A small collection of many thoughts regarding life. These thoughts may relate to current affairs or items I have observed in the past, if I think they fit, I have added them. In my opinion what I present here is true. But truth is not the same to all. If you read something on this blog, I suggest you personally check it out before you accept it as the truth.
45+ years of public service, 30 in the US Navy and 15+ more in Florida law enforcement. Semi-permanetly retired since the end of 2006. But still open for adventure.
A Veteran, whether active duty, discharged, retired, regular or reserve, is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America," for an amount of "up to, and including their life."
Soap Box Ravings has observed lots of "Body English". I observed a lot of learning points which were openly demonstrated by students and staff alike at the Department of Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) when I was a facilitator there. DEOMI is the Defense Department's school on racial, sexual and religious bias and how to combat those biases.
An understanding of "Body English" was also useful in my 15 year career in law enforcement after retiring from the US Navy.
Soap Box Ravings can't help but wonder if an elitist such as President Obama knows or cares of the image he often presents.
Furthermore, anyone who has to report to a supervisor with that look on their face is going to be very careful about the information they share with that supervisor.
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a pollyglot [sic] boarding house; and we have room for but one, soul [sic] loyalty, and that loyalty is to the American people.
