Phillybits

Being Gay: Lifestyle Choice Or Demons? You Decide!

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:24:29 PDT

There's a recent video out of a church in CT that displays to be what is called a gay exorcism. Here's that video:

And, like any good, God fearing, gay-demon exorcising preacher, there's always a tv appearance after the fact with an explanation (if you can call it that) of what we're actually watching and why this shouldn't shock anyone once we all understand what's really happening here.

I haven't watched either of these in full. I heard about this the other day, and found the second video at Huffington Post, where they summarize some of what this preacher says:

Pastor McKinney said she agreed to the interview to to "let the world know out there that Manifested Glories Ministries is not against homosexuality. We do not hate them. We do not come up against them. We just do not believe in their lifestyle."

According to the pastor, her church believes heavily in spirits: "You have the alcohol spirit. You have the crack cocaine spirit. You have the adulterous spirit. Everything carries a spirit."

She said the man in the video walked into her church on a Sunday "six or seven months ago" and that "on this particularly sunday we were just beginning to worship the lord, and all of a sudden he hit the floor." They performed the "exorcism" and she said it worked because she's been in contact with the young man and that he's changed his lifestyle. Take that as you will.

Now, here's what gets me. Many religious individuals will say that not only do they not agree with homosexuality (which is fine, they don't have to) but that they also feel it's a lifestyle "choice" much like, I suppose, buying a Nigerian coffee bean over an Ethiopian blend.

However, listening to the video, you can clearly hear the preacher casting out "the homosexual demon!" and from reading the above partial summary, her particular church believes there's all types of spirits - alcohol spirits, crack cocaine spirits, etc.

What I want to know is which is it? Is it a choice? Is it a gay demon? Is it a choice to let the gay demon in? Can't they keep their gay excuses straight anymore?

For The Sake Of The Party

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:46:20 PDT

Constituents? What constituents?

The day after a rambling news conference during which a pained Sanford admitted to three romantic rendezvous with the woman, Sanford spent most of his time visiting with his family at their coastal home on Sullivans Island. Asked whether he was resigning, Sanford shook his head no as he departed.

"I right now am focused on the important part of this — the family in this circumstance," he said.

His wife told reporters she was "going to worry about my family and the character of my children" and said as she left for dinner and a boat ride with the boys that her husband's career was his concern. "He'll have to worry about that," she told reporters as she drove away.

On Friday, Sanford planned to focus on work. He called an afternoon meeting of state agency chiefs during which he plans to discuss the tumultuous week, "then he's going to get on to conduct the business of the state," said spokesman Joel Sawyer.

Meanwhile, some fellow Republicans issued sharp calls for him to step down. Glenn McCall, a local representative to the Republican National Committee, said the GOP "can recover from this if we hold him accountable and the governor does the right thing and resigns for the sake of the party."

Un-friggin-believable.

300,000

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:55:43 PDT

Somewhere along the line, while essentially ignoring this site except for extremely ridiculous posts on a variety of topics and my other main stead, photography, this site recently surpassed the 300,000 mark.

Don't know how, don't know why, don't know when but it's true - I've now passed into 300,000 territory and it only took 5 years.

Sad, I know, but true.

Perhaps in another 5 years, I can boast of 300,000+ hits on my really cool, totally awsome, top notch, super fantastic photoblog that I know you're all checking in on at least once a day for new content.

Right?

RIIIIGGHHHHTT???!!!

Two Updates

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:34:33 PDT

I just wanted to provide two quick updates for regular viewers here.

1) I posted yesterday about some stereo equipment I was looking to get rid of. It's gotten rid of.

2) For those who have picked up on and have been visiting my photoblog Scene In Philly, you were aware of my recent computer problems that were providing a serious impediment to continuing to take and post photos.

As a result of several donations received from some great and generous individuals, I received the part I needed, and after updating my computer, it is back up and running and I am currently now in the process of transferring files, reinstalling some photo software, and have begin posting again to the photoblog so please be sure to stop by and check in from time to time as I love having visitors!

Thanks!

-- Ray

Breaking News: 2nd Daytime Kidnapping In Philadelphia

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:27:02 PDT

Wow. This is getting crazy!

Philadelphia Press - Police dispatchers today received a frantic call just after noon today from a man who claimed he had been kidnapped from the parking lot of an area Boston Market.

According to police, Tyrone Johnson, 33 of Upper Darby, called 911 early this afternoon to report that while leaving Boston Market with a bucket of Double-Crispy Chicken Gizzards, he had been grabbed from behind and thrown into a waiting minivan.

Johnson described the person who grabbed him as a middle-aged white woman with long blond hair, standing about 5'3" tall, with no ass whatsoever and carrying a purse "big 'nuff t'carry at least a coupla pair of nice shoes, fa'sho".

He described the vehicle as a late-model Chrysler minivan with what looked like a softball lodged halfway through the rear side window, a pink Mary Kay sticker, and at least 5 McCain/Palin stickers of assorted styles and designs on the lower bumper.

Dispatchers only received one call from Mr. Johnson and tried repeatedly to call him back, only to get a Jay-Z waiting tune followed by an automated message stating that Mr. Johnson's pre-paid Boost mobile phone account was currently inactive due to failure to re-up on minutes.

Police are asking the public for any information but pointed out that there is no reward being offered for information that results in Mr. Johnson's safe return.

Bloggers! I Need Your Help!

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:29:47 PDT

I'm writing from my phone since it's all I have currently. I need a specific motherboard if possible. It's a Gigabyte GA-K8nsnxp-939 board and if anyone is able to put me in in touch with someone who has either a working new or used board that they would be willing to part with, either cheap or free, it should be the answer to all my pc problems. Any help or leads you can provide, via a blog post or email blast, would be great and greatly appreciated. Hope you can help! Thanks in advance!

- Ray (Phillybits)

An Age Old Question Has Finally Been Answered

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Sun, 24 May 2009 10:18:29 PDT

Often times, we find ourselves in certain situations where, when faced with a dilemma between two or more choices, we ask ourselves what others might do in the same situation. From that was born the question/phrase/mnemonic device - WWJD?

Well, an answer has been found and it may surprise you. It certainly surprised me!

The Odd Couple

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:05:37 PDT

Pat Toomey and Brendan Skwire of Brendan Calling at Triumph brewery in Old City, Philadelphia....

...current home of Drinking Liberally!

I Love America

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:36:20 PDT

I specifically started my photoblog Scene In Philly to separate and highlight my growing interest in photography off of this site but occasionally, I take a picture that I'm really proud of that I want to share with more people so here's one I grabbed yesterday.

Hope you like it!

Uh-Oh

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:18:01 PDT

Sometime last year, my initial hard drive failed and it really sucked because I had a lot of photos on it. I managed to get the majority, if not all of them off but now I find my remaining hard drive starting to fail which means I need to A) get a new hard drive and B) back this one up.

Pronto.

Anyone have a decently sized hard drive that they're not using that they want to part with either free or for a reasonable cost? Please send me an email. SATA drives are preferred.

Oral Treat Indeed!

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:43:21 PDT

Sometimes spam links aren't that bad.

Progressive Gets The Better Of Some Teabaggers

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:09:16 PDT

Hats off to Sinfonian for this gem!

Hailing Frequencies Closed

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:44:28 PDT

Talk to them because you might persuade them that YOUR ideas are the right ideas.

But whatever you do, don't listen to theirs.

If that's the strategy, good luck in 2010.

h/t Talking Points Memo

Yes, It's True. Philadelphia Was Heavily Teabagged Today

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:06:21 PDT

(Brendan Skwire of Brendan Calling)

~~More pictures to come.~~ And now the rest. And if you could take a moment, apparently this post has been Dugg. Won't you please go dig it up?

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

ALL images are copyrighted. Interested in displaying some? Email me first please! (Upper right hand corner under my mug)

(Update) - Ok, so despite the title, perhaps we really weren't as heavily teabagged as I may have led you to believe.

(Update 2)

Thanks to Atrios for the link, Talking Points Memo for the slideshow, Citypaper's Brian Howard for another slideshow, Brendan, Noz, Frank, Steve, DailyKos for the front page ticket!!, Huffington Post as well as numerous others who have cross-posted on their blogs and via Twitter.

(Update 3) - And here's some other great shots from the Philly rally courtesy of Pop Civics

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:29:45 PDT

Testing mobile blogging

In Light Of All The Teabagging Today.....

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:27:07 PDT

h/t Brendan Calling

"If You Haven’t Done Anything Wrong, You Have Nothing To Worry About"

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:30:19 PDT

I'm so glad Brendan wrote about this today. I started to, but got sidetracked with Elliott and never got back to finishing it. And besides, Brendan makes the argument so much better than I:

We tried to warn you, [on Michelle Malkin's Fear of the DHS looking into rightwing extremism] and you just wouldn’t listen.

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Personally, I believe that threat is real. However, times have changed.

Thanks to the efforts of conservatives and wingnuts over the past 8 years, Obama has the power to lock you up forever, with no charges. We tried to warn you.

Thanks to the efforts of conservatives and wingnuts over the past 8 years, Obama has the power to tap your phones without a warrant. We tried to warn you.

Thanks to the efforts of conservatives and wingnuts over the past 8 years, Obama has the power to have you waterboarded if he wants to. We tried to warn you.

Over and over we tried to warn you. Bush will not be president forever. The Republicans will not have a permanent majority. Do you really want Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton empowered to lock you up with no recourse to the judicial system?

You made your bed, and now you can lie in it. Oh, and how does it feel to know that YOU’RE being watched now? Honestly, if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to be afraid of.

What else is there to say?

Oh yeah.

Have You Seen The Enzyte Male Enhancement Santa Ad?

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:35:38 PDT

After mistakenly looking for the "Cialis" Santa ad, I realized it was Enzyte but nevertheless, have you seen this ad?

This is Bob. Looks like Bob is here to spread a little joy. While there seems to be a lot of rumors going around about this chubby Santa. Because not long ago Santa decided he needed a little more room in his sled. So he made a call to Enzyte about natural male enhancement. And after a few short weeks what did he get, but not only a sleigh full of confidence and a sack full of pride, but it looks like Bob got the one thing every lady likes. The joy of a gift that keeps on giving. Yes with things heating up on the old North Pole it looks like there is no mistaking this Santa for an elf anymore. Sample packs of Enzyte now available while supplies last. Just call or visit Enzyte.com. Enzyte, the once-daily tablet for natural male enhancement.

The Face, Or Lack Thereof, Of Homelessness

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:49:48 PDT

I thought I'd share some photography here for those who don't come over or aren't already aware of my photoblog.

Where Can I Find A Testicles Costume?

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:39:39 PDT

I've been hearing about these teabag parties conservatives are holding and I want to go but I really don't know what I should wear.

Thank You, Amtrak Police Department Sergeant

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:52:20 PDT

Somehow it seems, and I'd love to know how, someone from Amtrak apparently got wind of my post about the man who washed the floor with his urine in front of my son and I on Tuesday inside 30th Street Station:

Maam,

As a member of the APD, I apologize for the disgusting things you and your son witnessed. As far as the person behind the desk, doesnt sound like any cop I know, probably an Amtrak employee, but no cop.

Knowing many of my fellow brothers and sisters in Philly, I know they would have dealt with this turd, in swift and decisive manner. He would have been cleaning up his mess and get a citation to boot.

800.331.0008 is the number for the APD dispatch. Keep it with you it is good anywhere in the Country, as the APD has Offices and Officers all around the Country.

I apologize again, I wish more could have been done.

Take Care.

APD Sergeant

First off, I'd like to thank you, who ever you are, for taking the time to read and leave a comment.

Secondly, I'd like to apologize for the confusion that you seemed to experience when you left your comment 3 times. My comments here are "moderated" which means I have to approve each comment before it appears here. So if you were wondering why the comment wasn't showing up each time you posted it, that's why.

Third, maybe you didn't see it but my picture is right there at the top of the webpage. I'm not a "Maam". FYI and all.... :) But it's the thought that counts so I won't hold it against you.

And lastly, all the officers I spoke with on Tuesday were courteous, attentive and polite. In no way did they seem or act dismissive to me or my complaint and that was highly appreciated. I'm sure as important as your job is, you probably have a rather quiet day as I don't hear of too much craziness happening at 30th St on a regular basis and while an upset father surely doesn't rise to the level of national security, your staff didn't seem any less responsive to me than if I had a more pressing situation.

I'm very happy with the response and respect I received from your officers. Job well done.

One thing - if you're reading, from your comment I put up as well as the duplicates that I didn't, something about the wording makes me believe that I actually spoke directly with you at that time.

Did I?

FOX News Targets Mr. Rogers (Yes, THAT Mr. Rogers)

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:57:21 PDT

Does it really get any more stupid than this?

I Get That Blacks In Philadelphia Are The Cause Of Everything Bad In Philly

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:39:41 PDT

Just perusing the comments on almost any article dealing with crime on any local news site would give one the impression that "teh blacks" and "teh blacks" alone are responsible for all the hate, crime, drugs, babies, welfare, and social ills all over Philadelphia.

But by contrast, while it appears that blacks are constantly "killing their own" and killing random people, cops, etc all over the city...

...why does it seem, especially recently, that white people are staking out a claim on destroying entire families?

PRICEVILLE, Ala. – A man facing a divorce trial shot and killed his estranged wife, their teenage daughter and two other relatives in rural north Alabama before returning to his home in a nearby town and killing himself, authorities said Tuesday.

And it's not isolated either:

GRAHAM, Wash. — Authorities and relatives portrayed a father believed to have killed his five children and then himself as a strict parent who had been reprimanded by the state and a jealous husband driven to rage by another man.

The children, aged 7 to 16, were found shot to death Saturday in the family's mobile home in Graham, 15 miles southeast of Tacoma. The father, James Harrison, was found earlier in the day, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot behind the wheel of his idling car 18 miles away in Auburn, about 30 miles south of Seattle.

And hell, it's not even their own families they're fuckin' up:

CARTHAGE, N.C. – Authorities said eight are dead after a gunman opened fire at the Pinelake Health and Rehabilitation Center on Pinehurst Avenue in Carthage, N.C. Sunday morning.

Police said 45-year-old Robert Stewart of Moore County walked into the facility and shot 11 people, including seven patients ranging in age from 78 to 98 years and a nurse, all of whom were killed.

And then, of course, you have the all out crazy fucking let's-kill-some-cops-because-the ~~dog-pissed-on-the-carpet~~ black-helicopters-are-coming-to-take-my-guns-away-on-the-order-of-the-ZOG types:

Pop's charged with laying siege to an entire neighborhood, causing the single largest loss of police lives in a single day in the city's history, but people who claimed to know the 22-year-old shooter trotted out the dumbest cliches possible as the cameras rolled. No one had a theory about what could make an apocalyptic-minded individual with lots of guns and ammo at his disposal "snap."

"He wasn't a racist. He was a cool person," a 23-year-old black friend of Pop told a Post-Gazette reporter. "He thought he was losing some of his rights. He said he'd be ready if there's ever an invasion of the United States and that he had stockpiled foods and guns."

I know we can set the bar for a "cool person" a little too low around here, but describing a tightly wound gun nut who believes an invasion of the United States is imminent as just another kid from the neighborhood is ridiculous by any metric.

Now it turns out that Pop was a regular habitue of white racist Web sites where he regularly posted anti-black, anti-Semitic rants that left little doubt that he wouldn't be contributing to the United Negro College Fund anytime soon.

Pop wrote about the "Zionist takeover of America" and the dangers of race-mixing. You'd think a 23-year-old black guy living in Pittsburgh would be able to sniff out Pop's racial animus without too much trouble. Alas, even the heated debates they had about Barack Obama didn't provide a clue. Apparently, there's nothing odd about a "cool person" hanging out at white supremacist Web sites, either.

Charged with murdering three Pittsburgh police officers and attempting to kill several others trying to rescue their fallen comrades, Pop knows he'll get as fair a trial as the community he assaulted can tolerate. Unlike his buddies from around the way, a jury of his peers won't be as inclined to consider extremist views just another neighborhood eccentricity.

Beginning with his sacred and inviolable right to bear arms, the shooter knew exactly what his rights were when opening fire on Officers Stephen Mayhle, Paul Sciullo and Eric Kelly. After all, they were agents of a Zionist conspiracy that installed a mongrel president intent on confiscating his AK-47 assault-style rifle, his .357 Magnum revolver, his .22 caliber rifle, his .380-caliber handgun and his .45-caliber handgun.

"Teh blacks" better step up, lest they want whitey to corner the market on this crazy fucked up "let's kill anyone and everyone" situation and they take over being the primary target of the commenters on the local news site. We can't let THAT happen, right?

On a side note, I wonder if sites visited primarily by black people in the Philly area comment about "teh whites" and how they can't handle break-ups well and just go on killing their entire family.

Man Publicly Urinates Inside 30th Street Station. Initial Response? Um....

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:32:44 PDT

Today started out just like any other typical Tuesday. Elliott and I slept in a little bit later than usual like we usually do and when we finally got up, it was a mixture of coffee making, news checking, cartoon watching, etc. Despite the weather report of a blustery and slighter cooler day, I wanted to take Elliott outside to do something as it beats sitting around in the house or the hallway all day. And since Elliott loves trains, I figured a trip over to 30th Street Station would be just the trick. He gets to ride on the trolley and watch SEPTA and Amtrak trains enter and leave the station. It's a great way to spend virtually no money and run out the morning with enough time to get home for lunch and then have him take his nap.

The trolley ride went great and so did the rail fanning over at 30th St. We probably spent about an hour in between the upper SEPTA platforms and the parking garage at Cira Centre before I decided it was time to start planning our return home. A quick stop at the pretzel stand first for a quick snack that we ate at one of the tables by McDonald's and then we were on our way.

We made our way to the hallway that runs by the only bar in the station and at the end of the bar close to the exit doors, I decided to stop and get out my fare for the return trolley so that I didn't have to pull my wallet out underground. As I was returning my wallet to my pocket and picking up Elliott to carry him outside, something truly disgusting happened.

30th Street Station is a regular hangout for panhandlers, homeless and other vagabonds that for some reason, nobody seems to do anything about. And today, while getting ready to carry my son out, what was surely a homeless panhandler got up from his seat near the Amtrak Police desk on the Market St side of the station, walked over to the hallway my son and I were standing at the end of, rounded the corner and right in front of us turned into the corner, opened his pants, pulled out his penis and proceeded to take a piss.

Right there in front of my 3 1/2 year old son and I.

Right on the floor.

And yes, that would be inside the station.

Now despite that being probably one of the most disgusting, offensive and downright rude things to do, I raised my voice and said to the guy (from 5 feet away) 'What the hell are you doing?! That's absolutely disgusting! Why'd you do that right in front of my child?'

No answer. Just a grumble and a sour look on his face and then he was walking back to his table where two of his other buddies were sitting.

Determined to not just let it go as so many others probably would, I walked right over to the Amtrak Police desk on the Market Street side of the station where there was an older gentleman sitting down on the phone behind the desk. I sat Elliott on the desk and stood there, patiently, waiting for the man to either put his call on hold or end it and proceed to assist me.

Instead, I got to stand there for a couple minute while this guy finished what sounded like his personal phone call and it was then that he looked up and instead of ask how he could be of service to me, just looked up at me, waiting for me to speak.

I then proceeded to tell him what had just happened, emphasizing not only that this guy pissed on the floor inside the station, but that he did this directly in front of a 3 1/2 year old child. He asked who/where/when, and I reiterated it just happened, I pointed down the hall to the Subway Sandwich shop (I think it was) where it happened, and then I pointed to the table where the three guys were sitting about 20-25 feet away, and pointed out specifically the guy who had actually done the deed.

Without really so much as even flinching or showing some emotion or understanding of the situation, he just said that he would call someone to take care of it. At first, it seemed like he really wasn't going to do anything, judging from his lackluster response but I pushed how disgusting it was and repeated that this was done right in front of my son and he then picked up the phone to, I assume, call someone who would handle this.

As he was on the phone, I walked away from the desk and went back to the general area (within eyesight of the Amtrak police desk, mind you) and waited there and watched to see what was going to happen next. While standing and waiting, I made a point to go inside the sandwich shop and tell them what happened as I don't know if it's their responsibility to clean up that mess or not but thought, for their customer's sake, they should know and perhaps be proactive and take the initiative to clean it up or contact the person who does.

After several minutes however with no apparent response by anybody, the three men then started to get up and walk away. I walked quickly back over to the desk that I just was at, and where the guy was still sitting, and asked him, "Did you call anybody? Is anybody coming? These guys are leaving now!"

Again, not acting with any sense of urgency, the man looked around and seeming confused asked, "Who? What? Where are they? Where are they going?" as I pointed them out to him which included one of them now panhandling a couple at a table in the main food court area.

The man behind the counter then slowly got up and started walking down the hallway on the opposite side, but not in any hurry or with any sense of urgency to either get up to them and confront them, or even up to the police officer who was stationed at the top of one of the flights of stairs in the main hall of the station. He just proceeded at a leisurely pace across the main floor of the station, well behind the three men and I just stopped and watched as the three men walked right out the door and the guy I reported this to just minutes earlier walked clear across the floor of 30th St. Station and disappeared behind a column.

I then turned and walked right up to the cop at the stairs (in uniform, gun, fluorescent yellow, etc) we had both passed and proceeded to tell him what happened. I asked him if they had gotten a call and he, looking surprised, said no, he hadn't heard anything come over the radio. He genuinely seemed concerned with what I was telling him as he said had he gotten a call, he would've gotten come right over, my son would've gotten to watch this guy clean up his own piss with his shirt, and then get arrested. He apologized profusely, sympathized with the situation and then told me if anything like that ever happens again, to pick up the phone and that will go right to dispatch.

I reiterated that not only was the guy wearing the Amtrak sweater behind the desk I initially spoke to on the phone for several minutes while I stood there patiently, I had no idea I could just go behind the desk and pick up the phone. I mean, it's not like it's clearly marked "Pick up phone to contact police" and furthermore, I'm not about to go behind the desk that's marked Amtrak Police due to fear of being questioned of what I'm doing behind the desk in the first place.

So I thanked the cop for being apologetic and more receptive to the situation and started to leave again. However, how the entire situation played itself out really pissed me off and so I wanted to find out who I could lodge a complaint with as obviously, the person I first spoke to who said he'd contact someone clearly didn't. So I then walked over to the Amtrak Police desk in the main hall of the station, on the 30th Street side where there were several more uniformed, gun carrying Amtrak police officers.

I approached and asked how I could go about filing a complaint on the matter. One officer asked me with regards to what and I then explained everything that I've written so far here. I also asked them (4 or 5 officers) if they had heard anything about this come over their system and they said no because had they, there would've been a quick and visible response.

What they also told me is that they don't know who was behind the counter talking on the phone as the desk on the Market St. side as if anyone is behind that counter, it should be an Amtrak Police officer, dressed just like them with radios, cuffs, gun, utility belt, etc which leads me to ask A) why wasn't there one there in the first place and B) who was behind the desk making a personal phone call. And that person was wearing an Amtrak sweater and an Obama ballcap.

That aside, two of them then headed with me back towards the Market St. desk and told me that if anything like that happened again to pick up the phone, dial some number (that, surprisingly, the officer then carved into the wood of the desk right in front of me) and that call would go straight to dispatch and there would be a response.

However, by the time I spoke to the first uniformed officer, these three guys (including the pissing man) had already left the station and I explained that my issue and complaint was not with these specific officers in any way as they clearly weren't there or aware of what was happening since nobody called them in the first place. I thanked them for listening and seeming more sympathetic to the situation and giving me some information about how to handle a situation like that next time. I explained how I'm an area resident and that I often take my son to the station to watch the trains but that experiencing something like that really was a bad mark in terms of my bringing him there again.

I know they could care less about my returning or not but to me, it matters on principle. I know several people who take their young children there just to watch trains and kill some time, both my parents and brother directly just to name a few. And to know that something like that could even happen in the first place just blows my mind.

It was absolutely disgusting. And I told one of the officers that I'm sure they have a hard enough time trying to chase these guys out as they spread out as the police approach, wait for them to leave and then come back again but perhaps there needs to be a crackdown on loitering, panhandling and homeless just hanging out in the station in general. I even told the guy, however, that despite all that, I'm not even that concerned with the presence of such people so long as they aren't actively bothering anyone or causing trouble but the situation I witnessed should never have happened in the first place.

And the thing that gets me the most about this however falls on the guy who actually pissed on the floor in the first place. The closest bathroom to him was right next to the McDonald's and was actually closer than the corner that he turned into his own personal urinal.

No, I'm Not A Racist.

noreply@blogger.com (Phillybits) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:01:56 PDT

Not ME!!!

Why any private sector tax paying white would live in black Philly is beyond me. Just leave. Atlas has Shrugged. Let the gubment hack parasites tax each other. JCH

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UPDATE, all non whites may pay taxes with either their childrens souls or food stamps....yes, you can buy newport "hunnits" with the stamps....and some dro

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I was unaware I ever once depressed a 'brother'. I nor anyone in my family ever owned a slave, and have never once used color as an excuse for anything or anybody. Oh wait I see, your a racist, that explains your comments. Tell you what, we'll 'sends' it your way and you can get yourself some type of education. Your sentence structure is near incomprehensible. I'm sorry, that means no one can understand it cause you don't know how to speak or type.

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My daughter lived there from 2000 to 2003.I am so thankful she's out of there,I fear if she had stayed there I would have buried her by now. I think there should be an unwritten law with the police.Shoot to kill,why capture or wound this garbage and have them back on the street to kill a fellow officer next week,next month,next year. Philadelphia like this country is going to hell.When I watch a newscast what is the race of most perpetrators. Education and jobs is the big cry.If you drop out of school in the 9th,10th grade.What kind of job if any do you expect?There is a major problem in this city and this country and throwing money at it year after year won't fix it.Every state in this country needs to enact laws stopping all these appeals and we need to have every have a death penalty and carry it out swiftly.DNA regardless of the BS from OJ's murder trial is sufficient evidence.When you catch a piece of trash in the act,on video or with dna get rid of it.There's no rehabilitation for these animals. You wouldn't have to worry as much about tax cheats when you look at what is being spent throughout this country to house these animals for life.

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There taxing us whites because they won't get any money out of the blacks

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Your kind have been getting enough free gov't money, how about earning it for once.

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thats right he sets up press conferences, on run down crack houses with dirty apes swinging from the burnt out rafters ..oh wait...its the whites who have the money...may as well take it all...it will buy alot of watermelons and fried chicken for the 24hour unemployment party,

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The mayor is correct in one thing. You can not tax money that is stolen or killed for. Us WHITE people work legally and pay our taxes.

Then again, maybe it's TRUE that only blacks commit heinous crimes that rock societies not just in Philadelphia, but around the country.

Oh those monsters. Those....those ANIMALS!

Gimme a fuckin' break....