Tuesday Tidbits...
If you like "Summer reruns", then TODAY will be something to look forward to, as far as our Hoosierland weather goes.
The temps will reach into the upper 70s today, and with mostly sunny skies, and perhaps a light breeze now and then.
Good gardening weather!
Tell you one thing...it's sure good sleeping weather (as well as one can sleep in the ghettohood).
Be a real nice day...until someone comes along and louses it the hell up...LOL.
Now, having dispensed with THAT, let's get the rest of the day sorted out by seeing what's been going on.
*** First up, and update to the Belvedere Lounge shooting (early Sunday AM) that left one woman in serious condition.
Here's the story link:
http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/local/former-fort-wayne-allen-county-naacp-presidents-daughter-was-shot-at-night-club?ref=scroller&categoryId=20000&status=true
Seems that the person shot was the daughter of the former head of the Allen County - Fort Wayne "NAALCP".
( for explanation of THAT particular acronym see THIS link:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2010/07/26/the_naalcp_explained
The video in the WANE story states that Paulette Nellems was told (by people) that it was the FWPD that shot her daughter (accidently while trying to disperse the crowd outside). As can be expected, the FWPD is denying THAT ever happened.
Nellems believes that police weren't trying to shoot anyone, but instead used a gun to scare the large crowd in the parking lot into leaving.
-- Naturally, such "tactics" are never employed and with good reasons - the most OBVIOUS ones stated below..
1) Using a firearm to "scare" people can often have unintended consequences...whatever goes UP comes DOWN, right? The Hollywood version of shooting into the air never seems to take that into account.
2) If ANY ordnance is expended for any reason by a LEO, you unleash the "dogs", in this case Internal Affairs (aka the "headhunters") who meticulously investigate the officer's actions and are tasked with finding some fault somewhere.
All rounds have to be accounted for.
3) For crowd dispersal, a "less-than-lethal" approach is always warranted...FIRST, and that can include batons, tasers, tear gas, and so on.
Many times, whooping the siren and using the PA speaker is sufficient to move people along.
For once I agree w/ Chief York and his take on the situation as reported.
He states that whenever there would be a police-action-shooting, a host of personnel would be called to the scene, such as the aforementioned IA, duty chiefs (shift supers), homicide on-call units, and prosecutor's office...to name a few.
And he's right.
Here we have a case of someone in the minority community "jumping the gun" (no pun intended) and (however indirectly) BLAMING the police, when there is NO evidence to support such an allegation.
Around many cities in America, we have this similar "black and blue" issue, and in a minute number of instances, the police might be in the wrong, but in the overwhelming majority of cases, the police act in a proper manner, following the protocols laid out.
Regular folks don't understand that, and some don't WANT to understand that.
Then again, when certain double-standards are already in place for minorities, and the police cannot effectively address the issues of CRIME without fear of hearing the word "profiling" at the drop of every baseball cap in the ghettohood, it's little wonder that advantages might be taken by that community and see a wrong where none is indicated. It's just the victicratic mentality at work here.
The police are NOT the "enemy".
Your own community IS...period.
Moving on...
*** When you think MEDIOCRITY, what comes to mind?
Yeah, I know...POLITICIANS...LOL.
What else?
Educational standards is perhaps on the list...or the way people "settle" for one thing when they can have, do, or become BETTER...is another.
Ever think about our MILITARY being mediocre?
How about the U.S. MARINES?
Ever spot a leatherneck in a bar  and walk up to him (or her) and say how damn MEDIOCRE they and the Corp are?
(not if you want to see your next birthday, you don't)
So, imagine my surprise when I come across this commentary BY an anonymous marine in the OP-ED section of the paper.
Here's the link to the editorial:
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20130730/EDIT05/307309991/1021/EDIT
I would never expect the marines to settle for anything less than the best, considering they are not a SPEC OP unit like the SEALS, RANGERS or AFSOC. They have always pursued and expected nothing short of the best from their recruits, officers and top brass.
Guess things have changed a bit over the last decade or two.
There is an old believe that if you can somehow compromise a nation's military, you have dealt it a severe blow.
And there are ways to do this, rather than by attrition on a battlefield.
We've seen it in the 'Nam...it was the politicians that called the shots, and snatched a truce from the jaws of victory over there.
That's ONE way to do it...let's the "suits" run a conflict.
Another way is to "dumb down" the standards and requirements that held that military in such high esteem.
Kinda sounds like our educational system, doesn't it?
How about the fact that slightly more than 1% of ALL our military is comprised of KNOWN gang members?
Those things are enough to shake any military organization the hell up.
Add a bunch of "empty uniforms" at the higher and mid-level command hierarchy, and it's little wonder the grunts are wondering...
"Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot???"
The commentary is a solid read, and points out the flaws that have crept into one facet of our military.
This marine sees things a lot like I do...we CAN do better, and as he states: "The nation NEEDS us to do better."
'Nuff said there.
*** Lastly today, we see that societal decline affects many things, and certainly VERY many people.
When you "stack the deck" in order to falsely promote a sense of "equality" of OUTCOME, rather than embrace the equality of OPPORTUNITY, you not only hurt those directly affected by such judgments, but you hurt this nation as a WHOLE...you subvert the human "infrastructure" of a country that has demonstrated time and again, the ability to rise above damn near any and all problems facing it.
A nation, or state, or city survives, and thrives based on it's PEOPLE. They are the ones working their tails off, implementing new ideas, and keeping the industries and businesses humming along.
But when you start GIVING money and "things" to people not WILLING to pull their OWN weight, and thereby adding to everyone else's weight in the process, you create an underclass of people with too much time to kill, and too concern for how they go about it.
Take civility and morality out of the picture as well, and you accelerate the process of decline.
Make life cheap, and somewhat "disposable", and a portion of the population will lap it up like spilled milk in front of a cat.
We need to stop this decline, reverse it, and get this nation off it's ass and back on it's feet...where it belongs.
Education...PROPER education in these matters will take time, but will also provide honest rewards to all people, once they realize that the gravy-train no longer stops at their front door once a month.
We ALL have similar opportunities in life, and we should never be granted the same outcome because we think it's our God-given right...that's folly.
Those who seize the opportunity can and will succeed, and we have to instill that in those that do nothing contributory to our country
We CAN do it...we have to for future's sake.

Be well, make a difference to someone, and...
Stay SAFE out there, America.