Wednesday, May 5, 2010

May 5, 2010

Today is cinqo de Mayo. All it means that today is the fifth of May. Why is this a date of importance I don't know and I really don't care.

It is a holiday in Mexico but since this is not yet Mexico it is absolutely of no importance to me. Tomorrow is the seis de Mayo. Are we celebrating that. too?

I just thought I'll say something about this.

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I am sick and tired of hearing how great our first responders are. Those include the police the firemen and the paramedics.

These people are being non stop butt kissed. Why? All they do is what their jobs are. This is what they chose to do with their lives and now everybody have to bow down for them? It is ridiculous.

Any sane person who wants to be a policemen is either a danger addict or likes to go around and show off his authority. Any person who wants to be a policemen has to face the reality that he might never live to retire. That is part of the job description.

Today, in today's world the dangers magnified and a World Trade Center type terrorist attack is not beyond the realm of reality. Everybody from the President down believes it agrees with this.

That means that anybody who joins law enforcement or the fire department has to be realistic enough to know that his life might be forfeited at any given time if conditions warrant it.

Last Saturday they diffused a bomb on Times Square in a car that was part of a terrorist action. It was done very professionally and without anybody getting hurt.

But this is their job. This is what they are getting paid, this is what they supposed to be good at. So why the world has to kiss up to them and praise them like a demi god. Only Jesus walked on water they didn't. There is no reason to worship them.

They chose this line of work. They were educated and trained and I'm sure it was not inexpensive. So now they earned their keep. And I hope that if anything like this happens again in the future they will handle that situation with the utmost professionalism they exhibited Saturday.

When an engineer designs a building that houses thousands of people and that building will not collapse the engineer will not get an award. Because this is his job, this is what he was trained for and is getting paid for.

So let the adulation stop and let them return to oblivion where they are probably much more comfortable then being in the forefront.

The Mayor is so busy kissing up to them and commending their actions that it really makes me sick.

We have young men in Iraq and Afghanistan in uniforms who do this kind of bravery every day and we never hear about those. They get their decorations and life goes on.

It should not be any different here either. They all say that we are at war. Well then let's act like it.


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