The weather,
the budget, the economy – yeah, they've all been lousy recently – but
that doesn't mean our sense of community pride isn't strong. In no
time, there will be fireworks at Trum Field – and there will be great
celebration for the community, much like the recent Memorial Day
Parade. It will be yet another shining example of how we as a community
have come together, in the face of adversity.

Of course, there
will be the usual group of haters that will drum on about how we should
save the money spent on that and things like the Memorial Day Parade in
order to save jobs. The same haters who will spew that garbage, but
won't bother to to explain to their Koolaid drinking chums that things
like the parade and the trip to Tampa were paid for by local businesses
and residents of the city – not city government. Funny how they leave
that information out.

Believe it or not, it is possible to stay
upbeat and positive – and still be able to call stupid people, stupid.
To call arrogant jerks who live in a bubble of hate and have a warped
sense of reality – assholes. To laugh at the people who, no matter how
definitively you prove them wrong, still tell you their way is the only
way.

You can do all these things and still have a positive
attitude – we do it all the time – the real problem, the part that
needs to go away in this city, is the group of people who are so
absorbed in their sense of entitlement that they think everyone else is
negative and that there is a conspiracy around every corner. Every 20
or so years they rear their ugly head around here, and then they just
fade away – let's hope they fade soon and spare the rest of us from
their demented rhetoric soon.