Save Oceans,Whales,SeaTurtles,Dogs,Everything,By Sending Donations

                                  It is a long list of what people can allegedly save by simply donating. A simple unchallenged promise, and people eagerly send money. The sender gets to feel good and perhaps liberated from the responsibility of having to do anything further.
                                  The organizations get more tax free money to fill their coffers. And so marches on the dynamic of the nonprofit world, where everyone benefits except most often that which is supposed to be saved.
                                   If "saving" was as simple as sending donations, money would already be the world's magical elixir.
                                   A number of organizations have made suffering and misery much worse by their alleged saving and helping. Dog fighting, animal cruelty, a number of conservation concerns and more have increased because of these organizations.
                                  If there is no accountability for the true efficacy of these organizations and their programs, nothing will ever change for the better. Unless and until that happens, people will continue to believe their donations will help save oceans, animals, and a thousand other things, and it will all remain belief and nothing else.

                                 
                                 
                                   
                                   

The Disregarded Near Extinct Bats And Other Wildlife

                     A near extinct bat species that is off the beaten track and not on the radar of one of the well funded organizations concerned with bats, wildlife or conservation in general, is facing its last days on planet earth after being here for untold thousands of years.
                    We tried to get these bats on the radar of one of these organizations, to no avail. What does it take to help an obscure species that is not a cash generator or source of publicity? The value of a species appears to be proportional to its ability to generate publicity, bragging rights and funding. Money is the pivotal word, not words like international, worldwide, wildlife guardians, or anything else. The choices private conservation organizations make regarding wildlife and conservation are not about altruism.
                      If these bats flew around with replenishable hundred dollar bills attached, their fate would be very different.
                   
                   
                   
                     
                 

Science Education Should Be Mind Opening And Engaging, Not Part Of A Stagnant Curriculum

                               For many teenagers, science education is an ordeal to be endured and to hopefully get through and never have to experience again. The limited areas of science that are taught in schools are irrelevant to the lives of many children and teenagers, and rather than interest them in science, permanently turns many off.
                                Recognizing that there is a vast population of students that will benefit far greater if science is made more mind opening and interesting does not mean that what is presently taught in biology and chemistry will not remain available for some. But there must be alternatives for others. Children and teenagers still need to learn  basics. But for many, not in excruciating detail to the exclusion of all else, which also makes school a difficult, alienating experience.
                                  Now before anyone thinks this is advocacy for the further dumbing down of children and teenagers, think again. Many children, teenagers and adults know little about the natural world around them. They know hardly anything about birds, insects, mammals, reptiles, trees, other plants, the skies above, weather systems, oceans, lakes, nature, marine life, ecosystems, climate, wildlife, biodiversity, the interdependence of all life, and much more. Regarding the limited areas of science that they are taught, often in excessive detail, little to nothing is retained for most.
                                  There is no great benefit to the  present science curriculum that it should remain untouched. Especially when it produces generation after generation of science illiterates.
                                 

Pampered Supervisors And Management Are Counterproductive In Police Work, Public Service, And Elsewhere

                      The basic role of a police department is to serve and protect. The basic way to achieve this is through patrol, including in vehicles, walking beats or foot patrol (which is the essence of true community policing), and on bicycles for some.  Those supervisors allowed to do little to nothing ( and having other personal off the streets, except for those medically incapable) does not serve the public or the basic police purpose, in addition to being a needless expensive cost.
                      The mindset of supervisory entitlement that occurs far too often in police departments and elsewhere - meaning certain supervisors and some others have near permanent exemption from work - is counterproductive and wasteful.
                      Cops need to be on the streets, and their supervisors on all levels, with few exceptions, need to be out there with them. Not as babysitters, but as full participants in the police mission of patrolling, serving and protecting.
                       Supporting a pampered, free from stress management class (for certain people, not all) does not serve the public good. Not in police work, not in public service, not in the private sector.
                        Reevaluating the amount and types of supervisors police departments and other bureaucracies need, and then streamlining these bureaucracies and making them lean and efficient is long overdo.
                     
                   

Professional Police Departments Have No Place For Clout, Cronyism, Fictitious Meritorious Promotions

                          Big city police departments, or any police department, should not be a refuge for the politically connected where cronyism and clout prevails. A professional police department should have none of these things.
                          Police departments should not have meritorious promotions that are masquerades to promote the politically connected and clout heavy.
                           Promotions should be based on civil service examinations. If a police department chooses to make some allowances, recognizing that not all qualified people do well on a civil service test and that exceptional officers still deserve a chance to get promoted, then meritorious promotions must mean exactly what it stands for.
                           It  must be clearly defined. There must be an impartial, objective procedure and standard for determining who is qualified and what meritorious means. The people doing the review and choosing of an applicant cannot personally know that person. If they do, they should not evaluate that particular candidate.
                            In one city, meritorious promotions have long been the avenue for rewarding those that have clout and not necessarily ability.  This has often resulted in the promotion of incompetent and poorly qualified people, and a far less than desirable command structure.
                             The mayor of that city left a destructive legacy of cronyism, waste and incompetence. It is disgraceful that any U.S. city, let alone a major one, be operated like a corrupt third world nation.
                             Professional police departments have professional hiring and promotion standards and procedures. Clout, cronyism, and political favoritism have no place in professional police departments. Unfortunately, at least one major U.S. city continues to fall far short.

                         

Ingratiating, Calculating "Free" Press And Reporters

                                  There was a time when reporters had principle and integrity.  The muckrakers and people with guts and principles have almost all disappeared. We have now a press, journalists, and a media that is obsessed with one or more of the following:  1. money  2. popularity  3. the sensational   4. Serving an anointed interest. 5. Being an ingratiator.
                                   Left or right, progressive or conservative, up or down, front or back, we have a media and press that is subservient to some special interest. Even when they pretend to be truth seekers, hawks in search of the truth, investigators claiming to investigate and protect, all we find instead are ingratiating carefully calculating sheep.
                                 

A Weakling Supremacist Announces He Will Run For Senator

                                  Supremacists think themselves superior by virtue of their birth, and look down upon and consider inferior those born differently. But it is they that are the weak human beings that need to feel strong by dehumanizing and demeaning someone else. Not one single human being on this planet has control of the family, race, ethnic group, religion and other circumstances that they are born into.
                                  But people do choose how they will live their lives, and whether they will give to this world pain, misery, their greed and selfishness, or something better.