Wednesday, October 8, 2014

DANGER OF LOVE; THE PRICE SHE PAID; BETRAYED BY LOVE; TWISTED LOVE . . . CRIMES OF PASSION HAVE NEVER GONE OUT OF STYLE . . . YOU CAN'T PLAY WITH HEARTS, EXPECT TO GET AWAY WITH IT, AND SOMETIMES YOU PAY WITH YOUR LIFE, OR AN INNOCENT PARTNERS TAKES THE HIT . . . PLAY SMART, DON'T MIX WORK & PLEASURE, LEAVE MARRIED PEOPLE ALONE, EVEN THOSE IN A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP OR DATING CAN BE PROBLEMATIC--YOU ARE LITERALLY PLAYING WITH FIRE . . . SOME TRUE CRIME MOVIES, WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FACTS, SCENARIOS, TRAGEDY, DEATHS AND PRISON SENTENCES--SOME OF THESE CASES ARE PRECEDENT SETTING, CASES OF FIRST IMPRESSION, LEADING TO NEW LAWS AND STATUTES. STATISTICS FROM WOMEN IN PRISON, SHOCKING! 95% OF MOTHERS WILL PLEAD TO ANYTHING TO KEEP THEIR KIDS, 80% OF THE WOMEN IN PRISON ARE IN FOR NON-VIOLENT CRIMES, THERE ARE ONLY TWO PRISONS, AS OF THE MOVIE, THAT ALLOW MOTHERS WHO GIVE BIRTH IN PRISON TO KEEP THEIR CHILDREN FOR SOME TIME . . . HEARTS ARE FRAGILE, GOVERNMENTS, GUARDS, SYSTEMS, CHURCHES, COPS, PROSECUTORS, JUDGES, INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITIES, DON'T GET TO BREAK'EM, THEN FIX'EM . . . DON'T BREAK WHAT IS NOT BROKEN, HEARTS AND FAMILIES GET HURT! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT!

Temptation, Deceit, Betrayal

I think the first time I learned not to do anything with another girl's guy, which, I didn't, he did, but I got blamed for it, but I was swinging on a swing, and my best friend's alleged boyfriend, as boyfriend and girlfriend, as you can get at that age, came up behind me and simply pushed me on the swing.  Without knowing that anything was wrong with what had just happened, my friend, Jan, came up and started yelling at me, telling me I was stealing her boyfriend, and she gave me the silent treatment, dissing me to other friends in our circle of friends . . . really?  I had not been the one, who came up and pushed him, flirted with him, it was he, she should be mad at, not me.  I remember, not only the unfair accusations, but that thought, that it not something, I will ever do to someone, else.  And to my knowledge, with the proper information on some one's relationship, I have never done, tempted, perhaps, but it is totally hands off.

I took that personal code of honor, to the extreme, so that even if me and group of friends were going dancing in Park City, Utah, or Las Vegas, Nevada, if we even walked into a club, and one of my friends, said, I dubs him, the guy over their with the red shirt, it was hands off, unless, he actually, came up to me first, and asked me to dancing, leaving her no choice in the matter, which happened often, but she dealt with it.  So, this is one of those things, matters of the heart, that I don't tread on, nor do I want someone doing it to me.  Last night, I was watching another movie, I think it was Betrayal of the Heart, if, I remember right, with two very close sisters, almost living as recluses, together, who have a plan to just entice a guy to their home, and then get pregnant by him. 

Sisters & Brothers? 

One of the sisters, actually, falls in love with him and he her . . . but the other sister, who seemed to be joined, or who felt, connected by some quantum physics, to her sister, was jealous, and one day, sent her to the store, and seduced the guy, who had a dream the night before that she came in his bedroom and started to tempt him, into having sex.  Which he did . . . the sister was disgusting, but the guy was also!  It was at least understandable for the sister to be jealous, one guy, two young women, and the two where very close, but I would hold the guy more responsible, he was in love with the other sister, and still had sex with the envious sister, who ends up killing him, because he really is in love with the one sister . . . and I ended up having to stop watching the movie, because, John and I went to look at the blood moon, that happened at 4:00 a.m., in a much less dramatic way than either of us suspected.  The story behind all the hype on the Internet, is that it has something to do with a dramatic event, like end of times, or something . . . John's stuff.

Friends?  Have You No Class?

Boys will be boys, is not a good enough reason to cheat on a partner, no matter who tempting, it is you, who has the relationship with the other person, not the third party; therefore, the greater amount of the blame, lands on the one in the committed relationship, so it always, surprises me, that one of the cheaters, either kills the innocent spouse, to get rid of them, of the one involved, actually kills the third party!  While the cheater, seems to appear to get off Scot free, without paying the price for their indiscretions.  There was another movie, called, The Good Mistress, who is hit on by her best friend's husband, whom the new friend, having just moved to the same town with her friend, and getting a job with her, and has never met her husband, and knows him by a different name than this new, seemingly perfect match, who has just killed another mistress, so to say, and is running for a political office . . . but, once she finds out that this is actually her friend's husband, she tells him in no uncertain, to leave her alone, that this is over, and she means it.  So, in reality, she really was not a mistress at all, because she never knew the guy was married, and did everything to get rid of him, stop him, reject him, refuse to read his emails, and the story ends up, with the good mistress actually catching this guy, through the exact same note, he wrote to both the victim and herself, but it is the wife friend, who is mopping up the sticky little details to take care of her husband's political career, her rivals, and wife is killing the women, he seduces! 

Fact is stranger than fiction . . . way stranger, you could not make these stories up!  Anyway, just a couple I thought, the reader might be interested in, by way of don't do this, or stay away from this type situation, or this guy or gal is trouble, think twice, or just for your entertainment, and legal training, on the cases, that help form the laws, that we are dealing with today, or that protect us today.  Most of these free movies, under true crimes, are like it says, true stories, and have some kind of significance, or merit to them, thus, someone made them into a movie, but they are older films, 1991 and up, but they are great, you just have to ignore the clothes, the cars, the hair do's, and the crappy quality of the films, but the stories are great and very insightful, and serve as a warning, if you haven't already gathered that three is a crowd!

Stroking Your Ego, With Someone Else's Heart, Not Cool

In, Danger of Love, you have a handsome, high school teacher and coach, who is basically seduced by another female teacher, but he really doesn't put up much of a fight.  This woman, is rich, and unbeknown to him, has a history, of doing kind of like, fatal attraction, like stuff, remember Glenn Close, boiling the rabbit, in Michael Douglas' soup pot.  You don't fuck around, and expect the other person, when you make up with your wife, or husband, to go merrily on their way, without feeling used and abused, and sometimes pregnant . . . oh, whooops, that didn't fit in my plans, for my life, see ya!  I just don't think so.  So this chick, obsessed, and I have found, that the more you reject and push away a fatal attraction, or obsessed relationship, the stronger they come on, the more determined they get, and the scarier it gets!  I dated a psychologist, at the same time, I was trying to get rid of a fatal attraction, yet, playing with the emotions of the one, the obsessed, who eventually ended up, going to prison, for forgery, because he had to watch me every second, knowing my comings and goings . . . he was in prison for 18 months of my law school training, and he was released right about the time I was to graduate, and I thought, that seriously, I was going to have to wear a bullet proof vest, under my graduation gown!

It was not my fault that he got obsessed, nor went to prison, but I did play games with his heart, big time, sending double messages, using him as an experiment, to see what he would do if I did, this, or if I did that, and int he process, driving him insane, figuratively speaking, both pushing him away, yet, giving in to him, if he was persistent enough, really doing a number on him, with his friend, alarmed, and shocked, that Mr. Casanova, was tanking big time, to this older woman, whom, he really was obsessed with from the first, truly a fatal attraction, that I tried to stay away from, but flirted with the danger, for the fun of it!  A gamer! He had come to his senses in prison, and he wanted revenge, like you will see in another movie, I am going to tell you about . . . sometimes, it is just in the stars, or a chemical reaction, or just fate, stupidity, or not knowing how to successfully reject someone either . . . I was definitely guilty, of fueling the obsession fire, just as a bright red, refinished, cool old truck, pulled in McDonald's, with flames of white, orange and gold, on the front, like God, through symbols, taking Paul's side, saying, hell yeah, you threw gasoline on a fire!  In my defense, I will say, I tried to get rid of him, rejected him from the first second, he demanded either a dime or my phone number, and I gave him a dime!

This fellow teacher, the male teacher has an affair with, is not taking no for an answer, after he decides to be faithful to his wife, who he finds out, after, this fatal attraction chick, kills his alleged innocent wife, but she was not as innocent as he had originally thought, she was having an affair with a boss at the bank she worked at, for 9 years!  The husband never knew, never suspected, but the wife, was somewhat cold in bed, good clue!  In the first movie, the one with the sisters, the guy torn between the sister he loves, and the sexual vixen, but, the guy realizes, immediately that some of the passion, desire, and love, for the first sister, has died, due to his dalliance with the sister. 

NOTE: don't say God, doesn't want people to learn, Paul's last name is Roybal, and a truck with that name, huge on it just rolled down the street . . . I kind of get the idea, that God would just him less culpable than myself!  I considered myself the victim, and it appears that others might see Paul as my victim, but all is well that ends well, we are friends, and he is happily married, and maybe justly so, I am single, so justice does prevail, and I am sure that he sided with my enemies, and said, that sister's other than myself, were me . . . you will pay for your thrills, one way or the other!  No LOL!  In fact, I would say, that much of my predicament, justified or not, is due to rejection of a string of lovers, who want to literally fuck me over!  But, I believe, that is due to their egos, not mine, and I don't think that justice would dictate the cruel and unusual punishment, I have receive at their collective hands, merely for leaving a relationship, when I didn't see it in the stars to work!  I think I have the female prerogative, to change my mind!  And, I don't think that former lovers, have a right, when they are not even in my life, or visibly in my life, to actually kill, rival lovers, who are present!  This is not a war, and all is not fair in love and war!

The O.J. Simpson, mantra, of If I can't have you, nobody can, is not fair, right, just, nor a reasonable position to take!  Nor, is using the women that would hurt me the worst, right, just to get back at me!  That is not fair to them!  Which leads me to the next movie, that is a combo, of several guys I have either dated, or been married to, without the bodily rape, but definitely a psychic, figurative, financial, career, name, family, etc., rape, that is actually, possibly much crueler than a physical rape, and it just keeps on going.  While I am no innocent angel, by any one's count, they are monsters!  Rejection is not a game these men are too familiar with, but I am not just any woman either . . . for God sake, there is something that comes with a law degree, something to be desired, more than the bar flies, and waitresses, that have fawned over them in the past.  Mr. Interpol, James Bond, internationally renowned spy, said to me, I HAVE NEVER BEEN TREATED LIKE THIS BY A WOMAN!  Yeah, I actually expect more of you, than good looks, and a big dick!  You know, some intelligent conversation for starters, might be in order, and no, I am not enamored simply by looks, or sex for that matter, and when you think you have your hook in me, it is you, who is caught on my line!  Generally, there is a role reversal, that happens with me and men.  Smart is the new sexy, and the brain, is the largest sex organ . . . I just catch them unaware, and they can't get loose!

The Price She Paid . . . The Case That Led To Denying Custody Battles or Visitation Rights to Convicted Rapists!

In this case, Loni Anderson, is raped on the second date, by an acquaintance, held at knife point, and threatened with her life, if she didn't go along with the rape.  She presses charges and the guy goes to prison for 10 years.  When he gets out, he starts showing up in her life again, has a job, a home, nice car, and he is charming and handsome, again, a manipulator, who thinks he can have whatever he wants, whenever he wants.  To get revenge for his years in prison, he goes for custody of her son, that was the result of the rape. He is granted, visitation, and starts manipulating the friend, who is to be involved in the supervised visits, sleeps with her, he plays on Loni's boyfriends insecurities, gets the kid, through lies to turn against his mother, temporarily.  And she gets a call from an inmate in the prison, who tells her, that this guy's ultimate plans, are actually to kill her.  He doesn't care about the kid, or anyone else, other than to use them as a pawn against Loni.  Finally, he threatens to kill their son, if she fights him, while he is again, trying to rape, and kill her.

Eventually, as she is being held, again, at knife point, like the last time, when he cut her severely, and is ripping her clothes off, to rape her, stating that he can have her any time he wants her, the son, who is about 12 or so at this point, hears the commotion, grabs the bat, and hits the dad over the head, temporarily knocking him unconscious, so that Loni, can grab her gun, and she doesn't hesitate to blow him away, this time.  The son, then realizes that the father was just manipulating him, to use him, to go against his mother. And boy, doesn't that sound familiar to me . . . my law practice was not enough, my houses, cabin, my 5 cars, my multi-million dollar cases, my legislation, my blogs, my name, my resume, my blog, my safety, my life, the lives of those who would help me, anyone that got in the way of this megalomaniac, was fair game, in this total abuse of power!  Only, my abusers, were actually a string of abusers, who were all acquaintances, friends, or friends of friends, throwing my son's music into the mix as well, first out right stealing it, then manipulating him, to bring him into their inner circle with the lure of connections, power, influence, positions, and fame, once again, stealing everything either from me, or eventually going to the heart of my life, helping others, take credit, not only for my entire life, but even for giving birth to my children!  Erasing me totally!

Are You A Victim of Domestic Violence--NO, But I Am A Victim of Systemic Violence . . . Totally Dismissed, as if One Man is More Damaging than a Whole System, These Men Used Against ME!

I am shocked, as I have been chased, intimidated, threatened, pursued, targeted, stemming from coast to coast, north to south, and back again, as I have talked to women, who do intake in shelters, or for other services, that systemic abuse is dismissed, as, well, let's just move on!  Are you fucking kidding me! So, you are willing to help, listen to, provide, care and protect, a woman from one angry husband, or abusive partner, but a whole damn system of cops, prosecutors, judges, CIA, FBI, NSA and other entities, you are not only unwilling to suspect, just as in the early days of domestic violence and sexual assault, you are in a way re-victimizing me, by aiding and abetting the male patriarchal system that is after me, willingly turning me in, ratting me out, divulging my location, the times I come and go, a total breach of confidentiality agreements . . . you are my enemies, not my friends, assuming, like you used to with abusive husbands, rapists, and the perpetrator, that it is I, who is asking for it, or deserve it, or if I had not gone up against them, this never would have happened, or you are jealous, or envious, and participate in the SYSTEMIC VIOLENCE, rather than doing what you are either being paid to do, getting grants and federal monies to do, and as ignorant of this type of abuse, as everyone was years ago, going right back to the victim blaming, of yesteryear!

Or, the thought that, I am an attorney; therefore, I can protect myself . . . really, when they have stolen all my ID, and everything else, that is the evidence of that power, self-protection, stopping me from getting jobs, cars, housing, and running me to the point of exhaustion, relentlessly pursuing me, 24/7!  I guess single handed, I am suppose to beat all of these entities, that are trained to listen to your phone conversations, know every apartment and job you call on, buy every used car you even look at on the streets, and stop all sales of new vehicles, even after employment is secured, and agreements, signed, or cars at the final signing!  

Yeah, you tell me, just how, I am suppose to do this, with what money, what car, what avenue . . . really, taking on local, state, and federal brotherhoods, not to mention the Mormon church, family, with infiltration of my family, back 10 years ago, forcing my children to chose between their mother, and their spouses, or significant others, who bring them family, stability, companionship, children, grandchildren . . . you tell me just exactly, how I am suppose to fight this, with poisoning children, lies, manipulations; "they" have money--MY MONEY, name, job titles, resumes, that gives them power, connections, taking all I have in the last 14 years, of them, a collective system, stealing anything that would give me a life for my children, taking houses, cars, money, all the trappings of parenthood, and being an attorney, that they are tricked, cajoled, forced, or paid to lie, to fit, the previous lies, thefts, and deceits . . . I may appear to be Super Woman, and on a level playing field can beat their asses, in mass, but they make sure the playing field is not even . . . and have fought off powers, dominions, and principalities, who have the power to make it look like everything I do, is done by someone else!   If you were given a car, boat, house, simply for what you might consider a little white lie . . . seriously, saying that the woman you just had lunch with, was her sister, and I am either dead, disabled, in jail, or whatever lie, they want you to say, 99.9%, with the moral lacking public, would, lie without remorse!  

Yeah, the price I had to pay, for looking ahead, getting a law degree, raising smart, beautiful, kind, talented children, taking many jobs, much to the chagrin of my mother, who said this will hurt you, NO, you mother will hurt me, claiming Kay is me, or Rachel, Shelley, Sue, Tiff, whoever is the flavor of the conglomerate it took to cover all MY bases!  I every systematically took the jobs, I was offered . . . general counsel for the Utah Medical Association . . . yeah, they call and invite people to be their general counsel, and some fucking flight attendant, sister, who followed your advice, who is now jealous as hell of me, as are your other 5 daughters, if not your son, and all your in-laws, I can't help that you mocked me, yelled at me, chided me, made fun of me, for actually following a dream, to go to law school! Twenty years later, when you see the smart decision that was, and your other daughters, have never used their education and degrees, so you decide to ride on my laurels, education, resume, accomplishments, to bolster, the other 6 or 7 children, with Richard, allegedly dead, as Jesse is allegedly dead, probably the head money launderer, but taking claim of even MY CHILDREN?  SHOCKING TO SAY THE LEAST . . . systemic violence, whether within the legal system, the law enforcement, the religious, the education for systemic domestic violence, like domestic enemies, needs to be recognized, systemic lying, systemic cover-up, systemic threats . . . all lying to cover the family secrets . . . 

Betrayed By Love . . . FBI Agent Avery, Pretends to Love, Have Sex, Promises to Leave His Wife, to Get Information, Then Murders the Confidential Informant When She Refuses to Get an Abortion, and Wants to Make the Agent Pay for Using Her!

This case is the first one in the history of the FBI, and I would guess, the CIA, but sure as hell not the last, where the agents have used the confidential informants, or the person, they are investigating, and then turn around an throw them away like trash . . . I hope Agent Avery's 25 years in prison was worth it!  There are damn good policy reasons, why agents should not sleep with their witnesses, their clients, their informants, because, you are playing with fire, whether you are satisfying your own selfish desires, using your occupation to merit and justify, going after matters of the heart.  With my son, Elliot, the bass guitarist for God's Revolver & Maraloka, I would bet my life, that his old girlfriend, Rachel, and his new girlfriend, Lauren, are both paid girlfriends, on assignment, and will persuade him to do what the company wants, turning him against the very woman who gave him birth, bought him his first guitar, took him to lessons, concerts, practices, picking up band members over 150 miles apart, wrote my blog about the bands, giving them not only national exposure, but international exposure, but he is a man, he does have a dick, and love will get this tender heart of a man, every time, and kill him, to give up, a matter of survival . . . once that is in place, they can get him, as they have with the other children, who then have choices to make, with regard to matters of the heart!

I would say, this is hitting below the belt, and I am sure, that you love my children, as I do, with no right to them, pretending that they are not even the one, who raised them, are you fucking kidding!  Simply beyond all decency, ethics, integrity, morals, totally unconscionable, without merit, cause, other than you manipulating, striping, stealing, and taking all form of family life from me, to control, and manipulate amazing children, who have thrived, in spite of your persecution, tampering with their lives, challenging their very souls, and then offering them, what you have taken them . . . a family life, while you chase me, put out false warrants, and claim my children as your own, when all of yours are probably dying, as you would rather, for money, choose mine over your own, can you even imagine, money is not everything.  Yes, my children are at a stage in their lives, that the systemic violence you perpetrated, not only against me, but against them, makes them long for calm, security, prosperity, family solidarity, and you have taken that very thing from them, then turned around and offered that to them, join us, the Southwick extended family, the money, dis your mother, she abandoned you, hearing that over and over again, when I was with my children, more, before the poisoning, that your little fucking housewives were with their own, even while holding down big time jobs, teaching college, and writing manuals, and computer programs on the side!

They psychological method they are using on my children and my family, is break them, then fix them . . . they create the problem, and then they step into to solve the problem, same pattern for the government, the economy, the wars, etc., watch this pattern, not hard to see!

Hearts Are Real, Families Fragile, People Can Die of Broken Hearts, You Have No Right To Break, Then Fix, Manipulate, Control, Abuse Power, Use Systemic Violence to Cover the Truth, Steal Identities, Lives, Stories, Children . . . Even if in Your Fucked UP, Sick Minds, You Can Somehow Justify it, Under National Security, Socialism, Benefiting Society, THE CHURCH . . . You Don't Get to Take What I Have Built & Steal It!

FUCK YOU . . . I HOPE YOU GET ATTACHED TO MY CHILDREN, AND THEY RIP YOUR FUCKING HEARTS OUT!  AND THEY HAVE THE POWER TO DO THAT!  A MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION, IS ONLY A HEART BEAT AWAY!


Tuesday, October 7, 2014

FIREBRAND PASS: SHELBY TO KALISPELL, MONTANA, AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN, PURPLE MOUNTAINS MAJESTY, AND A LOVELY FALL PARADE OF QUAKING ASPEN, PINES, LEAVES, RIVERS & STREAMS--AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL . . . LEON PANETTA, FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE AMERICAN ISIS, THE CIA, 30 YEARS OF WAR, DON'T THINK SO, GOT THE WRONG PREZ.! HONG KONG WONG, MAN OR BOY AFTER MY OWN HEART, REBEL WITH A CAUSE, BRING THAT PUBLICITY TO YOUR ISSUES OF PEACE, LOVE, FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY. FUTURE SERIAL KILLERS OF AMERICA, THREE KIDS CLUBBED 700 CHICKENS TO DEATH, AND I THOUGHT OUR LEGAL SYSTEM WAS BAD! EGYPTIAN JUDGE, GIVES THE DEATH PENALTY TO 1500 PEOPLE, IN TWO MASS EXECUTIONS, GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY, AND THEY JUST MOVED THE JUDGE FROM CRIMINAL TO CIVIL COURT, EGYPT! WHAT'S UP?

Heading For the Hills . . . Enjoying the Fall Weather While I Can, Great Falls Got SNOW Last Week!

I think the title says enough . . .  have a great Tuesday, don't say I never wrote a short blog, here it is!  LOL! And yes, I am very verbose, and can write faster than most people read.  My friends complain that it takes them a week to digest all the material I put in one blog, so, here is your break day.  Catch up and I am sure I will have something to say tomorrow, never lack for giving my opinion, right, wrong, or indifferent.  The Lord says, to be either cold or hot, or he spews thee out of his mouth, don't be a fence sitter.  It is better to have argued your point, and failed, than never to have thought at all!

Oh, I knew I couldn't let this go too easy, in the Great Falls Tribune, yesterday, and I am not sure if it was in the Sunday or Monday news, because I read both on the same day, playing catch up, but there was a fun, fascinating and fabulous article, co-written by three men, who ran for the same office, one Republican, one Democrat, and one on the Libertarian party ticket.  All three of them decided, that staying true to their party platforms, limited, them in not only their discussion, but in their opinion, locking them into something they may not whole hearted believe.  So they are starting a column or a blog, something to mix and shake things up a bit, and I think for a damn good reason, we are not made in a cookie cutter, and rarely do we, as human beings fit into a perfect mold with a political party, a religion, or about anything, nor can we be pigeon holed, and labeled, if we are true to ourselves, to our natures, and our opinions; therefore, these three men are trying to open people up, to look at things, not as a party player, or straight ticket type person, but to look at issues and things in light of what is best for America . . . a paradigm shift if you will, away from partisan positions, to a more centrist, while leaning more toward the right or left, or circular, with rights as the focus above all else . . . but it is that thinking better, clearer, more focused on great results, than party alliances and allegiances.

The voting day is rapidly advancing on us, educated or not, so be prepared, and make your voice heard . . . people all over the earth are literally dying to have what we in America have, go ask, Josuha Wong of Hong Kong . . . 17 year old who is organizing the protesters in HK, China, making voices heard for democracy, not Communist puppets . . . for further discussion, maybe start a national movement, contact gregg@bigskylaw.com and let them know what you think, open dialogue is a great way to get people thinking . . . great job, in Great Falls!

Monday, October 6, 2014

THE LAST SUPPER--THE MINDFUL REVOLUTION (TIME), SONS OF THUNDER, RIGHT AND LEFT HAND OF GOD, ISLAM, ISIS . . . ARE YOU WILLING TO BE SERVANTS, SLAVES? IF NOT, YOU, NOR YOUR PROPHET IS WORTHY OF SITTING ON ANY SIDE OF GOD, OR ALLAH . . . AN INNOCENT CHRIST, A DREAM, MINDFUL CHANGES, IN THE THOUGHTFUL REVOLUTION . . . GET ON BOARD, THINK BETTER, LIVE BETTER, THRIVE MORE . . . CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS, CHANGE YOUR LIVES! SET FREE . . . JESUS IS . . .

The Mother of the Son's of Zebedee, or the Son's of Thunder . . . Requests that her Son's Sit on the Right & Left Hand of God

At one point in Jesus' ministry, the mother of James and John, the fishermen, that Jesus recruited from their ships, to be come fishers of men, rather than fishers of fish, asked Christ, if her son's, could be placed on either the right and left hand of God.  Jesus responded, in Matthew 20:20-27, that it was not his to decided who would sit on the sides of God.  But, he did ask them if they were willing to do what he had done . . . to my surprise, they said, that yes, they were.  I would venture a guess, that they, not as Christ, did not know what they were saying, having jointly participated in the ministry of Christ, and very casually, thought, well, yes, we have already been doing what you have done.  Jesus went on to say that there were many who had served, and that it was God alone who would determine, those seats, in his kingdom, not Christ himself.

He went on to say, that he who is greatest in the kingdom of God, is a servant, the lowest, and not only a servant, but in the Bible I read yesterday, it said, that you had to be willing to be a slave . . . Now the reason I bring this sitting on the sides or hands of God, is that there was an article in the Missoulian Newspaper, about a month ago, or so, that focused on a couple who were married, living in that part of Montana, who had a very happy and successful marriage, and the husband was Muslim, and his wife was Christian.  They decided to look at the similarities in their religious beliefs, rather than their differences.  Muslims believe in Jesus Christ, but they see Christ, who was around 600 years before the prophet Mohamed, on the left hand of God.  Now, I don't know if that is an inferior position, but the scriptures, clearly debunk that point, in a text that predates, the Koran, and says, right around the time of the Passover feast, when Christ new that the appointed time, according to scripture was just two days away, and said that he was one the right hand of power, I would guess referring to God, or possibly, referring to Satan, being the other option, and on the left, or you could say, the wrong hand of power . . . remember in the Book of Genesis, the war in heaven!

Christ fought for free agency and choice, and Satan was going to force all men to be good, and return to their Father in Heaven, or God, Allah, or whatever other name, people want to refer to him/her, for we were created, male and female, in his image, the old two for one, God.  The Coptic Pope of Islam, said that ISIS or ISIL, the terrorist organization, that is stealing real estate, in both Syria and Iraq, by forcing people to either, give up their Christianity, which is like giving up portions of Islam, or be beheaded, put in prison, or forced into exile . . . really, this is what the Islamic State of Islam is really about, under what God, and as President Obama would say, NO GOD, regardless of name, Allah, would ever, use killing as a means of forcing people to believe one way or another!  PERIOD!  As my friend's father said, terrorist groups, like ISIS, Boko Harem, some would say, Hamas, with the leader of Hama's son, listening to people in prison, the murderous tenants of that group, actually walked out of prison, to find a man passing out Bible's and invited him to a meeting . . . they young Hamas member, converted to Christianity, is under asylum in San Francisco, or Oakland area, as of several years ago, and is doing all he can, to convert people to Christianity, which many Palestinians, already are, but these groups operating under the banner of terror, are not religious, and violate everything religion of any kind promotes, they are about, money, power, and land.

All those things, that the prince of darkness, or Satan, offers Christ as he is finishing his 40 day fast, on the mount, I believe of Transfiguration, if Christ, will acquiesce to him, he promises, great riches, power, and property, I think . . . it has been awhile since I have focused on that particular scripture in the New Testament.  I am totally, into freedom of religion, or freedom from religion, not only as a constitutional law attorney, who whole heartily believes in the 1st amendment to the Bill of Rights, but because more people have been killed, in the alleged name of religion, that in almost any other way!  And, as far as I know, which is limited, but no religion that I have ever heard of under any God, western or eastern, that is really the same God, with the same Christ, professes to murder, violence, theft, imperialism, and all that horrible stuff, like kidnapping school girls, beheading journalists, for it is God who will judge a man or woman, not ISIS!  You all have blood on your hands . . . and any God, is not going to dismiss that, or look on you kindly, either in this life or the next!

What Does a Mindful Revolution Look Like?

Yesterday, I attended the Great Falls Christian Center Church, as I have once before, again, not promoting or preferring one church over another, although I really dig this one, but a van picked us up, as they did last time I was in Great Falls, at the Women's Rescue Mission, or Mission of Hope, which I am so grateful for, as I am all shelters, I have frequented in the last 2 years, finding a great staff, a warm bed, great food, and shelter, protection, and comfort in the storms I fight in life, going against the government as I have, do, and will continue to do, until they get it right, constitutionally!  And we are not quite there yet, but we are getting closer by the day, making in roads into sanity, reason, critical thinking, realizing that reasonable people agree to disagree, honesty in the political processes, integrity, and a different way of looking at things, possibly from a broader prospective, than we have previously done in our lives.  And that is a very good thing . . . but I copied the quote, that was up on the stage in front of my face, and it said it all . . . 

 . . . if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation . . .

Again, you can believe any way you want, worship any way you want, believe or not believe in Christ, or his atonement, but his teachings, many accept him as a great teacher, and he was, and his teachings are just as relevant to me, today, in my practice, my life, my family, my relationships, in the community, as I am sure they were back then; however, we must remember that, the people in those days, had word of mouth, letters from the apostles, or mostly from Paul, who I loved since my youth, and am relating to more and more, as I venture into uncharted territories, in the law, or in law and disorder, as they would say in Kalispell's, Daily Inter Lake newspaper.  But the point being, we are to be new creations, whether that mindful revolution comes at church on Sunday, in debates from political pundits, from our children, I find they are good to force you out of old modes of thinking, from our students, as in the battle in Hong Kong, with the Chinese communist party, over free speech and freedom to peacefully assemble, done in love and peace, which I totally dig, or from our universities and colleges, or the President, Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, the source is not of concern to me, but better thinking is!

If We Are To Survive as a Species, Humans, we Must Think Like New Creations

Someone said, that fascism will come wearing a cross on its neck and a flag draped around its shoulders . . . and we are seeing that, have seen that during the Bush administration--thought he was on a mission for God, the opiate of the people anyone . . . in the Patriot Act, doing whatever it takes, with not exceptions and no limits, taking away the rights of the people, detention camps without rights, charges, warrants, and hearings . . . and this allegedly is from God, you better fucking read your Bible again! And the intolerance for gays, for marriage, making challenges worse rather than better, bringing back the old Jim Crow laws, separate but equal?  Really, you fine, upstanding Christian business owners, think that it is freedom of religion that allows you to discriminate in your shops, your apartment buildings and your businesses . . . no, that would be freedom from religion, because that is sure as hell not what Christ taught!  The only place, I ever saw Christ deal harshly with people, was dealing with the alleged men or councils of the law, the Pharisees and Sadducee's, or the Sanhedrin, who were like whited ceplicures on the outside, professing religion, and full of dead man's bones on the inside!  The other group he hated, were the money changers in the temple, Wall Street!

Other than that, he treated the children, the social outcasts, the lepers, the prostitutes, the beggars, the insane, the possessed, the sick and afflicted, with total kindness . . . so just where are you getting that he was discriminatory at all?  He loved everyone, and in the 7 things he hated most, was ingratitude, that people he had blessed, and prospered, were so ungrateful and unkind, that he hated most.  Doing that which is unnatural with a man, is also, stated, in connection with a woman, you can't do that which is unnatural with a woman, like oral sex, anal sex, and any kind of perversion . . . what about eating pork, or whatever, are you as harsh on yourselves and you are on your neighbor, and who is your neighbor, check out the Good Samaritan, or I have heard of Christians or Mormons, kicking children out of their homes, for this or that, have you read the Prodigal Son?  Come on, what you hear on Sundays, read in the Bible, or other religious books, can't teach what you are doing in your personal, professional, and community lives!  I just don't believe it.  And the Patriot Act is not an Act of GOD, as Bush would have you think, and him and Cheney are war criminals . . .  violated the Geneva Convention on what constitutes inhuman treatment of prisoners, water boarding 183 times!, just like Hitler's boys, who are still being hunted, while we have two of the biggest war criminals walking free in our country!

DREAMS . . . NEW THOUGHTS

When Christ was arrested, and at first, there were no witnesses, to testify against him . . . even Christ gets a trial, way back in the day, Patriot Act idiots, but finally two witnesses came forward and offered false testimony.  Then later many did, but the caephus, or the judge i would assume, said that their testimonies didn't match and there were discrepancies, or they lack credibility, veracity, and validity, by today's legal standards, with out legal roots coming from a combination of Judeao-Christian law, and British common law, but the judge found no error in this man, named Jesus.  The Jews went ape shit, and due to envy, they brought him again before Pontius Pilot, who gave the Jews a choice between letting Jesus go, or Barrabas, who was being tried, for being a rebel, and someone died, or was murdered . . . ISIS, where the hell do you get off saying you are a religious group, your asses would have been toast in Christ's time, beheading and under what authority?  Due to that deadly sin of envy, the Jews were even willing to take on the wrath of God, on themselves and their children, for wanting Jesus crucified.

But while this was going on, Pilot's wife, listen to those wife's, had a dream and said, have nothing to do with this man or his punishment, he is innocent, I saw it in a dream . . . Pontius Pilot, a smart man, who washed his hands of the blood of Jesus, said he found no issue with this man, Jesus Christ, but eventually allowed the Jews to have their way with him, and crucify him, they used, the crime of blasphemy, that he claimed to be the Son of God, and as we all know, he was crucified, and hung on the cross . . . the old ways died, and he brought about a new covenant, getting rid of the eye for an eye, letter of the law of Moses, and he paid the price for our sins, rather than expecting us to abide by the old . . . again, suggesting something new, different, a change, a new man and woman!

Note:  NSA, as they usually do when they don't like what I am writing, just turned off my spell check, so bear with me, and I will try to do the best I can, some of these words, as words in my own language are beyond my spelling comprehension; therefore, this puts me at a handicap, but doesn't change the message!

The Dream of the Old Indian Woman, Two Nights Ago

There are 30 or so, women, I would guess and a few families at the shelter right now.  And two nights ago, I had listened to President Obama's speech to the Kellogg School of Business, at Northwestern University in the Chicago area, I had actually been to Northwestern, back in my internship, with AUL or Americans United for Life, in the summer of 1992, so a bit of a connection there . . . and I had just written the title, and the quote, you will find in the last blog, then I was going to finish writing the blog, the following day, or on Saturday, like I did, outlining the key elements in the financial recovery plan, and what we need to be doing as a people in this country to make people feel the recovery that is taking place as we speak . . . but that night, I got up to use the restroom and this woman, was up in the middle of the night, writing something down, with a single lamp on over her head, I found it curious.

Real early that next morning, both of us, landed in the bathroom at the same time, and exchanged a conversations, about me seeing her up in the middle of the night.  She told me that she had a dream, that she was taking notes on, because she had the dream, three times, with just a few variations, all in a row, and she wondered what they meant.  I told her that I had long learned to follow my dreams, interpret them, and have even written up to 6 pages of analysis, using a dream and symbology dictionary, that has long gone the way of all lost books, and have on many occasions taken the ire of my family, chiding me, telling me that I was crazy, to follow my dreams, even when it is a Mormon thing to get a patriarchal blessing and my specifically told me that the Holy Ghost would direct me through dreams as to the paths I should take in life . . . would not have married the man I did, would not have gone to law school, got accepted in two hours, without LSAT and application, and I would not have the great kids I have, and the house I bought in St. George, with it looking exactly the same as the one in my dream . . .  I told her she should pay attention to those series of dreams, especially since they are the same dream, it is something God, wants her to know.  I said, especially if it is something about a particular child, maybe divine instructions, of what that child needs!

At dinner she dropped a three page typed out paper on her dream and asked me to read it.  Now, mind you, I had spent several hours writing up the notes and my comments on President Obama's speech, to the business school, at Northwestern, so I was shocked to find out that she had this dream with President Obama and Michelle Obama in it!  WHAT?  So, I read it with the up most attention, but we will see if I can tell you the jest of it, after 24 hours lag time, was going to write about it yesterday, but I went to church.

The Obama Connection, Her Attitudes, Her Son, Brandon's Attitudes

In the dream, she said, she was in either the shelter, or an assisted living apartment, that she might be waiting for, and her son, Brandon, came to visit her, she was worried that he was going to be in trouble for coming in the place she was at, to visit her, so there was some element of fear, to start with.  But there was a fundraiser, of some sort with lots of dignitaries at the place she was at, and to her surprise, she noticed that President Obama and Michelle were in attendance at the event.  The President, came over and took her by the hand to shake it, and she looked into his eyes, and there were no pupils, his eyes were completely white. She got scared and tried to pull away her hand from the President's grip, but she could not, and she kind of thought, that she was in danger, and so was her son, who was somewhere around the facility.

But, the next thing she noticed, is that the facility the fundraiser was about, magically appeared, and she was still holding the President's hand, when this amazing new building just appeared out of no where, but it was instantaneous . . . and the President let go of her hand.  Her son was still afraid, and took off running.  And she followed him, and there were these, knights or some type of authority figure, star wars stuff, I think, but both she and her son, Brandon were again afraid, and took off.  But these agents, of some sort, just the use of the word, in her writing, knights, suggests to me, someone who is there on their side, but again, she is stopped by them, in fear of her life, and for that of her son, who had disappeared into the bushes.  But again, totally contrary to what she thought, these entities didn't harm her, and she felt safe after a while.  And I believe her son came back . . . that is a very short version of her dream.

But I was awestruck by some of the symbolism, the fear, the unfounded belief that someone was going to hurt her and her son, and that the President had a grip on her, that she couldn't get away from, the eyes, the knights, etc., and the similarities, of some of the symbolic colors, the new engine so to say, that the President is proposing, and the knights, when I refer to Obama as the White Knight, in Shining Armour, that just happens to be Black!  White is traditionally considered, pure, good, clean, peaceful, remember the dove with the olive branch, in the story of Moses, the ship that saved the righteous left overs from the days of Soddom and Gamhora!  Many black rappers, and others have complained about the symbolism of black, being evil, wicked, satanic, dark, bad, in terms that make people fear the whole race.  I think we have seen a ton of this with the President, the mistrust, the lack of giving credit, the misjudging, seeing him as a Muslim, rather than Christian, while ignoring the facts, that he had been attending the same Christian Church with the controversial black minister, who was doing nothing and saying nothing, that I would not say myself!  

The President was actually ranked higher by a Christian college, than Mormon Mitt Romney, until the Christians decided they hated President Obama, more than they loved Jesus, making my point totally! That due to the color of his skin, people have assumed the worst of every action he has taken, very program he has proposed, and doubt his motives, even his birth, and trashed him, when in reality, he has saved this country and the mess the previous administration made of America, while Bush's Christianity, for some reason, trumped reason, colored by his white skin!  Good God, people, look at what he left us with, what he promoted, and what he took away!  Apparently all reason, all American ideals, went to war, where we didn't need to be, sold us a sack of shit, and thank God, not in all things, but in the economy, the President, like it or not, is a knight in shining armor . . . I refer to him as the White Knight, because in Bat Man, there is the DA, who is trying to clean up the streets of Gotham, and then the movie is called the Dark Knight, because the man turns after half of his face is burned off, and his associate DA is murdered, by cops, and others . . . again, associating black with bad, evil, corrupt, enraged.

I think the symbolism in the dream of this older woman is rather telling as is her son's reaction, even a younger person, even of darker skin, but still terrified by President Obama, feeling caught in his grip, and can't get away, then his people, again with good symbolism, they fear, and run . . . and when all is said and done . . . none of their fears were founded, they were never hurt, in fact, they were bless, with the beautiful new facility, way faster than she and others had expected.  And is that not symbolic in and of itself, didn't it take the country, about 20 years to recover from the last big recession, and here we are, with tons of troubles, just coming out of two wars, and all this great news, that I wrote about yesterday, and people still doubt this great man, this knight, this American Prince, if you will!  COME ON, GIVE HIM SOME CREDIT!  For once, look at the facts, do as Dr. Martin Luther King said, look at the content of the character, not the color of his skin!  AMAZING!  And shocking. 

The thing that is funny, is that northern Montana is very conservative, the rural areas, and I am sure the Indians, with the more populated areas, leaning more to the left, again with a bad connotation, maybe tying back to Christ's time, that those on the right are the righteous ones, and those on the left, no so righteous!  We need to look at the facts, as President Obama, pleads with the Kellogg Business school, crunch the numbers, and really see what is happening.  He knows that it will take some time for the average person, down the economic food chain, to feel much, but feel the change is what he is pushing for, but that is where you and I come in, where investors come in, and stop being doubting Thomases, and just look at the fucking facts!  I was looking at some old, MSNBC, Steve Obierman Shows, and he is a fellow political lunatic like me, rants up and storm at the stupidity of the people, and in light of this dream, I had to laugh, that back in the 2008 elections, he said he felt sorry for any poor guy or gal, who actually took over from the Bush administration because they are going to get blamed for all the stuff of the previous president!  And President Obama did, and like most Montanans, he took in on the chin, with grace and dignity, as many blacks have taken the injustice that has been thrown at them over the years!  

While I Loved Most of the Sermon Yesterday, I Disagreed with One Thing

So, while I loved the music, the sermon, for the most part, the prayers, the energy, especially of the young worship group, I didn't like what the associate pastor said about being just another generation, like the ones who had gone before, he being 63, or somewhere around there, but he was leaving this planet, world, in worse shape than he had gotten it . . . lamenting the condition of the world today.  Now, if you are looking at the wars, the Ebola plague, beheadings, possibly what most people still think of the economy, yeah, maybe, but as far as looking at things, according to Christ's measure or the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution, that I just think is God's gospel, or the good news in law . . . hell, we are so far exceeding other generations on love, understanding, acceptances, intelligent thought, tolerance, caring, sharing, and loving, there is absolutely no comparison!  

Case in point, in 1978, when the Mormon Church, got an alleged modern day revelation, about blacks getting to hold the priesthood and go to the temple, which they had very discriminatorally been denied, while even the first prophet, Joseph Smith, not only baptized them, but I believe confirmed them to the priesthood, until that prejudice, Brigham Young, got a hold of church doctrine, and again, denied, access to the blessings, of membership and temple, but, anyway, there were literally 200 or more people, enough names of the back of the Salt Lake Tribune or the Deseret News, taking their names off the records of the church, due to the change, letting blacks have the priesthood!  I think, desperation, more than inspiration dictated that revelation, kind of like social pressure, much like the days of polygamy, civil rights demonstrations, both within and without the church and the country, were in full bloom, and there may have been some undue influence on state Congressional delegates, to get their shit together, and get with modern times, even implementing their alleged Christian beliefs, that God created all his children!  Again, Good GOD!

A great symbol, I read trucks, signs, license plates, . . . a large with truck, just pulled up across the street, white, with large black letters, SET FREE!

JESUS IS . . .  

Saturday, October 4, 2014

IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO HOT DOGS--OBAMACARE(S), WORKS, AND SO DOES HIS FOUR POINT STRUCTURE FOR AMERICA'S PROGRESS FOR THE NEXT DECADE, WITH A FIRM FOUNDATION LAID, NOW IT IS UP TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO TAKE IT AND RUN WITH IT! AMERICAN'S SUCCESS FOUNDATION LAID: (1) NEW INVESTMENTS IN MANUFACTURING, TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY; (2) THE BEST EDUCATION, PREPARING CHILDREN FOR JOBS IN THE FUTURE; (3) HEALTH CARE REFORM; AND (4) GETTING OUR PHYSICAL HOUSE IN ORDER: (A) CUT DEFICIT, CUT IN HALF SINCE OBAMA TOOK OFFICE; (B) ASKING THE WEALTHY TO PAY A LITTLE MORE IN TAXES--I ACTUALLY LIKE RUSSIA'S 13% FLAT TAX (ME, NOT THE PREZ., BUT I THINK 10% WOULD JUST ABOUT COVER IT, WE WOULD BE GETTING A 100% INCREASE IN TAXES FOR THE RICH! LOL! GENERAL ELECTRIC WITH OVER 700 GUYS OVER THEIR TAXES, THEY ARE PAYING NONE, WITH A $14 BILLION PROFIT! HOW ABOUT THEM APPLES, PAUL RYAN!); (C) FINANCIAL REFORM, IN BANKING, HOUSING, BIG BUSINESS; (D) MINIMUM WAGE & JOB EQUALITY; (E) JOBS BILL; AND (F) IMMIGRATION REFORM, BRING THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST HERE TO STUDY, WORK, BUILDING AMERICA--HARDLY A SOCIALIST, THE PREZ. SAID, CAPITALISM IS THE GREATEST FORCE IN THE WORLD EVER KNOWN . . . WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER; DON'T JUST CULTIVATE YOUR OWN SUCCESS, TAKE OTHER AMERICANS, WITH YOU, IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT YOU, IT IS ABOUT US! WE ALL RISE AND FALL TOGETHER, UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL! NO DRAMA OBAMA, IS NOT REALLY VERY GOOD AT BLOWING HIS OWN HORN, SO, I, A NARCCISIST WILL DO IT WITH THE MOST VIGOR I CAN . . . GREAT JOB PREZ! BEING PRESIDENT, IS ONE, GODDAMNED THANKLESS JOB, STOP BEING INGRATES, AND GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DESERVED! MY HELL, EVEN CHRIST HIMSELF, COULD NOT HEAL IN NAZARETH, BECAUSE THE PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE FAITH! GET SOME FAITH, BARACK HAS DONE HIS JOB, DO YOUR'S FOR GOD SAKE, IF YOU ARE NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION, THEN YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM . . . GET TO IT, AMERICA!

President Obama, Abandons Prepared Text, and Asks Why? 

"[J]ust last month, at least one top Republican in Congress said that tax cuts for those at the top are -- and I'm quoting here -- 'even more pressing now' than they were 30 years ago. More pressing. When nearly all the gains of the recovery have gone to the top 1 percent, when income inequality is at as high a rate as we've seen in decades, I find that a little hard to swallow that they really desperately need a tax cut right now, it's 'urgent.'
"Why? What are the facts? What is the empirical data that would justify that position? Kellogg Business School, you guys are all smart. You do all this analysis. You run the numbers. Has anybody here seen a credible argument that that is what our economy needs right now?"

 The Economy & the Hot Dog Analogy

I remember this article, I read in some newspaper, about the time the recession was declared, out of who knows what newspaper, somewhere likely in Montana, but a father, I believe in Chicago, or some large city, had a son who was attending business school, at Columbia.  The father was a street vendor, selling hot dogs of all flavors, shapes and ingredients, and he was doing so well, probably paying for that high priced higher education of his son's, that he was going to finally move off the streets, and build a hot dog store restaurant. When the son heard this from his father, he said, oh, no, haven't you heard of the recession, that we are going into a very dark economic future, and you better hold off on that new store, and stay on the streets. The father protested, and said, but we are making record numbers, we have plenty of cash in the bank, and I am sick of being on the streets in inclement weather, and I am getting older.  The son, insisted that was a bad business move for his father, and finally, the father, acquiested and deferred to his son's knowledge and inside information.

Well, that is much the mentality of the sky is falling, baton down the hatches, crawl in a cave, until it is safe to come out . . . when that is precisely the attitude that caused the great depression of 1929, freaking out, losing faith in the banks, and financial system, and this time there is probably merit to that, but thanks to President Obama, his staff, professionals in all walks of business, the economy, and even billionaires, who stepped in with the belief in the American system, America, is once again, gaining back the financial growth and prosperity, promised in the Preamble to the United States Constitution, of prosperity to me and my posterity . . . thank you, for your guidance, caring, tenacity in light of sceptics and nay sayers, for those who have criticized you, denigrated your efforts, even when it benefited them, and for setting a plan for financial recovery, that is taking root, and going forward, in spite of the dooms day critics!

May the Force, Continue to Be With YOU!

Yesterday, while I was perusing my favorite new sources, I came across, notice of the speech, President Obama, gave to the Kellogg Business School, at Northwestern University, near Chicago, hoping to inform the bright business and economy builders of the future, the ones, who not only voted for the President, but are smart enough to rely on the facts, before making their decisions, and starting their career paths, encouraging them, in their planning, to take a few other Americans with them, for that is what it is all about, not just about you, but about US!  Any educated person, knows full well, that there were many people along the path to knowledge and success, that laid the cornerstone, sacrificed, and got them to where they are today . . . kind of like the hot dog dad, that braves both heat and snow, to put his son through college, only to be stopped, when that education actually hurt the father, rather than helped him!

One of the main reasons I supported President Obama, is because he is smart, not great at promoting himself, but very intelligent, is not driven by ego, but driven by a concern for his fellow Americans, who have not been as lucky, advantaged, or had the opportunities that he, himself, had, it is that community organizer spirit, that drove him to seek higher office, to enable him to help people in communities with housing needs, and he did that in a big way!  As you will recall, in 2008, when the shit was hitting the fan, with the total mortgage crisis, banks, insurance, and financial institutions were going down, after making horrible, bad, terrible, egregious, decisions, preying on the American public, many who didn't even speak the language, getting them in homes far above what their incomes could stand, then gleefully going after them for fines, fees, default notices, and foreclosure and evictions at record rates, while on the other hand, making money hand over fits, taking bailouts, mortgage insurance up to 9 times what the house was worth, and then taking the house back on top of that, offering the people mortgage modifications, that they could never get, but taking tens of thousands in fees, to turn around an gouge them, kicking them out of the house, when they had maximized the money they could get out of them, being the ones to put them in that situation in the first place!  Fuck'em Prez!

Citi to Subprime: 'Out, Damned Spot'

Citigroup's History in Subprime Lending . . . Citigroup is preparing to ax OneMain Financial, the unit that makes small subprime loans to U.S. customers.  Chief Executive Michael Corbat says OneMain is a 'terrific business' but doesn't fit the Citi model' of focusing on high-end customers in bit cities.  But subprime loans have a long history at Citygroup.

How is that for an elitist, arrogant, bastard, who was part of the record profits, during the recession, due to their creative predatory lending, robo signers, and whatever, to fuck the American people out of their homes. And if you will recall, it is that fucking, President Bush, who was vying for his buddies, the rich business owner, who just stood back, along with his appointed Secretary of Finance, Henry Paulsen, of another benefactor, Goldman Sachs, who orchestrated a scheme, so clever, so cunning, so aberrant to American values, and standards, that he said, this is just so, complicated, that we just can't figure it out . . . hell, I can't even balance my check book, and I could figure out what was going down, We the PEOPLE, were getting screwed!  Timothy Giettner, paying no taxes, like GE, with record profits, hires all those 700 plus tax guys, to make sure they pay no more taxes, than Mitt Romney!

Thank God, that a community organizer, such as President Obamacare, stepped into the mess of the century, that almost put the whole world in financial peril, as one by one, countries economies were dropping out of the bottom, and did something for Main Street, are you making the connection between the name of the group that Citigroup is dissing . . . you got it, ONEMAIN!  There is another irony, in the name, because all things are symbolic by nature, and intents, hearts, and thoughts cannot be concealed, from what is really going on, that intent will surface somewhere, another play on the word or group, Won Main!  The good news is, our White Knight in Shining Armour, who happens to be Black, so you won't give him any credit, is amping up regulations, which the absence of, caused this mess, and going after, or at least monitoring what these assholes are doing, so he can put, plans and efforts in place, that like Bush's hideous ones, that the Obama administration, got blamed for, with Bushites, doing all this just before he was leaving office, like the 1200 to 1900 executive orders, that fucked the people as well, but the Prez. is taking precautions to protect, Main Street, rather than Wall Street, who the Bush admin, bailed out . . . they were just too big to fail . . . BULL SHIT!  

I hope you don't forget, AIG and Baer Sterns, and their lavish retreats, even after receiving bail outs, and don't forget Mitt Romney's Bain Capital, that took $30M in government bail outs, really?  Good God, there were some of us, watching in horror, as money was laundered into Boy Scout Arrow manufacturers, Mob Museums, race tracks, and these don't sound like mob activities, because that is precisely who was working the system and getting pay outs!  And active citizenry is what it take to stop this shit from happening again! All these trader, treasonous, bastards, should be in prison, that is plain to see, and maybe, after the U.S. Attorneys, figure out the sinister plot, to bankrupt America, they will go after even presidents, who were involved, and you better hurry, Bush senior is getting up there in years!  If I can help in any way, let me know.  Note: this article came in the Great Falls, TRIBUNE, Money and Investing Section, C1, Friday, October 3 . . . my daughter's birthday, 2014, so yesterday.  And I am proud to announce for the newspaper, this newspaper, rivals the Wall Street Journal, but it is more fair and balanced!  Good job, I used to have your CEO or CFO on my email list, until the government, NSA, shut it down.  KUDOS!

Economic Highlights From the Northwestern Speech, Great News!

Now, I am going to apologize to the President, I was not provided with notice, that this speech was happening, or I would have prepared more and had a note pad, or something, I was running out of time, and so I took notes on what I had at hand, which was three library post cards, with old writing on them, so scratch paper, and a manila folder, I got from the Women's Rescue Mission, with a staff, trying to help me reconstruct my life, after, go figure, two former financial planners, Utah Republicans, 70% of the CIA, over financial crimes, the perps, FBI, with Mormon connections, family, friends, gang raped me and stole my case, like many home owners, I had not other paper, so I took notes on what I had, and that was on four or five things writing on all sides, with tons of notes, but I will do my best to feature the great things that are taking place, hoping that will get the money, the ideas, the investing rolling again . . . with what President Obama, the alleged socialist said, that CAPITALISM is the greatest vehicle the world has known . . . what his speech . . . CALLED, President Obama Delivers Remarks at Northwestern.  Typical No Drama, Obama style, so I have to put the juice in it for him!

Structure for Financial Recovery Foundation--The Plan

#1.  NEW INVESTMENTS IN MANUFACTURING, TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRY

  • strengthen investments, research in clean and sustainable energy . . . America is now, the # one producer in the world for oil, producing more than any other country, 6 years ahead of schedule
  • wind turbine producing energy has tripled, and in addition, has reduced the carbon footprint
  • we have 100 years of natural gas stored, and combined, these efforts have created 10,000 new jobs
  • the motto around the world, is if you need something done, the world is coming to America! Whether it is to learn about free speech, or for protection against ISIS, or India, seeking American investors, when at the end of the Bush administration, India, Brazil, and China, were the up and coming economies; we have recovered better than any other country, LEADERSHIP!
  • WE ARE BUILDING A NEW FOUNDATION FOR GROWTH & PROSPERITY!
  • people like Mitt Romney built his fortune on outsourcing jobs to China and other countries, but after years of cheap labor, manufacturers and factories, are starting to come home, because, not only is the labor cheap, but the products are cheap and shoddy in construction and quality, and companies are spending so much on recalling items, and in quality control, that the profit margin is being eaten up, Buy U.S.A. MADE!
  • America exports and sells more goods to the rest of the world than EVER BEFORE!

# TWO, PREPARING STUDENTS FOR JOBS OF THE FUTURE, IMPROVING EDUCATION

  • public education is improving, drop-out rates are dropping, schools are getting high speed Internet
  • the goal is that America will lead the world in education again, there is a race to the top, teachers in 48 states are training kids to win in a global economy
  • investing in community college tuition, grants, scholarships . . . I know, I read the Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, Montana, and Flathead Valley Community College, has been getting money for manufacturing, technology and industry degrees, with programs beefing up, NASA and other grants are coming to Montana colleges
  • more young people a gradating from college than ever before, partially to the job rate, the economy, while it was improving, the Obama administration was making money available for college, to women, vets, and others
  • colleges, currently have more women than men, and that is partially due to some limitations for traditional male jobs, but women's pay, needs to be equalized, equal pay for equal work!

# THREE IS HEALTH CARE REFORM . . . IT IS WORKING!

  • before Obamacare, there were double digit premium increases, the insurance companies, many who didn't need to compete, and had a corner on the markets in states, would only insure the healthy, making money hand over fist, and those with pre-existing conditions, and they would not insure them!
  • there has been dramatic trends in the drop of insurance costs, as state exchanges, and new providers, showing up on the scene and able to get into the market, filling niches that were not previously available . . . remember that old capitalist notion of supply and demand, millions of uninsured have now flooded the markets, and that is driving the cost of insurance down
  • employers are tied for the lowest rise in insurance premiums ever, while the worker may not feel the immediate effect of the health care reform, you employers are, it is like getting an $1800 per year pay raise, with the decreased costs of health care to your employer, hopefully they will pass that on to you!
  • the consequences of reform are to make insurers compete for your business and premiums, with your insurance following you from state to state, rather than being tied to a job, simply to get insurance, you can take it with you, or try out that new business you have dreamed of, but were limited, due to needing insurance
  • (1) it is slowing down the cost of health care; (2) increasing the number of insured; (3) compare and compete, frees you up to move and groove; (4) increase in health care costs have slowed to a 50 year low, or the slowest the rise has been in 50 years; and (5) the independence has been worth it, and by 2020, $188 billion less in health care costs, and savings . . . not bad, Congress, thank God, you didn't pass one of those 40 to 50 repeals of the law!  Rejoice America, that we have a totally inept Congress!

# FOUR, GETTING OUR OWN HOUSE IN FISCAL ORDER

  • get the wealthy to pay a little more in taxes, and I would add, get them to just pay their fair share of taxes would work miracles!
  • cut the deficit . . . which has been cut by more than half!  And it appears that this foundation will continue to make this deficit go down!
  • pass a minimum wage bill, 28 million people will benefit, 7 million already have, thanks to President Obama's working with governors, business, volunteering to increase the minimum wage . . . I remember one state, back east, New Jersey, or Iowa, Ohio, one of them, that not only took the President's advice and challenge, but they voluntarily raised the minimum wage to $16 per hour, and it did so much to help the state's economy, that that state is going to raise the wage to $20 per hour, it releases money into the economy, in business, companies are starting to limit the bonuses of top executives, that are not living on minimum wage, and taking that money that doesn't even make a dent in a CEO salary, and dispersing monies throughout the company
  • people who work full time, out to be able to live on that wage, children are hurt, when parents, both, have to work 2 jobs each to make a living a family can live on . . . we will pay down the road in juvenile courts and jails, not to mention school shootings, we need to consider the larger picture!
  • while this seems contrary to pro-business ideals, and benefit, it is exactly the opposite . . . Bloomberg News, just reported that corporate balance sheets are almost as strong as they have always been . . . THE FACTS SHOW IT!
  • capitalism at its best . . . business begets business, money begets money, loyalty begets loyalty!
  • CHRIST SAID, BEWARE IF ALL MEN SPEAK WELL OF YOU . . . BE ASSURED PREZ, THAT HAS NOT BEEN THE CASE, AND YOU ARE IN GOOD COMPANY!
  • the policies are on the table, they are working, foundations have been laid, and the President, joked that he is not going to tell you who to vote for, but it is implied!  If you think your vote, or who you vote for, doesn't matter, think again, with the Republican control of the House of Representatives, and only two seats, and they will control the Senate, it fucking matters!  Mitt Romney, in the final debate of the 2012 presidential election, agreed with President Obama, on about 6 key issues, and finally, the Prez. said, then why in the world would you want to change, and elect him?  Don't let party labels fool you, and fool you they have, look at the voting record, what losing the Senate would do, to these American gains!
  • this is the part of the speech that President Obama, diverts from his prepared text, and turns directly to the students, to think about what the Republicans are saying, that the top 1% who have been the ones who have benefited the most from the economic recovery, and have not been the ones to build the economy, why in the hell should we give them more tax cuts?  The middle class has always been the ones to carry the economy, create the jobs, send their kids to colleges, and when the MIDDLE CLASS DOES WELL, AMERICA DOES WELL . . . DO THE NUMBERS!
  • Obama's recovery plan is just starting to pay off, most Americans, have heard that it is improving, but have not yet felt the effect of that, but give it time, look at the whole we had to dig out of!  The President, needs a Congress he can work with, who will support the gains, and not sabotage these efforts for political gain, fucking their constituents for mere guile! 
  • this is our moment in history, to define the next decade, set the stage for America's GREATNESS!
  • while many of these things seem, to be for the greatest amount of people and the greatest amount of good, it actually is a statement about, Capitalism, which the Prez. says is the greatest force in the world, given the greatest amount of freedom known to man, and we all do this TOGETHER!

# FIVE, WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING RIGHT NOW!

  • we need to support the middle class, there are not silver bullets, we need policies that would grow faster economic growth, like investing in our infrastructures, like putting 2 trillion into roads and bridges, that we can pay with tax return money, make America's dilapidated interior, after spending all the money abroad rebuilding places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and keep the money here at home, making it attractive to us, and the world, creating tourist money . . . Glacier National Park had a record year, and i know there was not one English speaking person, at times I was up there, bring in the money, through the beauty!
  • make it easier for first time home owners, there are allegedly 70 jobs created for each new home that goes under construction, it is putting people to work, I am seeing building going on, all over the state of Montana, I know building permits are up . . . Gov. Bullock, a Democrat, is following President Obama's recommendations, in many things . . . and it is working!
  • we need to invest in clean angry, for job growth and sustainability, invest in new American energy sources . . . just before the 2012 elections, there was $9 billion worth of investment money, lingering in off shore banking and Swiss banks, just waiting for Mitt to win, well, he lost miserably, and great, so drag that money out, and start investing it in America!  What the hell good is it doing for either you or the country, in other countries?  Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country . . .
  • statistics have shown that pre-school education, can help kids later on in their educational development, especially from disadvantages homes . . . it gives kids a safe environment, education, and gets them enrolled in high quality programs, made to make the economy stronger, plus it helps parents . . . we need real world training in high schools, real, relevant, and raw!
  • we need to make it easier to pay off college, student loans, and make sure that graduates have an opportunity for success, some of you fat cats, with huge bank accounts that add up yearly, dig deep in your hearts, like Rupert Murdoch, and tons of you, 1%ers, and pay off some bright student's loans, incognito, that yearly $49 million per year, is just doing nothing, other than sitting in a bank, they have found that the 1% or billionaires, contribute 1% of their incomes to charity, while their less affluent middle class, contributes, 3% . . . amp it up to match your middle class, peers, or betters, as Christ would see it!
  • we need immigration reform, bring the best and the brightest from all countries to attend school, create new jobs, new avenues, or bring their great ideas from other countries to make ours better, that mantra of bring us your tired, your poor, and your hungry . . . has worked in this melting pot, it is an opportunity to build American prosperity!   It worked before, how do you argue with success?
  • America isn't slipping, we need to  invest!  Raise the minimum wage . . . it all boils down to hot dogs, have faith in the recovery plan, believe, invest, and grow!  It improves the economy, always has!
  • we need equal wages, it gives the economy a boost, women with degrees, need to make a good wage, and husbands, should want this, it helps your whole family . . . take it from President Obama, with an attorney wife, who was making more than he was, he smiled and said, husbands, you want that equal wage, smile, Michelle was making a six figure income when she met the Prez. or he met her, and I remember hearing, Governor Chris Cristy, smile, because his wife's large income as an investment or financial manager, or something like that, gave him the opportunity to dabble in politics, this is not a bad thing, there are women would are really smart, and will bring the added female perspective, that compliments a male, perspective, kind of the ying and the yang of economy and business, and they are finding the most rocking companies, have women at the conference tables, with many new CEOs being women, of traditionally male markets, like in the GM car manufacturing and marketing . . . oh, yeah, she has decided she was too nice, and she it getting tough, Yellan over the FED, the day and age has come, there are people of both sexes, that are brilliant, and will make a difference in this world of ours . . . 
  • we need to pressure our representatives to pass minimum wage and wage equality bills, and encourage women in the areas of math, science and technology . . . the e-book, the Science of Power, in the author's final analysis, said the day of the fighting man is over, and we need the female psyche to save civilization!  Give her a chance!
  • None of these things, on its own, will save the economy, but the cumulative effect, is HUGE!  We need to continue with the plan, until more people FEEL THE GROWTH AND RECOVERY, these polices are right for the economy, the President is willing to work with either side, as he has evidenced in the past, even adopting, whole scale, some of the Republican theories and doctrines, and implementing them, but, if the people fail to elect a Congress that will proceed in the interest of America, he will continue to do it on his own!

NOVEMBER 4TH, IT IS UP TO YOU!  YOU WILL EITHER VOTE IN PEOPLE WHO WILL AID IN THIS EFFORT OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY OR YOU WILL NOT, AND REMEMBER, IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO HOT DOGS!

Get Out and Vote . . . Your Vote Counts!  Literally 2 Senate Seats, Can Reverse the Trend of Growth!

Offered a New Engine?  Take it . . . Click & Clack!


Friday, October 3, 2014

BLOODY EYE BALLS, GHOST CAKES, PUMPKIN PATCHES, SPOOK ALLEYS, HEADLESS HORESMEN, MISTY TOURS THROUGH THE STATE MENTAL HOUSE HAUNTED HOUSE, WITH ACTUAL INMATES BEING THE GHOULS, GHOSTS, AND CHAIN SAW MASEQURE ARTISTS . . . HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OLDEST BABY, LOVE YOU! MY LITTLE HALLOWEEN QUEEN, LATEST AND GREATEST ADMITTEE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, SCHOOL OF LAW! YOUR ARE GOING TO DIG THIS CHICK! AND SHE IS A GORGEOUS WITCH TOO!

Fun October Baby

I called my oldest daughter, and she was laughing, she had missed my call, with me wishing her a happy 40th birthday . . . she said, mom, don't make me older than I am . . . oh, are you 39, well, I figured that if I was turning 60 this year, then you had to be turning 40, easy math, I was only 20 years old when I had you, Mormon style, with a teen pregnancy, as a virgin!  You used to be considered an old-maid at 19 or 20, and if you were not married by the time you were 21, they shipped you off to the land of spinsters, you then sought a spiritual partner, who just wanted a sweet spirit as a wife!  So, I was married at the ripe old age of 19, and pregnant before my 20th birthday, but I forgot, that a pregnancy is only 9 months, which seemed like an eternity, to me, especially, as I saw my whole life, college, and career wrapped up in this baby thing for the rest of eternity.  Some people say, that Mormons believe in eternity, because their lives are so boring that life seems like an eternity!  LOL!  I refused to go down as part of the living dead, as T.S. Elliot, in his poem, Wasteland, called your average person.  I refuse to be average!  And so do my children, thank, God!

Birthday Girl, told me she was only 39, I said, I knew I had you some year, because, you are here . . . laughs again, at least I knew that you were born on October 3, whatever the year was.  At this point, I am happy to remember how old I am!  LOL!  There seemed to be a period, about when I was 56, that it seemed like I cheated, and was 56 years old for about 3 years . . . math was is not my strong point, and having a birthday, that really never was celebrated, due to Christmas, and 7 other brothers and sister's competing for my parent's finances, a birthday, a week before Christmas, was just a speed bump to the big day for the whole family.  LOL!  So, my children, should not be surprised, that their mother, is not a big birthday person, no princesses, pirates, or Spider mans, in my family and with my kids, they are just, fucking awesome human beings!  Saying I am proud, honored, damned lucky, is redundant, and they know I love them, and they love me, whether presents are exchanged or not, or even if a phone call doesn't get made . . . a bad ass con law chick, makes bad ass, kick ass kids!  Worlds, favorite flavors!  And they have only just begun . . . watch out world!  The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world!

Bloody Eyeballs, Ghost Cake

Greta's birthday cake was always the start of a fun, fall month, ending with a totally cool, scary and haunted Halloween, especially, living in a haunted house in Ogden, Utah, with poltergeist, ghosts, and women in old-fashioned dresses, flipping skirts around the corner of the piano, set in catty-corner, in the front room, leading into the kitchen . . . I sent Greta, home to check on Nicole, who was home asleep and sick . . . a righteous, Mormon mom, who lived across the street from the Mormon Church, could multi-task, be the primary president, and have a sick child home at the same time, so with a responsible older sister, who was totally capable of checking on her little sister, actually caught a glimpse of our haunted house resident!  She came back to church a bit shaken by the sight, of the skirt, that whirled around the corner, as she noted that Nicole was still fast asleep . . . and you left Nicole home with the ghost!  

Last year, on Halloween, I wrote a blog on our haunted house, if you care to look back a year, but one of my favorite birthday cakes to make was Greta's, the Bloody Eyeball Cake, that we made every year of her childhood, or as long as she cared, which renewed her interest, when she had children of her own, who were as mesmerized and enthralled with the bloody eyeballs as their mother was, at their age.  So, now, millions of children around the world, or those with mothers who read this blog, can give the same scare and delight that this cake has given my kids, year after year . . . 

9 X 13 Inch Cake Pan, Either White or Chocolate Cake Mix

  • I am a Betty Crocker, type gal, why make it from scratch if you can just dump a mix in the bowl, add three eggs, water, and oil . . . follow the directions, you know, preheat the oven, set the oven for about 350 degrees, and cook it for the specified time
  • you can either buy two store brand frosting tubs or whatever you call those plastic jars with lids, you will need one white and the other chocolate, the darkest you can get, or you could make a powder sugar frosting for both, and make the background frosting black, but the ghost, according to my dictates, needs to be white, to match the egg shells, that serve as the eyeballs, for the ghost
  • you just make a basic ghost shape, as large as you can, or the eyeballs are going to look out of proportion to your ghost . . . then outline the ghost with the dark frosting of your choice, that is the dark, haunted, October night sky . . . so the whole cake should have frosting on right now.
  • then you take, well, you can use one, but I always used two, because, I generally messed up on one, but you can have more dramatic eyeballs, the white part if you break the eggs, so you have bigger balls . . . sorry, not!  LOL!
  • okay, washing out the egg shells, so there is not yoke if you break the yoke and whites, dripping on your frosting and making your cake soggy, then dry them out the best you can, with a dish towel or paper towel, and place them on the ghosts face, or head . . . they will appear a bit large for the face or head portion, but don't be alarmed, that is just the way it is, and the kids won't care--for the perfectionist moms on meth out there . . .  just put the fucking egg shell on what looks like the head, if you did the ghost right!
  • you will need the highest content of either vanilla extract, or almond extract, to be found in the spice area of the grocery store, of if you are a drinker, maybe soaking the sugar cubes, sorry, you generally have to buy a box of 200, just to have two, but you can use them until your child is 100 years old, with all the extras, but the magic, is in this step, so don't fuck this up, but you soak the sugar cubes, not until they fall apart in the liquid, but until they are saturated, you can't go too wrong, but that is easy for me to say, since, I saw it done at Relief Society Homemaking meeting, before I tried it at home, that is why I am trying not to leave any steps out . . . after they are soaked, and I usually don't soak them and put them on the cake until, right before we are ready to sing the Happy Birthday song and light the candles, which are the eyeballs, in this cake's sense
  • so, then you balance them on the egg shell, eyeballs, or the two half egg mounts, turn off the lights, and watch the magic begin . . . you will have flames, about 5 inches high, and they will burn for a few minutes, as the kids, ooh, and aah, and as the flames burn the sugar, they melt over the raised white eyeballs, and drip, what appears to be blood, that drips down the eyes, really cool, in single, wiggly, lines, that resemble, blood veins in the, real eyeballs of a human, but more exaggerated, and then the flame, naturally burns out, but everyone has had a great time watching the bloody eyeballs . . . whooooo,  haaaaaa, screeeeeeeaaaaam!  
  • pure fun!  and the kids love it!
  • I will save my favorite hamburger, rice, dinner in a pumpkin, with a black magic marker face, cook right in the oven, the meal I always, made, and made the kids eat, before going trick-r-treating!  If you fill them up with something healthy, they will not eat as much candy, and hopefully, the really good stuff, will make it back home, for the parents to raid all the chocolate candy, and let the kids eat the cheap stuff!  LOL!  But, you have to watch were the kids hid the candy bags, or the plastic orange pumpkins, that they collect their treasure in!

Favorite Haunted House . . . The Utah State Hospital, INMATES Ran it!

That has now gone defunk, like all cool things, with over protective laws, helicopter parents, and kids, scared shitless!  Just the setting was creeepy as hell, holy shit, the state mental hospital, the Shining, plus One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest, all in one night of fright!  Just walking on the property, during normal business hours, freaked me out, not to mention, hiking up behind the more modern buildings, that really by any one's standards were not modern, but newer than the infirmary buildings of the old insane asylums, hidden up on the hills of Provo, Utah, hiding, who knows what horrors, murders, mysteries, and tortures, really!  But on a cold, mystical, foggy October night, the brave, would climb the ancient rock and mortar stones, up to an open field, with haunted trees, without leaves, by this time of the fall, and through the mist, on a wild horse, with cloak flapping in the night's wind, a rider, without a head, charged through the field, narrowly missing the terrorized ghost busters, who by this time, could hear screams of the damned, and chain saws buzzing, with many children, clutching their pop or moms, coats, hiding and being dragged, unwillingly up to the old insane asylum, made of clammy rocks, cement, lathe and plaster, with arch ways, ins and outs, plenty of hiding places for the inmates, to jump out and scare the living hell and shit out of you!

Just knowing the people serving the fear and terror, was strange in deed, that they trusted these people with chain saws, swords, daggers, and other tools of torture, was frightening enough . . . an reminiscent of the time, me and my two sisters, paid to run through the San Francisco Wax Museum, past scenes of early practice of medicine, and forms of cures, like cutting their patients open, and letting rats, eat out whatever ails the person . . . we didn't see one thing, pushed each other into the exhibits, and ran as fast as we could through the whole museum!  The maccobb, indeed . . . much like the state hospital, just having a woman, in a white nightgown, with blood, down her nightie, missing an arm, or with a dagger in her neck, was enough to cure you of whatever might be ailing you!  Scary, scary, scary!  But fun as hell!  The fun, was pushing one of your children into the oncoming spooks, the insane, the chain saw masquerader, Jason, and all the others, who have terrorized us for years . . .

Charlie Brown's, Secrist Pumpkin Patch in Provo, Utah

When my kids, were little, we moved to Provo, Utah, where my ex was a city planner, and purchased the coolest old home, with blinker bricks, rare, and an old style bungalow, with a huge front porch, and five levels, right off, Center Street and 5th East, off Main, if I recall the address right, but, just up the street from Messer Elementary School, with an old pink house on the corner, and ours was next . . . it has since gone from the glory days, when we loved it, to renters, with BYU students in it . . . too bad, they just don't love the old architectural beauty, like we did.  But, when we bought the house, we tore into the backyard, and took out, 60 years of phitzer bushes, shrubs, and made room for that Mormon garden, which I loved.  We never realized, how enriched soil, these scrub needles would make, but we actually had water rights, right in the city, and could irrigate, just like the old pioneers, of the early days of settlement, and I would be up at all hours of the night, with rubber boots, on when me and the back neighbor, who had a little farm going, even a tractor, who volunteered to pull up our fitzers, so we could build a garden, like he and his wife, who I believe was the city recorder, or something with Provo City, while he was retired, and grew enough veggies and fruit to eat on all year long.  (spell check won't pick up fitzer, or phitzer, bushes)

But, we planted, our garden, which grew, potatoes the size of small footballs, cantaloupe the size of watermelon, and along with everything else that grew like crazy, with these inexperienced gardeners, we planted four pumpkin hills, one for each of our children . . . we ended up, by October, with 64 huge pumpkins!  Amazing, and amazingly cool for our kids, who love Halloween, with the exception of Nicole, who got her pillowcase treat bag, stolen, by a couple of teenagers, too old to go to the doors, but not old enough that they wanted to give up the tradition of getting free candy, so they got it the old fashioned way, by stealing it!  I just learned that about two years ago, when I assumed that all my kids, loved Halloween as much as I did . . . no, and she told me that story, never mentioned a thing when she was young!  My kids were raised tough, and I guess she just took it on the chin, and big sister, Greta always watched out for her little crew of brother's and sister, and I am sure, she shared with her and didn't want to bug me, who was always a busy, lunatic, when my kids were little.

We had so many pumpkins, that year, that we decided to have the whole damn neighborhood over for a BBQ, volleyball games, and let every person pick their own pumpkin, and they were not small pumpkins, huge, and numerous!  But the whole crew showed up, and we had a nice bonding time, with competition, great food, right off the vine and stalk, tons of corn from our garden, and what we lacked, the backyard neighbor, with a full blown farm and tractor, had, right in his back yard, so cool, so fun, and really festive for the beautiful fall day, that God was not only gracious in the harvest, but in the weather, also!  Fun memories. Bottled applesauce, dill pickles, and oatmeal cookies.  Oh, fall, how wonderful . . .

To 11 Male Attorney Colleagues, So What Time Do We Get Off for Halloween?

WHAT?  My mother was a junior high school teacher, who was always off by about the time we, her eight kids, got home from school, or shortly thereafter, so I just assumed, that yeah, we normally had to work until 5:00 p.m., at the Utah Attorney Generals Office, but this was Halloween, so what is the deal, when do I get to leave . . . I remember all 11 members of the Utah Prosecution Council, and the Criminal Enforcement Division, at our weekly meeting, rolling their bloody eyeballs, and itching their balls, and very sarcastically telling this housewife to attorney, in no uncertain terms, at 5:00!  What are you talking about, I have dinner in a pumpkin to make, and costumes to get ready, with two young sons still at home, living with their father in Provo, still, where he was still a city planner, until the Mormon family got him fired, to get to Elliot's talent, in band, Parallax, soon thereafter, taking out mom too . . . but, at this point, they were still young, when I was working up at the Utah State Capitol Building . . . this was shock number one!  What the fuck, I am still a mom!  I need to get the hell out of this meeting, dealing with capital murder, executions, and criminals, I have kids that are going to end up that way if I don't get home to carry on the family traditions that my kids are use to!  What the fuck is up with this.

Okay, I understand, Halloween, I guess, some people are duds and just don't get into like I do, so, I can forgive not getting off early for Halloween, but Christmas . . . I asked them again, so, having done no Christmas shopping, when do we get off for Christmas, my mother used to get two fucking weeks off, so, what is the deal, when are we off . . . December 24th at 12:00 noon, WHAT!  Now, this is getting ridiculous, this is bull shit, and what in the hell is wrong with these fucking prosecutors, who think crime keeps going during the Christmas Season!  So, calmly, thinking, well, we must be getting a week off, during the Holidays, between Christmas and New Years, like my ex-husband, the city planner did each year . . . NO, you are suppose to be back by December 26, at 8:00 a.m., SHARP!  Fucking Scrooge!

Now, I understood, what my mother told me, you should be a school teacher, the hours, nothing goes better with raising a family than school teaching, summers off, out by 3 p.m., and her words, came back haunting my psyche, and making me wish, with a teaching certificate, I listened to her, this was absolutely ridiculous . . . not getting off for Halloween and Christmas, this is UN AMERICAN!  If I knew one iota, about the law, back in those days, I would have gone directly into solo practice, having never even thought I would practice at all, just following some dream I had, and getting accepted into law school, after two hours, instead of the normal way, I would have thought this thing out a bit, I was still suffering from the Knight in Shining Armour Syndrome!

I Love You Little, Pumpkin!

Happy Birthday!