Knife wielding woman disarmed...

[dgriffin]

Class lines and drug use is at once an interesting and controversial topic. Just a quick search on Google points to a variety of differing opinions. Any of us who form an opinion usually wind up basing it on our own experience. When I was in "the business," crack use was pretty much an urban, lower socio economic activity, but climbing up the ladder.

[corner]

back when i was on the streets we had the wife of the director of county probation a judgfes daughter all on crack which was a drug created for the low socioecnomic group

[dgriffin]

Actually, it was created for anyone who'd pay for it.

Getting high knows no social boundaries. Just that some drugs are more popular at different ends of the spectrum. Cocaine (powdered) was always considered a middle class drug. Crack lower.

[dgriffin]

This is interesting and I wonder if it's true. In the WKTV Story "Woman Attacks Cop Car," one commenter said, "there is always scum in the consumer square WalMart- They sghould stop public transportation into the consumer square plaza- they did it in Albany at a few upscale plazas and guess what- no more trouble- something to think about folks. If New Hartford did that, then it would cut down on the slobs that go there, theft and vandalism."

I'll have to ask my kids if that really happened in Albany. I wonder how they got away with ending bus service to the mall. And what about employees who take the bus?

[Ralph]

"The Art of War" is a good read Dave. Made much sense in the world he was in.......sometimes as much in ours. Lao Tzu's Tao De Ching makes a good base to start from at the other end of the spectrum.

[dgriffin]

They're both back on my list, Ralph, and thanks to both you and Corner. Now, all I have to do is get reading (books) again. That activity has sort of dropped off during the past year. There was a time when I read voraciously. Sure, the Internet has cut into it, but I'm sensing a different stage of life now, too, and that has something to do with it.

[concerned]

Aug 21, 2009 0:18:38 GMT -5 @dgriffin said:

This is interesting and I wonder if it's true. In the WKTV Story "Woman Attacks Cop Car," one commenter said, "there is always scum in the consumer square WalMart- They sghould stop public transportation into the consumer square plaza- they did it in Albany at a few upscale plazas and guess what- no more trouble- something to think about folks. If New Hartford did that, then it would cut down on the slobs that go there, theft and vandalism."

I'll have to ask my kids if that really happened in Albany. I wonder how they got away with ending bus service to the mall. And what about employees who take the bus?

Actually it is the North Utica Walmart that attract's lower socio-economic profile people. The store is very dirty. I asked one the CENTRO bus drivers about which Walmart gets more traffic from people who take there bus and he said that North Utica Walmart get much more traffic. 99% of the time I go to Consumer Square Walmart( which is the only bus stop besides Michael's in that mall.About the only people who take that bus are the employee's. That bus driver said that he rarely gets more that 20 people in a day that go to Consumer Square.Now with that migration into New York Mill's most of that profile of peoples drive.
Consumer Square Walmart is very clean and has cheaper prices than North Utica.You learn to stay away from North Utica from the 1st to the 6th of the month because that is the number of days in the month when people's EBT Food Stamp is activated.

[dgriffin]

Modern life demands rigorous planning. The Walmart near where we stay down south in February is filled on Sundays with Mexican couples and families. But these are nice people who are quiet and courteous. Just like me!

And the Mexicans I'm familiar with up here are hard working men and women. We now have a small bodega down in the village. True, some of the Mexicans' front yards are a bit overdone with lights and monumentals, but I guess that's part of their culture. (I remember sitting in a small church in Mexico near Nogales about ten years ago. The garish colored artwork and figures sort of reminded me of the Fun House at Sylvan Beach when I was a kid.) It's rumored some of them are light-fingered, but I have no evidence to confirm that. Actually, the woman who complained to me about one incident was herself an immigrant, from Istanbul.

[concerned]

Aug 21, 2009 11:41:59 GMT -5 @dgriffin said:

Modern life demands rigorous planning. The Walmart near where we stay down south in February is filled on Sundays with Mexican couples and families. But these are nice people who are quiet and courteous. Just like me!

And the Mexicans I'm familiar with up here are hard working men and women. We now have a small bodega down in the village. True, some of the Mexicans' front yards are a bit overdone with lights and monumentals, but I guess that's part of their culture. (I remember sitting in a small church in Mexico near Nogales about ten years ago. The garish colored artwork and figures sort of reminded me of the Fun House at Sylvan Beach when I was a kid.) It's rumored some of them are light-fingered, but I have no evidence to confirm that. Actually, the woman who complained to me about one incident was herself an immigrant, from Istanbul.

OMG, Beaners. Denver, CO is full of them. It is just terrible.
You have to be careful of the French,there women don't shave there arm pits.ANd I always wonder if these Arab ladies are carring guns under those long black robes. I saw three of them a few weeks ago at the North Utica Walmart. I watch them as they leave the store;something is up with the new cars they are driving.

I am glad that my grandparents who settled in Utica from Italy were not immigrants.How that damn German influence got into the gene pool is beyond me. Not to mention the African-American maid.

[dgriffin]

Why, you might call this here a melting pot!

Ya might be on to something with them ladies with guns under their robes, Concerned. I think if you ask nicely, they might let you look.