City Life Show on Short Hiatus

For John, BLUF:  The Producer of City Life Show, and its leadin, The Dawn Patrol, is on a one week break, but the discussion goes on.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Last Time we Said it. This Time it's True.

Here is the sub-headline:

Je Suis Charlie Isn't Just a Slogan Anymore

From The Conservative Historian, by Blogger JIM MCCOY, 13 September 2025.

Here is the lede:

Once upon a time, I sat in a classroom at Wayne State University and, having listened to a faculty member scream offended and threaten to have me expelled because I wouldn’t kiss her ass, told her that the only way to silence me would be to kill me. I meant it then. I mean it now. If standing up for what I believe in costs me my life then know that I am content to have died in service to a good cause and that, given the chance, I’d do it again.

But, not everyone is sensitive to the events of last week.

1. First we had the horrid murder of Ukrainian Refugee Iryna Zarutska, on August 22, 2025, on the Lynx Blue Line in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a mentally unstable career criminal.
2. Then, the next day, we had the assassination of Turning Poit USA Head, Charlie Kirk, by , it ppears, Mr Tyler Robinson, who was arrested peacefully.
3. Then we had the outpouring of vile comments following the Assassination, from Office Depot, to social media, to classrooms and the media.

Mr Robert Sterling on X wrote a long piece on this last ooint, which started:.

My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue. I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues. Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious. And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left. Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

Let us emulate Charlie Kirk and engage in respectful debate.  Let us not resort to comparing our fellow citizens to the worst of our opponents (or Allies) in WWII.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Naming the Problem

For John, BLUF:  In the process of writing about how we are mischaracterizing racism in these United States, Blogger Sarah Hoyt touches on how we have misnamed some serious problems, by grouping them under the name homelessness.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Telling The Truth

From ACCORDING TO HOYT, by Writer Sarah Hoyt, 9 September 2025.

Here are the key paragraphs:

We need to have the courage to teach the truth to the young.

You know other truths we need to teach to the young? The “homeless” or “unhoused” aren’t in fact normal human beings in need of a house. The names are a lie.

Naming them that, pretending that, just points at the wrong problem and calls for the wrong action.

Yes there are a lot of people in the US who can’t afford a place to live, or are in trouble house wise, because times are hard right now, particularly for the young.

BUT–

But that doesn’t mean that people who have any skills/ability to navigate the normal world are living on the streets. Oh, there will be some: orphans without friends exist. But they’re rarer than hen’s teeth.

Most people on the street are mental health tragedies, and/or criminal and/or willfull mooches, or some combinations of all three.

And I’m torn on this, because mental health is a slippery thing, but on the other hand there’s such a thing as an obvious danger to himself and others.

Different people see different aspects of what we call homelessness.  What we call Homelessness includes people who are mentally ill, who are drug addicts,♠ who suffer from other substance abuse, and who are legitimately without housing.  There is no "one size fits all" in a situation like this.  We need a new aaproach, and perhaps the best approach would be to drop homelessness and adopt "continuum of care" for all such effortts. .

For sure, what we are doing now is not working well.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  For example, Lowell Resident David Prestipino has been posting videos, appear before the City Council and appearing on City Life Show to talk about drug addiction and its pernicious imipacts..