I Was Stopped by a Cop Yesterday.

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police, traffic stop

When I got pulled over by a Prescott cop yesterday while doing errands, I thought about all the troubles in the mainstream news between cops and blacks. My experience was very different.

I didn’t quite come to a stop at a stop sign.

No violence ensued. I was given a warning, not a ticket. Because I’m white, middle aged, female? Or because I pulled over when I saw the flashing lights? Was polite to the officer who was in turn polite with me? Because I had a valid driver’s license, vehicle registration, insurance card and am not a felon and I don’t have any warrants? I left my gun in my purse and the officer left his in his holster – funny how well things work when everyone behaves in a civilized manner.

 

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Are the French Waking Up?

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France, French

Somewhat off my usual topics, I saw online that French farmers burned a tax office and French planes bombed ISIS fighters:

About 100 farmers descended first on an insurance office, which they burned and completely destroyed before driving their tractors to the main tax office where they dumped unsold vegetables and set the building on fire. French media reports said the farmers blocked traffic, which kept rescue workers from extinguishing the fire.

– http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/09/french-farmers-torch-government-offices-to-protest/380550/

And

French jets struck a suspected Islamic State target in Iraq for the first time on Friday, expanding a U.S.-led military campaign against militants who have seized a third of the country and also control large parts of neighboring Syria.

– http://news.yahoo.com/france-says-jets-launch-first-air-strikes-iraq-093303945.html

Perhaps some day Americans will wake up and burn down a IRS office? And defend our borders too? If the socialist French can act, who knows, anything is possible.

Corporate Greed Monster Takes a Bite out of Thanksgiving

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consumerism, corporate greed, holidays, thanksgiving

An article in yesterdays Daily Courier http://www.prescottaz.com/main.asp?SectionID=260&SubSectionID=1148&ArticleID=125666 listed some big box stores that are going to be open on Thanksgiving day. Some will be opening in the evening on Thanksgiving, others disrespecting the holiday for the entire day. Some have employees working voluntarily for a higher wage that day, but for a low wage retail worker struggling to keep up with inflation how voluntary can it be?

I find this trend disturbing. Executives raking in millions while many formerly middle class families struggle, small locally owned business having to ape the big box boys to stay afloat. Why not slow down, disconnect for a day or two or four, enjoy the company of family and friends for the Holiday? That, to me, is what it’s about. I can wait a day or two to buy Chinese imports that I don’t need with money I don’t have. If we shop on Thanksgiving Day we are literally buying into this rabid consumerism.

Me, I’ll be having a meal with my husband and some family from his side. Turkey. Ham. Sweet potatoes. And probably too large of a portion of each.

The only holiday not consumed by the corporate greed monster is Christmas Day. Even Wal-Mart is closed for Christmas. Will it last, will Christmas Day remain a real holiday in the face of corporate greed, raging consumerism, and creeping secularism?

Prescott High School Closed Campus

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prescott az, prescott high school

Prescott High School Closed Campus, originally uploaded by dagnyg.

Walking by the Prescott High School late morning today I saw that the gates were closed and locked up, yet the parking lots were full. Then I remembered that the campus is closed during the school day for freshmen. Next year this will be the case for freshmen and sophomores, then juniors the next year, etc, until the campus is completely closed. As a neighbor of PHS I think this is good. But the school looks a whole lot like a prison with the locked fence.

9/11/20nn

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9/11

It’s 9/11. I’m pausing for a moment to honor those who fell 9/11/2001.
When I think of what happened since then: 2 undeclared wars at a huge cost in lives and treasure and my country lurching towards becoming a police state. The action is the reaction as the cultural Marxists say.
I hope I can avoid seeing reruns of the airliners crashing into the towers. Enough of that.