When I first found out that the Republicans might have to postpone the start of their convention because of the approach of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Isaac, I knew it would only be a matter of time before some moron on the Left made a joke about God doing this to the Republicans as some sort of sign.
I have to ask, do either of these leftist cult members even believe in God in the first place? Yet there they are using God as some sort of bludgeon to insult their political rivals. If the roles were reversed, I could easily see those on the left having a hissy fit and deriding the offending commentators as religious wackos. But do I really need to go into that ol' double standard?
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"In the darkness of a July morning in the bedroom of her south Sacramento apartment, Beverly Gibson woke to an explosion of gunfire...It was just after 3 a.m. on July 18, and sheriff's squad cars and ambulances once again were screaming toward Loucreta Drive in the heart of Sacramento County's Florin neighborhood."
I just looked it up: July 18, 2012 was a Wednesday. What are people doing out at 3am on a workday?
"'But the neighborhood has gone way down," Bisher said. "It's sad. It's a scary place now.' Many of the street's current residents agree. But poverty, bad credit and poor choices in their past give them few other options for housing, they said."
A search of voter registration and court records shows that at least 28 people who have lived on Loucreta in recent years have been arrested in connection with felony crimes, mostly drug offenses.
All of those things, plus a high unemployment rate and cuts in police and social services, have made life on Loucreta dangerously unpredictable.
Well, committing a felony tends to put a crimp on your employment opportunities. And notice the dig on local government: They just can't live without those social services!
"'Most of the people out here don't work, so it's their job to hang out,' said [Sheriff's Deputy] Johnson, who has patrolled the area for more than a decade. 'Bad things can happen when you have so many people just hanging out on the street with nothing to do.'"
It is a common theme on Loucreta Drive during the final days of each month, when government checks are stretched past their limit.
Ahh! Now it starts to come into focus. Perhaps these generations of poor have their aspirations for school and work strangled by those government checks that are stretched past their limit. But they must buy only the bare essentials with those government checks, right?
Looks like those government checks are getting spent on silver hoop earrings, TVs, PlayStations, email (on a cell or smart phone, I presume), and diapers and food for babies birthed by 17 year-old single mothers. It's all about choices folks.
There are many more quotes from this article I could paste, but I am assuming you are getting the picture. This is all such simple economics. These people are dysfunctional and are making all kinds of horrible life choices because they can afford it. Courtesy of us, Joe and Jane Taxpayer, these people are able to live their horrific lifestyle because, through the government confiscating money from the productive and functional people of society, we make it possible for these people to continue living that way. As long as those government checks keep coming, what is going to convince them to change their ways? Cut that off, and perhaps the prospect of starvation will properly focus the mind and make so much of that laziness and "hanging out" melt away as they get their able-bodied butts to work like the rest of us!
As I read the article, I always got the feeling that the author was trying to paint a picture of hopeless despair that was supposed to make me feel sorry for these poor, put-upon people. Instead, it made me that much more angry, knowing that they are living these dysfunctional lives at my (and my family's) expense.
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8. Serena Williams gettin' her ghetto on. A little victory dance after winning the gold medal on the Wimbledon court is fine, Serena. But when your dance is the Crip Walk, which was popularized by cold-blooded gang-banging killers in South Central Los Angeles, you end up looking as trashy and offensive as they are. Way to be an "Ugly American" on the world stage.
9. The Jamaican victory in the Men's 4x100m Relay. What was there not to like in this final? You had the two fastest men in the world on the Jamaican team. You had a former 100m Olympic Champion (Justin Gatlin) on the American team. We all knew it was going to be a race for the ages, but my goodness what a spectacle! The Jamaican and American teams were essentially even all the way around the track up to the point when their anchor legs took the batons. Then Usain Bolt began his run into history, leaving American Ryan Bailey in the dust, and anchoring the first relay team to ever break 37 seconds (36.85). The Americans equaled the old world record (37.04) that the Jamaicans had just broken! The best part is that for the first time that I have ever seen, Usain Bolt didn't act like a jackass as he approached the finish line and ran all the way through the tape. Makes one wonder if that 36.85 will ever be broken?
Oscar Pistorius's magic legs. I am still unsure whether or not I agree with the decision to allow the South African 400m runner to compete with carbon fiber prostheses attached to his amputated legs, but I must admit that it was quite inspiring to watch him run down that track!
The female Chinese swimmer who swam the last 100m freestyle leg in her Medley race just as fast as Ryan Lochte did when he won the men's race in that same event. I have more to say on the Chinese and their freakish athletic performances in another post. The Eastern Bloc countries may be no more, but now we have China to pick up the mantle of improved athletic performance through state-sponsored chemistry.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson
When I first found out that the Republicans might have to postpone the start of their convention because of the approach of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Isaac, I knew it would only be a matter of time before some moron on the Left made a joke about God doing this to the Republicans as some sort of sign.
I have to ask, do either of these leftist cult members even believe in God in the first place? Yet there they are using God as some sort of bludgeon to insult their political rivals. If the roles were reversed, I could easily see those on the left having a hissy fit and deriding the offending commentators as religious wackos. But do I really need to go into that ol' double standard?
Posted by W.R. Chandler at 5:25 AM 4 decisions to opine Links to this post
Posted by W.R. Chandler at 5:07 AM 2 decisions to opine Links to this post
"In the darkness of a July morning in the bedroom of her south Sacramento apartment, Beverly Gibson woke to an explosion of gunfire...It was just after 3 a.m. on July 18, and sheriff's squad cars and ambulances once again were screaming toward Loucreta Drive in the heart of Sacramento County's Florin neighborhood."
I just looked it up: July 18, 2012 was a Wednesday. What are people doing out at 3am on a workday?
"'But the neighborhood has gone way down," Bisher said. "It's sad. It's a scary place now.' Many of the street's current residents agree. But poverty, bad credit and poor choices in their past give them few other options for housing, they said."
A search of voter registration and court records shows that at least 28 people who have lived on Loucreta in recent years have been arrested in connection with felony crimes, mostly drug offenses.
All of those things, plus a high unemployment rate and cuts in police and social services, have made life on Loucreta dangerously unpredictable.
Well, committing a felony tends to put a crimp on your employment opportunities. And notice the dig on local government: They just can't live without those social services!
"'Most of the people out here don't work, so it's their job to hang out,' said [Sheriff's Deputy] Johnson, who has patrolled the area for more than a decade. 'Bad things can happen when you have so many people just hanging out on the street with nothing to do.'"
It is a common theme on Loucreta Drive during the final days of each month, when government checks are stretched past their limit.
Ahh! Now it starts to come into focus. Perhaps these generations of poor have their aspirations for school and work strangled by those government checks that are stretched past their limit. But they must buy only the bare essentials with those government checks, right?
Looks like those government checks are getting spent on silver hoop earrings, TVs, PlayStations, email (on a cell or smart phone, I presume), and diapers and food for babies birthed by 17 year-old single mothers. It's all about choices folks.
There are many more quotes from this article I could paste, but I am assuming you are getting the picture. This is all such simple economics. These people are dysfunctional and are making all kinds of horrible life choices because 
they can afford it. Courtesy of us, Joe and Jane Taxpayer, these people are able to live their horrific lifestyle because, through the government confiscating money from the productive and functional people of society, we make it possible for these people to continue living that way. As long as those government checks keep coming, what is going to convince them to change their ways? Cut that off, and perhaps the prospect of starvation will properly focus the mind and make so much of that laziness and "hanging out" melt away as they get their able-bodied butts to work like the rest of us!
As I read the article, I always got the feeling that the author was trying to paint a picture of hopeless despair that was supposed to make me feel sorry for these poor, put-upon people. Instead, it made me that much more angry, knowing that they are living these dysfunctional lives at my (and my family's) expense.
Posted by W.R. Chandler at 12:06 AM 4 decisions to opine Links to this post
Posted by W.R. Chandler at 3:41 PM 5 decisions to opine Links to this post
8. Serena Williams gettin' her ghetto on. A little victory dance after winning the gold medal on the Wimbledon court is fine, Serena. But when your dance is the Crip Walk, which was popularized by cold-blooded gang-banging killers in South Central Los Angeles, you end up looking as trashy and offensive as they are. Way to be an "Ugly American" on the world stage.
9. The Jamaican victory in the Men's 4x100m Relay. What was there not to like in this final? You had the two fastest men in the world on the Jamaican team. You had a former 100m Olympic Champion (Justin Gatlin) on the American team. We all knew it was going to be a race for the ages, but my goodness what a spectacle! The Jamaican and American teams were essentially even all the way around the track up to the point when their anchor legs took the batons. Then Usain Bolt began his run into history, leaving American Ryan Bailey in the dust, and anchoring the first relay team to ever break 37 seconds (36.85). The Americans equaled the old world record (37.04) that the Jamaicans had just broken! The best part is that for the first time that I have ever seen, Usain Bolt didn't act like a jackass as he approached the finish line and ran all the way through the tape. Makes one wonder if that 36.85 will ever be broken?
Oscar Pistorius's magic legs. I am still unsure whether or not I agree with the decision to allow the South African 400m runner to compete with carbon fiber prostheses attached to his amputated legs, but I must admit that it was quite inspiring to watch him run down that track!
The female Chinese swimmer who swam the last 100m freestyle leg in her Medley race just as fast as Ryan Lochte did when he won the men's race in that same event. I have more to say on the Chinese and their freakish athletic performances in another post. The Eastern Bloc countries may be no more, but now we have China to pick up the mantle of improved athletic performance through state-sponsored chemistry.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson