My Mother In Law

I got a call today from my ex-mother in law. My ex and I had been married for 22 years and together for 24, in all that time I only ever had one disagreement with my mother in law and it was over quickly and forgotten. I love her. I love her a lot. She was with me when I picked out my mother's coffin and hates funerals. She did it because she loves me too.

She called me to thank me for some kind words I had left about her on a phone message. I told her jokes and we talked about the world, we never discussed the divorce. It was just the two of us enjoying our company. She was on the phone with me for hours. My parents and elders are all dead and she is my last elder and it felt good to enjoy her company. Her joy gave me joy.

I told her I was scared about retiring and she reassured me. She supported my choices. When the conversation ended she didn't say goodbye, she said she loved me and I said the same because it is true.

More Things You Need to Know to Understand What is Going On.

Baltimore has just passed a curfew and kids will be taken to a "connection center" (juvenile detention) rather than being taken home. YouTube - Critics question implementation of new Baltimore curfew.  I guess the City of Baltimore is your new Mommy and Daddy.

Yahoo - WSJ - How CEO Lynn Tilton Built Her Business Empire What I like about this woman is that creates jobs and saves jobs in America by buying companies that are going under and making them work. I have written about her once before and if you don't know who she is I strongly recommend you watch the video, it is short.

New York Post -Tiny $1,230 London apartment sparks outrage You have to love it. It's the joy of living in under 200 square feet, why not just make the apartments the same size as a jail cell.

CNBC - Are public pensions headed for another disaster? More pension scams. Basically, public pensions are moving away from safe investments to risky investments and paying a higher price in fees to a few.

Yahoo - AP - Where have all the missing American workers gone? Why is the media confused by unemployment, it is pretty simple. We transferred over 40 million jobs to China and the recession closed many businesses. The workers are still here but the jobs are gone.

Yahoo - Attempted Robbery Unfolds On Gamer's Livestreaming Webcam. The robber was arrested because people on the internet were watching her. See, surveillance is good for you.

YouTube - Verizon Commercial 2014 | Urban Odyssey | Powerful Answers by Verizon Wireless. Watch the commercial it is only 30 seconds long. The story is that there is a blind guy and his glasses tell him what he would otherwise be seeing. The glasses identify colors and even his girlfriend and tell him that she is smiling. Your first reaction is probably that this is a great thing for helping the blind; but, that same technology can be uses to view crowds and make decisions on peoples looks.

The Guardian - Currency market rigging could become criminal offence. The biggest financial market in the world is in London and they are considering making market rigging a crime. It is like they are saying we might make theft and fraud illegal. What is amazing is that they are not in universal agreement on this. Our financial markets are criminal enterprises; but, we changed the laws over the past 40 years so that it is not a crime for Wall Street or the banks to steal from you.

CNBC - Financial Times - IMF sounds global housing alarm. The IMF is claiming that there is a worldwide housing bubble. All real estate has traditionally been localized, prices, affordability, all of it. How could all of these countries make the same mistake at the same time by accident? The housing maket is being rigged again, just like every other market.

Iain McKie - UK Parliament comes to an effective end on November 2014 (new EU rules). This is important and little discussed in the United States. The European Union is supposed to be a free trade agreement and it was created by treaty rather than the people voting on it. Fair enough; but, it morphed into a government and is headed by somebody that the people did not vote on. Many countries no longer support it and want to vote on being a member state or not; but, they are prevented from doing this which is why in the last couple of months many have voted for people who are anti-EU.

In England the Prime Minister promised to allow people to vote on whether or not Britain would be a member state of the EU; but, he never held the vote and now wants to have the vote after November which will be irrelevant after the new rules go into effect in Europe. Globalism pushes forward and democracy is ended. The EU is like a roach motel, roaches come in but they don't come out.

New Thoughts on Pastor Daniels

Something occurred to me today. I started wondering why the person who killed Pastor Daniels brought a liquid agent to destroy any DNA evidence. This is the type of stuff you really only see on CSI or some other type show, it is rarely done in real life. People wipe fingerprints but almost never use chemicals to destroy DNA evidence because they don't expect to leave DNA evidence. Secondly, why did they they only cover the body with the liquid rather than the whole church? It seems to imply that they intended to leave a bodily fluid on the Pastor's body in advance. For that matter, why didn't they just set the church on fire, they burnt her hair so they had matches or a lighter. They wanted the body found and if I am correct, they left something in writing (possibly in blood) on the back door as I read that the police took the door into evidence.

Anyways, I asked the kind people at WebSleuths if there had been any other such cases in the last 15 years and apparently once just occurred in Utah.

CBS KUTV - Death Investigated As Homicide in Provo 

Apparently a woman who was 60 was strangled to death in her house and her body was covered with bleach and her head with some type of drain cleaner. Now, I have never read about whether or not more than one liquid was used in the case of Pastor Daniels; but, if I were in law enforcement, I would find this an interesting  development.

As I break this down in my mind I start to reconsider what happened. The killer of Pastor Daniels broke inside the church, waited for the Pastor to arrive (which was a time that was different than the one listed on the sign out front (again thanks WebSleuths for that bit of information) indicating that the person had watched Pastor Daniels for awhile. She enterred, the killer closed and locked the door behind her and attacked her with the knife not worrying about her screaming (indicating they knew nobody would hear next door). After killing the Pastor they left a bodily fluid on her head, possibly semen, then they poured the liquid on her head to dissolve any DNA evidence. They then wrote something on the back door and left using it. As they did not leave any prints, I assume they used gloves.

I am now starting to think we may have a serial killer on our hands. I would be interested in if there are any industries that Utah and Oklahoma share such as fracking for oil or such or how many people moved from Anadarko to Utah since Pastor Daniels was killed. This would be an impossible question to ask if it were about someone from Los Angeles moving to another state, any other state. Anadarko only has like 6,000 people and this could be figured out by their post office in a matter of minutes. I am going to bet that the number of people that move to or away from there are little more than a couple.

I would also be very interested to know whether or not the body in Utah was also staged; but, that might be difficult to find out because the lady in Utah's body was discovered by her son and he tried to give CPR so he might have moved her arms and legs. In either case, I would be very interested to know how the son found his mother. I don't see him as a suspect as there would be no reason to use a liquid to remove DNA evidence as he lived with his mother and probably hugged and kissed her on occasion, I kissed my mother and father, I am sorry that I didn't kiss them more often. I should also point out that the police do not suspect the son and the two lived together. My thoughts and prayers go out to him and if he ever reads this. Please know that I do not discuss these things to bring up bad thoughts or out of disrespect. The truth is that I wrote about Pastor Daniels a long time ago and upon hearing about this latest similar case feel a responsibility to those who have followed her case to discuss this newest case.

Let us assume that two different killers did these crimes, the same question remains, why focus on destroying DNA evidence on the heads? I think the most likely reason is that the killer left semen on the heads of the victims. I have to ask myself how common this may be at murder scenes and I am going to guess that it is very uncommon. I would like to know how many elderly women were killed and had chemicals poured on their heads to hide DNA evidence. If this is a valid pattern then it would be pretty easy to find out how many other such crimes were committed in the United States since the death of Pastor Daniels.

June 8th, 2014

Hard to believe; but, I have been writing this blog for about 7 years, so much has changed and happened. On Friday I took my dog to the doctor for surgery, poor little guy had no idea what was coming and there was no way to tell him. He had a bunch of teeth taken out and a growth removed from his side (non-malignant). I have spent all my time with him since. He is depressed and tired which I consider to be perfectly reasonable for a dog. Anyways, I decided to post a video for you to enjoy of a young lady named Jodi Bird, please watch the whole thing. She sings a show tune and being an old stage manager I loved her delivery.

YouTube - Simon Cowell halts singer Jodi Bird's audition but she fights back | Britain's Got Talent 2014 

Did you know that the musical comedy is the only truly American form of theater? The greatest performer of such was Ethyl Merman, a real trooper, exactly what you needed for these types of shows. This young lady would have also exceeded in those shows.

Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month

Tourette Syndrome Association

I saw someone wearing a blue ribbon today and asked them why. They told me that it was because of National Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month and that their 9 year old son had Tourettes. He told me how his son was sort of an ambassador for Tourettes and spoke to classrooms about it. He also mentioned how they were raising money for families with children who have Tourettes to go to a camp where the parents would learn about the disease while the kids just played. I told him about my experience with it. I hadn't talked about it in maybe 30 years.

Aside from having Aspergers, growing up I also had a mild case of Tourettes (limited to mostly facial tics), stuttered and was slightly OCD. After decades of working on it I managed to mostly control the tics and stuttering; but, it made it tough growing up. I never talk about it to anyone as it was very embarrassing to me. Hearing about how this young man talking about it to classes really impressed me. He also writes about it online. The funny thing was after discussing my own experience with it I started thinking about it again and it made me nervous that it might trigger an episode. I really only deal with it if I am really anxious.

Growing up my mother would tell me to stop doing it or that it would become a habit. She didn't understand it and truthfully neither did I. When you tell someone with Tourettes to stop it, they just get more anxious and it gets worse. Even after all these years of controlling it, I don't like to think or talk about it and here is this little kid talking about it to strangers.

The really funny thing is that I can talk about Aspergers, being molested once as a kid, having Herpes and just about anything else; but, I couldn't even allow myself to think about having facial tics as a kid. It was embarrassing to me because I didn't have control over my own body and it frustrated me. I decided to write about it in case my readers know someone with it and hopefully some of you will check out the link and become more familiar with it. Hearing this young man's story inspired me. I think there a lot of young people that even old coots like me can learn from and the following link is to another inspiring young lady who recently died from cancer.

Father finds heartbreaking note from daughter days after she died of cancer

Just Some Trends and Thoughts

Yahoo - New CityHome Technology Helps You Work Magic in Small Apartments. The "joy" of living the rest of your life in a 200 square foot prison. Err, I mean apartment. I especially like in the video where they talk about having people over to "entertain" and they do the limbo in the living room. Have fun and watch the video and then ask yourself whether or not this is the future. It is. This is hope in the future, this is the best we can imagine for ourselves.

Look the Pimpernel enjoys a very minimalist lifestyle and after getting divorced was happy to return to it. My first apartment used a cardboard box for a table. I never furnished the bedrooms and slept in the living room. I am pretty much a low maintenance guy, happy to read and write and fairly oblivious to what is around me. I seek a life of minimal drama. Still, when my family all lived together, it was nice to have enough space so everyone could have some privacy when they wanted. Oh, and multiple bathrooms when you live with others is really nice.

Yahoo - New York City Council passes Cooper's Law in push to eliminate traffic deaths. New York is a tough town to drive in and like any other town sometimes pedestrians are harmed by cars. New York wants to eliminate cars and in New York there are lots of taxis. Probably more per person than anywhere else in the world. New York has just passed a new law and this article talks about it. A quote from the article is, "Taxi drivers who kill or seriously injure pedestrians will have their licenses suspended immediately and revoked permanently if they are found to have broken any traffic laws, according to a bill passed on Thursday by the New York City Council."

Business Insider - NSA Intercepts Millions Of Photos For Massive Facial Recognition Database
. Yes, your face and biometrics are going to be tracked and used for authentication. You won't even have to carry around an id card. You won't care because you will be fully aware that they have your biometrics anyways and you will think you might as well take advantage of the advanced security.

The Telegraph - The Euro-elite won the election – not Ukip
. I like aspects of Ron Paul and I like aspects of Nigel Farage (who is much more amusing); but, once we get past the first two issues begin to part ways. Mr. Farage and the UKIP party have caused an "earthquake" in European politics by seeing about 30% of Britain's vote for his party. That they received more votes than any other party was astounding. It is driving people crazy that he did so well. The above article starts with the following statement, "After the euphoria of those 24 seats for Ukip and that “Eurosceptic earthquake” across Europe, we are back to Euro-reality with a bump. Nigel Farage and millions of others may rightly be cheered by the first-ever victory in a British election of a party without a single MP. But, in terms of democracy, just as significant was the fact that Ukip still only won the support of 9 per cent of the total electorate, two thirds of whom did not bother to vote at all." I want you to understand how stupid that statement was by the man that wrote it. He says only 9% of the population voted for UKIP because 2/3rds of the population didn't vote. That implies that the vote was about parties, it was not, it was for people, 2/3rds didn't vote for any parties or people. It is not that they did not vote for UKIP. Imagine saying that we should assume that all non-voters are against just one person because that person won the election. The English and Europeans are in denial because they cannot control Mr. Farage.

Conspiracy Watch - USDA Admits to being behind the Mysterious Slaughter of Millions of Birds and Animals. I am going to try and make two points here. Lets start with the facts, animals have died in mass for about the last 7 years and nobody knows why. Look up mass deaths of animals for yourself. So this self called conspiracy site writes and article about how the USDA has admitted to poisoning certain species and attributes the two to be the same. Here is the first problem, many of the mass die offs were by single species of fish and if you poisoned them, they would not be alone. Secondly, even if you poison birds, they don't all die at the same time while flying as has often been reported. Finally, animals from all of the mass die offs have been examined and poison has not been found to be the cause of death yet. Go back and read the old articles. If one looks for answers they often miss the truth, if one looks for truth they will often find the answers.

Financial and Tech News Worth Knowing

Huffington Post - The Wall Street Pension Scam. A short article that raises some good questions. I think it is interesting that many CEOs and wealthy individuals have no problem with paying CEOs bonuses when they have losses for the company or providing enormous fees to them when they leave the company; but, complain about pensions.

CNN - City of Tomorrow. This short video series shows what cities might look like in the future. While it presents everything as a positive, what it is really trying to convince you of is that being monitored by computers 24/7 is beneficial.

New York Times - A Synthetic Biology Conference Lures an Intriguing Audience. A big part of this blog is really about providing information to the readers on trends that they may not be aware of or that are more advanced than people suspect or understand. I strongly urge the readers to read the actual article. The article discusses the governments interest in turning living things into biological machines. Here is a quote from the article, "He added, “The most exciting and frightening thing I saw this morning was a slide talking about designing and synthesizing genomes next to a slide describing a human being.” and this, "In his own presentation, the F.B.I. agent, Carmine Nigro, bluntly warned, “These technologies do not just pose a risk to individual buildings or cities, but if cleverly deployed, can reduce our population by significant percentages.”

Wired - Square’s Found a Way to Beat Banks at the Loan Business. Square is a payment processing company that allows you to not have to carry cash. They are now offering cash advances to vendors that use their service. The point is that we are moving to cashless and this will bring in an all new form of banking and loans. As we go cashless, more and more of your financial transactions will be tracked and using sophisticated programs known as algorithms companies will be able to predict what you will do.

Wired - Microsoft’s Futuristic New Tool Translates Skype Calls in Real Time. If you don't feel like reading the whole article, just watch the video. Basically, the technology now exists that allows people's spoken words to immediately be translated into another language.

Huffington Post - Here's What Corporate America Really Thinks About You. The article discusses how we are all catagorized by data handlers, read the list and see where you fit in and how you are viewed.