Stolen Bicycle

It's amazing how officials and the police don't want to get involved when something gets stolen from a Metro station. My grandson has been riding one of my bicycles to the Metro station, locking the bike up, and riding the Metro Rail. Last night he rode the Metro and went to retrieve the bike. Someone had cut the lock cable and stolen the bicycle. He said that the Metro Transit Police, and the Station Manager, were not all that cooperative. He spend an hour filling out paperwork, and asked that they review the tapes from the security cameras. The gave him the run around, stating that it would be impossible to identify the thief from the tapes. Maybe so, but if you zoom in, you just might get a look at that individual. My feeling is they are trying to skew statistics.  I'll leave it at that. I was thinking about buying a cheap bicycle to ride to the metro, but if I do, I will rent a bicycle locker at the station for $120 per year, in order to keep the bike safe. I'm not all that crazy about riding in the coming winter months, but it might be an easy alternative to trying to make later night bus connections, or having to park at the Wayne Avenue garage in Silver Spring, and taking the crosstown J bus. I'll have to see about it. In the meantime, I'm not a happy camper. That bike cost me over $300 used, and it was a really good bike. It's time for a little hard ass law and order. Maybe Metro will let us form a citizen watch committee, who's members can hide and observe the bike racks. Make sure there are at least three watch members at all times, so that they can be credible witnesses in cases involving theft. It's time to get tough on petty crime. If you do, the bigger stuff goes away too. It's the "broken windows" approach that worked so well, along with "stop and frisk," both of which worked very well in New York City.  It's time to get real tough on crime.

Things turn full circle. India has elected its Ronald Reagan. Narendra Modi was elected Prime Minister in a massive electoral victory. India has been ripe for this sort of thing to happen for at least 30 years. Back in the 1950s, the socialist Nehru ruined the emerging Indian economy, and drove the country into a nation of very rich and very poor. Gee, does that sound familiar? However, India was smart. They send their best and brightest here and to Australia, England, New Zealand, Canada, and other first world nations, to study STEM disciplines that would benefit both their economy, and the adoptive countries where some of them decided to stay.

Over the next 20 years, you are going to see a lot less Indians taking jobs from Americans, Australians, Kiwis, Brits, and Canadians. You might actually see Americans, Australians, Kiwis, Brits, and Canadians relocating to India for high paying tech sector jobs. Reason being, the Indian economy is going to skyrocket over the next 20 years, and become the Mecca for the tech industry. Poverty will decrease substantially in India. Eventually, you will have a huge middle class in India. And...you might be able to drink the water...

The New Saints

Tomorrow, April, 27, 2014, I'm going to be in front of the television set for the first time in about 10 years. Both Pope John XXIII, and  Pope John Paul II are being canonized saints in the Roman Catholic Church. The celebrant of the canonization mass will be the current pope, Pope Francis.

Pope John XXIII, convened the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s modernizing the modern Roman Catholic Church. OK Liberals, I'll agree with you. The Catholic Church needs to modernize some more. However, keep in mind that the official policies of the Church, condemn not just abortion, but also war and capital punishment. The Church is pro-life across the board.

 Pope John Paul II, was a Conservative who is being honored with sainthood for the work he did during World War II, helping smuggle Jews out of Germany and Poland, saving them from Hitler's concentration camps. While you don't hear a lot of grief from Liberals about Pope John XXII, you hear a lot of grief about Pope John Paul II. He, along with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and President Ronald Reagan, were responsible for creating the situation that brought down the Communist Soviet Union. Liberals, many of them who are Marxists, or at least Fellow Travelers,  have never forgiven them for helping bringing down the regime that had kept millions of people poor and enslaved to the Soviet Government. Most Liberals, or Progressives as they call themselves, in another words, Communists, hate America, because they are not in charge over the little people that they despise, and want to keep under their direct control for the "common good." He hippies, we are America, we are not the failure of Western Europe. We still have free will. Shove it.