Friday Follies...
End of another week...finally.
Most of us can enjoy some well-deserved time off.
Some of us will be pressed into service in our communities and around the world.
Keep those people in your thoughts, for they ARE there to protect and/or to serve, be they our military, law-enforcement, firefighters, doctors, nurses, air-traffic controllers, pilots, ship captains, or even the grocery store and restaurant personnel.
They are ALL there to make our lives better, and we should always be aware of that.
With that said, let's enter this weekend on an upswing...
Today is CONSTITUTION DAY!
(one of those sneaky days that doesn't show up on our calendars, unlike BOXER DAY in Canada...!?!)
Take a romp through the Internet and get reacquainted with the founding document that laid the groundwork for this nation.
Here's a link:
http://www.usconstitution.net/const/html
You'll be glad you did.
And take note of that PREAMBLE.
Moving along...
*** I was watching Glenn Beck last evening, and found it to be a fascinating program.
He demonstrated by using PIES that current expenditures of America just cannot add up.
He wore a baking apron that read "I'm a BAKER...NOT a DIVIDER".
And that gave me pause to think.
We are fast becoming a nation not of BAKERS of pies, but of recipients of other people's pies, thanks to overblown government programs designed solely to keep the populace "pie-fed", when what is REALLY required is to LEARN how to bake a damn pie ourselves.
Amazing stuff. Kind of like the parable of the fishes (GIVING a man a fish versus TEACHING a man to fish).
Face it, someone has to make pies in order to feed the masses, lest everyone go hungry.
But, if more people make their OWN pies, then they become more self-sufficient (a much better thing).
And whatever pies are being made by "someone" (the government), take note that the pies can ONLY be sliced so thin, before whatever slice is coming your way isn't going to fill a cavity, let alone your stomach, or the stomachs of millions of people.
Fantastic analogy...I loved it.
And that brings me to the next point today...
*** Poverty in AMERICA is now at a FIFTY-YEAR high...!
Here's the link to the story:
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20100917/NEWS03/309179974
Now, I've spoken (here) about poverty almost since the beginning of this blog, and I've seen the REALITIES as well as the FANTASIES regarding what passes for poverty these days.
I've said what poverty IS, as well as what it IS NOT.
And if anyone ever doubts the veracity of what I've stated, they must come on down to my part of the ghettohood, and see for themselves how this poverty "system" is gamed, and how much fraud is perpetrated against the taxpaying public.
You will come away with an entirely new perspective on what REAL poverty is...or should be.
What you will find is that people are perverting programs designed to help those on purely a SHORT-TERM basis.
Think of it as a STOP-GAP measure between jobs, or when a family crisis hits.
The welfare system, as well as every other public ASSISTANCE program ever designed was NEVER meant to be a LONG-TERM venue, and certainly NEVER meant to be a multi-generational entitlement for the lazy-asses of this nation.
These programs were meant to ASSIST people...think of it as a FINANCIAL TRIAGE...but NOT to provide cradle-to-grave lifestyles that only serve to enslave people to the government, instead of helping these people stand on THEIR OWN TWO FEET.
Not enough pies to go around, and definitely not enough bakers. Therein lies the real problem.
Our federal government has seen fit for the last several decades to "promote the general welfare" (part of the PREAMBLE to our Constitution) by creating an entitlement-driven portion of our population, in order to foster specified agendas.
Now suppose we create a "fictional" scenario...
The government decides that in order to limit expenditures and balance the budget at a much LOWER number, they choose to DECREASE the welfare programs. Can you imagine the results?
Now, this same government WILL be providing ALTERNATIVES such as education and job skills needed so these people WILL be able to WORK for a living, instead of sitting on the couch, eating Crunch N Munch and drinking orange soda all damn day (when they're not driving about in some god-awfully loud boomcar).
The government would be creating people WHO CAN BAKE PIES, instead of giving out pies they don't really have available any longer.
Why, the RIOTS that result would turn this nation against itself in a form of anarchistic behavior unheard of in times past.
Wholesale looting, burning of property, and outright murder would be the order of the day. And it wouldn't be the working class regular people doing it, but the generationally-expectant and dependent welfare baby-mamas...
That would be the ONLY work they would have performed in YEARS, actually.
These former welfare "recipients" would be happily taking from anyone else who had something THEY wanted...at whatever price it took to get it.
Now, I don't know about you, but having anything close to that happen is too damn scary to ponder.
But what else would be the result?
Would these people just acquiesce to the "higher powers" and line up to learn "how to bake pies", or would they just toss a sh*t-fit and fracture this nation like a Faberge egg that's been tossed out the observation deck of the Empire State Building?
They've been getting this free ride for SO long now, they'd be going through "welfare-withdrawal" like some addict that's gone cold turkey overnight...you can BET on it. Their first reaction would be to destroy anything and everything...like some spoiled child that doesn't get their own way.
Hell, you can see that already...that's why we have the crimes we do, and in such abundance.
Gonna be a LONG road to hoe here, I can tell you.
Let's pray that cooler heads prevail, and that common sense becomes the order of the day.
*** This story was interesting, simply because it's less than TWO blocks away...
(( Man charged with molesting 3 girls - The Journal Gazette
A Fort Wayne man was formally charged Wednesday with repeatedly molesting three girls over a span of four years.
Anthony Bellanti, 29, of the 4600 block of Monroe Street, faces nine counts of child molesting and two counts of child solicitation. He was being held in lieu of $170,000 bail.
According to court records, Bellanti sexually abused three girls, all younger than 14, between February 2006 and July 2010. Police learned of the abuse after a domestic disturbance July 14.
Bellanti and a woman got into an argument after the woman learned Bellanti had abused her three children.
One of the girls told her mother Bellanti abused her, court records said. ))
Wow...only took FOUR YEARS to bring this piece of crap to some modicum of JUSTICE...amazing!
And NO, he DOES NOT show up on any sex offender registry in Fort Wayne.
Love how these people manage to fly UNDER the radar.
But if that's enough to peak your interest, how about this?
*** The government "stimulus" plan sent $800,000 to AFRICA for a Kenyan genital washing program!
(I don't know whether to laugh my ass off or cry - I don't make this stuff up)
Here's the link:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/75198
Well, this certainly explains a LOT in our inner cities when it comes to embracing a culture from the "motherland", as well as the spread of HIV and STDs, doesn't it? Who could have known?
Hey, you guys...wash it off after sex...c'mon now. Be a REAL man! (that doesn't go blind from syphilis...or worse)
Yeah, I know those rivers in Kenya are pretty damn nasty from a bacterial standpoint, but maybe ABSTINENCE would make the heart grow fonder.
*** Lastly today, this weekend marks the return of our very own Johnny Appleseed Festival in Fort Wayne.
Sure gonna have plenty of APPLES to make LOTS OF PIES there...(hint, hint).
I know my Mom used to make a fantastic Pennsylvania Dutch Apple Cake, and I wasn't one for eating apples.
But that cake was to die for!
Then again, mom was a BAKER..and NOT a "divider".
And she was a seamstress, housewife, cook, laundress...you name it.
She hated to rely on the government for anything, but came to depend on her SSI check every month.
She was getting up in years, and could no longer work.
Now, while that ONE festival is going on, we also HAVE to have this "other festival", because too many white folks will be at the Johnny Appleseed gig.
This OTHER gathering is called A BREATH OF AFRIKA...
(ahem)
Here's the link to the story:
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20100917/ENT/309179987
Here's the website link:
http://breathofafrikafestival.com/
And yes, you ARE reading it CORRECTLY...that is NOT a TYPO...they spell AFRICA with a frigging *K*...go figure.
(must be a "Socialist" thang)
Still, that's better than spelling AMERICA with a damn *K*, right?
Even though there are those people out there that would LOVE to see AMERIKA fundamentally "change".
I just hope this festival doesn't have a genital-washing demonstration (ack...!) that would be going a BIT far, don'cha think?
I mean, we DO have our fair share of SEX offenders in the same area, right?
I'm just sayin'...
Actually, I get MY "breath of Africa" (with a *C*) every damn day...not that I WANT to, mind you.
We pretty much have not ONLY a BREATH of Africa...but the NOISE of Africa, the LITTER of Africa, the CRIME of Africa, and even the APATHY of Africa...pretty damn amazing, isn't it?
Wonder if DANNON or ACTIVIA knows about ALL this "culture" we're sitting on down here (rolls eyes)...?
No brag...just FACT.

*** Before I forget, tonight at sundown marks the beginning of Yom Kippur (day of atonement) and is the holiest day in the Hebrew calendar.
During this holy time, may you give charity to many and ask forgiveness from few.
So whatever faith YOU practice, let's hope the next 72 (or so) hours finds all of you in very good spirits.
Have yourselves a fantastic weekend.
Be well, make a difference to someone, and...as always...
Stay safe out there, America.