Jann Scotts Journal
This is the NEW website for Jann Scott’s Journal. Jann Scott’s Journal has been running since 1998 from Boulder Colorado. It is a written commentary by Boulder’s most famous cultural icon and futurist and talk show host. Nothing is sacred here. This is a burning look at the smartest, happiest, richest , whitest city in America. Jann Scott is the voice of reason from Boulder.
Boulder Homeless Report
Apr 19th
The Boulder Homeless Report today is mostly drunk, partially stoned with a chance of crack and Heroin. Homeless continue to be dirty and smelly. Most Boulder Homeless are jobless and refuse to work. they prefer to suck off the system. Social security benefits are preferred as well as food stamps , Medicaid , welfare and free food.
70% of Boulder Homeless are street Alcoholics, male and involved in the Criminal Justice system… Meaning they are criminals.
Todays Homeless super heros.
Melody, 22 is a homeless chronic alcoholic young women. she has a smart phone and a twitter account. She lives with a older male alcoholic who takes care of her. Her deal is she claims to be a cancer survivor which she is not. She has been shaving her head since she became a street punk several years ago. She has warrants in several Colorado counties.
Eddie is the man who takes care of Melody. He is not homeless per-say, but he lives off SSI in a trailer and drinks all day long. He got fired from his job last year and filed for Medicaid and ssi for disability. Alcohol disables him. If he quit drinking he’d be fine.
Robert spent all of his SSI money ($750) on vodka by April 16. He called me for some money. I wouldn’t give him any. I did bring him some soup and cigarettes. If he quit drinking he would have money and a place to live. The Homeless shelter tried to help him but he is always too drunk. He has been arrested for sex offenses, forgery, theft. Today he is shaking and needs a drink real bad.
Don lives in a tent off the grid in Boulder He hasn’t had a drink in several years but he has been on the streets and in chronic homelessness for so long, he is having a hard time adjusting to society. He says all he needs is a job, but one wonders if he really wants to work.
From Boulder Colorado
Where we enable the homeless to drink themselves to death
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Mom and Dad suffered ethnic and religious discrimination : Jann Scotts Journal
Jan 20th
My mother and father were 2nd generation Americans . My grandparents on my father’s side had immigrated from Southern Italy. Grand parents.on my mother side emigrated from Poland. My parents met at a high school dance in 1932.
They had both changed their last names to Americanize.their future.
They both had stories of extreme prejudice when they were children. Name calling, insults, race baiting , religious discrimination …..I heard all of the stories growing up. On occasion I was subject to some of it myself even with a fully Anglo name.
When I see hatred toward Mexican immigrants or African-Americans in this day, I can’t help but think the discrimination my own family faced in the early 20th century.
Both my parents were Roman Catholic so I had a lot I f religious training. I go to mass to this day. I am one oi f those people who never had a problem with the church…. and I think my parents made sure I was safe. But I have had a close spiritual connection with Mother Teresa, pope John Paul, Michael Moore, Governor Jerry Brown, St. Francis of Assisi.
During the 1960s my dad ran a company in very white wasp Connecticut and he did something unthinkable… he hired Hispanics and African-Americans ….. I think it was after he heard Martin Luther King speak….. he said “the exact same thing happened to me and my parents…. we can’t let thus go on. It stops here with me in this company.”
Of course he was a combat vet from wwii and fought in Patton’s. 3rd Army. Gen. George Patton was the 1st general to integrate his troops when he called up a crack Negro Armoured division to break through Nazi lines when Patton’s white troops were surrounded. They ended up being the most accurate gunners If the war. My dad never forgot them. “They saved our lives…yes my life” he said The Negro troops also had the only top-secret night vision. Eisenhower had put Negro troops in charge if the red ball express which had night vission…..and so did their tanks.
So when I was a little kid growing up in my father’s company I spent my summers working on all black crews…where I learned how to work.
…pace….and about black American culture. I never learned prejudice. I actually learned cool colloquial terms, gospel music, military jargon and how to drink Gin and chew tobacco at the same time. That takes practice.
In my own company today in 2015 in Boulder we practice no discrimination. That is we give equal pay and opportunities to all people’s. Who ever does the best work gets paid and promoted.
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Jann Scott
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Asiad loves America Jann Scotts Journal
Jan 20th
Asiad is 1 of 6,000 Iraqis who have immigrated to Colorado legally. He has denounced the Koran and Islam. It was forced upon him…or death. He is leaning more toward a very mild form of Christianity. Just a nice peaceful relationship. Simple. Quiet.
He is happy to be in America. Really happy. He has a job. Is studying music want to be American more than anything . He loves America. Welcome to America and welcome to Boulder , Steve.
from Boulder Colorado
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