All in the Family, LA Style

I saw this article and got sick to my stomach. The judge in the case against a Los Angeles Councilman (who apparently did not live in his district) is the sister of the Mayor of Los Angeles. Wait, it gets better, the Mayor appointed the daughter of the councilman to the Board of Public Works in Los Angeles and it pays six figures.

LA Daily News - Judge in Alarcón hearing is mayor's sister

Feeling Under the Weather

I was tired this morning and woke up late; but, I went to work and felt fine. I had an Arnold Palmer, drank lots of water, didn't eat (don't usually) and about halfway through the day I just started feeling bad. My right sinus was kinda cloggy and I ended up with a headache and queezy stomach. It was hot and I think that sort of contributed to it a lot. I don't usually react badly to heat and I was hydrated.

So, I got home and just sat in my chair, laid down in the bed, sat in the chair, drank water and wanted to feel better. Eventually I decided to have some crab salad, it was a little difficult to eat; but, I began feeling better after I did, not fantastic, better, I still had the junky sinus and headache.

The person I live with went across the street and got me some more water and stuff to make a sandwich in case I feel better later and get hungry. When he got to the store, they asked about me and said they hoped I felt better. They always ask about me and actually care how I am doing. That is a good feeling. I always ask about them too and actually know lots of their stories and lives.

I really like where I live, it has a nice warm feel. A little bit more personal.

Ambiguity over Ambiguity

Not long ago there was a story about a little boy who had two lesbian parents. The parents decided to put him on hormone therapy and dress him femininely. A lot of people were really angry about this including many in the homosexual community and many lesbians were outraged. It gives the appearance of choosing the child's sex against nature and heavy handedness in pushing him to choose other than his natural sex.

Recently, it has been discovered that some doctors were giving pills to women that would decrease the likelihood that their children would be born lesbian or with ambiguous genitalia. In other words, parents deciding that they would use hormones to promote their child's sex to be different than it would be naturally. A pill to change a little boys sex is wrong and a pill to change a little girls sex is wrong. I am pretty sure that two wrongs do not make a right; but, lets discuss this a little deeper.

Is it right to change your child's natural sex? If you are the most gay hating idiot in the world, would you have your spouse take a pill that would change the gender of your baby? That would be unnatural. I have a problem with sex change and I have a big problem with them being performed on minors or prenatally. I have a problem with transhumanism; but, I am consistent on it.

Maybe some that will read this do not have a problem with giving their unborn child steroids to make sure that they are born straight; but, where does it end? I do not have one doubt in my mind that if they could have given my mother a pill that would have prevented me from being autistic, they would have and I don't think she would have taken it knowing that. Many women would have taken the pill and you would not have the Pimpernel that you know and love, I would have been "normal". You would not have my writings and I would not have had the achievements that I did. I would not have liked that, I like being me.

The transhumanist agenda is basically you selling your soul to be like everyone else, less than you. To take these pills in exchange for some increased ability and give up a piece of being you. So what other "defects" would you eliminate, blindness, deafness, bi-polar, committed, dogmatic, religious? So many to choose from based upon whatever.

I fear I am going to easy on my readers and they will feel that I am just not trying, so lets try this. Lets say you knew your baby would be born with an 80 IQ, would you take hormones or gene therapy so that the child would be born with an IQ of 130? What if you could take these therapies to change a midget into a six foot adult?

In England there was a guy who fathered hundreds of children through a sperm bank. The women and men liked his picture and intelligence. He was very popular. The point is people would quite often pick the same traits and our biodiversity will be eliminated. For the non-religious, it is anti-Darwinism, it is not natural selection, it is unnatural selection. God and Darwin agreed that selection should be natural.

HuffPost - The Sad Lengths Some Go to Avoid Having a Lesbian Daughter

Fox News - Controversial Therapy for Pre-Teen Transgender Patient Raises Questions

I think I should mention something else. The lesbian couple say that the child claimed to be female at a age three and they tried to convince him he was a boy. The pills he is being given will not change what he becomes, it delays puberty so that he will have more time to understand what he is asking. Most gay men have absolutely no interest in becoming women and most lesbians have absolutely no interest in becoming men. His parents are trying to buy him time and not feel the pressure of all the hormones during puberty. The parents who would choose to take hormones to prevent their child from becoming gay before it was even born, the child would have no say in the matter. A morality question.

Failure to be socially networked

An amusing article from Mail Online about how some psychologists are saying that failing to have a Facebook presence may show that you may not be well adjusted. I don't know how many of my readers use Facebook, I don't. I have an account but have never posted to it and wouldn't know how nor care to learn.

Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath? Some employers and psychologists say staying away from social media is 'suspicious'

So why should I have an online identity, why should it be real? Why should I put all of my personal information, whey I go, what I do, pictures of me and my friends and my opinion about every little thing that happens during the day on the internet? I recognize that may sound funny coming from someone who is a blogger; but, if you didn't know me personally, you wouldn't know this was my blog. I even allow people to post anonymously.

You may think nobody would bother you or care what you say; but, sometimes things go viral (as they say). One guy over at Nasa recently was observed during the Curiosity landing on Mars and his profile went from 100 or so friends to 15,000 roughly in about an hour. The news picked up on it and now he has been seen by millions.

The article states that many employers won't be as likely to hire you if you don't have a Facebook page. That is just too funny. So, what is the real reason why the media wants us on Facebook? Lets start with this, it has about 900 million users, that means that almost 1/7th of the world is on it, that is an attractive audience to reach. Eminem has had over 60,000,000 likes on Facebook, that is a larger audience than any regular television show that I can think of.

If we were required to identify ourselves, I would have to end my blog. I have mentioned my ex and people who I know; but, I never identify them because what I write about is not really them, they are just real life examples of whatever I am discussing. As far as I know my ex has never read my blog and doesn't even know what it is called. I simply never post her name or any specifics that would allow her to be recognized, it would be unfair as she has not had her opportunity to give her side of the story to my readers and might not care to. My blog is one sided, my side.

My blog is not about debating points, it is my perspective. It is editorializing the news and the world around us and not just reposting news stories. I don't twitter every little thing in my life or even mention it here. I may go days without posting until something attracts my attention. This blog is not a diary, though I may use real life examples. I try and discuss issues or maybe provide some music for a lazy day. This blog is not me and it is not about me, it is about ideas and things that others may have not considered. I succeed or fail based upon my readers reactions and currently I am seeing about 1,500 views a month. Not a lot but a surprising amount for something that is not advertised in any way, the readers that come here come by word of mouth or random searches.

I don't know how many people came here because I wrote about Pastor Carol Daniels and I don't know how many people came here because I write about the abuses of the pension system. I could not have predicted that people would enter the search terms Stephen Hawking and douche bag. The site is not and never has been monetized, no advertising, you don't need it and I don't want it. I don't believe I have ever uploaded a video and have only posted a couple of pictures. I posted a person's real name once and then immediately took it down.

Why does this matter, it matters because if you post and write without thinking about what you are going to say, you end up saying things that you shouldn't, I think we should think before we publish. It is one of the reasons that I am more careful when using forums. Well, thats it for now.

Kristen Stewart

I think I spelled her name right; but, I really don't care. That girl from the Twilight series. From what I have read in the headlines, she cheated on her co-star who she lived with and now feels really bad. I have little if any sympathy for her, she was a tramp and betrayed him and after getting caught she felt bad. She should and it is reported that she does.

Here is the thing, at least she regrets it. So many people today cheat on their partners and just shrug it off as a thing. They act as if it is meaningless and don't care how it effects the person they claimed to love or the others around them including their families. At least she felt bad, that means that there is still some good in her.

One of my favorite lines from the bible, it was one of the exes favorite lines too, was that Israel had lost the ability to blush, to feel guilt. I don't know much about the two people, I have not seen any of the movies nor is likely that I will. I know practically nothing of what they are like in person and don't care. This post is about morality and forgiveness and hope. She cannot take back what she did and there is no reason for him to trust her again, they had not even married. I have been cheated on and know what it feels like, they get to do it in public and I can only imagine that just makes it even harder. People who meet my ex do not know she cheated on me, everyone knows that this actress cheated on him and he is probably embarrassed knowing that everyone knows he was cheated on.

In the end, it is just two people and her unilateral decision will effect them both for the rest of their lives; but, they can both choose to learn from it. It is my hope that he learns that he can fully love again and that not everyone cheats. For her, I hope that she learns that you cannot have your cake and eat it too. She has a good start if she truly regrets what she did, she can learn from that. It might be tougher for him, you can only risk your heart so many times before you give up on believing you can choose better.

I Dislike Romney

The more I read about things that he is said, the more I dislike him. I need to remind people that I don't like Obama and didn't like the Bush's or Clinton. I don't trust any of them. At least the others lied, that is better than this guy. He flat out says that he doesn't represent the poor and that the Republican party is a party of people who want to be rich. He doesn't seem to thing about people are Republicans because of the other values that the party holds.

People who read this blog might assume that I am am anti-Republican, I am not. I am also not anti-Democrat. I am a moderate extremist. I believe in doing the right thing for the right reason. I was also a registered Republican and voted for Reagan.

Here is my question, why is anyone voting for him. There were other candidates that at least said they cared about everyone. Mr. Romney only cares about one thing and his business life proved it, he believes in getting as much personal benefit as possible. He said it, didn't he. The people he supports are people like him and he specialized in outsourcing jobs to other countries. He believes in every man for himself and do anything to come out on top. I cannot believe that all of his supporters feel the same way. It is the most anti-American thinking I can conceive of. Are we no longer a nation, do we no longer support our community and each other?

I am Libertarian in regards to personal freedom; however, I am against them when it comes to leaving my brother to fend for himself should he join after the game has begun. You were born rich or poor and don't tell me it didn't effect your odds in life. If you tell me that is just the way life is, then I will say okay, so lets make sure that ones on the bottom are at least okay.

Mr. Romney has appealed to the lowest common denominator, selfishness and he won lots of elections based on it. When did even the conservatives stop thinking about country before self? I have no respect for the man. Mr. Romney is not an American, he is a Romnian and we shouldn't vote for such people. This is not an endorsement of anyone, I am not voting because they are all the same. They are all bad.

Three Articles on Government Employees

The first article is about how the Congress is putting forth a bill that would allow them to fire federal employees that are behind on their taxes. Yea, yea, everybody cheer about getting those bad federal employees. I want my readers to take a moment and think about this rather than just react. Lets put this in perspective.

Firstly, the congress is more than happy to allow insider trading by congressmen and it is not illegal for them to do it. Secondly, most congressmen make their money from their investments and are not taxed at the same rate as people who make their money from their wages. Finally, there are a lot of reasons that people are behind on their taxes, especially if they are self employed. Finally, if they work for the federal government then the government should be taking the money out in advance of the employee being paid, just like they do for everyone else (and they deduct federal taxes from federal workers the exact same way). We should also remember, as I previously wrote about, that the federal government has also passed a law that allows them to cancel or suspend your passport if you are behind on your taxes.

AP - House bill: Fire US workers who are tax deadbeats

This one is just ridiculous. The L.A. Times reported that LA City Hall employees were streaming the Olympics and it was causing their computer system to slow down. This article was picked up internationally. Really? Personally, I have not watched the Olympics except for the opening ceremony, I don't watch television as a rule. But, lets be serious, how many people in the world are watching parts of the Olympics at work? I would not freak out if I found out that one of my employees had watched a swim race or something that was special to them, I would just expect them to make sure they completed their work for the day. In either case, does this really deserve to be international news? I file this one under over-reacting and exaggeration in order to impact ongoing negotiations with unions.

What the article didn't say was which departments they were in. I wonder how many of the people streaming it had desk jobs? I would guess all of them. The guy picking up your trash cannot watch the internet in his garbage truck. I wonder many of the people streaming the internet were in Council Offices or the Mayor's Office, they tend to have more control over their time.

L.A. Times - L.A. City Hall employees urged to stop watching Olympics at work

Finally, an article on the Post Office. I have written on the post office a few times; but, want to re-raise some issues. The post office is not technically a governmental agency anymore. It has also managed to survive with no government subsidy since being set on it's own. What changed was that the Postal Service is now being asked to fund employee benefits in advance of them being used. This is really nothing more than an attempt to benefit Wall Street and privatize the Post Office. The point people miss is that if they privatize the Postal Service then your mail will cease being private, it is not constitutionally protected as private with UPS.

It is not that the Post Office lost money, in fact, the Post Office has been amazing at finding ways to survive in a world of e-mail. They changed their business model and made it work. Nope, they are being asked to fund retirement benefits 10, 20 and 30 years before they might come due.

Time - Moneyland - Post Office to Default on $5.5 Billion Pre-Retiree Health Payment