I wish that you knew when I said two sugars I actually meant three

As I alluded in my previous issue that the beta unit came for a visit for the holiday. Good form and all that. It was a good Christmas and Doodle and Stuntboy were here as well.

One of the things the beta unit got me for Christmas and if you are the Other One and are reading this SPOILER ALERT you are getting this too come back and read later. If you are not the Other One please read on.

The gift in question is a set of 3 DVD’s of….

Wait for it…

… all of our home movies from childhood.


I know… Awesome

I get to see moving pictures of myself running amok as a child. It was great fun. I got to see a lot of people who are no longer with us too. Most everyone is running amok for the most part. Because it’s a home movie camera and you’re supposed to act stupid or not. Anyway the home movie camera is still with us and it is way more advanced and not just the fact that you don’t have run to the local photo hut, have the film developed wait days and then watch the movies months afterwards. Now, It’s all sort of instant. But our behaviors are curiously still the same and in some cases even more stupid.

Well the jaunt down memory lane was much fun. The beta unit and I watched and chatted several hours away watching our lives play on the brand new 32 inch tv I know 72 would be better. I’ll get there one of these days. I’m really just waiting for the ionized paint and you can just paint your wall as a TV it should be great fun.

Anyway back to the films, discs … past life in the present. It was a good time and much-ly appreciated present. If you are a relative of mine you are in them too and you are as cute as the dickens well… you were …lol I kid, I kid.

Most of the things I remembered and some I did not. I may see if I can get them on the computer at some point. You might be in the movies too. Yes you.

We watched days gone by from county fairs, pageants, plays, birthdays, Christmases etc. In watching I also picked up some things to remember when filming that should have been followed then and will be helpful now as well and I’ll pass those tips on to you here.

1. Don’t be afraid to zoom in, you are not George Lucas you can’t fix it later in editing. Twenty years from now you’ll wished you had zoomed in on to the stage to see whom ever it was up there. You won’t remember.

2. If you pan the camera, meaning to move it from side to side do it slowly the camera will not fix this and editing won’t help either. And if it’s that fast in real life we’ll get it without the blurry follow along.

3. Clothing choices of the day no matter how hip and with it are going to be for the most part out of style in a generation and they are a good laugh.

4. Sucking up to relatives looks like sucking up to relatives even without sound.

5. Careful about those nasty faces you make when the person you are making them at turns their head and doesn’t see the nasty face. The camera will see it for them and then they’ll see it later in the home movie, yeah its very funny.

6. All the silly little crap that your kids do are great fun for later. film it all or take pictures, if you can.

7. You will be surprised what all you remember about your life if you get to see it again.

8. Hiding your face doesn’t make you disappear you just look silly with your hands in front of your face, smile and get it over with or obscene finger gestures are fun… look grandma shot you the finger. ROFL …

9. Talking older relatives into doing the really hip things are great for film and good for a fond memory like an 80 year old woman on a Harley Davidson motorcycle holding what looks like a pot leaf and shooting the peace sign. This particular 80 year old woman lived to be nearly 100 and still remembered who you were by your voice but couldn’t see that well.

10. Babies and baby animals are cute but only a few minutes at a time 60 to 90 seconds and then find something else to shoot then come back to the them, go away and then come back

11. Live, laugh and enjoy the camera may be watching you, well in our day it is more likely that multiple cameras are watching you as opposed to one or none.

12. Don’t forget to turn the camera off when you point it at the ground. I know you really liked those shoes but no one really looks at shoes, well yeah that guy does but that is why he doesn’t get invited to things

One last thing, It was a very good present and if you happen to film birthdays and Christmas and film the actual gift not just the unwrapping part. The alpha unit filmed the unwrapping of the box oh what is in the box it‘s almost open... what is it… CUT

…next gift paper shred… CUT… WTF mate show the gift we won’t remember what we got or bought in twenty years. This isn’t Se7en… what’s in the box

Oh and man my jump shot from little league basket ball was awful but I had good hair and that’s is what is important.

In other news

You are reading this in your pajamas and you aren’t wearing underwear. Yes you know who you are and all I have to say about that is, thank you.

Still in other news

I’m still invisible don, you’re special, yes you, and I have to renew my gold membership soon. I know it is that time again.

Triple-ly in other news

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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Bob Costas is an idiot too

The news of my demise is once again, premature I know there are those who would prefer I be not seen ever again and this is not my way to press the thumb at them but merely to say I’ve not stopped my dabbling in the written world. I know, I know but it gives me joy. Well both really, pressing my thumb at people and writing. However the lack of writing has been due to the beta unit visiting and all the holiday muckity muck. It is bad form to sit and ignore others in your home to journal away, especially as it isn’t a paying gig, maybe someday. Hope and dream.

A reoccurring bother of mine is the assumed self importance of trivial matters. At the forefront of the most recent resurgence of the my cow is holier than your cow is the outrage over the NFL canceling a football game.

Oh dear bob say it isn’t so they didn’t cancel a football game, it’s the end of days, the Mayans predicted the cancellation of this very event… whoa and doom it is the end time… Oh dear bob what ever are we to do? Alas and le sigh even.

AH… get over it might be a plan.

Just spit-balling here but isn’t football a game, played by a group of commercial franchises who make a schedule up on their own and play in a series of matches culminating in a championship match between two teams. So if those owners of the said franchises decided they would just stop doing this business they could without any discussion from anyone else.

Wait what?

Yes is the answer there. Ok then it’s a game that has nothing to do with anything but that game. And the one time the NFL really makes decision that you know maybe it’s not safe for the fans to come out and get home, we should probably not have the game today lets play it another day because;

A.) it’s a FIRETRUCKING GAME

B.) we’ll look like real ship heads if someone gets hurt

C.) We make the rules so we can do this

D.) Did we mention it’s a game???? We did ok

Now the Governor of PA has called this as a sign that we are a nation of WUSSIES.

Really a nation of wussies. Maybe you have a point there but a counter point which we’ll ignore is that your candied ass probably hasn’t really had a really hard day in the last 20 years so careful who you call wussies.

However ignoring his own pampered existence he later he gets all nostalgic about a game he attended back in the day when it was snowing so hard you could barely see the field and how it was magical and football isn’t a wussies game and blah, blah, blah.

Governor that game has numbed your head and it has not thawed yet. It is a game and you sat your dumb as in the freezing cold to watch a bunch of then underpaid grown men bang around on each other, brilliant idea. Now you expect people to sit and watched now overpaid grown men play a game with a ball, your brilliance it boggling.

And I respect it was your choice to do that, really I do. But I also have the right to say you are a loon for doing so. However, had the game been cancelled because of the weather you would have been sadden for sure but ultimately alright with it because it is a game.

Now today the cities are still adversely effected by the snow from a few days ago. While it is not snomaggedon levels from last year the same problems all of our megalopolis urban centers. They have no place to put snow that doesn’t melt and accumulates over a few inches in a short span of time. This causes lots of problems all on it’s own without any help.

Lots and lots of snow causes even more problems. You know what causes even more problems. Lemmings in the snow and by lemmings I mean sports fans and people out in the snow with no real reason to be out in the snow.

Not that sports fans alone are lemming in nature I too have run with the herd a few times and I’m not proud but by in large we all have the potential to be that lemming. It’s mob mentality and the idea that closing at any time is a short coming, a failure, un-American and boarding on tyranny is just inane.

It isn’t being a wuss it’s dare I say it exercising some common sense.

What? Blasphemy ? Well I do bare the mark of a heretic but blasphemy by bob no.

We have all gotten a bit too big for our britches and the attitude that everything that happens here is so gosh darn important that the world will end if it doesn’t happen on a set and timely scheduled is ridiculous.

Because most of what 99.9% of us do is really rather unimportant but that doesn’t mean don’t do it. It just means have some sense about when you do, do what you do. Yes I said do, do. Lol and Har-dee-har. ROFL and all

Seriously another several thousand vehicles on the road thousands of people out and about that didn’t need to be out just gets in the way of the road crews trying to get things back in action quickly, safely and effectively. If they have to wait to clear a road because football fans in tread bare tires are out on the road and have caused a pile up more than just football fans are effected. Because face it left to those of us choosing to go and weighing if is safe or not isn’t the best litmus test for lemmings. Here is how that would have played out. It’s snowing and it might snow a lot, it cost me a bunch of money for the tickets, I might be stuck in Philly, I paid a lot for tickets I’m not losing that money the economy sucks right now I’ll go ahead and risk it and that is what 90% or more of the fans would have done.

So Governor, really I get it you might need some face time with the public and you want to seem like a go get ‘em kinda guy but why not use that face time to support a common sense choice that was made that maybe did help keep things from being a much more real news issue than the postponement of a game.


I’ll let you use your imagination on what the headlines might have been on this one because I have a pretty active imagination and the headline I think up might make you pee in your pants a little bit. And one more thought you hypocritical sycophant had the headlines been tragic you would have had your nostalgic foot so far down the NFL’s throat that a proctologist could have told the news your shoe size.

Maybe we all just need to take a step back and slow down a bit and not just about football, about all of it. I just spent the last few days calmly with the beta unit and you know it was alright, no agenda, no time table, no stress…ok a little stress but not a lot and I still need a lot of work on the 8 paths

In other news

NYC Mayor has a bad attitude about people bitching that snow crews can’t clean the streets and can’t cleans them without doing a shit ton of property damage.

Ah… I am a bit on the fence on this one.

Really you live in Manhattan why do you need a car? If you have car park it in New Jersey and take a taxi to it because you really are only driving your car when you leave the city anyway.

On the side of the people it you can’t get the equipment safely down the street don’t clean the street with equipment that is designed to move earth for construction.

Our major cities or megalopolises have no place to put snow when really bad storms hit. They just don’t so if you live in a major city you are going to deal with snow being a pain in your ass when you get a lot of it. So make plans to have places to put snow when you at times get a sh*t ton of it. That might mean you keep a lot open in every block or dig a melting pit that is powered by geothermal to convert the snow into water and send it down in the storm drains. There are two ideas with almost no thought point being you need a plan. And citizens really you know they city is going to mash your car or bury at the very least if you leave it on the street so don’t park on the street or don’t have a car.

Still in other news

iJ, has no business buying a firearm but looks pretty good in the blaze orange hat

Triple-ly in other news

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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Ciao,

Excuse me, Satan Claus...

The path to hell indeed



Laying down after work to watch a little TV is a really bad idea when you have been up since 4:00 a.m.



Napping attack or ambush is more like it the path to hell is paved with naps and I’m not sure that that aren’t evil forces behind those naps. So I didn’t get a ton done after work and I wanna play MAG and I have chores to do and I wanna write blog… ugh.



In other news



Not fair at all. However it really is never fair. I just really don’t understand. Why, why, why? WHY? All I know is … nothing it would seem.



Then the flip side of that coin is how many times do our own actions make someone else scream Not fair at all, Grr… what are they stupid can’t they see … why, why, why? Why?



Wishes are like nap ambushes they aren’t a path to getting what you want and a lot of the times what you want isn’t really what you need.



Stephen King even said something incredibly intelligent about saying I wish was paramount to saying I give up. He didn’t say that exactly but he did say something along those lines. Don’t wish, do. Anyway when I read it I thought that’s pretty profound for someone who you wouldn’t expect to be all deep and stuff. Sort of like when I make some freaking brilliant statement. Not that I’m a great writer or anything just that usually people have really low expectations of my brilliance, intelligence and other wise smarticles, ah… hello smart particles, duh.



Still in other news



Snoop dogg on Nick? Really Snoop? But I suppose it’s better than being all gangsta’



Can you tell I’m rushed, yeah I know sorry I took a nap. I may not be updating for the next few days. Well because the beta unit is due in at some point tonight and I don’t usually blog when the beta unit visits. Those don’t always go so stellar but I’m being optimistic that things will continue on their current trend of not sucking.



So if you don’t see me on the notes or on the net much at all it’s most like not because I’m dead or even napping, it’s probably because I’m visiting with actual people, wishing, looking up to the moon and thinking… about things that are better left unsaid. Said too much, Not said enough I can’t be more clear and I wish that I could be. Leaving me confused but I can be still… ever so still and stare up in to the falling snow …



How do you say what can’t be said without it drawing assumption from others, being clearer isn’t clear that it will make things more clear but only stir a blizzard and there all will be lost in winter… which isn’t always a bad thing if you know why you are in winter and not just there and think that its’ spring



Triple-ly in other news



yeah what a waste of really good original title but it's mine now.



Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday



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Ciao,

Wanna know how I got these scars?

This is more than a bit late or early depending on how you look at it. Being as I had all the good intentions of writing last night and not doing it, it is technically late. However, if I do another bit of writing later it could be considered early… but only if you are trying to justify it as not being late. So better late than never??? I guess. (insert smiley face)

I can’t sleep, lots on my mind and my ghosts and demons are wrestling with each other. Never really a good thing because if the ghosts keep most of the demons occupied there is always a chance that one of the demons will take control of the bus and …well …that isn’t always a good thing.

Lately though I’ve been keeping them all in order and it’s only when I’m really distracted and tired that one of them gets the upper hand usually only for a few seconds though. So no real trouble. Yet. There was that one time in the elevator. Anyway.

I am using my sudden insomnia to good use as this is the morning before the office holiday you have to work before the holidays and we’ll bring food into the office so we can mill about and look busy but eat and not work but really you have to work, really you have to work party. Yes it is really called that on the memos.

We had to get special dispensation for the office holiday you have to work before the …it isn’t really called that monstrosity of a name. The special dispensation is required because we did attempt to have a similar hey were going to stop working in the middle of the day sort of around lunch time and have a group food, team building and de-stressor thing over food because it works better with food then in boring ass trainings with role play scenarios before we go back to work thing. It was great fun and enjoyed by all.

Well as you may have guessed that idea got the hey you can’t do that seal afterwards mainly because we were stupidish and left the food out for others to enjoy who were not part of the whole group food, team building, de-stressor activity but like to eat food co workers. So the not working so hard one day got around to a lot of other workers instead of the just 12 or so of us on the team I work on. So because we were irresponsible and our irresponsibility led to even greater irresponsibility and a mess to clean up, we now have to have special dispensation to do these things. I don’t think we have to call the Nazi pope or anything but … wait what… we do? Really that seems a bit extreme… yeah, …yeah,… well you gotta do what you gotta do.

Seems that we do have to call the Nazi pope, but we only have to invite him someone else does the whole granting of the dispensation. That’s a relief getting a papal dispensation is no easy trick especially with two of the seven deadly sins involved.

Back to the point I’m making a veggie thing to take in for the holiday et al thingy, it has to be baked and was thinking of adding pineapple to it but I’m just not sure. I know it is good but it can be a bit much. So the thing is an artichoke with spinach dip I’ve added hearts of palm and water chestnuts to it this year I think that will give it a nice zing but I was thinking you know pineapple might be nice too, you know to kick it to that just a bit sweet level but I didn’t. I think if it were baked and then chilled dip the pineapple would be better… maybe… but I should have been productive last night for that to have happened and I wasn’t… as this entry is being done at oh dark thirty in the morning instead of at dark o’clock in the evening. I’m not on a schedule because I’m not paid to do this. Who said good thing?… Hmm… I know where you live Mr.

Mmm… dip is done and it smells yummy. Yes I said yummy. Deal with it, because it is and you wish you had some but you can’t have any, well if you read this and know me and work with me you can but the rest of you can’t neener, neener, neener.

In other news

I was distracted from writing by doing a few things with Stunt boy and playing MAG. Yes we are video game junkies a little bit. But we have our favorites and we don’t stray much. He plays HALO Reach now mainly or Fall Out New Vegas and I play MAG, I do like Assassin’s Creed too. We are also particular to our platform of choice as well. I’m all about the Play Station (PS3) and he is all Xbox 360. I have an Xbox too but that’s a different gaming system. Just seeing if you are reading or awake out there. Looking forward to some time off to play with out responsibility at the end of a sleep period but I have the beta unit coming for the holidays and it is rude to ignore family and friend to spend time with your electronics. So I’m probably not going to play as much as I want.

Still in other news

Probably should update the cast page soon as it does help to sort things out a bit. None of this was on my post it notes for what I thought about writing today, yesterday, you get the point. Yes I write myself little notes about what to write. You have a thought at 10:00 am and you can’t blog until 7:00 p.m. you might forget. I have a theory about that too. Muses are creative forces they bless you with ideas if you don’t do something with those ideas they give the idea to someone else. So I write it down so it’s mine then they have to employ demons to make me loose the piece of paper to give the idea to someone else. So I will be writing about getting p-owned by a MWD and stuff like that in a later episode of the still further adventures of invisible don king of the bastards … maybe they are chronicles because that one sort of happened already… what … oh ok… yup they are chronicles if they have already happened. Who is that? A demon I talk with …what not every one has a demon they talk with… they’re just kidding… I’m sure they are … oh and pouting is going to solve this …look …I know it hurts but it’s not like you drop dead when someone says I don’t believe in demons … oh ha, ha,… very funny, now get up we have things too do. Oh… Hey, you’re still here… sorry I thought we turned the blogger off. Oops Ok so until next time. See what you’ve done now…(click)

Triple-ly in other news

Title thanks to the Joker (Dark Knight)

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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I'm not really ill, although I may be infected...

It’s that time of year again. Like most everyone out there things are a bit tight in the money department this year. However, being raised in a hedonistic capitalistic society the need for material gratification weighs heavy on the mind. Now logically I know that spending money for things isn’t the path to happiness. And no matter what things you have they may not insure that you remain happy even if the brighten your day at first.

The part of my brain that says my logical mind is full of hoo-hah says that this thing or that gizmo is sooooo cool, it’s shiny and pretty and I must have it, keeps screaming at me that you haven’t done enough. Must has the precious, precious is good to us, must has the precious.

All the while my logical brain, and it does exist, argues back we already have enough and we have done more than we can really afford.

The hedonistic brain says not enough. PTHTHTHT You didn’t even buys anything for your self this year like you did last year. Must has the precious… yesh must has the precious.

So I’m torn and know that I should not be. Still there is that nagging pull to do more than I’ve done already. At least I’m not eating raw fish in a river and running around in a loin cloth.

In other news

We are Sex Bob-Omb one two three four…

Stunt boy and I watched Scott Pilgrim v. The World last night and I really like it he wasn’t a huge fan and his assessment was, ah, ok, what? Some of it was cool. He is 13 though so I’m sure that translate to something else which I don’t understand.

I will give it a 4 on the netflix rating scale, using that one because it’s more understood than my made up one and I don’t remember what mine was and I’m not looking it up right now. So on with the netflix scale I’m giving it a 4, I don’t think it was worth 5 stars but it was sufficiently cool to make me want to see it again and possibly read the source material. The music was good, the story was good, and the acting good and was not crappy except where it was supposed to be or at least that is what I think they were trying to do there. I’m not at all familiar with the source material so I don’t know how true or untrue it was or wasn’t to the graphic novels. Over all a solid 4.

Still in other news

I probably shouldn’t admit again that I really do like Cat E Perry’s music but I do. They are just so darn catchy and if you listen to them not necessarily the lyrics but the tones and range, she has a good voice or it’s mixed really well. However, I’ll settle for she has a good voice with really decent range. I’m still not going to say her name differently than Cat E. But yeah I’ll be singing along in my car when her songs play, maybe even car seat dancing too. Because baby I’m a fire work, I’m gonna let ‘em see my colors burst, gonna shoot across the sky going boom, boom, boom, and they’ll be all oh, oh, oh. Own the night…. Ah sorry I got caught up in the music. So yeah, Cat E is a good singer, I still think mother nature disapproves of her marriage to the thing she married.

Triple-ly in other news

Does anyone really ever read the triple-ly news? I mean it is really pretty much the same or I’m avoiding a copyright thing but I do mean the rest about the birthdays and the subscribing. I really like having subscribers because I am an attention whore and while I don’t do my own birthday I do like to tell other people happy birthday (even CPG) or even merry un birthday. I say happy birthday at stop signs as the amount of time you should stay stopped before moving forward, provided that it is safe to move. With that, I leave you with the standard.

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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Ciao,

Jane says, she's done with Sergio...

How close to evil are you willing to stand? Pretty close it would seem. However defining evil is the bigger question.

What is evil is certainly relative to a point. Depending on which side of the fence you are standing. Then there are the indisputable or universal truths. There are always those willing to split hairs but the taking of a life is widely held as a bad thing. And most would say evil.

How long would you talk to a murderer. Not just any murderer but a real, honest killed someone just because murderer. Evil or not? Most would say yes. So you have this person.

Would you sit in a room and have a conversation with that person? Would you shake their hand? Would the normal pleasantries flow off the tongue as simply?

Like have a nice day? How are you doing?

We don’t really mean them most of the time when we say them they are automatic. Our responses are by in large automatic too. Fine. Good. You too. Smile Ok see ya bye. Wave.

If you didn’t talk to the person you may go about your life and not think about it again. What if you did talk to them or had to talk to them. How quickly can you let go of that.

We think about evil and a picture comes to mind and type of person a look, their dress, their demeanor, their language and we are weary of that type of person but what if your prototype evil person is all wrong and the evil person looks just like everyone else. Acts like everyone else, well you know except for the murderer thing. You may have talked to a murderer and not known it. Does knowing really define it for us or redefine what has already happened.

In other news

How important is the good candy to you? If you have the good candy, you can do whatever you want to me, or is it slightly less important to you.

What is the worse candy and why and what is the best candy and why?

They said a certain rock and roll singer ate a candy bar out of a person after inserting it into them. I think he even went to a private school


I think the little fake fruit candies and Mike and Ike’s taste like soap. I’m not letting you know my favorite candy because I’m not going to be your candy bitch.


Still in other news

Ever notice that they say a lot of things but not too many people know who they are.

Triple-ly in other news

Thanks to Shane Dawson (Youtube) for the other news and Jane’s Addiction for the title.

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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Ciao,

My thoughts on a superhero

Recently I was reading an article of the strangest news items of 2010. Admittedly some of the stories were rather off the beaten path. One story that struck me as not really belonging in the group was one Seattle Washington. A group of people there have taken to the streets as caped crusaders. Not that any of them wear a cape. Now I know you may be thinking that this story certainly belongs in the bin with the strange happenings of the last year. If you are thinking this I’ll ask you to take a moment of pause and consider the following reasons why it is not so strange.

First, as citizens we want to have communities which are safe and crime free. We as citizens do have a responsibility to aid in providing for that safety. Primarily in the manner of not committing criminal acts or to Police your own actions.

Second as citizens we empower agencies and those in the employment of those agencies to provide protection and to serve the public in the performance of those duties. Corruption within those agencies is another topic.

Citizens policing them selves and citizens empowered by the community generally by statute to enforce the code of conduct of the community.

In an ideal society the first would simply be enough, that a community gathers together, establishes expected conduct and everyone conforms to the rules.

However we do not live in Utopia or even a suburban part of Utopia. We need the second group of people empowered to enforce the rules, because there will always be those who are willing to break the law. Theory abound about why crime occurs but that also another topic or group of topics, for now it should be sufficient to say crime will occur in every society.

Crime occurs from the lowest classes to the highest echelons of our society. Watch the news any day, pick up any paper and you’ll see it is prevalent. You will also hear that our law enforcement community is failing in protecting the citizens, our courts are addled by loopholes and self serving attorneys, our law makers do not make laws that are meaningful and the critical voices go on and on.

What you don’t hear among many of those critical voices is how to make it better. Just that what is being done is not working and or isn’t the right answer.

Solon, Greek Lawmaker and Statesman circa 600 BCE, stated that a society to effectively combat crime every citizen must be as outraged about any crime as if it had occurred to them.

Given this idea, any crime regardless of the victim should be viewed as if it happened to you. We are very far removed from this idea. We don’t even report crimes, we don’t press charges when we are offended against, we don’t provide witness, we work harder at getting out of jury duty then most of us do at our regular jobs. Then complain that our streets are filled with crime.

In the current economic state localities are cutting budgets and are not always able to fill vacant positions. So how do we solve the crime problem.

The traditions of public safety have always been based in the idea that we police ourselves and our communities. To give out the hue and cry when cry occurs and to be a truthful witness to wrongdoing when it does occur.

If we ignore the problem it will not go away.

So this group of “Superheroes” may have read the issues of Kick Ass or saw the movie and heard the question. Why hasn’t any one ever put on a costume and become a crime fighter.

The answer in the comic and the movie was, because you would get your ass kicked. However one guy does it, and he does get his ass kicked a little bit or a lot. But the point is he made a stand. That stand was to say no more will I ignore injustice when I can do something about it.

This group of people calling themselves the Rain City Superhero Movement isn’t really a far cry away from Curtis Sliwa’s response to crime on the subways in New York City and founding the Guardian Angels. It isn’t ever that far from the neighborhood watch patrols in thousands of communities across the country.

Citizens have always been a part of keeping our communities safe from those who will abuse the laws and take advantage of the complacency of others.

Phoenix Jones and other members of the RCSM are taking a stand. That stand is to put on the personas of crime fighter in costumes and help make their community safer.

Now there will be those who say he and the RCSM have no business doing what they are doing and they are likely to be killed.

My argument would be this that most people on neighborhood watches and those in the Guardian Angels, which still exists, are not harmed serious in the performance of citizen patrol. I did say most. There have been those killed doing both neighborhood watch and Guardian Angel patrols. There are also uniformed law enforcement officers killed every year.

I’m not able to put on the cape and mask and go on patrol but I can do my part in fighting crime.

There is what I think is the real story, that we all need to be our own version of a super hero and not ignore the wrong doing in our communities and be an active part in making our communities safer however we can. Not that this is a strange event of 2010 but more a wake up call that we all need to be a part of solving the problems in our lives and not looking for other people to solve them for us without our help.

I can not say everyone should put on a costume and fight crime but I do admire those in the RCSM and see that this isn’t just a laughable story to be put on page 8 or at the end of a news broadcast. They are real people saying that they can make a difference in their communities. Can you?

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