Craig,
Something you might be interested in...
We live on Farwell near Sheridan, and after being gone since last night we came home at about 3pm today to find this flyer - full of nonsensical babbling - taped to our door. The sentences barely make any sense at all, but apparently someone thinks "government asshole liar snobs who hate" drugged him/her at Charmers coffee shop and at Starbucks. The author seems to think the same conspiracy spreads to Dominick's too:
"CHARMERS COFFEEOUSE AT 1500 W. JARVIS, MARCH 24 2007, 7:30 A.M. SETUPS BY GOVERNMENT ASSHOLE LIAR SNOBS WHO HATE. DRUGGED BY COFFEE DELIBERATELY BEHIND COUNTER ALL THE WAY TO THE CREAM COUNTER. THE CREAM WAS DRUGGED TOO. AT DOMINICKS HOWARD/CLARK THE PRIOR WEEK 4:00 P.M. STARBUCKS COUNTER. THE MANAGEMENT AT DOMINICKS HOWARD AND CLARK ARE RUDE AND UNPROFESSIONAL AND ALSO INVOLVE STAFF WITH THESE GOVERNMENT ASSHOLES. THESE ASSHOLES HAVE NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED AND THE B/W DETECTIVE UPPER LEVEL AND LOWER LEVEL ARE FUCKED UP RUDE PUSHY ASSHOLES."And it goes on about the Starbucks at Sheridan and Pratt, more "government assholes" and is followed by what looks like a letter from Clifford Law Offices telling this person they won't take their case because it's insane. At the end of the page, there are two photos from the Sheridan Citgo / Subway shooting last week with no explanation of what that has to do with drugged coffee creamer.
A nice piece of paranoid schizophrenia here. Even the tape job shows signs of someone with issues. He/she used 13 pieces of scotch tape to tack this thing to our door. How many of these flyers have been pasted around the neighborhood, and who's the nutjob that took the trouble to do it?
- Jeff
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Craig, I verily believe you're fingering the wrong person for this little bit of nonsense. This just doesn't have that person's fingerprint on it, just isn't his style.
There is an individual around here who I believe could be responsible for this, and he is a random nut who never blogs, or at least I don't believe. I don't know the guy's name, but you can see him going into local businesses making a complete nuisance of himself and then feeling all wounded and like he's the victim of some broad conspiracy when the workers at the place give him the boot. He's white and in early middle-age, drab appearance, and completely nutso. Some little shops won't even let him walk in the door.
But it's not who you think it is.
This flyer was also taped to the windows of my store and the stores nextdoor to me. It made no sense to us so we removed them all and threw them out.
I am pretty sure I know who this is. He lives in the building next to mine (on Jarvis) and used to leave handwritten notes with the same paranoid, rambling nonsense on cars in the area. He's definitely not a blogger and I'm actually impressed that he has moved on to typewritten communications.
He's a recovering alcoholic and has a lot of issues.
Well, there are people like these in every neighborhood.
RP might have more than a few.
Nothing to get all bothered about.The poor nut is what he is.
I feel for schizophrenics and think these people need a more sheltered and structured setting than the typical halfway house. They really need institutions, but we hardly have these anymore. Mother of my sis's old high school buddy, tried to get her rapidly deteriorating daughter into an institution for 20 years. Finally succeeded after the woman had managed to lose a leg jumping in front of a train, and was sleeping in doorways and foraging for food in dumpsters. Woman was too unmaneagable to be kept at home.
And many of these folks are too unmaneable to be kept in halfway houses in the neighborhood.
thanks again ronald reagan, and your supply side fantasies. libertarian principles taken to their logical conclusion.
Not exactly, been there.
It takes nothing away from libertarian principles to provide for that miniscule fraction of the population who really and truly cannot care for themselves. We're talking a truly tiny sliver of the demographic.
It is also the job of any civilized polity to provide basic road and utility infrastructure such as roads for basic egress, locks, dams, levees, and other utility infrastructure(NOT fund every wasteful boondogle in the country), emergency services and assistance, which includes unemployment, temporary welfare assistance for people with children, and of course, support for children whose parents can't or won't care for them. It also includes basic amenities available to everyone on the same terms, like decent public schools, parks, libraries, musuems- the things that can make the city an enviable place to live and are available for the use of all on equal terms.It obviously includes services like law enforcement and fire protection.
It does NOT include lavish tax funding for stuff that is unavailable to most citizens, or that generates more waste and expense for everyone than necessary, like sports stadiums, private universities, shopping malls, private housing, and the thousands of other private and/or economically unjustifiable uses our public money is allocated to.
Reagan and his "supply side" theorists really just shifted the public money from public uses to private uses, and privatised profits while socializing the losses, as in the S&L debacle that set the pattern for every future fraud bubble that benefitted a handful of people lavishly, at steep cost to the public.
Today's neocons have done more to destroy true free market capitalism that the "communists" and "socialists" ever have, for their version of "free markets" means only picking a different, and highly privileged, set of "winners", at the expense of the taxpayers.
well, nc, i have never met these level headed libertarians of which you speak. i have seen you on these spaces decrying public involvement in many items on your list.
i specifically remember your statement that bridges that are crumbling need to be "triaged", and some allowed to turn to dust. when you get to the point where you are saying no to the government maintaining bridges that it already built, you leave the world or reality based politics.
been there, I'll certainly say that for interstate highway bridges. The system needs to be shrunk by 50% to be manageable, and it needs to be user-funded, not tax-funded.
In 10 years, it will be redundant due to escalating fuel costs and the voluntary reduction of the car population by citizens no longer able to afford automobiles for every family member and 30-mile daily commutes.
We here in the city in no way benefit from the interstate system, that only enabled the destruction of the city in favor of auto suburbs,and enabled huge segments of the population to move out to those places and deprive cities of middle-class support, all financed by the taxpayers. Many great neighborhoods in many cities were destroyed by being sliced apart by these roads, that wiped out entire sections of cities.
By roads, I mean roads necessary for basic egress that can be walked and cycled on as well as drivin on, not limited-access speedways that cost 4X as much as a normal street to maintain and that I can't even walk on. Local bridges and roads are a core necessity, while highways only trigger more driving and more movement away from city cores and to far-flung, low density hinterlands, which surely doesn't benefit our city or its population.
The railroads are much more efficient for freight hauling than over-the-road trucks. Trucks should be mostly for local hauling.
We could afford such basic civic necessities as care and supervision for those with crippling illness if we weren't shoveling so big a portion of our national wealth into maintaining the infrastructure for the most wasteful and energy-consuming way of life on the planet. Too bad we have sunk so much of our wealth for the past 60 years into something that's going to have no utility 15 years out.
roads are financed by users. it is called the federal gasoline tax. federal roads in and around chicago allow us to continue to have the kind of booming economy that we had in the days of the steam engine. in fact, we are still a hub for inter-modal shipping.
the rest of your post is typical libertarian pie in the sky. maybe you should look into the benefits of having the sun rise in the west.
well, nc, i have never met these level headed libertarians of which you speak.
And you probably won't:)
I hope he doesn't go back for revenge, sound postal to me.
The guy simply wants attention and is not getting it. Even if he gets another voice to talk to, shaking him after a reasonable amount of discussion may prove impossible without upsetting him.
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