February 20, 2024

When I don't complain about my back hurting or lack of sleep, or missing my kids, for some reason people have recently written to me stating they are glad I feel better. My back hurts so bad that with the ability to try to sleep for 23 hours per day that I can only manage three or four hours. It is no different than to have someone elbowing me in the back constantly. The discomfort and lack of sleep keep me fairly crabby but I do not take it out on people.

I caught a news segment about a police officer who claimed to have been struck by a falling acorn that he mistook for being a bullet presumed to be shot from a gun by a man in handcuffs in the back of his squad car. His body camera video showed him emptying the clip of his pistol into the vehicle at the unarmed man. He claimed that he could not feel his legs after he was hit. How big was the alleged acorn? Police officers only require a G.E.D. to get a job. Give people with no life experience and education the most power and authority over peoples lives and property? All to the advantages of predatory government. Especially so when they are dishonest. I am not antigovernment. I just feel it could all be done so much better but those with power corrupt the system to suit their own interests. 

Thomas Jefferson actually wrote about, while designing and mostly copying the substance for our own constitution, the theories and flaws in governance. I think we could do better to redesign a few foundational documents now that various sciences have depend our understanding. Plus, originally, it was more of a vehicle to facilitate feudal warfare and slavery. Perfectly evident when the process of securing a criminal conviction is so centered around the elimination of a person's rights. Again I point out the variance in interpretation and application of constitutional rights and protections. Like, do inmates have a right to a fair trial in front of an impartial tribunal when the officer overseeing the hearing intentionally omits testimony from the record to eliminate any possible argument or appeal of his decision to "go with his staff" in his decision to punish an inmate for an impossible and absurd accusation? No, I still cannot get into the vocational program. Round and round I go with the same complaints. Sorry. I caught a comment about how expressing finality instead of asking for help (when calling 911) is an indication that the person is involved with what has transpired, on some crime show where they have professional commentators. I don't like those shows but the idea stuck in my head so I wrote it down. Someday I will get to listen to the interviews, interrogations, and 911 calls in the discovery material. I don't know that I am very good at spotting certain issues but I know other people have done an awesome job at identifying things I would otherwise be oblivious. Really, I expect watching any of that sort of stuff will frustrate and disgust me and I don't know if I will be able to sit through it all.

​Does anyone else think the Democrats would do better to run Al Gore instead of Joe Biden in the next presidential election? Now that climate change is more accepted? I can't watch Biden talk without thinking about tapioca pudding.