Blue and the Gray

FW is holding petitions to vote for and against the FWCS plan. Namely, should taxpayers put in one half billion dollars to fix schools. Many people say, 'skip all that, I'm paying too much now'. Who could argue with that. The yellow=yes, blue=no lobbyists hope to sway people.

The subject, pay higher taxes for FWCS

con: higher taxes and the newest annexed area gets hit hardest with hikes of up to 40 plus percent by some analysts. So then the money doesn't go to that district's school system, but rather the city's wickedly poorly maintained system; "Ragtag fugitive"+, crumbly bumbly buildings and reverse-Jenga top-heavy administration FWCS. Good Joss!++ So, the buildings are fixed but there is no change in student to teacher (or more over adult) ratio ... plainly skip, please. This is coupled with the Harrison Square project on which taxpayers were not allowed to vote.+++ Pay more, get nothing tangible and in ten years the bill comes back --- "fix me"!

pro: the buildings are scrap, needing "so much more than dusting"++++, and quite frankly if the bill isn't paid now ... in five years it doubles and the taxpayers won't get a "choice" as it were whether or not to pay it. Really, the political waste is quite high fighting for and against this fixing of FWCS. The newly, nearly-unlawfully acquired SW quarter is paying a fartload of money. Granted that area is better off, but they got the short end of the progressive tax shunt there. Put your back to the wall SW, for if you turn your back, FW will stab you again. NE FW and SW will pay far more than their share to fix FWCS. The situation is this ... 25 years ago, they needed help, but the elected school board were yes-persons to the flake in charge. This has therefore been the case for decades. One buttmunch bought buildings to house cronies. When you have a fool spending money on cronies not children, you are left with hell. FW has just that ... hell, from betting on the 100:1 shot each and every time. FWCS needs help and this cruddy bill of 0.5 billion dollars will inoculate the system for, about 7 years.

It's nearly like the "North agin the South" +^5

+ Battlestar Galactica
++ Taipan computer game
+++ dubious gain, economically for FW, based on questionable numbers on a minor minor league team
++++ Beauty & the Beast, Disney
+++++ Beverly Hillbillies

Schedule

Due to change at a flick of a switch ...

T: OFF
W: 2:00 - 10:00
R: 8:30 am - 8:00 pm
F: 5:00 - 11:00
S: 5:00 - 11:00
N: 5- Close
M: 5- Close

Throw him to Sarlacc

Where he can be digested over a period of a thousand years. He's a molester, his son's a molester and they molested the same child. Huh...
verdict: guilty
sentence should have been: immediate death

Instead, with a plea agreement, the guy gets a lighter sentence and is eligible for parole.

American justice needs a good swift kick in the pants!

ignorant observer

Things that I saw that I didn't get ...

The first thing was simply funny. I was traveling to work and saw a blue car parked in the driveway. In the driver's seat was a "top prize" from a carnival, Wile E. Coyote. That's right, Wile E. was the driver, which says something about the owner of the car. Darn it! That's great and I missed it!

I saw two squad cars had pulled over a car. The traffic was slow due to construction, so I got a longer look. The one officer put two car seats in the trunk of his cruiser, while the other officer had a woman, infant in her arms, and two kids enter the back of his cruiser. The man with the family, of seemingly comparable ethnicity, was allowed to return to his vehicle and allowed to drive away -- sans family. I suppose I could write an elaborate story about it, but it really seemed odd, not knowing any of the facts.

I was at a corner waiting to turn, in the town where I work, and saw sign-carrying persons. There were about eight of them at the four corners of the street. I thought, "car wash", but no. The signs were "turn to God", which is a nice message, but then other signs were more sinister. "If you marry a divorced woman, you are committing adultery" is a sign I got a chance to read. Sadly I am supporting free speech for this crap?

I objected for the following reasons: I disagree with the concept; at least two children were among those carrying signs; the sign holders were next to the library where the public would be; the phrase, "divorced woman" is a sexist way of making a point, whereas divorce' covers both sexes. If only I had stopped for some eggs on the way to work ... The thing that came to mind was Blues Brothers, "Those bums won their day in court. Who? The [blanking] Nazi party. I hate Illinois Nazis."