Yesterday’s visit has thrown me completely off schedule.\u00a0 I just finished off a week’s worth of quotes and photos but I haven’t put together a single post in over a day.\u00a0 Well, a happy get together of friends is always a positive so I’ll have to do my best to catch up as best I can.<\/p>\n
I heard some reports on just how awful parts of New York City had become.\u00a0 One particularly disturbing aspect is the prevalence of mentally disturbed homeless men.\u00a0 This has made certain areas of Manhattan no-go zones for women and the infirm.\u00a0 Another report that was interesting is a trend by gang members to perform daytime reconnaissance of likely robbery targets and then perform a coordinated attack at night on several locations simultaneously thus overloading an already degraded police response.\u00a0 In one of these attacks a victim refused to hand over his expensive watch and was shot for his trouble.\u00a0 The police have stopped reporting a lot of the robbery.\u00a0 It’s too prevalent to note.\u00a0 They’re concentrating on the assaults and killings.<\/p>\n
There was a spirited discussion about the outcome of the anti-police campaign going on in the cities.\u00a0 Someone noted that even though the cities have changed course and are attempting to fill the vacancies in their police departments, candidates are not forthcoming.\u00a0 Apparently it’s just not worth the risk of being prosecuted by an ungrateful city government for doing their jobs.<\/p>\n
I said that regardless of any individual failings of police officers the attacks on law and order were an existential threat to our society.\u00a0 I stated my opinion that the police should walk away from these places all together.\u00a0 I said that complete lawlessness should be fostered in these places for as long as it takes for the people who voted for all this to get all the anarchy they could possibly want and then some.\u00a0 I finished by saying I fervently hope that my home town burns more or less to the ground.\u00a0 That will be the only thing that teaches these people what their philosophy truly stands for.<\/p>\n
Then we stopped for a very satisfying meal of spaghetti puttanesca and assorted cold sandwiches.\u00a0 After that we discussed the relative merits of various Humphrey Bogart movies.\u00a0 Yesterday I was partial to, “To Have and Have Not.”\u00a0 Others disagreed and sided with “The Big Sleep” or “The Maltese Falcon.”\u00a0 So we put on the “Big Sleep” and\u00a0 marveled at just how many pretty girls Bogey had throwing themselves at him.\u00a0 Carmen, Mrs. Rutledge, the librarian, the bookstore girl, the cabbie, the hat check girls.\u00a0 Looking at Bogey it seemed incomprehensible.\u00a0 But life is not always sensible.\u00a0 For instance, how could I explain how I managed to rope Camera Girl in?\u00a0 Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.<\/p>\n
And before the visit broke up we planned some kind of gathering between Thanksgiving and Christmas.\u00a0 After all, family commitments made those occasions just too hard to work around.\u00a0 Whereas between them was a few weeks when everyone else would be reeling from Thanksgiving dinner and unlikely to compete for time.<\/p>\n
So, it’s no excuse for my tardiness writing here but at least it’s put me in a good mood for tackling my various on-line and real world chores.\u00a0 Now to dissect Dementia Joe’s latest debacle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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