tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post8645940391855737931..comments2024-03-29T05:29:08.934-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Texas Notes: TrumpkinNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-56321966637386846532020-10-19T11:46:55.571-05:002020-10-19T11:46:55.571-05:00"I still regret taking the sign down and mayb... "I still regret taking the sign down and maybe I’ll staple it back up today."<br />nah, screw 'em, light a match to it.pgwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804745965409667786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-29175170203259564232020-10-18T17:28:32.558-05:002020-10-18T17:28:32.558-05:00We don't have too many of those, but we do hav...We don't have too many of those, but we do have some advertising billboards. However, those are more reputable outfits. <br /><br />The signs on the poles are put up by fly-by-night flippers and unscrupulous rehabbers who traffic in fear, pay cash, do shoddy work or none at all, and then sell the properties to the unqualified and the undesirable. Or they just rent them out, to almost anyone interested, without vetting them first. <br /><br />I apolgize in advance if anything in that last statement offends, but I can't think of any other way to say it. Panic peddlers and blockbusters are not going to run me out of my adopted town. I'm not going anywhere.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-75311824261501059342020-10-18T16:32:50.955-05:002020-10-18T16:32:50.955-05:00Of course you did the right thing. As much as I de...Of course you did the right thing. As much as I despise the subhuman in the White House I have a bigger problem with how many poorly informed (or greedy or bigoted) people put him in there in the first place.<br />Sure the Electoral College makes no sense but still Hilary had only three million more votes. Certainly a lot but not where it counted. His following should only have small cult status, not may be called a country within a country.Leshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16679840606511726447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-48392110828885019442020-10-18T04:45:23.923-05:002020-10-18T04:45:23.923-05:00They not only post 'We Buy Houses' signs i...They not only post 'We Buy Houses' signs in Chicago, they buy ad benches for that.Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-79394289434709322812020-10-17T21:20:35.261-05:002020-10-17T21:20:35.261-05:00You did right, Ms. Caren. It's amazing the lie...You did right, Ms. Caren. It's amazing the lies that the right spreads in many different ways.privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18413982311699012802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-84002463992175591162020-10-17T20:23:41.083-05:002020-10-17T20:23:41.083-05:00We have those We Buy Houses signs in public lawns ...We have those We Buy Houses signs in public lawns along the roadways and on posts too. Here there is a several hundred dollar fine for posting any signs on public property, but of course no one is out fining these folks. I'm glad I took it down. <br />Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-69552152902735868842020-10-17T20:20:35.743-05:002020-10-17T20:20:35.743-05:00Goodness. I have been hearing more groups for Tru...Goodness. I have been hearing more groups for Trump because of this. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/trump-biden-contest-inflames-bitter-divide-among-vietnamese-americans-immersed-in-historical-wounds/Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-38596064823677499182020-10-17T16:24:36.772-05:002020-10-17T16:24:36.772-05:00In a bathroom at the Atlanta airport last night, d...In a bathroom at the Atlanta airport last night, doing my business was made considerably harder by a soundtrack of Trump doing his at some rally. Made me grit my teeth. As I left, I glanced over at the source of the irritation -- and was astonished to see a heavyset middle-aged Black man, a janitor or something, avidly listening to the radio.<br /><br />"How can you stand that guy?" I asked.<br /><br />"He's better than that commie Joe Biden!" he shot back.<br /><br />I had a plane to catch and I'm not into busting the chops of strangers, so I just went on my way. But as I did, I thought, Yeah, fella, Biden's a commie because he wants people like you--like us--paid and treated fairly.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-16718924032434614612020-10-17T13:43:17.391-05:002020-10-17T13:43:17.391-05:00Technically, it's illegal in many places to po...Technically, it's illegal in many places to post notices on utility poles, including political campaign signs, but the law is usually ignored or winked at. Hence the countless nails and staples in every pole, thanks to years of campaign signs (which are supposed to be removed right after the election, but often aren't) and lost pet notices.<br /><br /> Aditionally, in those "shithole" cities (including Cleveland), there are those ubiquitous "WE BUY HOUSES" signs in certain neighborhoods. Mostly at traffic lights and at stop signs, where motorists can easily notice them (Do they happen in Chicago? In all my years there, I never saw one).<br /><br />Some are handmade, while others are professionaly printed. Sleazy house flippers and blockbusters, capitalizing on fears of crime and racial unrest, try to buy properties for a song, usually for cash money. Then they make minimal repairs and sell them or rent them to almost anyone, regardless of their background or financial status. When they pop up in my neighborhood, like mushrooms after a summer rain, I am furious. Far more pissed than if it were a Trump sign (I haven't seen any political signs on poles this fall). So I remove them. <br /><br />But these persistent bastards are now putting them up higher and higher, and fastening them more securely. They are supposedly against the law, but that never stopped anybody. I know I'm not the only one taking action against them. Before the Plague hit, a local business was giving out ice cream cones in exchange for the signs. <br /><br />Don't feel any pangs of regret, Caren. You did the right thing. Just because there was no swastika on that amateurish flyer doesn't mean it should have been left alone.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-29851839628821218142020-10-17T11:40:26.675-05:002020-10-17T11:40:26.675-05:00True! I did not put it back up and I will not. True! I did not put it back up and I will not. Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-2458974130795306082020-10-17T11:40:04.806-05:002020-10-17T11:40:04.806-05:00Yes, and in support of a man who should be locked ...Yes, and in support of a man who should be locked up for multiple crimes.Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-49380028440820428092020-10-17T11:38:45.423-05:002020-10-17T11:38:45.423-05:00Ah, yes. I am not a Rand fan but I like the idea ...Ah, yes. I am not a Rand fan but I like the idea of the power of the human mind, especially as we have so much more scientific knowledge about neuroplasticity. Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-7890769029094717352020-10-17T10:59:18.099-05:002020-10-17T10:59:18.099-05:00It can be annoying to see that kind of free speech...It can be annoying to see that kind of free speech being exercised by weird people. Last year, ante-COVID-19, noticed a rambling progressive screed about the unfairness of the world, capitalism in particular. It ended with "Where are the CEOs?" I scribbled underneath "Where is John Galt?"Berniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17157600812959885192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-18654826495159276592020-10-17T10:30:52.679-05:002020-10-17T10:30:52.679-05:00Hard to follow Voltaire's ".....butI will...Hard to follow Voltaire's ".....butI will defend to the death your right to..." when the propaganda is so obviously a load of orange horseshit. Paul Fedrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04384556977324071639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-78805809961534945952020-10-17T09:07:30.212-05:002020-10-17T09:07:30.212-05:00Caren, that lying message was on a public utility....Caren, that lying message was on a public utility. You have as much right to remove it as the ignorant fool who posted it.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613528527379198505noreply@blogger.com