One More Time Blogger is Not Supported

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The email subscription widget of Blogger is going away.  I dont think that this service is supported very well, but I knew that was a possibility when I signed on.  Now I am committed.  If you are going to have a blog, I recommend finding another way than to use blogger/blogspot.  You have been warned.

Santa Barbara, The Police and Racism

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I am a guest here in beautiful santa barbara, but maybe the reality is that our world is imperfect and there are problems everywhere. There were two recent events here at the [REDACTED], none of which involved me, and which I did not know about until they were over. Things are calm now. Both of these involved the police. In one case, a police officer told our landlady that if so and so had been black she would have been on the ground with his knee on her neck. I guess they are very proud of the recent murder involving a black man and that maneuver. Our landlady was shocked by this overt racism in someone who is expected to respect and abide by the law. In another case, one of our nicest people here was thrown in a retaining cell (on Figueroa) for a day with a broken arm. The cell was filthy, with bugs (bed bugs?) and she was denied medical attention (her arm was obviously broken) and was told to shut up and stop asking for it. I did not witness any of this. I am not completely shocked but yes I am disturbed and disappointed. I know from recent discussions with my elected county supervisor that they could not care less what I think. What, if anything, would you like me to do with this information. I make it my policy to avoid the police as much as possible. Shall I forget about this? Would it be so (deleted) hard to keep the holding cell minimally clean and avoid making racist comments in public and maybe if someone has a broken hand to get her a nurse and some Tylenol? Maybe Santa Barbara is a poor inner city slum and cant afford such things? I am here as your guest and I feel I should ask you. My policy in general is fight or flight (protest injustice or put a bag over my head).

Another Helpful Message for my Congressman

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My congressman is Salud Carbajal.  I have no idea if he is good, bad, indifferent, or whatever.  Still he is my representative and if I want something done in Washington I am supposed to contact him, right?  Ha ha, yeah.  Anyway I do.  Its a long story.

 

This time I asked why the scum who attacked the Capitol were not being charged with sedition, why Trump was not in jail, and what, if anything, they were going to do about that worthless scumbag and traitor, Senator Joe Manchin (D-W VA).  

 

I dont really expect an answer and I am sure I wont receive one, either.  I presume that his office thinks I'm a crank, which is fine with me.

 

Bird Neck's Point, Virginia Beach

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My parents lived here in Virginia Beach back in the day.

 

Excellent Statute of Limitations on Suing Government Agencies

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I admit that I am impressed with some of the things I learn about how our government works. So for example if you want to have a dictatorship but pretend you don't have a dictatorship and you want to pretend that you have a justice system and that people can file a lawsuit to get the government to do something reasonable, or to stop committing what are obviously crimes, then all you have to do is put in a 6 month statute of limitations which would be nearly impossible for most people to comply with unless this is what they did for a living and they had plenty of resources and they had a law firm ready to go which I think we can comfortably say doesn't happen. At least private individuals are unlikely to be able to comply with this requirement but possibly mid- to large- corporations could.  Thus corporations are able to protect themselves, or at least have a tool that might allow them to protect themselves, but the private citizen not so much. 

In that way you can see the corruption and crimes of the government can operate with complete freedom. This is most excellent. Obviously if we wanted a free society this rule would not exist.

(Policy Recommendation #2: Change or eliminate this statute of limitations).

Therapy and the Winter Soldier

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Not everyone appreciates the great depth and intelligence that can be found beneath the surface of the Marvel Cinematic portrayal of comic book superheroes, and its faithful and wry discussion of the many contradictions of our civilization as portrayed by Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and so forth. The latest MCU Disney + series (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) has the setup that the Winter Soldier (a nice guy who was forced/programmed to be an assassin during the cold war) has to see a therapist as a condition of his parole.

I think it is completely hilarious and I so relate since I also have PTSD and really do not see much point about talking about it with a therapist.

Policy Series #1 Solution to Part of Immigration Problem

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Will be rewritten, maybe if you are lucky.

 

Children and their parents who come to the border seeking asylum should be met as follows:  1. They should be given decent communal living quarters with sanitation for one year, 2. They should be innoculated against all relevant diseases, 3. Their other medical problems should be dealt with as possible and in a humanitarium manner, 4. They and their children should be given a one year education that emphasizes english and the basics of living and of law and of birth control, 5. They should be given physical education to the extent they want it., 6. And then they should be returned to their country of origin with enough money for a month or two of living.

We can afford this.  Its a no brainer.

It is required that Christians, who are murder swine, not be allowed anywhere near this.

 

It is required that ICE/Gestapo who are murderers and rapists not be allowed anywhere near this.

 

To Supervisor Das Williams Regarding Georgia

 

Michael Wahrman

7:49 PM (0 minutes ago)

to Supervisor Das Williams

I see that Georgia is working against voting rights with the help of
the fascist Coca Cola and Delta Airlines.  Can you reassure me that
the County of Santa Barbara buys nothing from Coca Cola, Delta or
anywhere in the State of Georgia?  The best way to reach me is through
michael.wahrman@gmail.com.  No answer will be a confession that SB
supports voter suppression and I will vote accordingly at the next
election.

The Gun Nuts Shall Prevail, Oh Yes

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I can just hear the morons, the Republicans, say "Now is not the time to discuss gun restrictions" and all the nuts screaming "2nd Amendment!!!" How long will we permit Americans to be murdered by the gun nuts? This is America, a failed state, where democracy is destroyed and where the Republicans advocate the violent overthrow of the government, so we may never have elementary gun laws. Too bad. 

Would You Deny the American People Their Sovereignty?

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I think that our fellow citizens perhaps deserve more respect than they are given by many of my friends and fellow democrats. The argument goes like this ...

The collapse of the american civilization has revealed things about ourselves that maybe we would rather not know. But then when we learn those things, many of us would prefer to believe that those things are not true. They would deny their fellow americans the dignity of their decisions. They would deny that their fellow citizens know their own minds. They would deny them their free will. Yes, deny them that very self-awareness that the slaveowners and murderers who wrote the constitution required as a fundamental assumption of our so called and very undemocratic democracy. The facts are that some huge percentage of the voting Americans chose racism and hatred. They chose to deny equal justice before the law. They chose to take children from their mothers and put them in a jail and destroy their lives as a policy of this republic. They did that. They said "hate" but my fellow "democrats" insist they meant "love". Oh no, my liberal friends say, they didnt mean that. But I say they knew what they were saying. They werent fooled by Trump and Fox News or the traitors in Congress although admittedly those three are guilty of inciting people to violence, and of supporting treason, and other criminal and immoral or at least amoral acts. They, the sovereign people of the united states of america knew that they were voting to put right wing nuts on the judiciary to create a judicial dictatorship against the will of the majority. They knew that the knee of oppression was being put on our throats to choke the life out of our country. This is bitter tea, perhaps, to many of us. Perhaps their immortal soul is capable of turning away from evil but perhaps not, also. They stood before god and man and said we choose racism and lies and we know what we are doing. They are not pretending to be racist. Who are you to deny them the right to have and own their beliefs?