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Happy New Year…

My gift to many?  This blog will come down very soon.  I am done blogging, done with anonymous people with slick screen names who call ya names.

I am going to become “anonymous” for a change on other blogs.  If I play my cards right I may even get banned on a few blogs. That should take about 10 seconds.

I appreciate all those that did follow my blog here and those that did respect MY OPINIONS whether right or wrong and even some that supported me.  I was shocked many times by the people I met that actually read and enjoyed my musings and even more shocked at who some of these people were in our community.

Ya know, through this site I have met some really nice, intelligent, and very interesting people.  I have learned a lot from them.  Then I have run into some egotistical jerks. 

Basically blogging was fun for me and I loved to throw out the bullshit and most, most people saw through that and understood what I really meant but some people couldn’t pull their heads out of their asses long enough and that made it tough for me.

Yes, yes I have said I’d quit before and those high and mighty bloggers, the ones where if you point out their flaws either ban you or blast you, then claim they are fair minded, will rake me, maybe, for dropping this site.  I don’t care.  I have other interests and right now blogging doesn’t fit.  Besides, Peoria has enough negative voices out there and if this city needs anything, it is positive people. I found myself being too damn negative which some readers enjoyed I guess but some come here just to call me an idiot or other neat names.  I guess I am an idiot but at least I know I can help myself.  Some of my commenter's I really wonder about though.

17 youth killed in 2009, a City Council who seems to have lost it’s way.  Unemployment, school district problems, and me calling a neighborhood association president and racist, well, I guess I wouldn’t want in my neighborhood either.  Who would?  FEH

There!  I cheapen myself for the last time.

Thanks to all those who did give me encouragement and did find my musings, well, amusing if not downright truth hit on the head of the nail in some cases. 

Happy New Year!

P.S.  Commenters:  Get your jabs in now while ya can. 

Confirmed Department…

UPDATE:  Hey after thinking about this and reading opinions elsewhere on this subject maybe I am somewhat wrong on what Ms Harris was thrilled about.  Maybe she and others were concerned about the crime at Campustown.  Maybe.  Still, I write from the hip and what I wrote I will keep posted. I still think some of the Uplanders think they are too good for the rest of us. 

UPDATE 2:  Fuck it.  If Ms. Harris hadn’t made such a broad statement, then she wouldn’t feel the heat on some of the blogs!  The fact of the matter is, The Uplands hauls no coal!  That’s how PAP sees it.  Those bloggers who bowed and kissed her ass, well that is their lipstick, not mine. 

Well it’s official.  The Uplands Neighborhood association is “uppity”.  Maybe a better word is “snobs”?  How about racists?

Let’s see, the Save A Lot at Campustown is closing. Kara Harris, president of the Uplands Residential Association, is thrilled!  Why? Well because apparently those in that association didn’t like the clientele that visited that store.  Good Christ!  Like I have said before, some of these people who live in the Uplands don’t want anyone driving through their neighborhood, hence the stop signs on every block.  They don’t want anyone parking on their streets, hence the parking permits.  They love their ornamental lighting but want the city to maintain it and now, in a shopping center right next to their neighborhood, is losing a store, a grocery store, that some depended on in the area and they are thrilled.

Granted, Save A Lot was a crap hole. It was dirty and it didn’t offer a wide variety but it offered food and at cheap prices.  After all, to a family that has to have two or more jobs to survive, a can of stew doesn’t have to be Dinty Moore.  A can of green beans doesn’t have to be Green Giant brand and those people didn't need a Starbucks coffee section.

The fact of the matter is that people, mostly from the lower bluff and from other surrounding neighborhoods used that store and depended on it.  Yeah, it didn’t meet the criteria of some of those that live in the Uplands but then those people didn’t go there anyway unless it was to see how the other half lived.  In fact I doubt the Uplands alone could support a Starbucks coffee shop let alone a shopping center.

Campustown was built and named for the fact it was next to Bradley.  It was supposed to be for Bradley students, residents, and all peoples who wanted to shop there.  Yes, over the years, Thompson’s Food Basket (now there’s uppity) closed as did Sullivan’s and it was replaced with a low end grocery store, Save A Lot. 

All this aside, it has finally come out on how the Upland Association really feels about some of their neighbors.  Plain and simple English here folks.  These wonderful people, the same ones who will have your car ticketed or towed or both for parking on their streets, just don’t like those poor black folks coming up the hill so close to their empire. I guess it’s ok with the Upland folks if a Save A Lot opens in the south end, or the north end, or the East Bluff.  Just not in my neighborhood.  Well, one blogger thinks it was a shit hole of a store.  He visited it…….once.  I’ll bet that was just terrible for him.

Another blogger gets it.  It is a matter of the “element” that visited the store.  It is the fact that a grocery store that was used by various peoples to buy food is closing.  This will make it harder on some families to get the groceries they need since a few bucks for gas may not seem like much, to them it could be a lot and the difference between food and if CILCO gets paid for the month. If you were lucky enough to own a car.   Apparently some people, including  Ms. Harris are just thrilled this “eyesore” is gone.

Folks, I hope a huge Cash Loan store goes in there.  Joseph, the snake developer who has raped the city’s taxpayer coffers more than once has a new client.  Maybe Ms. Harris is hoping for a Pier One Imports and then they can drive out the Dollar Tree and CVS (who needs medicine?) and with the empty Blockbuster’s we can get a Gloria Jeans Coffee, and a Barnes and Noble.  Wow!  That will keep “those people” out of Campustown. 

I think that the Uplands Association owes and apology to the people of Peoria for that remark from their President.  If not, well, then maybe the next snow storm, our snow plows will skip their neighborhood.  Maybe when one of their ornamental lights burn out, city maintenance will ignore it, and maybe parking enforcement will just not show up and write tickets.  I am sure some of these hard working city employees resent the comments directed to maybe some of their families and or relatives and friends. 

No matter what you think, the first three letters of ASSociation should tell you what they are in the Uplands.  Confirmed!

These Are The Days of Our Lives…

How in the name of all that is holy can our weather people miss a snow storm like we have been getting here since, what, Friday?  At times it was blizzard like conditions outside and this morning I couldn’t even get up the hill from my house.  No one could and this was supposed to be a flurry.

Well I am tired of shoveling “flurries” off my damn drive way.  I think I just cleared 4 inches of flurries since it start this morning again and as I type this at 10:30am, it is still fucking snowing. 

Last week, the hefty chick on News 25 made it sound like the earth as we knew it was going to end because of a 3 inch snowfall prediction.  That never happened and our lives went on.  Shit, they issued Winter Storm Watches, Storm warnings and nothing happened.  It missed Peoria. 

Starting on Christmas day and still snowing, I think Peoria has gotten at least 10 inches of snow.  10 INCHES!!!  Guess what the National Weather Service did in Lincoln?  They issued, finally, a Winter weather advisory this morning.  Ya think?  No kidding.  Not one peep more or less from any of our great weather TV personalities.  This snowfall so far, if it ever stops, is turning out to be the biggest snowfall event in Peoria since that Dec 1st day a few years back when Peoria was crippled by snowfall removal or lack thereof.  And that was only 6 inches.

So yes, I am ragging on the idiots who forecast our weather.  A forecast implies that you know something about a situation, like the weather.  Not a guess. To those who say; “Snow is so pretty this time of year.” I say pull your head out of your ass.  To those of us that have to work in this shit, snow is just another four letter word. It sucks. 

This is why I don’t watch very much local TV and why I don’t take stock in anything Sandy, Chuck, or any other “forecaster” has to say.  They simply show up for the show, read the teleprompter right from the stoners at Lincoln, Illinois, and then spin it with a weather pic from some 6 year old.  I’ll stick with my weather rock.  If it’s Wet, rain. White, snow.  Sideways, windy.  Gone, tornado.  Simple and basic.

Life is On Department…

I’m back!  A complete computer upgrade sans the 2 gigs of RAM which I have to take back and get more because it was bad out of the package so I’ll have to limp along on 4 gigs until then.  If I ever can get out of the frickin house.  What the fuck?  Will it ever stop snowing?  Thanks to our great weather people for calling this one.  I mean 4 days ago, the chick on 25 made out like we were all going to die because we had maybe 3 to 6 inches coming, which never showed up and now with at least 6 on the ground now, not a peep out of the weather people.  Whatever happened to a Winter Storm Warning or something?  I guess they wait until it hits the ground then call it.

Meanwhile I’ll sit here and tweak this Windows 7 system to my liking and wonder how soon Vista will become the unheard step child of Microsoft.  Remember Windows ME?  Didn’t think so.

At any rate, I was doing some reading and saw an ad from Bartonville Bank for a great stocking stuffer.  I had to read it twice to make sure I wasn’t on something.  It was for a pad of 10 brand new One Dollar Bills for only $12!  Yep, you walk into a bank, ask for 10 one dollar bills, new no less, and they cost you 12 bucks.  Better yet, get 25 new one dollar bills for $28.  In a pad. Whatever that means.  Holy Christ! I thought I’d go over there to see the line of stupid's but then I thought hey, leave a message here and I’ll send you 10 sweaty used one dollar bills in a beautiful white envelope for only $13.  Have plenty so…  This sounds so, so, City of Peoria to me. 10 yea and 1 nay. 

Well, back to the boob tube as I have National Lampoon’s  Christmas Vacation completely memorized.  “Shitters full!” Hope everyone got something they wanted for Christmas.  Now we can get along with slowly longer days, and the two boringness months on the whole calendar, January and February. I wonder if the Sun is still working and long to see the stars at night but this is Peoria. As far as weather goes, this is the shits.  In fact, if God was to give the world an enema, this is where he’d place the hose.

Meanwhile, things are tense here at the PAP home.  Snowed in, last roll of shit paper hanging on the dowel, the mustard is down to maybe a squeeze left, 2 bottles of gin, 1 beer,  and only 15 boxes of cheap Walgreen’s chocolates.    

Happy New Year!

A Little Christmas Department…

Holy Christ folks!  Yes this is the season for Christ and this time of year I try real hard to turn the other cheek but the morons out number me 10 to 1.  Mostly for me it’s the weather I hate around here.  I hate that 4 letter word, SNOW, more than anything but….Tis the Season.

So, First, Hey City of Peoria!  No sand, salt please!  Last blizzard we had (according to News25, we should have had a blizzard and all died) you guys dropped sand.  Sand and snow equals MUD!  Please!  Even little old Bellevue has salt. Are we that tight here?

Teachers may strike after Christmas break.  You guys go.  The District has ignored your problems and your worth.  I for one will help you picket.  An example of this unfeeling Administration, a law suit was filed for reverse discrimination at Trewyn.  A group of white teachers feel discriminated against by a mostly black administration.  Good for them.  About time in my opinion.

Discrimination works both ways unfortunately.  Maybe this time, if it makes it to court and a private settlement isn’t awarded, the 500lb Gorilla in the room may be addressed.  Royster took this District for a suitcase full of money all under the guise she was discriminated against. 

Peoria Anti-Pundit is going to be off a few weeks for a computer upgrade.  I beta tested Windows 7 last summer and decided it was Vista Fixed. After running this system with XP for some years, I have decided to build a new system based on Intel dual core and load Windows 7.  I’m doing this so I, the blogger, can provide you, the reader, with quality bullshit and rants through out the year. 

If I were the City Council, I would debate this for 2 months, hire a outside Consultant for more than the price of Windows 7 itself, argue with each other on whether it was needed, then table it while I went outside and installed ornamental lighting.  Then, after weeks of delay, it would be voted on and I would acquire Win7 at twice the price so I would have to lay off my wife and one of my kids.  Then I would tell you all how hard I worked to get this accomplished and thank myself for the hard work. 

Merry Christmas!

LaHood Department…

Ray LaHood is set to appear on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight at 10 pm local or CST.  (Tuesday the 15th) That is channel 148 on digital Comcast cable and channel 42 on the Comcast Basic channels.

This should be good and maybe a few puns will be thrown in about Peoria.  FOX News viewers, you’ll just have to grit your teeth and change the channel to see this.