First in response to Stephanie's comment on her show this morning, I have not been in Outer Mongolia the past three days and I've heard plenty about this Isla Vista mass shooting. We all know the horrific details. But the most relevant remark was the father of Chris Martinez, whose twenty year old son was killed in that deli, which was like a shooting gallery and they have video of that. He laid the blame for the death of his promising son, squarely at the foot of the gun lobby and the NRA, and of course he's right. But even as he said these words I despared of anything even happening with this Republican tea party congress. John Boehner can make all the excuses he wants for not passing either gun legislation or immigration reform (which would actually REDUCE the federal deficet) or of course the minimum wage issue- - if all the horrific gun shooting incidents of 2012 were not enough to shock this congress into action, then nothing will be. Now when there are people (still walking around loose) who say that the Sandy Hook shooting was a staged event and "no kids were harmed in the filming of this incident" and all. People like Shawn Hannity are in such a profound state of denial on so many issues, and maybe we'll get to them, but - - the question before us is "What do we do about mental illness and the gun issue?" I've been institutionalized at least three times in my life- - but the thing is in my case- - there is no connection between being diagnosed as Paranoid Scitzophrenic by S E Abott, which I found about the first Saturday of March in 1970 about sunset. We were just going into a movie theater (on Garden Grove blvd) to see "Colossus" and "Number One" a movie with Charlton Heston as an aging football player- - and my Mom springs this little tidbit on me. But there is no connection between this diagnosis and subsequent institutionalization. None of my institutionalizations have been due to a diagnosis of either autism or paranoid scitzophrenia. But some of these terms float around - - on doctors reports based on one interview done for Voc Re Hab by Dr Abott - - in March of 1969, when I was still a virgin, by the way. I think I flunked the "word association test" or some of those other cliche questions they throw at you. I was still basically an immature teenager- - younger than Elliot Roger was. But from a legal standpoint - - this Roger guy have in common that my internments in a psychiatric facility were technically "volentary". Although I know there are people for their OWN warped reasons would like to SEE you as mentally ill. I told you about that "National Enquirer" style rambling letter that Pete Richards sent Dr Wong in late April of 1999. I told you how I came on that form in my baby book (I saw in 1992) about how as early as late 1969 my Mom had made an inquiry about trying to get me on some state Walfare. I'd have freaked out if I'd known about that. But the bottom line is that for Elliot Roger - - all three of his gun purchases were strictly legal. But my philosophy is from the Bible of "He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword" and I have made that my guiding principle. So if Kate Roberts gave me a gun as a wedding present or something- - I'd hand it back to her saying "I don't want it". I'm one of those "nuts" who believes that the odds of your being killed once word gets out you are packing heat. But the question Stephanie and others posed remain unanswered. What do you do about this Elliot fellow who seems to slip through the safety net or whatever. I guess it was either Donald Rmusfeld or Collin Powell who made the famous statement in the Iraq War build-up of "We don't want the first definitive sign of Saddam having weapons of mass destruction being a mushroom cloud. That lady Stephanie had on her show was right, I guess, in saying that "More often than not people with Aspurgers syndrone are more likely the victums of mental illness than the perpertrators of it. Actually Pete Richards told me the same thing. I've also told you that on more than one occasion when my Mom accused me of having Aspurgers syndrone, that Judy was adement that I didn't. And Judy's not exactly the sort of person who hands out compliments like candy. I told you about Gary who used to live here. I thought he had Aspurgers and if he were living anywhere but a place like this where half the people are a little psycho- - he'd have gotten the crap beaten out of him several times away, just because of the way he acted. I could give that Elliot Roger guy some advice on girls if he wanted it- - but other people tried and failed. Then there is the whole race angle that right wingers like Rush and Hannity don't want to talk about. It's priveleged white people. You don't find this sort of power mad narcicism among minorities. This guy sure had a lot more breaks in life than I ever did. My hunch if if I were allowed to see a hidden video of the guy interacting with family members I could spot what the problem is pretty quickly. Maybe I'm kidding myself. As you know (not to use a TV example or anything) I told you that Dr Marlena Evans oughta be sued for psychiatric mal practice for the interraction between herself and Will Horton. And I said at the time "It's conversations like that that really damage a person and make whatever problems he's dealing with all the worse, and if she's not careful she could actually turn him Gay". As it turned out this wasn't just grandstanding on my part, but turned into reality. I don't want to quote the proverb "It takes one to know one' or anything- - but some of us are shall we say more "sensitized" to "irregularities in communacations" that others might miss. Part of me thinks (citing the old Jim Cooper line) "His only problem is that he doesn't have any problems". This sentament was echoed on a recent George Washington's blog posting about "Some people or even Institutions are Shielded from the least bit of conflict, and are allowed to go on living out the fiction that "I'm supposed to live a priveleged life where I get literally anything I want at the drop of a hat". The blog points out that this is the surest prescription for collosal Failure in the course of time. OK I've sermonized enough. And I did talk about the idea of "back-stopping". Dr Levy says we all need to be "back-stopped". Yeah- - I need a limo and free booze delivered personally to my room- - but I'm not going to get it. When you think about it people are objectively "Insecure" from an objective basis- - have Fewer mental probolems than those who have the world handed to them on a silver platter at an early age. These are the ones who seem to forever going to their shrink who they see twice a week. And they talk and talk, and nothing ever gets accomplished. OK I've sermonized enough- - going on longer than I intended.
They had a press conference by the SB sheriff last evening around
six preempting the ABC network news. But
even when the news conference was over they kept saturating the air waves with
it, as they did this morning on NBC.
There were ten “crime scenes” or locations making kind of a loop where
the guy drove by and shot. The suspect
Elliot Roger - - seems to have shot himself sitting in his car, after already
sustaining a wound to the hip by Law Enforcement. First he killed his three male roommates by
stabbing them, though their names haven’t been released. Then he shot two surrority sisters and then a
student in a deli, and so six died. He
apparently shot eight additional people and ran four over with his car. After this it was the Mc Laughlin group. Now and last week are the ONLY two weeks I’m
ever aware of that Eleanor Clift was not present. Up till last week Eleanor had never missed a
week, but I guess she just got fed up with all the “piling on”. So now the five conservatives have the floor
all to themselves and can say whatever they want. There were four quick topics.
I had Shawn Hannity on and they replayed the interview with Texas
governor Rick Perry where Shawn fawned all over him. Hannity can complain about his taxes, but I’m
wondering what is different now as opposed to twenty years ago under the Clinton
administration? Probably nothing. Hannity keeps talking about all of this
drilling and fracking we should be doing
because “The US reserves are greater than that of the entire Mideast combined”. He says “If we develop our reserves we can go
tell the Mideast to “pound sand”. I
don’t think they’re worried. I saw all
of those graphs from about three years ago saying that the United States only
had about four percent of the world’s oil reserves. And I do not think with all of this hype over
the past ten years, those statistics are substantially changed. And I know that because the price is still a
hundred dollars a barrel. So as far as
I’m concerned Hannity can talk till he’s blue in the face.
On C-Span I replayed some of that Veterans Administration hearing,
jumping around. Then it was this author
on “Book TV” allegedly critiquing the 9 – 11 commission but this book itself
was like another cover up. The
underlying principle in both cases was “We’re not here to lay any blame or
responsibility at the feet of any particular person”. So essentially the whole interview had
nothing to do with the events of 9 – 11.
There was this one guy in the Clinton administration named Sandy Burger
who every time he came across a document that he was involved with, would take
that ann any copies he later found, and he would run them through the
shredder. No explanation was ever
offered. Also there was some allusion to
an Iranian connection that made absolutely no sense at all. Then I watched another brief interview from a
writer about 9 – 11.
John Boehner just finished up his press briefing, which seemed to
be shorter, which was done on Wednesday.
The reason why the Speaker isn’t going ahead with the Senate immigration
bill is that he considers that bill dead in the water, and no way could the
House approve a bill on such a massive scale but wants to go at the problem
“peace meal”. Yet he will maintain he
really wants to pass some kind of bill.
He doesn’t “trust the president to enforce the bill, and the President
will have to earn that trust before we act on any bill”. That to me is a lot of verbal tap
dancing. The Speaker says that firing
and replacing Gen Shensecki would take too much time and we need action closer
to the immediate problem now. I can’t
argue with that. Boehner said that the
Bengazi committee will “take some time to get going” because people have to hire
staff to investigate documents. To me
this raises the question of “what have they been doing all this time already
gone by?”
So now I guess I'll undo all my credibility by talking about Cosmic stuff. First of all the "Pittsburgh DES RHO" group claims the Pretenders rock group as the "third leg of the third wave" to to speak. Mal Evans as you know tagged the original Pretenders drummer as "the sole survivor" but the Federation was only "courting' the Pretenders to begin with. They started off as Agagenian in origen, (using the Romulan term) Two other groups we may or may not have told you were also Agegenian were Pat Benetar, and oddly enough "The Talking Heads", which may be the least "punk sounding' Agegenian group. We are informing you now two groups we may have said were "The Berlin Group" or "Berliners" to use the Sirius A term - - "Men at Work" and "Billy Idol". These are Rhondonian groups. However - "late Berliners" such as Simple Minds, can sound a lot like Billy Idol. If we didn't say it's out belief that Aldeberan VIII (known as Aldeberan III in Romulan circles) is a cloaked planet- - and they hired out the Romulans for permission to cloak their entire planet. All three planets circling Sirius - that's A, B, and 0 are all three cloaked planets. The question arises of "What if scientists uncover evidence that reveal that you're just full of it- in some of the statements you've made about cosmic geography? Then I would say "so be it" and move on. I didn't post yesterday or the day before. Given my pathetic blogger numbers, I have little incentive to be that interested in - "protecting my image" because I pretty much don't have "an image" to protect at this point.
The usual ABC game shows were on but my sleepiness was the predominant
feature of the evening. I was dead
tired. At a minute after eight I was
aware that “Burn Notice” was starting but I don’t remember anybody changing the
channel. I slumbered and roused at a
quarter to nine, and supposing it was later, I went outside for what I thought
would be a final “bedtime” cigarette. It
was my last smoke. Lisha was out there
mostly talking to that new guy with glasses.
She and I conversed a little but I was pretty non compus mentus. But I forced myself to remain up at least
another half hour and I supposed when I plopped into bed I’d be “out” thirty
seconds after my head hit the pillow.
That didn’t happen. Instead I
kept shifting position and had a coughing fit, which punctuated the night.
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