Friday Follies...New Year Edition - 2010...
Happy New Year and welcome to a brand new year AND decade.
I trust the journey here wasn't too bumpy.
The day wasn't a total loss...AMC ran a Three Stooges marathon, so I got my yucks in early.
After that...well...read on.
Let me first start off this decade by saying...(hope you're all sitting down and that you have nothing in your mouth which could spray on your keyboards)..I WAS WRONG!
Yepper, starting the new year out by admitting that I...was in ERROR.
Not afraid to say it one damn bit, either.
I stated as far back as YESTERDAY that the (illegal) "celebratory" gunfire in our neighborhood would begin about 2315 hours (45 minutes before midnight)...BOY, was I wrong!!!
The FIRST shots we heard happened around 2145 hours...some blacks just cannot satisfy their lack of manhood SOON enough, can they? It continued until after 0100 hours THIS morning, with the relative "newbie" blacks on our block (three houses down the street) out back, shooting off not one, but TWO different pistols (highest count was TEN rounds at one point).
Suffice it to say, I called it in as a signal *113* (shots fired), and explained to dispatch that the two people were in their backyard.
I didn't see an officer come by their house out front OR back (as Wifey and I were watching like hawks), but very soon after that, the two men briskly walked back indoors (perhaps they have a scanner?).
In retrospect, maybe I should have said to dispatch that the officer should "approach with caution", and that the call going out should be kept "off the air"...maybe NEXT New Year's Eve.
OR...I could just walk down, pump a few rounds into both of them, and get MY public service for the year out of the way early...LMAO!
Nah, I'm too civil for that...or AM I?
It was a less than stellar beginning to 2010, but you come to expect that around here. Some people go partying, coming home well after 2AM, yelling in the street and honking car horns, which seems to be typical among low-class blacks with no future (but a nice ride, clothes and a fat gub'ment check that YOU are paying for). Those that remain in their "crib", are the ones with all the guns and ammo.
So, if I understand THIS particular type of "diversity" correctly, to ring in the new (ghetto) year properly, one must put on their saggiest jeans (with the glitter swirly designs on those pockets), some sort of team sport logo shirt and/or jacket, a recently stolen baseball cap (cocked at a 30 degree angle off the front with the tag still hanging from it...much like Minnie Pearl used to have on HER hat), a pocket full of blunts or crack...or both, a hand grasping some 32 OZ can/bottle of a BUD derivative, and a handgun shoved into whatever passes for a "waistband"...
Sound about right?
Now THIS is exactly the type of person I want to manage the future of MY country...oh, yeah!
Hell, I don't even want this type of person living on my street...but I got 'em anyway, thanks to a VERY flawed societal "system" that rewards stupidity, irresponsibility and bad behavior and provides for them "because they're poor".
Really?
REALLY???
And here I thought no one told FAIRY TALES these days...silly me.
We recently had a situation where a HOMELESS PERSON was packing heat...!?! That's right...the guy was homeless, BUT...he still had a damn gun.
Talk about skewed priorities.
Well, this year might be a little different in my neck o' the woods.
I'm not making any "resolutions" (per se)...but maybe a promise or three.
I DO know that I will solemnly PROMISE to send ANYONE screwing with my property or my family to the morgue..free of charge.
Every year, things around here never seem to get any better, and every year, I take just a little less sh*t that the year before.
And I'm certainly NOT getting any younger thanks to it.
So, let's just say I'm beginning the new year and decade with what I like to call a DECLARATION OF INTENT regarding the "locals" around here.
As to the contents of it...well, they'll just have to see for themselves, should the situation arise...
We finished the year in Fort Wayne with 22 homicides...so I missed it by 3.
Anyone with "22" wins the pool.
Anyone included in that same "22" obviously LOOSES the pool.
I may climb out on a limb again to say that I believe the magic number will be close to *25* for homicides in this city (unless the gangstas get really busy). And as long as they KILL ONE ANOTHER (and in greater numbers), I'm fine with that. But if ONE innocent becomes "collateral damage", then I have to draw yet another line in the sand. Sadly, it will take such crimes to motivate people to action, albeit for too brief a time.
I'm not going to make any real predictions for this year...too many before me have already taken care of that.
What I will say is that I expect to see no change in my part of the city...AGAIN.
Overall, it shouldn't get worse, but it will certainly NOT get any better.
We will have the usual robberies, burglaries, car thefts, rapes, shootings, stabbings, fights, and yes...even homicides that we, who live here have come to expect from our dear, sweet, misunderstood and overly-oppressed African-Americans.
(ahem...)
Well, the white trash and Hispanic population MIGHT help in that regard...you never can tell these days.
I do expect Americans to rise to the challenge of wresting back this nation from the hands of those who would seek to walk on our rights and our Constitution.
I also would have to say that ALL people of good repute will gather together in this struggle.
What I would caution people about is that race relations are reaching a tipping point, and by that I mean that what USED to pass for "lack of cultural understanding" will be called out for what it truly is, namely blatant racism by ethnics against whites.
The time when dismissing black-on-white crime while plastering white-on-black crime across the airwaves and newspapers is over.
And if this cheeses off some blacks...too f$cking bad. Maybe YOU should been busy "cleaning your OWN house" instead of pointing fingers at everyone else's.
People of this nation have been overly tolerant for far too long, and we can see the results of such apathy.
Time to reap what's been sowed.
We will stand as a people again...as AMERICANS against such "Lame-Stream Media" bias.
And that will also apply to politics...enough will be enough.
Now if all this sounds rather harsh, it's only because "It takes bitter to drive bitter". (as Mom used to say)
As I said before, this nation, and it's people are standing AT the crossroads...we can see which ways are before us.
What we have to determine with a modicum of certainty, is WHICH WAY is the BEST way to travel.
Notice I did not say the EASIEST way to travel.
We need to take the BEST road forward...it may not be easy, and the challenges might become daunting, but Americans have always been made of sterner stuff.
And THIS year...2010...may well become the crucible that tests our mettle, as it were.
Have a great first weekend of the new year, don't forget to hang all those calendars, and wherever life happens to find you...
Stay safe out there, America.