Cedar Rapids's Youth Violence Problem is Getting Out of Hand

 Besides the "Win at All Costs" and the "I Love Older Women" ethic that our fair city has worked hard to avoid, the City of Cedar Rapids's Youth Violence Problem is Getting Out of Hand. And, speaking on principle, that the City held on to Sportsmanship when everyone else was "Win At All Costs" and we'd be the Pinnacle and the Pedestal and the Beacon.

It is not a J-O-K-E  and the Youth Violence Problem is serious. It is a Serious Drain on the Cedar Rapids-Marion Community and I feel that amid other things, Jefferson has an Eligibility Problem. 

That Eligibility Problem was The Worst of the Traditional Iowa Big Schools and it was worse than Waukee Northwest, which opened Last Fall.

We didn't have the Burns Verdict in Our County, but, if it did, it would have been a Riot State of Mind. I don't think Michelle Martinko wanted to see Her City hit the decks like McHale's Navy was Normal and not just on Her TV and I don't think Michelle Martinko's Friends wanted to see their City hit the Garbage Deck.

I feel it is Code Rick Mast (Carbon Monoxide), Code Renee (Hard Restart) and Code 93 (Which is Not a Liked Number in Iowa or Eastern Iowa), and I would have invented Codes and Medical Conditions because it is a Vince Lombardi/Barry Switzer Replacement Problem.

I don't like the Youth Violence Problem and I am Mad as Hell about some of my Favorite Spots Closing because they can't find enough Good Kids to Work There.

Would Having a Cedar Rapids Equal to Jordan Creek or Coral Ridge be the Best and Worst Thing Ever?

 I feel the Cedar Rapids Area having a Jordan Creek or a Coral Ridge would be a Gift and a Curse to Outlying Communities to Cedar Rapids. I feel that my Concern is Cedar Rapids is Straying from Safe Schools, Safe Neighborhoods Model that made us a National and International Example.

Even though we don't have Our Christmas Stolen like the Mid-South, but, I feel Guilty and Bitter that the Body of Work and the Body of Work leaves a lot to be desired. I would believe in Cuffing Season like Fabulous and not the Old Movies, and trust me, I'd run around the City if I knew someone that was Up to No Good Got Cuffed and Booked.

It is frothy because there is No Turning Around like a Woman's 37th Birthday and everyone relates to the Cathy Comics a little too well like we need a Cathy and King of the Hill Mashup. I feel that Gang Violence is a Major Problem in Cedar Rapids and it is a Task Force Problem, not a Jane Boyd Problem.

Jane Boyd would be lonelier than if the Pope was American and that would not be easy. Even if the President was Cedar Rapids Public and Parochial Born and Raised, they can't just throw Government or IMF Money at Cedar Rapids.

My City is More On Fire than the Years After Martinko

 I feel as a Public Service Announcement that my Home City of Cedar Rapids is More on Fire than the Sensitive Years after Michelle Martinko happened. I do not like or take pride in saying that, especially if the After Hours or the Off Hours Stuff afterward blew out our Family Trees and Trajectories Forever in the years afterward.

I feel that what is more of a Burn is People Do Not Care and Do Not Have the Money. That is a Movie Plot, if the lives behind the characters where not real. Sadly, they are a little too real for our liking.

And, that fire in Our City is induced generally in Gang Violence Culture and that is an incinerator worse than anything. I am mad that Pop Culture is not getting better and Experiences Cost Money, but, you'd have to carve out Money to enjoy them.

I don't think my City has the Wrong Kind of GPS, with the P being Offensive to Family Friendlier Ears, but, there is not a Drive to Work for Money, or Even to Win, and that affects Cedar Rapids Public's Student Body and their Eligibility, which Jefferson is in the midst of an Eligibility Crisis.

State Volleyball Leaving the Five Seasons Centers Would Damage Cedar Rapids

 I feel that for most of my lifetime, State Volleyball has been home at varying iterations of the Five Seasons Center save for 2011 and 2012, when the current Alliant Energy PowerHouse was built. I feel that State Volleyball leaving the Five Seasons Centers would damage Cedar Rapids in more than Money Lost or Different Schools Not Coming to Town.

The City had done a Much Greater Job making itself look Presentable and Proper when other people where arguing about their Historic Core. I feel that having a lot of things go by the wayside, namely having Dual State leave with the 1979 Five Seasons Center, and that was Cold, especially if we'd had that Supernova of The City Dual of Washington vs. Jefferson with an Erupting Five Seasons Center or an Erupting Five Seasons Duals all over Town.

The City is Earthier and we'd have to have All Options on the Table, including Downtown Hockey for the First Time, which has never happened in Our City. My Home City is Cash Poor like the Trump-Griffin Family Guy Feud and outlying Communities are Gobbling Up Jobs Left and Right.

We'd keep running into City Elections that are War Games and I'd feel that Mount Mercy would get wise to a New On Campus Arena to keep Kids and their Fans from Going Afield like a Few Years Back. Good People keep leaving and I would be Horrified if a Scrub or Worse was allowed to Run Amok in a Beloved Position, and I am not talking about Left Eye either.

The Shoulder Lean has Came to Cedar Rapids

 I am not bringing up 2000's Hip Hop when I am bringing up the Shoulder Lean has Came to Cedar Rapids. Kids have no Safe Places to Learn and we have degraded to After School Soccer and that still brings the Fights.

We are the Civic Leader and Capital and that makes me madder than a Wet Hen. If the Late Michelle Martinko was here, she'd would have been 60 This Month, not a Shrinking Violet and absolutely Mad at China for Cedar Rapids's Decay.

I do not want to avenge my Mother and Her Friends Pride, even though it would be This Christmas that we would have actual School and Having to Return to Actual Currier and Ives for Christmas, and actually not having a Cold Case chill our otherwise Happy Go Lucky Air.

I feel we are not Philadelphia, but, I feel miserable that we should be the Capital of the Women's Building, but, the Pates always make it a Bad Habit to sell the Women's Buildings Short. I'd rather be Currier, Ives and Stone Cold Steve Austin and want to bring up The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin at the Lunchline, but, I am 36 and a Long Way From School.

I don't think a Shrink would have fixed the Ice Cream Man and the Meat Counter's Problems, but, I feel that we should not leave things to Tigers and we don't have Nice Things in Town. I feel mad and madder and I feel the Risk and Riskier have invited to the Riskiest.

Diss Track Season!

 I feel that it would not make me any friends, but, I feel that I'd have to Speak My Mind! It is to be fair, Diss Track Season, and I feel a lot of My Home City's Problems need a Deep Dumpster Dive. I feel that singlehandedly, having Cedar Rapids Baseball All Time Greats is at least a Ticket to the Cooperstown Outfield. I am writing and rewriting the Diss in the Diss Track that it would make Sigourney Weaver turn harder than Alien.

Speaking of Aliens, I feel that our Baseball Heroes are getting the shaft in the Majors, in spite of having everyone and their Dogs coming out of Linn, Johnson, Benton and Iowa Counties. I feel that the Drunken Narcolepsy is having a Clone High of Artie Moreno to the Point the Drunks are Only Happy. That is a Crime, and I feel that the split through the Collegiate Field of Dreams is sickening.

I feel while we on the Dog and Pony Show, most people know my City Currently is through the Derecho and Pandemic. We have sadly put the Re in Recriminal and it makes me angrier like it was a Phil Collins Rock Fight and instead of Calming Down, we get angrier and more angrier and it changes the Pop Culture.

I feel the 1st Rule is Not to Piss Off a Ghost Ever! I don't like to drag a Posthomous Birthday, particularly a Patron Saint, but, I feel the Ticking Off of Said Ghost and that Ghost's Earthly Equals are not helping this Rock Fight. While we on our True Colors, I'd feel we'd be not much better than Every Day of Clinton and we'd not deserve the Lean Days like we'd all eager to take the Happy Stuff.

I feel that I am madder than a Wet Hen that the Smoke is too much and when we can't handle the End of Summer, it is a Problem. Nothing really good is coming out of this period and I am starving for leadership.

All of it hurts, and the Unaccount is not forgivable. We don't have Oasis Problems, but, we'd have the most infuriating hexes in Cedar Rapids and Marion to the Point it is Embarrassing. I don't want to miss out on Doctors and Nurses because Doctors and Nurses got mad and quit, but, that is dangerous. 

I don't want the Smoke! I don't want to Defend Divorcees and Spinsters! There is not a Giggity in China that would change my opinions. I feel guilty that leave it to Artie Moreno that he'd deprive the Public of Roger Maris like I'd be sick of Diminishing Returns, Being Compared to My Sister, and Medical Ethics at the Same Time.

Why is it Our Civic Pride is Draining?

 For years, my city has fought being a Rust Belt Stigma, especially attracting people from the Rust Belt. What doesn't make it fab is having the Cedar Rapids Gazette not be printed by our Friends and Neighbors in Cedar Rapids.

I don't like my Civic Pride draining down the tubes, especially if the Freedom Festival had to spend the majority of its budget on fireworks. I don't like people leaving and if good people leave, it would make it harder to be accountable or want to go to work.

I don't like wanting to keep seeing Shrinking Violets as I want the Young and Hip Worse, like it was my High School or Young Adult Years. I doubt I'd get the same engagement, but, I wouldn't want Aunts Calling if their baby or niece is 19 and capable of making their own decisions and still give me an earful and not about saving Nashville.

I don't think they've done enough for us Hard Working Adults, even though it was one thing to have to work on Masters when Pizza Hut wouldn't have made it Great Enough.  We are in the One Grandma would get mad over their fragrance and not the Young and Hip Characters.

I feel that this is more of a Mea Culpa than a Self Own, but, when the people don't be as good, that is a sign to get out.

How Come is it More Tense than Most Summers At Home?

I feel like as an Eastern Iowa Citizen that is still in Eastern Iowa, it bugs me that how come is it more tense here in the Middle of Winter than Most Summers at Home? I hate to scrape crow here, but, The Burns Cycle still will torch us like the Rader Cycle torched Kansas and to be frank, our Nonprofits are not in any more of a mood than that of our Lawmen and Women.

Nationally, Cedar Rapids Public and Parochial Schools is a Pillar, Beacon and Pedestal and what is badly lost is our scions are not happy in passing even. I would feel like what we'd live and die on is preparedness August 31st. It would mean being prepared days in advance, not trying to scrawl work at 8:29.

Commitment is nowhere to be found. It does not help when you cannot find anyone who'd do iRacing or Pro Stock Car as a Community and the real last laugh would be when we have real room to claim our Tara's and Monica's, and not just as a funnel.

I don't think those of us that are here are happy to report that jobs are nowhere and everywhere to be found.  Even if we had work, I cannot stand to be thrown into Playing Hero even if Eric and Dylan did not happen, and in our convictions, safety and security would need to be tantamount.

This would not be funny as we'd have real tractor sized holes in the time-space continuum. Like it or not, we'd change the World and what really sucks in the whole deal is there are just as many people willing to work rather than just let things slide.

I don't want things to be National News or World News because it is home, but,the real shock to the system would be when these Presidential Candidates stop badgering us and  we halfway home to the 7 Layers of Hell.

We Are Living in a Sicko Mode

I feel like we are living in a Sicko Mode, and not in a good way. My aunts wouldn't get the plane the same as our Elite, but, they can't stomach or stand more Sick Nicks. Worse, I would detest his detention at Anamosa on the ground it would be a problem of character.

I don't feel too happy with why we have gotten worse with being blunt than before. I don't think a Bad Summer has totally ended, and we need a lot of things on top of a lot of things.

I being 2 Hours Ahead of our Deano Cook impersonator about Joe Moorhead being a Rutgers Candidate and being the 1st One having to hit why Cedar Rapids Public Schools would be closer to 3A.

This is not good to get pluggy. This is the anthesis of Civic Pride and I feel guilt we need the Small to Mid Markets and we need them pronto. A good chunk of our problems are the people that wanted to leave left and worse, the codependence is not a good image.

Internationally, I'd lose my rock about being a Cultural Problem at home. I feel no better that we are not Tennessee, we can't just prolong our Oldest Stadium's Life, and I am crushed that we've done the be cool with it better than nothing.

I wouldn't give Luxury Cars away like Kendrick Lamar and I'd not driven since 2004 and I'd know cars. I would have zero patience with not having any expectations, other than what's there.  The truth is we need to do 175 in Cedar Rapids better than 170, and I don't see the surges in Clinton or Burlington. I don't see Silicon Valley outgrowths reaching closer to the Mighty Mississippi, and they all drive Detroit and they'd not be jovial.

My CIty is Losing Big in an Identity Crisis

It bugs me that Christmas should be a Family Show. And, let's just go back to the Looney Tunes or The Family Guy stayed on my screen. But, did we follow Mrs. Selmon's Boys out the door of Oklahoma, we would not have been rosy.

But, my city is losing big in an identity crisis. If we had a Rockfest or a Rap Fest at US Cellular Center, Theater Cedar Rapids, and the Paramount Theater.  Or better yet, let's have the Basketball or Wrestling Stage at TCR, Hancher and the Paramount Theater. If I where Mr. Redeveloper, I'd have a Downtown International Airport and Fairgrounds and a Cedar Rapids Live!

But, I still feel we are slacking so hard it is not funny. In my view, let's see Hy-Vee outsell Schuncks and Kroger by pennies difference. Or if it was a North Star of a Deal with Target and a Razorback Whole Hog of a Deal at Wal-Mart as opposed to the food banks.

I feel bugged they are trying to leave us little guys and girls out of this. If Quagmire really did "The Bachelor", we'd split our Manhattans. If anyone had the nerve to leave Korea's best actress with babies, I am sure they'd be booking flights to Providence, and they'd be flippin' sour.

The reality is 1991 is not 30 Years Old. We can't just smack Common Sense like it was a Real Texas vs. Texas A and M Division Trophy Race. And, as much as it is irrestible, we can't just latch onto anyone good and we'd be salty they weren't there 2030 Next Year.

I'd rather claim Orlando, Atlanta and Paris like I want to be complete. Nobody, even this late in 2017, likes to be hustled when they should be kept in the ocean because timing is the only thing and the law.

Why Not Cedar Rapids Build A Chinatown with A Macau Styled Casino?

I feel with Casinomania still taking Cedar Rapids to the point that the only way my city get a casino is if we hard-upped and destitute like it was Atlantic City. And, the reality I feel with so much Westernisms that get thrown out there, why not return the favor and have Far Eastern Design take on a new lead further East?

Granted, a Cedar Rapids Chinatown would backfill the Northwest Side and Ellis Boulevard. I feel for the impending future, the race to build new and safe, or at least have safe places for people to stay and play, not just throw the same old shenanigans around like bad checks.

We don't know how to recover from losing the Mom and Pop Businesses that where entrenched in our culture locally and nationally and I hate to be just as bad as Riverside in Identity Crisis because we have no Racing or Fort Smith in the lawlessness. I hate to see Fort Worth be as Strange and Nasty as Fort Smith again and that made everyone news before.

Granted, being the city that preserves buildings until theres nothing left or worse, no money to be left, but, I wish we where not as wildly resistant for new ideas and what is cavalier and tragic is we throw ourselves into remaking the Wild Westdale from Almost Nothing and I hate to see it be back to Indiana Firebirds status and no one be troubled to save it.

Are my Colleges in Cedar Rapids becoming "Party Schools" Again

I feel in the cruel and unignorable twist of fate, if not the punishment of fate, if my Colleges in Cedar Rapids are enveloping into "Party Schools" again like the 1970s? I think not everyone is committed to their books and I'd know we'd be hurtin' if we didn't have Japanese Nationals at Home this Fall.

It makes as much sense as trusting Eric Holder to charge Travis Kalanick with enough crimes against Women to even open the Death Penalty. It is not an either/or conundrum and I would roll for real if we left serious issues and their money to Beavis and Butthead and Michael Bay. If it was the 5th, 6th, or 7th Guy and everyone else didn't have the money, I'd have to do more than just doin' my thing and be gone with the Summer.

I feel like my kids at the bottom and from the bottom are trashing the establishment. The moral is don't trash an establishment hard enough people flee or be repelled. There is no "Our Repeller" on any of my buildings! I feel the blogger's code has to be clean and professional like a journalists, or our followers would leave like Spam E-mails and people would have to state real stuff if they have to.

I don't know if this is a TSMF or GDMF kind of period, and I don't think I'd want to throw vulgarities or profanities for free, but, our bad times are bad. Not as bad as Texarkana or Houston bad, but, very uncomfortable, too. I feel if we have a Captain America Civil War with key law agencies in Washington, DC , I don't know if we'd throw Teflon Don, the contemporary version and I feel angrier if my city is an angry and hoppin' mess of needing a beer buddy or a date, which girls really don't feel comfortable with sad, people who should had did their craft but acted cute instead.