20 April 2011

Humpday Happenings...
Weather-wise, it's been an interesting 24 hours here in the "Heartland"...lots of wind and some gully-washing rain with temperatures trying their damnedest to get into the 50s. But, April showers bring May flowers, right?
That's the way that saying GOES...we shall see. Probably bring more DANDELIONS than REAL flowers...LOL.
Anyway, let's peek into the vast repository of knowledge and reason and see what surfaces.
*** Item - Today marks the FIRST anniversary of the BP Gulf oil spill.
(has it been THAT long already, Bob?)
Yes, friends, the worst oil spill within the U.S. territories happened one year ago today, with somewhere around 250 MILLION barrels of crude lost in the gulf of Mexico. And why shutoff valves were either not in place, or faulty still remains the question on a lot of peoples' minds.
Still, all that oil is STILL there (somewhere), just not as easily found as before.
And still, the number of NEW drilling sites has not increased to levels that would diminish our need for FOREIGN oil.
And even more still, no NEW refineries are being built nor are current ones being uprated to handle any INCREASE in production...amazing, hmm?
Must be that progressive "agenda" that mandates we ALL drive ELECTRIC cars sooner or later.
Pat Miller (WOWO local talk show host in Fort Wayne) spoke to that yesterday, and he made a LOT of sense.
Suppose that tomorrow, EVERYONE decided to STOP using gas-powered anything...cars, boats, planes, lawn mowers...everything. Just turned it all OFF.
What do you think would happen to ALL that MONEY collected from the TAXES imposed on every GALLON OF GAS?
If you said "dry the hell up", go to the head of the class, folks!
You "get it".
Ditto for CIGARETTES...if everyone that smokes (yours truly included) stopped TOMORROW, what the hell would happen to ALL the TAX MONEY garnered from each and every pack of ciggies?
That's right...the money would "go away", and that would spell disaster for many states that DEPEND on such revenue to pay the bills.
So there is this curious DUPLICITY at work here...the "government" doesn't want fossil-fuel powered vehicles and would prefer if we all drove electric ones, BUT they can't get around NOT having GAS-POWERED ones, because they still NEED the tax dollars...same with smokes.
Talk about painting yourself into a corner. eh?
Damned if you DO, and damned if you DON'T.
Gotta LOVE progress.
*** Item - If you live in a large city...AND you also happen to be a LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, you "might" want to take notice of something I came across on the NBPP (new black panther party) website. It has to do with THIS SATURDAY (23 April), and it's being called A DAY OF ACTION.
Here's the link to the website:
http://www.dayofactionmovement.org/
The video is kind of disturbing and VERY disjointed, but in SIXTY CITIES across America, there is slated to be a "protest" of sorts.
Here's the WIKI on the organization itself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Black_Panther_Party
I'll let you make the call on this one, as I pretty much have formulated MY reasons why this creeps ME out.
I DO think it's "odd" that in Philadelphia, the "protest" will be held IN FRONT of the PPD "Roundhouse" (HQ). That's just ASKING for trouble.
Luckily, here in Fort Wayne, nothing is slated to occur, but you never know around here what could sprout up.
*** Item - The anti-gun folks will love this...
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110420/NEWS03/304209980/0/FRONTPAGE
Personally, I see NO reason to have ANY six-year old bring a LOADED gun to elementary school...in ANY city in America. (In Ghana it's another story - it can save your life if the school hasn't been burned down by a rival tribe, that is)
This happened in Houston, and didn't REALLY have to happen at all, if you get my drift.
I would assess blame with the parents, as THEY should have been the ones that kept the firearms AWAY from such young'uns, unless the parents were taking the kids to the range to punch some paper.
But, I'm so damn old-fashioned when it comes to being RESPONSIBLE!
*** Item - If you've going to be a PIMP, at least be "man" enough to get your lazy ass ON the damn street and tend to your women.
At least that's what THIS guy should have been doing...
(( Published: April 20, 2011 3:00 a.m.
Prostitution arrest after ad - The Journal Gazette
An ad on a free classifieds website led Fort Wayne police to arrest a man accused of running a prostitution operation.
An officer’s check of Backpage.com for ads associated with prostitution prompted an investigation, during which police stopped Antwone K. Davis Sr. on April 2 as he was driving a black Chevrolet Impala, court documents said.
A woman in the car told police she and Davis had been dating for six months and that he had come to her two months ago about "making money" through online prostitution. The woman told police Davis posted the ads, but she also told them she posted the ads, court documents said.
Davis told police his girlfriend would give him the money she received from clients, and they would share it, but later he told police she would keep the money and buy what they needed, court records said.
The woman was charged with prostitution, a misdemeanor. Davis, 36, of Hammond, is charged with promoting prostitution, a felony.
He was being held Tuesday at the Allen County Jail in lieu of $10,750.
))
ONLINE pimping...how freaking LAZY is that?
Now, let's take a look at Antwone's PRIORS, shall we?
DAVIS, ANTWONE K
--2902 178Th Pl Apt 15
Hammond, IN 46323 (1997)
--2721 S Anthony
Ft Wayne IN (1998)
--2302 Marcy Lane
Ft Wayne IN (1999)
--5449 COLUMBIA AVE
Hammond, IN 46320 (2011)
Other Agency Numbers
153368 Fort Wayne Police Department, 55182 Allen County Sheriff's Department
Male Black
5' 5" , 130 lbs
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
02D04-9707-CM-004964
07/18/1997
Allen Superior Court 5 CM - Criminal Misdemeanor
Decided OPERATE WHILE SUSP (MISD)
02D04-9803-CM-001663
03/06/1998
Allen Superior Court 5 CM - Criminal Misdemeanor
Decided OPERATE WHILE SUSP (MISD)
02D04-9910-CM-007624
10/25/1999
Allen Superior Court 6 CM - Criminal Misdemeanor
Decided OPERATE WHILE SUSP (MISD)
OPERATE WHILE SUSP (MISD)
02D05-1104-CM-002160 214439
04/13/2011
Allen Superior Court 5 CM - Criminal Misdemeanor
Decided 35-45-4-4(3)/FC: Promoting Prostitution
9-24-19-2/MA: Driving While Suspended (Prior w/in 10 years)
02D06-1104-MC-000907 214439
04/13/2011
Allen Superior Court 6 MC - Miscellaneous Criminal (Citation)
Decided 35-45-4-4(3)/FC: Promoting Prostitution
9-24-19-2/MA: Driving While Suspended (Prior w/in 10 years)
02D06-1104-FC-000103 Davis, Antwone K, Sr.
04/18/2011
Allen Superior Court 6 FC - Class C Felony
Pending 35-45-4-4(3)/FC: Promoting Prostitution
9-24-19-2/MA: Driving While Suspended (Prior w/in 10 years)
Somehow, I have the feeling that Antwone doesn't LEARN much from his mistakes....just a wild guess here.
Might even qualify for that "special kind of stupid" we hear tell about (and I see almost every day).
Enjoy your "visit" to the Allen County lockup, bub!
*** Item - I usually don't use my blog as a "product-review" forum, but I just have to mention this item I recently got on eBay.
It's one of those infrared quartz radiant-heaters called the Optimus H-5210.
Here are some reviews that made it easy for me to choose this heater:
http://www.consumersearch.com/space-heaters/optimus-h-5210-infrared-quartz-heater?ap=0&clear=search
Wifey and I were looking for something that would amend the heating in our family room (the fireplace has a cracked flue, so we don't use it), and we've been through several fan-forced air heaters...all of them kind of sucked on ice.
Then, I saw this bugger, and did some homework on what others thought about it.
And for about THIRTY BUCKS, it's not a bad deal AT ALL.
There is NO fan, so NO NOISE, and the heat radiates a GOOD 6-8 feet FROM the unit.
It has TWO settings - 400W and 800W, and it uses LESS electricity than ANY of those fan-driven heaters (got the lower bills to PROVE it).
The housing itself DOES remain cool to the touch, while the grating in front DOES get rather warm, but the unit has a "tip-over" switch that kills power immediately. We have it sitting INSIDE the fireplace, and it heats the family room nicely within a 15 foot "sphere of influence".
If you want a heater you can take WITH you around the house to heat ONLY the place you're at, OR to take the chill out of the morning air where you live, THIS is the unit you've been looking for. It's light enough to carry about and does the job quite well for it's size.
*** Lastly today, I have to pass this along from a good friend and fellow blogger.
Did you know that there are COUPONS out there for a GALLON OF GASOLINE?
AND, they're closer at hand than you might think. How cool is THAT?
Now, all you have to do to FIND such a coupon is to look around your house, or open your wallet (or handbag) and pull out one of those slips of paper with the picture of LINCOLN on it...!
Simple, huh? Who knew?
Welcome to Bad Economy Boulevard, people.
Still, as long as WE do OUR part, and that means saving wherever and whenever possible, stocking up on consumables when there's a sale, and watching OUR OWN money trail carefully, WE will do fine.
We might not be sitting in the lap of luxury (God knows that much), but we WILL have the light we need to see us all through the darkest night.
That light will be our faith...our tenacity, and our strength of character and will.
And that, in and of itself, is one pretty damn good "survival kit"...in ANYONE'S book.
Be well, make a difference to someone, and...
Stay safe out there, America.

4 comments:

CWMartin said...

BG:
Yeah, I've said that about the cigarettes for a long time. Hence my take on the whole smoking ban issue: If yer gonna ban the smoking, BAN THE SMOKES. One without the other is hypocritical. Now I'm a non-smoker whose grown up around smokers, so I don't rightly care which one they choose.

A kindergartner with a gun. The worst I brought to knidergarden was, well, remember those plastic cartoon characters full of soap beads to make your bath all sudsy? I had cecil the whale (from Beanie and Cecil), and if you jumped on the side of his head, his plug would shoot about 20 ft across the room. I'd probably get expelled for that nowadays.

Finally, methinks that perhaps Antwone's big mistake was not working with a brighter employee. 'Course, it's not like her boss was a bright shiny one, either.

My word verification is "stica". Is that your neighborhood dialect for "sticker"?

Wrexie said...

Ahhh, good ole heartland weather. The Spring blows you away with wind and crazy weather...then the tulips bloom for Easter...and it snows! I'm likin' the desert :)

...didn't realize it had been a year since the BP spill. What a mess..

Bob G. said...

CWM:
We are definitely from the same "life and times"...just raised a thousand or so miles apart.

A Beany & Cecil WMD?
OMG...hide the kids, this boy has a deadly SOAP BUBBLE BOTTLE!!!

I have 7W nightlight bulbs that are BRIGHTER than Antwone (et al)...LOL!

Yeah, that's the "local dialect"...
Everyone AROUND us speaks ebonics or "flocabulary"...we still prefer NORMAL ENGLISH...

Then again, we just prefer NORMAL.

Hey, thanks for stopping on by today.
Stay safe up there, Buddy!

Bob G. said...

Wrexie:
I could use some coyote howls and a few owls doing the night-feeding gig...
And those gorgeous sunsets...lots better than "new weather by the minute" (here).
((BTW, I wanted to comment on YOUR blog, but it won't allow me...says I'm not a "team member".
Just wanted you to know that.))

But, I DO thank you for taking time to stop by and comment.
Always appreciated.

Stay safe out there.