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Memories of the Greyhound Track.

  Memories of the Greyhound track, on the occasion of the tracks razing.  In the late 1980’s My father worked the parking lot security there. He would patrol the parking lot to keep people from breaking into the cars parked in the lot. He also escorted people out that had worn money to their cars. His girlfriend was a cashier there. My father was retired, and did the security for extra money. He and I both worked kennel security. He worked the day shift, and I worked the overnight shift. That consisted of sitting in your own vehicle and checking the area around and inside the kennel It was an easy job. The hardest part was staying awake.   One night I came on at 8pm instead of 11pm, and was paid for the 3 hours by the mid shift guy cause he had something to do. I ended up there until 1pm the next day. I worked a double plus the three. I went home tired, and found a note on the door that said everyone was at Yuma Regional Medical Center, with my sister having my...

Hollywood and Washington D.C.

  Hollywood is no different than Washington D.C. Both are hubs of power. Remember, "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power, corrupts absolutely."

Political Parties

  If you think that the fascism that the Republican/Trumplican Party is displaying, is different, from the socialism that the Democrats are displaying, then you are ignorant, and don't know what either are. They are both displaying their form of ideology and oppression.

December 17, 2008 Snowmageddon

  I was workin for Caltrans, about 45 miles south on the 15, at the top of the mountain. We went to work at 6 am on the 17th, snow started at 10 am. Las Vegas Paving was working on the road, and had detours up. It didn't stop snowing all day and and night. We worked 27 straight hours to keep the road open. We lost it about noon, and were behind until it stopped about 18 hours after it started. At 6 pm the relief crew from Needles, couldn't get up to us, because the road was closed, so we worked another 12, and others went home to be the day crew. I was plowing with a CHP officer, retrieving people from stranded cars for about 8 or so hours during the night and into early morning. We got two and half feet of snow at Mountain Pass, which is the top of the mountain. 15 was snowed in all the way from Cajon Pass, to the state line (Primm). 40 was shut down because of snow at EB Barstow, and WB at Goffs, and 95 was shut down at Searchlight. Up on the mountain the snow was deep, but i...

Worth

  Something is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. Worth to a person is subjective. Something that I have is worth what I want or need.

Why Do We Have Courts?

Because our Constitution says so. Our rule of law derives from that Constitution. There must be some resemblance of law and order in a civilized society, otherwise there is only anarchy, and chaos. Neither of which can be, if a society is to exist, let alone evolve. Courts are the adjudicators, and the police are the enforcement of societies rules for existence in said society

War Crimes

  Were they really war crimes? I mean did the U.S. ever have concentration camps? Did the U.S. ever put wholesale innocent people in ovens, and gas chambers? Or do unethical tests on kidnapped people? No on all accounts. So, no, we weren't guilty of real war crimes. Were we guilty of breaking the law, yes, I wasn't there, but I can figure out that to fight evil, we must get down on the same level. We must do that without losing our humanity, because that is the only thing there is remaining to glean from that situation.   There is no winning, nor is there any morality, killing is killing, and it is all bad, no matter the reason. No matter how much we try to justify it. Thing is, for us as a country to exist, we must fight and kill for that existence. This idea that there are rules that make it ok to kill, is pure fantasy. We need good men doing bad things to bad men for the good, the bad, and the indifferent, without losing our humanity as an individual or country. They ma...