03 March 2008

Monday Musings...
Welcome to March.
Wow, a whole weekend where I wasn't shoveling, salting, or sweeping some sort of precipitation from about the house and steps.
A freaking miracle to behold.
But although this month didn't enter like a lion, don't let this lamb-like day fool you. We're probably going to be back into wintery weather by this time tomorrow.
I, however WILL enter the month of March like a LION.
Another house in our neighborhood was hit by scrappers within the past few days. And the old owners were closing on it this Wednesday. The NEW owner stated he had insurance, so the former owners aren't worrying about it, UNLESS the new owner decides to back out of the deal. Then the former owhers call out the LAWYER, and start talking lawsuits.Technically, it's not "their" house any longer, and the ink has had a time to dry. Still, the situation begs for resolution on a much different scale; namely WHY this is still occuring in the first place?
I sure hope it's not because of the "money for drugs" problem we're not supposed to be having due to this large 13% decrease (lowest in over 25 years???) in crime. Oh, no...that just can't be it.
Funny thing, though...both houses that were recently targeted were being sold by WHITE people. Now I don't want to cast any aspersions against any (other) race, but it sure seems peculiar that it played out this way. And as the last DECENT white household in the immediate area (if there are others, they sure ain't advertising it) I'm seeing a form of reverse racism being perpetrated here.
Just yesterday, one of the "new arrivals" that moved in across the street (that also doesn't work or attend school and that YOU are funding through your "genereous" contributions to the welfare system) emptied his hands of a crumpled bag and a coffee container on the neighbor's sidewalk. Now I'm sorry, but with THAT type of (typical) behavior, you're not accruing any gold stars in *my* PLUS column, Bub.
And don't even THINK of demanding any "respect" from me when you apparently have NO concept of the word and how it's REALLY defined.
Should this person choose to do likewise to MY property in the future (and you KNOW it's coming), I won't be the one who nicely "asks" him to remove his trash (that only gets a gun pulled on you, as I have learned from past experience). I will simply bolt out the door, and YELL: "Yo, this ain't your f$cking living room...pick that damn trash the hell up...NOW". And I'm sure that spotting a pistol on my hip will reinforce my imperative quite well. Yes, folks...THAT'S how you deal with these people. Not that it will matter all that much in the long run, because within a week or two, the "short-term memory affiction" thay all seem to suffer from (we called it CRS in the past - Can't Remember $**t) will kick in, and you'll have to REMIND them...again. I've seen this time and again.
But I digress...
Over the past few decades, this part of town has gotten what many consider a "bad rep". Well, aside from all the bad RAP I constantly hear from the boomcars thumping through the area, I can say that the south side EARNED every reputation is currently enjoys! And this part of town did it with gusto. Sure there might be those "pockets of resistance", as I like to call them (those that still believe in a resurrection of this part of hell on earth), but these days, there simply aren't enough of "us" to go around and make ANY headway.
We can't fight the low-income housing juggernaut and the manner in which it places people with many a sordid past history, along with NO SENSE of ownership, boundaries and respect for others into houses costing less than a POS used car, and expect those of US "normal people" to find it all "happy, happy, joy, joy".
That crap won't float!
When there is NO responsibilty, NO consequences, NO respect for authority, NO accountablity, and NO sense of pride in anything, dont EVER expect ANY neighborhood to survive, let alone THRIVE. It just will NOT happen. In fact, you might as well STOP calling it a "neighborhood", as there is nothing "neighborly" about it any longer. Just call it what it has become; a GHETTO.
Listen in on the police scanner, and see what I mean.
So as long as scrappers have a place to "play", along with the child molesters, rapists, arsonists, murderers, burglars, car thieves, robbers, drug dealers, and assorted other human waste we (respectfully) call criminals, don't EVER try to cajole me into thinking crime is ever going down, and that by constructing token "projects" such as Renassance Pointe, this part of the city is doing OK. I'll never be THAT dumb to believe a load of crap like that. And neither would any other person with at least TWO functioning brian cells in their primate skull.
It's like I said before, the city doesn't seem to believe in the "broken window" theory...even when the entire building is crumbling down around them, so I suppose the saying that: ONLY FOOLS fight in burning houses still rings true.
When the city begins to seriously remove ALL the human scum, vermin, whatever you want to call it from our areas, then, and ONLY then can any of us who are left even begin to take back this part of the city, making it thrive once more (and lining the city's pockets again with tax revenue).
Was that a porcine aviator I just saw overhead?
Make no mistake...this IS a war (in many ways) down here, and we can either wage it in the proper manner (that would mean fight to WIN), or we can keep allowing the politicians to fight it for us in the uninspiring manner they have demonstrated over the years, with the predictable results.
Vietnam (alone) should have taught us well enough in that regard.
This city is hemorrhagic where money is concerned, and it's time to put away all the Band-Aids and talk about some SERIOUS triage starting with clamping off the offending "arteries" with some followup tranfusional measures.
Shoring up an already depleted tax base will only occur when people who are generationally living on the dole are taken off of it, the criminal element finds it unproductive to conduct business, and people are taught how to be responsible to themselves and their community. Then we can have people who KNOW how to behave, treat others RESPECTFULLY, and know what it means to be a PRODUCTIVE member of a society.
Sounds a tad harsh, but sometimes it TAKES bitter to DRIVE bitter.
'Nuff said there, people.

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