Apologies

This whole business with apologies is just a bunch of bull. These days the demands for apologies and the lame precrafted apologies that are delivered and the lamer pre(pre?)crafted acceptances are completely meaningless.

Some examples:

The British government wants the ex CEO of Rover to apologize for running the company into the ground, with government money, and he and his buddies taking huge compensation for doing it. (story). How about giving the money back? How about giving it to charity? Apology costs nothing, he keeps the money and moves on. Meanwhile the government spent 16 million pounds to investigate what happened. I'll tell you what happened, you got took, suckered, scammed. BTW, what's left of Rover is now in Chinese hands.

The U.S. Congress recently passed bills apologizing for slavery. I bet that makes everybody feel better. What does it do? How does this help anything? Actually if you read closer, the bills real purpose was to head off any move toward paying reparations. That means money spent, and we can't have that. Reparations would keep a lot of lawyers and do gooders busy for years. Somewhere in the Mormons genealogy databases in Utah I bet I could find enough proof so that I could get reparated too.

Apologizing to the Indians for their abuse has been a concept kicked around for a long time. In fact the Canadian government actually did. Not an overall apology but for a specific policy, that of sending Indian children to lousy schools. Does this help anyone? The kids are grown up are getting on with life, this apology is way wide of the mark.

Here's a classic, the Oakland airport apologized to the military after troops were not allowed to deplane during a two hour layover. Some soldiers were miffed because they had hoped to meet friends and relatives during the stop. This incident was spun as just another example of how California disrespects our fine military men and women. You can guess who did the spinning. So does Oakland feel shame over this problem and the world will be a better place? I doubt it, but somebody got to strut their ego.

In a recent flap, a Representative interrupted a Presidential speech by blurting out "You lie". He apologized to the President, our other president Rush Limbaugh blasted him for apologizing and now will have to apologize for blaming him for apologizing?

And speaking of my birthplace, Discovery channel has a new series coming out "Gang wars: Oakland". That sounds like fun. I wonder if the film crew went into the neighborhoods that that cops don't dare go into. Small problem with getting shot at. But even crooks love to be on TV. Should be a big hit, if we can love crab fishermen why not gang bangers?