Thus begins Pittsburgh's Casino nightmare

The destruction of the family by parental neglect. Abuse and impoverishment. Auto accidents causing death and dismemberment due to overintoxication. Prostitution and alcoholism. Thus begins the nightmare that has arrived on Pittsburgh's shores. And there is no turning back. Life after life after life will be destroyed along with their families and t heir businesses and their friendships, just like in every other city that has fallen into the trap believing that casinos will enrich their lives. What the sheep of this region do not realize is that they've fallen for the oldest story in the book: that the casino owners are willing to share their wealth. While pockets and bank accounts (ATMs Galore!) empty, the owners will laugh and become richer and richer. Do you think that you're poor now? Go to a casino with all the bright flashing lights and bells and whistles and drinks, you'll be spending next year's money to keep the excitement going and you'll be poorer than the proverbial church mouse.

Ed Rendell pushed for it, bullied Luke Ravenstahl like a school yard punk until he got his way. Rendell's dream come true. Gambling in Pittsburgh. Poor people shoving over their hard-earned money with the hope that it will turn their lives around. That they'll be happy somehow, making the governor and his buddies even richer.

"Fool are they, for foolish things they do."

Too bad about the Manson Murderers

The Manson women are getting older and one is very sick and dying and 1 has become a friend of Hollywood types, and now that they're in their 60's they're getting a lot of sympathy. And some are trying to get these ladies released.

The thing is THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE STILL ALIVE!!!!!!!

If we did what we should have originally they would be dead not sucking up millions and millions of dollars and making US as a society look bad because we're not running to their jail cell and begging them to be released.

They sealed their fate when they tortured and killed Sharon Tate, cut out her baby from her womb and killed the other people on that estate.

Of coure, their fate has never been experienced, just delayed. Like the old saying, "Justice delayed is justice denied!"

They have so far avoided their fates. They've been living off of our goodness and mercy for 4 decades. They shouldn't complain or ask for release. They should just thank God that they're still alive and able to still laugh when they hear the details of their victim's deaths.

Let them stay where they are...AND LET THEM ROT!

Shame About the Welfare

One thing about Welfare that few or no people ever address:

Its that those who receive it never achieve that most wonderful human accomplishment: their destiny. They never realize what it is their good at. Their gifts go unused and unappreciated. To depend upon others keep them and their abilites at arms length, and we're never able to see what they're capable of.

Welfare not only robs society at large through its depletion of funds, but robs the recipient of ever realizing their great potential.

A shame really.

Ah, we're so nice. We let the murderers live

Everytime we send a convicted murderer to live out his or her life in prison we tell EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY POTENTIAL MURDERERS that we take murder as seriously as we do jaywalking.

I seriously doubt that our country has the capacity or the interest in keeping us as safe as we need to be.

How many children need to be killed, raped, murdered, stolen from their families before we get really pised off and put some of these monsters in the ground?

We actually take some of these punishments seriously. "3 lifetimes in prison, 146 years in prison, 100 years and 3 days". My gosh, its a fucking joke! And our children are no safer, the monsters are bolder, the system is weaker and the judicial system becomes just a dispenser of "joke justice." My new term for the prophylactic way of handling murder cases.

Judges and juries had better get their acts together and start to see what needs to be done to send a true and tried message that was once part of our national mindset, "If you kill, you die."

But they won't. Because its now all a big joke. Murder has become so commonplace, such a normal part of our reality that we can't imagine reading the newspaper or watching the news without being the headlines.

And the farther we go, the farther away from true justice we travel. Murderers are not scared of jail. They've been in jail many times in their lives. They might, they just might be scared for their lives if they think they might be killed if they kill.

But this is America. And we have no right making our streets safe and allowing our children to feel safe in their beds. Murderers have moms and dads that love them too. And murderers need love and respect and care and nurturing. And we have no right to tell them what to do, or not to do.

We might hurt their feelings. And we don't want to do that.

My review of Mrs Callender's Lasagna

A disgusting flavourless mess.

ONCE AGAIN WITH THE MURDER THING

Kelsey Smith’s murder is another reminder of our failed judicial policy in this country. Until we are angry enough, and ruthless enough, and have lost enough of our precious loved ones, we will not punish the murderers of our children in the way that they deserve. At this point we laud the murderer, we give them reason to kill, we punish them so lightly that those who might kill have no reason to think twice. Murder elevates the murderer’s status. They will be talked out and immortalized on television and maybe the movies. The only reasonable punishment is a punishment that is so horrible as to stupefy the mortal imagination. We need do that only a few times. And then we must let the country know that we will do the same to anyone and to everyone who takes the life of another. But our country hasn’t the guts, or the determination, or even the desire to bring a halt to murder. We have grown used to it. We have become accustomed to it. The murderer has become a folk hero, has taken an elevated place in our society. And we will not allow anything or anyone to subvert that. We love murder too much to change it now.

No Sympathy From the President

A letter to the editor, published May 28, 2007:

To all those young men and women who are considering joining the armed forces of the United States: While your desire to serve our country is noble and brave, be aware, if you are send to Iraq to fight in an illegal and unjust war and you are killed or maimed, do not expect sympathy or gratitude from this present administration. The war was started by a president whose sole purpose was to offer substantial business opportunities to his and his father’s cronies. The aftermath was not planned for nor expected because this administration was not aware, or did not care, that the now feuding factions have been doing so for 1,100 years. The attempt at putting the top on a furiously boiling pot (that we created) may very well cost you your life. And neither gratitude nor sympathy will be afforded your loved ones.