Prisoners of Society

Here in California prison overcrowding has reached the point that they are now allowing some 3rd strikers aka lifers be released after a hearing i suppose. As I’ve contemplated this I wasn’t so sure how to take it.   Will that mean more crimes are going to be committed by these newly release prisoners? Without a doubt, I am quite sure some will have already been institutionalized and accepted their fate.  But given the opportunity they can talk the talk so they can walk.  Me?  I’d do the same thing if I were in that position.  I would think.  

Given that here are people who were 3rd striked for having stolen something minor or some minor drug offense does it matter?  It cost them their freedom, and to be hypocritical would be lying to ourselves if we didn’t admit we’ve done some really stupid things, T drive drunk, stole, cheated or whatever, whether you were a kid or not isn’t relevant. My point is at least I can say most of us have taken chances and not gotten caught for whatever reason.

But my point is really about the truer meaning of all of this.  I’m talking about, it’s a shame that none of these politicians and people who voted for the 3 strikes laws didn’t have the foresight to anticipate this prison overcrowding issue. Or did they? Either way I look at it, it’s not very flattering to know that there are politicians who for the sake of all of our lives are fighting to get these laws passed only to find out that it wasn’t very well thought out.  But if they did consider the implications that it would have, it’s not very flattering to know that they would take the life of these young people and lock them up until the bottom fell out and wherever they land is where they land.  Let the people deal with it cause they’ll be out of office by the time the repercussion of these decisions hits home.  

To me it just seems there are other options that haven’t been explored yet. I know that the recidivism rate is astronomical, there have been all sort of programs for people in prison and out of prison, but none of that seems to have made much of a difference.  They (whoever they are) are always talking about the education programs in prison, I know for awhile there, a prisoner could get a hell of a free education while we have to pay for ours, I know they have programs for when they got out of prision where the prisoners were helped getting employment, not like the rest of us on our own.  But naturally those programs seemed to fail and everyone threw their hands up and said, “we’ve done all that we can”… Oh really? I’ve never once heard of a program where they looked inwards, at the system itself, at the police at the courts.  I’m not saying a witch hunt, I’m saying looking at the system for flaws not faults.    Perhaps they should look at the system itself and perhaps the answer lies in there somewhere.   These are lives we’re dealing with here, yours, mine and theirs….

Thank God!

I have issues with face book… I am the only person I know that really have issues with FB… Yes, I have a fb account and i probably log on maybe once or twice a month tops… I just had an epiphany, it’s actually not FB that i have the issue with, it’s the people who are on facebook who I take issue with.  

I have a very dear old friend who has a niece who runs marathons.  She apparently travels all over to run in them.  I don’t know if she was at the Boston Marathon but was concerned that perhaps she was.  She flew to NY to run in the ING marathon a day or two after the Hurricane Sandy mess, which in my estimation makes her hardcore.

So, anyway, I wanted to send a message to my friend to offer my concern in hopes she wasn’t there and the first thing I see when logging on is a string of messages that went something like this, “every year we go to the marathon and wait at the finish line but this year blah, blah, blah, decided that we would wait five blocks away” then the responses were “oh thank god, you are definitely blessed”, “oh, thank god, god is good, I’m so greateful to him that you weren’t hurt”, “all i did was pray to god that you were going to be ok”…..

It really pissed me off… I admit I am not a christian nor am i anything else as far as religion goes with the exception of perhaps Buddhist but that to me is more of a philosophy and i digress.  But how insensitive is it to thank god that someone else is suffering rather than you or someone else you know?  I thought being a christian or a god fearing person you would tend to be more sensitive to others.  That being someone who is so committed to the fulfillment of the human spirit that it was something that is to be shared as fellowship.  But instead it is and always has been apparent to me that it’s a self indulgent myopic point of view where greed is the true catalyst in all of this.

Why is it that as a person who believes that when they die they will be taken to a land of milk and honey that they are so interested in hanging on to this way of life?  Why is it that if you’re supposed to spread the gospel why would you jeopardize your  personal relationship with god by brining in someone who will cut in on your time with him?  and why don’t people get pissed at him for killing a stranger? I mean isn’t what you consider important like family and friends just as important to a stranger that has family and friends?  Does it make it less of a tragedy that it was someone else who got hurt instead of you?  I would tend to think not, pain is pain, and just because you didn’t feel it, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.  

Have you ever heard the cliche’ if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around does it make a sound?  Who cares, but I bet if you were standing underneath it and it toppled over on you it would hurt like nobodies business and when you told someone of your bad fortune i bet they’d go… Ouch, that must have hurt?  No shit, so I ask you just because they’re a stranger does that mean they don’t make a sound when they suffer?

Shout out

It’s not very often that I can say a corporation that has a customer base that is nation wide let alone world wide that’ll actually satisfy the customer.

I had a union bank acct for years and when my wife died and the death cert was incorrect my account got shut down no less than six times by the Feds. I had advised the bank of the error in the certificate and was waiting for the amended copy but because it all eminated from out of state it would take awhile. So the nice folks would reopen the account and it would get shut down. Checks were bouncing left and right I ended up paying at least a grand in bounced check fees all told. So I eventually got things straight but they made sure they got their od fees and I overdrew one last time, and didn’t look back. Yeah it was on my credit report but at least I got my money back.

Then there was BOA, they were amazing. Because we had an account that we would deposit monies used for parts and materials it was a liquid account. At any given time the account could go from 10 grand to zero. And because we handle more than one project at a time it’s a busy account. But what the bank did was after an item would clear if they saw an opportunity they’d back out the cleared item clear something else and rede it the account to ensure that item wouldn’t clear and bounce it like a well endowed, well you get my point. This went on for a couple of year until it wasn’t feasible to pay for those well endowed breast augmentations. It cost us thousands to keep that account. Then there’s wells Fargo, the last straw with them was our customer wrote a check it cleared and then he put a stop pymt on it. Hello? It cleared…. So what happens? They come after us? Yes, no thank you goodbye…. To the tune of something like 620 bucks.

Then the momma of them all AT&T. Apparently we were one of the last holdouts when it came to unlimited Internet on our cell phone. One small fee and all the Internet we wanted. They called us wanting to give us a better deal a bigger fee for limited bandwidth, thanks but no thanks. O, how about a better phone with a bigger fee and less bandwidth.? Hmm let me think about it…. Tic tic.. Nope.. Ok how about we just take it and u get bumpqis? That’ll work… So long AT&T. We couldn’t say no to that, so we didn’t.

Now comes Clear,we can’t always get a good signal but their customer service is second to none. None of that “I apologize for this but screw you mr Customer. We’re very sorry about that but if you bend over just a little bit more it may not hurt so much. Ooooh that hurt I bet we’re so sorry. Clear has helped us out more ways then anyone can imagine, they’ve even pulled a few things out of my backside that I thought grew roots.

The Internet isn’t the fastest but I don’t mind. They’re the underdog in the industry and they’ll eventually be shut down by those corps that own them but for now they’re the real thing. Go clear and see the difference.

Parents nightmare

I was reading on the LA Times website about a ten year old girl who was abducted and raped and found hours later alive. I couldnt agree more with the report more with the statement that it’s a parents nightmare. Thankfully she’s alive, I think. Hopefully she will survive this and be able at some point get pasted this. It can ruin her entire life ultimately lead her to a life of self destructive behavior ending in suicide I assume. Assuming the latter would she be better off having been found murdered? Of course not.

The police as reported said as would be expected that they would work every facet of this case and I believe them. I have no doubt they will bring this person to answer for this crime or at the very least kill him. In the scheme of things it doesn’t mean shit. Because his ultimate incarceration or death would perhaps satisfy our pedestrian lust for vengeance or retribution but it won’t help the girl be rid of the damage that has occurred with the exception of knowing he can’t do it again.

But that’s not what this is about for me. What it’s about is the police taking the stance that they go on record saying they are going to work this case.

There was a recent case here in LA where a 20 year old was found in a water tower on the roof of a hotel. She was from Canada. There was a YouTube video of her attempt to get away from her assailant who was not visible to the camer who was seemingly taunting her as she repeatedly hit buttons on the elevator trying to get away. Apparentlythe killer is familiar enugh with the inner workings of the Cecil hotel to know where cameras are located and how to lock the elevators.

I assumed it was a easy case to solve, but I also know that it’s every parents nightmare to watch their child frantically try sand escape their abductor who remains obsurced by a police who for whatever reason aren’t putting forth much effort to apprehend the perpetrator. Now I say this and could be wrong and if I am I apologize but I had a brief contact with the police regarding this case and was very dissatisfied with the contact.

I had stayed at that hotel and had a very strange incident occur with a very strange security guard. I offered that perhaps they should check him out. It only stands to reason it was someone who had aces as to keys to the elevator, the roof top and the water tower and who knew about the camera locations. The response I received from the officer was what I presume to be every parents nightmare. “The policy at the hotel doesn’t authorize temp security guards to have access to keys”….

Do you think they’re going to work this parents nightmare? I would think the parents are never going to wake up from this one.

Here I go again

There’s a way that thieves go about their business. The thieves that I speak of are for all intents and purposes are professionals. Lawyers, hoteliers and the like who rely on people to eventually give up the fight and walk away.

I had been in a scrimmage with a unscrupulous attorney which lasted almost three years because he was trying to steal from us. We hadn’t done anything but he accused us of breaking things and stealing monies that he fronted for services that we supposedly didn’t deliver.

Well after my attorney ran away (thank god), I managed to stay the course and fortunately out of 7 different judges one was not on the take and he fortunately caught a judge who was and she was shipped out immediately. He unfortunately has more faith in his colleagues than he should and he got the case on track and retired. I appreciate his delaying his retirement for this matter but his efforts were for a lot less than what was reaped.

Because I had held my own and was not allowing a judge to coax me into filing a motion just so he could grant it to later allow the plaintiff to amend his request for damages the case ended like this.

The next hearing was calendared, I show up but it’s mysteriously disappeared off the calendar. I receive a notice of a new date and when I show up again no hearing. I later receive a notice stating the plaintiff is granted the win. IN EVICTION COURT! Apparently he slipped it to a eviction protem commissioner who signed off on it not knowing what he was doing and won.

Was I pissed? No, not really, why? Here’s the rub. When the plaintiff filed the complaint he intentionally used pseudonyms so I would incur more debt because my attorney would file having plaintiff amend etc. but my attorney was so incompetent when he was provided our correct names in the form of our drivers licenses he had my partners name spelled incorrectly. When I took over I spelled her name correctly but I assume the plaintiff thought it was part of the gamesmanship and didn’t move to amend. He did however amend the record to reflect my true name and he moved to dismiss me. That being granted without opposition he ended up on eviction court because his cases was so far out that there was no amount of money that any judge could sign off on the case without having either his integrity or competence called into question. So Einstein (plaintiff) gets the big win against a fictions defendant. Although he won what a loser. His name frank o. Fox in Los Angeles. Look him up in block shopper dot com all those properties are from clients he rips off by taking their property.

But now I’m preparing once again to go up againstPeter Kwong who steals from his customers at the best western dragon gate inn in Chinatown.
I sent the demand now I’ll see if he’s gonna bite or fight. If he fights he’s got a good chance of dealing with the ag for his failure to honor advertised promotions which is a pretty big sum of money. As for me well he went on a tirade calling us pieces of shit and how he was gonna kick our asses in front of the entire hotel. So I figure what the hell I know that my chances are slim to none in court. Not because I don’t comprehend the laws or procedures. (it ain’t rocket science) but because I’m not a member. But irrespective he’s still got to get passed the ag and da and whoever else I contact prior to my filing. So the way I see it is even if I lose I win or even if he wins he loses. So here I go again.
Ps any attorneys out there interested in taking on a class action? It’s a winner for sure.

For the sake of mankind

There is seemingly a never ending line of people who for some reason are bereft of any sort of decency but are completely and madly enamored with the idea of the image they are portraying. There are those who are seemingly and habitually altruistic, but it is only a false front.  Why are some people like that and what is it that they truly gain?

I had been reading about two women who’s vehicle was shot up by the Torrance Police department here in Los Angeles as the ladies were delivering newspapers.  Based on what I read the police had mistaken their truck as Christopher Dorners truck and pumped some 31 shots into it.  No one was killed but I guess their vehicle was pretty much totaled. The LA Police Chief stated that the two women would receive a new truck and that was that… In the last article I read the headlines said something to the effect “TRUCK PROMISED STILL HASN”T BEEN DELIVERED” as if that is the worst thing in the world.  Because a police chief promised and hasn’t delivered it’s new worthy?  Who cares if they get or don’t get a truck that was promised to them.

Nevertheless the article went on to say that the womens attorney was quoted as saying that they were made an offer of a used Ford truck and theirs was a toyota tacoma, (newer model) and they were offered a truck that wasn’t 4wheel drive.  Then he went on about how they are being jammed up because if they take the truck they are going to have to pay I think it said “gift tax”.  And that’s a problem??

Consideration should be given to the fact that the police chief is LAPD and the cops who shot were Torrance PD, two different entities.  I don’t think the chief has any jurisdiction and I would think if the chief really wanted to get those women a truck he would have gotten them a truck.  Hell, they apparently raised a million dollar bounty for the reward money for Dorner.  So I don’t think there’s much hope that they’re gonna get anything until they get caught up in some bullshit over a truck.

They’ve got an attorney, I would think of the ambulance chasing breed.  WTF is this guy doing talking about pickup trucks and gift tax for?  Why is this guy even allowed to slither around spouting stupid shit in the papers?  Somebody needs to take this guy and give him a good old fashion ‘POP’ in the nose.  You ever hit somebody or hear when somebody got “POPPED” in the nose and it makes this hollow sound and blood just pours out like its demons being exorcised from their body.

This guy has no class, he’s just gonna rip those two ladies off like they were wearing paper dresses beckoning him with come hither eyes. Its unfortunate that these ladies are being led down the path by this guy. I believe because they are mexican’s who have hardly any means and are not educated or knowledgeable about the ways of the ass holes.  That this guy has to take advantage of them.  There isn’t any doubt in mind at least, when he was a kid and he’d try and hang out with the “cool” kids at a party and some girl got drunk and started puking, he’d be the first one trying to feel her up like she was his date and a willing participant. 

He’s undoubtedly hasn’t told those ladies shit.  He didn’t tell them that the city has already settled or is going to because it’s in the budget already.  I would bet he doesn’t even take their calls any longer.  But he calls them every once in awhile just to reassure them that he’s still working on getting that big shiny truck for them so they can resume their life of getting up at the crack of butt to deliver papers.  What is wrong with treating these two women like people?  Just people who do not possess the wherewithal to know any better but are protected by the kindness of strangers because that’s who we are.  The human fucking race, we’re just people.  They for once got a fucking break if you want to call getting your truck shot up by cops.  But this is their chance to get a little bit ahead for being in the right place at the wrong time. So what if they squander or save.   It shouldn’t be this guys good fortune.  I would bet he wouldnt know good fortune if he was told to turn his head and cough it’ll be just one more second. He’s the kind of guy who’s so strung out on vicodin he uses the excuse to visit clients at home so he can raid their medicine cabinets.  What a loser, god save the queer queen….

Rats Azz

I now peek at news reports regarding the Christopher Dorner matter with curiosity. I’m always wondering if anyone has finally figured it out. Writers have hinted at what I believe the truth to be. In fact I am so sure I know what occurred that I refuse to say for the sake of selfself preservation. And as we get farther away from the incident the chances of someone else articulating what truly occurred diminishes. But alas, the hits still keep coming.

But I can say without any trepidation that there are people who make me appear to be on the deep end of the pool. Some of these characters are pretty shallow but yet are seemingly drowning all at the same time. For instance, there is the cop who says she’s owed the reward money because she had a hunch it was Dorner and told someone. Big deal… Nice try but it’s your job, you’re exempt besides you are a cop. You care about law and order, not about getting rewards for capturing bad guys. Your reward is paid by the hoour if you wanted yur loot in one llump sum you should have been a bounty hunter…. Go sit down honey, maybe you can get a tv deal or something.

And what about the ranger who supposedly got jacked by Dorner and took his truck. He believes he should get a piece of the pie because he ran and told somebody he got jacked by Dorner? Your reward pal is that Dorner let you take your dog but true to form you wanted the leash too? You greedy bastard. Come the fuck on, you’re being jacked by a guy who for all intents and purposes has shut down all the police departments within a 500 square mile radius, got the cops admittedly thinking some crazy shit like Dorners gonna pop out of a manhole cover like a ninja, and you want not only your dog but his leash? If it was me, I would have told you to lay your hand flat on the ground and stomped the shit out of it. The man is on the run and all you think about is yourself and what an inconvenience it is. How badly do you really need that leash, asshole? The man just spared your miserable life and you can’t? You know he’s gonna be dead in a minute the least you could have done is let him be on his way, but no recipercate, you got to think about your big crisis. Are you that annoying that your dog won’t even walk with you without a leash? Get the fuck outta here, you were a victim, not a hero, pops. Theres an 800 number for victims of crime is 1800 2 phkn bad, give them a call and see if they care. As for your cut of the reward money, not today pal. Oh hey is that your dog I saw with a leash around his neck that hung himself? You better go check I think he left a suicide note next to the dog bones.

Who’s got time to smell the roses?

Admittedly, I am a computer junkie. My girlfriend basically just throws food at me and I catch it like a frog to a fly…. But my problems go even deeper than that.  I used to consider it up there with Epstein Bar, or those who only cop to it when they get caught professing to be “sex addicts”, but my problem which I believe is worthy of some attention by the psych world is I am a procrastinating multitasker.  It is not a malady that I have ever heard of or read about.  I’ve read several papers on procrastination some seemingly inept and some truly  ineptor.  I’ve read a few papers on multitasking which I found humorous for a brief moment until I took into consideration that perhaps it wasn’t written with a humorous intent and just perhaps I missed the point.  So, I mulled it over for a period of time and decided I wasn’t sure if it was worth mulling over so instead of relegating it to the “who really gives a rats ass” file , I went and found my 35 foot ladder and tied a rope onto it and hoisted it up on top of the “I’ll get back to it” pile.

I had felt as if I was secretly obsessing about it.  So to rid myself of these thoughts about something that really isn’t worth obsessing about I brought it to the committee, my girlfriend.  She and I had a good laugh, and then she says to me, “that’s you”. I said, “what?” she says, “that’s you. You procrastinate all the time, and you multitask and that’s why you never get anything done”.  “Don’t get me wrong honey, your smart in fact I think you’re a genius but you get this obsession about something and that’s all you focus on and soon you get bored and you pick up something else and you start working on that then you put it down saying you’ll get back to it and…” so I cut her off like she was a light bulb burning during the day time, “CLICK”.  I don’t know why but for some reason I listen to her…

But how does she know, it’s not like she’s known me all my life and I’ve been like this all my life.  It took me this long to get to know pretty much most of myself.  But she just walks into the room and the light bulb turns on and she’s sits there and tells me stuff about myself that is complicated.  I am a man damn it, there is nothing simple about the inner workings of a man who has the ability to be as introspective as I am.  But she comes off like the answer to my life can be found in a chinese fortune cookie. 

Anyway, so I go sit down at my laptop and I open this letter that I’ve been working on since 2011.  Ok, May of 2011, I’ve got about 8 versions on my laptop and who knows how many on my four usb sticks.  So as I’m going through four versions, I decide that I should hold up a minute on that and start working on the scope outline from a walkthrough I did today.  So, I bouncing back and forth, the letter and the scope document.  Then for some reason my mind went to thinking about the termites I’ve been having a battle with at my mothers house. So i opened the browser and started surfing how to design a brick deck for her backyard.  Which led me to “hey I’m not feeling this song, and hey check this out, Jeffery Osborne had a new album a couple of years ago?”…. “I should listen to it, ok… Ok what? Ok I’ll listen to it  later.. Oh I almost forgot I’ve got to take the antenna for my Clear hub express back to the store tomorrow, maybe I missed something when I researching antennas” so I start to refocus on the letter and i see that I’ve started and ended it four times on the same page. Hmmm… that’s a problem. well not really cause I’ll just cut and paste the best parts onto a blank page and wa la all finished.  So I open a blank page  and instead of cutting a paragraph I talk myself into starting fresh and begin typing… Hmmm it sort of sounds like the others but not quite, maybe i should take a look at one of the ones I’ve already typed to see if I’m leaving out anything. Oh damn, I almost forgot about the scope document, I promised the guy I’d have it for him tomorrow morning at the latest.. Ok, that gives me a good 13 hours so, I’ve got time… Let me get back to it when I feel inspired right now I think I’ll just surf the net and see what’s news and maybe I’ll get inspired to finish the letter or the scope.. You know what, hey I got a great idea, I think I’ll blog….I’ve still got a couple of hours….

How’s that for Justice

I don’t know how many of you are aware of the Christopher Dorner murder in which the law enforcement officers made themselves look pretty  inept and a bit wimpy.  For those of you who do not have the benefit of living in LA, the police all but disappeared for a few days. Just like that POOF! They were gone..

Apparently, they had feared for their lives according to one commander who was interviewed, he freely admits he had completely lost his mind.  He was so tripped out he was hallucinating that Chris Dorner was going to travel underground and pop out of a manhole like a ninja… a ninja… 21st century and the commander is trippin on ninja’s maybe he was misquoted and he said nigga’s , for his sake i would hope so… Ninja?   He went on to say that he NOW could under how some people felt  being in fear for their lives when it comes to the police…. Better late than never, I never say…  

Dorners former training officer the one who he says kicked the prisoner while in handcuffs (the prisoner not the officer) has yet to return home because she is afraid that someone may follow through with their threats.  And to top it off she’s getting credit for breaking the case… Again a misquote i do believe, I think they meant she gets credit for breaking.. nevermind… its insane. All law enforcement gone… Oh, the commander said he was thinking of moving now get this to New York or someplace else like Georgia or something, really who cares? Maybe he should still consider moving anyway as the training officer can attest to there still might be some ninjas out there.  nowhere to be found for three days for fear for their lives. 

I couldn’t make this shit up, but, let’s recap, we’ve got a TRAINING OFFICER who is afraid of  a former cop who’s allegedly was after certain people on a manifesto that FB for some reason didn’t censor. He gets blown up , she’s now afraid of people who have made threats against her….  He’s a commander who is afraid of  a former cop who’s allegedly was after certain people on a manifesto that FB for some reason didn’t censor. He gets blown up  and all the while the commander is thinking of ninja’s, maybe.  They both were in hiding as were the rest of LAPD and all the other law enforcement.  So, who’s assed out because of a former cop who got served? JUST US….. 

The pain in the butt

I just wanted to inform whomever that I noticed I couldn’t log on to my blog. The user name error is showing a different user name than whats input. I assume its being spoofed hopefully it will be corrected. But if All of a sudden i start making requests for loyal readers to forward donations please inquire before doing so to ensure you have the correct address. Please donot let this deter you from your altruistic mission.
That being said should there be any other requests from my blog I would suggest you ignore them and perhaps they’ll get bored and go on and find something in their own lives more interesting than mine or yours. I can assure them that mine isn’t worth the trouble, but when it picks up I’ll be sure to invite them in.