Hey Y-TownPride, what's up? Where's the snappy response? I agree with several of the posters.
Basically, the YPD has had so many issues up to this point with folks who do not want to follow up with charges on a stolen car, then why bother?
I personnaly would like to see the same policy implemented across the board, i.e. drugs, gambling, murder. Oh wait... These WERE all implemented years ago under Philomena.
"We, the proud memebers of the YPD, no longer make arrests, because the D.A. and the courts of Youngstown are obviously in many cases corrupt, and many legitamate arrests result in nothing more than a few extra bucks for some lawyers and judges..."
Well, I for one am just sick to death of this gosh darned entitlement mentality. There are plenty of jobs! I heard it on Rush Limbaugh! Only people who do not want to work are out of a job. I mean, here in South Carolina, we have the second worst unemployment of any state in the nation. Only behind Michigan. We even have one county where certain lazy folk who simply refuse to get a job, have driven the unemployment up to over 24%!
I mean really, if you can have a millionaire ex-president, who was a partier, and got busted DUI, and allegedly snorted "something", then there is no reason why folks who are not brain dead morons cannot get a job! Unless, of course, your Dad, Granddad, Great-granddad, didn't happen to be Senators, congressman, and millionaires themselves...
Welcome to America! Where even during the greatest loss of overall wealth since the great depression, the rich get richer, and the poor stay right where they belong, way-y-y-y down there.
Oh well, it can only get better, right? Come on all you retired union types who are for God knows what reason right wing nut jobs, rebut me, quote me some of that old time Limbaugh!
hey, come on down to Myrtle Beach (with the rest of the retirees)! You can still smoke in the bars here, restaurants, etc... Now, why do you think that is? Maybe, just maybe, they are thinking of the profits generated in a tourist location by letting folks have a smoke, an over priced beer, and the ever present all you can eat artery clogging fried seafood buffet! Yum! Do I think banning smoking in bars (in BARS for cris-sakes!) is ridiculous. Yep. Do I agree with Y-TownPride, (the cop who posts comments during his duty hours and made the stupid comment a few weeks back about the bar that would be "closed soon, you can bet on it"? Heck no. There are a lot of laws on the books that are overlooked. And not just when someone with a YPD "get out of jail free" business card" gets picked up DUI. "Oh, you're so-and so's friend? well, I'll follow you home this time, better not happen again..." How I LOVE MY CARD! HA!
Also, I don't smoke. Or play the lottery. Stupid habits that only tax the stupid. But if anyone wants to smoke in a BAR (for cris-sakes!) go right ahead. After all, you don't get fined, the BAR gets fined! Oh, and I notice that none of the bars getting fined are Pagans' hang-outs. Or any of the "known" places in Y-Town where you can still place a bet. Geee, wonder why? Your gutlessness is showing. I dare you! The citation would get "lost" before you made it back to your little civil servant cubicle.
darn it! I missed the discussion when it was at it's peak. And now I make my comments without an audience. Oh well... here goes!
Ahhh, why bother... We all know what the problem is. No jobs. Too much crime. A police force that for too many years pulled their head in like a turtle, You can arrest all the pople you want. you can pass any law you want. You can have all the rolling traffic stops you want. The truth is, Youngstown is too far down the tubes to ever recover. It is a nice springboard to higher government office. A great place to buy an inexpensive home to live (while at the same time keeping a mailing address somewhere else that doesn't charge 2.75% income tax). Good Italian food, and pierogies on Friday, and don't forget all the rib stands that open up in the Spring. If you are a lawyer, or a doctor, or a government employee, great place to be a big fish in a small pond.
To all of the critics, come on, stop it! Youngstown will never change. Even with all of the task forces etc... Corruption hasn't (and will never) gone away, the price has just gone up!
And to all the folks who throw racism at everything, lighten up. All you need to do is take a cab ride with an Independent cab driver some night at 2 a.m. Go on a few runs. Then come back and tell me who runs Youngstown. Would be a good idea for some brave young reporter for the Vindy. Don't worry, very few cab drivers get shot and robbed. But you will see what goes on that seemes to get swept under the rug/ignored by folks. Great fun really. I always enjoyed picking up the young entrepeneurs from the front of some boarded up home in Y-town, and driving them back to Mom and Dads, watching them count their cash. Well dressed, polite, lousy tippers. But never worried about getting robbed myself...
Well, at least it is being addressed. It wasn't so long ago that no negative news stories re: robberies and car jackings at the Southern Park and Eastwood Malls, were not being reported. This because of the business community, the PD and the local "news" organizations colluding to try and keep people from knowing how dangerous the area really was/is. I really do blame the courts and the police. You can still drive down a Youngstown street and see thugs driving at night, lights off, daring the YPD to pull them over. Don't get me wrong, the P.D. nowadays is much more aggressive than any time previously, but due to lack of enforcement over the years, the criminal element basically has a sense of entitlement as far as doing crime. i.e., you're on my turf, so you deserve to get robbed. And the Police don't help much when they slow response on calls for P.D. that originate in certain areas. Much easier to stay in Cornersburg. Safer too...
THIS was an interview. Folks all crazy 'bout McKelvey. Heck, McKelvey wasn't going anywhere. He saw what happens to people who are well connected who move somewhere else (vis'a'vis Tablack). It is called "Fish out of Water syndrome" What happens when a Big Fish, who is important in a little teeny tiny pond, jumps the fence for greener pastures. Sure, the money is better, the weather is better. Heck, even the food is better. But their great big egos just cannot stand the lack of daily press they get back home. Not to mention driving by all those landmarks named for their dead relatives.
Jay has none of that. I give him less than 18 months, and he will be gone. "Chocolate City, here I come!"
Well, he is either going to "take care of bidness his own self" or... He just doesn't want to turn in his brother, brother-in-law, father (take your pick) and they will all have a good laugh about it 'round Thanksgiving time...
Too bad he didn't just smoke the b@$t*&^ outright. Now he is going to cost the hospital way much in big bucks for treatment. And I feel sorry for the poor nurses who will have top keep answering his beeper calls for "more pain meds. I is in pain M'aam..." Well, they'll probably keep him medicated just to shut the fool up. Which is what he wanted the 100 beans for in the first place, I would guess...
What always has amazed me the most about the Valley is this... The number and ferocity of the Right-Wingers therein, who are actually the folks who get the biggest handouts from Uncle Sammy. Case in point, xxxx, a poor deluded ex-Lordstown employee on workmens comp from all the "heavy lifting" he had to do over the years. He loves to spout the right-wing aphorisms on talk shows and in comments he makes on newspaper websites, quoting his hero Limbaugh whenever he can. Completely oblivious to the fact that he wouldn't even be allowed to enter the country club these folks he worships to carry their golf bags. Sad really... It is kind of like those black actors from those old Hollywood movies fawning all over massah hoping for a couple of crumbs.
So, I'm guessing that all the children of the faculty, who do (or did do) drugs over the years should resign? Place would be a lot emptier... I mean, not thet I EVER partied with anyone from Struthers. Or Poland. Or Boardman. Or Canfield. Who are now Doctors, and Lawyers, and Police Officers, and Teachers themselves. That is what youth is about. You make choices, some regrettable, and hopefully change your ways. I have found more often than not, the ones who partied and got away with it, are now considered pillars of society, paragons of virtue. The ones who got caught, sometimes were treated as pariahs, to the point that their lives became self-fulfilling prophecies. Call a kid bad every day, and by golly, guess what happens? Call a closet toker great every day, and you get a Doctor, a Lawyer, a Teacher (but NEVER a city or county employee...)
Posted on March 14 at 5:40 p.m.
Hey Y-TownPride, what's up? Where's the snappy response? I agree with several of the posters.
Basically, the YPD has had so many issues up to this point with folks who do not want to follow up with charges on a stolen car, then why bother?
I personnaly would like to see the same policy implemented across the board, i.e. drugs, gambling, murder. Oh wait... These WERE all implemented years ago under Philomena.
"We, the proud memebers of the YPD, no longer make arrests, because the D.A. and the courts of Youngstown are obviously in many cases corrupt, and many legitamate arrests result in nothing more than a few extra bucks for some lawyers and judges..."
Of course, that was all in the past....
Posted on March 13 at 8:27 a.m.
Well, I for one am just sick to death of this gosh darned entitlement mentality. There are plenty of jobs! I heard it on Rush Limbaugh! Only people who do not want to work are out of a job. I mean, here in South Carolina, we have the second worst unemployment of any state in the nation. Only behind Michigan. We even have one county where certain lazy folk who simply refuse to get a job, have driven the unemployment up to over 24%!
I mean really, if you can have a millionaire ex-president, who was a partier, and got busted DUI, and allegedly snorted "something", then there is no reason why folks who are not brain dead morons cannot get a job! Unless, of course, your Dad, Granddad, Great-granddad, didn't happen to be Senators, congressman, and millionaires themselves...
Welcome to America! Where even during the greatest loss of overall wealth since the great depression, the rich get richer, and the poor stay right where they belong, way-y-y-y down there.
Oh well, it can only get better, right? Come on all you retired union types who are for God knows what reason right wing nut jobs, rebut me, quote me some of that old time Limbaugh!
Posted on March 11 at 12:14 p.m.
hey, come on down to Myrtle Beach (with the rest of the retirees)! You can still smoke in the bars here, restaurants, etc... Now, why do you think that is? Maybe, just maybe, they are thinking of the profits generated in a tourist location by letting folks have a smoke, an over priced beer, and the ever present all you can eat artery clogging fried seafood buffet! Yum! Do I think banning smoking in bars (in BARS for cris-sakes!) is ridiculous. Yep. Do I agree with Y-TownPride, (the cop who posts comments during his duty hours and made the stupid comment a few weeks back about the bar that would be "closed soon, you can bet on it"? Heck no. There are a lot of laws on the books that are overlooked. And not just when someone with a YPD "get out of jail free" business card" gets picked up DUI. "Oh, you're so-and so's friend? well, I'll follow you home this time, better not happen again..." How I LOVE MY CARD! HA!
Also, I don't smoke. Or play the lottery. Stupid habits that only tax the stupid. But if anyone wants to smoke in a BAR (for cris-sakes!) go right ahead. After all, you don't get fined, the BAR gets fined! Oh, and I notice that none of the bars getting fined are Pagans' hang-outs. Or any of the "known" places in Y-Town where you can still place a bet. Geee, wonder why? Your gutlessness is showing. I dare you! The citation would get "lost" before you made it back to your little civil servant cubicle.
Posted on March 6 at 10:06 a.m.
darn it! I missed the discussion when it was at it's peak. And now I make my comments without an audience. Oh well... here goes!
Ahhh, why bother... We all know what the problem is. No jobs. Too much crime. A police force that for too many years pulled their head in like a turtle, You can arrest all the pople you want. you can pass any law you want. You can have all the rolling traffic stops you want. The truth is, Youngstown is too far down the tubes to ever recover. It is a nice springboard to higher government office. A great place to buy an inexpensive home to live (while at the same time keeping a mailing address somewhere else that doesn't charge 2.75% income tax). Good Italian food, and pierogies on Friday, and don't forget all the rib stands that open up in the Spring. If you are a lawyer, or a doctor, or a government employee, great place to be a big fish in a small pond.
To all of the critics, come on, stop it! Youngstown will never change. Even with all of the task forces etc... Corruption hasn't (and will never) gone away, the price has just gone up!
And to all the folks who throw racism at everything, lighten up. All you need to do is take a cab ride with an Independent cab driver some night at 2 a.m. Go on a few runs. Then come back and tell me who runs Youngstown. Would be a good idea for some brave young reporter for the Vindy. Don't worry, very few cab drivers get shot and robbed. But you will see what goes on that seemes to get swept under the rug/ignored by folks. Great fun really. I always enjoyed picking up the young entrepeneurs from the front of some boarded up home in Y-town, and driving them back to Mom and Dads, watching them count their cash. Well dressed, polite, lousy tippers. But never worried about getting robbed myself...
Posted on March 1 at 8:01 a.m.
Well, at least it is being addressed. It wasn't so long ago that no negative news stories re: robberies and car jackings at the Southern Park and Eastwood Malls, were not being reported. This because of the business community, the PD and the local "news" organizations colluding to try and keep people from knowing how dangerous the area really was/is. I really do blame the courts and the police. You can still drive down a Youngstown street and see thugs driving at night, lights off, daring the YPD to pull them over. Don't get me wrong, the P.D. nowadays is much more aggressive than any time previously, but due to lack of enforcement over the years, the criminal element basically has a sense of entitlement as far as doing crime. i.e., you're on my turf, so you deserve to get robbed. And the Police don't help much when they slow response on calls for P.D. that originate in certain areas. Much easier to stay in Cornersburg. Safer too...
Posted on February 21 at 9:15 a.m.
THIS was an interview. Folks all crazy 'bout McKelvey. Heck, McKelvey wasn't going anywhere. He saw what happens to people who are well connected who move somewhere else (vis'a'vis Tablack). It is called "Fish out of Water syndrome" What happens when a Big Fish, who is important in a little teeny tiny pond, jumps the fence for greener pastures. Sure, the money is better, the weather is better. Heck, even the food is better. But their great big egos just cannot stand the lack of daily press they get back home. Not to mention driving by all those landmarks named for their dead relatives.
Jay has none of that. I give him less than 18 months, and he will be gone. "Chocolate City, here I come!"
Grump and Stan, neck and neck at the wire...
Posted on February 21 at 9:08 a.m.
Well, he is either going to "take care of bidness his own self" or... He just doesn't want to turn in his brother, brother-in-law, father (take your pick) and they will all have a good laugh about it 'round Thanksgiving time...
"'member when you shot my butt off? ha! HA!"
"Yeah bro' I shot you good! ha! ha!"
Posted on February 21 at 9:04 a.m.
Too bad he didn't just smoke the b@$t*&^ outright. Now he is going to cost the hospital way much in big bucks for treatment. And I feel sorry for the poor nurses who will have top keep answering his beeper calls for "more pain meds. I is in pain M'aam..." Well, they'll probably keep him medicated just to shut the fool up. Which is what he wanted the 100 beans for in the first place, I would guess...
Posted on February 21 at 8:57 a.m.
What always has amazed me the most about the Valley is this... The number and ferocity of the Right-Wingers therein, who are actually the folks who get the biggest handouts from Uncle Sammy. Case in point, xxxx, a poor deluded ex-Lordstown employee on workmens comp from all the "heavy lifting" he had to do over the years. He loves to spout the right-wing aphorisms on talk shows and in comments he makes on newspaper websites, quoting his hero Limbaugh whenever he can. Completely oblivious to the fact that he wouldn't even be allowed to enter the country club these folks he worships to carry their golf bags. Sad really... It is kind of like those black actors from those old Hollywood movies fawning all over massah hoping for a couple of crumbs.
Posted on February 20 at 8:52 a.m.
So, I'm guessing that all the children of the faculty, who do (or did do) drugs over the years should resign? Place would be a lot emptier... I mean, not thet I EVER partied with anyone from Struthers. Or Poland. Or Boardman. Or Canfield. Who are now Doctors, and Lawyers, and Police Officers, and Teachers themselves. That is what youth is about. You make choices, some regrettable, and hopefully change your ways. I have found more often than not, the ones who partied and got away with it, are now considered pillars of society, paragons of virtue. The ones who got caught, sometimes were treated as pariahs, to the point that their lives became self-fulfilling prophecies. Call a kid bad every day, and by golly, guess what happens? Call a closet toker great every day, and you get a Doctor, a Lawyer, a Teacher (but NEVER a city or county employee...)
;)