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I've never cleaned in the Carolinas, north or sourth. I've been through both more than twice for other cleaning missions, but not these hot and humid states. I can say that stangers in this part of the United States treat travelers with conspicuous respect. "Sir," "yes sir" and so on. I enjoy their southern "draw." their regional inflections on English. I will say too, As I read over twenty years ago, theirs, as folks in the Appalacians, sometimes appraches our earlier tons and cadences in English pronunciation.

News writing for today covers my blog comments. Here I'll keep to crime as it might related to crime scene cleanup.

Another tragic mass murder occurred, this time in Greensboro, N.C. A young mother by the name of Mary Ann Holder

According to a law enforcement spokesperson, the victims never saw it coming.

"They were obviously shot for the purpose of killing them. You can call it an execution, you can call it a shooting, you can call it whatever you want. The result is the same," he said. "We may never know exactly what her thoughts were and why

Allegedly, she faced an expensive court episode. This had something to do with a former lover and a third party. A "love triangle" twists minds, and it did so here, some speculate. In any case, as in many murder-suicides, no one will ever no for sure what went through the shooters mind. By the time the shooting stopped, our suicide victim shot and killed Randall Lamb, 40, being shot and Holder, 36 and shooter, self-murdered Sunday, November 20, 2011.

She also killed four four children living in her home. She shot her two sons and the oldest boy's girlfriend. Two are dead. Of these three survived while in critical condition.

This suicide victim left notes, which does not often occur. When it does, suicide notes leave little real information. Stuff like, "Please feed my cat" and "It's been too hot." She did take responsibility for her actions and regretted the pain and suffering she intended to inflict on innocent people. All of which causes me to consider that she did error greatly. A position in the Orange County, California Sheriff-Coroner's Department would have saved her life. Without guilt or shame, she too could have enriched herself victimizing families without murdering them.

An alleged four year love affair went on between the shooter and her adult male victim. Somehow this got twisted into one of those he-said-she-said deals that went sorrow. The male's wife got wind of this on-gong naughty affair. She did not like it and commanded its end.

Authorities said Lamb agreed to meet Holder at a community college parking lot around 9 a.m. Sunday. His wife was about to file an alienation of affection lawsuit against Holder. North Carolina law allows a married person to sue the person with whom his or her spouse had an affair.

Holder shot at him multiple times and hit him once in the shoulder, the sheriff said. Lamb called his wife, who reported the shooting to 911 dispatchers. He was in stable condition on Monday.

Police officers arrived at Holder's house in the Pleasant Garden south of Greensboro. There they found the following:

• Son, 17-year-old Robert Dylan Smith, dead.
• Son's girlfriend, Makayla Woods, 15, critically wounded;
• Holder's nephew, Richard Suttles, 17, critically wounded.
• Holder's niece, Hannaleigh Suttles. 8, dead.

As reports go, these youthful, innocent victims died in bed and in the living room.

It turns out that the children fit the South Carolina model for genuine care and concern. At times they helped an elderly couple across the street. Mowing their lawn, showing concern for an ailing neighbor's husband, all of this placed them on a planet far removed from places Los Angeles crime scene cleaners must work. Like Holder's children were kind and vigilant toward the elderly couple across the road, Los Angeles children ignore if not intimidate their elders in many cases. These were good kids bred among polite people.

So with all of this shooting and dying, who did the crime scene cleanup? As tradition now has it, the sheriff would have taken this job for his own crime scene cleanup company; perhaps he has no stomach for such corruption, in which case one of the coroner's employees may have taken it for their company. Then again, it may have brought a handsome some as a referral, a 10 percent referral. One fly in the ointment though, the house has an owner using it as a rental. It's not likely his insurance will cover the job.

If there's no insurance, it could make it to the free enterprise biohazard cleanup businesses.

When writing about corruption in crime scene cleanup, it's important to keep our ducks in order. The Carolinas have a mixed bag in niche field of blood cleanup. At one time finding someone to clean these death scenes took some doing. Sometimes morticians or body movers would do it. Sometimes Joe six-pack would do it. It took time for the affects of bloodborne pathogen legislation to bring county and city employees aboard this lucrative cleaning express, now a monopoly enterprise for civil servant.

Still, a few free enterprise cleaners remain in business and now mix with city and county officials, retired and otherwise. It's a matter of networking with those in privileged positions to know and to direct those in need of professional death cleanup services.

19 November 2011

Maybe Anita Hill got it right when she accused Clarance Thomas of sexual harrassment. No one wanted to believe here. Now it turns out that Thomas plays the tax game to our national debts loss, apparently. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) thinks it time to get more serious with Thomas' ethical issues. I'm inclined to say, "Kick the bum out" because that's what crime scene cleanup promises to do, cleanup crime, anywhere and everywhere.

Fantastic as it may soud, Thomas has an ongoing record for dodging his wife's income for tax purposes. He simply refuses to tell or government how much money she's raking in, thanks to his 1% social status. She's rakes in the dough from various conservative think tanks and activist organizations. Slaughter thinks its time to invoke The Judicial Conference. A principal policy-making and administrative body for the federal court system, it's about the only way we can press Thomas to reveal his criminality.

There's a little check a box titled "none" on annual financial disclosure forms. For his wife's income, he repeatedly lies about her income by checking "none." Now this guy's a Supreme Court member. He know whether or not to chect a box yes or no.

These funny money antics go back to 1991. His "willful" behavious would not escape detection if I were to do it. I would probably be doing hard time. Not the 1%. Remember, this guy had his hand in the Citizens United case. This case gave corporations personhood that not even a fetus enjoys. Corporations now have the "constitutional right" to give political candiadates any amount of money they desire. Worse, no one needs know where the money goes or for what. That's justice in these days of the 1%.

Friday's letter, however, states that Thomas actually did report the sources of his wife's income until 1997, therefore heightening the inference that the justice had not "misunderstood the reporting instructions," as he asserted in January when he filed seven pages of addenda correcting his omissions over a six-year period. Citing information obtained by the left-leaning watchdog groups Common Cause and Alliance for Justice, Slaughter wrote that "Justice Thomas accurately filed his financial disclosure forms, including his wife's employment, for as many as 10 years beginning in 1987 when he was Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission."

Noting in the new letter that the accurate filing continued through Thomas' tenure as a federal appeals court judge and his first five years as a Supreme Court justice, Slaughter wrote that "it is very difficult for Justice Thomas to make a credible argument that he understood the filing instructions for ten years but then misunderstood them for the next thirteen years."

Indeed, this new information appears to strengthen her argument to her colleagues that Thomas' actions -- or, rather, inactions -- were willful, therefore warranting a Justice Department inquiry. Only 19 other members of Congress joined her September letter; Friday's letter had the support of another 51 members.

Still, that is only 12 percent of the House, and all are Democrats. And with Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia, as well as retired Justice John Paul Stevens, already waving away questions about their colleague's ethics, it is not likely that the chief justice or the Judicial Conference will accede to Slaughter's request.

14 November 2011

It's impossible to keep track of time anymore It's one thing to live 24/7. It's another thing to get old. This leads to a noteworthy tip for the younger crime scene cleaners, and it's fact, almost.

There comes a time when human perception of time shifts to a fast-forward from a slow-forward. Recalling my early childhood years, time seemed to crawl. Always a benchmark age remained in my expectations. Year five allowed to start school; of coarse, the following years lead to junior high, high school, military, then college. All the while these "benchmark years" came a little more sooner.

Now the years peel away as if they were months. It's a fact that our perception causes these imaginary time lapses to increase. The reality remains that it's all the same. Try and get this across to folks in the 70s and 80s, though. They're convinced time does indeed "fly." I suppose at the end it doesn't matter, anyhow.

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) is turning up the heat on Justice Clarence Thomas based on new information that builds upon previous reports of his alleged ethical lapses.

In late September, Slaughter had sent a letter to the Judicial Conference of the United States to request official action on Thomas' multiyear failure to disclose his wife's income from various conservative think tanks and activist organizations. The Judicial Conference is the principal policy-making and administrative body for the federal court system.

On Friday, Slaughter submitted a new letter, this time addressed to Chief Justice John Roberts in his capacity as the presiding officer of the Judicial Conference, to update and clarify the September letter.

At issue is the fact that Thomas repeatedly checked a box titled "none" on annual financial disclosure forms in response to a question about the sources of spousal income. Yet during those years, his wife, Virginia Thomas, worked for the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation and for the Tea Party lobbying group Liberty Central, which she helped found.

The first letter asserted that Thomas' nondisclosures persisted "[t]throughout his entire tenure of the Supreme Court," which began in 1991. It was fair to infer from his "high level of legal training and experience," Slaughter wrote, that the justice's failure presented the type of "willful" behavior that federal law requires the Judicial Conference to refer to the Department of Justice for investigation.

Friday's letter, however, states that Thomas actually did report the sources of his wife's income until 1997, therefore heightening the inference that the justice had not "misunderstood the reporting instructions," as he asserted in January when he filed seven pages of addenda correcting his omissions over a six-year period. Citing information obtained by the left-leaning watchdog groups Common Cause and Alliance for Justice, Slaughter wrote that "Justice Thomas accurately filed his financial disclosure forms, including his wife's employment, for as many as 10 years beginning in 1987 when he was Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission."

Noting in the new letter that the accurate filing continued through Thomas' tenure as a federal appeals court judge and his first five years as a Supreme Court justice, Slaughter wrote that "it is very difficult for Justice Thomas to make a credible argument that he understood the filing instructions for ten years but then misunderstood them for the next thirteen years."

Indeed, this new information appears to strengthen her argument to her colleagues that Thomas' actions -- or, rather, inactions -- were willful, therefore warranting a Justice Department inquiry. Only 19 other members of Congress joined her September letter; Friday's letter had the support of another 51 members.

Still, that is only 12 percent of the House, and all are Democrats. And with Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia, as well as retired Justice John Paul Stevens, already waving away questions about their colleague's ethics, it is not likely that the chief justice or the Judicial Conference will accede to Slaughter's request.

27 October 2011

My crime scene cleanup blog now clarifies the Republican Party's role in working-class wages and prosperity for billionaires.

Just now I'm learning the names of Art Pope Herman Cain. Cain I saw on TV while I traveled for a New Mexico decomposition cleanup. He's running for president on the Republican Party platform. I thought that he made a nice presentation. I also thought that Ron Paul and Billy Christi came across as the more authentic candidates.

From what I'm reading, the Tea Party supports Herman Cain. He has a role in the right-wing group Americans for Prosperity. I don't now much about this prosperity group. I suppose it has something to do with welfare for billionaires. I'm told by my republican friends that it's important for us little people to make life more user-friendly for billionaires. They should live tax-free because of their superior intelligence.

The energy billionaires known as Charles and David Koch use their fortunes for Tea Party organizing and candidates, I've heard. I've also heard that these two brothers were born into their wealth and they've never worked at a working class job. Since I don't know if this is true or not, I'll ignore it. I'm sure these Koch (coke) brothers have their best interests at heart; I'm sure they will serve the interests of the wealthy to their best ability. They have a reputation for pulling for American patriotism. So what's the harm? Leave them to their whims and for sure their wealth and knowledge must trickle down to us little people. Oligarchy in crime scene cleanup has its positives.

Like any crime scene cleanup business, we must know which crime scenes to cleanup. A worthy crime scene cleanup business remains loyal to the wishes of billionaires.

Now, Mr. Pope has a reputation for supporting the Kochs' efforts. He's a mover-and-shaker among the Americans for Prosperity group, a Koch-friendly organization. I suppose it's Koch friendly because they pay for it.

Now Mr. Cain's part in republican politics arises as a Koch brother's project. They helped to place Mr. Cain in the political arena. Mr. Cain, for them, represents the best of American enterprise. From a small start-up pizza man to a very rich pizza man, Mr. Cain came up the hard way. When it comes to prosperity, Mr. Cain proves the Koch brothers right. Anyone can become a millionaire, if not a billionaire in these United States. Mr. Cain believes so, too. I believe so, too.

I'm sure that I'm on my way to becoming a billionaire by the looks of it. As soon as I get some control over our Orange County Sheriff-Coroner's fraud. dealings, I'll have plenty of crime scene cleanup jobs to grow my company. Others will profit too. Before long the Koch brothers will find me and I'll run for president.

First things first, we'll get the working-class working for the lowest wage possible in China. Then we'll ensure no more government programs will exist, except for military spending. Soldiers will earn just enough to keep them above the working class, giving them an incentive to risk their lives for a American prosperity.

I don't believe taxing billionaires will help. It's better that their billions remain in their hands alone. Since they made this money, it's there's. Plus, since they're so rich, they must be smarter than everyone else, which means they know how to use their billions better then the government. In fact, I'd do away with the government, but we're going to need it to keep those little people in line. There's always some left-wing trouble makers causing problems for us right-wing billionaires. Mr. Cain has an idea for a “9-9-9” plan to rewrite the nation’s tax code. Crime scene cleanup has never seen such promising ideas for its future.

For more on North Carolina power broker Art Pope, visit the Institute's special investigative project ArtPopeExposed.com. You can also follow on Twitter.

21 October 20011

Seal Beach Mass Murder

I see that I still dominate Seal Beach crime scene cleanup, California on the Internet. It seems odd, at the very least, how I was missed for that horrific multiple-homicide two weeks ago. Perhaps people in Seal Beach don't know about the Internet's timely search technology.

What they missed, they missed on account of some unseen force form a place beyond sight. Perhaps the county coroner might care to chip in some information. After all, they have first contact. I'm sure they would have offered a responsible party the California State Practitioners List. This way they could have done some comparison shopping. Maybe saving money would have entered their decision making.

I know they could not have made a decision upon a crime scene cleanup company's experience or janitorial cleaning skills and knowledge; for had they done so, I would have received an opportunity to bid.

15 October 2011

Money and Wall Street Control

Oligarchy means one or a few control the many from above. Jeff Winters wrote about American oligarchy in the context of history. Early oligarchs used their soldiers to control their wealth; today's oligarchs use the billionaire-friendly United States' Government.

Winters says that protecting wealth drives a central trail through history's movement. ancient Greece and Rome to medieval city-states to contemporary Indonesia and the Philippines for examples. He tells how oligarchs now control our political system.

Winters crafted this handy book over a seven year period. He chose his subjects and then thoroughly researched his material. He came to define oligarchy as "the politics of wealth defense by materially endowed actors."

Warring oligarchs provide an example of the more primitive type of oligarchy. These oligarchs protected their wealth and power with private armies. If we look to medieval Europe we find these oligarchs killing one another off; fortunes grew and when they doubled, so too did the oligarch's private army.

Even our Appalachian feuds in the 19th and early 20th century saw the rise of oligarchs. Businesses with wealth fought for control of mining and timber wealth. They were ruling oligarchies. They used laws made-to-order to govern collectively. Others were less formal, using codes of conduct. Mafia dons often war upon each other; Rome and the Philippines succumbed to one-person rule. Ultraistic oligarchy placed coercion as their means of social control. Rich rewards for their crony friends ensured a backup against encroachers. Suharto provided this stability for years in Indonesia, but when looting by his grown children endangered this equilibrium, the wealthy class deserted him and he was driven from power.

Civil oligarchy is an impersonal, institutionalized government in which the law is stronger than any individual. Here, Winters thinks, democracy can coexist with oligarchy, as it does in the United States. But even civil oligarchies will collapse if they do not satisfy the need of the rich for property protection. If that happens, oligarchs will arm themselves. Even those of us who are fortunate enough to live in the most civilized forms should be alert to their continuities with the others.

Winters's approach is obviously relevant as American politics shifts resources away from the poor toward the rich, starving infrastructure and public education. He thinks that the oligarchic concentration of wealth, which enables the rich to hire armies of lobbyists and tax lawyers, explains why, since 1970, the gains from the growing U.S. economy have been concentrated at the top, while incomes of the bottom 90 percent stagnated.

Wealth defense is a constant even in civil-oligarchy regimes that have robust welfare states. In Finland, for example, the top 0.5 percent of the population owns 71.6 percent of the capital market, compared with 41.4 percent in the United States. The Scandinavian countries have high taxes, but these are consumption taxes, which burden the entire citizenry rather than concentrating on the rich. The extremely rich have always managed to ensure that they shared their tax burdens with the merely prosperous. Similarly in America, where the top tax bracket starts at $250,000. Bill Gates pays the same nominal rate as his dentist.

Once the various methods of tax avoidance are taken into account, it becomes clear that America's tax system is actually regressive: in 2007, the top 1% of taxpayers paid an effective rate of less than 24%. The top 1/10 of 1% paid less than 22%. The top 400 incomes paid less than 17%. (246) The marginal rate for some hedge fund managers, five of whom earned more than $1 billion in 2007, has been zero, because they operated through offshore partnerships that let them defer taxes. (248)

Oligarchy is a wonderful book. I don't work in comparative politics, but I found it riveting reading, particularly in its detailed treatment of Winters's academic specialty, modern southeast Asian regimes. He focuses attention on an aspect of the big political picture that is too often overlooked. I don't think I'll ever think about politics in the same way again.

There is, however, a cost to looking at the world from such a broad comparative perspective. Local variations that matter can become obscured. Scandinavia has its oligarchs, but these are much better countries to be members of the bottom 90% than the United States, where politics continues to focus on the rate, rather than the direction, of upward redistribution of wealth. America's oligarchs are unusually greedy: the Bush tax cuts, a major source of our huge federal deficit, were spearheaded by rich Republicans who decided that their enormous gains in the 1990s boom just weren't enough for them. Winters can't account for this, because, as he himself shows, oligarchy is a constant across civil regimes. America's fetishizing of the wealthy and powerful, its contempt for the weak and needy, and its eagerness to thwart its own legitimizing narrative of equal opportunity (as I write this, college aid for the poor has just barely escaped the budget ax), needs a different explanation.

11 October

Occupy Wall Street

I don't see that much in these Occupy Wall Street types. They strike me as unhappy liberal consumers. In fact, listening to a few of these people on the radio convinced me that their interests go little further than consumer issues. Free them from debt, defang Wall Street, and they'd feel just peachy.

That's hardly a revolutionary advancement in working-class consciousness. I'm not impressed by their numbers, either. If their numbers were in the hundreds of thousands, then yes, they'd have my ear. As it goes, I must fend for myself and have no time for their lite-green consensus finding. At least the Greens have (had?) a revolutionary goal in mind. Maybe that goal remains in our future. I see nothing else humane or ecological to replace an ecologically free future without nukes.

Turning Wall Street into Green Street may have something to it, but there's much more education needed for all.

10 October 2011

Watching world events a viewer might get the idea that we might experience a revolution in the United States. Some would wonder why we need a non-violent revolution. I have plenty of reason for a non-violent revolution. No reasons for a violent revolution come to mind.

A violent revolution creates just as much injustice as it seeks to undo. We might argue that in some places of the world a violent revolution arises as a response. Without a doubt, students of revolutions will point to this singular fact, violence begets violence. I will admit, too, that the American Revolution protracted a violence required to undo King George's colonial grip. We then turned around and begat our own colonial grip elsewhere. Our empire never sees the sun set; not unlike England in the 19th century.

I confirm our most important revolutionary gain came in the form of our First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Anything less than this amendment and our country would need a revolution, violent or otherwise.

Now I'm reminded of our need for transparency in government. Granted, some people believe that injustice on a small scale, "too few victims," should not unduly concern us. After all, there's bigger issues, like Global Warming. If I had time I'd write all day everyday, but life goes on for the working class.

This week it's pigeon poop. I'm not complaining. So many other baby-boomers lack any work. At least I can did some employment out of the economic cracks in our capitalist superstructure. These lines remind me of the unforgettable. Without cronyism in local governments I would have great wealth to share and do good. As it is, I have little enough to keep my wheels rolling.

Then there's other little problems, like getting paid. Corporations are the worst. I've been ripped off twice since I started crime scene cleanup work. Both times a corporation cheated me. When you lose thousands of dollars after spending days and a small fortune cleaning up someone else's bloody mess, it's not fun remembering capitalism's faults.

I'm reminded of a revolutionary mind that said something about not trusting holders of wealth. Ah, it's so. Then, what about the guys without wealth? Why should they have my trust? They should not. Someone came into my yard last week and stole my bicycle. I hardly think a millionaire or billionaire did this dirty deed. It's more like a local kid took my Univega Alpine, a 30 year-old mountain bike that cannot be replaced.

Like, how do you replace a set of emotions, an attachment to a physical object? My bike has its scratches. These represent adventures, falls, and conquests. Stealing a man's bike (or a woman's bike) from his yard goes too far. Why not just kick-in the front door and take my computers, wife, and dog? Ah, cowards, of course.

Let's see what this week brings. For certain it must bring telephone calls from the On-line Yellow Pages. Last week they called every day of the week and twice on Friday. I received at least five probes, people in the crime scene cleanup business testing my prices, telephone answering, and just curious about what drives this crime scene cleaner.

I'll continue my quest to confront and usurp local government corruption against victims of homicide, suicide, and unattended deaths.

Perhaps my own end, that place where the going begins and the ending vanishes with my presence. For certain, there's dozens, if not hundreds of county employee scum bags that would love to see my demise. I hope to outlive them.

Yes, a revolution.

5 October 2011

Accidental Deaths

Wealth, power, and ambition

Accidental death cleanup sometimes points to more than an “accident.” Drug bottle strewn about an apartment bedroom tell me, “There’s more here than an accident.” It’s like, how does someone overdose on pain killers, three at a time? It’s not by accident.

Our prescribed drug epidemic now kills more people than vehicle accidents; that’s a bunch. In the crime scene cleanup business, other crime scene cleaners must find the evidence of drug overdoses suspicious. Perhaps families claim an “accident” occurred when the coroner may have found suicide. In either case, my experience tells me more.
People suffer emotional and psychological discomfort, pain. Drugs become a way of feeling better in the face of depression’s power drain. It’s hard for a drug abuser to overcome their addiction when all about them they see others abusing one chemical or one another. Society has its problems and individuals find it easier to step out of society by creating a numbing condition. I see it here, there, everywhere.

I would error to blame these “accidents” and socially structured, painful moments on “society.” After all, this term “society” exists in our minds, a “reification,” sociologists would say. We use to place a reference for all our attitudes, beliefs, and opinion. It’s from “society,” we say that we learn who we are. In reality, it’s from our family, friends, foes, school, and so on. Society doesn't’t tell us to use prescribed drugs for recreation. We learn recreational drug abuse from family, friends, and school.

I might mention the industrial merchandising complex consortium. This behemoth of consumerism pushes its various goods. Some of us find a sense of power associated to these goods. I notice, for example, beer commercials continue to do well on Monday night football shows. Nationwide young men take part in this ritualized sport as observers while swigging gallons of beer, charging their sugar and alcohol content, feeling power and comfort; not so unlike drug recreation.

Beer leads to hangovers. Drugs lead to death. An accident in one leads to soiled pants; an accident in the other leads to death. But is it an accident when prescribed drugs reach the street market?

There’s a common goal marketed on our media, — power, wealth, and ambition. Attain any one of these three golden genies and life becomes more of a frolic than a struggle; attain all three and life becomes a game, a game played at others’ expense. I’m thinking now of Wall Street and the ideology of greed. An addiction? No, but dangerous just the same because this ideology leads others to seek numbness, drugs.

Society, a reification, owes nothing to any of my above characters. It does provide a structure and rules for common decency at times. It also hides miscreants like those in county governments seizing on victims of crime for their own profit. Among coroners employees we find the “investigators,” those people delegated to find “accidents” among drug abusers. Among drug abusers we find suicides, only suicides not streamlined to occur in minutes, but over week, months, and even years.

Somehow there’s a symbiosis between these two social phenomena, greed among county employees and addiction among the emotionally, psychologically wounded. Among Wall Street's power hungry we find those attitudes so common to our county crony employees, greed at the cost of innocent victims.

Accidental deaths by another name we know as suicide.

2 October 2011

Bidding to win and Bidding to Lose

Some times a guy like me needs to give a losing bid. After all, I can't do everything. I can't go everywhere. When it comes to hoarder cleaner, it's a matter of time and stink.

Although hoarding cleanup may pay enough, it still takes a lot of time. And unless the rules of this rat-race changed overnight, "time is money." When a guy like me has lived longer than he has left to live, then the time-money equation becomes lopsided. Time becomes very expensive, to say the least.

I intend to bid high this morning. I intend to bid to lose. In this way I sort of give a good-faith bid. Besides, it's too hot to fight a hoarder's nest. I should admit that I usually lose five to ten pounds on these hoarder jobs. Then there's the physical workout I need so much. I won't get any stronger sitting here pounding on another worn out keyboard. Maybe I should bid to win.

It's never easy running an empire like crime scene cleanup. Decision making takes time too. I see the sun coming up, casting its heat upon my empire. Shall the empire stand for hoarding cleanup this next week?

Eddie Evans

Crime Scene Cleanup

  24 September 2011

Is there a criminality embedded in our space program?

I cannot give an objective opinion on this subject. No way.

I'm sitting hear recounting my early influence by the space program. Both the Russians and Americans squared-off over a line in outer space and I watched the unfolding space drama. Today I remain a loyal Star Trek fan. I grew up in Bellflower and Downey, California, cities housing many prominent NASA, Areojet, North American, and Rockwell engineering and manufacturing sites.

These corporations came to symbolize our liberal capitalist democracy up against the totalitarian communism of the Soviet Union. The space race carried an ominous tag line: human beings perceive enemies even in space.

Me, I wanted space exploration. I wanted to see pictures of galaxies far away. I got what I wanted. Objectivity? No.

Now, today, a US weather satellite plunged to earth, scattering debris over thousands of miles. I ask, "How much of this 'debris' remains haz mat?". How many miles of land or ocean or both have we foreseen contaminated with hazardous material? How many more times will we add to this earth poisoning?

To be fair and balanced, I might ask, "Isn't this stuff of the earth?" and so what? I can answer, it matters that this a"stuff" has deadly contents in their current concentrations. It matters that some being or beings may suffer as a result now or in the future. How many times can we go about littering our planet with space poison and not reduce the prospects for the future of humans and nonhumans? Criminality?

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If it fell in the ocean, "Out of sight, out of mind." At least as far as anyone knows, but is this "fair and balanced?". Then there's our space debris falling on someone's head. Should we pay damages? It's sort of like a larger, looming legal question. Should the industrialized part of our world pay damages to the unindustrialized part of their world? After all, we've taken our resources and theirs while poising space, land, and water.

I recall the radical Earth First! groups and their efforts to bring attention to logging crimes, clear cutting old growth, one-time ever forests. Should not our FBI begin searching for ways to bring down those involved in this terror from above? I ask these questions in a fair-and-balanced consideration of the growing evidence against our way of life.

Last, I continue to eat in one of the restaurants frequented by North American and Arojet employees. I'm a space exploration advocate as a result of the 60s "space race" and the great ideas it spawned. I remain loyal to Captain Kirk and space research. May it continue, but unfettered by government and corporate cronyism, a la the military-congressional-corporate complex.

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23 September 2011

Age and Perception of Time

When it comes to time and age, I'm more than aware of a warped time perception. Each day brings shorter days, weeks, months, and then years as my future emerges. Briefly, when young, it seemed that time moved so slowly. Moving upward through the grade school years seemed to take so long. Finally, junior high arrived, and it seemed to take so long to reach high school, and so forth. Then the decades of adult life moved slowly, at first.

By the time that I reached 30 years old, I knew something changed, and it changed in a very big way. A big question came to mind and kept returning, "Where did three decades of my life disappear?". Now in my sixth decade, there's no question.

My perception of time changed from a slow moving yearly clock to a spinning years dial. Where did six decades go? I look back and it seems that my life reached its end zone much too soon. Where I first had yards and yards of life's journey to travel, I'm down to feet, if not inches.

How is it I came to this sixth decade a crime scene cleanup business owner and a grassroots political advocate in the struggle again's local government corruption? So now a big, looming question arises. Should I spend my last days fighting for other people in a battle against a thankless, corrupt government? As the Orange County DA surmises, "There's not enough victims" to make it worth while. What about me, am I a victim? If so, I'm a victim of choice. Homicide and suicide victims' families have no choice. I guess this creates some meaning in my life as my life grows shorter on time. How else might I have spent these years; how else might I spend my remaining time? Golfing?

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Criminal attack on our United States August 10, 2011

Had the Communist Party of the USA ever had the power and desire to cripple our United States by shutting down our government, hell fire would have rained from the heavens. But when the Republican Party threatened to shut down our government August 1, our citizenship hardly blinked. Not so much as a whimper against this internal attack on the good faith and credit of our country; attacking our good name equals an attack on our countries ability to recreate itself daily. Democrats stood by and mumbled meaningless cliches. What occurred was no less than a terrorist attack by a political party. Think about it.

Never before has such an attack occurred; never before has a deficit limit caused our congress to threaten destruction of our good faith and credit standing throughout our country and the world.

No deal and no congress can bind following congresses four and six years down the road. Saying that they can restrain themselves in the future amounts to nothing. Their political posturing cost valuable time, time sorely needed for global change legislation, levying needed revenue, and ending burning debt growth from two wars.

I think back to the so-called "communist menace and its alleged threat to the United States; nothing in US history approaches this recent republican threat against our country, nothing at all from a "communist menace."

One, spending cuts have no connection to a jobs program; two, lowering interest rates cannot create jobs.

We've lost six months in which something could have been done for jobs growth, environmental remediation, renewable energy, education, and an end to these mindless wars.

Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup

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