Bob’s seeing red
– and blue
The Hollister High Haybaler football team will not play the
Gilroy Mustangs next time as they both are wearing gang colors
– red and blue. San Benito County law enforcement with the
equally mentally challenged Hollister High School administration
think they can stop gang violence by making Hollister High students
give up wearing their favorite colors.
Bob’s seeing red – and blue
The Hollister High Haybaler football team will not play the Gilroy Mustangs next time as they both are wearing gang colors – red and blue. San Benito County law enforcement with the equally mentally challenged Hollister High School administration think they can stop gang violence by making Hollister High students give up wearing their favorite colors.
When the gangs came over here from Mexico did they take out a U.S. patent on our colors? The only colors the San Benito County law enforcement and the Hollister High administration should concern themselves with is the good old red, white and blue whose values and colors trump all others.
I love having a “Lay-teen-oh” last name because at election time my mailbox and front door are always full of fools of the Latino persuasion trying to convince me how to vote. Like they did such a good job when they were living in Mexico and other “Lay-teen-oh” countries. “Why doesn’t your wife learn Spanish?” they ask me in Spanish after being here 20 years not knowing English. Aye chee waa waa.
Fire hydrants not working as the fire department is called to a mobile home park in Hollister. The city code enforcement officer says that the mobile home park in the city is not in his jurisdiction. Huh? Yup, mobile homes are classified as vehicles by the state. What a rotten state of affairs. Calling a mobile home a vehicle is like saying you saw a real good Elvis impersonator.
The Hollister police chief says “What we get the most success from is when people call in as they are seeing something occurring, telling us what happened, what the suspects looked like, and where they’re headed.” Gee, chief, would it also help if the citizen ran after them and caught them for you too?
Size does count. Take the comma. When I first read the headline in the Hollister Fifty Cent Lance it read under arrests in the crime blotter, “Impersonating, Buena Vista Street.” I mean, like when is it a crime to impersonate a street? Unless it’s called Elvis Street. Aye chee waa waa.
Hollywood just doesn’t get it. This year alone they released over a dozen films dealing with the war in Iraq with big name stars like Tom Cruz and last week “Body of Lies” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe and it also flopped. But then, like the rest, the title on this one tells you why.
One of the best anti-war films is Nick Nolte in “Under Fire,” a film that waited until after the revolution in Managua, Nicaragua, to get a proper historical perspective as opposed to just USA-bashing. Rent this as not only is it a great action film but a thriller with Gene Hackman and Ed Harris giving chilling performances in this true story that makes heroes of no one who chooses wars when all that is needed is diplomacy.
Personally, I think the biggest threat to the world is not global warming but too damned many Elvis impersonators.
Sorry, I know last week’s Quick Quiz was way too hard. In his early years John Wayne played a cowboy called Singing Sandy where he sang just before he shot the hell out of the bad guy. Unlike the Mafia, who sing after they shoot someone.
This week’s Quick Quiz is a little easier. How many good films did Elvis Presley star in? Forty, 30, 10, five or none?
Mother Teresa is still not sainted but Paul Newman is? Well, you would think so when you drive by the Catholic Church Newman Center in Fresno: the Saint Paul Newman Center.
