tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post5627797265979317941..comments2024-03-10T23:44:30.359-05:00Comments on Racine Post: Cruise-in draws the cars ... and the banterDustin http://www.blogger.com/profile/10717778498642473701noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-80536570236346024402009-08-21T19:25:49.458-05:002009-08-21T19:25:49.458-05:00No, I would never threaten anyone. However, there ...No, I would never threaten anyone. However, there is a God and I tremble for all of us when I reflect that that He is just. Those of us who've enjoyed some advantages haven't been very nice to our poor brothers and sisters. By the way, I will always pray for your safety and prosperity. You need never worry that I would wish you any harm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-57488843513861595412009-08-21T16:16:22.643-05:002009-08-21T16:16:22.643-05:002:54 - is that a threat?2:54 - is that a threat?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-72943259241197393722009-08-21T14:54:36.725-05:002009-08-21T14:54:36.725-05:00I pray that God's poor may not give you a long...I pray that God's poor may not give you a long-overdue lesson in respect for your fellow-men. Please remember that the unfortunate are your brothers and sisters, not subhumans created for you to use and abuse. Your hubris cries out to heaven for correction: please correct it yourself before Someone Else does.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-34960734888984328252009-08-21T12:50:27.781-05:002009-08-21T12:50:27.781-05:00You are right game birds are of more value.You are right game birds are of more value.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-66504128513895047462009-08-21T11:04:09.150-05:002009-08-21T11:04:09.150-05:00Dear 8/20/2009 7:58 A.M., Did you say you'd pi...Dear 8/20/2009 7:58 A.M., Did you say you'd pick off the "trash" like "pheasants in the sky"? If so,I pity you because that's exactly what France's elite said right before the 1789 Revolution.(Among Gallic noblemen, pheasant hunting was a popular sport and references galore to it appear in their journals and other personal papers.) Alas, by and large, the peasants and urban workers slaughtered the Old Regime's ruling class. Even in the Vendee--a region where many commoners liked the rich and tried to save their lives--the Revolutionaries exterminated the aristocracy. The same thing happened in the city of Lyons despite the silk workers' affection for some of their bosses. For your own protection, please don't equate the less-fortunate with easily-bagged game birds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-88968957070921280822009-08-21T10:36:42.887-05:002009-08-21T10:36:42.887-05:00No, inhumanity at its worst! Trust me, I've su...No, inhumanity at its worst! Trust me, I've survived more urban insurrections than I care to count: we're on the verge of the perfect anti-capitalist storm. The conditions in our country perfectly parallel those which prevailed in France immediately anterior to the Revolution of July, 1789. Like our government, France's Old Regime had run up record deficits, had emptied the treasury to finance unpopular foreign wars and had failed to control the nation's borders. In the name of free trade, the French government had weakened the craftsmen's guilds and had let importers flood the country with cheap foreign products. Thousands of skilled workers lost their jobs. Meanwhile, the rich and the well-to-do classes were raking in huge profits which they blew on ostentatious luxury items guaranteed to arouse the resentment of the rest. The combination of an imprudent, arrogant privileged class' extravagance coupled with the sheer inability of the government to rule the realm brought matters to a head. The result was the fall of the Old Regime and five years of chaos followed by dictatorship in the forms of the Directorate, the Consulate and Napoleon's militaristic Empire. Anyone who says that it can't happen here is living in Lighthouse La-La Land. Despite its greatness, our nation isn't exempt from the laws of history. As a Christian, I pray that you and yours may emerge unscathed from the impending ordeal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-16421120680343621622009-08-21T08:36:59.272-05:002009-08-21T08:36:59.272-05:00Capitalism at its best!Capitalism at its best!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-74622938732271516042009-08-20T20:03:47.388-05:002009-08-20T20:03:47.388-05:00How dare you call any of God's children "...How dare you call any of God's children "trash"! And, NO, it ISN'T great that they are forced to serve the rich. Much of the conduct which you deplore such as laziness, immorality and dishonesty came into the paupers' lifestyles thanks to the terrible examples set by their oppressors. As for SCJ, I don't blame it for all of the evil in this town. I freely admit that other corporations as well as individuals must share the blame. Still, there is no denying the paramount role of SCJ in the corruption of this community.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-69792424882512919462009-08-20T08:30:38.372-05:002009-08-20T08:30:38.372-05:00Yea - isn't it great the trash service the ric...Yea - isn't it great the trash service the rich - and it is you that brought violence into the conversation. And lastly SCJ is always your cop out - how stupid of you. Try something a little more original. We are not all associated with SCJ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-31506647443553097092009-08-20T08:27:38.261-05:002009-08-20T08:27:38.261-05:00If anybody is doing nothing, it's the idle ric...If anybody is doing nothing, it's the idle rich. Don't attack their victims. And, by the way, if you're not rich, what do you get out of threatening to harm the poor? Are you hoping that the Waxies will give you brownie points or cash for helping them oppress the less fortunate classes?Most of the paupers you scorn work or look for employment. By contrast, the exploiter class and its lackeys live off other people's labor. Are you looking for lazy loafers to scold? Well, go to any place where trust fund brats and oligarchs spend their unearned dough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-79245014109962696522009-08-20T07:58:08.130-05:002009-08-20T07:58:08.130-05:00The trash are trash because they are lazy and do n...The trash are trash because they are lazy and do nothing to improve their life - are they going back to high school and getting their degree's, are they going on to college with the free money that is available, are they going to technical school, are they learning a trade? No they are doing nothing - bring it on, we'll pick you off like pheasantsin the sky. Trash is useless to society.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-70210720077554649852009-08-20T04:26:39.114-05:002009-08-20T04:26:39.114-05:00Sooner or later, the denizens of impoverished Rat-...Sooner or later, the denizens of impoverished Rat-Scene will settle accounts with the privileged citizens of radiant Ray-Scene. Just look at the demographics: the paupers vastly outnumber the solvent population. Then take a look at a map of our city--there are pockets of poverty right on the margin of our downtown and the posh Victorian district. When the word is given,the people you so cruelly called "trash" will vent their rage on the upper-middle class. Remember, unlike the rioters back in the sixties, modern paupers are mobile. Nearly all of them either own a "beater" or know somebody who has wheels and will share them. The question is not whether the poor will rise up. Rather it's the flashpoint plus date of the coming insurrection. (No, I'm NOT threatening anyone. I'm just speaking as a historian who survived several of these events. Alas, the snide self-appointed defenders of capitalism who think they'll "stomp" on the poor and teach them their "place" are in for a rude awakening.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-12504822757382856852009-08-19T20:46:10.919-05:002009-08-19T20:46:10.919-05:00Dear 5:17, People, even very disadvantaged people,...Dear 5:17, People, even very disadvantaged people, are NOT trash. I hope you never witness what a cousin of mine saw in Philadelphia when African-American insurrectionists torched businesses and homes. They didn't burn the slum--they fried a touristy district full of eighteenth-century buildings. Today's poor are smart and they will go where they must to teach the rich some sad lessons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-4495320340087456052009-08-19T20:34:25.314-05:002009-08-19T20:34:25.314-05:00Dear 3:33, May God forgive you for calling His poo...Dear 3:33, May God forgive you for calling His poor "trash." No one should do this to any human being. If you and your elitist pals think you'll be able to pen the paupers in what you think is their proper place, guess again. Today's poor have access to vehicles, guns and ammo. They'll make their grandpas and dads who burned Detroit look like Boy Scouts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-39826812003643359522009-08-19T17:17:50.840-05:002009-08-19T17:17:50.840-05:003:33 - you are an idiot. Try living in today's...3:33 - you are an idiot. Try living in today's world. We would not allow some low class, ignorant people out of their neighborhoods -they know better.The trash in this city know their place and they will always be held back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-26319664958784965162009-08-19T15:33:40.278-05:002009-08-19T15:33:40.278-05:00The so-called whiners I heard and saw in the Detro...The so-called whiners I heard and saw in the Detroit Insurrections of 1967 and 1968 managed to roast entire city blocks. When they weren't burning white or Asian property, they were busy shooting at people whom they viewed as their oppressors. Please pray that we don't experience encores. From what I've heard, today's Motown marauders may try to fry Cobo Arena and the Institute of Fine Art. Anyone who dismisses America's angry minority poor as "whiners" has never been trapped in a building surrounded by them as I was in July of 1967. I had to huddle in a corner while they looted and burned every Korean-owned business in the Cass Corridor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-19591012844559731482009-08-19T13:47:40.505-05:002009-08-19T13:47:40.505-05:00Dear 10:12, You're pretty violent, aren't ...Dear 10:12, You're pretty violent, aren't you? Threatening to stomp on people could backfire on you. For your sake, I hope you don't get caught in an urban insurrection. Believe me, if that happens, you'll learn respect for the folks you execrate as "whiners."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-9368217942141581662009-08-19T13:42:52.689-05:002009-08-19T13:42:52.689-05:00I'm not trembling. Mister, there are men waiti...I'm not trembling. Mister, there are men waiting to change this country--men who'll make President Obama look like Mitt Romney. As the economy heads south, more and more Americans will have the can-do cockiness and Horatio Alger nonsense knocked out of them. Once ordinary citizens wise up, they'll rise up and demand a planned economy. Every other developed post-industrial country has done the same thing. Our U.S.A. will be no exception to the rule.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-90377360797643402382009-08-19T10:12:30.946-05:002009-08-19T10:12:30.946-05:007:44 you get ready to get stomped on, the rich are...7:44 you get ready to get stomped on, the rich are going to take back tis Obama socialistic agenda. You have no place in society - and we will make sure you are driven down and stomped on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-32659581927670555062009-08-18T19:44:27.796-05:002009-08-18T19:44:27.796-05:00Not if enough of us whine, organize and elect men ...Not if enough of us whine, organize and elect men who'll stomp richie-poo into the goo. That's what the workers did in Western Europe. Step one was accepting the fact that they were toilers, not future millionaires. Step two was lots of strikes, demonstrations and whining to call attention to the need for change. Step three was the formation of strong political parties to promote workers' interests. Step four was the election of pro-labor officials and the installation of governments which serve the ordinary people. (Here in what I call "The Benighted Snakes," we're stuck at step one because too many fools have fallen for richie-poo's fairy fibs about individual achievement and upward mobility. No wonder most European workers think we're dumb!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-25334248218127906612009-08-18T15:24:36.850-05:002009-08-18T15:24:36.850-05:002:34 - whining will never get you anywhere and if ...2:34 - whining will never get you anywhere and if you do nothing, the richi poos as you call them will stomp the likes of you into oblivion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-46425873272252487452009-08-18T14:34:11.946-05:002009-08-18T14:34:11.946-05:00Like what? For most ordinary folks there aren'...Like what? For most ordinary folks there aren't any decent jobs which pay a living wage. Face it--most work is nasty. If the richie-poos make us do their dirty work, the least they should do is pay us decently and cap the work week at forty hours. If you really want to know what our crappy capitalist system does to toilers and other unfortunate people, get Barbara Ehrenreich's commentary from the 8/9/09 New York Times and read it. The article is entitled "Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?". Believe me, it will tell you what our system is. (As for your complaints about whiners, this is just the start of the wail-fest. Richie-poo's campaign to silence the poor is rapidly ending in defeat. What you call whining is the common man's demand for social justice. One way or another,he'll drown out the elitists and their ambitious middle class lackeys.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-16089966345205531982009-08-18T13:44:07.584-05:002009-08-18T13:44:07.584-05:0010:32 you said "Most folks I know hate what t...10:32 you said "Most folks I know hate what they do for a living." What pathetic statement along with your other comments - if people don't like their jobs then they should do something about it - you and your poor souls are just whiners.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-2630902553394989062009-08-18T11:59:31.132-05:002009-08-18T11:59:31.132-05:00In Europe people work to live but they don't l...In Europe people work to live but they don't live to work. Thank goodness, they aren't afflicted with our frenetic work ethic. We're saddled with this bunk because King James the First couldn't solve his Puritan problem. Since he didn't eradicate those grim fanatics and he allowed them to infest his colonies, we've been stuck with their crap for centuries. However, we've made some progress: we no longer hang witches the way those self-righteous twits did in Salem. Maybe we'll outgrow their notions about work and start treating ordinary people as human beings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-48348007604828367022009-08-18T10:32:38.199-05:002009-08-18T10:32:38.199-05:00Nope--the lazy bastards are the idle rich who work...Nope--the lazy bastards are the idle rich who work us to death for their fun and profit. Be honest: wouldn't you like five weeks paid vacation and a forty hour work week? Most folks I know hate what they do for a living. They jump through the hoops because richie-poo makes them do it. Over in Western Europe the governments protect toilers from the privileged class and its obscene demands. The sooner work ceases to dominate rank-and-file Americans' lives, the better!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com