Social Stereotype of Criminals

Society bases everything on looks. That accounts for a lot of crime.  Because while society is distancing itself from the young man with the whole in his jeans and long hair; or the young woman with in the sweats and tank top; this is what they are missing:

She looks like someone’s Grandmother.  Charged with 10 counts of Treason

This clean cut Gentleman was charged with Conspiracy to Commit Murder – On an American President.

Looks like a librarian to me. She was arrested for Anarchy and Inciting A Riot.

This is a handsome young man; popular with the ladies. Bugsy Siegel – Organized Crime and Murder

Spy for the USSR

 

87 Years old – Vehicular Manslaughter while Intoxicated

 

There have been women murdered by harmless, frail looking old men. People robbed in the streets by men in suits.  You can not judge a criminal by their looks anymore than you can tell a good book by the cover.

BP, Whats Next?

BP has payed 104 million dollars to residents along the Gulf Coast; however all these payouts do not change the damage done and the oil that continues to flow.

 

Alabama, Florida, Louisianna, and Mississippi all have response websites established to exchange information about the oil disaster and its far reaching impact. They are asking for any information of oil reaching the shores, wildlife, etc.

 

What is being done to stop this leak?

Flooding The Mississippi River?

Scientists want to flood the Mississippi River in hopes of stopping the oil. The scientists have concluded that powerful river flows kept oil from the BP/Gulf spill from invading large areas of wetlands. But as winter runoff diminished, so too did the river flow, and now oil is making a destructive invasion. The strong flow could be restored, however, by simply adjusting dams upstream that are diverting water out of the river bed.

Relief Wells?

Drilling crews were grinding ever deeper to build the relief wells that are the best hope of stopping the massive oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The crew of Transocean Ltd.'s Development Driller II finished pouring cement to firm up a section of metal casing lining one of two relief wells. BP and government officials say the wells are the best option for cutting off the gusher that has spilled as much as 125 million gallons into the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon exploded.

Nukes?

Government and private nuclear experts agreed that using a nuclear bomb would be not only risky technically, with unknown and possibly disastrous consequences from radiation, but also unwise geopolitically — it would violate arms treaties that the United States has signed and championed over the decades and do so at a time when President Obama is pushing for global nuclear disarmament.

 

While many people are worried about the political ramifications of all this; they are overlooking the human equation , as usual. Many people lost their incomes and food sources due to this tragedy. BP is throwing money at the situation; which only affords temporary comfort. Obama is throwing threats at BP and making things worse. The people are being threatened with arrest if they try to help with the cleanup.

 

My personal opinion is that BP needs to continue to stop the leak; The citizen’s should be allowed to do what is necessary to maintain their shore lines and Obama needs to concern himself with his next job and his next residence.

My Two Dads

My dad was a very large man; 6’3” , approx. 300 lbs. He was a Master Sergeant in the Air Force in World War ll.

He was a stern man with a reputation for being tough. People just didn’t mess with him. But that is not the man I knew.

The man I knew was a big teddy bear. He never had a harsh word for his children, he always provided whatever we needed and he made sure that we were getting what we needed from our mother. You see, I came from a divorced family when divorce was really frowned upon. Most people didn’t realize my parents were divorced because we saw our father almost everyday. I had a stepfather too. He married my mom when I was a baby.

At our house there was never all the drama about who belonged to who and I will kick your butt if I catch you talking to your ex, etc.  We lived in a civil home, where everyone knew their place and stayed in it. My oldest sister took a garage apartment and my dad moved in underneath her. That way we could have weekend visits with our dad. In that day and time, little girls did not stay overnight at men’s houses, not even their dads. It wasn’t proper. We would spend the weekends with my sister and see our dad during the day; at night we stayed in our sisters apartment. My dad would come to our house and have dinner with us. He and my stepfather would talk about business  and news and world affairs. They were both veterans of Foreign Wars and they were both married to my mother so they had a lot in common.

My dad never remarried and when I was nine , he got cancer and my mother took care of his affairs, visited him in the hospital, etc. My stepfather was with her all the way. He never complained, he didn’t try to stop her. He just stood by her.  My dad survived War and Marriage to my mother but he couldn’t beat cancer. He died when I was ten; but I never forgot him.

My Stepfather was tall and slender; very handsome and he fought in Korea. He too was very stern. He raised us with a firm hand. As children do – we hated him growing up. But when we were grown we realized that he was a good person in a difficult position.  Our stepfather never talked about our dad or criticized him and neither did our mother.  My mother and stepfather divorced when I was 14; but again; they remained friends and our stepfather visited often. When my mother passed away in 1979; he attended the funeral and grieved with the rest of the family. I had lost both of my parents and when I gave birth to my first child, I was beside myself; I was only 16 and still wanted a parents guidance and approval.  But the day I brought that baby home from the hospital my stepfather came. He had driven many miles to see me and the baby and to reassure me that I would be able to take care of her. We continued to visit back and forth over the years and I was on the family call list when he passed away in 2006

Both of these men were fathers to me and they both played a part in making me the person I am today. I will never forget either of them and I wish that all children could know a fathers love like I did.  

                                                                       

Who Is The IRS?

Is the IRS a Government Agency?

No

Is the IRS a department of The Federal Treasury?

No

What is The IRS?

The IRS is a Collection Agency working in this country illegally.

Does the IRS have any legal authority in the USA?

No

What is a Collection Agency?

A collection Agency is a company that buys your debt from your debtor for less than you owe  and then collects the money you owe from you by illegal means. Legally , you never have to pay a collection agency because you never made an agreement with them. However , most people don’t know this and the collection agencies use mob tactics to scare people into paying them. Doesn’t this sound just like the IRS?

For more information on other alternatives to a better America:

http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer

There Is Now A Tax On The Color Of Your Skin

The IRS has issued a 10% tax on tanning beginning July 1’st, 2010.

Most Americans are now Vitamin D deficient as a result of sun blockers and poor nutrition. Fear Mongers have made Americans afraid of the sun, so they turn to tanning salons. Not only is tanned skinned attractive, it also has many health benefits: best treatment in the world for psoriasis, vitamin D deficiency and it makes you look slimmer. Tanning is also a great form of relaxation and a natural alternative to drugs for stress. There is why the IRS is attaching a tax to tanning.

It is time that America wakes up and takes control of their lives.

Wash off the sun blockers and lay in the sun. The sun is not taxable and it is very beneficial. As for the dangers of sun exposure: People who live in sunny climates and work in the sun constantly; have less diagnosis of skin cancer. Lack of Vitamin D is a precursor to cancer. 

Online Socializing

Facebook is leading the social scene with twitter fighting for second place. What do people see in this online social craze?

I have found that a lot of people enjoy the games; while others use it as a networking tool. In my research on the subject I have found that people’s opinions on Facebook Users range from the absurd to the down right insulting; such as:

We're lazy. We have jobs and children and houses and substance-abuse problems to deal with. At our age, we don't want to do anything. What we want is to hear about other people doing things and then judge them for it. Which is what news feeds are for.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1879169,00.html#ixzz0qqQiM5Wu

 

We have children. There is very little that old people enjoy more than forcing others to pay attention to pictures of their children. Facebook is the most efficient engine ever devised for this.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1879169,00.html#ixzz0qqQqLaRa

 

I had never thought of online social sites as a racial thing, but evidently it is for some, such as:

Social Networking sites have been embraced by white people since their inception. Because these sites use profile pages, white people can more efficiently judge friends and future friends on their taste in film, books, music, and inspirational quotes. Advanced level white people, fearful of being judged on their tastes from last week, will often only list one or two ironic things as their favorites. For example under music they would simply list “P.M. Dawn” or under films they would choose only Armageddon. In both cases these ironic answers serve as protective shields from the harsh gaze of other white people.

However, it is important to remember that the “where” is often as important as the “who” when it comes to social networking. As noted in earlier posts, white people are obsessed with being in the right neighborhood and the Internet is no exception.

In the early days, white people joined a social networking service called Friendster where they could connect with old friends and make new ones. Eventually, white people started to notice more and more of their friends on MySpace, so they closed their Friendster accounts and migrated to the new service. It was like living in a neighborhood that was pretty good but kind of far away, so you might have to miss out on a few parties. Needless to say, this was unacceptable.

For a brief period of time, MySpace was the site where everyone kept their profile and managed their friendships. But soon, the service began to attract fake profiles, the wrong kind of white people, and struggling musicians. In real world terms, these three developments would be equivalent to a check cashing store, a TGIFridays, and a housing project. All which strike fear in the hearts of white people.

White people were nervous but had nowhere else to go. Then Facebook came along and offered advanced privacy settings, closed networks, and a clean interface. In respective real world terms, these features are analogous to an apartment or house with a security system/doorman, an alumni dinner, and a homeowners association that protects the aesthetics of the neighborhood.  In spite of these advances, some white people still clung to their old MySpace accounts.  That was until they learned that Facebook started, like so many things beloved by white people, at Harvard.

Within a matter of months, MySpace had gone from a virtual utopia to Digital Detroit, where only minorities and indie bands remain.

If you plan on befriending white people, it is essential that you join them in the digital suburbs and open a Facebook account immediately. It’s also a good idea to make up a story about how someone from high school sent you a friend request and after accepting you discovered that they were fat and unsuccessful. White people love these stories.

Although Twitter gets good revues, I personally don’t care for it as it is too impersonal to me; but lets see what people are saying about Twitter:

f you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of course, tidbits from the twitterers I'm following. These are all the things I could never find time to put on my blog, but that I spray via email like a firehose at editors, conference planners, and researchers within O'Reilly. A lot of my job is, as we say, "redistributing the future" - following interesting people, and passing on what I learn to others. And twitter is an awesome tool for doing just that.

Like a lot of people, I tried out Twitter early on, but didn't stick to it. Most of the early twitter conversation was personal, and I didn't have time for it. I came back when I noticed that about 5000 people were following my non-existent updates, waiting for me to say something. With that many listeners, I thought I'd better oblige. (There are now close to 16,000.) I soon realized that Twitter has grown up to become a critical business tool, ideal for following the latest news, tracking the ideas and whereabouts of people who will shape the future of technology, and sharing my own thoughts and attention stream.

I thought I should outline here some of the specific things I find so compelling about Twitter, with suggestions about architectural features to be emulated by other internet services.

1. Twitter is simple. Twitter does one small thing, and does it well. Folks like Robert Scoble sing the praises of Friendfeed, which you could think of as twitter++. After all, it's got comments and aggregation of data from multiple services. But despite its powerful premise, Friendfeed hasn't dented Twitter's growth. Personally, I don't have time to wade through the comments; for me, Twitter is about quick hits, not about extended discussion. And while I love the promise of service aggregation, I tend to think that trying to marry it to commenting obscures its potential. Less is more. New services like peoplebrowsr are reframing service aggregation in a richer way, as a way of learning more about the people you follow, browsing the social graph. (Peoplebrowsr is still in alpha, but I think it has real potential as a social graph explorer, rather than as yet another people feed-reader.)
2. Twitter works like people do. If I'm interested in someone, I don't have to ask their permission to follow them. I don't have to ask if they will be my friend: that is something that evolves naturally over time. If you're a public figure like I am, the metaphor of mutual "friending" is truly broken. I get tens of thousands of friend requests from people I don't know. Accepting would make it impossible for me to use a social tool to keep in touch with my real friends. Friend groups don't really help.

   Twitter's brilliant social architecture means that anyone can follow me, and I can follow anyone else (unless they want to keep their updates private.) Gradually, through repeated contact, we become friends. @ replies that can only be seen by people followed by both parties to a conversation create a natural kind of social grouping, as well as social group extensibility, as I gradually get more and more visibility into new people that my friends already know. Meanwhile, truly private direct messages are also supported.

   I don't know who first used the term "ambient intimacy" but it's a great description of what begins to happen on Twitter. I know not just what people are thinking about or reading, but enough about what they are doing that our relationship deepens, just like real-world friendships. People who follow me on Twitter learn that I'm making jam or pies, or gardening or riding my bike or feeding the horses, things that I'd never (or rarely, since I'm doing it here) share on my blog. I know a lot more about many of my professional contacts that makes them more into friends. And in the case of my family, who keep their updates private and visible only to a limited group of real friends, we can keep in touch in small ways that mean a lot. I get special moments of my wife or daughters' day that we might not have shared otherwise. It's truly lovely.

3. Twitter cooperates well with others. Rather than loading itself down with features, it lets others extend its reach. There are dozens of powerful third-party interface programs; there are hundreds of add-on sites and tools. Twitter even lets competitors (like FriendFeed or Facebook) slurp its content into their services. But instead of strengthening them, it seems to strengthen Twitter. It's the new version of embrace and extend: inject and take over. (Scoble recently noticed that 60%+ of his friends' updates on Facebook actually came from twitter. And as John Battelle noted in a recent tweet, "I noticed now that my FBook status is updated with Twitter, I get responses in Fbook, but would like to see them here." It might seem like a strength for Facebook to allow Twitter to update its status feed, but not the other way around, but I think Facebook will one day realize that Twitter has taken them over....)
4. Twitter transcends the web. Like all of the key internet services today, Twitter is equally at home on the mobile phone. Even on the PC, I find myself using a separate client (Twhirl is an Adobe Air program) that provides a rich, alternate interface.
5. Twitter is user-extensible.The @syntax for referring to users, hashtags, and whatever you call the use of $ as a special symbol for reference to financial instruments, were all user-generated innovations that, because of Twitter's simplicity, allowed for third party services to be layered not just on the API, but on the content.
6. Twitter evolves quickly. Perhaps because its features are so minimal, new user behaviors seem to propagate across Twitter really quickly. It's a bit like the reason that fruit flies are used for genetic research: the short lifespan compresses the time for mutations to take hold. Perhaps a better analogy would be the speed of cultural evolution among humans compared to biological evolution. The most fascinating evolution happening on Twitter isn't an evolution of the software, but an evolution in user behavior and in the types of data that are being shared.

   I saw this myself with retweeting, a behavior I picked up not from Twitter itself but from twhirl, the Twitter client I use. Because Twhirl actually has a button for retweeting, it seemed the most natural thing in the world to do it. I became one of the most prolific retweeters, figuring that I have more followers than most of the people I know, and that it would be good form to pass on the best of what they post. But it's fascinating to see the growth of retweeting by others, even those not using twhirl.

In many ways, Twitter is a re-incarnation of the old Unix philosophy of simple, cooperating tools. The essence of Twitter is its constraints, the things it doesn't do, and the way that its core services aren't bound to a particular interface.

It strikes me that many of the programs that become enduring platforms have these same characteristics. Few people use the old TCP/IP-based applications like telnet and ftp any more, but TCP/IP itself is ubiquitous. No one uses the mail program any more, but all of us still use email. No one uses Tim Berners-Lee's original web server and browser any more. Both were superseded by independent programs that used his core innovations: http and html.

What's different, of course, is that Twitter isn't just a protocol. It's also a database. And that's the old secret of Web 2.0, Data is the Intel Inside. That means that they can let go of controlling the interface. The more other people build on Twitter, the better their position becomes.

There's a real lesson to Facebook here about giving other services (like Twitter) access to their social graph. They have the best one going, but because they try to keep users coming back to their interface, and even the applications built on their service have to live in Facebook, they end up as a ghetto rather than a true internet service. It's the data, not the interface! Let other people use your data, build on it, and it will still belong to you. Hold it too tight, and they will compete with it.

In my research on Myspace; I found that the main reasons people like or dislike Myspace is drama, drama, drama and they can personalize their profiles more.

I personally like the profile thing, but leave me out of the drama.

But all of this still doesn’t explain why people have turned to online social scenes , rather than face to face; so lets see if we can get an explanation for that:

The Internet provides rich opportunities for making new friends, finding romance, and sharing interests with others. This online socializing, just like it’s offline counterpart, can present some danger. When you first meet somebody offline you have visual clues as to their age, gender, and general demeanor. Online, you have to find new ways to assess social contacts, and you have to be cautious about how much you expose about yourself.

Got to Gossip is trying to capture the goodness of all three; let us know how we measure up. Your opinion is important.

http://www.gottogossip.com

Licensed Drug Dealers

Everyone is talking about the new Health Care Program and how awful it is; How bad medical treatment will become Now, etc. etc. etc.

My question is : Where have these people been living up to this point?

according to the hard statistics, doctors do indeed kill more people than guns.

-- There are 700,000 physicians in the United States.
-- There are 120,000 accidental deaths in the United States caused by physicians every year, and the accidental death percentage per physician is 0.171.
-- There are 80 million gun owners in the United States.
-- There are 1,500 accidental deaths from guns every year, regardless of age group, and the accidental death percentage per gun owner is 0.0000188.

This means, the letter points out, that doctors are 9,000 times more deadly than gun owners.

  A report by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission has concluded that prescription drugs have outstripped illegal drugs as a cause of death.

I have lived in the United States all my life; I have seen many doctors, I have not seen a real doctor since 1985.

After 1985, the standard diagnosis for everything from an ingrown toenail to heart failure was diagnosed as nerves or depression. The answer a magic pill or pills.

Dr. Nathan Kuemmerle was accused of running a "Pill Mill" where he sold prescriptions for Adderall, Xanax, Oxycotin and other medications to patients who did not show a need for the drugs, according to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

  A Houston medical clinic is in the business of managing pain. But in reality, it's a front for a far more dangerous operation.

The Candy Man:

According to the Jury, on what could be a two month trail for Dr. Stephen Schneider and his wife and his nurse Linda Schneider. The government claims the 56 year old doctor peddled drugs to make money, sometimes giving prescriptions to patients who already overdosed on the same medications. The indictment said that Schneider ignored warning signs that patients were becoming addicted to medications and his clinic did not change its practices despite patient’s deaths. The indictment also mentioned that the clinic was poorly run, with medical records often missing or incomplete and inexperienced physician assistants receiving little supervision.

The Legal Charges for prescription drug dealers versus street drug dealers:

If you are arrested for dealing Street Drugs – depending on the drug and the amount you are looking at 10 years min. / 50 years max.

If some dies from a drug overdose and the drugs are connected to the dealer – the dealer can be charged with manslaughter : 5 years probation – min. ; 20 years max.

If a Dr is brought up on dealing prescription drugs : Pays a fine – min.  pays a fine and loses his license Max.

If someone dies from drugs prescribed by their dr : Pays a fine – max.

Facts: More people die from accidental prescription overdoses than street drugs.

More people die from reactions to prescription drugs than street drugs.

Fact: Drug over dose ranks second only to Motor Vehicle Accidents as the leading cause of death in the United States.

I am certainly not recommending anyone to take street drugs. What I am recommending is that you don’t take prescription drugs.

Global Warming or Just Another Cycle?

In recent years there has been a lot of controversy over Global Warming. Those who believe in all the hype say the earth is warming up and causing our seasons to change. My personal belief is : The earth has cycles like humans and the earth is currently going through Menopause – while it appears to be heating up on the surface , it is really just growing colder and preparing to stop producing.

I have lived in Texas all My life and I’m older than dirt. Normal weather for us is extremely hot in the summer and uncomfortably warm the rest of the year. Winters are usually mild but we don’t always know what week that will be.  If were lucky , we get to see a snow flurry once a year and we usually have 24 hours of Icy roads.

Those are the norms. Now in 2009, we had a mild summer, compared to Texas Standards and Winter came in early. I witnessed winter weather I had never seen in Texas in my whole life. Over a foot of snow in Texas / twice in one year. Please see the photos.

 

 

 

These photos were taken at my home. There are many more, I was taking pictures

one right after the other, because I had never seen anything like it in my life.

No, I don’t believe in Global Warming. I believe the earth is entering another cycle of life, much like a woman, so don’t be surprised at anything that happens in the future.