I enjoy the anonymous nature of the web and don't wish to screw that up. I will NOT be posting a lot of private photographs of myself, my family, my home, my pets, my friends, etc. At least nothing that could be used to identify anyone I care for.

As my personal stats will reflect I'm a 36 (soon to be 37) year old white male. Married to probably the finest person on God's great earth. More on that later if the mood strikes. I have two children. One 10 year old girl who is hyper, intelligent, happy, and thankfully naive. She seems to be following her mother's path of atempting to as long as humanly possible hang on to that childlike spark that keeps people happy right up until they get this stupid idea that they have to "grow up". I also have an 8 year old son. He too is intelligent and happy. He's also autistic. I only post that because it will go far towards explaining some of my later posts that I may publish here without answering a lot of questions as to "why would he be doing that"?

Autism is not a one-word catch all. Autism is a spectrum of disorders that covers a LOT of ground. Autistics can range from being the poster-child like hyper-intellectual "rain-man" with social disfunction to severely mentally disabled and physically impaired. There's even some who opine that ADD/ADHD be included into the autistic or OCD/NOS category and that ticks me off. Again, a topic for a later entry. Suffice it to say that my son's autism has manifested itself in a way that prevents him from communicating and connecting with others in ways that others would classify as "normal". If that word has any meaning left to it anymore.

I do not want anyone posting on my blog about how sorry they are to hear of my son's disability/limitation. I felt sorry for myself for far too long as it was and have no wish to go back to that place. My son is perhaps one of the most loving human beings I would ever want to know. He is intelligent and dare I say crafty. He is well-behaved and listens to my wife and I better than other children who would be classified as the aforementioned "normal". While I would love for my son's autism to be "cured" so that he could more easily communicate and achieve, I would not ever wish to give him the same BS attitude and sense of entitlement expressed by the majority of his peers.

The short of it, kids today suck. At least half are spoiled and ill-mannered. Their selfish overinflatted sense of themselves goes to nothing but creating a world that will be even more callous and uncaring as the one we are presently in. I would weap if not for my faith and belief system.

The above sarcasm and cynicism is based on two things, nature and nurture. The nature was something I genetically received from my father. The nurture came from my near 13 years as a police oficer. The nurture part I try to heavily offset with the knowledge that I deal with the lower 10% of our population. That measure has nothing to do with race, creed, socio-economic or any other politically correct diversion from the real issue.

My opinion on humanity. Most people are basically good people. I do not follow a humanistic view of the world. I do not subscribe to the belief that we are all born good and have to be taught bad things, quite the contrary. The human animal as an infant has the same selfish need to survive at all cost as any other of God's creations. Infants and children are by neccesity interested in only themselves and their needs. A child has to be taught how to appropriately interact with others. The proof exists everywhere you lok. A parent has to try damn hard to keep their kids from becoming scumbags. Innattentive parents can end up with trash that I and others like me will in some way have to clean up. Not that I think that they will all become serial killers. There are exceptions. There are a few examples of parents who did everything they could to raise decent children who end up with little satans. Their are crappy parents that despite their best efforts to completely screw their kids up, somehow end up with decent people. Again, exceptions NOT the usual result.

Disagree with me , I know quite a few will. Go ahead and cite personal examples of people you know who "beat the odds". It won't change the reality.

Most are good. There's another slightly lesser percentage of people who are well, ethically neutral. Good when it suites them, corrupt when it suites them. These people are probably worse than the out and out bad. At least the ultimately bad person can be counted on to do what is expected. Those with an ethical neutrality cannot be trusted. Friend to your face, knife to your back types. There is a very busy small percentage of people who I wold classify as "bad" or "evil". Those who not only choose to do the wrong hing when it's beneficial but activel seek out the wrong thing to do because it gives them satisfaction.

Examples:

My wife: A naturally good person. She would sooner light herself on fire than intentionally cause someone else emotional or physical harm without provocation.

Your run of the mill politician: Ethically Neutral. "If it feels good, do it".

Joseph Stalin: Pathologically Evil. By the way. For those of you who do not know. Stalin is the father of the philosophy of political correctness. Look it up.

Before you go about thinking that I am a "negative" person, don't. I am simply confident in my opinions based on a lifetime of personal and professional observations. I actually lke to have fun with the life that I have. I try to laugh and enjoy friendships with all kinds of people. I have two things that I absolutely demand of those I would consider friends: integrity and a sense of humor. Everything else is up for speculation.

I will post independent articles on my beliefs in specific areas of politics, religion, Constitutional freedoms, you name it. I am more than willing to go there.