Monday Musings...
A rainy day in Hoosierland, but nothing close to what the east coast was walloped with the past week. Thank God for small favors, hmm? And, as the song goes "Rainy days and Mondays always get me down".
Not really... I could find a lot more and better things to get depressed over than a rainy Monday.
I actually view a day like this as a respite from all the incessant thumping from the damn boomcars we have in my part of Fort Wayne. Seems when the weather becomes inclement, the loud-ass audio-terrorists run and hide, except for a few die hards that should be dragged out into the street and shot.
But, hey...it's not like the city "leaders" CARE about this part of town...they're way too busy chasing their latest windmill to bother with such "petty" things as crime down here.
Still, those few of us down here (among the madding crowd) do what we do to keep from going postal.
And on such a happy note, let's see what's been going on...
** I did watch some very good TV this past weekend, starting with Friday's Glenn Beck Show on FOX.
His audience consisted entirely of black conservatives...and was one of the BEST hours of debate and commentary I have ever seen. And it was SO refreshing to hear black people, REAL people state the facts...and the TRUTH, and not claim to being a race-card carrying victicrat.
THESE are the people I remember growing up with...NOT the gravy-train riding flotsam that inhabits the rentals around here.
Then I watched the remake of the 1966 show THE PRISONER (Sunday) on AMC. It had similarities, but I feel this is a show that was best when sticking to the original nuances. This is a show that will get you thinking...about a LOT of things. I will say the root basics of the original show were kept intact (mercifully).
Then, after that, I flipped over to the Military Channel, where they had a fantastic show called: NO DOG LEFT BEHIND
...It's all about several pooches our troops in the Middle East befriended and then managed to bring stateside through a ASPCA Int'l program designed to help both the dogs AND the troopers. It was touching to say the least, and is a must-see when it airs again (check online for listings).
Here's a link to the backstory of the program: http://www.peoplepets.com/news/pets-in-the-news/tv-s-no-dogs-left-behind-follows-rescued-war-dogs-on-journey-to-u-s/1
It was real hard to keep a dry eye for the whole hour, trust me.
Also happening a bit closer to "home":
** ((Lafayette St. tobacco store robbed - Journal Gazette - 15 Nov 2009
Fort Wayne police investigated a robbery at Low Bob’s Discount Tobacco on Saturday.
The robbery was reported just after 1 p.m. at the tobacco store at 4601 Lafayette St.
Two men entered the business, one of whom brandished a handgun and demanded money, police said.
The robbers left with an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes, according to police.
They fled in a red four-door car, heading east on East Sherwood Terrace, witnesses told police.
Compete descriptions of the robbers were not available.))
This is a really small store, and I find it interesting that descriptions are NOT "available". I mean the customer area is as small as in the inside of a large elevator, so you can't help but notice people...and things.
This is one of our frequented places to grab decently-priced smokes, and is usually targeted at least TWICE a year. I guess sooner or later, the owner will just close up and leave the area. I hope not.
But wait...there's more...
** ((Video store robbed of bank deposit - Journal Gazette - 16 Nov 2009
Fort Wayne police investigated an armed robbery at a south-side video rental store Sunday morning.
The robbery was reported just after 9:30 a.m. Sunday at Blockbuster Video at 100 E. Pettit Ave., said officer Liza Thomas, a police spokeswoman. A store employee was leaving to make a bank deposit when a man sitting on a bench outside the store approached the employee with a handgun, she said.
The man demanded money and fled west on Lennox Avenue on a bicycle with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The robber was described as a young man in his late teens to early 20s, black, about 5-foot-8 and wearing an orange hooded sweatshirt.))
Again, this is located at Southgate Plaza (walking disance from our house), and is the store at the far end of the location, alongside Big Lots.
I suppose if these two recently robbed businesses decide to go elsewhere, someone's going to be bitching about how "they" have NO STORES down here.
You all HAD a really nice MALL...and a LOT more stores overall, but you allowed the criminal element to get a foothold and prosper. You allowed the black community to sit on it's thumbs (as it still seems to do) when it comes to dealing with the amount of criminal activity displayed by it's OWN people, instead of beating the streets with some positive changes that should have been enacted several decades ago.
You've GIVEN food, shelter, and sundry other amenities to those who have NO desire to EARN them, and then patted yourselves on the back at your "empathy" that you've handed out...all at the working people's expense.
Nice job, morons.
You've provided at least ONE generation with a sense of entitlement that surpasses logic and ethics, and you loved every minute of "helping the needy", when in fact, the only thing these people really NEED is a good, swift kick in their asses to motivate them into becoming USEFUL citizens, and not the financial leeches you're fostered over time.
Sound about right?
** But have no fear...Obama is in CHINA..sucking up to the commies in order to keep them from "calling in their marker" for ALL the money owed to THEM...by US.
Face it, we are in hock past our eye teeth to this nation...they make damn near everything on the planet as it is. We're just indebeted to them a HELLUVA lot more than any other nation.
Nice to know we're still at the top of SOME lists, isn't it?
Trouble is, these are the lists we should not even BE ON.
To live in a nation that was once THE nation that has lent money to others, and is now walking a line that sees other countries that are all but bankrupt scares the hell out of me.
We're SO in debt...and yet this administration feels the ONLY way to see ourselves clear of such problems is to SPEND MORE MONEY (that we really don't have either).
Everyday citizens do without to save, and will make sacrifices as well wherever they need to. WHY the hell can't our government take a page from OUR textbook, and get with this program?
I suppose if I had the answers to all these questions, I'd be one of the richest people on earth.
Yeah...it's rainy, it's Monday...the nation's financial future is up in the air, Rosetta Stone's Chinese version DVDs are selling like hotcakes, and our house is surrounded by Aborigines on the dole (or selling drugs)...what's there to be depressed about, eh?
It could always be worse...I just have difficulty imagining HOW...lol!
Stay safe out there, America.