I’m a bit Snarly today

I’m a  bit snarly today, because of several stories on the web and in the paper—

Bell, California, is a little town that is a pimple on L.A.’s rear. It is filled with about 50,000 blue-collar folks working hard for their living — and a batch of bandits have pulled off the damndest legal robbery in decades.  These “city fathers” passed “I’ll give you a raise if you’ll give one to me” laws, and came up with salaries that would make a master thief envious. The City Manager makes $376,288 a year.  The Chief of Police makes $457,000 a year. The city’s Chief Administrator makes $787,637 per year.  The citizens, who knew nothing about this until the  L.A. Times lifted the bandages, are now demanding resignations or recalls. These acts infuriate me, but the worst part of it all is the knowledge that if the great majority of American politicians thought they could do the same, they’d crush each other in the rush to the bank. Would they reject a $700,000 annual salary as excessive? Hell no. They’d say, “Great. I’ll take it – and when  do I get a raise?”

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A headline in  a local paper said, “Voters Over 50 are  leaning increasingly Republican.” Are we a nation of air-heads? Just when these geezers are going to need the Democrats the most, to protect social security and medicare, the damned fools start voting for the party that says we can’t afford such programs, because we need all those billions and billions of military dollars to wage wars in far off countries that are no threat to us. I really have to hand it to the right wingers. They somehow manage to get people who are getting into water over their heads to agree to carry loads of Republican bricks.

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We aren’t the only idiots. In England they just came up with the first car that will travel, on land, at 1,000 miles per hour. How on earth have we managed to get along without something that vital to our existence.

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I see there’s a fuss being made over whether cheer leaders are actual athletes.  Take a close look at your high school cheer leading squad. They aren’t athletes. They are show-offs. They love to wear as skimpy clothing as possible while they jump, squeal, swirl, hop and spin to show all those plain girls who’s the best.

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Two great reports in  our Police Log today. ” Two St. Bernards were rolling a large PVC pipe along Cameron Bridge Rd. at 9 a.m.”  and  “A caller was concerned that their neighbor’s goat, cows and chickens weren’t being watered while he was in jail.”

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I read that we have now spent 345 BILLION dollars in Afghanistan. And I see that we have ordered 140 nice new Abraham tanks for our army over there, allowing the happy folk at General Dynamics thereby to pocket another 150.5 million of our bucks. Surely we need a few dozen more billion-dollar atomic submarines in that desert. I also read about the Shite son who murdered his own father for dealing with the Americans. Do you really think we can win the hearts and minds of people who think like that? Does anyone have any idea of why we are doing this to ourselves? Can you spell OIL?

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A couple of bubble-heads decided to see what would happen if they got close to a buffalo here in Yellowstone Park, and then threw things at it. They found out quickly when the big bull tossed the lady over its head and caused her hubby to run so fast he tripped and broke a bone or two. Every year we have yahoos who think it would be fun to have their picture taken while petting a buffalo or  moose, and leave the park in an amubulance as a result. I often stop and study roadside buffaloes, but I never get too close, or make any threatening moves or sounds,  and I have never felt the slightest bit threatened by those gigantic beauties.

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More Police Log reports: — “A bear was seen going through people’s cars on Sittting Bull Road around  6:30 a.m.” — and — “A duck was limping on Third St. at 9.p.m”

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FIGHT FORTH

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