Monday Randomlings
Shock and horror visited the boys face this weekend when we went to a new restaurant to have lunch. We walk into the sports pub and he asks for a table to see the IU game (they have several TV's showing ESPN, college football, etc). As we sit the waitress gives the wife and I menus and the boy (12 going on 12 in March) 3 crayons and the kids menu with connect the dots and tic tac toe. He looks at her like "What the @#$%" and then looks to his parents with his jaw on the ground knowing what is to come next..."Wat a good widdle boy you are, mommy and daddy are so proud you can order by yourself, do you need a booster seat? No, OK, let us know if you have to go boom boom or wee wee." I know I will be paying for that one in therapy for years to come.
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Watching the news today I say the New Orleans beating for the first time. While I do not condone what those officers did, there is one person to blame and one person only, the Mayor. These men have been on high alert for several weeks, amid the worst disaster on our coasts in history. These men and women have been in neck high water, working 24-7, not enough food water or rest, watched the city they love destroyed; many have lost their own homes, loved ones and fellow officers (at least 2 suicides); have lost their boss when he resigned last week. They are living paycheck to paycheck in a town were their families cannot live, go to school, visit neighbors. This weekend I mowed the lawn, watched TV, coached 2 little league games and enjoyed the Colts. I wonder what these officers did this weekend; worked overtime, picked through the rubble that was their homes, buried a loved one, talked to their kids who are living in a 500 square foot trailer 3 states away...and then they are expected to patrol Bourbon Street and not beat the hell out of drunks coming into the ruins of their city. Mayor Nagen should be ashamed of himself, those men should be punished, given some off time and then return to full duty in a few weeks. But instead it will turn into a racial thing and we will never hear the end of this bullshit.
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True Story: When the wife and I first moved in together, we were so poor we slept on our clothes. Not in our clothes but on them. We took our clean clothes and folded them and stacked them on the floor of out bedroom, then put a large comforter on top of them and then blankets over us. We slept on that until the people downstairs had a sleeper sofa that the Salvation Army REFUSED TO TAKE. It was on our porch covered in snow when I asked them about it. They said noone would take it so they were just going to throw it out. I asked them if we could have it and he helped me carry it upstairs. Our first bed!!!
posted by Bryan @ 9:21:00 AM
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I'm absolutely sure that the New Orleans PD is stressed and having problems coping. Dealing with the destruction and rebuilding is, I'm sure, too much stress to bear. But even I'm not quick to suppport what happened here. I've watched the video about twenty times today and it's disturbing. But being a cop, I know that there is a breaking point. However, would you want to be on the receiving end of that breaking point?
I can't watch that video one more time. I understand where you are coming from but there is no excuse for that, ever...to me.
I love "someone else's trash" furniture!
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