Is It True- - Those with Drug Convictions Need Long Sentences?

According to Bill Carol and friends, it’s just a myth that non violent drug offenders are better off not in prison but in some rehab program.  As such Jerry Brown has been compelled by the Federal government to make a horrible mistake in releasing prisoners early, because it’s a fact that prisoners let out early are more likely to contribute to the rising crime rate.  And some of these prisons are on their third strike.  But Bill Carol explains that it’s only the “last” crime they committed that counts.  These people you now see committing property crimes, were formerly violent muggers and rapists and murderers- - but feel the pressure of getting that third strike so have toned down their behavior.  Apparently the police are so disgusted by this revolving door prison policy that often they don’t even try to apprehend these felons. The cops know that early release doesn’t bring down the crime rate.   And there is a rise in the crime rate for property crimes- the type of crime these otherwise violent and dangerous felon would be committing.  So all this talk about how well drug rehab works in European countries is apparently based on complete ignorance, and not the eye witness of police officers.  If you take exception to this point of view, it’s my opinion that people of “that persuasion” needed to have their point of view made by this writer, unimpinged by a lot of wherefores, if’s and buts.

They now have a blood test for “dementia’ that is 85% accurate in predicting who will be getting dementia soon.  But would he who does not yet have this disease yet voluntarily take this blood test on their own?   The smallpox vaccinations we got when we were ten, apparently only last for five years.  I had the mistaken notion that this was the “final” vaccination in a series, and after you had this one you’d get immunity for life.  So in truth even with the vaccination of school kids, there are still vast segments of adults who would be completely unprotected in any epidemic.  When Bill Carol talked about this guy whose job it is to “clean up crime scenes” I pictured something out of “Days of our Lives” with Stephano’s group of goons cleaning up all evidence of an attempted murder by the river, scrubbing the place of any evidence for the police to find.  And of course Stephano’s goons, it’s assumed have the ability to work undisturbed by the prying eyes of suspicious onlookers, wondering just what the heck is going on.

Bill Handel took a more sympathetic position on race relations than I’ve ever seen him take.  Bill doesn’t take “idiot phone calls’ from people who want to send in the troops and the guns to the border to somehow move the flood of illegals off United States land by force.  And Bill seemed sympathetic to the Obama administration’s request for a few billion dollars to hire more people to “process” these mothers and children coming across.  Two of the three attempts to send busses of illegals into Mirietta- - have met with failure.  It seems planes of illegals come from the Rio Grand every seventy two hours to Chula Vista, where all of the processing is now going on.  But the Republicans want the Obama administration to deal expeditiously with these new would be immigrants- - but won’t give them the money to do it, which is kind of what happened with Libya and Bengazi, too.   It seems these smuggle for hire operations will lie and tell the prospective migrants to the United States most anything to get them to pay them money.  And so the slightest whisper of leniency from the Administration doesn’t escape the notice of these people.  But Bill achnoledged that the Obama Administration earnestly desires to NOT have them come to this country to begin with.  The Administration is telling the world “We do not want your refugees from Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador.  Stay home!

Donald and Shelly Sterling are continuing to duel it out in court.  Yesterday they interrupted the hearing because somehow someone wanted it to be a Federal Government matter so they held a hearing at two thirty that ran longer than intended, for most of the afternoon.  It seems that husband Donald lost this case.  It had something to do with whether he was or wasn’t demented.  After being informed Mr. Sterling had lost the case, apparently his first words after this were, “Gee, I’m hungry.  Anybody have anything to eat?”   Or was that a joke?   My understanding about owning an NBA franchise basketball team wasn’t what I thought.  It was my contention that you could be the biggest jerk-off in your persona life west of the Mississippy but that one had inherent “property rights” to do financially with his team what he wishes.  But indeed it seems that an NBA team owner does not have clear title to this property, but there is this whole boatload of strings and conditions to owning the team.  Seeing how this is the case, the sane thing to me seems to be to let his wife sell the team to that Microsoft guy and be done with the whole affair, and hopefully you can turn a few hundred million in profit while you’re at it.  Of course if the guy’s not quite right in the head, you don’t know what he’ll do.

The Republicans have picked Cleveland to host the Republican convention in 2016.  I have heard they will be opening on July 18^th.  It’ll be nice to get off of this Labor day convention routine for once.  That gets really old with the conventions competing with the back to school classes rush, and hurricane season- - and College football and the NFL for newspaper space.

Marijuana goes on sale today in Washington State because of a provision they passed in November of 2012.  But from what I’m told, there will only be one shop open in all of Seattle and few marijuana outlets in the whole state.  Strangely they are claiming a low supply.   I saw scads of the weed being grown in a hot house- - you’d certainly think they’d be prepared.

As you know, Le Bran James is a free agent, and Pat Riley and the Miami Heat are drying to hold on to him.  But there are roomers afloat that Le Bran may be going back and signing with the Cleveland Cavileers once more.  That would make Bones happy.  I’m kind of thinking Miami’s best years are behind them, at least for the time being, so I say “Go back to Cleveland”.   I’m sure the fans would be more than happy to be forgiving.

This whole Brian Stowe jury deliberation thing seems to be a never ending soap opera, and for once more has happened in the soap opera this past week, than has happened in real life with this jury.  They seem to be having these endless conferences with the judge about this and that.  First they say they’re hopelessly deadlocked, which someone on Bill Carol said “It’s almost a sure sign that they really are stuck, because I’ve hardly seen a single case where they came out with a declaration like this- - and later reached a verdict”.  It won’t be today anyhow.

Israel is calling up 40,000 servicemen to fight in what may well be a lot longer than a six day war.  Israel appears more in earnest in getting back at Hamas than they have in a long time.  In previous adventures such as 1973 and 1967 Israel had the United States to lean on for additional weapons and fighter planes.  Of course it’s pointed out that there are Arabs in the Israeli legislature.  But the same “demographic problem” conservatives here at home face, is also faced by the Israelis.   Because it’s said that “unless something major is done about it’ the Arabs could potentially have a majority in Israeli government.  Jimmy Carter would remind us it’s a bit of a South Africa type situation there the goal is “to make sure the emerging majority never gains control”.   There is no doubt both sides have broken countless treaties.  Israel keeps encroaching with their settlements in Palistinian lands.  And Palistinians are indeed an “occupied people” who lack self determination.  Cosmically this rise in Israeli aggression is considered a bad thing throughout the Federation, and countless other cosmic entities.  I would say more about jinxes and karma and other matters but I don’t want to appear too whigged out, at least today.  Let's just say that cosmically "We're in deep doo doo, and we can't do a thing about it, really".   This is a rare admission.  The Federation has never liked Israel as a sovreign nation that it is, for reasons I can't go into right now, but let me just say this one thing "If you are facing an enemy that you can't defeat, and another enemy that you believe you can, you make friends with the second group, even if it makes you ill, as sort of- not to put too fine a point on it- - a hedge against demonic activity.  Yes, you heard me say that.

From a strictly stratigic point of view- - if God is not speaking now- is it not only logical that Satan would arise to fill the vacuum?

This final paragraph was the first to be written today, but appears now at the end.  I'd like to include a paragraph I wrote 24 hours ago but I think this is enough ranting for today.  This is Tuesday July 8, 2014 and I would like to start off illustrating hard determinism.  Those with power can never lose it on their own, and those without power can never get it on their own.  People like James Dobson and Pat Robertson and other Christian evangelists endorse this theory without knowing it.  For example in response to the scripture that says “All things are possible with God” they will amend that to say that “God can’t do the intrinsicly impossible”.  They don’t mean “logically impossible”, which I would agree with.  With God EVERY contingency OTHER than the one that has been Predestined- - IS “intrinsically impossible”.  Not one less Jew would die in the Nazi death camps,  the Civil War would not contain one less bit of gore and guts and sheer pain for the wounded - - Mao’s Cultural Revolution or the Killings of Po Pot would not be one bit less ruthless- - and ANY lessening of the evil or augmentation of the good is in fact, when push comes to shove “Intrinsically impossible” to these people, if you press them hard on the matter.   Yesterday I constructed a prayer God basically could not lose.  I offered to God that I would do something fantastic and difficult- - if he answered a very small prayer.  Some of you are automatically saying now by way of reflex “Oh, you’re blaming God if things don’t go your way”.   There are certain constructs- - where the bar is so low- - and yet God still fails the test, and even if the bar were lying on the ground, God would trip over it.  Passing the test would not prove that God existed.  I said I would “stipulate” that he existed.  But failure of certain tests- - with a rigged crap table in God’s favor to begin with- - will most certainly imply that he does NOT exist.   In my case- - the more explicit the prayer- - and often some of the simplest if God actually exists- - to answer- - in my case, the more certain I can be that God will fail the test.  In fact there is a thousand percent more evidence that the wheel on the Wheel of Fortune game is rigged- than God exists.  For instance you know that if a contestant gets BOTH halves of a car- - you can almost set your watch by the fact that in the next couple of rolls, the wheel is going to land on a Bankrupt.  It never fails, and if you’ve watched, you know.