• My neighborhood & Cops

    From Dreamer@VERT/SETXBBS to All on Sun Oct 27 20:10:00 2013
    If anyone wants to get a glimpse of the place I've been staying at, my neighborhood was featured on Cops last night. LOL

    Apparently, a suspicious person was spotted in an area a mile or two
    down the road that's known for drugs. They chased him down Helbig
    towards my area. The suspect turns a block over from my road, and
    runs a good ways. You can actually see my apartment complex as they
    turn the road.

    This occurred sometime in the spring. I hadn't known about all that
    until I watched the episode, but I do remember earlier this year my
    kids coming inside saying the police had told them to go home. There
    was someone hiding in the woods. This was a seperate incident;
    according to the news, someone ran from across town to this area after
    a burglary, and they crashed their Honda at that same intersection.

    There've been one or two other incidents of people running to this
    area. I can kinda understand why... it's a low traffic area, very
    wooded and several areas with quick turns to lose somebody. You could
    even get lucky with a train to cut off pursuers, movie-style.

    Still, why do they have to run to here? lol

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Dreamer on Mon Oct 28 00:36:39 2013
    Re: My neighborhood & Cops
    By: Dreamer to All on Sun Oct 27 2013 15:10:00

    If anyone wants to get a glimpse of the place I've been staying at, my neighborhood was featured on Cops last night. LOL

    Apparently, a suspicious person was spotted in an area a mile or two
    down the road that's known for drugs. They chased him down Helbig
    towards my area. The suspect turns a block over from my road, and
    runs a good ways. You can actually see my apartment complex as they
    turn the road.

    There've been one or two other incidents of people running to this
    area. I can kinda understand why... it's a low traffic area, very
    wooded and several areas with quick turns to lose somebody. You could even get lucky with a train to cut off pursuers, movie-style.

    Sounds like you live in a dangerous area.. Does it ever make you want to move? :P

    Nightfox

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  • From Dreamer@VERT/SETXBBS to Nightfox on Mon Oct 28 13:17:00 2013
    Nightfox wrote to Dreamer <=-

    Sounds like you live in a dangerous area.. Does it ever make you want
    to move? :P

    During the daytime, it's quite pleasant here at the apartments. Lots
    of kids around, rarely any problems.

    After dark, though, it can get a little loud some nights. Mostly
    people blaring their radios, the occasional loud argument. I think
    the Housing Authority recently brought in some fresh meat, however, as
    lately I have head some somewhat louder arguments and screams. I
    haven't heard any gunshots in my part of the neighborhood lately,
    though. Last night, I did hear a distant boom...it was too far away
    to tell if it was a gunshot, some sort of explosive, or a closer car
    crash. Didn't hear any screech leading up to it, so I don't think it
    was a collision.

    I stick to myself here, and being in housing, everyone pretty much
    knows everyone else doesn't have anything of worth to steal, so I feel
    fairly safe. There's really no reason for anyone to try to break in.
    We don't go out at night.

    I do miss living in Nederland. The rising cost of living there seems
    to keep the rougher elements out...lol. To me, half of Beaumont seems
    to be a "dangerous area", and if you want to live in a nicer area, it
    costs a pretty penny.

    As far as moving to another city, I do plan on it, but it's not going
    to happen until I get out of poverty; I've posted enough on that
    subject. Don't know if I mentioned, my mother's house sale fell
    through, and it's back on the market again with no big bites. I've
    stepped up my job search, and started visiting the workforce solutions
    building more...but I've yet to get a single call for an interview.





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  • From Sampsa@VERT/B4BBS to Dreamer on Tue Oct 29 02:58:00 2013
    Dreamer wrote to Nightfox <=-


    After dark, though, it can get a little loud some nights. Mostly
    people blaring their radios, the occasional loud argument. I think
    the Housing Authority recently brought in some fresh meat, however, as lately I have head some somewhat louder arguments and screams. I
    haven't heard any gunshots in my part of the neighborhood lately,
    though. Last night, I did hear a distant boom...it was too far away
    to tell if it was a gunshot, some sort of explosive, or a closer car crash. Didn't hear any screech leading up to it, so I don't think it
    was a collision.

    That sounds worse than f'ing Beirut - I heard gunfire ONCE during my
    6 month stay, and it was celebratory because a guy these other guys
    was on TV.

    And people think I'm nuts for moving there...

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Sampsa on Mon Oct 28 21:11:21 2013
    Re: Re: My neighborhood & Cop
    By: Sampsa to Dreamer on Mon Oct 28 2013 09:58 pm

    That sounds worse than f'ing Beirut - I heard gunfire ONCE during my
    6 month stay, and it was celebratory because a guy these other guys
    was on TV.

    And people think I'm nuts for moving there...


    i live in what could be considered a somewhat dangerous city.

    most the time the people that get shot or beat up have it coming though. meaning they are shady and into drug dealing,etc and their own type of trash
    is giving them a taste of their own medicine.

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  • From Sampsa@VERT/B4BBS to Mro on Wed Oct 30 05:59:00 2013
    Mro wrote to Sampsa <=-

    That sounds worse than f'ing Beirut - I heard gunfire ONCE during my
    6 month stay, and it was celebratory because a guy these other guys
    was on TV.

    And people think I'm nuts for moving there...


    i live in what could be considered a somewhat dangerous city.

    most the time the people that get shot or beat up have it coming
    though. meaning they are shady and into drug dealing,etc and their own type of trash is giving them a taste of their own medicine.

    Yeah the violence in Lebanon is more tribal/sectarian. Sunnis an Shia
    having a go in this round, Christians and the Druze are siting it out :)

    I think I'll stick to Christian East Beirut, only one car bomb in the
    last 24 months.

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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to SAMPSA on Mon Nov 11 18:29:00 2013
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    That sounds worse than f'ing Beirut - I heard gunfire ONCE during my
    6 month stay, and it was celebratory because a guy these other guy
    was on TV

    And people think I'm nuts for moving there..

    You are nuts, but in a nice way.

    If you think someplace is dangerous, I'd move.


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  • From Sampsa@VERT/B4BBS to the doctor on Thu Nov 14 16:31:00 2013
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    And people think I'm nuts for moving there..

    You are nuts, but in a nice way.

    Thanks lol.

    If you think someplace is dangerous, I'd move.

    That's the funny part, it ISN'T dangerous unless you get involved
    in like their crazy-ass politics. The main risk where you might
    get killed are car bombs, which happen max twice a year miles from
    the neighbourhoods I hang in.

    In London I've been robbed at gunpoint, stabbed once (drunk,
    decided NOT to give guy my money) and had my burglared.

    And I live in a GOOD neighbourhood where 1000 sq ft will
    set you back a million USD.

    So I'm actually moving to somewhere safer...

    Fun statistic for you, during the 1975-1990 civil war
    how many foreign civilians (i.e. not journos, soldiers,
    people on peace missions etc) were killed? 70. SEVENTY.
    In fifteen years. All sides in Lebanon realise killing
    outsiders is bad PR so go out of their way to avoid it.

    So I just STFU about politics and religion (though
    of course I have my views) and if the Sunnis want
    to blow up a Shia Ashura parade today, well who
    cares? I live on a Christian hill, not my war. :)

    sampsa


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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to SAMPSA on Thu Nov 21 03:51:00 2013
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    Fun statistic for you, during the 1975-1990 civil wa
    how many foreign civilians (i.e. not journos, soldiers
    people on peace missions etc) were killed? 70. SEVENTY
    In fifteen years. All sides in Lebanon realise killin
    outsiders is bad PR so go out of their way to avoid it

    So it's safer than my hometown, Phoenix Arizona... with the same warning about discussing politics with the natives?


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  • From Sampsa@VERT/B4BBS to the doctor on Thu Nov 21 23:51:00 2013
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    --- SAMPSA wrote --
    Fun statistic for you, during the 1975-1990 civil wa
    how many foreign civilians (i.e. not journos, soldiers
    people on peace missions etc) were killed? 70. SEVENTY
    In fifteen years. All sides in Lebanon realise killin
    outsiders is bad PR so go out of their way to avoid it

    So it's safer than my hometown, Phoenix Arizona... with the same
    warning about discussing politics with the natives?

    Well Beirut's kinda funny in that you have to figure out what
    faction the other guy belongs to and then express your support
    for that cause, no matter what the hell it is. And some of the
    causes are pretty batshit insane - SSNP, Syrian Socialst National
    Party, their flag even looks like a Nazi flag, want to join with
    Syria under al-Assad, And they're Christians?!?

    Hezbollah wants to setup an Iranian style vilayet-e fakih, rule
    by the jurisprudent, i.e. Islamic republic.

    The Salafis want to kill everyone but themselves, and parts of
    the Christian Right do too.

    So you gotta be flexible and quickwitted in any conversation so
    you don't piss people off..:)


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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to SAMPSA on Mon Nov 25 18:39:00 2013
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    Well Beirut's kinda funny in that you have to figure out wha
    faction the other guy belongs to and then express your suppor
    for that cause, no matter what the hell it is. And some of th
    causes are pretty batshit insane - SSNP, Syrian Socialst National
    Party, their flag even looks like a Nazi flag, want to join wit
    Syria under al-Assad, And they're Christians?!

    That's much more complex than Arizona, where you're either a supporter of the Tea Party, or not.


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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to the doctor on Mon Nov 25 15:06:50 2013
    Re: Re: My neighborhood & Cop
    By: the doctor to SAMPSA on Mon Nov 25 2013 12:39 pm

    Well Beirut's kinda funny in that you have to figure out wha
    faction the other guy belongs to and then express your suppor
    for that cause, no matter what the hell it is. And some of th
    causes are pretty batshit insane

    Sounds like trying to get it on with college girls in the '80s and '90s. Free Nelson Mandela? Genocide in Eritrea? Sure! Let's go back to your room and have injustice-fueled sex!

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to the doctor on Mon Nov 25 21:56:07 2013
    Re: Re: My neighborhood & Cop
    By: the doctor to SAMPSA on Mon Nov 25 2013 12:39 pm


    Well Beirut's kinda funny in that you have to figure out wha
    faction the other guy belongs to and then express your suppor
    for that cause, no matter what the hell it is. And some of th
    causes are pretty batshit insane - SSNP, Syrian Socialst National
    Party, their flag even looks like a Nazi flag, want to join wit
    Syria under al-Assad, And they're Christians?!

    That's much more complex than Arizona, where you're either a supporter of the Tea Party, or not.


    in my area you either support obama or you're a racist.

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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to MRO on Tue Nov 26 05:33:00 2013
    --- MRO wrote --

    in my area you either support obama or you're a racist

    I'm sure that's not the case in Phoenix.

    In the UK, everyone loves him.


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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to the doctor on Tue Nov 26 00:32:37 2013
    Re: Re: My neighborhood & Cop
    By: the doctor to MRO on Mon Nov 25 2013 11:33 pm

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    in my area you either support obama or you're a racist

    I'm sure that's not the case in Phoenix.

    In the UK, everyone loves him.


    well, he's a bullshit artist. ofcourse they love him. they dont have to deal with him.

    cnn did an international poll and it shows that general obama love has faded with more than half not trusting the guy.

    he is the nobel peace prize winner with a kill list.

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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to MRO on Tue Nov 26 15:22:00 2013
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    well, he's a bullshit artist. ofcourse they love him. they dont have to de with him

    This reminds me of that book "trashing" Gene Roddenberry, by Joe Engle. He went and actually asked people who knew the guy, and it turned out that instead of being the Jesus Christ of TV, he was a womanizing, credit stealing, alcoholic. In other words, they examined his character, and discovered that he was a TV producer.

    So we've examined Obama's character and discovered he is a politician. Shocking.

    cnn did an international poll and it shows that general obama love has fad with more than half not trusting the guy

    Heh.

    he is the nobel peace prize winner with a kill list

    He's not the only one. Didn't Kissinger get one? I mean, that was the death of satire, right there.


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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to Mro on Tue Nov 26 13:26:18 2013
    Re: Re: My neighborhood & Cop
    By: Mro to the doctor on Mon Nov 25 2013 03:56 pm

    in my area you either support obama or you're a racist.

    I remember all of GWB's "uniter" rhetoric. Guess that didn't work out too well.

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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to the doctor on Tue Nov 26 13:26:40 2013
    Re: Re: My neighborhood & Cop
    By: the doctor to MRO on Mon Nov 25 2013 11:33 pm

    in my area you either support obama or you're a racist

    In the UK, everyone loves him.

    Did they vote for him?

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  • From Sampsa@VERT/B4BBS to the doctor on Wed Nov 27 00:06:00 2013
    the doctor wrote to SAMPSA <=-

    Well Beirut's kinda funny in that you have to figure out wha
    faction the other guy belongs to and then express your suppor
    for that cause, no matter what the hell it is. And some of th
    causes are pretty batshit insane - SSNP, Syrian Socialst National
    Party, their flag even looks like a Nazi flag, want to join wit
    Syria under al-Assad, And they're Christians?!

    That's much more complex than Arizona, where you're either a supporter
    of the Tea Party, or not.

    Oh so you don't have 17 officially recognized religious sects, each with a private army and mountain hideouts in Arizona?

    Weird.

    sampsa


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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Wed Nov 27 04:18:00 2013
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    Did they vote for him

    No, but enough Americans seem to have done so, twice...


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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to SAMPSA on Wed Nov 27 04:31:00 2013
    --- SAMPSA wrote --

    Oh so you don't have 17 officially recognized religious sects, each with a private army and mountain hideouts in Arizona


    Maybe not seventeen, but I'm sure there are a few... but they tend to stay out of Phoenix...


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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to the doctor on Wed Nov 27 00:33:26 2013
    Re: Re: My neighborhood & Cop
    By: the doctor to MRO on Tue Nov 26 2013 09:22 am

    instead of being the Jesus Christ of TV, he was a womanizing, credit stealing, alcoholic. In other words, they examined his character, and discovered that he was a TV producer.

    So we've examined Obama's character and discovered he is a politician. Shocking.


    well he's got the lying stuff down pat. but there's more to being a poiltician than speaking well and lying. he cant get shit done, doesnt know how things work and speaking with his lovely voice and playing the blame game only lasts for so long.

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to the doctor on Wed Nov 27 00:44:36 2013
    Re: Re: My neighborhood & Cop
    By: the doctor to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Tue Nov 26 2013 10:18 pm

    --- POINDEXTER FORTRAN wrote --

    Did they vote for him

    No, but enough Americans seem to have done so, twice...


    that's not exactly how it works.

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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to MRO on Wed Nov 27 15:24:00 2013
    --- MRO wrote --

    well he's got the lying stuff down pat. but there's more to being a poilti than speaking well and lying. he cant get shit done, doesnt know how thin work and speaking with his lovely voice and playing the blame game only la for so long

    What would you like him to get done? If Congress won't even pass a budget, they won't pass a budget. The latest nitwittery at least suggested that he was willing to stare them down.


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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to MRO on Wed Nov 27 15:26:00 2013
    --- MRO wrote --

    that's not exactly how it works

    Okay, I'll bite. Excactly how does it work?


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  • From First Officer@VERT/HOLODECK to the doctor on Wed Nov 27 15:18:00 2013
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    What would you like him to get done? If Congress won't even pass a budget, they won't pass a budget. The latest nitwittery at least suggested that he was willing to stare them down.

    He doesn't care if they pass a budget. They don't want to pass a budget, as
    if they did, they'ed have to pretend to adhere to it. They all, including
    him, are spending money foolishly, like drunken sailors. He doesn't want a budget passed any more than anyone, it would be too constrictive. Then when the Sh%^& hits the fan, he'll then blame it on congress for not passing a budget. watch...

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to the doctor on Wed Nov 27 23:27:15 2013
    Re: Re: My neighborhood & Cop
    By: the doctor to MRO on Wed Nov 27 2013 09:24 am


    What would you like him to get done? If Congress won't even pass a budget, they won't pass a budget. The latest nitwittery at least suggested that he was willing to stare them down.


    i'd like him to do his job instead of attempting to do stuff that is not
    within his power and crying and finger pointing when it backfires.

    i'd like him to stop lying and making promises that he knows he cant keep. latest huge example of his incompetence is this obamacare fiasco. he cant blame that on anybody else but himself now.

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to the doctor on Wed Nov 27 23:30:06 2013
    Re: Re: My neighborhood & Cop
    By: the doctor to MRO on Wed Nov 27 2013 09:26 am

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    that's not exactly how it works

    Okay, I'll bite. Excactly how does it work?


    the electoral college.
    the future president needs 270 votes.
    it's a messed up system. should go with popular vote [what most people believe elections are based on]

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to First Officer on Wed Nov 27 23:33:06 2013
    Re: Re: My neighborhood & Cop
    By: First Officer to the doctor on Wed Nov 27 2013 09:18 am


    He doesn't care if they pass a budget. They don't want to pass a budget, as if they did, they'ed have to pretend to adhere to it. They all, including him, are spending money foolishly, like drunken sailors. He doesn't want a budget passed any more than anyone, it would be too constrictive. Then when the Sh%^& hits the fan, he'll then blame it on congress for not passing a budget. watch...


    yeah it's just stupidity. i dont know why people put up with it.
    we are fucking up our children and grandchildren's future.
    they have a strange thought process. one example is they establish something that will be paid off in a large number of years and in THEIR mind.. it's paid off. so they act accordingly and continue the spending. counting the chickens before they're hatched.

    our forefathers wouldnt have put up with all this BS. hell, they attacked the british over a slight tea increase.

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  • From BlaZZZe@VERT/PNLTYBOX to Mro on Fri Nov 29 11:36:00 2013
    Re: Re: My neighborhood & Cop
    By: Mro to the doctor on Wed Nov 27 2013 05:30 pm

    the electoral college.
    the future president needs 270 votes.
    it's a messed up system. should go with popular vote [what most people belie elections are based on]

    It was a system that made perfect sense at the time of its inception, preventing the major centers of population from controlling national elections.
    Today, I think a major advantage is that it requires candidates to travel to and meet citizens from cities other than New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to FIRST OFFICER on Tue Dec 3 04:50:00 2013
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    He doesn't care if they pass a budget. They don't want to pass a budget, a
    if they did, they'ed have to pretend to adhere to it. They all, including him, are spending money foolishly, like drunken sailors. He doesn't want a budget passed any more than anyone, it would be too constrictive. Then whe the Sh%^& hits the fan, he'll then blame it on congress for not passing a budget. watch...

    I don't understand that logic, and I don't think that is true in any case. The "automatic sequester" actually reduced spending...

    In any event, it's up to Congress, be they drunken sailors or not, to pass a budget...


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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to MRO on Tue Dec 3 04:57:00 2013
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    i'd like him to do his job instead of attempting to do stuff that is no within his power and crying and finger pointing when it backfires

    I'm not particulary satisfied with the guy, but that's pretty non specific. (;



    i'd like him to stop lying and making promises that he knows he cant keep latest huge example of his incompetence is this obamacare fiasco. he cant that on anybody else but himself now

    No contest there. The implementation seems to have been pretty damn bad.


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