A Few Random Thoughts

There are way too many crazy people walking and living amoung the "normals".  Why aren't they in a nice, safe asylum?

Tiger Woods news more important than four Police Officers being assasinated?

Retail Holiday hype, a minor .5% gain over 2008, nothing but inflation & price increases!  Bah Humbug.

In my opinion the worst TV Commercial of 2009:  Infinity automobile commercial with the "stop action" sequences....what were they thinking?

Local Portland, OR TV stations that have 15 minutes of weather (never changes and is correct only 50% of time) and no sports segment....on any station!

Left Coast Liberals that make fun of conservatives, relgion, family values, and the East Coast!

Happy Thanksgiving!

They Walk Among US

They are here, among us.  The walking insane, smelly people! They linger on public transprtation, in malls, the public library, bottle redemption centers, under bridges, and passing folks on the street.

Having lost all respect for themselves, and hope, or touch with reality, they no longer wash, change their clothes, or care.

Their world is panhandling, shuffling along among the "normals", with a weeks worth of piss in their pants, or worse. 

Even in apartments, the unwashed roam.  A four hundred pound sow in my building has not showered since July, nor changed her clothes since early October!  Alas, she stinks.

There is hope, however, for these apathetic people under the Obama Health Care Plan.  The resurgence of a nationwide system of Asylums for the Insane.  Nice clean and warm buildings, were they can get help and meds.  Locked up and away from the normal masses, they will be taken care of.  Meanwhile "normals" won't have to deal with their insane behavior and the smell.

The Big Tenant Meeting

The meeting was a success.  About forty people out of 118 showed up to vent their fustrations.  Topics were from personal hygine (stinky people), drugs & drug dealing, smoking, lack of management concerns & response, and swine flu.

Even though I was one of two, behind the scenes organizer......I was not blamed ....er....credited with such!  (I love stirring things up!)

Then the resident "nutter" went off about five times that he was being harrased and discriminated against by tenants and management.  I informed im that being an "idiot" was not a groupprotected by law.  He screamed at me that I was a bully.  I respond that if I was a bully, I'd break his other knee!  It was all great fun.

Another meeting is planed forjanuary after the non-smoking lease addendum goes into effect.

Yes, I am a Trouble Maker!

OK, tomorrow is our first "Tenant" meeting for our building in two years.  It's all my fault, since I am an organizer.  It is an opportunity to let everyone voice complaints on topics from smoking (building going smoke free 1-1-10), litter, smelly tenants, crime, and any other issues.  Building managers have been excluded!  We'll see how that goes!

Issues like selling drugs, drug use, etc have been dealt with in part.  What I asked was how criminals got in the building , passing a background check, like I had to?  65 year old dopers and ex-cons!  My neighbors, how special!

An then there are the half-dozen "hoarders" who have newspapers and magazins piled three feet high in their apartment,  along with piles of treasures, etc.  (And they wonder where bugs come from?)

Management has voiced the opinion that they do not want to deal with tenant issues......OK, so the tenants will deal with them....majority rules, minority drools!

Portland, OR....Crime Capital USA?

Local news starts each evening with the death & robbery tally of the day! Of course the PR branch of the Chamber of Commerce, downplays these statistics, as they do the huge homeless population, high home prices, lack of jobs, poor schools, etc.

In the last five days, five people have died due to murder suicide. Robberies occur on the rate of several per day...banks, convienince stores, grocery stores, etc. Not in the "hood", but rather the suburbs.

Granted, Portland is a huge meth and dope area, with lots of "Blood and Cripps" style gangs (more than Detroit), but not all crimes are driven by drugs. Many say it is the economy. But does being poor mean your a criminal, or likely to be one? I am poor as you can get, but would never think of stealing or ripping someone off...ever!

I believe that part of the problem is that Oregon in general is soft on crime. There is a new jail that has never been used. Many criminals are repeat offenders. There are many social agencies to help the recently released ex-cons re-enter society ( a waste of funds, since most return to prison shortly after release.)

Do People Care About You?

When is the last time someone asked how you were... and meant it?  I can honestly say almost never....friends (?) family, wives, children, etc.  They are concerned about how they feel, and will go into long, boring, monologs about it, but even after listening, they almost never ask about you!

My parents, after I left college never knew where I worked, if I went to Grad School, how my wife or kids were, nor did any relatives, or "friends" ever ask.  If you started to tel them, they would shortly change the subject.  Why?  They didn't really care.  They prefer not to know, so they make up lies to tell their friends (yes, they do that!).

Sometimes it feels sad, but more like anger, than no one cares....oh well, perhaps GOD loves  me!  Or not..

Crazy Neighbors and Street People!

Ooppppppssss, I am back in hibernation/hermit mode.  My neaighbors are crazy..no really one was take to the psych ward, and they let her out!

Then there are the many, many walking nutballs that roam the streets of Portland, screming, one whistles at the top of his lungs, etc.  WOW, lets use some of that "stimulas money" to build some new 2,000 bed Psych Hospitals!  Get the nuts off the streets!

Having a building meeting Monday about this and a few other issues, like keeping doors open to the hall, smelly people who don't wash or change their clothes more than twice per month.  I am not kidding!  They smell like dead fish, urine, stale tobacco and that old people smell!

The only safe place is at home! 

The Liberal Whine!

OMG..I had to listen to the Liberals whine today, as I mentioned Republican election victories.  Obama is saving the country, bla, bla, bla!  Of course the biggest whiner is an excon who doesn't like anyone telling him what to do.....duh!

Our Senior housing......all public assisted housing, is going non-smoking the First of the year!   Smokers, the minority, are crying their rights re being violated.  It's time the highly negative vocal minority shut up!  Majority rules....Liberals are fools!

Can't wait to get away from the La-La -Liberals on the West Coast!  They can have it!

"House of Death" ....strikes again!

My apartment community for seniors, which I call the "House of Death" due to the high number of deaths from old foggies , who should be in a nursing home, has yielded another victim on Halloween!  A 62 year old heroin addict OD'd.  I was in college during the 1960's......... didn't do drugs or hang with people who did.  Now, all the druggies from that era are still druggies, and many live in my building!  Very annoying to say the least.

I have a difficult time garnering any sympathy for meth addicts, alcoholics, or any other type of addict.  What ever happened to "personal responsibilty"?  What happened to jail?

Aside from the deaths....at least 10 in the 18 months I've lived there, there are also several ambulance trips per week, mostly by a select few!  My hypocondriac neighbor went twice in three days last week for relatively nothing.  Have insurance, abuse the insurance!