Tuesday Tidbits...

I hope you enjoyed yesterday's respite from the rain, because later today, we're going to be back into it all over again. It does have a tendency to mess up the daily routine, doesn't it?
Seems we can't buy two consecutive days without rain around here.
But we have most of today to work with before we get soggy again.
Our Hoosierland weather for today brings us increasingly cloudy skies, temps topping out around 49 degrees (feels colder for sure), gusty winds, and yes, rain moving in by evening.

So let's all get ourselves some hot beverage to start our day, as we see what's been going on elsewhere...
*** First out of the shower is out "What the hell happens today, Bob?" feature:
NOVEMBER 21 -
---It's National Red Mitten Day

(don't own any, so I really can't care)
---It's National Stuffing Day

(aren't we getting a bit AHEAD of ourselves with this one?)
*** Next, since we are hip-deep in Tuesday, time to look at all the FWPD calls of importance that we were never told about, because the media is busy chasing down all the sexual harassment claims, which are fast becoming the "new racism" in America....don't doubt me on this.

SHOTS FIRED ((113)) - ARMED ROBBERY((53)) CALLS - 11/13 - 11/19
((23,113 - vandalism by gunfire))
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NOV 13 -
17F138735 11/13/2017 07:10pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 7300 RIVERTON DR
17F138749 11/13/2017 07:45pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 1100 FAYETTE DR
17F138774 11/13/2017 08:49pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 1200 FOURTH ST W
((NO armed robberies))
NOV 14 -
17F138917 11/14/2017 09:58am 113 SHOTS FIRED 7900 COMMUNITY LN
17F139122 11/14/2017 06:16pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 3400 CONGRESS AVE
17F139127 11/14/2017 06:30pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 900 LINCOLN AVE
17F139203 11/14/2017 09:59pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 4700 ST JOE CENTER RD & REED RD
17F139204 11/14/2017 10:02pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 900 BUCHANAN ST
17F139207 11/14/2017 10:06pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 5200 STONEHEDGE BLVD
17F138861 11/14/2017 04:26am 53 ARMED ROB 600 BUCHANAN ST & HANNA ST S
17F138964 11/14/2017 12:25pm 53 ARMED ROB 5100 CAMDEN DR
17F139206 11/14/2017 10:04pm 58 SHOOTING         900 BUCHANAN ST
NOV 15 -
17F139258 11/15/2017 02:25am 113 SHOTS FIRED 2100 FOX AVE & POPLAR ST
17F139279 11/15/2017 04:52am 113 SHOTS FIRED 2200 REDWOOD AVE & MCCORMICK AVE
17F139681 11/15/2017 09:28pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 3600 AVONDALE DR
17F139684 11/15/2017 09:31pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 7500 HANNA ST S & HANNA WAY
17F139276 11/15/2017 04:32am 53 ARMED ROB 3100 COLISEUM BLVD W
17F139626 11/15/2017 07:00pm 53 ARMED ROB 800 WASHINGTON BLVD E
17F139241 11/15/2017 12:30am 58 SHOOTING         6200 STATE BLVD E & MAPLECREST RD
NOV 16 -
17F140057 11/16/2017 08:03pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 3900 RUDISILL BLVD E
17F140070 11/16/2017 08:40pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 200 WOODLAND AVE E
17F140044 11/16/2017 07:20pm 53 ARMED ROB 2200 RANDALLIA DR
NOV 17 -
17F140157 11/17/2017 02:45am 113 SHOTS FIRED 1600 SINCLAIR ST
17F140499 11/17/2017 05:56pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 300 MAPLE GROVE AVE W  
17F140549 11/17/2017 08:39pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 1900 BROADWAY & TAYLOR ST  
17F140553 11/17/2017 08:40pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 400 PERRY AVE NEBRASKA
17F140569 11/17/2017 09:22pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 1500 TILLMAN RD E & DECATUR RD
((NO armed robberies))
17F140607 11/17/2017 11:02pm 58 SHOOTING         2200 NEW HAVEN AVE
NOV 18 -
17F140879 11/18/2017 06:05pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 3000 FAIRFIELD AVE
17F140899 11/18/2017 07:18pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 10100 WINDING CREEK LN
17F140934 11/18/2017 09:36pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 9900 NORTHBROOK VALLEY DR
17F140967 11/18/2017 11:04pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 5200 VERMONT LN
17F140989 11/18/2017 11:47pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 500 BEECHWOOD DR
17F140991 11/18/2017 11:53pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 200 MCKINNIE CIR
17F140883 11/18/2017 06:15pm 53 ARMED ROB 1700 APPLE GLEN BLVD
17F140926 11/18/2017 09:09pm 53 ARMED ROB 7000 BLUFFTON RD
NOV 19 -
17F141005 11/19/2017 12:47am 113 SHOTS FIRED 5800 ST JOE RD & ST JOE CENTER RD
17F141022 11/19/2017 02:08am 113 SHOTS FIRED 3300 LILLIE ST
17F141066 11/19/2017 06:15am 113 SHOTS FIRED 3700 SMITH ST
17F141071 11/19/2017 06:55am 113 SHOTS FIRED 2200 NEW HAVEN AVE  
17F141268 11/19/2017 06:42pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 2200 SHADY BROOK DR
17F141279 11/19/2017 07:04pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 6900 KOESTER DR
17F141320 11/19/2017 09:28pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 1000 PONTIAC ST E & SMITH ST
17F141343 11/19/2017 10:41pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 2100 CASS ST
((NO armed robberies))
17F141214 11/19/2017 03:37pm 58 SHOOTING 400 SUTTON AVE
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Also,  160+ traffic accidents (property and personal injury and including "hit-skips"), 4 DUIs, 150+ domestic calls (including battery and w/ a weapon), loads of robberies and burglaries, 5 stabbings (again), 2 rapes, 1 indecent exposure, 40+ suicide threats, 10 violent mental cases, and 11 narcotics calls.
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FIREWORKS CALLS - NOV 13 - NOV 19
17F140541 11/17/2017 07:37pm 44FW 700 BRANNING AVE W & TACOMA AVE
(some asshole musta found some)
*** Next, This story asks the obvious questions. Here's the link:
http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/police-fire/20171121/opioid-substance-sickens-jailers

And that question is: How the hell did this opioid "substance" GET into the damn facility in quantities great enough to affect more than a couple people???
It would seem that someone received some "tainted" paper (infused with this substance...fairly clever), and that
((The sheriff's department is investigating how the opioid substance was brought in, said Capt. Steve Stone, sheriff's department spokesman.
Confinement officers were initially alerted to the jail's D Block about 9:15 a.m. on suspicion that inmates were smoking, he said.)) 

Maybe there should be a "designated TIME and PLACE for smoking"? Or better yet, with this state's push to help people to STOP smoking, just NOT LET THEM DO IT, and instead offer patches or gum...
Problem solved (again) by your's truly...just "cut the check"...lol.
*** Next up, some still think we should plow ahead with the Omnisource land grab...I mean "purchase". Here's the story link:
http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/20171121/city-pressed-to-buy-north-river-property

Yep...Greater Fort Wayne, Inc is tipping it's hand...or so it would appear.
If I didn't know better, I'd think THEY were running this city, and not any politico from City Hall.
Something about these people from GFW just never sat right with me, and I think I'm beginning to see why.

They think the city should go right ahead and buy the damn land, without knowing the cost of cleanup (until after the purchase)...like having a healthcare bill and not knowing the cost to consumers until AFTER the laws are passed...deja vu, anyone?
Sure seems like part of some cabal to me.
((“We've seen success stories at Headwaters Park and at the Bowser Pump facility (now the site of the Renaissance Pointe YMCA),”)) said Ron Turpin, board chairman at Greater Fort Wayne.

Headwaters Park benefits ALL the damn city and has multiple HUGE events nearly all year, whereas the stinking YMCA at "Renaissance Pointe" was an afterthought to shut up the minorities on the SE.
And, if you check the FWPD blotter, we still have more crime around that (new) YMCA than we ever have at or near Headwaters Park,
This Greater Fort Wayne outfit needs to be corralled like the wild horse it wants to become. After all, the CITIZENS should have more control over HOW the city is run than any one entity...
*** Next, another (very good) Kevin Leininger column on the North River site. Here's the link:
http://www.news-sentinel.com/news/local-news/2017/11/21/kevin-leininger-before-fort-wayne-city-council-gambles-on-omnisource-land-it-should-demand-to-see-the-cards/
He asks the questions I would ask, and with good reason. Leininger states:
(("Lack of disclosure only reinforces the perception that one side or perhaps both don’t want the public to know something — something the sellers may not even want to know themselves."))
In other words, don't hand me bullshit and tell me it's lean porterhouse steak...kapeesh?
((Don’t look now, but local taxpayers could soon be asked to help pay for yet another industrial clean up. I’ve been told the developers of the “Electric Works” project plan to seek possibly millions of dollars from the Capital Improvement Board to remove pollution from the former General Electric campus.

Another "Costaplenty" development.

Converting the century-old industrial buildings into housing, shops and other attractions is an undeniably cool concept, but with an estimated project cost of more than $300 million, should local restaurant taxes really be used to bail out GE, which saw its third-quarter revenues increase by 14 percent to $33.47 billion?))
Too many pokers in the fire down at City Hall...or so it would seem.
*** Next up, time to stop by "Kitten Corner"...

The kids were doing very well yesterday. Into their 2nd year with us, must be agreeing with them.
I know Wifey and I showered them with affection, to which they seem to want to be left alone...LOL.

Typical cat behavior...they'll come to you when THEY'RE ready, and not before (unless you have treats for them).
That always works  as a bribe...heh.
*** Next, time to check in with "Midnight and Company"...

Well, both of them were around for the most part, cold as it was initially in the morning, but Midnight was patrolling about the area, and wasn't there ALL day as Whiskers was.

At last call, we do "hand-feeding" aka one soft treat at a time for each of them. And they handle that quite well.
They are even sitting up to get the treat, and I think they might look forward to it as much as I do.
*** Last back to the vanity...I didn't know morality was like a light switch.

Of late, people seem to be turning it on, when before, they had it turned off and shoved under some shrub, ignored and unbothered. So why this sudden surge in a code of ethics with all the sexual harassment claims and allegations?
People figuring out they can get more "media time"? Maybe they're finding out this has gone on for TOO LONG and needs to stop? Good luck cramming that genie back in the bottle.
We loosed his ass back in the 60s with the whole "counter-culture" gig...free love, baby.

But now, everyone wants to call out those supposedly acting less than chivalrous to make them the new pariah in this nation...I guess racism was wearing thin?
I'm sure there ARE deviants of both sexes out there that prey on women (and men) with salacious intent, and don't think twice about it.
When you allow a society to go the way of ancient Rome (and Greece) when it comes to men and women and their sexuality, you open the flood gates for every type of debauchery...until someone decides to get their undies in a bunch and actually SAY something.
Then it's all hands on deck - we found some new and sensational cause to champion.
Thing is, you SHOULD have thought about doing it a long time ago...before all this collateral damage was created.
Some day, they will learn.

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