The other day, a psychopath lit an apparently homeless woman on fire as she was sleeping inside a New York City subway car. As horrific as that was to see, it was appalling to see no one trying to help the woman as she burned to death as bystanders watched.
Some of these bystanders were cops.
Aren’t cops supposed to “serve and protect“?
Italics added.
Well, not when it puts officer safety at risk.
We hear a lot about that – and the related bleat that being an armed government worker (which is an etymologically honest description) is such a dangerous profession that armed government workers live in fear that they “might not come home” at the end of their shift. This bleat is both poltroonerous and wrong insofar as the facts.
Being an armed government worker isn’t even among the Top Ten Most Dangerous occupations, according to the government’s own data. It is more dangerous, in fact, to be a garbage collector – which is honest work – than it is to be an armed government worker.
Which is another sort of work.
Badge lickers – most of whom are, ironically, people who style themselves opponents of authoritarian government – say that most cops are good cops but that cannot be because it is the job of a cop to threaten good people who’ve caused no harm to anyone with murderous violence if they do not obey “the law.” Any law. Every law. And it is undeniable that there are bad laws. That is to say, unjust laws that are without moral standing.
There are many examples but just one will suffice to make the point.
It is a violation of law to drive a car without wearing a seatbelt. It is a silly law that is also a tyrannical one in that it can result in a confrontation with an armed government worker, whose business it is to enforce the law. A given enforcer can of course choose not to enforce this law – or some other law – perhaps because he is trying to be a good man. But then he is not doing the job he is paid to do and thereby risks being fired if caught not doing it.
So he does it.
It is risible to say that any cop is good because – at best – the most a cop can do is sometimes look the other way. It is impossible for him to enforce only the good – i.e., the righteous laws such as those forbidding rape and murder. He cannot pick and choose and remain a cop. Ergo, he becomes complicit in the bad even if he tries his best to be good. It is unavoidable. It is no wonder alcoholism and suicidal depression run highest among cops.
But their job isn’t especially dangerous.
How dangerous can it be when you wear body armor to work – and are armed to the teeth- and have the authority of the government as your partner?
Logging workers have the highest fatality rate per 100,000 workers. Perhaps because a falling tree is indifferent to the authority of the logger, who hasn’t got any over the tree he’s cutting. If it falls the wrong way, it falls the wrong way. The logger is at a disadvantage relative to the tree. Just as the crab fisherman working off the Alaska coast has to deal unequally with the ice-cold ocean.
But a body-armored cop who is armed to the teeth wants us to believe his “safety” is at risk when he pulls over an unarmed “civilian” (as are cops, who are also in fact civilians who like to pretend they’re military) who isn’t wearing body armor and does not have the might of the government backing him up.
It is risible as well as poltroonish.
It is also now what it wasn’t, once. There was a time when cops were expected to put their “safety” at risk for the sake of the people they agreed to “serve and protect.” They were expected to be the ones to run toward the sound of gunshots. And we expected them to be willing to assume the risk that we might be armed and dangerous when they pulled us over for some petty traffic infraction – but not to presume we are and treat us all as if we were.
The distinction is important – and some will recall the days when it was true. Those were the days before Nahhhhhhhnnnnnleven, after which every seatbelt scofflaw became a presumptive Osama Bin Laden and every cop (just about, there are still maybe some rural backwater areas where this isn’t so, yet) became a body-armored “operator” armed to the teeth yet obsessively fearful for his “safety.”
The irony is lost on them, of course.
They are heroes – and expect to be regarded as such. Meanwhile, the real heroes are the guys who risk their lives keeping the power lines up, the roof from leaking – and the trash from piling up curbside.
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I grew up logging. Did that and trapped until my early thirties. Looks like I shouldn’t have lived long enough to get that old. When I wasn’t doing that I was doing construction. Framing, roofing, remodeling, you name it. 52 now and mostly tend to my garden, chickens, and goats. That and make furniture by hand, along with rakes, forks, carry yokes, dough bowls, etc.
AGW’s worry so much about their safety that it is one of the safer things to do.
If you could sum up Sam Francis’s term Anarcho-Tyranny in one photograph it would be the one at the beginning of this piece.
Sam and others saw what was coming.
Now it’s here.
The collapse of the Empire is nigh.
I figured out, just yesterday, how to block a person (or group, I suppose) on Substack. I had never done that before, and didn’t even know how at first. That was specifically because they posted a meme with a picture of that cop walking past the burning lady with a caption that said something like “what was the officer supposed to do??”; like there was some legitimate excuse for not acting when a woman was burning alive.
At first, I thought, someone like me should go tell those fuckers off. But I just knew they were basing that question on some retarded bullshit like “officer safety”, “feared for his life”, etc.
That’s just straight up chicken shit faggotry. But, it doesn’t surprise me in the least anymore. Now I know that who they’re there to protect and serve.
You know, people say things like “I pay their salary!”, etc. But we don’t really. Those taxes are just robbery. If the mafia would take protection money and bought a judge with it, would the people that it was took from, say “we pay that judge’s salary!”
No, no. The money stolen from us, is used to protect and serve those who took it. The police are just one of the countless violence divisions.
apologies to those who have seen this before but here goes…
Here is a guest article that deserves the light of day:
No One Cares If You Go Home Safe At The End Of Your Shift
Jan 02, 201812:50AM
Category: Politics
Posted by: Michael Z. Williamson
Here at the house, I have a couple of decades plus of military experience. I have tools to dig in or out of natural disasters. I have extinguishers and hoses. I have a field trauma kit and bandages. I have weapons both melee and firearm. I know how to use them. I know how to trench, support and revet. I understand the fire triangle and appropriate approaches. I understand breathing, bleeding and shock. I know how to detain, restrain and control. I have done all of these at least occasionally, professionally. I’ve stood on top of a collapsing levee in a flood. I’ve fought a structure fire from inside so we could get everyone out before the fire department showed up, which only took two minutes, but people can die that fast. I’ve had structures collapse while I was working on them. I’ve been in an aircraft that had a “mechanical” on approach and had to be repaired in-flight before landing. I’ve helped control a brush fire. I’ve hauled disabled vehicles out of ditches in sub-zero weather.
My ex wife has over a decade of service and some of the same training.
We have trained our young adult children.
My wife is a rancher who knows her way around a shotgun, livestock, sutures and tools, hurricanes and floods, and works in investigations professionally.
Our current house guest is another veteran.
This means if anything happens at the house, and last year we had a lightning strike, a tornado and a flood within 10 days’ we’re pretty well prepared.
Now, we’re probably better off than 95% of the households out there. The level of disaster that necessitates backup varies.
If we find it necessary to call 911, it means the party is in progress and it’s bad.
You will probably not be going home safe at the end of your shift.
And you know what? If it gets to that point, I really don’t give a shit. I don’t give a shit if you get smoked. I don’t give a shit if you fall under a tree. I don’t give a shit if you get shot at.
Because at that point, I’ve done everything I can with that same circumstance, and run out of resources.
If my concern was “you going home safe,” then I’d just fucking hunker down and die. Because I wouldn’t want that poor responder to endanger himself.
Except, that’s what I pay taxes for, and that’s what you signed up for. Just like I signed up to walk into a potential nuke war in Germany and hold off the Soviets, and did walk into the Middle East and prepare to take fire while keeping expensive equipment functioning so our shooters could keep shooting.
There’s not a single set of orders I got that said my primary job was to “Come home safe.” They said it was to “support the mission” or “complete the objective.” Coming home safe was the ideal outcome, but entirely secondary to “supporting” or “completing.” Nor, once that started, did I get a choice to quit. Once in, all in.
When that 80 year old lady smells smoke or hears a noise outside her first floor bedroom in the ghetto, she doesn’t care if you go home safe, either. She’s afraid she or the kids next door won’t wake up in the morning.
If I call, I expect your ass to show up, sober, trained, professional. I expect you to wade in with me or in place of me, and drag a child out of a hole, or out from a burning room, or actually stand up and block bullets from hitting said child, because by the time you get there, I’ll have already done all that. And there will be field dressings, chainsawed trees, buckets and empty brass scattered about.
I don’t want to hear some drunk and confused guy squirming on the ground playing “Simon Says” terrified you so much you had to blow him away. I don’t want to hear that some random guy 35 yards away who you had no actual information on , may have reached toward his waist band. Or that “the tree might fall any moment” or that “the smoke makes it hard to see.”
Near as I can tell, I don’t hear the smokejumpers, or the firefighters, or the disaster rescue people say such things.
But it’s all I ever hear from the cops. If you and your five girlfriends in body armor, with rifles, are that terrified of actually risking your life for the theoretically dangerous job you volunteered for and can quit any time, then please do quit.
You can get a job doing pest control and go home safe every night.
Until a bunch of fucking pussies with big tattoos, small dicks, body armor and guns blow you away for minding your own business.
Because what you’re telling me with that statement is, your only concern is cashing a check. That’s fine. But if that’s your concern, don’t pretend you’re serving the public. If you wanted to help people at risk of life, you would be a firefighter, running into buildings, dragging people out, getting scorched regularly.
If you’re cool with writing tickets, then there’s jobs where you can do just that.
If you want to tangle with bad guys and blow them away, fair enough. But understand: That means they get to shoot first to prove their intent, just as happens with the military these days. Our ROE these days are usually “only if fired upon and no civilians are at risk.”
If your plan is “shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more, then if anyone is still alive try to ask questions,” and bleat, “But I was afeard fer mah lahf!” you’re absolutely no better than the thugs you claim to oppose. All you are is another combatant in a turf war I don’t care about.
Since I know your primary concern is “being safe,” then I’ll do you the favor of not calling. Cash your welfare check, and try not to shoot me at a “courtesy” sobriety checkpoint for “twitching my eye “in a way that suggested range estimation.
If you’re one of the vanishingly few cops who isn’t like that, then what the hell are you doing about it? If there’s going to be a lawsuit costing the city millions, isn’t it better that it be a labor suit from the union over the clown you fired, than a wrongful death suit over the poor bastard the clown shot? Both are expensive, but one has a dead victim you enabled. So how much do you actually care about that life?
How is the training so bad that it’s not clear who is the scene commander who gives the orders?
How is it that trigger happy bozos who, out of costume, look no different from the gangbangers you claim to oppose, get sent up front to fulfill their wish of hosing someone down because “I was afraid for my life!”?
Why does the rot exist in your department?
If you can’t do anything about it, why are you still in that department?
At some point, collective guilt is a thing.
You’ve probably not been a good cop for a long time.
And I still don’t care if you go home safe. I care that everyone you purport to “serve and protect” goes home safe.
Q: Why did no one stop NYC subway horror?
A: They did not want to be “Pennyed”.
The transit cop who walked right past the burning woman should be fired and prosecuted for not doing his job.
New York City is the epitome of citizen disarmament whose residents have been taking it for a very long timeâŚand apparently liking it.
Since the Sullivan Laws were enacted, enabling the most extreme and restrictive limits on the acquisition and uses of firearms, the Constitutional right to defend oneâs self and others has been almost totally obliterated.
Once restricted to handguns, the laws have been extended to rifles and shotguns, all of (what were supposed to be âregisteredâ) demanding that they either be confiscated or taken out of NYC.
Iâll bet that those people who voluntarily turned in their weapons added to NYC police officersâ gun collections.
NYC prosecutors relish the thought of prosecuting those who legally defend themselves, even a ârolled up newspaperâ is considered to be an illegal âweaponâ.
The honest citizen is the easiest person to charge and convict.
If you defend yourself successfully against a criminal without NYC police being involved, you WILL be prosecuted.
Witness Daniel Penny who was being viciously prosecuted for saving fellow subway passengers from mentally ill Jordan Neely who had been harassing and threatening subway passengers for decades. Thankfully he was acquitted of all charges.
The case of the bodega owner, Jose Alba who successfully thwarted a knife attack, his attacker succumbing to his injuries, was under indictment and prosecution for murder until a groundswell of opposition forced the prosecutor to back off on prosecuting him.
The case of Bernie Goetz, the subway rider who thwarted being robbed by dispatching three of his attackers to the âhospital. Subway crimes dropped dramatically after that act. If Goetz had kept his mouth shut, no one would have been the wiser.
What kind of society prosecutes the victim of a crime?
It happens in NYC all the time.
You see, the approximately 36,000 NYC police officers constitute a powerful lobby and do not want to give up their monopoly on the use of force.
They cannot have their monopoly on the use of force jeopardized by allowing honest citizens to provide for their own self-defense by âtaking the law into their own handsâ.
Despite having relatives who live in NYC, I will not visit or enter NYC. This also applies to New Jersey.
Amen to ALL of that! I haven’t been over to the city in quite some time myself, at least a decade. And you know what? I don’t ever plan on going back over into that cesspit! Modern-day NYC puts 80’s/90’s NYC to shame.
To all the loggers, fishermen, roofers et al out there…thank you for your service.
The NYPD pigs doing NOTHING to come to this woman’s aid…that’s disgusting beyond belief! What GOOD are cops if they can get away with such craven indifference and COWARDICE?
This, NYers, is WHY the Bruen decision, and why, if you don’t run that dingbat Hochul out of the State Capitol at Albany, well, your misfortunate is DESERVED.
What soon-to-be-POTUS (again) Trump could do is direct the US Attorney for the NY Southern District to pursue a Federal Civil Rights case against this monster, seeking the DEATH PENALTY, because the Empire State lacks the fortitude to do what needs to be done. If he at least could be sent to “At-ti-ca! At-ti-ca!”, put out on the yard, and the cons there appraised of why he’s there by guards from the watchtowers with bullhorns, and they take a “smoke break”, at least long enough to give this cretin some “fitting” retribution, then, OK. Either way, he needs to be ERADICATED, the sooner, the BETTER.
The only things cops are concerned with protecting are their safety, their paycheck, and their exceptionally overinflated egos. Anything else is a thing to be stomped on and destroyed, just in case.
Looks like my job came in at number 10; we often had cops accompany us at the site because some of the towns required âpolice detailsâ even if the truck was off the road and not blocking traffic. Just another way to be a leech, mostly they just sat in their nice warm cars playing with their sail fawns. Funny how we never saw them while doing restoration work during an actual storm.
The âfirst responders charitiesâ on TV gall me. Dad gets taken out and mom & kids get their house paid off.
Well, here in the Pacific NW is home base for the crab and fishing boats that sadly go down out in the Gulf of Alaska. Whole crews lost. Who is picking up the mortgage for those families? I doubt there is a survivors pension plan either.
The good ones are rare enough to be memorable. Like the CHP who gave me a ride to the parts store in his 5.0 5 speed Mustang when I broke down beside a California highway. Or the Wyoming deputy who saw me shivering in shorts in November at an on-ramp and gave me and my gas can a ride almost 20 miles to my Buick Super Wildcat. But aside from those 2 every other one I remember is a petty thug calling a technical foul on some trivial act, or just flat lying to write a ticket.
Citizen militiamen are the way to go, and the only thing consistent with our constitution.
‘Being an armed government worker isnât even among the Top Ten Most Dangerous occupations.’ — eric
In the occupied hinterlands of our little west Asian apartheid colony, journalism is one of the Top Ten Most Dangerous professions:
Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
IDF is now openly acknowledging the 5 journalists they incinerated were indeed operating as journalists, but the IDF believed their work was âcombat propaganda.â
The IDF is entitled to its opinion and is free to engage in media criticism, but deliberately killing 5 journalists because you donât like their work is terrorism, barbarism, a crime against humanity, and should be prosecuted immediately.
https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1872332984939897251
How long before ‘combat propaganda’ becomes a capital offense here too? We narrowly dodged enactment of the anti-free speech Antisemitism Awareness Act this month. But it’ll be back next month.
Israel is our misfortune.
One SSBN captain and a willing crew could RELIEVE the USA of that “misfortune” from as far as 6,000 miles away.
The jewish “double standard” rears it’s ugly head once again…
Jews demand to be treated accordingly on an individual basis, never taking responsibility for acts committed as a group. Within jewish communities, collective responsibility and collective punishment are verboten. Jews within the group are treated as individuals, not as a collective.
Not so for us”goyim”.
Jews consider us “goyim” to be collectively responsible for all perceived transgressions against any jew and must be subject to collective punishment for acts committed by any one “goyim” or gentile group in perpetuity.
The genocide in Gaza is but one manifestation of the jewish “double standard”, considering anything that moves in Gaza as being a combatant, especially women and children.
Look at the jewish freak shows known as “holohoax” (oops, I mean holocaustâ˘) museums which still vilify not only today’s Germans, but all of us goyim for simply “not doing something” 70 years or so.
The world is suffering under a jew-imposed Stockholm syndrome which is bolstered by that massive grift known as the “holocaust⢔.
You’d think that image of the cop casually strolling by a human being on fire would engender the same wrath as Derek Chauvin’s no-knee-on-saint-george’s-neck. Or the image of the little Vietnamese girl running from the napalm explosion.
But in modern ‘Merica we just don’t get worked up about such things.
Ya that jogger routine blew me away when I saw the video. Didnât even phase him for a second.
Canât figure out for the life of me why anyone tolerates NYCâs filth and depravity.
Let’s not forget James Fields in Charlottesville who is doing life for attempting to escape a mob. Not only did the state charge him, “civil-rights” charges were added to make sure that he stays in prison…
Coming soon to a police force near you: Drone as first responder:
https://youtu.be/QUNjhyHZKpg
Now you don’t need to be concerned that the Thin Blue Line⢠makes it home tonight. They’ll just send the drone out to your 911 call. Then, after making sure the suspects have fled the scene, they’ll send someone out to get your information and give you a report for the insurance company. The responders will be safely behind the secure door of the dispatch center.
I am REALLY sick of this “militarized cop” shit.
I was dumbstruck the other by by this AP photo of the cops taking Luigi Mangione to court:
https://apnews.com/article/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-luigi-mangione-d6575764b6f4c58108e505e6e5ea896d
Now, for the record, I despise this guy, I don’t think he’s a folk hero, or anything like that. I don’t condone what he is accused of. But the amount of ridiculous, absurd, over-the-top overkill by the cops makes him look almost like Christ getting hauled before the Sanhedrin by the Roman centurions.
Why do cops need “assault weapons of war that don’t belong on our streets,” 30 rd magazines, tacticool shades, black uniforms and Kevlar helmets to escort a handcuffed, leg-shackled prisoner into court? It’s insane. Fat, stupid cops escorted prisoners in and out of court for over a century with nothing more than a pair of handcuffs and a .38. These cops act they are fucking soldiers in Fallujah and every one of us is a haji strapping on a suicide vest.
I’ve had just about enough of this power-tripping and flexing by these batrads.
Preach it, X!
I had an interaction with two such a couple months ago – in my rural SW Virginia County. The law regarding Farm Use tags had changed and I was driving my old truck with the old Farm Use tags – because “the law” matters to me about as much as the tick I picked off my dog last night. Anyhow, I was about two miles from my place when I passed a pair of armed government workers in Ford Explorers (plural) parked by the side of the road. My old truck is slow – and I was not even doing quite the speed limit when I passed them. They both rooster-tailed after me. I pulled off the road into a church parking lot. They both got out and approached my truck as if I were a fleeing felon; hands on their guns and wary.
Over out-of-date Farm Use tags.
One of them touched the truck – you know, to leave a fingerprint so I could be identified later if I popped one of them and took off. They ended up just giving me a “warning” – but the over-the-top response (and Batman getups) gets on my nerves.
If this suspect is THAT dangerous, strap him onto a hand truck with a hockey mask, like Hannibal Lecter, and if it’s believed that someone, like the late Jack Rubenstein, aka “Jack Ruby”, will be ALLOWED to get to him and keep the “Patsy” from “squealing”, well, put the flak vest and helmet on HIM.
But yes, we even see cops all armored and armed-up with their “Tacti-Cool”, like we’re the ENEMY. Probably because to all too many cops, we ARE. Even the GeheimeStatspolizei had far greater polish and professionalism that most LEO clowns of today.
GâŚDamn.. X,
Every time I want to comment, you young âWhipper Snapersâ.. Steal my thunder!!
100% Spot on!
SooooâŚ.what can you do about pussy macho blue boys on a roids sugar donut rush?
EZ STOP WHINING AND START BAILING!!!
Learn Spanish and check out the âLazy Tropics ââŚ
Cops in the DR who actually get annoyed if you bother them.. And will give you directions to the Coolest beer in town ColmadoâŚ..
Gee whiz ⌠get the F out of your present situation and see what happens when you experience a âCultural Climate Change đââŚ
Outside the USA USA BUBBLE!!
Welcome to Earth! Is this your first visit?
Forgot to mentionâŚ.
USA USA Tpes⌠love to denigrate â3rd World â justice đđđ
My sweet Caracas Honey pulled a âVenezuelan traffic maneuver â in Barranquilla ColombiaâŚgot pulled over by cops⌠âSETTLES OUT OF COURT FOR TWENTY THOUSAND PESOS..$18.00 paying the AGW.. âon contact ââŚ
Sorry Kids⌠Stop Whining about high car
Insurance and âŚ
DARE I SAY.. USA USA AINâT what it used to be..
My impression is these guys are afraid. Probably of everything.
A lot of energy seems to be spent trying to convince them & us that their job is dangerous.
when the govt tells you something, the opposite is likely true.
Self licking ice cream cone of touting how dangerous it is, justifying higher pay and skirting of the law due to all that danger. Then they swallow their own lies.
Letâs not forget the âisraelizationâ of todayâs police departments where âescalation of forceâ has been replaced with israeli-style âcommand and controlâ tactics in which immediate, total compliance with police commands is demanded.
American police departments routinely send their personnel to israel for (free) training in how to handle Palestinians (oops, I mean American citizens) to âsee how itâs doneâ. We are all Palestinians, nowâŚ
Problems arise when multiple police officers bark out conflicting commands as in the case of Daniel Shaver being murdered by Mesa Arizona police officer Philip Brailsford for being unable to crawl on his stomach with his hands behind his backâimpossible for any human being to do. Google it⌠In fact, Brailsford was rehired by his police department so that he could apply for and receive an pension. The âthin blue lineâ definitely protects itâs âbad applesâ.
What we are experiencing today is âblowbackâ, something that I feared would occur, with the increasing number of publicized police abuse cases. Those who are attacking police see only the uniform and not the person wearing it.
Not a good situation for either police or the citizenryâŚ
I realize most women get turned on by guys in uniformâŚthe firefighters, police officers, and Navy fighter pilots, but my favorite guys are still big, burly, broad ones in construction boots and Carhartt jackets.
Maybe, itâs the tool bag or some guy dangling off a utility pole forty feet in the air in freezing rain is sexy. Maybe, I am just weird.
Back when I was a cable guy I climbed poles with a belt and climbing gaffs. Probably the closest thing to a superpower I had.
They always told us that if we lost consciousness up on the pole (due to electrocution, for example) the paramedics would try to revive us after one of our coworkers got us back down on the ground.
How do ya feel about Southern bald software engineer nerds? đ
LOLâŚare they wearing construction boots and Carhartt jackets? Do they own a tool bag? đ
No ma’am. Remember tho, the geeks shall inherit the earth. đ
I don’t know, Mike. I have watched Idiocracy (the future tutorial of America). I didn’t see any geeks.
Oh, give me a second chance⌠Iâll put on my turnout pants and suspenders (ignore the 60yo paunch please) for ya. All the other gals seem to like itâŚ
Hi Ernie,
You guys are too funny. đ
Gee, I thought I was weird by having the same sort of interest in guys that you do! Or maybe we are both weird… But no, I’ve always been attracted to guys who do work that requires both skill AND physical strength and ability. That is the sort of work my husband was doing when I met him. He repaired and installed commercial and industrial HVAC systems, keeping apartments, high rise office buildings, malls, hospitals and other large buildings cool in the summer and warm in the winter. And yes, that kind of job could be dangerous as it required climbing ladders and being on high roof tops. In addition, there was the exposure to high voltage (440 volts and greater), harsh weather and moving machinery. A job I’d say would be far more dangerous than being a cop.
Hi Lee,
From your description I hope we are not married to the same man. đ
I think other women could learn a lot from us. They are too busy chasing doctors, actors, and football players. I agree with you it is a combination of brains and brawn with a bit of danger mixed in. Most importantly, they fix stuff. They are problem solvers.
Our heat went out about two weeks ago at our residence. It was 11:30 at night and 27 degrees outside. My husband is down in the basement changing out a circuit board. By midnight the heat was back up and running. I asked him where he was able to get a circuit board in the middle of the night. His response to me, “When I changed out the neighbor’s units, a few years ago, I took off the working parts and kept them since we have the same units and may need the parts one day.”
Hard working men never get enough recognition. They are the ones that keep this world turning. If other women can’t see that then they are just stupid.
I’ll bet you don’t whine about “He doesn’t ‘meet my needs’ ” or whatever feminist claptrap gets bandied about these days. While a “hard” man is, in THEORY, good to find, GOOD men can be hard to “find” if the one “searching” is a ditz w/o morals or principles. Birds of a feather…
Hi Doug,
In thirty years, those words have never crossed by lips. Since I have never questioned having my needs being met, I can only assume he is meeting them.
Many women have much different experiences than myself, but I have found a hardworking man (not a hard man) is usually a “good” man. Personally, I believe “like attracts like”. A good man usually attracts a good woman and vice versa.
There are always a few women who want to alter the bad boys. I wish them good luck. Their attempts are usually unsuccessful and leave them with bigger problems than they started with.
With my Commander itâs a trifecta. Firemen, burlys in flannel, and a sweaty horseshoer. I had to draw the line on the horseshoer when he was nailing more than horseshoes with the married babe across the street.
The firemen thing came to light when I caught a message from her best friend on the answering machine years back: â ohh KâŚ. you should have been at the Mint tonight, several new firemen there- young, and looking HOTâ
Husbands always the last to know.
Hi Sparkey,
LOL. The Commander sounds like a hoot. đ
I can admire a nice looking man, but it ends there. The married neighbor sounds like she has a serious problem waiting for her. I much rather chop off my arm than ever cheat on my husband. Some things can never be righted.
Firefighters should not be off the hook either…
A firefighter from a certain southeastern Michigan community claimed to have a âarson dogââone that could detect accelerants. This âfirefighterâ and his dog were instrumental in ruining many peoplesâ lives by his testimony alone. Insurance companies LOVED this guy as he was able to get them out of paying (valid) claims. People were denied valid insurance claims and prosecuted for arson on the testimony of this âarson dogâsâ handler.
Those who were âburnedâ (no pun intended) by this supposed arson dogâs âhandlerâ had no recourse, because of âqualified immunityâ. The firefighter (and fire department) could not be sued.
Finally one citizen who had been accused of arson fought back by suing to prove the âarson dogâsâ ability. The dog was found to have NO special ability. The âarson dogâ and his human masterâs career was finally over. How many innocent people were convicted of arson and lost everything they owned?? This firefighter resigned without incident, not being brought to task for his “arson dog” scam.
Another case was that of a plating plant that caught fire. The owners had a fire department âapprovedâ fire plan in place which involved shutting off utilities and shutting down processes in an orderly fashion. The firefighters that responded to the fire pushed the owner out of the way, and told him that they were going to do things âtheir wayâ. The building burned to the ground.
A firefighterâs job (for at least 98% of the time) is not inherently dangerous. This does not take away from the seriousness of their job, which is to be commended. but, firefighter arrogance can be just as dangerous as police arrogance. THIS is why firefighters should be included in any abolition of immunity for public officials.
You nailed it!
Yep, every time I see âBack the Blueâ slogans, I tend to cringe these days. There are some good ones out there, but the majority of them seem to be straight out of the military with âbig headsâ and a some with raging âroid symptoms. Another all too common slogan is âgiving backâ to the community. Since when should someone who works hard, becomes successful, stay clean and is committed to his/her family should have to give more? How about those who mooch off the system, steal and cheat? Shouldnât they be âgiving backâ?? One other slogan that riles me up; â putting children firstâ. That used to commonly heard on the local tv station. Growing up back in the â70âs & early â80âs, it was putting parents first. They provided the home, food, clothing and guidance. The only thing we children at the time were having to put first were manors, respect for our elders, striving for good grades and helping with household chores. Today, definitely not so much. Ok, enough of my ranting. May everyone have a better and prosperous New Year!!
There was one good one out there
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â There are some good ones out there. . .â
No you missed Ericâs point. There are NO good cops.
Anyone that willing takes a job designed to oppress others . . Because âthe lawâ . . . Is not good.
There are no good cops because they work alongside and support the bad cops . . . Willingly. . . Even if only by their silence. . . For money. . . Stolen from taxpayers.
Nothing changes until we shun all cops and their families.
And donât tell me thatâs too harsh. Havenât spoken with my cop dating sister for over a year. I actually believe and practice what Iâm preaching.
I also have a problem with that “give back to the ‘community’ ” mantra. It’s GARBAGE. I’ll pick my charities, starting with my monthly contribution to the LDS Church’s Fast Offering and Humanitarian funds, of which we’re encouraged to be generous as our means allow. Those that bleat that mantra are so often the GRIFTERS seeking to latch onto the “charity” in some manner.
When and what I give is out of a sense of purpose and with a sense of generosity. Furthermore, I don’t wish to virtue-signal what I do, after all, as the Savior said, if you do it for public approval, you ALREADY have your “reward”. It’s not some unspecified “debt” for reaping the fruits of self-improvement, financial discipline, and taking calculated risks in the marketplace.