In one of my earlier posts I said I didn't know if it was legit or not, and I'm actually not surprised. And, yes Dan, I'm sure she never dreamed this would turn into the sh*t storm it did. When I saw her picture she just had that "needy" look.
It still doesn't change the fact that I'm actually afraid to put up signs in my yard for fear of vandalism and I'm generally not the type to be afraid of much at all. What it does is takes away the spotlight from some of the legit stuff that is happening.
And as for my comment being racist, not hardly, I'm just calling it like I see it and am not much on the PC police trying to make any and every statement into a race thing. On the street I live on it's only the black kids that walk in the middle of the street, taunt you with profanity,and make you go around them in your auto, and so far, it's only the black kids that say horrible things to my teenage daughter when she goes for a walk, so bad actually that now she can't even walk to the store that's less than a block away, the people I actually caught trying to steal my grill from my back yard were black. The black people who lived behind me for a while raised pit bulls in the back yard and had huge log chains hooked to their necks to drag around. Their back yard was lower than the adjacent lots and water stood on it when it rained, it turned into a giant mud hole and the dogs would try to get on their houses when it was so wet but they couldn't because of the huge log chains. When I bought my house it was primarily older people who owned their homes and none of this stuff happened....ever, when the houses were sold to investors they rented them out and this is the result. I'm not a racist, but I'm not so PC that I can't make the legitimate correlation between these events and the integration of my neighborhood, it's exactly what happened. My comment about the hoodlums still stands as true, most likely the random acts of vandalism done to McCain supporters (in my home town anyway) are done by the same people doing all this other stuff. Unless you would prefer to think someone like yourselves who are just nice Hope and Change supporters are doing it.
There was a meth cook that set up shop in a rent house about a block away and one evening he literally blew the house up, only pipes left sticking out of the ground and somehow he walked away from it, he was white.
I know the same thing can happen with white hoodlums, but it's not what's happening on my street, there is a very obvious, in your face, defiant, aggressive attitude being displayed by these kids (I'm talking 10-16 or 17 years old. The kid who harasses my daughter is about 10 and if he sees her out he immediately rides his bike over and starts in with "OOoo, look at that a**, I'd like to get me some of that".......none of the many white kids in the neighborhood ever did anything like that. It's not the race I dislike, it's the attitude.
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