Property & Person Inspection + Ad Hoc Digital Surveilance to combat TERRORISM? NOPE. IT'S ALL ABOUT DRUGS, TAX EVASION, AND INSIDER TRADING.

I've seen attention to two subjects (outside of the election) gaining speed of late:
1. The FBI v. Apple encryption and privacy conflict.
2. The pharmaceutical opioid addiction problem.

THE ENCRYPTION AND PRIVACY ISSUE:
When is someone gonna stand up and state the issues that are really at hand, that no one has the guts to approach head on...
THERE ARE TWO SUBJECTS:
THE ILLICIT DRUG TRADE - PROHIBITED FINANCIAL PRACTICES
The law enforcement and investigative powers that have been enhanced in the name of the War on Terrorism have very little to do with combating any credible terrorist threat. Homeland security is the trojan horse that is enabling law enforcement to do all the things it has always wanted to do while combating drugs & money, but could never do because that pesky Constitution kept getting in the way.

Thanks to the nationwide airport security funding explosion after 9/11 and the associated (random) body and baggage searches have almost shut down the coke, heroin, and meth that was zipping around the country in our "friendly skies".  They've been trying to initiate these unconstitutional practices to disrupt the drug trade since the 70's - People wouldn't go for it.  The Gov't has been at war with illicit drugs, not the population. Americans like their various vices.  No way were people going to agree to let security violate their rights and risk a trafficking charge because the fat lady found a 1/16 of weed in an end compartment of my carryon - which she was tearing apart,  inch by inch, in order to make sure my hair dryer wasn't actually a Taliban I.E.D.    REALLY, It's all about terrorists, not the billions of dollars that controlling the illicit drug market would bring our clandestine  projects and the local pig departments. Fuck law enforcement.  When has involving metro ever improved a situation in your life?
    A metro anecdote:  I found a would be thief in my house, passed out on my couch.  I called Metro.  They arrested him on existing warrants.  Nothing ever came of what was missing from my house or any other connection to me or my home.  That's understandable though...  It's not like I caught the guy IN MY HOUSE, PASSED OUT ON MY COUCH or anything...
OK, so the allowances in privacy loss combating terror were a big boost and driven by the war on drugs... Next - big $$$

The surveilance issue is on the one side a drug thing, on the other, it's the elites of America watching their ASS. Why is Apple so staunchly combating the FBI when they're just building evidence on terrorists?  Well the data access at issue is a big deal among the millionaires and up class.  If authorities could access financial data and communication under the guise of the war on terror, the gov't would likely get the super inside track on how the rich are beating the tax code and manipulating stock gains. An email by Trump, cluing in the Kardashians on a new tax loophole might actually cause a problem.  Along with tax evasion, Wall Street traders would have their inside discussions put on parade for America.  It's a lot earsier for my hedge fund to show amazing returns if I know what products are coming down the pipeline, as well as what manufacturers will be used by the factories that will be assembling the products.  Yeah, it might fall under "insider trading"  ?  Might... THAT'S WHY PRIVACY IS IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE OTHER THAN DRUG DEALERS.

IT'S ALL ABOUT DRUGS, TAX EVASION, AND INSIDER INVESTMENT TRADING.

Understand This POINT: Just because a surveillance operation is illegal, it doesn't mean it's not worth doing.  Sure, the evidence directly gained is of no use in prosecution, but the infomation gained can be used to direct the nature of legal, sanctioned investigation.  Unsanctioned surveillance and investigations do wonders for law enforcement's "intuition".  Our ability to be unique is almost gone completely.  You just don't realize the magnitude of life options being hidden and denied you.  

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Why is one of Prince's primary influences (especially in the 1999 & Purple Reign era) NEVER mentioned, much less given credit for pioneering many aspects of the "Prince Persona".

The connection between this artist and Prince was unmistakable in the early 80's.  The emulation did fade thereafter. But the influence was a key component of Prince's rise to superstardom.  For some reason, many artists are credited for "groundbreaking work" that was "groundbreaking" when it was actually pioneered, 20 years (or more) prior. The same omission occurs around Lenny Kravitz - whose entire identity was nothing by more an a pathetic imitation. It's probably becoming clear that I'm talking about Jimi Hendrix. While every music artist will site Jimi as a primary influence and inspiration, fans and critics rarely if ever recognize the direct derivations of Jimi's art present in so many later artists. It was no secret that Prince idolized Jimi, but so much of the "shocking" and "edgy" aspects of Prince's early work were lifted directly from Jimi, over a decade before. Without Jimi, there would have been no Prince as we knew him,  there would've been no Lenny Kravitz whatsoever (that derivative piece of shit),  and honestly as much as I love Revere him, there would've been no Stevie Ray Vaughn.
 My point is sure every musician recognizes Jimi Hendrix as greatest rock guitarist to have ever lived and arguably the greatest rock artist. But this fact is largely ignored I the general music fan population and frankly, it's disgraceful.  If you love and revere Prince and don't see him as one of Hendrix's countless "children", it's time credit is given where it's due: educate yourself on the totality of Jimi Hendrix.
Does anyone else agree that Prince was primarily a blend of Jimi, Michael Jackson, and James Brown?  ...with a sprinkle of Little Richard 😊
Thank you Prince for the joyful summer of '84. Thank you for writing the soundtrack for some of my most cherished childhood & adolescent memories.

And for the record, LSD was a lot more significant in music back then, than is recognized. A LOT.
Cheers


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The Capitalist Paradigm we live in is Preventing the Social Progress of Humanity.

The capitalist paradigm in which we live asserts powerful influence and control of our behavior and thought. It limits our ability to conceive of alternative approaches to life by establishing unspoken assumptions and values as universal truths.  The most limiting concept is that of a right to private property and the import and value of that right. Bullshit. If working cooperatively rather than competitively, private property becomes unnecessary. If assertion of power over others is seen as vulgar and petty, uplifting those around you stops being a possible weakness and becomes natural. Money becomes an obsolete concept. Fairness is part of the social fabric and trade becomes absurd. You simply give all you can and ask for what you need, creative expression would take the place of symbols of wealth as the dominant value. But any possibility of positive social evolution for humanity is impossible due to our refusal to acknowledge and challenge the capitalist paradigm.


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ATHEISTS PAY ATTENTION!!! THEISTS! - A New Idea to Fear.

 A pillar of the following essay (like a Mexican) highlights a largely ignored point that is very much the same as that made by atheists, except that many atheists end up pierced by the spear, right along with the theists they think are so irrational.

In a nut shell, the concept that any consciousness or an "I" exists that performs functions independent of the DNA that determines the form and function of every other single cell of our being, is as soundly supported by scientific evidence as a belief in God. It isn't popular to argue against the existence of free will, but I'm suspecting we may just be, nothing more than remarkably complex and sophisticated, organic chemical reactions...

It just occurred to me that there is an unstated assumption, which when removed, allows simple cause/effect mechanisms to easily explain how DNA coding manifests innate, overt, and meaningful behaviors...

We assume that our self-awareness and freewill are not simply mental manifestations to enable sophisticated integrations & manipulations of, as well as responses too the vast, complex array of sensory input. Meaning that our perceived independent self-determination is just an illusion. It is entirely possible that all living things, from amoebas to humans are nothing more than chemical reactions of varying complexity.
Many people counter this dismissal of the power of their conscious mind by stating, "No way. I continuously make decisions based on conscious thoughts, which by their plain existence, disallow this theory. However, the reasoning ignores the core mechanism of the theory: the perception of having consciousness does not require consciousness to exist as a component of reality. The theory posits that the perception of consciousness is just a behavior management, simplification mechanism, whose purpose is to speed the manifestation of actions and reactions. This is accomplished by summarizing the total of all behaviors into groups, organized in patterns.
That we believe there is a controlling "I" beyond our DNA is a side effect of what is simply an incredible means of eliciting magnificently adaptable and precise behaviors.
To claim the complexity of our mental processes makes the theory implausible to the point of irrelevance is not logical. Look at the unimaginable amount of precision, adaptation, and evolution evidenced by our physical bodies. If you consider the time required for a small fish to evolve into a human being, it is reasonable to assume the behavior control systems in the brain would be evolving more and more complex, sophisticated, flexible, and effective behavior guidance mechanisms.
Really, the consciousness we perceive is a tiny portion of the awe inspiring behavior guidance system that has evolved in humans. The overwhelming majority of our bodies' activity autonomic and automatic (via habit). The mechanism that produces the illusion of self beyond our physical organism is the innovative edge of our evolution. It is s brilliant solution to the limits of adaptability and sophistication that life encountered utilizing only long-form DNA behavior guidance.  We inflate the significance of this unique side effect of a tiny part of our or any being's behavior guidance system, to the point that we think is exists independently of the whole system.

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Afghanistan Sending Special Forces into Kentucky to Exterminate a Radical Christian Millionaire, Accused of Crashing his 10-Speed into Afghanistan's Largest Fruit Stand.

A PERSON incapable of applying THE GOLDEN RULE in Relations with Others is called a SOCIOPATH.

A GOVERNMENT incapable of applying THE GOLDEN RULE in Foreign Relations is called THE UNITED STATES.

EVERY PRESIDENT you've elected has REFUSED to apply THE 1st TENET OF HUMAN DECENCY when interacting WITH THE WORLD,
yet a 2nd GRADER has NO PROBLEM applying it UNIVERSALLY.

IT REALLY IS THAT SIMPLE.

(Credit where credit is due:
At least Obama has made a token effort.)

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A SIMPLE CRITIQUE of CAPTALISM EVOLVES into the SEARCH for the ESSENCE OF LIFE

 It seems to me that capitalism is unethical and unsustainable by nature. 
Consider, in any given endeavor, goods or services are provided to a consumer. The consumer then provides commensurate compensation for the cost incurred in providing the good or service.  In this model, neither party in the exchange would receive more (or less) than they contributed.  The vendor has not gained beyond actual expenditure, nor has any net loss occurred. The consumer has also experienced no net gain or loss, as the payment (whatever the form) was equivalent to the cost of what was provided. In this case the buyer and seller are equal partners, equally invested in the exchange. But this is not how capitalism functions.

Capitalism puts forth that the vendor must not just break even, but profit from the transaction. When we add profit into our model, the equality and balance are necessarily disrupted. What is occurring is an assertion of power by the vendor over the buyer, forcing the buyer to invest more in the exchange  than the vendor.

 The obvious argument is that the buyer has the option of not engaging in the transaction.   However, that is the case only in advanced stages of capitalism. At capitalism's origin and initial stages, the goods and services provided are fundamental to the society, if not necessities. The advantage of societal living is that tasks can be devided among the members and therefore receive more attention and be performed with greater sophistication than if each every member had to perform every task for themselves.  Note that  this division of labor creates an interdependency amongst the members of the society.  (e.g.  If I spend all day making shoes for  my fellow members, I'm not going to have time to gather food  for myself and family. I must therefore rely on others to  perform that task.  Similarly since they're out getting food, they're not going to have much time to make shoes for themselves, but fortunately, I'm taking care of that for them.)   Also notice that there is no provision for profit yet.  At this early stage shit just has to get done.  There is no abstract system of comparative value placed upon the society's operational tasks.

 When the intermediary element of money is introduced,  the notion of inequality amongst society's members tags along.  This is the case because the usage of an intermediary unit of exchange requires  arbitrary assignment of value to each task on an individual basis.  This in turn gives birth to the hierarchical power structure in the society.

Just as in a feudal system, the way to the top of the ladder and staying there is via monopolies.  "Free" capitalist societies frown on the overt inequality showcased by a successful resource or market monopolization. So multiple legal entities in competition will disguise the fact that the separate entities function together as a monopoly. The rape of the 95% rolls on.

A quick NOTE: the 5-2%'ers can go fuck themselves along with the 1's. A lot more probably deserve black delivered anal, but, whatever.

As the shrewd and the lucky earn beyond their needs, they begin to amass money, which equates with  power and control. Money is the only resource that can trade for anything and the ones able to limit their efforts to providing money to establish businesses, rather than labor to generate income, they quietly gather the Lion's share of the vague profits and have  plenty of time to start another income stream, and another, and another. The people staffing their enterprises don't have the time nor resources (that should be singular, money) to transition from worker to owner.  By inventing a trade medium with no essential value, and selling it to the unsuspecting masses as an unquestionable pillar of civilization, the aristocracy gave their beloved feudal system a facelift. Money quickly evolved into the ultimate weapon to manipulate humanity. So long a you give as little to those below you,  you conveniently maximize you accumulation of power while assuring your employees/slaves will never have the resources to challenge your death grip on ultimate power.

Profit is an invented tool of oppression. Because providing pizza isn't defined as deserving of electricity for your home, you HAVE to buy into and play a rigged game. Hell,  I was making over 100,000 a year at the turn-of-the-century. That's not slavery or oppression. That Boss money for a single guy! Ummm... no. That's throwing a bitch a bone to maintain the appearance that a she's playing a game and starting to win. She also serves as an example to others so they believe in the system. It's real. You're free, and trade is fair, and money is essential to civilization.
If capitalism were as we are sold, it wouldn't be sustainable. You can't extract more out of a system than the sum of its components. There PHYSICALLY isn't anything to extract. Profit is a lie. Profit comes only at he expense of others. If you build a financial system by loaning the participants money at interest, once they've paid back the principal loan, there's no money left in the system! How are they supposed to pay you the interest!?!? It's a Ponzi scheme. Take another loan at 1% and loan it to your "friend" at 2%. And tell home you have a safe he can keep the cash in and you'll even pay him .1% interest - guaranteed! Just for letting me keep it safe for you.  How great is that?!? I'm paying you so I can provide a service for you! Smoke n mirrors. Even the bitches owning their own business an living fat and secure are just being played. The ones that control us and the illusion were at the "I've Won!!!" stage not hundreds of years ago, but millenniums ago. There is no game to win.

As such, we have a binary choice.   We can keep up this façade of playing a game and competing with each other to win, marveling at our masters' effortless victories and envy their wynners' commensurate rewards .  Or we can stop pretending to play a game that doesn't exist, stop laboring to provide amusement, pleasure, and satisfaction for our masters. Instead we can do something real, live real and meaningful lives of expression and comprehension by cooperating and supporting each other. Competition is an inefficient motivator of progress. Open, fearless collaboration for the betterment and benefit of all would have brought 10x the "progress" & wondrous experiences, in half the time. I'm tired of playing dissonant civilization for our masters. I think more people are ready to start living  than even the optimists would believe. I meet you guys out there everyday. How can you accept and support the indoctrination of your children into mediocrity without even trying to open your eyes an life a real life of freedom.?!?!

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Are we not the absolute worst?

Depending on which estimates you go by, between a MINIMUM of 2 million  and a maximum of 30 million North American natives were NOT killed "accidentally" by the introduction of European illnesses. But they WERE killed nonetheless. Even the lowest calculable estimate of 2 million seems a pretty big number to me.

And this is just one of many instances in which we as a nation shamelessly disregard the implications of the most fundamental axiom of human decency: The Golden Rule.

Will our nation ever have enough character to look ourselves in the mirror? How on earth can American euro-crackers justify outrage over "illegal immigrants" from Mexico? If Iran invaded Mexico and went into full scale war with a vaguely defined entity in Canada, would we sit idly by, as we unquestioningly expect them to, under equivalent circumstances? Would we be unmoved if the Russian Navy maintained permanent patrols around South America? Would we not react if ANY country established military bases in the Western Hemisphere?

Yet we righteously perform these very acts all over the world. I'm ashamed of my inability to take effective action against my country's hypocrisy.

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Wacky Alien Ideas For Your Consideration

In case you missed my point previously (http://2emuseu.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-to-say-hi-in-martian-one-hypothesis.html?m=1).  If any crop circles are not man-made hoaxes, the assumption that the alien creators are of similar scale to humans is overlooked. I think microscopic scale life forms, that cannot survive/exist on the Earth's surface (for whatever reason), attempting to communicate their existence and initiate a dialogue with humanity, is an intriguing hypothesis.  I postulate further that they are capable of interstellar travel; traveling outside normal space/time, entering/exiting normal space from the center of gravity wells (planets, stars, and the like).
Maybe not...
Still, I think alien life is likely to be on a scale much larger or smaller than our own. It also wouldn't surprise me if they are found to be perceptible only in wavelengths outside those of visible light.

Whatever alien life exists, the less they have in common with us, the better.  That is because for us and beings like us, travel beyond our home solar systems is all but impossible. ...And I want some alien intervention on Earth and that requires some bizarre aliens making a house call. Given the immensity of the universe, Greys & Reptilians in flying saucers probably do exist, but they are as stuck in their home solar systems as we are. They ain't comin. Get over it.


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Some Overlooked Truths...

 NEW: 
Unbleached flour is just flour.
Doesn't Probiotics and Antibiotics both being promoted as good just cancel the whole matter out?  Then again, I KNOW Antibiotics have been helpful to me, so isn't it likely this whole Probiotic thing is a sham? By the way, wtf is gluten?  Cheers.



I saw on quora: What are some obvious truths that are commonly overlooked?  This was my response:

Money can buy happiness. Provided the proper purchases.

Sunday is the first day of the week.

Marriage isn't a legal matter.

At some point, the number of children you have is placing an undue burden on society and the environment.

Politicians aren't public servants.

Capitalism is necessarily exploitive.

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Capitalism & Money are Religion in Disguise

 Capitalism's championing of mediocrity and the appearance of excellence over wonderful innovation and demonstrative excellence is displayed throughout our culture (USA & its global derivatives). I have to give props to google here for not abandoning their founding principle of elegance via efficiency and functionality. They've fallen victim to enough compromising of that principle to acquire fantastic financial success, but you at least still see the original google clearer than its embellishments. But I digress...

It is commonly believed that profit and competition are what drive innovation.
NO, THEY DO NOT. Passion and humanity and the love of creation and accomplishment drives innovation. Profit and competition use innovation but stifle it in the name of profit and strategy.

Engineers don't choose how they think - they just do it. Great chefs were good cooks right away, fukin Jordan would have invented basketball had it not already existed...

Most of humanities talents are never realized because of the struggle to earn enough money to live.  The human resources that would be freed up by the elimination of money would be more than sufficient to pursue a closer approximation of a global utopia.

When inside the paradigm of capitalism, it's hard to imagine any other way to be. Break out. We can be so much better than this...

And lastly:

Apartments are ANYTHING but APART!!!  ...assholes...

Streaming Thoughts From Office Machine Sales to Capitalism's Insufferable Flaw

This started out as a text message and just got way out of control. I was too embarrassed to send it so I just moved it here

Checked out Elan. I wouldn't thrive. I can only sell things I really believe in. I was a personal driver for a copuer/printer/paper salesman that made millions having every major casino Corp for clients. But the reason he made millions instead of hundreds of 1000's was compounding price increases hidden in the contracts. God knows what the company made. They ultimately got nailed. Everyone above him in the co. got prison time and massive restitution. He avoided prosecution but went BK. I'm into operations and procedural efficiency analysis, which they dabble in, but still, in the end, you have to upsell and sell in your/Elan's best interests rather than the client's. To act on the analysis and recommendations as to your needs made by the distributor of the product in question assures you a B+ result. It might appear to be an A+ improvement. That just means the sales rep. is doing his job well.  In yet another example of the irony built into the universe, the job of an honest organizational efficiency consultant is to put himself out of a job.  (Wow, am I on one today!) apple is a perfect example of why capitalism sucks ass. Up to the early versions of OS X, apple's products were in a league of their own. And they went broke. Since adopting a policy of milking and marketing that singular brand  reputation, spreading out leaps of innovation into baby steps, forcing self marketing on their users - the gap between their products and their competitors' has diminished to nearly nothing if it hasn't vanished completely. Yet their financial gains transformed from BK to earnings comparable to but a handful of co's in history? Between '81 and 2003ish I promoted and sold apple products as if I was an  employee, ...
Sorry, this has turned into a blog rant... I'm moving it over there... See my insanity at 2emuseu.blogspot.com ...I will continue this line of reasoning in subsequent posts...

Capitalism's championing of mediocrity...

Insurance Companies Are Runnin This Place

The insurance industry has always been distasteful to me. Recently, that distaste gained a bit of clarity. There are laws requiring insurance on property & mortgages, on cars, and now health. Isn't there something wrong with the government requiring us to utilize a private business entity to engage in these fundamental, nearly universal, endeavors? I get the reasons why this is the case, but still...  ?
If you're viewing my blog directly, scroll to the next post and you'll see how I got onto to this line of reasoning.  If you're viewing this from google+ or some other 3rd party just click the blog title, then scroll down.

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THE PUSSIES OF AMERICA AREN'T AS TOUGH AS THEY SEEM.

Opponents of laws restricting personal freedom in the name of safety (eg. helmet, seatbelt, and smoking laws) generally point to the pussification of American society as the driving force behind their relatively recent proliferation.

It has occurred to me that there is a more likely cause. I believe we are seeing the insurance industry flexing its political muscle to establish grounds for exclusionary clauses and to directly eliminate sources of expensive payouts and using (one way or another) the recipients of those payouts to put a more acceptable face on the bills they push through the federal and state legislatures.

Not to say the pussification of America isn't a problem, I just think the political clout of the constituent group is being overestimated.

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If I were a rich man, I'd diddle diddle...

For this example, suppose that I developed a mediocre computer OS , but managed to partner up with the largest hardware manufacturers and thus became the platform the world relies on to function each day.
After years of quiet global domination, I amassed a net worth of $80,000,000,000. Being a practical kind of guy, I decided to liquidate my assets and filled a warehouse with $100 bills.  After taking a picture to post on my Facebook page, I deposited the money into a savings account at my local Bank of America branch. Being the generous entity that it is, the bank is giving me a whopping 1.25% annual interest rate on my savings. That's right, 1.25%.

Interestingly enough, even at that rate, I'm STILL EARNING
1 BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR.
ONE BILLION.
Looks like it's Ramen again tonight...

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IF YOU HAVE SELF-PERPETUATING WEALTH, READ THIS NOW!!!

Are you an individual of considerable, self sustaining wealth? Well if so, this is written to you, even if you're an insufferable prick:

I just had an awesome, theist style, epiphany revealing God's certain non-existence. Wow. This is a new experience/perspective on things...   To have the ecstatic rush of Devine revelation within the universe of reason. I hope I can't put this into the right words...

The incomprehensibly small distinction between zero and the probability of this and EVERY moment's exact configuration of the universe, to manifest as a component of a being's (mine) conscious experience - if it was the result of any amount of purposeful effort - it would
be an act of such magnificent and profound, pointless and mundane banality that a divine origin is necessarily - by conceptual definition - RULED OUT.  --  THIS in turn, for PRECISELY th SAME reason, and repeating on to infinity is Incontrovertible PROOF that there is NO God nor god(s).
If that's not worthy of a monthly stipend of a few thousand bucks, so I can focus on being a great Dad, then fuck off.

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WHAT IS UNCLEAR ABOUT WHAT FLAGS ARE APPROPRIATE TO DISPLAY AND WHERE/BY WHOM?

Why is there any discussion about flying flags? Confederate, Iranian, Rainbow, or whatever? Is there disagreement that the only flags that should be displayed by institutions that are primarily publicly/government funded are that of the USA and the host State? That seems to be a no brainer. As for private institutions and individuals, it seems equally obvious that they can fly whatever flag they frikin' want.  I don't see the controversy? 

And as a side note, when a nigger hater shoots up a black church, it's a racial hate crime, with no connection to any real or imagined persecution of Christianity, no matter what Fox News says.  Ugh...


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Message To The Nevada Supreme Court - A Still Urgent Ruling

Note: this case was decided on July 23, 2015. The ruling was reversed. I won.

Re: Case 63141
Forgive my use of somewhat vulger language. I figure we're all adults here and it more accurately conveys the distress being conveyed.

GOD FUCKING DAMN IT! SHOW A DROP OF COMPASSION FOR OUR FAMILY AND RULE ON THIS 2+ YEAR OLD, LIFE CHANGING (for all involved) CUSTODY APPEAL. YOU KNOW THE KIND THAT CAN SO DRAMATICALLY EFFECT THE LIFE COURSE OF CHILDREN AND EVERY MEMBER OF A FAMILY, THAT TO LEAVE THE DIVISIVE ORDER IN PLACE AND UNCHECKED BEYOND EVEN A GENEROUS 180 DAYS IS A NEGLECTFUL AND RECKLESS LACK OF ATTENTION AND CONCERN FOR THE CHILDREN'S  MENTAL & EMOTIONAL / HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT ON A LEVEL WORTHY OF A CPS INTERVENTION.. THE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN PLACED OUTSIDE OF BOTH THEIR PARENTS' HOMES FOR 2.5 YEARS WITH NO DESIGNATED MEANS OF REUNIFICATION; HENCE MY APPEAL.

The case was initially placed in the civil appeal, proper person pilot program. TO THE NV SUPREME COURT's credit, on that track, the case was submitted for decision within 60 DAYS of the filing fee ubmission .  NICE WORK NVSC clerks!

30 days later I submitted a letter requesting nn expedited consideration of the case in consideration of  the powerful issues at hand.
90 days after that -  180 days in th Supreme Couft's system - 300 days since my reason for living had been taken from my home, placed in the complete custody of a woman whose parenting and interpersonal skills have deficiencies sufficient to produce a Grade A socio/psychopath and child abuser.  The order also made sure to completely re marginalize me and strip me of all my parental authority and eliminated my ability to contribute to and enrich my children's lives, as good parents are wont to do.  300 days of my children living in a nightmare and forbidden to help them in any significant manner (and really more like 6 years of this) finally exhausted my emotional  coping resources and my life deteriorated into dysfunction and I had lost my ability to really even give a shit. But I stray from the point.

After the timely submission for decision and my letter to be sure the court had been alerted of the life determining nature of the case, 10 months passed before the court took any action. The order issued moved the case from proper person to the Pro Bono program, effectively placing me back at the beginning of the appeal process. While the 10 months of waiting is inexcusable, the order itself is understandable. At this point, I've been in the appeal process a full year and my kids have been away from their parents almost a year and a half.

After being explicitly denied fast track consideration (?) and a series of procedural delays, the case was finally submitted for decision in April 2015.  For over two years my children have been denied their parents and the violation of my rights has been left standing. It's been 3 months since the case was submitted for decision. Under the circumstances shouldn't the case be submitted directly to the front of the line for consideration? Am I facing another 10 month wait for the court to take any action? At least one person in the court's offices is aware of the nature and duration of the appeal and should be making s stink about it? WTF?!?!

MY KIDS AND I WONT GET THESE  Y E A R S  BACK!  THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IS UNCONSCIONABLE. HELL, REALLY ITS BEEN 8 YEARS OF THIS. JUST TRY TO IMAGINE BEING DENIED THE FIRST 8 YEARS OF YOUR CHILDREN'S LIVES?

SOMEONE UP THERE IN THE NEVADA SUPREME COURT: STAND UP AND DO THE RIGHT THING! HANDLE THIS DISGRACE!   NOW!!!   FUCK!






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I'M NOT SURE LOCAL TV NEWS IS A NET ASSET.

Local news programs are major contributors to our culture's stable trend towards lameness, that has yet to falter during my lifetime. I'm compelled to note two exceptions: the arrival of crotch rockets and the 2 elections of Obama. Hi-Tech can suck my balls. Back to local news...

They're so hungry for compelling stories and desperate to prove they're an indispensable asset, that Local news programs are major contributors to our culture's stable trend towards lameness, that has yet to falter during my lifetime. I'm compelled to note two exceptions: the arrival of crotch rockets and the 2 elections of Obama. Hi-Tech can suck my balls. Back to local news...

They're so hungry for compelling stories and desperate to prove they're an indispensable asset, that they vilify behavior without cause and  will promote any capitalist endeavor they can spin as a "good cause" story, regardless of true merit. This reporting of nonexistent stories and similar hyperbole are driving forces behind gated communities full of cookie cutter houses and lame playgrounds, bicycle helmets, seatbelt laws, and .08 dui limits. A self-satisfied, coddling culture, worthy of the world's disgust.

Side thought: cop cams not only discourages abuse, it also discourages acts of reasonable leniency. In the 80's (in my white, upper-middle class, privileged experience) cops frequently disposed of contraband found in cooperative, nonviolent encounters, then gave an intimidating warning and broke up the party without making arrests. You think they'll exercise such reasonable discretion when there'll be a video record of them failing to enforce a law? When ensuring the honesty of an authority has any negative consequences it is the result of a systemic flaw. Back to local news...

The over reporting of generosity gives the impression to the public that the have nots are getting ample assistance to improve their lot, and the haves' generosity is  abundant and people generally give a shit about each other's welfare. Really, everything's just fine down at the shelter.

Here are the two stories that made me leave the room and spawned this rant:

A recent HS grad drowned this week in a nearby lake (not Mead).. The story was that he and friends had gone there to cliff dive. Jumping off cliffs into a lake is one of the most joyful memories I have of good, clean fun with my friends.  When I heard the story, I anxiously awaited the details to see if another youth adventure was going to be labeled too dangerous to be allowed by responsible parents.  It was revealed that he was just swimming to a higher cliff when he began to struggle and drowned. They never gave a reason for his difficulties. I assume they were afraid of accusations of racist stereotyping  if they were to report that a black boy drowned because he couldn't swim. Nonetheless I was relieved his death wasn't due to cliff diving.  Although the headline and repeated references to cliff diving certainly implied it was the cause. A kid's death due to his own incompetence in a relatively benign act must be a bit too real and dull to report accurately. Thus, the true circumstances were only mentioned once, without emphasis. To drive home that he could have died in a much more sensational manner, they repeatedly referred to the irrelevant fact that the kids were jumping into water from heights greater than 3 feet and closed the story by quoting this year's death count (8) due to cliff diving.  All of this in spite of cliff diving being  nothing more than an irrelevant detail. Just another example of a black male, performing below par. It is also evidence that young black men can die without being shot by cops. In fact he might be alive today if police had been around to enforce the no cliff diving law. Hmm, maybe young black men are just fated to die?

The second story was a week prior. They were revisiting a story about a cute little girl that got hit by s car while trick or treating, the remarkable medical feats which saved her life, and the girl's resilience in recovery. Evidently the mother is publishing her diary of her daughter's recovery.. The reporting of the release and signing event was justified by the  acts of kindness motivating the  affair.:
1. A local author was generously helping the mother by co-releasing her new book and also doing signings.
2. For a whole year, one dollar of every book sale will be given to the medical personnel that provided the extensive care for her daughter without charge.

The reality:
1. The local author helping is just a friend that wrote an unrelated book and is trying to ride her buddy's coat tails.
2. We're talking about giving $1 of a $20  sale price as if it's the prime motivation for publishing the book. Plus, limiting the donation period to one year because a continuous commitment would be just too much of a long term pain in the ass...

I'm not indicating any fault in the part of the two women. I applaud their efforts. The altruistic spin on what are really self serving business endeavors is smart marketing.  What I'm criticizing is the bullshit reporting.

In tired of typing on my phone... 

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Bill Gates - I'm starting to have as much trouble believing he exists as I do god. Real or not, I kinda hate 'em both.

God shmod.  It's surprising how many people I know that will talk about God, and praying, and afterlife judgement, and Jesus, etc. as if they're just matter of fact things and don't even consider that I'm looking at them, listening to what they're saying, and filled with the thought, "Dude, none of the things you are talking about are real?" Of all the people they know, no one makes it clearer than I, that I find their religious beliefs ignorant, silly, and not worth the breath to mention them.

But I'm not writing about that today...  Today, I'm sharing my first post from my new blog on Quora...

From a certain perspective, I hate Bill Gates

Bill has achieved the mind blowing, net worth milestone of 80 Billion dollars. Well, from there, his income was approximated to be $33M/day or $1.3M/hour or $23,000 per minute. So, he has made about $100,000 since I began this post.  On the otherhand, I'm $1700 overdrawn, unemployed, & living in my mother's guest room, at the ripe age of 45. 
Granted, BG and his contributions have changed the world and increased the ceiling of Hunan potential. His unmatched philanthropy has made incredible contributions to the world and its least privileged citizens. BUT...
Is he really worth THAT much more than me? My "net worth" has been declining since 2008 and dives further into the Red, daily. For whatever reason one minute's worth of BGs income results in what would amount to a life-changing sum of money if added to my life. One minute of his day would turn my life from shit to a life with exciting potential for positive contribution to the world.  I see BGs visionary generosity, but I don't have knowledge of him doing much of the "random hookup" type giving? Ya know? Like paying everyone's rent in North Las Vegas for a month, just for fun. But the discrepancy in our monetary rewards for living, and his lack of kooky giving aren't the source of my hate.

80 Billion Dollars ???
What the fuck? How did you let it go that far? Didn't you ever think maybe I'm holding more wealth than necessary. Maybe I should redirect the rest of my life's income directly to cover overdrawn checking accounts or whatever better idea you have... Fuck you Bill for letting it get so out of control.  Maybe an added 80 billion dollars flowing through the population would have helped? But probably not. I still hate (and envy) you.

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The Good News: I sniffed out another sociopath in my life. The Bad News: I sniffed out another sociopath in my life.

I think I've fully removed the first sociopathic tumor successfully; so long as the grades are curved.  There's a certain amount of permanence in that she's the mother of both my children.  Although, she's kind of dropped out of their lives since her visits must be supervised and she can no longer use them very effectively.

New topic, don't wanna go there today...

The new one finally hit the tipping point on the evidence accumulation scale.  I'm definitely most irritated by the power and control games that sociopaths play - regardless of whether you play or not.  They're just pricks.  Always try to get over on you.  Always make your life more difficult than necessary.  Behave in such a way, so as to spell out that they were DEFINITELY NOT concerned with your best interests.

If you don't compete in their pointless competition, you end up just getting walked on and mistreated.  If your self-esteem is solid and you can ignore the slights and insults, this state may be tolerable.  But if you engage them in their nonsense, you'd better look out...   because they will lash out with some real ferocity.  And totally over the top, to be sure.  Whatever offense they choose to accuse you of as their fresh attack, you can be certain that it will be whatever mean spirited thing they most often do to you.

What's worse, is that when they choose to be, they are so fucking charming!!!  They'll subtly stroke your ego just right, and really make you feel special.  All of it comes off as so genuine.  It's pretty scary if you really think about it.

Oh yeah... all the ones I've met in my 45 years are "Christians of Convenience" and dealing with that makes me feel like jumping off a cliff (because it would be so much easier than life in prison after murdering them).  The bold faced insincerity and lies are beyond belief.  They pair up Christian righteousness with their vicious attack mode and they will make you miserable.  The reason it works is because they have no qualms about being cruel on a level that simply doesn't occur to a normal, empathetic person.

Ugh... the blinding charisma!  Fuck 'em.  I was a few decisions away from becoming a sociopath myself.  Fortunately, LSD revealed a better way to live, just in time.  As a result, I'm pretty well versed in their games and have no problem being shockingly ruthless when dealing with a sociopath.  The thing about sociopaths is that they play a short sighted game.  What they don't realize is that I'll walk away and not come back.  Many years will pass. They'll barely even remember I existed. They'll come strolling around a corner on a warm, sunny day... and get blindsided by a Louisville Slugger.  I'm a soft, gullible, push-over and a pussy. I quickly forgive relatively honest and decent people.  Contrary to popular belief, I don't forgive sociopaths, and I don't forget people purposefully doing me or my family wrong.  Ever.

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2600 DREAMS - Let's Play Atari!

Growing up, I was just old enough to play (and lose miserably to) the adults when Pong broke on to the home entertainment scene. So I was in the prime market group for the Atari 2600, Star Wars, and coin-op arcades.
In spite of their functional inferiority, I do miss joystick controllers. There is however, an element of frustration mixed into my 2600 nostalgia (beyond the resolution; which in truth is uniquely charming). From the beginning, I had an unrealized dream of playing Atari with a fixed, stable joystick like the games at the arcade. As Intellivision & Colecovision  ruthlessly out shined the 2600, I quietly rooted for Atari to keep up (Thank you Activision!). I believed that if Atari introduced an innovative joystick device, replicating the sensation of a fixed arcade joystick, that the 2600's appeal and relevance could be restored in the face of clearly superior technology. But alas, it was not to be. Deep in my heart, I knew the arcade joystick feel could have elevated the Atari experience in a way the other consoles simply could not offer (after thinking about it, I seem to recall that Atari controllers worked with Colecovision, but whatever, you get the idea). The feeling of missed opportunity left an aching, unhealing wound...  Until about 5 years ago, when I got burned buying a used Williams home multi-game.
Beaming with the excitement of realizing a childhood dream, I fired up the 3/4 sized arcade game in my garage. Only to discover malfunctioning  buttons that weren't disclosed during the brief demo at the sheyster's house (ei? ey?). It was like running out of cocaine at 9:30 p.m. But, still rushing with the adrenaline of dream realization, I suddenly saw an opportunity to hang on to and even surpass the rare and powerful high I was experiencing.
Later that night, in a cloud of sawdust and wood fragments, my Atari joystick theory was confirmed valid, the wound was healed, and an even greater dream was realized...

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I found a spooky parasite and put it in a baggie. Here's the video...

I'm hanging out with a friend.  I see a spider walking across the floor.  I step on it.  A few minutes later, my friend says, "That spider is still moving..."
I respond, "I doubt it.  I crushed it pretty good."
"No! Look..."
So I did.  It was still moving.  Then it broke open and this thing came out...
(A short ways in, I try to show the spider's body which I also put in the bag.  My camera kinda sucked.  I move around so much because I'm trying to get it to focus right.)

WATCH THIS VIDEO NOW and you will be immediately more intelligent.

I couldn't say it better... yet...

The Lecture Mhttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ndR5QrJiBxcHFxyexqvTmhrIJy5SuyvP8&si=ELKVJifdB3ENkx0uissing From Our Education System

 I'm not ready to start writing again.

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Is It President Barack Obama's Fault? Yes...

 The simple fact that I'm spending the time to write this is awesome.  For the duration of the previous administration, the question, "What has that asshole fucked up today?" loomed continuously.  On one evening, I actually went to the ATM and withdrew my entire fortune of $140 in anticipation of a possible run on the banks!  It sounds silly now, but it was no joke at the time - how easily we forget.  A guy threw not one, but BOTH of his shoes at him!  At the President of the United States!!!  Take a moment to consider the level of incompetence that must be displayed to invoke such a magnificent act of disrespect.  This is arguably the most powerful human being on the planet!!!  The brilliance of the event was beautiful.  Picture the immense pyramid that is the hierarchy of humanity.  Out from the bottom level of the pyramid flies a shoe. Up, up,  up into the air and smacks the block sitting atop the very peak of the structure.  Wow.  I see it in the animation style of Monty Python title credits.  But I digress...

The point is, the USA was in an unprecedented economic and political tailspin when the controls were handed over to Obama.  Like Hercules, Barack set his feet and pulled back on the controls, averting our imminent collision with the Earth.  You and I should be on our rooftops right now with rifles, defending our homes from the roaming hoards.  But we're not.  We're sitting all comfy at our computers and we have Barack Obama to thank.

I'm not saying he did it all alone or that the shit may not still hit the fan on his watch.  But if we had crashed into the ground, he would have taken the blame.  As such, he should be given credit for our improved situation (temporary as it may be).

It's unfortunate that the finest President in my lifetime, was handed a country on the brink of collapse.  Obama isn't perfect and has broken countless campaign promises, but given the context, he has outperformed all reasonable expectations.  Thank you Barack.

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I find me amusing. Judgements are welcome, pro and con...

These are comments concerning a YouTube video called "Where did Cain's wife come from?" or something along those lines...

Eric Anthem

1 hour ago

I sit here happily reading the discussions and arguments, considering their opposing strengths, but every three minutes or so, my brain kicks in and says, "Hey Dummy!  Of course there's no right answer because it's superstitious nonsense.  It's the Bible!  We've learned a lot in the last 2000+ years.  Not the least of which is that it didn't go down like it says in the Bible.

Close your obsolete Bible and go live your one life that you are actually responsible for, in the world you really do live in.  Life is quite short and very much finite.  You're wasting time on this religion nonsense when you could be working to better humanity.  Praying?  You mean doing nothing.  You should do nothing but chuckle at our humble intellectual beginnings as evidenced by the stories of the Bible.    ...Duh?!?!?!

It's mind blowing that this is even a discussion...
Never mind, fvck humanity.  Clearly we are far too retarded to survive much longer.  Maybe it's better just to read the Bible, because realizing the truth and the vast number of religious idiots running around can be a real bummer.

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iSian Reeny

38 minutes ago

You seem very angry that someone might believe in something that you do not understand and are ignorant about, or perhaps I am wrong, you have studied a bible weighed up all the evidence that brings you to your personal beliefs, in which case I would apologise for my earlier assumption. Why do you find such offence in it I wonder, I find it very odd that you would care so much about how people unknown to you chose to live their lives. It's sad that you are filled with so much hatred and discrimination; it can't feel good, not very humanitarian. Would you therefore prefer a world filled with people like yourself?

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Eric Anthem

1 second ago

I read the Bible cover to cover twice in my youth and spent considerable time in the years up to the present studying various chapters/verses as they piqued my interest for whatever reason. I disagree with your perception of my feeling hatred.  I can say that through natural & acquired family relations as well as through education that Christians are far from "unknown" to me.  I don't care to relay my personal losses at the hands of Christianity in this forum.  Let it suffice to say they exist in significant magnitude.  On a larger scale, the atrocities committed in the name of religion are well documented throughout history.  That is a glimpse of why I care so much and don't have many positive things to say on the topic.  As for the discrimination accusation...  I think I may be guilty.  It comes not from a place of hatred, but one of disappointment.  Most often, I really believe in humanity and our potential to bring about positive ends.  But after day after day after day, observing the growth stunting, strangle hold religion has on humanity, one occasionally feels a bit despondent and irritated.  Lastly, yes, i would prefer a world filled with people like myself.  At least then we would have the courage to leave all this supernatural voodoo nonsense behind; as well as be able to understand that interpersonal decency, positive intent, and compassion are our natural tendencies (vs. sin) and that these concepts are not only biological tendencies, but logical conclusions for guiding behavior, if one is to fully assert their reasoning abilities. But y'all religious folk are hell bent on ensuring our path of ignorance and fear, so sometimes I just gotta say, "fvck you".

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How To Say, "Hi." In Martian - One Hypothesis.

The inhabitants of Earth are quite diverse.  Consider an amoeba, a sea anemone, a tree, a whale, a human - each is a distinct life form on Earth.  I think we fall under the general heading of Carbon Based Life (whatever that means?)

I wonder if Carbonians committed some crime against the Universe. I say this because it sort of seems like we got grounded and sent to our room (Earth).  Whatever the reason, all of us Carbonians have been stuck here together for a pretty long time and inter-species communication is extremely rare (given the number of species).  Furthermore, the inter-species communication that does exist is for the most part retarded.  If we take communication one step further, to inter-life form dialogues, an unwavering failure to communicate is revealed. It's no wonder that given sufficient analysis, the grand challenges of humanity are rooted in communication short comings.

The point is:  We suck at communicating.

If there is an inter-stellar life form out there, the chances of us being able to communicate with it are probably in the area of zero.  I do have a hint for humanity in regards to communication:  communication requires a common language.  The chance of communicating with an amoeba or a tree by yelling at it is pretty slim. Yet, that is essentially the level of our communication sophistication.

So how do we improve?  First of all, we must consider what the root of this common language is.  As far as I can tell, the only representation of reality that doesn't rely on arbitrary symbols would be Geometry.  It is only in Geometry that symbols can be inherently  meaningful and conceptually reliable.

Now the geniuses among you are thinking, "Eric, you're an idiot.  Close Encounters of the Third Kind already showed us that the first communication is via sound/musical notes.  Duh..."  To that I have one response:  The little alien dudes didn't even have ears, so fuck Close Encounters.

As I've discussed previously, it is also pretty presumptuous to assume alien life would occur on our scale.  Given the relative size of stars in the Universe, I think it's likely that any aliens we meet are going to be significantly bigger than us in terms of scale.  Maybe their ship will land and obliterate China.  Then one will step out of the ship and its feet will smush North and South Korea. (Yes, I'm assuming it's also a biped - because it's MY alien).  Anyway, to avoid such a devastating error, we would want to communicate with the alien on it's approach so it would realize that it should give some extra consideration before plopping down on that blue and white sphere.

I'm suggesting that such a communication should be rooted in Geometry.  Another characteristic of Geometry that makes it effective to alert an alien life form of our existence is that basic Geometry is unnatural.  Clear, simple, shapes don't (as far as I can tell?) seem to occur in the unmanipulated Universe;  either something is a sphere (1-sided) or it's terrifically complex (e.g. a nebula).  Not a whole lotta triangles and squares floating around.

So somehow we need to project a big Geometrical message to the incoming aliens of much greater scale than us...  it's our best hope to save China and N. & S. Korea...  If we could somehow draw giant pictures with clouds?  Things like:

 GET IT?

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