Well, that was interesting.

I went to a party last night. I don't attend parties as a rule. I attend birthday parties for family and friends; but, this was a bunch of strangers. Specifically, it was a retirement for a dear friend, someone I admire greatly. She likes Bourbon so I bought her a very nice one and had agreed to have a shot with her. I haven't had hard alcohol in a very long time so I rented a room at the hotel where the party was going on. I try and actually follow my own advice and will not drink and drive.

Well, I had a number of drinks and was sober anyways; but, not everyone else was. The host (she paid for her own retirement party, my kind of gal) ended the night for her by falling down the stairs (not because she had been drinking, she can hold her liquor and was sober as a judge) and injuring herself. I ended up being the last person there because I had a room. I also ended up with another lady passing out in my room, so I went and picked up cigarettes and left her to sleep. I left with another lady I have known for a very long time and we had a fascinating conversation. By the time the person sleeping in my room woke up and found us outside (you cannot smoke in the rooms), it was 6:30 in the morning and the sun was rising. The lady that woke up had lost her glasses the night before and oddly enough we were able to find them on the patio.

Now that we have the trivia out of the way I want to talk about the party. I had brought the person who was retiring to the party in my car and there were only a couple of people there including a friend. I left the honoree to talk to her other friends in one area and left to go to another area and have a smoke with my friend who had arrived early. He had run out of cigarettes and I ended up giving others most of my smokes. Someone that we did not know decided to join us and demonstrated and attraction for the guy I was with, problem was that she was married and had come with her husband. I should have known it would get weird then.

The pimpernel ended up with all the crazies at my table in the back. It was the funnest room at the event. It was in fact non-stop jokes and stories. The group around my table just kept getting larger and larger. It was about half people that knew me and half people that did not. Somehow the people that knew me began speaking well of me to the strangers. I blushed more than once. I ended up sort of being the belle of the ball. I do not usually socialize outside of close friends and family and it was odd to have people that did not know me, tell me how I was interesting and having people that knew me only in a business setting tell me they did not know I was so frivolous and fun in a social setting.

I met a bunch of new people and they were all interesting and fun as is my friend the honoree. I expected nothing less of her friends. People I knew and did not know were talking about my understanding of my industry and people gave me their cards. It was all very unusual for me. None of this is relavent to where I am going in this post; but, it sets the context.

Anyways, the party went on into the morning and mine was the last table with anyone at it, including the honoree and nobody at the table seemed to be in a hurry to leave, I had a room so I could care less about getting home.The bar closes and we continued talking. The honoree decided to use the ladies room, which was downstairs, and tripped on the stairs (I reiterate, she was level headed and did not fall because she had a couple of drinks, I saw her before as did others and we all agreed on this including people who did not drink all night).

I will now get to the point, sort of. After the honoree fell and was taken away in an ambulance (which most of the remaining party goers did not know), there ended up being three of us. One of us was the lady that went to sleep on my bed and the other was a lady I have known for decades; but, was not particularly close to. I really do not socialize outside of very close friends and family. I certainly do not reveal much about myself outside of that group. As it was just the two of us and we flipped out by how the night had gone, we chatted away and got to know each other on a deeper level than we had in all the years we have known each other.

We ended up with her asking me something about my heart attacks and for some reason I felt it was okay to tell her about my NDE. Turns out she had a similar experience without the death part. It made her very spiritual, that was it's effect on her. Somehow that made me feel more comfortable to talk about my experience. Her experience apparently gave her a deeper understanding of God and accepting of our own imperfections, her words more or less, not mine. We exchanged very personal and sensitive information, things I have not even written about on this blog. It felt really good to touch deeper another soul.

The pimpernel does not like drama or excitement and this was an interesting night; but, the best part was getting to know this person on a deeper and more open level. I do not believe God brings people into our lives by accident, the brings them in for us and for them. I actually told her about the love of my life, how I knew her and she passed away at a very in-opportune moment. She got it and gave me some very good insight into the spiritual side of the situation.

I went to bed sometime around 6:30 and had till 12:30 to sleep with a wake up call. I got a call, woke up, found out my friend was okay at 8:30. I had less than 2 hours sleep; but, decided to go home. It is now about 11 o'clock, I am at home and beyond tired. I am about to go back to bed if I can. It was an interesting night.

Starbucks, Students and Anti-Americans

I think this is great. Starbucks is going to be giving it's workers money to pay for their college. That is just like the army; but, you don't have to kill people to get the money, just serve them coffee. Imagine that, investing in American kids to go to college knowing that many of them will leave when they get their diplomas. You know, there are people like Steve Jobs that send jobs to communist China and have the gall to say that Americans aren't smart enough to put IPhones together; but, it is nice to see a company like Starbucks that promotes education Americans. I will not buy Apple.

The Independent - Stop disability benefits ‘fiasco’, ministers told . The article is about how England changed the rules for receiving disability and left people without their needed prescriptions. They do not care about us so we better care about us.

Yahoo - The Daily Ticker - Charity begins in the mansions of the 1%: Then there's Deeb Salem.. The article says that charitable giving is up; but, gives the credit to the 1%; but, fails to show who gave the money. What a crock of garbage. The reality is that during tough times, the middle class and working class tend to increase their giving. I have run charity drives for my organization and I used to get a listing of everyone who was already on payroll deductions for charity and I regularly saw people in the lower wage jobs giving a higher percentage of their money to charity.

Breitbart - Exclusive–Sen. Jeff Sessions: Pro-Amnesty Elites Treat People as 'Commodities'. I wrote my opinion on why the conservatives would put through an immigration bill and said it was about getting cheap IT people. Good to see someone else noticed what I did. Somehow this is all tied in with allowing Central Americans to come in and them being dispersed to the center of the country. You are watching a show, it is all staged and the intent is to influence your opinion. Maybe the immigration bill will give a preference to people with degrees or that speak English or something that will favor people from China and India. Here is a quote from the article, " Rupert Murdoch also recently argued for a dramatic expansion of the controversial H1B guest worker program. Murdoch writes that “there is a shortage of qualified American candidates,” to fill jobs in STEM fields like computer services and engineering. But the evidence shows the opposite: the US graduates approximately twice as many STEM-trained students each year as there are STEM jobs to fill. There is a large surplus of unemployed Americans with STEM degrees and yet, per the Economic Policy Institute, “the annual inflow of guestworkers amount to one-third to one-half of all new IT jobs holders.” We should boycott anything owned by Rupert Murdoch. He could be doing like Starbucks; but, chooses to hire foreigners who will work for less.

Wired - This Startup Says It Can Make Any Car Autonomous for $10,000  Lets look at this a bit. Isn't it great they can make any car become self driving. One day you will be required to have a self driving car and it will show everywhere and everything that you do.

Monday the Pimpernel wrote a document which decimated a 93 page expert's report. My professional writing is very odd, unique and subtly sarcastic. It is also highly boring to me. The writing I do for work is highly commended; but, it is also very boring to do. I like writing and am good at business writing; but, it does not excite me in the same way. In business there is always a reason for writing something and an outcome; therefore, my writing is very strategic and always has escape clauses and trap doors (in case of emergency). My business writing amazes people because of my speed, depth, and laser point accuracy at getting to the heart of a matter and exposing the truth. Still, just because you are good at something does not mean that you enjoy the process. I vastly prefer to write the blog as there are no  restraints and the only intent is to explain things and discuss what is on my mind.

My goal is to teach my readers how to analyze the world around us and see what has been hidden in plain sight. It is a world of illusion and once you understand that then you begin to understand the truth. There is a red pill and a blue pill, one wakes you up and the other puts you to sleep and returns you to your delusion that the world is random. The world is not random, it is a battle between love and hate, between selfishness and love for others.

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.