“If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example.”


~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Happy Socialist Workerz day.

Also known as Labour day, Labor day, etc in much of the world.

Be Socialist today….or something.

I met a dude (a customer) I’m gonna call slinky….

He ain’t good for much, but I thought if I could push him down the stairs  he’d amuse me for a while…..

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=733248687839&set=a.515955175779.2019041.124800238&type=1

Not so much these

As the people of Baltimore take to the streets to fight back against decades of systemic racism and police brutality, crunchy granola grocery store Whole Foods is on the scene with some much needed rations. Only instead of giving them to the non-violent protestors, volunteer clean-up crews or kids who went hungry because school was canceled today, they’re giving them to the fucking cops.


Lessee here:


Non violent protestors: Yep, saw that happen while the cops stood by and let the protestors non-violently loot and burn….and non-violently threaten the people leaving the baseball game.


Volunteer clean up crews: That would be the people who finished cleaning the shelves in the looted stores? 


“Kinds who went hungry because school was cancelled: Yep, that’s the reason for school, to feed yer kids. Can’t make ’em a sandwich at home or anything…..School feeds ’em breakfast and lunch. Gotcha.


There is so much wrong with this article and the attitudes of the people who wrote it that I don’t think that there is ever hope for an understanding between me and them. 

I understand that it is said black kids get it harder than us white folk when it comes to the law……maybe it is even true.

But to complain that “There is something wrong when a third of all black men face the prospect of prison during their lifetimes,” and that it MUST be RACISM, is bullshit.  All men face the prospect of prison. Some of us choose not to do things that will put us there….

Maybe a few white kids get a break that blacks don’t. But here is a thing: Don’t get caught stealing from a store, or  stealing a car, or carrying sale weight of drugs….or selling crack on a street corner. Try finding a real job. There are a LOT of  ‘ help wanted ” signs, even in the inner cities. Thing is, you gotta be disciplined enough to actually show up when you are supposed to and behave properly when you are at work…. do what you are told and shut up while doing it. And that can be difficult if your society, culture, and family never taught you how to do those things. And if you can’t learn to do those things, and behave a certain way, then you are, in effect, unemployable…. And it helps if your parents (if the school doesn’t) will bother to teach you to read and write and add and subtract and such….If you lack the discipline or the basic knowledge, then you are unemployable…. Leaving you on that street corner selling dime bags of crack in order to eat.

And, if you do that long enough, then you are gonna get arrested and charged and DO TIME….which makes you have a much harder time finding a decent job.

For all the decent, hard working people of whatever race who live in Baltimore whose lives are being disrupted by the rioters.

And especially those who have the same color of skin as those who are shown rioting in the streets, looting, and pillaging and destroying.

Every decent hard working black man and woman is watching 50 years of progress disappear in a few hours. Their chances to be seen as good, decent people is burning before their very eyes….and they can’t do anything to stop it.

THIS. If there was more of this, there’d be less crime, less turmoil, and less incidents that lead up the these riots.

This is just a sample of what I’d have gotten had I been seen at a riot when I was younger.

Then my Dad (I had a dad, so there is that) would have come home. Then life would have started to suck. And I knew that, so I didn’t….

Kudos to the Mom

Where is Barry while folks who look like the sons he doesn’t have are tearing up communities and vandalizing businesses and properties?

Why is he silent?

I think he approves.

Can those people whose property was damaged/stolen/burned/looted/etc look to the city (or the police) for damages, seeing as how the Mayor chose to deliberately fail in the protection of said property?

I mean, they deliberately gave the rioters a bit of space to let them blow off steam. And since the police were ordered to stand fast, if property was damaged after that order was given, is not the Mayor (and therefore the City) liable?

If it were my property that was damaged, I’d be calling an attorney.