Police Pursue Intelligently

    I am beginning to establish a practice of going to the woods on religious days to be closer to God or at least to feel that way. Last Sunday, I headed north of Brattleboro, Vermont after a nice dinner with some of the family. I was on Route 30 when two little cars roared by me at high speeds, their tiny motors running at a high pitch. I turned off the main road to head up a mountain, considering calling the police. But then I looked down the mountain, and there was a police cruiser coming up the highway. He obviously wasn't trying to catch them but was just tailing behind them as he and others used radios and care for the idiot drivers and the innocent people driving along Route 30.
    I thought about how unlike that tactic would be in the Florida, where I have spent considerable time. There the cops would be roaring in mad pursuit of the hot-rod idiots, pushing them to drive faster and faster until they lost control of their vehicles or crashed into other vehicles. Yes, it would be much more exciting and macho to go after the speeders with top speed. Your testosterone level would find new heights, but it is not the caring thing to do.
    It is much more civilized to show empathy for the speeding idiots and the people driving around them to poke along coming up behind them and using your radio to try to block them. It's hard not to join the chase and be part of the action. I salute the officer's manliness in giving up high drama for the caring and right thing to do. He made me feel God's presence Easter night.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary

Only Racists See Obama As Black

    The Stephanie Miller Show on radio is constantly identifying people according to race especially the supposedly black president Obama. Due to the surrounding mountains, it's the only talk radio show available. Obama is just as much white as he is black. He had a white mother and a black father. Liberals, socialists, and other crazies routinely refer to Obama as "black." This shows their racism because what they are ascribing to by calling Obama black when he is just as white as he is black, is the ancient racist belief that black blood is poisonous. Therefore, even one drop of black blood in a Caucasian makes that person a black. That's why black and white mixes are called mullatoes, quadtroons, octoroons, and on down. One drop of black blood negates entry into the white world. 
    Obama needs to give up this racism too. He regularly refers to himself as an Afro-American. Has he no respect for his mother? She is white. He's ignoring her entirely. That must have been very hurtful for her. I urge President Obama to be honest and respectful of his mother who brought him into this world. If he wants to go around trumpeting his racial identity (BFD!) honestly, he needs to refer to himself as Afro-European American. Act like a man, Mr. President, not a player!
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary

"Free College"

    I was listening to the Tom Hartman radio show today when a rather whinny guy congratulated Comrade Hartman for being so loyal to facts unlike so many (individualist) talk show hosts who yell over the caller and make up lies. Then the guy began a discussion of "free college" thus leaving the realm of facts. The fact is that there is no such thing as free college. It will be bought by the taxpayer through the force and violence of tax laws and government employees. Each student who eventually gets paid for work will become a taxpayer unless he is working illegally. His taxes will increase to reflect the costs of Americans giving "free" college education to fellow Americans and most probably to any illegal immigrant who can slip into our country. Can you imagine how much free college with beautiful American women and drinking binges Thurday through Sunday will attract illegal immigrants in addition to everything else the American sheep provide them once they slip in?
    Right now, it would probably be cheaper to pay increased taxes for your "free" college than to pay back student loans, but not for long. Everyone will want to go to college if it's "free." Colleges have been dumbed down so much, and colleges want to keep students's tuition and fees coming in so badly, that it is not that difficult to stay in many colleges and universities and still have plenty of time to be with the pretty girls (or boys) and drink copious amounts of beer. If going to college is like going to a well-stocked resort for four years, all of America and the rest of the world will be applying to American colleges. Then they can enroll in their classes and learn how to hate individualism, private property, constitutional rights, free enterprise and hard work. All the values that make their "free" college possible.
    If you don't want to have to support this scene - and, it will be impossible to support financially, but that won't stop the crazies-  you have to use another American value- the courage to speak out, early and long. Yes, courage has a cost. This undertaking is not for the weak, the passive, and the ignorant who want to remain that way. If you protest in a legal, moral way,  you will like yourself better, be stronger for it, and will have done the right thing.
    By the way, being truthful and specific, like I have tried to be here, are qualities you should look for in your presidential choice. Do that and then decide who is the least objectionable by those standards. I'm thinking Cruz. At least we know that he is pro-economic growth and much less likely than Trump to rule by executive orders. Obama has set the stage for that, and Trump looks like he's ready to play.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary

No Drone Today

    My being a frightened person began in the womb not only by having the genes of my parents who were both anxious and frightened people, especially my father, but because I was almost aborted by government doctors serving in the Army in Anchorage immediately after WWll. My father was a thinker and a planner and arranged things so that my mother joined him at Fort Anchorage during the war. She lived in a cabin in a Eskimo village and had to walk through staked out sled dogs to get to her cabin. During the day, she worked as a civilian at Ft. Anchorage. How many soldiers during WW ll do you think were thoughtful and lucky enough to take their wives to war? Somehow my mother got pregnant with me but didn't know why she wasn't feeling well. It was apparently beyond the pay scale of the government doctors too because they decided to open her up to see what was wrong with her. Then they saw me, hastily sewed her up and kept her in the hospital for two weeks since a miscarriage was likely after such a trauma. I apparently saw the blade coming and struggled to get away from it as my umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck. After that, my father, to his credit, paid with his own money for my birth in a Swedish civilian hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. The doctor said getting me unwrapped from the cord had been tricky, and I am sure there was some brain damage as my memory is bad and I am clueless about mechanics. Unfortunately, that wasn't the end of being scared witless for at the age of two when I broke some of my father's scrimshaw from Alaska, he started considering killing me. He was considering killing me or putting me into reform school and letting me know about it regularly until I left for William and Mary at 17. I never spent another night at "home" again. No wonder, aye?
    When I wrote the post about Obama deliberately abandoning Benghazi and causing the death of two Seals, an American ambassador, and a State Department communications expert, I did not know if I were the first person to write that on the Internet. If I were the first, I was afraid of the consequences.
There are many ways to kill a person, and it's documented in two books I've read that Obama goes around saying, "I'm really good a killing people" in reference to the terrorists and the hundreds of innocent Arabs killed in drone attacks with Hellfire Missiles on shots that he has personally authorized. Terrorists and innocent Arabs today, American "enemies of the state" tomorrow.
I was pleased with myself (a rarity for a person suffering from depression) when I went ahead and published the post not knowing if I were the first person in the word reporting this or not. That showed some courage and no Cruise Missile came up the Conneticutt River to Brattleboro looking for me because many people have posted about the deliberate abandoning of the four Americans at Benghazi.
    The two books I'm referring to are Double Down -around page 50 for Obama's observation, I think, and another book whose title is something like A President, A Terrorist, and A Drone. "Getting good at killing people" is mentioned, I think, around page 30 and again in the chapter end notes. It's an early chapter.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of 68, William and Mary

Panther Sighting

    I had the pleasure of making a panther report to the New England Mountain Lion Sighting Board - I think that's how it went. I was reporting a sighting told to me by an office manager of a health related business. She said, in essence, " I have a new neighbor who moved from Massachusetts. She was taking her dog and her alpacas -yes- out for a walk and saw a panther." The panther must have been amazed to see alpacas.
    This sighting board is very nice. It has a very pleasant tone about, apparently undiscovered by the sewer-fingers. I was pleased to see several black panther sightings in it. I attended an Aududbon lecture by the chief game warden in charge of supervising legal fur-bearing trapping in Vermont. When he discussed panthers, called catamounts here, he always framed them in the context of "passing through." But remember, the state pays him, not the truth. He also said that there are sometimes so many panther sightings that there would have to be panthers at every corner. Maybe there are, but only long enough for a person or two to see them. They are hardly statues.
    I also had the great pleasure of seeing my first fisher. Vermonters are very excited about "fisher-cats." Its a phemomenon somewhat like the Floridians and their alligators. I had a medical appointment in Bennington which is only seven miles from the New York state line. After the appointment I went north on Route 7 to asee some of the area where almost ten people are suspected of being carried away by Bigfoot including a college coed, a 75 year old hunting guide, and a party of three hunters. There was a constant range of mountains on both sides of Route 7, and it was easy to visualize Bigfoot coming out of them and down into the valley where I was driving. After it was dark, I drove back to Brattleboro by way of Route 9. As I was going around Sears Mountain - I think-
the cat-like Fisher crossed in front of me, left to right, where the cliff was. When he got under the guardrail for the cliff, he felt secure, and stopped to stare at me go past him. He was chocolate brown with black markings on his head. According to the books, his number one prey is the lowly, slow porcupine. The porky attempt to defend himself  by keeping his quill-filled back pointing at the determined fisher. The fisher then runs around to the front of the porky to try to bite him in the face. Both animals keep turning and turning, but after a half hour of this, the slower porcupine has accumulated so many bites to his face that he is too incapacitated to respond. Then the fisher flips poor porky over onto his back, and eats him alive through his stomach.
   Peter Nickerson, Philosopy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary, peternickerson12@yahoo.com

Medicare Promotes Homosexuality !

    Medicare promotes homosexuality by not covering drugs for men whose penises do not get stiff enough for vaginal penetration. This is no small number of American men as stiffness can be diminished by antidepressants, blood control pills, and heavy drinking. I am sure I have missed many other contributors. Say you go to your doctor for this problem, and he prescribes 50 mg. Cialis, and you take your prescription to Walmart. You will find out that each pill costs $55. Men being men, you will probably immediately think, "Damn, if I didn't buy four pills, I could have sex with a gorgeous hooker!" Then, you may, if you are a Walmart regular, realize you don't have $55 just to spend getting yourself primed for sex. Who wants to get intimate with a woman if you can't do anything? How can you get intimate unless you want to be Bill Clinton forever, and what woman would tolerate that anyway? Who is going to want you now that you are passive, a receptor instead of a penetrator? Guess who- homosexuals! You'll fit right in -rather, they will fit right in.
    Almost all men have problems with becoming homosexual. Some have heart attacks just thinking about it. But men adapt. Think prisons. If men cannot have sex with women, a sizeable number are going to adapt to sex with men. Then think of the consequences of that. As man are promiscous be an evolutionary dictate, unless a woman makes them walk the line, the spread of HIV, and other STDs is going to dramatically increase. The damage done in putting penises and semen into the posterior orifice can be significant. All these diseases and physical damages are going to cost Medicare sooner or later in all Americans lives. I say it will cost even more than the total cost of Cialis if Cialis were doled out by Medicaid at say three a month. Do we really want to spend more money in Medicare while Medicare drives men to homosexuality? The rules need to change! Allow reimbursement of penis stiffeners now before you women lose your men to homosexuals and you children lose your fathers because they've betrayed your mother. Such a win-win situation will never be accepted willingly by the federal employees. It's just not their nature. You're going to have to trump them by raising hell.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68 (see the self-interest?) W&M

Rubio: Character Not His Crotch!

    I told my ex that I wouldn't support Rubio because he looked weak and like a little boy. Hillary would eat him up because he wouldn't dare to tell her that she and Obama caused the four American deaths in Benghazi because she and Obama would not send in reinforcements during the 13 hour intermittent gun battle. I didn't think he would confront her about her criminal behavior either in breaking confidentiality with her e-mails, jeopardizing lives of agents in other countries. No wonder our intelligence sucks! I predicted Hillary would make him cry. But now I support him because he is, by far, the best candidate of the three.
    Unfortunately, his recent behavior in getting tough with Trump has included little boy behavior. He's questioned whether Trump peed in his pants because Trump had asked for a full-length mirror. Then I saw Rubio on TV yesterday walking in the audience and observing that Trump had small hands and "you know what that means." How childish! In spite of adolescent behavior trying to attack what looks like is going to be America's most erratic and fascist president, Rubio is much more stable than Trump and much more pro-business which will create jobs. He is also much stronger on defense.
    I would suggest Rubio attack Trump's character not his crotch. Show that he is not a populist. Bring up how he attacked a beautiful, young woman who criticized his beauty pageant as crooked. He sued her and won. A big, beefy billionaire "winner" attacks a lovely, young lady over a beauty pageant. See the lack of proportionality? He's a very nervous, loose cannon itching to fire at anything. Bring up how he again sued a woman, a little old, probably not so beautiful woman, because she didn't want to sell him her home. He wanted to build a most important hotel and needed her land. He sued citing eminent domain and won. This is someone for the people, a populist? Absolutely not. He's for Donald Trump, and the people be damned! He's the winner, and you're the loser.
    I like many have been raging for years about Republicans having no - shall we say "testosterones." Rubio is trying to find them. He's still on training wheels so let's give him some more time. He's moving in the right direction. Just raise your sights, Marco.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of 68, William and Mary
peternickerson12@yahoo.com