Insert Colourful Adjectives Here

I'd discuss the state of policing in this area, but I'm not sure that's legal anymore. There are plenty of colourful adjectives I could use in the process but that hurts people's feelings which also happens to be a crime around here, so we must be cautious not to be politically incorrect at all times.

Dafuq just happened? Where am I? I just had the most horrendous dream...

(Eyes rescan the page above, right hand pinches left arm... Twice.) Fuck me! I wasn't dreaming!!

So it would appear that the police are now their own race and criticism of them now constitutes a hate crime, or something. This politically correct coddling epidemic is now way beyond too far if posting a photo of street art online qualifies as harassment. If we've grown this thin-skinned already we probably need to step up our grooming regiment to include showering every 3 hours to prevent the bacteria from permeating it lest we fall victim to the phage.

Am I being ridiculous? Perhaps, but it does not seem to top the level of canned laughter I feel should be a soundtrack to those first 3 links in this post.

We've climbed to new heights of stupidity, and, had I not been watching it happen, I'd likely never understand how we got here. It is, however, still possible that despite my understanding that we'd reach this point sooner or later, I never wanted to believe I'd live to see the day. Maybe I didn't...

harassment
[huh-ras-muh nt, har-uh s-muh nt]
noun

1. the act or an instance of harassing, or disturbing, pestering, or troubling repeatedly; persecution:

REPEATEDLY seems to be the operative word which has now been removed from the definition. Or were we aiming for persecution?

persecute
[pur-si-kyoot] 
verb (used with object),
 persecuted, persecuting.

1. to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

So, um, yeah... Police are their own race now, I guess.

Is it not yet clear that they aren't interested in pursuing the real criminals?

-dirtykid©

Flipping 'the Bird' at 'Life's Lessons'

I believe I mentioned this effect in a previous post. I'd say that worked precisely as planned given the outcome. Far be it that they point the finger toward their own ineptitude or complicity in having put as many people on the wrong lists as possible and providing an unmanned call center to correct the issue. They don't even try blaming the last guy who quit politics rather than face a jury of his plebs who would likely demand trial by fire. I mean, let's face it, his peers can hardly find time to show up for work to vote yea or nay on turning bills to law even if that's a majority of the job description... Too busy kissing babies or something... And that last rat-bastard now has a nice cushy 150K of my money proving that doing the devil's work pays immediately.

Some fear-mongering is just to good to die, note how the very first paragraph has ensured a biased jury by leaving a columbine survivor in their ranks to get all hysterical about mass-shootings. We want to raise awareness of PTSD but not point directly at it. It's funny how reading a weeks worth of news at once can turn up all the idiosyncratic tidbits. Mapping technology creating ice, what will they dream up next?

Question asked, and answered... 

Strange... I just bore witness to why j-walking is illegal as I watched more than half a dozen people get off the bus and look the opposite direction of oncoming traffic. Sure the first two people were fine because they knew how to cross the street, but the remainder of the group stood doe-eyed in path of oncoming traffic until the oncoming car had the nerve to honk... You can bet there were more than one nasty hand gesture thrown in that direction... Life imitating life, I almost started laughing and pointing were that not so cliché. I know I was meant to see that otherwise I wouldn't have.

I know it's hard to admit to being (in the) wrong, and much easier to flip the bird at that which conscientiously tried not to kill you for being wrong, but it still doesn't make you less wrong. I'm sure I had more to say here, but this post just feels like it ends right about there... -dirtykid©

Thick and Crusty Apathy

A good point was raised in a recent smoking mirrors posting... Or maybe it wasn't actually raised but my brain slipped into a tangent while reading, which is very close to the same thing from my perspective...

Why do I come here?

I had thought that I had some obligation to finish what I started years ago except it's been a while since everything concluded itself... Sure there are the ongoing dramas of political corruption, brutality from the 'protect and serve' (the bankers) goons, and the never ending wars against the enemies of our greatest enemy, but these were always there and ever obvious and are evermore so now as they've escalated and accelerated. Pointing to those things which everyone plainly sees can only serve purpose while illustrating that none of the limelight perpetrators, though guilty, were the actual mastermind behind the crimes...

I've tried many approaches to get there because I know everyone interprets things according to their own familiarity with the subject matter. And as I write this I understand that most who come here likely already know what I was going to say because on some level they've already felt it.

I still haven't answered my own question yet...

For the most part, I come here because I haven't come to terms with whatever is supposed to happen next. I don't even know what happens next, at least not on my own path. I may still see a whole lot of what comes next in terms of the cause and effect laid out by those who think they are in control of the results they are attempting to lay out but I know such things are 'generic' and not specific to just me.

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Damn this time-lapse blogging... I've lost focus and have no idea where I was heading with this... I'd almost day this will fall into the chronic 'draft' and unpublished status... Except...

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Days later...

I come here to draw attention to things which illustrate that things are just as bad, or even worse than they had been in hopes of waking people enough to wipe the crusty bits of apathy from the corners of their still half-sleeping eyes. Maybe I'll succeed, and maybe I won't but at least I'll know that I put in an effort after coming to understand that any effort to fix it from within the confines of the system are designed to fail... Even a small victory where a petition appears to stop something only delays it until no one is looking or three hundred pages are added and the bill renamed.

-dirtykid©