just another grifter whore

my garbage can isn't real anymore...it has become a simulacrum...a mere shadow of a real garbage can...you can tell because it says old keith soderquist is mayor and he isn't anymore...statutes enacted in, i believe, 2008, stripped him of his office as soon as his conviction on all counts ( including taking money from the food bank account to spend gambling..up in michigan so he wouldn't be recognized as easily i suppose ) and rendered my garbage can fallacious...the times of northwest indiana says his conviction "casts a pall" over the city...how? a whore is a whore...some political grifters are bigger than others...too big to fail...others not so big...still...cut from the same cloth...let the light in...recognize where we find ourselves for what it is...a free-for-all at the public trough...fuck these people.

bureaucratic blowback

have we ever discussed the nearly criminal mayor's ( trial starts next month...the maw of justice grinds slowly...but it surely grinds ) decision to move trash and recycling collection curbside because scrappers were cutting into the city's revenue stream ( much like the mayor has allegedly done )and, in the process put his name on every damn garbage can in town? well...when he did that he decommissioned the alleys and made individual homeowners responsible for their maintenance where they abutted their property...it is widely ignored and i was cited for having "weeds and rank vegetation over 12" in height.." behind my house ( photos two and three )can't really argue that but so do my neighbors ( photo four ...and i have more )...to cut to the chase...i took the lawnmower back there and scalped it ( photo five ) and lopped off a bunch of overhanging branches as well as cutting down a couple of small trees...i bagged a bunch of "waste" per the citation's instructions ( sixth photo ) but the citation also said , " any cut branches or limbs that cannot be paper bagged can also be placed on the easement for pickup."...never one to deny city workers work i did so ( last photo )...i had until sunday to do this..i expect credit for doing it early...i expect my neighbors to clean theirs up too...one wonders if those expectations will be met in this half-assed town...one wonders if the next mayor will be less of a political whore...hoping so since he was pretty much elected in the primary and i voted for him.