New York Association of Phychiatric Rehabilitation Services Convention in The Catskill Mountains

Nyaprs for short.I attended the convention for the third year to see what I could learn from the folks.The people are from all walks of life.They arrive from all over the world to hear the workshops regarding Mental and physical health.The atmosphere is always light and friendly there.The workshops are generally for those who have had a hard road out of some mental or physical situation that effects them.Many are like myself that have fought ourselves out of a very dark place in our lives.My own story is one of a physical nature.I had a blood clot pass through my brain and temporarily

Blinded my sight.The time before that is for a couple years sorta a blur.I was to the point that I didn't remember where I was.I would be a mile from home in a car someone else was driving.I was headed for a nursing home soon.For the first time in my life I was truly terrified that I would be locked up in a place they put people waiting to die...

For the grace of God go I.The Clot broke up and made itself known.The doctors put stents in my heart and opened my arteries to clear out gunk.I am still balancing on a very narrow tightrope.The changes in my life lead some friends to arrange my transportation to my first convention looking for ideas.That was before my clot broke up.

My younger sister went with me as she had been a member for years.Her background in social services and elder care was known by people at nyaprs.I didn't want to go out of both fear and embarrassment.Hey I said to myself,"hey those people have some real problems,I am not like them".

I arrived to some warm and loving folks who were understanding enough to tell me I had need for fears because everyone there was fighting their way back from something.

Pop foreword to my trip this year.
I went with a clear mind that has still some problems that won't let me come out of a forced retirement do to that clot.But I walk without my cane most of the time now.I still have to catch a ride but I have learned to ride public transit so it is not so bad.

Enough of why I attend.Let me tell you what I learned.Did you ever wonder why you were afraid of things your parents were also afraid of.There may not have even been a life experience involved.
or perhaps abuse from your parents in childhood by their parents transferred to you?
Okay not to say your being compared to rats but that is where the discovery came from.

Lab rats were fed what they loved most,Sweets.They loved those sweets.The scientist then connected a tiny electrical charge to the sweets.Now every time the rats would try to grab some sweets they got zapped.Well after awhile the rats would not even try for the sweets.Even after the charge was removed the rats wouldn't touch or go near the sweets.Conditioning like Pavlov's dog you might be thinking.Perhaps that was also the scientists thoughts till they went abit further.

The shocks in the past would have been called conditioned.Pavloks dog got a treat each time a bell rang.The rat got zapped.Incentive and reward.Reward/punishment.Conditioned reflexes...?
The scientists ran test to determine anything else that would be showing up.They were surprised by what they found.

The rats genetics had been changed by the conditioning from fearing the sweets.The gene that craved the sweets was switched off.It was why the rat no longer wanted the sweets.That was very surprising to those researchers til the next series of tests came back to the lab.

Not only was the test rats gene craving sweets turned of but so was the rats offspring gene turned off.
 They also found by further tests that the gene can in time be switched back on in the future.It did not explain how.

you may be asking yourself how this is anything to do with mental illness and I will explain in a tiny example.

Any condition that a human goes through for a period of time the researchers are discovering has a direct effect on the human genes.That is the same for sweets,violence,abuse,trauma,stress.A list that would never end if it were even tried.

Those researchers found that our very genetics are effected by every point in our day and night.Every point of our lives.My trigger as lifestyle and stress.I have changed my life to hopefully switch that death dealing gene off for as long as possible.Life is tough even the strongest of people haven't made it out alive.

The stress and craziness around us is changing us each heartbeat of our existence.The more we learn about whats going on right there in front of us behind our backs,The more we should look at changing our lives.Changing our ideas to take away stress and violence.It is being sewn into the very genetics of our being.

That has seemed to be the our destiny till now.Our job as humans who claim to be the top of the food chain.The top of the intellectual totem pole standing on all other things,is to find a way quickly to switch those genes that are the nuclear trigger of existence the triggers that can finalize our chances of any future for ourselves.

That is what I learned at nyaprs convention.The damage or switches that are either our friend or Nemesis is within us all.we have the power to change even the very genetics of ourselves simply by re-enforcing the things that need to be changed.No electric shock required...

WE THE PEOPLE  can change the world if we just start withourselves first.

RJP


 

Limited Research on the Polar Icecaps Melting,Versus Studied Documented Proof

The arguments about Climate change and the Ice melting all over the world has become more balanced lately. The popular ideas of a man killing the environment are Partially true. Technology has a marked imprint on that which is from natural origins. I would give the argument that amount of agreement. It's obvious common sense from any side of the argument. That's the main problem though...
Read on and hear me out for my reasoning to this.

There is growing evidence of the Redwoods effected. Evidence after an oil spill.Evidence in cancers that carbon and other things cause. There is much wrong with how humans need is to rush forward without any idea of what compound effects will be created by that new technology.

There is also much research coming from a very different direction to support another common sense reason. This planet called Earth has spun in the void called space for who actually knows how long. Things of one sort or another have been here for eons. Whether it is you believe it be a God, Goddess, Dragon aliens, your monkey's uncle or a distant amoeba relative. The growing data and ancient finds we chose not to have hidden or destroyed by mindless military mutant minds are showing us Long Hidden Truths. We may not wish to see or hear about Those facts but, It won't change the data only blind us to the truth.

There' a few places to start your quest that I have looked at that lead me to others. It is only a tiny glimpse of the Planets History. Science Daily has some really informative things on studies with real facts. The journal called Science is another good source of information on different facts. I also have found information at Universities. Cambridge has some facts and figures on earth climate changing for various reasons.

There's a good article found by simply searching for the evolution of ocean temps. Another is the timeline of earth climate from 1.5million years to present.What's this good for you may ask. Read on to read a different mindset of ideas. Their discoveries that I am reading about involve observations resulting in those climate changes and the short violent history of our world before man arrived. Also after man moved in and there went the neighborhood.

I believe the Earth has long been on a cycle of Very tropical and very cold points in history. Its all based on what I read of our studies in Earths best science research journals. This research goes back to even cave paintings with the various now extinct creatures we humans wiped out trying not to freeze to death during the ice age. Dinosaurs could not live in such cold planets. People have recorded centuries of changes but were adaptable to that change.

Earth has changed on its the distance from the sun, tipped on its poles to the sun. The earth has even possibly changed the north and south magnetic poles at some point. Those are just a few things to keep in mind. There have been many changes as the Earth is never in a stalemate of change. Planets age. Planets evolve. Things do have a grand tendency to run in cycles or even circles. Planets or climates it's the same.

I also can see that many of those changes have brought extinction to species discovered proven to ever exist or not. Volcanoes, floods, meteorites that caused massive destruction from the heavens.
Those changes were not man-made. Droughts that changed the massive grassier plains of North Africa into the  Sahara desert. These happened from climate change naturally. The planet evolved. It is still evolving. Nothing can stop that natural cycle.

Now here is the kicker to this all. Mankind comes along at some point in time. Depending on your particular philosophy that blinds one to other realities of course.The moment a wild card like a man is added to the mixed that change will find a different path to evolve. The lack of these little varmints running around and changing things makes ma nature sorta disheveled, Like your mom when you bring the neighborhood kids inside to play shoot m up around her breakables.

The advances of fire simply meant lightning didn't have to burn forests, Filling the air with toxins.But re-energizing the ground with nutrients. Flint and steel did it.
Rivers didn't change with time to produce new magnetic flows from moving water. Damns did that. The natural magnetics of the flowing river changed the environment. The earth evolved...

Other devices produced more magnetic noise. Explosions from mining, building, engines, machines in general. All produce sound or magnetics. The very devices that we have used since we appeared on earth by whatever means are not of natural means. We are not of natural means. We don't live by natures rules we create our own. That in itself is a source of earth evolution. It is not the only one.

For millennia of time, the entire endless void of space and the tiny objects that crash at blinding speed through that void evolved changed. The Earth has been no exception to that change. Therein scientific evidence, We who are called "humans" have been here far longer than we will admit. Far longer than all the stories by all the philosophies would have us believe. In the tiny pebble of our human time on Earth, the planet has seen all the things Evolving, could throw at the Earth.

Autos and machines of any kind have been around a very tiny fraction of the recently found 1.5million-year-old skulls owners time. Still, there is a worldwide consortium that would point a monetarily focused figure to scold and cajole us into thinking the earth will heat up because of our technology.

The timeline of history says quite another thing. The dinosaurs need tropical weather to live. Plants needed tropical weather to provide food for the dinosaurs over the millions of years they existed.
Even the meat eaters needed the plants. Meat eaters ate the plant eaters...The weather and climate changed to cool down. Dinosaurs died out. Some animals evolved with the earth. The earth evolved.

The point is that this world will change as it has for millenniums. That's just the way it is and the way it has always been. The cycle will change with things either evolving with it or dying out like a dinosaur.
I do agree that technology has pushed the accelerator to speed up those changes. Unfortunately, like a kamikaze pilot, there's no reset beyond the point of no return. We are already seeing that point of no return. The question is this among many questions that should be asked is this: Will we choose to adopt or join the dinosaurs?

There's not much time. The Ice caps are already melting with a global temperature rising daily. Oceans and lakes are rising over damns and dikes. Adaption or extinction?

Till Next Time Folks,
Anyone interested in some tropical real estate in Antartica. Buy cheap now and avoid the rush. Plenty of running pure glacier water on ice.Land that may never be walked on by man.Just like the pioneers of old.Small population, no zoning, no laws, no IRS. Firearms are mandatory. I once saw a cartoon somewhere that made me laugh, the scene showed a man and their family in pajamas holding a flashlight on a burglar coming into their home through a window. The caption read, "don't worry about not having a gun, I brought my own.

RJP

Media Showing a Much Lighter Opinion of The United States President Lately

I have been noticing something a little bit unusual in light of the past few months media conversations. Everything including suggestions by various radio and television media of removing the President of the United States by whatever it takes.Nothing has been agreeable or approved that has been tried.I have seen several things myself that might have worked with some miner changes to the whole idea..But changing it is.

Recently though the hardcore conversations have toned down much of the, over the top comments on the performance and abilities of that office. Unless you listen to the stations catering to those who would be screaming in the street instead of lobbying in the senate or congress.That street screaming violence lost an election awhile ago.The hardworking silent majority spoke with a loud undeniable roar.Even those who lost the election have agreed with that.Lets call it the "Roar" heard roud the world.

Had the election gone differently the losing factions  would be running rough shod over us all.We would be totally independent on the government to support us.Dependent as much as the steel-belt,coal miners, mom and pop business' all over the country now find themselves being forced to do.Welfare is a very hard pill to swallow for those who have worked all their lives. People  who now wonder was it for nothing.Their own government forgot they were the ones who helped get officials to that ivory tower  to look back down on us.

In the past 20plus years the U.S.Government placed the rest of the entire world over the lives of it's own people.The USA was systematically sold out to the rest of the world.Our lifestyle was compromised by stupid untested ideas that whittle away at our lives.The world economy became our milstone pulling us under.

Our former enemies and present enemies were far more important an investment.We even dropped Huge shipping crates of cash from helicopters in the middle east.People in the USA were being given pink slips at the steelmills.Veterans and families were eating in soup kitchens.Billions was shipped overseas in crates to hand out to every tom,dick,and abdula.We are still fighting there...Where did thier money come from to buy arms?hmm!We gave them the guns and money to keep the war going? Strange but I remember that same similar scenario involving Mexican drug cartels and a drug lords getting guns from the USA.
I have traveled this country to see the steel mills sitting idle.People dirt poor with thier signs saying need food for my family.Will work for food.The wife and child sitting a distance away on the curb.Single parents truly slammed into the ground by the system.

Countries that just run commercials every so often with starving babies to help boost a world area that never seems to get on its feet.Media led the charge to our fall.There has always been a rule that you must raise yourself before you raise some one else.You must first help yourself before you help others.It is just common sense to do so.Then you help each other.There are however those that may never able to recover again if left to long.I have no answer for that person.

Regarding the last election win...

The longtime USA values would be gone after such an election . It has always been Get an education or goto work.Work hard ,pull your weight to succeed.Instead, in that world We would all be labeled  what ever label worked to beat down those who built the nations mainstream America.

People  who came from every walk of life,once worked hard to build what is now crumbling down around us.People who live in this century instead of not dwelling 150years plus in the past.We must build from this point in time or live in the past forever.156years ago we were killing each other. No one in thier right mind wants to return there for what ever reason.

Every inch of non-progress in the past 15plus years has brought our country closer to the third world status.We still are above some,but falling below others in industry,education,and healthcare ,rails,to mention a very tiny handful.Infrastructure is falling very rapidly. Political bickering has not been set aside by the few who live above the rest of the mainstream folks.They have very little in comparison to mainstream America yet feel their own changed/corroded ideas speak for us.They sit in Governmental session refusing to participate like spoiled children.

WE THE PEOPLE,who struggle to support families on a failing system with very little.There's nothing when the work is gone except each other.There are many who work But,do not earn enough to have  a savings accounts.Living day to day is a way of life these days for so many families.Still we are told our values of the past have no relevancy?Those values saved us from tyranny.Saved us from famine.Allowed us to have books that were not burned.These days there are books once again being banned.These values gave us the choice of learning a language by choice not doctrine or conquest.The flipside of this is Our new values allow us a medical insurance to have a sex change without question but do not allow a cancer treatment to a patient who could suffering.That patient dies waiting for that same quality coverage loaded with such terrific pain, morphines can not touch.

Does anyone realize the conflict and hate that we witness in the media.The crud that we see and hear as entertainment has been a boom to the stations and channels that are broadcasting 50year old programs on tv and radio.A time when entertainment was just that.ENTERTAINMENT.That flash back trend is driven by the media.People seeking something more mainstream they can identify with.

From the first morning show to the daily talk shows for those at home during the day into late night.

They take us back in time to places and people that just wanted to make viewers smile.There is no sales pitch about what your lifestyle, sexual habits or continual political propaganda for  any cause that isn't mainstream America.All the characters were Identifiable.Example:Much as I disliked Archie Bunker I could at least see the reasons of what made him the way he was.The Jeffersons,So many others.These days you can forget Family night.It doesnt exist.

Those same daytime slots now days have seen overly plump and extremely wealthy women or guys that dress like lawyers attacking guests and others for everything from their ideas to why they even exist.That's not entertainment.That's crude people that have forgotten where they came from.That is if they ever were where many Americans are today.It is also abuse to those guests.That mindset transfers into actions some people copy into their home life.Tranfers to life situations...Have you seen the attitudes of driving in traffic lately?

Crude and mean natured is the idea today.If it's in anyway crude then put it in the show.Can you imagine a show where the actors/actress are always talking about how many sex partners they had or a"woman"built like a linebacker was always entering like Jackie Gleason.Just turn on the tv and you don't have to even use your imagination.

How about a guy who's only task in life was to have sex with as many women as possible.Then the watching public gets wind he has actually given multiple partners crotch rot.Oh boy! thats entertainment.Yech.How about a program with an actor who is a serial killer as the hero.You wonder why kids are messed up?Where did that mass school shooting idea come from you ask?Just swith to the right channel.You'll find it.

I wonder if the people on the news ever ask without agendas or bias,across America just how people felt before the election.How bout at present.Then I wonder if those peoples opinion would be broadcast without an angry mob carrying signs and looting after them in the streets.The Presidents Stats have increased to the positive so they say on last night talking head show.They look at each other and they don't know how.Thats because they don't live in the rest of reality.They live somewhere in a different reality away from the working class.Or what had been the working class.They live away from the silent majority who are being berated,bullied by people who do everything to make them feel guilty and ashamed for values they believe in.

The silent majority are normally quiet peaceful folks who try to believe the system will keep what is traditional on the table.It's rare to find them marching in the street.They have families to support when they can do so.unlike some,they have responsibilities at home

Those who would make the working class feel guilty have forgotten how it felt to be one of those being attacked for who they are or what they believe.Forgot what it felt like to trade what they need for something they would enjoy.Not out of choice but out of necessity because you can't afford it.  We're just not taking  care of our people today.Do I buy my meds or the children's school clothes.What would you do?They'd rather debate who has different whatever fill in the Blank      .Bet they don't attend church much or if they do so...

Perhaps that only counts when they pass the plate on Sunday.

On the news later is just how much the government isn't working together.The media and their programming against mainstream America is what lost that last election for that view. Constantly complaining how things are,but not pointing out how to fix-it.Never looking at the stores that WE THE PEOPLE shop in.We shop where we can afford to buy what we need.They need to climb out of those ivory towers.The gaggal of folks would see that we really are in a shit storm bigger than the Texans are experiencing.That's dreadful enough.

I pass through areas on my travels that are completely empty of once thriving offices,banks and stores that now set empty.Homes that sit vacant.in small communities and huge metropolis areas.People are reported to be off the welfare and unemployment lines.Pretty good reason for that really.The jobs gave out.The benefits ran out.The people could not find jobs.The lines at the welfare and unemployment lines shortened from no one now qualifying to receive those benefits.

On paper the statistics look great but,That family is now living under a bridge.Problem solved Media person.Statistic are the most unreliable thing.Based on whatever is added or subtracted is what the outcome is.For short you can make the outcome anything you want based on what you choose to use as facts.VERY useful to fudge over such things as poverty.

We live in this dying place and watch helplessly as we struggle to hang on while things are outlawed to make us more dependent on the handouts.Each day that passes we see the proud owner of some established old business fail.Then the long time resident loses the car.Finally the bank kicks them out of their homes.If they can't payupthe law comes,tosses thier worldly goods out in the street.The people stand in the cold watching thier world destroyed with the help of those who protect and serve.The lesson here is the newly homeless are no longer tax payers.Welcome to the afterlife...

Big cities are looking in places like Detroit, like war zones.City blocks vacant for miles.Business failing do to no people living there.Try to sell your household goods at the local flea market.regarding survival and bartering after things crash.

You will need your social security card to give them for taxes before you can sell there.Salt on the open wounds from the tax folks.try to give or sell that now homeless family a weapon to hunt for game...see where you end up.feed them in the park and watch the overstuffed rich swarm out to have you arrested.

In some states where its a deadly sin to even talk about survival you will find them in the worst politician/media self created poverty.Hunting is frowned on,Self protection has been outlawed.Don't worry the campaign to outlaw guns worked there.The media sorta forgot to tell the no weapons supporters,"that's okay...Muggers and rapists will provide their own guns cause we can't regulate thier guns".Afterwords the police will tell the now victimized persons they couldn't do anything till victims become available.What a system we got here.

The Plump TV hosts are obviously not going hungry.Their clothes obviously didn't come off a thrift store rack as many of ours did.Still its entertainment we are presented....Why do we watch? 

Those who would attack their guests would also attack your ideas and make it the law.There would be no more compassion for you who did not believe as them anymore than ISIS or any fanatical group.

In their dream world only those they excepted as their people who are all neglected after applying for those programs specifically designed for only them."Their chosen people" as the last 8to 12 years in this country has shown would rise above all who disagree with them brow beaten down by propaganda and created pseudo guilt.There would be no equal anything but to those "chosen" people.ISIS is a very good example of that type of philosophy happening in the world. This what we want in the USA?

You might take a hard look at the various folks who preach about giving ALL children and People the tools to rise.Then start looking closer at the organizations and who is being supported.I support ALL people rising again in the USA.The special supported interests/places would better be called THEIR PEOPLE...Many deserving people are left out of that group.Many of the supported Organizations are not even helping our people in the USA.We have to help our people first.YEAH our people ALL the people like they are doing in Texas right now.Watch the videos in Texas.They are not sorting out THEIR PEOPLE to rescue.Everyone's being rescued.

The average person who could do better would find themselves better qualified but denied the job.Motivated to do the job but passed over.living in the street because you don't deserve a home.un able to defend themselves and family when the mobs in the street decide to rage again for whatever.

The only legal people  would be those who were not.Their rights as non Mainstream  would pre-empt the others.Think about the laws that were attempted by the usual faces in the papers in the past 12years.Think of the laws and how they would have effected you personally.then project the next step to back up these laws.One state(California) passed a law to force everyone possessing a clip 10 rounds of ammunition to turn them in or become a felon.None were ever turned in.How much money went into debating a law nobody wanted.The law was discontinued.Another cost waste.These are the ones who would be king?

Rights...would be based on Race,sexual preference,Party you belong to Etc.is this what we are looking for as  the future of our Country?It is said that when Rome burned that Nero fiddled.The one story that a teacher used to tell the history class I attended was that the emperor Nero had, had enough of the different and poor people living around his place and cluttering up his view.He sent his soldiers out into the peoples homes to set fire to their homes and shopsin the dead of night.The fiddling helped drowned out the screams of the people as they burned.Nero never thought anything could touch him...He was wrong. 

The President is getting to be better known and the media is backing off because they sense that they have fiddled far,too long and the flames of the silent fire is nearing.The next election is coming.

I would hope the winds of change are not as severe as those in the south.WE really must support things that have been neglected far too long.We are Americans who must defend our borders with compassion.Many of the legal immigrants have become our best doctors.Do it right the first time and you won't have to worry about it later.Anarchy rules where there are. no rules.Tyranny rules when there is no true equality.Nations fall when there is no opportunity or incentive left to be patriotic about.

My own family is comprised of numerous nationalities all here legally. The combinations of our countries problems the USA face are ones that have brought down empires in the past.Do we actually want our nation to lose it's identity in this world?Should we change everything to suite a hand full.I would not like the 3rd world as my home country that I grew up in.For all that is may have been it is still our best choice.

Till next dear reader stay positive.If you feel the need to kneel these days let it be for a short prayer to help us all to fix whats broken and mend what we can before its too late

RJP

Yet another Storm Pounds The South With Destruction With Losses of Life

A few days ago I wrote about the Texas storm that came ashore to destroy lives and property.That is not going to be better for many years.Those poor folks are out of house and home.Jobs are gone because the storm has destroyed the lines of commerce for the time being.Communication is down along with most of the power.The Texans are turning to regroup and rebuild.

This next storm has hit Florida as the news is stating.Insult to injury is the weather is far from done with that part of the country.There are even more storms nearly as big which will inflict more damage to Florida,the Gulf and Islands in the Caribbean.

The reports are coming in from those areas that show astronomical damage that has been done.
Some of those Islands are no longer humanly inhabitable because of damage and sanitation.
The inhabitants have seen other storms in the past.Those storms have not been as severe in the past so its being said.I guess you would have to be there.

The point is these people,Our fellow human beings are in need of our help for a while.They are not asking for a handout.Just asking for a hand up.They will need water,non perishable food,Blankets,Clothing.(most spare clothing would have to be left behind).first aid and other essentials.

You may be saying how the BLEEP am I suppose to send all that stuff and where?Give to the organizations that handle that sort of thing.They got the system down on how to do that.Food link,the Red cross,Salvation Army.Your local Television and radio station who are near you should be able to point you to a resource nearby.

There is a whole list of folks that are helping to gather things for the literally millions of families that out of house and home.This is your opportunity to do the right thing by being part of a good thing in history.Millions of folks will need help if your up to being part of it.

Say a quiet prayer for those who have lost everything short of their hope and dignity.
RJP

Irony is The Word I would Use For The Historic Attacks On Our Nation

I remember Seeing a group of normally jovial easy going truck drivers standing around a tiny television set.The worlds largest truck stop in Walcott Iowa Had gotten so quiet You could heard a pin drop.Tears were running down one of the drivers face as they watched with shock on their faces.I would describe The looks as disbelief at best on all the peoples faces.

My curiosity finally got the best of me.Some times curiosity is a cruel teacher.
I walked over to see what was so intriguing.What emotional trigger had effected these men and women to that point.That look on their face was soon joined by mine.I would express my look as total disbelief at the images bursting out of the screen.  Images that burned into my very soul.

This had to be the special effects of some new disaster movie.RIGHT?

Again and again the video played to the the gathering crowd of the curious. Each person that joined the group became affixed on the shocking images Standing in total disbelief at what was being embedded into the minds,hearts and souls of people all over the world.A billion plus witnessing the act of true evil.

Then someone turned up the sound as the newscaster announce details of what we were looking at."The twin towers of the world trade center in New York City Has been attacked by terrorist along with at least two other planes.Then the second plane crashed into the building.My eyes began to tear and run down my face as WE THE PEOPLE watched our fellow humans,Fellow Americans being murdered by madmen.

The holocaust that was being presented took mankind to the very scene of mass murdering of innocent humans.The Fear,and suffering in terror of thousands of people dying in mass.The fumes and furnace blasts of heat in a place that wasn't intended to ever become a death chamber.No different then the Gas chambers of so short a time ago.

The carnage did not stop there as those planes exploded into flames killing some and trapping others.The heat so hot that steel beams melted as if made of taffy.then those huge structures full of terrified people who just wanted to work to support themselves and family collapsed in huge heaps of rubble.

Many rescue people who were valiantly trying to help as many escape as possible.Many rescuers running into the building as it fell.They gave their lives trying to save others.Those were the ones who died there on the scene.Others resucuers would die slowly and painfully as the poisons took their health. Then the poisons took their lives in the next few years.Concrete dusk combined with gases,and carcinogens finished what the homicde maniacs started.

16years ago I stood with others who watched in shocked silence. The twin towers crashing to the ground killing those those thousands of innocent people.I saw then and still see what the people who could plan such atrocities would beand are capable of.I need only reflect to the many holocausts in human history to fully understand what hate,fear and fanaticism does to some.It blinds the compassion that makes us human.It reduces us to

There has been much controversy of these last 16 years as to who or what is responsible.There has been equally many ideas about how it happened.Explosives in the underground garage,cheap construction etc.I saw two planes crash into two buildings going very fast with tons of mass.
It takes not a rocket scientist to understand that much force by that big an object is going to create huge damage in a very short time.

Steel has a melting point which jet fuel would quickly reach in such an oxygen updraft area.There is a term that any firefighter knows and fears.Its when the interior of a room reaches a point and everything flashes into a spontaneous ball of fire.That much heat at once creates incredible amounts of heat.

The information that I would hope one day is brought to light is this..The people who orchestrated and planned the action.Those people in the plane may have been the strategic genius's as claimed.
But would it not be better to release any and all the information if there is any to the general public.After all we,like those people in that truck stop and the survivors of the victims were all involved in a most traumatic way.

We have never been farther into who and what were involved beyond that tiny bit of information the news media seems interested in.It won't bring those victims back who were slaughtered with so much fore thought of malice.It won't un-do the monstrous act that still haunts the world in a moment of silence.
It will let the victims who died rest in peace.It would finally find anyone else responsible.

9/11 May we always let this day remind us of our price we may pay for our way of life and our freedom.

WE THE PEOPLE must remain vigilant and always remember.

Till next time friends
RJP

Is It Time to Rethink Fraternities an Sports Departments at Colleges

This story may seem disconnected at first but there is a point to this whole scenario if you care to read it all.Think Before You Decide...

The news this week is disturbing enough when things happen that we can doing little to prevent.A woman walks up to another woman who simply stopped to get a little peace and quiet while eating her sandwich at lunchtime..The victim was in her vehicle in a large parking lot to a mega store.

She had chosen the spot because it is in a parking lot that is away from the other cars.The store is also far away from her parking spot so no one will be bothered by her presence.This was  a favorite spot to just get away from the madness in this world.To find a peaceful moment away from things.

Another women,A complete stranger, randomly walked up to this the peaceful woman's car and pulls up a pistol and fires 2 shots into that woman's head.Killing the woman as she sat there.

No reason can be given for the shooters actions.She had just picked out a victim at random.The victim leaves  a husband and two children.She had no enemies and many friends.The shooter will be either tried as a murderer or found to be incompetent to stand trial by reason of insanity.The victim will be dead and lost to her loved ones and friends forever.

The shooter was caught after this incident holding that gun on a nearby store attendants head.Again,No reason but that near victim lived by reasons unknown.The shooter had 2 pistols when caught later.She knew neither person she picked as victims.A life was lost who we must now equate with another. That murderer we will support and take care of for the remainder of their life.Perhaps to soon be released to live free as a bird.Perhaps to become insane again to shoot someone.Will the bullets match the fatal one.Trial by a judge and  jury to follow...

The next article was about Penn state university.An institution that was in the news a short time ago for UN managed abuse of university situations.A coach that was well known had been  abusing children.

It went on for years with knowledge it said in the news by university officials.This was mentioned to reflect a past event of problematic moral proportions.

Now that same university is once more in the news for another well published incident which resulted in a death.A death which is being passed off by the courts as just sports kids doing what they do.That foolishly lost  life apparently meaningless for the judge. A judge  who has dropped pretty much all responsibility for forcing a hazing "pledge" to drink so much alcohol  then allowed him to fall down a flight of stairs.The good frat brothers pledged to stand together. They did.They left him  where he lay for helpless hours injured,dying and alone.No one had the decency to call 911 for help, so he died.Just as if they had put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger.Were They also insane?

Being a child of a lessor god His family apparently was looked on as less important to the judge. Justice is not really worth their sons life?So in his honors infinite wisdom dropped a majority of the charges.What would make this not ,Not worth anyone else who might copy cat.

Boys just having a a little fun with the newbie.A Fraternity,Frathousegood time.

Was the Judge a former Frat boy?Was he just seeing how it was.  A slap on the back for the good ole boys?Thats how we frat bros used to do it to those newbie worms we made crawl as pledges,right?The judge may have thought.No doubt the defense may have also been thinking?Should that be taken into a closer look?Would that cloud an attorneys sense of thinking?

The perpetrators of this hazing are all athletes?The Television showed them in various uniforms that were team oriented?Readers need to ask themselves this question:Why are team members boozing it up on a  State university in the first place.Where is the The university's  dean of students?Finally,

Where is the other parents who pay this place to hire degenerates and allow students to kill other students.They seem to also be okay with hazing to death students.Highly insured Children policies?

Where is the person who is in charge of this frat-house?Why are they not held responsible also?What kind of team rules apply there if these guys actually are on a university team playing sports with gallons of beer.This is sports season for many sports and alcohol is in use with these supposed reps of the university?Drug and alcohol tests all round and often...

Readers may also ask themselves if this college/university needs to have whatever funds yanked until they get their "stuff" together for a lot of rule enforcement.Maybe clear out the deadwood that seems to run(is anybody running this place?). Sounds like the animals are running the ZOO.The inmate running the asylum.

The community around the university never seems to  mind all the bad publicity I guess.The trial is right there and no one seems disturbed with that judges decision. Maybe, except the parents who raised a son to go to school and be murdered.It is not Columbine is it?Or is it?

This is not the only school with problems.I know about bullies and peer pressure as a child. This is just one of the more advanced versions.Peer pressure out of fear from those in mobs

I have a personal example for you.

My old cub-scout patrol leader Frank Jefferies (6years my senior)Pulled a Knife on me every morning at the school bus stop.I had cut my finger on a scout trip with a scout knife I got for Xmas.I was 8yrs old.When I got to high school years later, Jefferies.and his older friends, on the football team would grab me and hold me while he would threaten to cut my sideburns with a 6inch pocket knife at my throat asking me if I was a "bleeder.The other kids I had gone to school with all my life stood and did or said nothing.He couldn't grow sideburns in the 1960s.still can't.

It became a morning ritual with him.I know about ,peer pressure,bullies and mobs...I ended up walking 1 mile to school and a mile home. Through snow and rain.My parents both worked.The local cops said my word against the mobs wouldn't hold up in court.Told me it sounded like a personal problem and they didn't get involved till did he cut me or killed me.

I believe it was a famous author who stood before a judge and said ,"the law is an ass"The writer   served time  for that remark...But I digress.

This college students, parents paid big money to this place to allow bullies to kill their son in an institution that again and again shows a need for major/radical changes.The Judicial system feels this guys life is not important enough to punish the killers/bullies who killed him.

They may not have physically pushed him down those stairs drunk (OR did they?),but they bullied him into doing so out of fear of the mobs actions.The "boys" who were suppose to be responsible men murdered that student just as if they had the pistol of the first murderer.There is no difference.

Had they not been there and done those actions,That student would go on to become a useful part of the world. 

Fraternities type situations don't need to have such Membership nonsense. Universities need to assign the student to the places Student and institutions are link with. I really don't see any real reason to even have Fraternities.Either you are living there or your not.The excuse to be a Member is no permission of abusive behavior

There are too  many such things that are allowed to happen in peoples lives that should never happen.

To try to fight a mob legally is practically useless when it comes to defending one self.Its no different in school as a student.The student becomes the victim because it isn't happening to the other students. SO No ONE gets involved to avoid the mobs attentions.Thus the person becomes like those we read about when it seems hopeless .That's peer pressure by a mob.The frat bros.are that same cause and effect that's not acted on by another force.Institutions that fail to regulate the actions in a situation they know is not right.Like those Frat bothers and the kids at the school-bus stop.

The flip side of this, is some people enjoy picking on and singling out individuals.

They join the mob.It make them feel empowered.It makes them feel powerful for their inadequacies.

Jefferies couldn't grow sideburns for lack of?maybe male hormones. He had been embarrassed by this little boy who cut his finger on a camping trip.He was supposed to show me how to make a fire but sat in a corner that night..The other little boys had to help me put a band aide on my cut.Jefferies sat by himself and refused to help.He held that in his heart for the next 6years.I never got my merit badge though we had a nice warm fire that night.

Those Boys that helped me always remembered my incident. Those who were there at that students death, will remember the events leading up to it.If they were too drunk to remember then, whats the next thing they will be too drunk to remember?Vehicular homicide?is there any difference At Penn State University?Death the results of drunkenness, is still Criminally Negligent Homicide anywhere in the USA.I guess the exception would be a mob with the judgement of a judge clouded judgement.

WAS the judge a frat brother?What would be the cause of this judicial blindness?

The system as it always has, protects the mob on their word against the victim.When the victim is dead the mobs story can become law.Ask any lynch-mob what happened. The judge at Penn state just did.

Ask any rape victim after a court trial about the mob inside who listens so intently.Would the court room people have gotten help or would they have just watched?

The law is something WE THE PEOPLE hold as our tool to keep us under a system that is supposed to be one equal for all people.Human nature is not any different in many cases than the zebre getting killed by the lions.The other animals just run away and watch.We are supposed to be above that.We often fail so terribly. There are so many times when the law is bent and corrupted to the will of a few against the one.The law is supposed to punish those who would do another harm.

Where humans are involved there's no way to make it perfect.We are an imperfect species at best.Those who have been know to walk on water are short lived among the imperfect majority.

When the time does come to make thing equal and right we often fail miserably.

Your honor I do not rest my case...

Till next time dear readers Please pass on what ever some one has done to make your life better to someone you don't even know.The people in Louisiana and Texas have nothing and even a little wil go so far to make their lives a little better.PASS IT FOREWORD dear friends. Maybe its one of the small things we can do to be better people and make the word "MANKIND" less tragic.

RJP