The System WORKS!

The long travesty is over.

By jiminey......JUSTICE PREVAILED!!

Cyril.....WHERE will you turn up next?

The Robertino DeAngelis trial is now going on here in Pittsburgh. Guess who the accused 'expert witness' happens to be? Yep. Dr. Cyril Wecht is testifying about the 'fine points of hammer wielding'.

The doctor doesn't believe, in his 'expert' opinion, that the victim was hit with a hammer. The blows would have been more severe, says he.

(Or the accused was just a lousy assailant and the victim too fast, says me.)

Or...what the hell.....if not a hammer, I really don't give a damn. A ROCK, BRASS KNUCKLES, A PIPE....WHO THE HELL CARES? Is this a game of "Clue" for cripes sakes? "I'll say....Roberto DeAngelis....with a hammer.....by the trolley tracks." "No. Sorry."

"That's the wrong weapon. Mr. DeAngelis skates free on a minor charge of 'assault and battery', not the attempted f_cking murder Grand Prize we could have given him, except for this niggling little problem with the hammer. Guess the girl and the community loses."

Now why does it not surprise me in the least that Cyril Wecht has shown up in this media circus?

Kennedy assassination....Jon Benet Ramsey...rubbing elbows with Geraldo Rivera.....in other words, attach the media-- and a good sized price tag to it, the ass is there.

(That 'weapon-slinging' defendant's defense team must have on one BIG DAMN BUDGET! Wow!)



Lest we forget, folks............this is the same Cyril Wecht who gave 'expert testimony' in the ALIEN AUTOPSY hoax film back in 1995



I think it's important to bear that in mind.

So...

an interrupted crime in which the young man flees and throws himself in front of an oncoming trolley, grazed by the 'cow-catcher', suffering a broken wrist (sounds more like he thought he could beat the trolley across the tracks and get away)-

so this-- 'accused'-- whose backpack that day contained "in addition to the separately recovered hammer/alleged murder weapon– duct tape, box cutter and a large knife among other items" - (this sound like school stuff to you?)- well this young man is now being championed by well-paid, media heat-seeking missile, Doctor Cyril Wecht.

And the good doctor has set the record straight.

The good doctor thinks a hammer was not the weapon used.

And to this I say-

'WHO THE F_CK CARES what he hit her with? HE HIT HER, INTENDED GROSS HARM' -(or death) -and I want this out-of-control son of parents who can afford the likes of celebrity Wecht sentenced for the crime he was caught committing!

What's so hard about that???

Kick 'em When They're Down

1,800 MISTAKES?? It seems nearly two thousand veterans received letters falsely informing them that they have Lou Gehrig's disease...ALS...amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. MY GOD!!

How could such a HUGE error happen? Can you even imagine the panic of those vets opening their mail?

I want to know how such an error of RIDICULOUS proportions happened in the first place. One erroneous letter I could understand...a 'mouse click'- and a wrong name is selected from a drop-down menu. These things occur all the time in electronic data entry....but ....

1,800? Makes one mighty skittish about electronic medical record-keeping, doesn't it? ) Because you know it's gonna be blamed on a computer/sorting/etc.etc. 'malfunction'...but always, always, it's the monkeys pushing the buttons without controls in place to double check, that causes this stuff.

(It's just that this one.....well......given what our VA Affairs are going through with over-stretching of budgets and personnel, trying to manage the physically and emotionally maimed of this LOOOOOOOOONG, almost ten year nightmare in the Middle East... this current SNAFU is just intolerable.)

Makes me wanna punch something.

Big Mouths........What Are They Up To?

So the health care town hall meetings are being disrupted by loud mouthed protesters and armies of 'plants' from groups like those Tea Party numbskulls who just hate hate hate this new America with its black president and his evil plans to euthanize old folks and scrape the wombs of all the unwanted babies that God put on this earth to LIVE LIVE LIVE ( regardless of whether or not they'll regret it, seeing that they're being birthed by folks who don't want 'em). They're alive, and therefore part of God's plan (unlike Iraqi babies and Afghan babies we mistakenly bomb every day of the week, so I guess the rules change from timezone to timezone.)



My question is.........WHERE THE HELL WERE ALL YOU LOUD MOUTHS WHEN BUSH WAS MARCHING US OFF TO WAR?? Where was the social unrest when it would have meant something?

(Oh, that's right...Bush was a REPUBLICAN president, and therefore followed..therefore 'believed'.)

Even when it's proven he lied, it seems Republicans have short memories, and they like their "values" protected.

AMERICA FIRST! LAST.... (AND MAKE THAT A HARD RIGHT.)

What are they afraid of by letting the Democrats speak? Why do they need to shout so much?

Shouting gets in the way of thinking and listening and understanding. It's the same as an airhorn blaring overtop of an orchestra so you can't hear the music worth a damn, and for my money, any folks that scared of simple diaglogue are scared shitless. (And who, I wonder, is behind that curtain? Well, lookie here! It's a pack of drug companies.) It's CORPORATE.... BIG MONEY, ESTABLISHED health care giants and their well-paid lobbyists.

And the people who are allowing these self-serving bastards to sway them and scare them.....they're the shouters.

They're the morons who are too STUPID to realize we've had rationed health care since the HMO'S got control of things and set up rules like 'pre-existing conditions' and 'non-covered services'...if your eyes are good enough to read the fine, fine print in your healthcare manual, their game is deny, deny, deny......and if THAT isn't rationed, limited health care, then what is?

Their Medicare and Medicaid programs are SUBSIDIZED by our Medicare dollars and taxes. The govenment is paying for roughly 3/4 of all health care right now, but what is not happening is regulation in a responsible way that guarantees healthcare the way the laws should have been written. Why do health insurance carriers have such HUGE CORPORATE buildings? It certainly isn't because they act responsibly with the money they make.. WAKE UP FOLKS! --WE ALREADY GOT IT.

Now let's make it behave.

Ah Oh....Here it comes......

News article this morning (another one - newspapers love nothing better than a rocking tragedy to soup up circulation) about one of the victims of the LA Fitness shooting. Headline says 'Victim Worried About How She Will Pay Her Bills'...(anyone else see the unwritten word, 'DONATIONS' here?)

It seems this young woman has no health insurance.

It seems that she - (unlike any of the thousands who suffer from accidents they were not responsible for, such as being nailed by a drunk driver) merits this headline in the local paper.

My question is: being unemployed....owing student loans... why in hell would someone be in a commercial gym that charges (on average) 30 bucks a month, and in many cases, nearly a thousand for a year's membership in the first place? (Maybe she was there on one of the many many 'free passes' you say?) Those passes are lures, and they wouldn't give them out if folks who shouldn't be making that financial commitment, end up doing it anyway.

Why would a newspaper print this as a headlined article unless it felt it might drum up a 'fund' of some kind and further perpetuate this story -- maybe get a couple more articles out of this violent episode.. boost circulation, garner some more online hits. And why would this young woman give this story to the media unless she was hoping for financial assistance in the form of checks from little old ladies and sympathetic types who feel the need to be doing something about such a horrible event.

Funds for fallen policemen for instance, I understand fully. Those fellows were risking their lives for each and every one of us - and their deaths result in families with no means of support after they are gone - so yes, we do owe that. In fact, it should be an obligation.

But from all angles, this hysteria in this society (if you've read the entry below) is highly predictable...preventable...and its causes are rooted in a culture that devotes itself to hedonistic pursuits of every stripe.

As long as we're more concerned with the surface of things, the bottom falls out and disasters happen. I can't be clearer than that.

Look Around. What Do You See? Hear...Take In... Help to CREATE?

By this time, we've all had our fill of a vengeful, angry little twerp who shot up a room in a coed gym because he thought he was entitled to women and couldn't get any. And why not?

Doesn't this culture preach licentiousness?

Satiation on demand?

Don't we pride ourselves on a lack of patience by having our technology and our cellphones at our ears every moment? Access to the internet on our I-phones rife with texting and dating sites? Meet up places everywhere where anything goes... with the freedom to flirt and tease and bare it all in places like Facebook and MySpace?

Don't we join Fitness Centers where folks can ogle one another, not realizing that the angry little twerps might just be there as well, their freedom to ogle and seethe, unimpeded?

Are we ready to admit this is a culturally systemic problem, and the only wonder is that this sort of acting out doesn't happen more often?

I saw this picture in the local news. Flowers and balloons and tribute for the victims....and a pair of the shortest running shorts being worn front and center.



(Yeah. I'm probably gonna get a lot of flack for that, but people, think.)

What messages are being sent?

If you care about exercise, what's wrong with a women's health club? Why parade around in a place for both sexes if you're not looking for dates? What about the all the NUTS the internet is creating, sitting and stewing like some sort of 'Taxi Driver' characters and waiting till the voices in their brains get persistent enough so they decide to do something about missing out on some imagined gravy train that's plastered all OVER the TV, the net, music videos, commericals?

Think about it. Don't sell yourself cheap. These things happen....

can happen, anywhere. Just think about what you participate in and what you help to create, even subconsciously... and what messages are being sent. Am I saying 'they were asking for it?' No. Not at all. But be mindful...because that's exactly what the nuts will think.

Sometimes......it's a matter of life and death.

P.S.- As to the perp's online diary, anyone who give credence to one word of that thing is a damn fool. I have never in my life read such an evil pack of lies meant to hurt and malign all those he had a grudge against. He knew online media. He knew this stuff would create a buzz and circulate and recirculate, damaging all those he hated in life, long after he was gone. Dismiss it.

It's one hundred percent, unadulterated bullshit.