More of the Unbelievable...
Just when you think it can't get ANY more ridiculous, you come across things in the news that have you going "WTF?" or "IT'S ABOUT TIME", or even "WHAT A SURPRISE...NOT".
Submitted for your amusement are the following. And please keep a napkin handy, in case you find some of it a tad amusing; there's nothing worse than liquid on the keyboard, right?
--FWPD chief Rusty York on the "short list" for same job in Phoenix .
OK, Rus...hope your SPANISH is better than your ebonics, because, quite frankly, in the last EIGHT YEARS...I haven't been all that impressed. Neighborhoods (like mine) HAVE gotten worse, crime DID go UP (no matter how much you try to fudge the numbers), and it was all pretty much on YOUR watch.
Maybe it's time for some new blood in the big chair.
The down side to this is that we can always wind up with someone a LOT worse (and most likely will, considering the manner in which problems of immediacy are addressed in this city). He HAS done an OK job, but in a city withgrowing problems like ours,merely "OK" doesn't quite cut the muster.
I hope Rusty gets the job in AZ.
He needs a break from all this reality until he retires, and I wish him well, should he be the one selected for the position.
This city WILL burn you OUT, make NO mistake about that.
-- Urban League sets plans and goals.
Well, now...MORE talking, more planning, more of the same, in other words...and that means...(here comes my Music Man reference...wait for it)...Trouble...with a capital *T* and that rhymes with *B* and that stands for...BULL$HIT.
And wouldn't you know one of the FIRST words out of the mouth of Jonathan Ray (Urban League "boss") was the *P* word...oh, that's POVERTY, by the way. Poverty is ALWAYS the cause of crime...kinda like the way FLIES cause GARBAGE (he said sarcastically). Granted that poverty is a CONTRIBUTING FACTOR, but it is NOT the "alpha and omega" of crime, bub. It's just that poor people make better VICTIMS, because of the fear factor. Jeffery Dahmer...came from a well-off family. Ditto for Ted Bundy. Tim McVey...not the poorest kid on his block, either. So don't feed me THAT tripe about poverty.
Someday, someone in the black community will speak up and tell the TRUTH, that being the FACT that their own people are STILL in slavery (and NOT to the white man per se). They have traded the chains of oppression forged in iron for the shackles of the corporate juggernauts, forged in the coin of the realm (and any manner it can be secured). They are SLAVES to the media hype, the merchandisers, the glamor moguls, the corporate gurus who feed them crap and tell them it's porterhouse steak. Oh wait, Bill Cosby pretty much has been DOING that...and has been relatively dismissed by many of his own people, because it's not "entertaining" enough (unlike "fiddy cent"). Imagine that.
--GM stock falls to under $10.
Yes, folks,...it's been over THIRTY YEARS in the making, and now, it has arrived. The fall of the former #2 business in America (next the former #1 - the Catholic church...lol), and not one person could see this coming....WHY?
Seems some CEO at GM should have READ a copy of Gibbons 3 volume set of THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE...they might have LEARNED something...don'cha think?
All I can say is good luck with a possible "chapter 2" situation (google it for all the details).
I hope America like foreign cars made in this nation...that's what we're all going to get driving soon enough. And to think when Toyota FIRST hit the shores here (in the 70s), they were a real POS...and that was when they were NEW...they did get even worse. Live and learn, eh?
-- Twin Oaks Apts. makes the news AGAIN.
I'll wager their PR campaign for tenants isn't going QUITE as planned, at least not with the fire they had there early this morning. If it's not a shooting, it someone attempting to use something as "complex" as a frigging STOVE. Considering the source, it comes as no surprise that someone will be shouting POVERTY again. yeah, poor people are stupid. Sorry, DUMB people are stupid. Poor people are just "financially-challenged", but don't tell all those that get free housing, free food, and a nice shiny new vehicles out front, and still have the ability to smoke dope and buy tons of fireworks while crapping out babies every 9 months, OK? That'll be our little secret.
--Watermelon...the New "Viagra"?
When I first heard this yesterday, I almost pissed myself laughing. I don't really like watermelon (it's a whitey thing with me...too messy as well), and yet I have no trouble with "performance" when called upon, if you get my drift.
But I will confess that this latest chemical revelation speaks VOLUMES as to the explanations of SO MUCH in certain communities. Actually, it kind of explains it ALL...LOL!
Let's do some "ciphering", shall we?
What areas have high crime?
What areas have large black populations?
Do those areas have high teen pregnancy numbers?
Do those areas have rampant drug usage?
What percentage of people in those areas are below poverty level?
Do those areas have more people "shacking up"?
Do these areas sell a greater amount of watermelon?
Hmm....
Hey, people...it's not racism...it's just the FACTS. Do the math yourselves.
It is all about diversity, though. We are cajoled into embracing this diversity for the sake of I don't know what. I have a hard enough time embracing my SANITY when having all these animals living around me to be bothered with diversity. I will grant you that when it DOES come to diversity, there is a DIVERSE number of ways people can be stupid.
That goes without saying.
When people having nothing to do at all, and all day in which to do it says much about how any "system" is helping these people. And yet their own community does little to assist them in becoming more productive members of society. They just look for more handouts and entitlements. That's not help - that's doing things FOR THEM, and not letting them do things FOR THEMSELVES. In many ways, the community holds back it's own people for reasons only they know.
But hey, it's not someone on the OUTSIDE of all this can be objective and point out these flaws...is it?
Oh, wait...I already did.
--Today marks the end of the 3 day conflict between the forces of the North and the South during the Civil War in Gettysburg, PA (1863). Culminating in what has become known as Pickett's Charge, Lee's forces were repelled by Gen. Meade's troops at a place on the battlefield known as The Angle.
Having travelled there many times when living in Philly, and having strode along every inch of the place, I can truthfully say it is a humbling experience. The history surrounds you and penetrates your soul. You cannot help but be caught up in this epic struggle. It was reported we lost MORE American soldiers in those THREE DAYS than we lost during the entire war in Vietnam. That alone is something to think about.
--Finally, some rather poignant news (and after all that, we can use some). A mile of Indiana state road 24 has been dedicated to Master Trooper Detective Dave Rich, who was killed in the line of duty this time last year. A fine tribute for an officer taken way before his time.
I feel compelled to take a drive along that stretch of road...someday soon.