99 Degrees in My Home

I have to correct my last post which I ended up deleting. Turns out my air conditioner broke or at least it looks that way now. I have now been without air for 4 days or so. In fact, it is about 112 degrees outside and 99 degrees inside my home.

I literally called 10 different air conditioner repairmen and they were basically all booked for the next week. Fortunately, it seems I found one that can come out tonight. That's the good news. The bad news is that if I need a new air conditioner it will cost a few thousand dollars and they will probably have to order it.

While I can deal fairly well with high heat being an old desert rat, my little dog does not handle it as well. My solution was to take him for a ride in the car with the air conditioner on max. After our ride I put a wet thin shirt in front of a box fan to create a makeshift swamp cooler. He is laying in front of it and barely moving.

I believe the only thing to do is buy a portable air conditioner until my central air is fixed. This is going to get expensive. Oh well. Wish me luck.

UPDATE:

Well, I got very lucky, the technician came out and fixed the air conditioner. $500 and my dog can relax in peace. I called multiple Home Depots and Lowe's to purchase a portable air conditioner and not one had any available. I was actually considering renting a hotel room until the air conditioner was repaired because I honestly was getting really worried that it was too much for my little dog. My dog is not well behaved and has mental issues. He was abandoned by his owner because of his temperament and given to me because the people that took him in couldn't deal with him. When I first got him he literally barked at everyone and hated men. The first month I had him he would eat, poop on my floor and hide under the bed. It took a bit of time; but, I gained his trust. There is nothing better than being able to help a dog to reconnect with people. They are the only animal I know that loves us more than they love their own species. It is important to respect that.

Homelessness, Housing and the Future

Breitbart - Los Angeles County to Pay Private Homeowners to House Homeless. While you might think this is just being discussed in Los Angeles, it is not.

KFVE - Could homeowners be the answer to Hawaii's homeless crisis?

Los Angeles Daily News - On LA County’s remote north end, the homeless are stuck. Is hope on the horizon?

Some simple little facts to consider. During the housing boom (2003 - 2007) people began building bigger and bigger houses even though families were getting smaller and smaller. While touring new developments at that time I began to say that they looked like boarding houses and that is what they will become.

Imagine paying people $75,000 to build a small home in the back of their property, what is the effect? Well, first and foremost it means that the idea of zoning for single family residences is destroyed. Once destroyed, people will be allowed to rent out rooms, again, a violation of the zoning regarding single family residences. Trust me, this "pilot program" is intended to fail and instead people will get paid to rent out rooms and it will start in the Antelope Valley and Moreno Valley.

If you want to see what is coming, start by looking at the infrastructure that is being built.

Who is Killing This Country? Nazi's or the Wealthy and Powerful?

Lets look at some really basic facts. There are Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists and Klansmen still left in America. There are still also communists; but, you know what, they all had or have political parties of their own. The largest non Democrat or Republican party is independents. The membership of the Communist Party (established 1919) is 5,000. The Nationalist Socialist Party shows not one person elected to federal or state leadership or even representation. Their numbers are too low to even count.

Neither Communists nor white supremacists can manage to get elected to any federal or state legislature. Neither the Democrats nor Republicans have racist or supremacist policies on their party platforms and haven't for a very long time. The media is focusing on groups that have zero political influence and couldn't get someone elected if they had to. They smeared Bernie Sanders as a Communist and Donald Trump as a Nazi.

I'm retired; but, I remember when Democrats in the southern states passed laws called Jim Crowe laws. I lived when that was going on, I remember when blacks were not allowed in certain restaurants and people were not allowed to sell their houses to blacks. I had a relative, a New England Democrat who told me that he thought the blacks were getting too uppity and he worked on getting Democrats to support Kennedy for President in Massachusetts. Declared Neo-Nazis and Klansmen couldn't get elected dog catcher. If there was a Neo-Nazi mayor the media would be all around it. Think about that.

Please show me ONE congressman currently in office who has openly stated that they support the Klan, the Nazi party or the communists. Wait, you might be able to find one that supported communism; but, it wasn't Bernie Sanders. There are more Libertarian Party and Green Party members than Nazis, Klansmen and Communist Party members combined.

Why is the corporate media telling you these groups are growing when they are not? Why are they saying that they saying these people present a clear and present danger requiring the elimination of the first amendment right to free speech when there is not. More people attend Furry conventions (people who like to dress up as small woodland creatures and have sex) than attend Nazicon if there even is such a thing. There are more Wiccans than there are Neo Nazis. There are more Satanists than there are Klansmen and to tell the truth, the Satanists are less reviled.

There are 85 people that own as much as the lower half 3.5 Billion of people in this world. Please, tell me which of them are Nazis supporting the Nazi party or the Klan. Those 85 people see the rest of us as scum regardless of what we believe in. You know what you have to fear? What you need to fear is what those 85 people think and thy think that you should be muzzled and that Democracy is evil.

Did you know that most of the Confederate soldiers that fought in the south never owned a slave in their lives? Rich men owned slaves, not the poor. The civil war was not fought over slavery, it was fought over economic independence. It was fought over which wealthy group would rule America. It was a fight over farming versus the industrial revolution.

We like to think that it was a war over slavery and that the north was against it; but, even Lincoln did not go into that war planning on freeing the slaves. You can look that up and comment. Remember when the billionaire said that they thought the wealthy were being treated like the Jews in Germany? No, here is a link.

YouTube - The Young Turks - Rich Asshole Tries To Apologize And Makes Things Much Worse.

The traditional enemy of the communists was the wealthy, now it is 3,000 to 8,000 Klansmen. What useful idiots Antifa have become. Communist, Socialist and Progressive agendas were always focused on economic issues and now the Neo-Communists and Neo-Socialists and Neo-Progressives seem to be focused on social issues. At least according to the corporate media.

Lets see. The Occupy Movement comes along to go after income inequality and is violently put down and removed from public spaces and later the media refocuses their attention to social issues, like how many Nazi's does it take to screw in a light bulb. The Occupy Movement came about in 2007 and the Democratic party has sought to direct all their attention to the threat of far right national supremacist wack jobs. There is just one problem, most people on the left get this and the progressives certainly do.

How effective has this been? Well not one of the corporate Democrats has one a seat since Trump got elected. They have lost control of national and state offices. Most amusingly they are failing to get any donations. The Republican party has raised $85 million for the coming elections and the Democrats have raised about $35 million.

YouTube - Shocker: Republicans Now Dominate Democrats In Small $ Donations.

Back 60 years ago the Democratic Party was the southern bigots. It was southern Democrats that made the Jim Crow laws and enforced segregation. Parties change; but, money doesn't. The one thing the Democratic party will not let go of is it's political donors. Corporate Democrats offer transgender bathrooms in exchange for open borders. Corporate Democrats offer gay marriage in exchange for NAFTA and the TPP. They offer fascism (corporate control over the government) in exchange for protecting you from Nazis.

Point of note, the guy who said that the wealthy were being treated like the Jews in Germany (the Young Turks video in the link above) contributed to Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign and also said that the wealthy's votes should count more than the poor or working class. There are more gays in the United States than Neo-Nazis and Klansmen combined. There are more millionaires in the United States than there are Neo-Nazi's, White Supremacists and Klansmen combined. Here lets simplify even more. How many millionaires and billionaires attended the right wing rally in Charlottesville in support of the far right? That would probably be zero.

It is estimated that there are 10.4 million millionaires in the United States and perhaps 200,000 white supremacists of all types. Which group do you think controls the corporations and government? Yeah, it's pretty obvious.

Elitism is anti-democratic.

TTIIY - The Continuing Failure of the Establishment to Get Rid of Trump. On December 9, 2015 I wrote the linked post. At that time I wrote the following, "There are a lot of pundits writing about why they believe people support Trump and none of them seem to get it. Now the media has gone as far as to compare Trump to Hitler, that is irrational hysteria and demonstrates their fear of Trump; but, more importantly their fear of American opinion." Nothing has changed

For the past two years I have been pointing out how the media lies and manipulates in order to achieve political goals and those goals are anti-democratic, authoritarian and pro-globalism. In 2016 the corporate mainstream media began saying that if Trump were elected they should immediately impeach him for basically any reason and nothing has changed except for the excuse, which changes every week based on each new claim they make.

The truth is that I didn't vote for Trump. In fact, back in 2015 I pointed out that because of superdelegates and rigged primaries, Sanders, my preferred candidate, would lose. For the past two years I have pointed out that no matter what Trump says or does, the media will call for his impeachment and they have. The attacks are not really about Trump, the attacks are on the idea of people choosing to change the establishment. The real fear is that people will stop going along with the media and the establishments controlling public opinion.

Over the past two years I have written numerous articles about corporate mainstream media saying that democracy was bad. Over the past two years I have pointed out numerous articles that said that the people were too dumb and evil to pick their leaders. The calls for Trump's impeachment for using Twitter to get around the media and for his liking his steaks well done as proof that he is unfit for office and the desperate cries of the media to make sure that populism does not rise any more. Remember the opposite of populism is elitism.

Here is a prediction, I bet next week they find a new reason to impeach Trump and they will continue doing that every week until the next Presidential election. Who wants to bet that I am wrong?

Things worth noting

The Telegraph - Legal robots deployed in China to help decide thousands of cases.  The last thing to be automated will be the law. It is being tested in China. This already being looked upon favorably by the west. Lets automate society, will be deciding the programming or living under it?

YouTube - KOIN 6 - Portland ‘overwhelmed’ with abandoned RVs.  Liberal Portland which is busy fighting Nazis who don't exist in meaningful numbers are also fighting people living in their vehicles. Do you really believe there are more Nazis in Portland than the homeless? When I was young people were fighting to make the lives of blacks and the poor better and get out of war. Now alt left people are fighting to stop free speech and bad people from existing. Why are they not fighting against war and to help the poor? Where were the riots when welfare was cut, where were the riots when we went into Iraq? What are they fighting for if anything or only against things?

San Francisco Chronicle - Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street.  Here is the real question rather than the amusing aspects of the story, It takes five years of non-payment of taxes in California to have a tax sale. They knew it was going to be sold and still didn't pay their taxes. It used to be and may still be that even after a property has been sold for taxes, you still had a year to buy it back. Why didn't that happen. And by the way, I stopped more than one tax sale by paying the taxes when I was working in title insurance.

Yahoo - Why I will not pay $1,100 to attend a bachelorette party.  They attempt to prove that the reason millennials can't buy homes is because they spent $1,100 on a bachelorette party. Not long ago they blamed it on the fact that millennials like avocados. The median house price in Los Angeles is $640,000, how many avocados would I have to avoid eating to buy that house and how many bachelorette parties do you think people attend in a year?

Yahoo - Huffington Post - Congressman Moves To Impeach Donald Trump, Says No Such Thing As 'Good Nazis'.  Watch the video and see how dishonest the media and the establishment have proven themselves to be. You cannot impeach a president for not being nice enough or saying things in a way that you wish they had not.

Yahoo - Trump looks at sun during eclipse — with and without protective glasses.  Yes, I read in multiple articles from the corporate mainstream media how Trump didn't use protective lenses when looking at the sun. Well, simple answer is, he did. I'm pretty sure he will not be blind tomorrow; but, what is more interesting is that this was considered news as important as the fact that he likes ice cream or his steaks well done and yet these things are used as proof that he is Nazi or something equally bad.

Pastor Carol Daniels, a Grand Jury and Someone Watching the Case

A few months ago a grand jury was asked to look into the Pastor Carol Daniels case. Previously they had put a retired detective on the case as basically a help you out type of consulting job. Putting a retired guy on the case is what you do when you have a retired friend that needs a couple of bucks and need someone to babysit a cold case that you think you cannot solve. My dad was a cop before I was even born. My dad was a famous law enforcement officer my whole life and is even famous today and he taught me this garbage since I was elementary school. I know the law to, I have a doctorate in it. That grand jury was supposed to kill this case and blame it on the dead dealer; but, they didn't. They didn't because it wasn't that drug dealer, if that is in fact what she was. They wanted to blame the dead girl and I wrote that on this blog at that time.

Here is a stone cold fact, the murderer entered through the back door. The police had video of the front door. The police removed and saved to evidence the back door. That is a fact. There are other facts that I have recited over the years and things that can actually be proven. I personally have stated that I have told the OSBI who I am and unless they are the worst police unit in the United States, they have checked me out.

This is an ugly case for the OSBI and they still have missed the obvious. If they had found tire marks behind the church, they would know what the killer drove; but, the killer did not drive there, they walked there. It was dirt behind the church, they knew the killer entered and left through the back, they should have print mark casts from the back of the church and I don't think they do. I think the local cops screwed up the crime scene and that is understandable. Small town cops are not trained in complicated and rare murders. The Kansas City police royally messed up and screwed up the BTK investigation for 40 years.

The grand jury didn't end up blaming the supposed drug dealer because they knew they were going to get called out. I have told people to NOT speculate on specific people being involved in this murder to anyone other than the police. Online speculation is horrifically stupid. You don't ever publicly announce who you suspect until they arrest them or you are warning them.

I recently came across a blog that is really interested in crime.

The Works of KD Burr - UPDATE: The Pastor Carol Daniels Case. 

There is a line in the post that I believe is referencing me, it says, "One online crime enthusiast, who has religiously followed the case, quipped: "blaming the murder on a dead woman would wrap this up nicely for them [OSBI]." Just to be clear, I am not a "crime enthusiast" if you are referencing me. I detest criminal behavior. In fact, I have requested that someone much more viewed than my pitiful blog investigate and write about just so the family would know that people still cared. I have told the family that I am not a wonderful person and deserve no credit for anything other than my selfish interest in talking about the world I witness. It was nothing personal from me.

The person attached to the linked blog claims to be a writer of crime stories based on true events. If they can show me that they care about the family and if the family approves, I would talk to this person just to get the story heard by more and push the OSBI to take a more serious look even after all of these years.

This case was not closed by the grand jury. If I have done anything that played a role in that then I am glad and my writing was not in vain. I have said this before and I will say it again. I have done nothing other than talk about things I see. That is the only point of my blog at this time. My prayers and thoughts always go out to the family and this case has effected me though I never intended it to. I feel a connection to the family and if and when the murderer is ever caught, I will drive to Oklahoma to meet the family and tell them that she and God would expect all to forgive all sins. I believe they would and do.

K.D., hi honey. You are a pretty young woman who wants to write crime novels. Yeah, I checked you out. You tell me what you have to offer to the family and I will tell you what I have to offer to you, even things I did not publish; but, you first prove you actually care about the family and not about the crime. I have gone after Pastor Daniels church for wanting to outlaw homosexuality. I am not that nice, you better be able to prove that you are nice or you get nothing from me, ever.

Short Post, I am Heartbroken

On my first day of sixth grade, in a new school and living in a new place, one of my fellow students decided he wanted to fight the new kid, me. After school had ended we met at an adjacent vacant lot. Many of the other students followed us to watch the fight. I had no idea why this guy wanted to fight me, I didn't know him and knew nothing about him; but, he wanted to prove something to someone.

I was shocked that so many people wanted to stay after school to watch two kids fight and that none cared what the reason was. As I walked to the empty lot I told all those following that I thought they were sick for wanting to watch two children fight. I think that only solidified why the love of my life fell in love with me who I had only met that same day and in that same class. My first day in sixth grade was met with one woman who fell in love with me, the same woman who I fell in love with and one young man who wanted to beat me up just for being me.

A bunch of jerks who claim to be Nazis and Klansmen decided to piss off a bunch of people who believe they are communists and anti-fascists. The media cheers one side on, it doesn't really matter which. What does it matter which side you choose in a fight, the problem is when you seek fights. The problem is when you seek bloodshed and hate. Hate for anyone is evil.

You know what I expect from "thought leaders"? I expect them to teach tolerance and mercy and love and forgiveness, not hate and violence. Not on any side, because the sides are love and hate in the end and anyone who teaches hate creates their own hell. Hate is the world they will live in if it is the only world they create to live in. That breaks my heart.

UPDATE:

Sorry, I left out something you are probably asking. Yes, I won the fight. I had him on the ground in a choke hold. He through a few punches that I easily blocked, I waited for him to expend that early energy and then I jumped him and put him down and in a choke hold. I put him in a choke hold and asked him to stop and if he was done. I don't think I have ever thrown the first punch in my life and if I did, I don't remember and the only person that could correct me is probably my brother. If anyone could remind me of something like that, it would be from when I was very young and it would be my brother.

Violence in response to hate is worse than hate, it is hate moved to action. It is the physical manifestation of evil in our hearts. I don't care what the reason is.