Good afternoon, enjoy these links while you burn a hole in your cubicle wall daydreaming about stuffing and cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie and sleeping in and college football and parades and Christmas Ale and family Monopoly and Uncle Antonio’s off-color jokes and fistfights over the last turkey leg and and and . . .
— Just when we thought the freezing temperatures would finally squash the summer’s favorite media-meme-cum-public-panic, the news out of Cleveland Heights is that teens continues to congregate in unruly mobs organized via social media, ie the end of civilization as we know it. Now young kids are getting together at Severance Town Center and the city is thinking about putting that block under a curfew. (Cleveland Heights Patch)
— The strangest story circulating the wires is about the two individuals who allegedly lured potential victims to Ohio through Craiglists. One of the accused is a 16-year-old high school student from Stow. The young man’s mother has been making the media rounds, giving interviews to a couple local stations. (News 5)
— Jimmy Dimora’s lawyers are trying to keep phrases like “political godfather,” “corruption,” and “kickback” out of his criminal trial. We know, we laughed too. (WKYC)
This article appears in Nov 16-22, 2011.
If blame is a must, then I must blame the Jimmy and Frank behavior and gang activity which turned the democratic party around here look dysfunctional and criminal..Which made the republicans hate the democrats even more and for some more conservative democrats to cross over and be republicans.
What I blame onto the Jimmy and Frank show is that they helped push the parties around here to become more angry and name-calling and juvenile. I must wonder, that had the Jimmy and Frank catastrophe for Cleveland not been so ugly, would we have the current governor of Ohio, a right wing radical, screwing up our state?
The big money guys call things like the Jimmy and Frank deal opportunities. Once the democratic party was free game for the right wing folks like our governor, the Wolfe Brothers in Columbus and the voters down route 71, we were doomed. The first thing Johnny K and gang did was jump some cops ass for giving him a ticket. Then lock up the state house. And then hate the president of the USA and voice his hatred for the president over the media channels. But what that says is that he hates half of the people in Ohio.
So then, thanks Jimmy and Frank for leaving all of this damage control which must be fought so as to get our City and State back to sanity. Perhaps we have never had a sane period in our recent history.. Our state is at the top of the list so far as violent crime, and the city of Cleveland ranks seventh in the country in violent crimes. What this means is that we are one of the most angry cities in the world.
The thing that gets me in a better mood is that we have so much room for improvement as a state and as cities of Ohio. We have a Great Lake which is the most productive of the Great Lakes, even as it is the most shallow. We have a medical industry in place that if managed well can be number one in the country. We have an infrstructure in place which offers limitless growth. We have good people…all we really need to do is stop being so darn pissed off about politics and subcultures and any thing which separates us..All we really need to do is calm down and think positive.