HEY DADDY; BLOG # 2355; FRI JUN 17, 2022

THE COMEBACK:

CAN I KISS YOU? 

YOU NEED A KISS ON THE NECK FROM A CROCODILE!

THE MESSAGE:

The Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy, better known as TAVIS, was formed in 2006 in response to a sharp spike in gun violence in the city the previous year. A total of 52 people were murdered by gunfire in 2005, many during the summer months, thus 2005 became known as the Summer of the Gun.

In its first year the TAVIS  unit achieved the following: it arrested 765 people; seized 4handguns, 2 replica guns, 3 air/starter pistols, 22 rounds of ammunition and $99,955 cash as proceeds of crime.

TONY TODAY:

GUNS AND GANGS IN TORONTO 

The problem is real. it exists in most big cities, where children are raised without knowing who their father is and come under the influence of gangs who recruit them into a world of drugs, sex, and gun violence. 

The following is an article from local news. The message is clearly stated and the words ring true:

All of us have feelings about innocent victims of violence. But some of us are just getting tired. Tired of the excuses. Tired of the words complicated and complex. Tired of the avoidance of the F word: Fatherhood.

Fatherhood took a bullet in Canada a long time ago. And in some Canadian communities, it has taken many bullets. I’m tired of the avoidance of the D word. Where the hell is dad? Who is dad? Leaving these young men with nothing in their lives but a tricked-up car, an iPod loaded with gangsta rap, and a gun loaded with shells.

The answer coming from many is they’ve got everything they need. But these kids don’t know what it’s like to have the kind of dad most of us grew up with. A father with high expectations of us.

For many years now there have been those in society who have said it shouldn’t matter whether a kid has a dad in his life, it shouldn’t matter whether he has a strong male role model. Government programs can make up for the gap. Well, the truth is that the only social program worth a damn is a 'GOOD DAD'. All the others fall short.

In our public schools we have drop out rates that are too high. Is it true that no longer is a person embarrassed because they’re pregnant without a husband. Or no longer is a boy considered an embarrassment if he tries to run away from being the father of the unmarried child.

In some neighbourhoods, parenting is not going on. I’m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in police custody. Where were you when he was 6? Where were you when he was 18, and how come you didn’t know he had a gun?

Is there any part of what you have read here that is truly too complicated, sophisticated or hard to understand? Do not let the politically correct crowd make you think that  gun battles  happened for reasons that we cannot comprehend. 

THE MUSIC:

In The Ghetto Elvis Presley With Lisa Marie Presley

THE STUFF:

 

THE PUN:

Once I worked at a cheap pizza shop to get by. I kneaded the dough.

THE QUESTION:

If a marriage produces children, what should happen to the children in the event of a divorce?

THE QUOTE:

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to 

change often." Winston Churchill.

THE LEMON:

Looking unprepared and a little embarrassed, the Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU declared:

"We have recently switched to drinking water bottles...out of water out of ...when we have water bottles out of a plastic … sorry … away from plastic, towards paper … like drink box water bottles sort of thing."

THE CLIP:

A Dream Within a Dream - Edgar Allan Poe