August 23, 2010
Good morning to everyone. As Louis Armstrong would say, “What a Wonderful World”
I hope Lou Piniella is having a better day today. I wish all the best to his mother. Does it really matter how a rat leaves a sinking ship?
Cornfest is over. The weather seemed to be O. K. for the event. Fest goers liked the music lineup. I did not make it there myself but I hope a good time was had by all. Good job by the organizers and volunteers, thank you.
I read the Daily Chronicle this morning. The Police Department is having their semi-annual fundraiser arresting all the hardened criminals walking around the NIU campus area with open alcohol. What a nice way to welcome these young men and women to our city, arrest them and fine them money they can’t afford. Mom and dad will pay the fine, if it gets paid. That’s teaching those rascals.
I am sure after the police make these new friends the first weekend or two of the school year, in three weeks, when the real crime starts, the shootings, muggings, thefts and sexual assaults, the students will only be too happy to cooperate with the local police, their new friends. Perhaps we should look at the big picture once in a while. Prohibition did not work ninety years ago and it will not work in DeKalb, IL now. People do not have to be arrested for every crime they commit. This is something you are taught in Police Academy. Know which fights to fight. The students do not need the police to be their parents, at least not all of the students that were arrested. I hope the police used some discretion in their actions but, from the list in the paper, it does not appear they did.
We are approaching the five year anniversary of Katrina hitting New Orleans. I am still ashamed of our government’s response to that natural disaster. I bet we airlifted food and water to Haiti quicker than we did to our own people. We are helping the flood victims in Pakistan with better results and more compassion than we showed our neighbors in New Orleans. Where was the help from the rest of the world five years ago when we needed it, other than from Britain, I doubt we received any help from the rest of the world?
Sylvester Stallone is back on top of the movie world. The movie he stars in and directed, The Expendables, was number one at the box office for the second straight week. It is hard to keep a good man down. He has been parodied and laughed at for years, but he keeps giving the movie audience what it wants. He seems to be critic proof. A movie doesn’t have to be “art”, it just has to be entertaining and appealing to the masses. He has given me hours of enjoyment watching the Rocky and Rambo movies. Some of my readers must also enjoy him. You don’t have to be a closet Stallone fan anymore. Come out of the closet and into the light.
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