I almost forgot, because I've been away, back on the weekend after the Fourth I had an interesting and somewhat enlightening experience. I was driving on Albany Street in the Hamilton Hill area. It was morning, a very hot day, and I had all my windows open. As I was waiting for a red light at Hulett Street or thereabouts, a long red light, I realized that it sounded like someone was calling to me. Someone was!An entrepreneurial gentleman saw me, an obviously middle class, middle-aged, white woman in a fairly nice car, and figured out that he had what I was looking for, some "bud". I wasn't actually looking for that, in my day we called it grass, and anyway I don't use it, but it's interesting, vendors tend to know their customer base. How many suburbanites drop in to Schenectady, use it like a public toilet, retreat to their homes elsewhere, and then sneer at the place with "all the drugs"? Neighborhoods like Hamilton Hill do not drive the drug trade, they don't have the GNP to make it lucrative. They are mostly the low-level servicepeople for those who imagine they are keeping their own areas sanitary. I also stopped in Rotterdam that same day. At a VERY public location, I noticed that the young man behind the counter appeared to be placing bets of large sums of money, over the phone, for the people in line in front of me. No, I wasn't at OTB, I was at a "newsstand". This used to be a common occurrence when I was growing up in Schenectady. Remember all the "newsrooms" we used to have? But anything unusual going on in those places happened in the back room with the curtain over the door, not right out in the open.
If someone is calling you out over there its either they have drugs or they want some money
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
There were many places to bet on just about anything on Bway from Vischer Ave to the bottom of Bway Hill all the way to the gate entering GE from Bway. News rooms and coffee shops were very popular in those days.
This is going on EVERYWHERE!!! The first clue should have been when the SPD chief was affectionally referred to as the 'snow man'!!
Illegal gambling, drug usage/selling, welfare fraud and corporated fraud is alive and well EVERYWHERE. Hamilton Hill is not exclusive to this kind of lifestyle!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Remember Chevy Chase telling his family to "roll em up" It's no joke, roll up your windows on the hill.
Some time back had 4 men approach my car, at first thought nothing of it, I live on the hill used to everyone in the street.
Well until one guy on each side tried opening my doors.
I hit the gas, heard one guy yell, I had ran over his foot.
We have a car on a corner, someone brought up at the previous council meeting, older gent openly selling. Cops have their blinders on when it comes to the area of JB Park.
Yeah, I guess leaving the windows down was what gave the man the idea I was looking to buy. I wouldn't have thought that the dealers would be active on a Sunday morning. The violent types aren't too busy then, because they have to sleep sometime. I had a false sense of security. If I had rolled up my windows and locked my doors, I would be racist, according to our President. I hope there aren't any women "searching their souls"like he said to do, and thus putting themselves in harm's way. I don't know how a man with two daughters can whine about women who get nervous in an elevator with a strange man. What is more important? Some guy's feelings or a woman's safety? If the guy is him, it is pretty obvious what he thinks about that. I never saw a more self-absorbed, narcissistic president.
Yeah, I guess leaving the windows down was what gave the man the idea I was looking to buy. I wouldn't have thought that the dealers would be active on a Sunday morning. The violent types aren't too busy then, because they have to sleep sometime. I had a false sense of security. If I had rolled up my windows and locked my doors, I would be racist, according to our President. I hope there aren't any women "searching their souls"like he said to do, and thus putting themselves in harm's way. I don't know how a man with two daughters can whine about women who get nervous in an elevator with a strange man. What is more important? Some guy's feelings or a woman's safety? If the guy is him, it is pretty obvious what he thinks about that. I never saw a more self-absorbed, narcissistic president.
You cannot pre-judge anybody. Your personal experiences must be filed away like they never happened. You must suspend your personal reality created by your life experiences and substitute the alternate utopian reality of what the social engineers would LIKE the world to be. Only the authorities can judge your experiences. So every encounter in life must be considered a new encounter, and putting it into context of a previous experience would be prejudiced. Remember the old cliche, a child learns not to touch a hot stove once they are burned by a hot stove? That is no longer reality. You must now assume the stove is not hot every time you approach a stove. Assuming a stove is hot would be prejudiced.
the renaissauce is being drunk from every rose-colored bottle out there while Schit-City is circling the bowl like the last turd in slow motion
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
the renaissauce is being drunk from every rose-colored bottle out there while Schit-City is circling the bowl like the last turd in slow motion
Your first mistake was having the windows open. Your second mistake was driving around the Hill. The number one window treatment on Albany St is plywood. Where's the trickle down from Metrograft? ROTFLMAO! There are no crumbs after McMayor and Karen Johnson finish eating. God forbid a crumb, something should fall the taxpayers way. That must be avoided at all costs. Keep the DEM implosion going!
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Your first mistake was having the windows open. Your second mistake was driving around the Hill. The number one window treatment on Albany St is plywood. Where's the 
