kkthoroughbred's Blog

Well, I just heard this story on the 5:00 news.

Mighty odd that resale shop owners and patrons can't turn in/buy so-called untested items when this law takes effect, but the original manufacturers/retailers were allowed to bring these items into this country and sell them!

Seems those manufacturers/retailers are looking a bit too closely at what the resale shops are doing to their business, and what they're seeing, they definitely are unhappy about.  Kind of like, oh, about 10 years ago when the craft shows were still riding a high wave.  Lots of churches (no matter the denomination) were holding craft shows.  The St. Louis Archdiocese must have realized what its parishes were netting from these events and decided it was entitled to some of these proceeds.  I don't think so.

Seems the higher ups are ALWAYS coming up with some way to dip into what they have no right to touch.  Like the Prop. A money from the casinos.  Yeah; already the politicians are wanting to divert some of that money, supposedly to other areas of education, like the special school districts.  Well, I'm from Missouri.  Show me their intentions are good...and I'll probably still doubt them.  If the diverting of funds gets enough twists and turns in it, you can bet a lot of that money won't end up in an education fund anywhere.

Okay, it's time to put at least two officers with their dogs at each of these trouble spots.  But have the officers in plain clothes and at separate areas of the stations.  Not every canine officer's partner is a German shepherd, but every dog has the same kind of teeth.

These kids being able to hit two stations in the same evening is an absolute disgrace.  But if they're juveniles, they'll get what amounts to a slap on the wrist and no mark on their records.  Sometimes the whole "juvenile" designation is a travesty.  They wanna act like some kind of tough adult, then let the punishment fit.  A butt-whipping would get their attention first, then give them something to do that'll take the edge off all that energy they seem to have in too great a quantity.  If any of my kids had ever been involved in such activity when they were teenagers, my sentiment would've been, "You stepped in it this time.  No punishment I could give will be bad enough, but you'll get it, anyway, on top of what the law hands down."

This isn't harmless kid stuff.  One of these nights, this group is gonna tangle with the wrong person or people, i.e., someone legally carrying a concealed weapon.  Somebody will get seriously hurt, maybe killed.  You go looking for trouble, even under the name of "just having fun," you're gonna find more than you ever bargained for.  It's stupid behavior that could lead to a waste of life.