What we are watching happen to us (the ordinary people of the US) is pathetic.
To consider that there is any possibilities of either of the two parties (D) (R) having our best interests seem to have been proven absolutely not probable.
To watch a country's citizenry have their life savings destroyed in such short order, reflects the greed that is rampant in America.
I fully expect to be bankrupt before this power struggle and the pathetic partisan posturing has run the course.
All I can say to any of you who might stumble across this diatribe is: "NUTS!"
To charge cab fare here would be obscene - as we all have so little asset to use to pay.
You have just taken a "Ride on the Reading" to partially quote a monopoly game card.
Fare is paid.
CABBY
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Pres debate No. 1
Well, neither of them were in my cab.
He didn't change my mind.
No fare is due, still awaiting the next fare.
CABBY
He didn't change my mind.
No fare is due, still awaiting the next fare.
CABBY
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Murderers and the system
March 12, 1996 Peter Matthias Sanson was murdered on the streets of Denver.
Three accomplices all actually held a knife and violently stabbed Peter a total of more than thirty times.
All three were sent to prison.
Murderer number one:
While in custody, she walked away from a day work crew. In the days of before political correctness, she 'escaped'. Using today's mumbo-jumbo she didn't 'return at the end of the day'.
She became pregnant while an 'escaped' interstate fugitive. She was apprehended at a truck stop in the mid-west. (Be careful in truck stops). She was later released from prison and was out in less than 12 years total time served for MURDER! Paroled. What horseshit!
Murderer number two:
Now up for parole hearings which started last January. We drove 400 miles in the winter mountains of Colorado to attend his first parole hearing. We spent the night in a motel, stayed away from our business for two days, disrupted our lives with the whole memory of the tragic loss of a son being murdered in Denver to attend the hearing. (This is a traumatic event folks!)
We arrive for the hearing to learn that this murderer has to attend the hearing from solitary confinement. How in the hell does that make sense?
If you are so socially inept to be housed in solitary confinement during the time frame of your parole hearing dates, doesn't common sense direct clear thinking to say; PAROLE not considered?
Nope. Wrong! It only means that the 'hearing' is conducted via closed circuit video.
(How is that solitary?) How is that making sense? I actually think this is a perfect example of the inmates running the asylum!
He was denied parole. Nuts. As if?
Now in the last week in the mail, we receive a notice from the Colorado Department of Corrections:
In accordance with blah blah blah, this dickhead is about to be referred for possible placement in a community corrections program (halfway house)'.
So, we are again dragged into this murderers sewer of a life to write our letters asking for sanity. We have asked for the maximum security bars to stay locked around his worthless ass and that he not be placed in any kind of half way house.
What I didn't say in my letter is that it would be way short of right to place him in a halfway house filled with ice water to just above how high he can sustain himself afloat while naked and alone until he expires. Now it would be fun to know that was a possibility. If we can say something clearly, it certainly isn't through the parole system. He could alternatively be sent to live in the ground with Peter.
I am not knocking the parole boards of CO, I am knocking the citizens of America that have allowed their country to become some politically correct cesspool of permissiveness that allows a murderer to be considered for parole at 12 years confinement when he was sentenced to 28 years. He should serve every day of the sentence without credit for good behavior - period.
Well, if he were in my cab, I can tell you for sure he would turn up NEVER at the end of his ride.
Fare paid. I am sure I could speak plainer, however I wouldn't want to incriminate myself for actions I may have opportunity or intent to take at some future date.
Remember, one murderer has already been released out there into this passive / violent, permissive / vigilante, forgiving / revengeful, healthy / possible terminal and fearless society.
If I haven't spoken clearly, and there are any questions, write me.
(Murderer number three is doing life without parole, so he is out of reach)....
Leave your remarks here.
CABBY
Three accomplices all actually held a knife and violently stabbed Peter a total of more than thirty times.
All three were sent to prison.
Murderer number one:
While in custody, she walked away from a day work crew. In the days of before political correctness, she 'escaped'. Using today's mumbo-jumbo she didn't 'return at the end of the day'.
She became pregnant while an 'escaped' interstate fugitive. She was apprehended at a truck stop in the mid-west. (Be careful in truck stops). She was later released from prison and was out in less than 12 years total time served for MURDER! Paroled. What horseshit!
Murderer number two:
Now up for parole hearings which started last January. We drove 400 miles in the winter mountains of Colorado to attend his first parole hearing. We spent the night in a motel, stayed away from our business for two days, disrupted our lives with the whole memory of the tragic loss of a son being murdered in Denver to attend the hearing. (This is a traumatic event folks!)
We arrive for the hearing to learn that this murderer has to attend the hearing from solitary confinement. How in the hell does that make sense?
If you are so socially inept to be housed in solitary confinement during the time frame of your parole hearing dates, doesn't common sense direct clear thinking to say; PAROLE not considered?
Nope. Wrong! It only means that the 'hearing' is conducted via closed circuit video.
(How is that solitary?) How is that making sense? I actually think this is a perfect example of the inmates running the asylum!
He was denied parole. Nuts. As if?
Now in the last week in the mail, we receive a notice from the Colorado Department of Corrections:
In accordance with blah blah blah, this dickhead is about to be referred for possible placement in a community corrections program (halfway house)'.
So, we are again dragged into this murderers sewer of a life to write our letters asking for sanity. We have asked for the maximum security bars to stay locked around his worthless ass and that he not be placed in any kind of half way house.
What I didn't say in my letter is that it would be way short of right to place him in a halfway house filled with ice water to just above how high he can sustain himself afloat while naked and alone until he expires. Now it would be fun to know that was a possibility. If we can say something clearly, it certainly isn't through the parole system. He could alternatively be sent to live in the ground with Peter.
I am not knocking the parole boards of CO, I am knocking the citizens of America that have allowed their country to become some politically correct cesspool of permissiveness that allows a murderer to be considered for parole at 12 years confinement when he was sentenced to 28 years. He should serve every day of the sentence without credit for good behavior - period.
Well, if he were in my cab, I can tell you for sure he would turn up NEVER at the end of his ride.
Fare paid. I am sure I could speak plainer, however I wouldn't want to incriminate myself for actions I may have opportunity or intent to take at some future date.
Remember, one murderer has already been released out there into this passive / violent, permissive / vigilante, forgiving / revengeful, healthy / possible terminal and fearless society.
If I haven't spoken clearly, and there are any questions, write me.
(Murderer number three is doing life without parole, so he is out of reach)....
Leave your remarks here.
CABBY
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Hello?
Here we are, post Olympic; pre-election; beginning in Afghanistan; lame duck; wildly polarized parties; ineffective congress. Porous borders, medical care in ruins, CEO salaries at an obscene level
No one in America's government is willing to say: "Mistakes were made." They might be willing to say; "Mistakes were made, but not by me"
Now then, I was asked this question tonight.
What would you lay down as your political platform were you campaigning for the office of President?
I was given time to consider an answer, and then spouted off a list of items. Some of them are more the territory of the congress than the President.
By answering honestly, I stumbled into an area of the Universe where no smart man had ever stumbled before. Not real smart am I?
The list as I recall it in no particular order included:
Flat tax (25%)for all income generating efforts.
Government administered, doctor and patient treatment deciding medical care for all.
Insurance companies placed on a schedule to make only enough profit to pay the costs of the care, and adopt a non profit position. Removal of malpractice suits from the courts, to hearings overseen by boards of non insurance representatives. (Remember there are no more medical insurance cos.)
Doctors paid $250,000.
A medical services price schedule determined by a commission of doctors, patients and bureaucrats.
Any doctor who wants to make more will have the option of charging through payment outside the national program. To offer outside the system care, each doctor will have a regular patient care responsibility fulfilled, or find another way to make their income other than patient visits inside or outside the US medical system. Doctors will meet so many patients within the system, or see no patients at all.
Government paid college education after each student works for the military for two years. Education through PhD for any student who can achieve the degree.
All US citizens will serve two years for the government between 18 yoa and 20 yoa.
Private and State Universities will have strict and equal achievement standards.
All applying immigrants will prove oral proficiency in English when taking the citizenship exam. Tested literacy in written English will return a $10,000 financial reward at time of citizenship award. Failure to pass these tests is a one time event. Permanent deportation for non English oral proficiency. One chance only to test.
Any illegal immigrant after 2010 will be permanently banned from immigration.
Immediately implement a one year cycle for any illegal immigrant in the country now to take the exam and take the steps to legal citizenship. Deportation will be permanent for any who do not meet the standard.
Every highway and railway bridge will be replaced or repaired. All Interstate highways will be replaced or repaired. All Federal Infrastructure will be replaced or repaired. All Federal employees will be skill tested every three years to retain their jobs. All teachers will be skill tested every three years to retain their jobs.
All eligible citizen will be given a 1% income tax credit for voting in the Federal election every two years. Credit is for only one year.
I first wrote this September 9th.
Oh well, I wish I'd known about the economy. I'd have said more.
Thanks for taking this ride. We only have 19 days to go.
I'm going to go vote tomorrow, if I can get time....
Fare is paid.
CABBY
No one in America's government is willing to say: "Mistakes were made." They might be willing to say; "Mistakes were made, but not by me"
Now then, I was asked this question tonight.
What would you lay down as your political platform were you campaigning for the office of President?
I was given time to consider an answer, and then spouted off a list of items. Some of them are more the territory of the congress than the President.
By answering honestly, I stumbled into an area of the Universe where no smart man had ever stumbled before. Not real smart am I?
The list as I recall it in no particular order included:
Flat tax (25%)for all income generating efforts.
Government administered, doctor and patient treatment deciding medical care for all.
Insurance companies placed on a schedule to make only enough profit to pay the costs of the care, and adopt a non profit position. Removal of malpractice suits from the courts, to hearings overseen by boards of non insurance representatives. (Remember there are no more medical insurance cos.)
Doctors paid $250,000.
A medical services price schedule determined by a commission of doctors, patients and bureaucrats.
Any doctor who wants to make more will have the option of charging through payment outside the national program. To offer outside the system care, each doctor will have a regular patient care responsibility fulfilled, or find another way to make their income other than patient visits inside or outside the US medical system. Doctors will meet so many patients within the system, or see no patients at all.
Government paid college education after each student works for the military for two years. Education through PhD for any student who can achieve the degree.
All US citizens will serve two years for the government between 18 yoa and 20 yoa.
Private and State Universities will have strict and equal achievement standards.
All applying immigrants will prove oral proficiency in English when taking the citizenship exam. Tested literacy in written English will return a $10,000 financial reward at time of citizenship award. Failure to pass these tests is a one time event. Permanent deportation for non English oral proficiency. One chance only to test.
Any illegal immigrant after 2010 will be permanently banned from immigration.
Immediately implement a one year cycle for any illegal immigrant in the country now to take the exam and take the steps to legal citizenship. Deportation will be permanent for any who do not meet the standard.
Every highway and railway bridge will be replaced or repaired. All Interstate highways will be replaced or repaired. All Federal Infrastructure will be replaced or repaired. All Federal employees will be skill tested every three years to retain their jobs. All teachers will be skill tested every three years to retain their jobs.
All eligible citizen will be given a 1% income tax credit for voting in the Federal election every two years. Credit is for only one year.
I first wrote this September 9th.
Oh well, I wish I'd known about the economy. I'd have said more.
Thanks for taking this ride. We only have 19 days to go.
I'm going to go vote tomorrow, if I can get time....
Fare is paid.
CABBY
Friday, September 5, 2008
Oh, my!
I picked up this fare in Dallas in November 2004. He is still riding in my cab. Hopefully he will bring macaroni salad to the party some day.
My friend David has advised us that he is not immortal. Some sort of serious ticker problem has come up it seems.
He is such a wonderful man, friend, husband, father, employee, farmer, beer consultant, visitor, co KISS (M3E) LP147 band member, vegan, American, presence in my life that I will be saddened if he has to begin to struggle with his health at his young age.
If I had to tell you about important people in this life, I would first think of David. You see, I was able to create David for myself as I want him to be. I was able to accept him as he presented himself.
He taught me that when people are who they want to be, they are just so incredibly wonderful. I watched the butterfly in him appear. I was there! I watched his experience of real self acceptance occur and was able to trust that if it worked for him, it could work for me. I transferred from the place I imagined others wanted me to be, to the place where I wanted to be as I was seeing it happen for him. I leaned on him, hard. Thanks in large part to David, I am having the life I want for me.
(Picture two old guys having an epiphany.) It must be something to watch! It is wonderful to experience. David and I can even prove flying is possible without an airplane. Ha ha. I am really laughing here, David.
I was able to spend time involved in numerous events with him in person. The learning from him at those shared events has been having such a long term effect on the experience I am having on the top side of the earth, that it seems unreal to consider seriously that he is not immortal. That is not to say that I worship him as though he has everlasting life, it is just that he is such a bright light in me that I have been ‘brought up short’ to consider him and failing health in the same thought.
How do you know you have made a mistake?
Just think of someone who was alive, that you didn’t fully express your appreciation for - then, they died before you could. (I have reworked that sentence repeatedly, and have just settled for what is written now).
So, my appreciation for David has been made clear, if inadequate, here.
A giant has a threat to his health. In a goofy way this altered my experience of richness of life. Is this some sort of ironic ‘pay it forward’?
I have worked hard at paying forward ‘good’ things in life. David lives ‘paying it forward’ as a daily part of his life. He just does it, know what I mean?
So, here is the deal: Life is full of unexpected opportunities. Life has this interesting way of slapping us up along side the head to remind us that we are only in charge of things we can control. Life has just shown me that the influence we have over others has a random way of manifesting.
David, all who shared those events together are interested in and affected by what you are going through. Our personal lives are deeply changed as a result of just the news that you are not immortal.
Love to you.
If you have read this far, you must know the cab fare for the trip is paid. You must also know that it is too soon too late, so just do it!
CABBY
My friend David has advised us that he is not immortal. Some sort of serious ticker problem has come up it seems.
He is such a wonderful man, friend, husband, father, employee, farmer, beer consultant, visitor, co KISS (M3E) LP147 band member, vegan, American, presence in my life that I will be saddened if he has to begin to struggle with his health at his young age.
If I had to tell you about important people in this life, I would first think of David. You see, I was able to create David for myself as I want him to be. I was able to accept him as he presented himself.
He taught me that when people are who they want to be, they are just so incredibly wonderful. I watched the butterfly in him appear. I was there! I watched his experience of real self acceptance occur and was able to trust that if it worked for him, it could work for me. I transferred from the place I imagined others wanted me to be, to the place where I wanted to be as I was seeing it happen for him. I leaned on him, hard. Thanks in large part to David, I am having the life I want for me.
(Picture two old guys having an epiphany.) It must be something to watch! It is wonderful to experience. David and I can even prove flying is possible without an airplane. Ha ha. I am really laughing here, David.
I was able to spend time involved in numerous events with him in person. The learning from him at those shared events has been having such a long term effect on the experience I am having on the top side of the earth, that it seems unreal to consider seriously that he is not immortal. That is not to say that I worship him as though he has everlasting life, it is just that he is such a bright light in me that I have been ‘brought up short’ to consider him and failing health in the same thought.
How do you know you have made a mistake?
Just think of someone who was alive, that you didn’t fully express your appreciation for - then, they died before you could. (I have reworked that sentence repeatedly, and have just settled for what is written now).
So, my appreciation for David has been made clear, if inadequate, here.
A giant has a threat to his health. In a goofy way this altered my experience of richness of life. Is this some sort of ironic ‘pay it forward’?
I have worked hard at paying forward ‘good’ things in life. David lives ‘paying it forward’ as a daily part of his life. He just does it, know what I mean?
So, here is the deal: Life is full of unexpected opportunities. Life has this interesting way of slapping us up along side the head to remind us that we are only in charge of things we can control. Life has just shown me that the influence we have over others has a random way of manifesting.
David, all who shared those events together are interested in and affected by what you are going through. Our personal lives are deeply changed as a result of just the news that you are not immortal.
Love to you.
If you have read this far, you must know the cab fare for the trip is paid. You must also know that it is too soon too late, so just do it!
CABBY
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