ALL MEN ARE CREATED...

Dick Butus played college football at 6'3” 230 pounds. I played college football at 6'3' 230 pounds. After college Butkus went to the NFL and made big money. I went into the army and made little money.

 I realize now, after listening to our President over these last years, that this is unfair. In the President's Liberal world view money should have been taken from Butkus (the 1% of football players) and given to Lt. Payne (the 99% of football players) because apparently the considerable difference in skills does not enter into the administration's fairness equation.

 All men are created equal, is true, but from the second after creation we begin to differentiate ourselves.

 Yes, there is wide gap between the CEO and the janitor, and what the “Occupy” type folks concentrate on is the pay gap. I'll bet the gap between janitor and CEO is considerably more than pay. What choices did the janitor make in high school, if he went at all?

 Does dropping out of school to buy an old truck and begin hot pursuit of Sally Mae override the choice of staying in school, maybe working part time to provide what's necessary to pursue excellence in what ever career (not job) his passion drives him. (Tell me you don't believe that increasing the minimum wage to a “living wage,” won't make dropping out and the old truck and Sally Mae both possible and more desirable.)

 It seems our government speaks with forked tongue. Liberals pushing for higher and higher minimum wages makes it easier for our kids to drop out. Once they are out and don't have the skills needed in today's environment, they get fired. Then we give them 99 weeks of unemployment as a reward for not working. Then we wonder why our kids don't have a work ethic and why Kim Wang Haun's family has all of our jobs.

 A couple of big chain restaurants, I've read about recently, by next year will be going to computer pads on each table so that customers can click their way to a meal. One of the downsides of a hefty minimum wage is that it makes pursuing technology and eliminating all the government-imposed hassle of working with live people, much more financially desirable for those who hire. This, of course, eliminates the waitress job, but does create another computer nerd job. We will have plenty of high tech jobs in the years to come, but because of government “help,” we will be flush with high school drops outs in old pick up trucks to fill them.

  There is an old saying, “We can lower the bridge or raise the river.” Why do one of our political parties make the first thrust towards equality reducing the rewards of those who have put in the blood, sweat, and tears to accumulate wealth, and just give eloquent lip service to raising up those are willing to do what is necessary to pull themselves up?

 It seems counter productive for our government to implement a system that rewards not working, while at the same time the President is saying in every presidential speech that jobs are his administration's number one focus. How can jobs get created when the administration lobbies, or outright bypasses, Congress to require high wages for low-skilled workers and almost two years pay for not having a job. To cap off the folly, they pressure for open immigration to flood the workforce with more high paid, low skilled workers, thus inflating the “99%.” Then representatives of the current administration make inflammatory speeches about the evil “income inequality,” which their policies created!

 Dick Butkus and I had the same physical attributes, mentally not so much. I was not willing to do the things Butkus was willing to do (like get hurt). Why would I ever believe I deserved what he got? I never would, but in those days I didn't have a government telling me I did.

TIMES THEY ARE A F***ING CHANGING

In the new movie, The Wolf of Wall Street, a new record was set. Great you say, an American movie set a new record. Well, wait a f***ing minute. The record is for using the“f word” approximately 525 times. That equals about 3 uses per minute. Does that make you want to see it, want to gag, or does it bother you at all?

The f word, to me, has only two appropriate uses; when describing a particular act, or when you hit your hand with a hammer. Other than those situations, using the f word excessively, to me, is a sign of verbal laziness. If you have a word that can be used as a noun, an adjective, adverb, active/passive/transitive/intransitive verb, interjection and conjunction without really adding any content to the sentence (other than to show just how cool and with it a person you are), I believe that word is a waste of the speaker's and listener's time.

I enjoy comedy and will listen to as many comedy specials as I can. I love giving comics I have not heard of a chance, but as soon as they belittle my intelligence with an f dump, off they go. I realize I am not in the demographics of the young comedians, but this is unfortunate (and to me unexplainable) that it is not just young comedians I have trouble linking up with. I started listening to a special starring Louis Black, who is in his early 60s. He began by saying he had to change venues because the place in which he was originally scheduled to appear nixed his “f this and f that” approach to comedy, and since apparently he can't be funny without f**ing things, he canceled and found a place that would let him adequately express his real character and values. Even comics I really enjoy, like Louis C K, can be a bit off color, but for the brilliance of his observations, I can take it. We watched, I believe an older special of his, and I turned it off after about 15 minutes of “f” fillers, and he dropped a couple of notches on my respect scale.

“My doctor asked me during a physical if I could touch my toes. I told him, “The only way I could touch my toes is if you cut them off and handed them to me.”

This is a joke told by Jim Gaffigan, a comedian who can do a clean hour and is in my estimation a really funny guy. I just wonder how much funnier the joke would have been, how much he could have advanced his career, if he had told it like this.

“F***ing doctor asked me during a physical if I could touch my f***ing toes. I told him, “The only way I could touch my toes is if you f***ing cut them off and handed them to me.”

Was that funnier, or do you feel like taking a shower?

When I began doing public speaking I was told something by an old timer that I have not forgotten. He said that nobody had ever critiqued him for not swearing enough. Words to live by. I maybe completely off base but I can't help, at some level, questioning the intelligence of someone who can't think of a more informative word to covey his or, really unfortunately, her thoughts.

Would anyone be more impressed with:

        Einstein if he has discovered The theory of F***ing Relativity?

        Patrick Henry for shouting out, “Give me Liberty or give me f***ing death”?

        JFK announcing to the world “ Ask not what your f***ing country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your f***ing country?”

I know I sound old, and things have changed, and I have to get with it, but not only does the repetitively meaningless use of the word insult the intelligence of the receiver, but I miss having THAT WORD, the word that could express the ultimate, a word like no other. This word is now being texted by 13 year old girls to describe their f***ing awesome nail polish.

Gosh darn!