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STEVEN NATHANIEL WOLKOFF-HOW MUCH IS A HUMAN LIFE WORTH?

2012-02-21T14:56:00.012-05:00

How much is the life of Steven Nathaniel Wolkoff, and his soul worth?

After you read this post, if you want to help obtain Justice for Steven, it would be helpful for you to IMMEDIATEY contact any or all of the following and let them know your feelings about what has happened and needs to be done by them going forward.

The San Mateo County Coroner and San Mateo County has moved in court to dismiss our Desecration of Steven's human remains case. That motion will be heard on February 23, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. (we have only 2 days from now) in the San Mateo County Superior Court. The case is Wolkoff vs. County of San Mateo Coroner’s Office et. al, Case No. CIV503483.

1) E-mail the President of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Adrienne Tissier now at atissier@smcgov.org or call her office at (650) 363-4572 and let her know that they should immediately withdraw their legal opposition with the San Mateo Superior Court re-our case being allowed to proceed to a fair trial by citizens of a Jury who will decide the merits of our legal case.

2) E-Mail - ROGER Fielding -Deputy Coroner of San Mateo County at rfielding@co.sanmateo.ca.us

3) Call the San Mateo Coroner-Robert J. Foucrault- (650) 312-5562.

4) Contact your local media with the below press release and ask them to publish it. If you have an online Blog or know of someone who has one, or online access to the media, feel free to distribute the below press release.

5) Send the press release to your friends, acquaintances and others to ask them to do any of the above in helping to spread the word in the 2 short days we have left before the Court rules.

For me this is an extremely painful, personal blog post about my first born son Steven Nathaniel Wolkoff who was killed at the age of 30, by 2 first responders paramedics there to help Steven, after a car driven by an illegal alien, who was high on alcohol and drugs, having no drivers license, was driving at unsafe speeds in excess of 80 mph in a 55 mph zone of the infamously unsafe coastal Highway 1, crossed the median, colliding with my sons car on a sunny, warm Saturday afternoon on June 21, 2008.

Steven was on his way back home to San Francisco from a happy, relaxing day at the beach with his girlfriend when the collision occurred. Steven lived for one hour on that highway while the paramedics from San Mateo County (SMC) California unnecessarily performed a medical procedure using an intubation syringe connected to pressurized oxygen and they mistakenly missed his airway while inserting the needle. Instead they had incompetently inserted the syringe into the soft muscle of Steven's neck which pumped the pressurized oxygen instead of into his lungs, it incorrectly went into his chest cavity, blowing him up like a balloon, which crushed his heart, exploded his entire chest, and caused an unimaginably painful death, all the while my son felt this pain as his body was blown apart.

This medical procedure was performed by 2 certified CAL-FIRE and American Medical Response Inc. "highly trained" paramedics who were supposed to be there to help my son by professionally treating his injuries.

Instead, they were so incompetently negligent that they did this procedure in spite of the fact that Steven was breathing on his own, neither paramedic had ever performed this procedure before in their careers, and a Medvac helicopter was 3 minutes away from landing equipped with specially trained medical trauma experts to treat Steven.

The Medvac helicopter would then have taken him back to the Level 1 Trauma Center at Stanford University Hospital, where a team of skilled Doctors were waiting to for Steven to arrive, the helicopter would have taken only 4 minutes to bring Steven from the collision scene to the hospital.

Steven should be alive today but he is now rotting away at the bottom of his grave, instead of enjoying life to its fullest. Death is permanent, forever he will be missed and loved.

As if that was not enough torture and suffering inflicted on Steven by stealing his life from him, the Officials responsible for the paramedics then desecrated, defiled, mutilated, disrespected Steven's body in death, in a manner that is completely inhuman, beyond comprehension.

I am sharing my personal feelings with you about my sons desecration, as Steven's father even though what I feel is so painfully impossible for me to reduce into words that you can understand the magnitude of what my family and I live with every day, now, for the rest of our lives.

My feelings will never change and I will carry them with me forever in my broken heart as a parent. Steven was an amazing loving son, a talented, skilled craftsman who was working on streaming media projects as the head team supervisor for major tech Company's, a amazing bass guitarist with his band, a voracious reader, writer, who embraced every aspect of life. He was a uniquely gifted young man, patient, kind, humble, caring, and loved by everyone he met. I am so proud of who he was as my son and as a man.

Yet somehow he ended up dead forever at such a young age, before he could experience the many beautiful things that he deserved. He will never be a father, have a family, smell the air, see the sun, feel the rain, talk, hug, kiss and feel love ever again. We buried him against the natural order of life as his parents, instead of his burying us, a true tragedy.

In death, Steven was not even given the basic dignity by those responsible in their sworn responsibilities of taking care of him in a way that is expected and required in a civilized society to recognize the sanctity of a human being who is no longer alive.

How can this be, why Steven, why did he have to suffer so much, why is he not here alive today, we will never know. I will never stop asking those questions.

Instead of San Mateo County officials acting in a humane manner, and being honest by holding themselves accountable for their actions to Steven as an innocent victim, they have disrespected, mutilated, his body, and tried to erase him as if he never existed.

San Mateo County has treated their horrific actions in the desecration of my sons body in death, as if their barbaric behavior is somehow acceptable. For me, this is not about a legal case, fancy legal words, and manipulations of laws by SMC to avoid their taking seriously the violation of their sworn responsibility to respect with dignity to protect, and treat with the utmost sanctity that we all expect for the dead, and of the human soul.

This is about the basic inability of SMC as a government entity that has instead gone out of it's way in treating Steven's body and the grief of my family, in such a disgraceful, cruel, inhuman way. Apparently San Mateo County feels that it is perfectly acceptable legally and morally to defile a human body.

What if this was your innocent child who was killed traveling through my community where I live, and his body allowed to be illegally mutilated by those in charge ? Would you not expect the honesty and dignity from me, my neighbors, to treat every human life in death as precious. Apparently NOT so in San Mateo!

How do the SMC officials live with themselves? How is it possible that there is not at least one brave human being, not one County Official in San Mateo County involved in all of this, who will come forward and recognize that a human life is precious and allow the citizens of San Mateo County to decide through a jury trial, as to whether justice should be given to Steven?

We will see, when the Court rules in the next 2 days on Thursday February 23, 2012 as to whether what was horrifically done to Steven in death is acceptable, has merit to go to a jury trial, or is "frivolous", and the acts of desecration of the dead is an acceptable practice in San Mateo County. We will see how the citizens of San Mateo County feel about the value of a human life.

Below is a press release appearing in the media over the next 2 days and we will get to see whether a human life is worth being respected while living and in death. I guess I expect that that the answer will be my worst fears that the corrupt legal system will continue to ignore Steven's human rights but I will hope for the best, that they are still capable of recognizing the value of a human life. We will see.

PRESS RELEASE - For Immediate Release: February 21, 2012

SAN MATEO COUNTY Coroner Sued Again Over Mishandling Remains

Jerald and Sandy Wolkoff attended a deposition for the wrongful death of their 30 year old son Steven Wolkoff. They were shocked to learn that the office of Robert Foucrault, the San Mateo County Coroner, had retained parts of their son’s brain. The Wolkoffs were not informed by the Coroner’s office that parts of Steven Wolkoff’s brain had been retained at the time he was released to their custody for burial. After having buried their son Steven, to learn about the mishandling of their son’s remains was devastating and in violation of their faith. Moreover, the Coroner’s office had released Steven Wolkoff’s brain to the Defendant’s third party lab and allowed it to be desecrated, cut into 20 pieces, all without the consent or permission of the Wolkoffs.

The Wolkoffs then discovered this was not the first time the San Mateo County Coroner had acted with such disregard for the deceased and the surviving next of kin. In 2006, San Mateo County resident Selina Picon learned that the Coroner had returned her son’s body for burial without his heart. She was outraged. Her lawsuit prompted the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors to pass a resolution recommending the Coroner put in place a policy of informing the next of kin when body parts of the deceased are retained. That policy was carelessly disregarded in the Wolkoffs’ case.

The Wolkoffs are suing the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office and San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault to prevent this trauma from happening to other grieving parents. The overpowering issue is that families of all faiths would desire their loved one’s remains be treated with dignity and not indifference. Sandy Wolkoff said, “This is a very big issue for me, maybe because there are so few chances left for me to fight for my son. I can't have him back, but I want all of him. I, as his mother, felt dismissed by the people involved in his death. They also seem to have forgotten that they have a moral and legal mandate to be respectful of him, and us, after his death."

Jerald Wolkoff said, “Despite the allegations of the SMC Coroner as to their change in protocol after the Picon Case, NO ONE from the SMC Coroner’s Office ever notified me or Sandy, post autopsy that they were returning Steven’s body to us without the various human remains that they kept. Furthermore, no one from the SMC Coroner’s office ever informed us, or sought our permission to have the Defendant in the wrongful death suit, dissect new slides of Steven's brain, over 2 years after his cause of death was determined by their Office.”

The San Mateo County Coroner has moved in court to dismiss the Wolkoffs’ Complaint. That motion will be heard on February 23, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. in the San Mateo County Superior Court. The case is Wolkoff vs. County of San Mateo Coroner’s Office et. al, Case No. CIV503483. The Wolkoffs are represented by longtime Oakland Plaintiffs’ lawyers J. Gary Gwilliam and Steven J. Brewer. For questions please contact: J. Gary Gwilliam, Steven J. Brewer, Jayme Burns at 510-832-5411,or Jerry Wolkoff at 516-697-4804.

Now we will learn just how much my sons life is worth in the the "justice System". I Don't expect very much but I am hoping for the best, a chance to exercise our rights to have the truth told, be decided at a Jury Trial and not have our case ruled on randomly by an indifferent Judge.

THE ELITIST PENIS AND UNEMPLOYMENT

2012-02-09T13:49:00.014-05:00

I often wonder how many Americans truly understand the honest truth behind the ways that our Government has lied to us for decades. There are so many events, statistics, explanations, phony self congratulatory pat on the backs by corrupt politicians and others who take credit, place blame on others, or simply withhold the truth from the public when it comes time to explain what really goes on that impacts on all of our lives.

No wonder the hot topic of the day is about the Governments regulations concerning the use of condoms.

As usual the critical issues facing the survival of America are not seriously discussed, instead every opportunity for politicians to divert attention to "circus' holier than thou, flag waving, god endorsements by these hypocrites, from what must be discussed, is rarely, if ever spoken about by them.

A decision in including a mandate for contraception coverage in the Affordable Care Act insurance policy can suddenly become the bull shit issue of the week, instead of something more relevant such as the amount of people out of work in America. What we get is to hear the pompous,Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner (AKA "BONER") calling the regulation unconstitutional.

Then there is the marketing genius of Jose Andujar, the guy who got in some trouble last year for selling “Obama condoms” is at it again.

This time, he’s marketing condoms using Mitt Romney‘s name. ROMNEY CONDOM.COM DESCRIBES THE PRODUCT AS: "Who's the Romney Condom for? The condoms are intended for "anyone with an elitist penis, tax free so even the poor can afford them" and states that they help keep unemployment numbers down "by preventing additions to the work force.This is one "safety net" that doesn't have any holes, and despite Mitt's Inability To Stick To A Position, Romney Condoms Are Great For ANY Position."

But I digress and want to focus on the big lie. The Government, Economists, Wall Street, financial talking "heads", the usual suspects, are all glowing brightly about how the U.S. economy is finally out of the recession and things are becoming great in America, particularly they point out how the unemployment rate has fallen in several consecutive months as a way to prove their beautiful phony scenario of America on it's way back to prosperity.

LOUDLY THE "HERD" PROCLAIMS THAT THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FELL TO A 3 YEAR LOW OF 8.3%.

Further they explain, the number of Americans filing first time claims for unemployment insurance payments unexpectedly declined last week, indicating the labor market recovery is gaining traction.

Applications for jobless benefits decreased 15,000 in the week ended Feb. 4 to 358,000, Labor Department figures showed today. Economists forecast 370,000 claims, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey. The easing of dismissals is moving in tandem with a drop in the unemployment rate, which fell in January to a three-year low of 8.3 percent.

“The recent positive momentum over the past two months is being sustained,” said Millan Mulraine, a senior U.S. strategist at TD Securities in New York, who projected 360,000 claims. “If we stay within this range, then we should see employment growth pick up.”

Truthfully, NOT EXACTLY! Actually this is a perfect example of how we are lied to in such magical language, what in fact is full of shit conclusions being used to fool the American public once again about what is really going on in our Country.

SO LET'S UNDERSTAND THIS CLEARLY:

According to comprehensive statistics from the U.S. Labor Department as of June 2011, we have a huge unemployment problem, with a reported 14.1 million people out of work which at that time was 9.2 % of our work force.

This Month as has been said their report and the political hype indicates the unemployment rate is now 8.3%.Unfortunately, the headlines and what actually is happening are often not the same.

I will use the above June 2011 U.S. Labor Department statistics as reported numbers since I have previously analyzed them in detail and they are not significantly different than the current numbers.

To comprehend what’s going on you have to know that the Labor Department refers above to this 9.2 per cent unemployed as “non farm" payroll employment. Notice that the news talks about non farm payroll employment. In other words, it does not include the self-employed or farmers. How big a deal is this?

The government says that 10.4 million people are self-employed. This is equal to 6.9 percent of the 154 million people in the civilian labor force.
Farmers about 2 percent of the population, according to the Agriculture Department. That’s equal to roughly 3.8 million workers.

In total we have 14.2 million people (10.4 million plus 3.8 million) who are not considered when unemployment numbers are tallied.

People Not In The Labor Force are another excluded category. In June, 2011, "2.7 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force" according to the government. These individuals who were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. In other words, you have to be actively looking for a job to be counted as unemployed.

Lastly, we come to those who are not counted because they are discouraged workers. The government says that “among the marginally attached, there were 982,000 discouraged workers in June". Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.7 million persons marginally attached to the labor force in June had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities

Under-employed. Who are these folks? In general terms the underemployed are people with jobs, but not the jobs they want and not the jobs which fully reflect their skills, experience and training.

People are often under-employed, especially when the unemployment rate rises because workers are logically concerned that if they leave their present employer they will be unable to get a replacement job with equal or better pay and benefits. The result is that they stick where they now work rather than look for a better situation.

The bottom line:The actual number of unemployed folks in America using all the above official numbers supplied by the U.S Labor department is 28.3 million people (14.1 million reported officially as unemployed plus an additional 14.2 million people who are conveniently never considered unemployed by the U.S Labor Department Statistic), even though these people are out of work and have no jobs.

THE REAL NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE AS OF JUNE 201 is 28.3 million people which translates into a 20 percent unemployment rate, NOT the reported 9.2 % or 8.3% reported rates of 14.2 million people!

Official unemployment figures of 8.3% or 9.2% are huge, enormous deliberate distortions, lies, manipulation of statistics by the Government to make you feel better.

These numbers are used as propaganda, a slick denial mechanism in trying to stabilize the U.S. financial markets, perpetuate political agendas, and to simply lull you as a citizen into feeling better so that you don't ever understand the ugly reality that our Country is deeply in trouble, potentially beyond the point of being fixable.

This is significantly (an understatement but I am trying to be optimistic) a much larger critical problem then the American people are being told, and it is reported in this distorted manner every single month by the U.S. labor department.

It has always been statistically done this way and is not a function of the current administration doing anything different than past administrations, all were hiding the truth.

When we look around and are told that the economy is getting better, yet we see so many of the people we know with no jobs, families losing their homes to foreclosures, credit card consumer debt at it's highest ever, retirement, regular savings at its lowest ever, it makes sense to believe in the accuracy off these government supplied statistics that I have shown above, and not the "official" ones, released by them as the "unemployment figures" .

This is a semantic, cruel game of fake three-card monte shuffle, smoke, mirrors, disrespect, to fool the public.

The thing that bothers me the most about all of this is how human beings who are unemployed are treated as if they are simple numbers in a great math fraud formula.

It is so sad, the number of people out of work, and the way their lives are negatively impacted, especially those who have given up looking for a job.

It is the indifference to the young, middle aged, and older Americans who are suffering emotionally, physically, as their lives are falling apart in many cases, spreading to an epidemic of families, individuals struggling to financially survive on a daily basis. These are our friends, children, neighbors, and perhaps you will be the next one to join their ranks as Corporate America greedily piles up their profits while reducing their investment in American jobs.

70% of the U.S. GDP (Gross Domestic Product) comes from consumer spending NOT Corporations,not the private sector.

This human misery and pain felt by the unemployed is always ignored and they are mostly good people who are suffering, deserving of each of our compassion, and a Government that helps them as human beings. Instead they are ignored, many not even considered worthy by their own Government to be counted as a number in a crooked, fraudulent math formula.

THE GREAT MATH FRAUD FORMULA OF UNEMPLOYMENT

There is no better way to explain this than using the classic comedy of Abbot and Costello's famous "Whose On First" comedic routine above about Baseball, AND EDITING IT BELOW TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT "GAME" FRAUD OF NUMBERS.

COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America . ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It's 8.3%. COSTELLO: That many people are out of work? ABBOTT: No, that's 14.2%. COSTELLO: You just said 8.3%. ABBOTT: 8.3% Unemployed. COSTELLO: Right 8.3% out of work. ABBOTT: No, that's 14.2%. COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 14.2% unemployed. ABBOTT: No, that's 9%... COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 9% or 14.2%? ABBOTT: 8.3% are unemployed. 14.2% are out of work.

COSTELLO: IF you are out of work you are unemployed. ABBOTT: No, you can't count the "Out of Work" as the unemployed. You have to look for work to be unemployed. COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!! ABBOTT: No, you miss my point. COSTELLO: What point? ABBOTT: Someone who doesn't look for work can't be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn't be fair. COSTELLO: To who? ABBOTT: The unemployed.

COSTELLO: But they are ALL out of work. ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work.Those who are out of work stopped looking. They gave up. And, if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed. COSTELLO:

So if you're off the unemployment rolls that would count as less unemployment? ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely! COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don't look for work? ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That's how you get to 8.3%. Otherwise it would be 20%. You don't want to read about 20% unemployment do ya? COSTELLO: That would be frightening. ABBOTT: Absolutely.

COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means they're two ways to bring down the unemployment number? ABBOTT: Two ways is correct. COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job? ABBOTT: Correct. COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job? ABBOTT: Bingo. COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to just stop looking for work.

ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. COSTELLO: I don't even know what the hell I just said! ABBOTT: That's the whole beauty of it. And now you know why the unemployment figures are NOT improving!

By now, hopefully you understand the fraud of the monthly unemployment figures and more importantly the suffering of human beings that are being deliberately ignored so that those in power can continue to avoid doing anything meaningful to help our Country.

That is why Condoms is "their" perfect topic of this week to use in deflecting from the truth. The week before it was who believed the most in god among the Presidential candidates, and next week it will be something else. If it's a slow week, they will focus on Brittany Spears latest escapade.

Just asking, can the American people who eat up these lies being fed to them as if they are brain dead morons, really be that stupid? (HINT- FOX TV NEWS HAS BEEN THE MOST WATCHED CABLE NEWS CHANNEL FOR THE LAST 10 CONSECUTIVE YEARS).

Because at the end of the day, regardless of what happens to them, the American people, their children, grand children, and future generations will always be the ones who lose.

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2012-02-02T17:49:00.007-05:00

THE GOVT. AND MEDIA SPYING ON YOU!

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CENSORED AND SPIED ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The BASTARDS are back. Leeches and parasites who are sucking the life out of America as a free country. Another part of our personal freedom for sale to the highest bidder, business as usual.

Sneaky, never giving up, the cesspool of Congress is crawling like snakes to screw us again. That seems to be their only purpose in Washington, and they do it so well.

While our voices were heard by the politicians who temporarily backed down on as described in my previous post on the SOPA/PIPA bills to limit our Internet access, they are trying a different tactic in the meantime.

Now these puppets on a string and their owners are trying to sneak a bill in that will take our Internet freedom and privacy away. This would turn the U.S.A. into more of a China, and similar to other countries that restrict access, and record everything done on the Internet, that the Government deems "offensive, of interest, or "other".

It is a raw, ugly form of CENSORSHIP, SPYING on our privacy, wielded by those in our Country who want to have total control over our lives.

That we are amazingly at this low point in our "democracy" where those who are our "leaders" feel that they can get away with something such as this, is a commentary on how little they actually think about our rights as citizens. This so called "democracy" is a farce, fake, and hollow, the same as our politicians.

As our Government takes away more and more of our rights we are losing our freedom to do many things under the guise of anti-terrorism laws, phony media copyright laws, and whatever bull shit Congress and their masters are shoveling every day.

Their arrogance and disdain for we the people is evident in all they do. In this case, the proposed legislation is another disgusting slap in the face of the America people.

It is sad that so many people have died in wars to defend our rights to freedom in America, and the phony, bought, paid for slimy politicians, are more than willing to sell this freedom to their Corporate owners.

Congress is treating you like a criminal. That's why their broad new Internet snooping bill is being called a "direct assault on Internet users".

Bill H.R.1981 contains legal responsibility for any Internet Service Provider to keep detailed records of "your Internet activity for 12 months, your name, the address where you live, your bank account numbers, your credit card numbers, and any IP addresses you've been assigned, whether or not you're accused of a crime.

To be honest, these are characteristics that a lot of Internet Providers most likely already know. The real difference here with the Bill is how easily they could then provide this information to law enforcement. It's a simple set of rules whereby the government agencies have to go through the process of, well, just asking for it. Yep, that's all they have to do.

It's wake up time again to act.

If you care about your freedom and want to show those who shit on us that we will not allow them to treat us this way, raise your voice NOW, start with signing the 2 new petitions below, before it is too late.

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION PETITION

DEMAND PROGRESS ORG. -PETITION DEMANDING TO STOP THIS LEGISLATION

And get this: It's authored by lead SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith, of the currently dead SOPA bill you’ve heard so much about.

Puppet Lamar's bill uses Child Pornography as a screen to push through an amendment that’ll have your Internet service provider also tracking all of your financial dealings online.

Supporters shamelessly dubbed it the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act," but call it what it is: an all-encompassing Internet snooping bill

The sponsors of bill H.R.1981 are not stupid people. By naming a bill 'The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011' they have managed to take a piece of legislation that could be the worst threat to online privacy ever and make it virtually impervious to critique.

What it does is to amend several rules that have to do with Child Pornography and preventing it, the bill itself called the “Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011.”

It also changes the U.S. code Chapter 18 section 2703 Required Disclosure of Customer Communications or Records to include a requirement that your Internet service provider do the following:

It is currently legal for the government to issue a subpoena for the viewing of the information they speak about here, it is NOT part of the law that Internet service providers MUST capture or retain that information whenever you are on the Internet.

In effect, before the authorities would need to first find a reason for you to need to be watched to get the ISP to start collecting information from you, that information will already exist on file, effectively meaning you’re being watched and recorded, even if you’ve done nothing wrong.

Don’t worry though, there’s an additional set of lines that should placate you because it’s so very kind of them to think of:

(1) to encourage electronic communication service providers to give prompt notice to their customers in the event of a breach of the data retained pursuant to section 2703(h) of title 18 of the United States Code, in order that those effected can take the necessary steps to protect themselves from potential misuse of private information; and;

(2) that records retained pursuant to section 2703(h) of title 18, United States Code, should be stored securely to protect customer privacy and prevent against breaches of the records.

So don’t be concerned, "they care about you and your information will be “stored securely” so no-one else can access it! But if they do access it, your ISP will give you “prompt notice” so you can change all your credit card numbers, hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husband.

As the bill is written, any person under investigation of a crime (or possibly even civil matters such as custody battles or divorces) could look forward to having an extensive part of their life accessible without warrant or cause.

What are some of the obvious risks of this new legislation? As many people know, losing your credit card or having your identity stolen is a horrible experience. Can you even imagine what kind of damage could be caused if someone got a hold of all this information PLUS your web habits and log in and passwords?

Consider a scenario: Someone steals your web habits and your identity. How do you recover your identity and credit when the first thing the hacker does is cancel your credit monitoring service account and then sends your power bill, bank account, and new drivers license to their "phony new address" they have put down for your "new" residence?

All this would be possible if someone gained unlimited access to the email, personal information, credit card number, surfing habits, and log in/password to web services that are used by many people daily and are the very items which would be compromised.

Be reassured that this is in your best interest. Trust your Government and Corporate America who keep saying your information will be “stored securely” so no one else can access it! I don't think so, their track record truly sucks in doing anything remotely secure in the protection of the private information records on us.

Plus this is really about watching what you do to be sure you are not a "threat" to the Government.

This bill has currently cleared its committee, meaning that the next step is a full vote.

The bill needs to be stopped, and Lamar Smith needs to be stopped, for the good of the Internet and YOUR privacy.

OLD MAN

2012-01-27T22:47:00.006-05:00

It's a fairly common occurrence for me, waking up usually from dreams or nightmares, grateful that I am away from those demons that hang out inside me when they decide to make an appearance. It's quiet, dark and cold at 4:30 in the morning. Now awake, there is nothing to do but think. Too early to get out from under the warm down comforter and too late to fall back to sleep.

Whatever I was dreaming is now forgotten and its clear I am back from those travels. Of all the fresh thoughts rushing by, one stands out: I have made it to another day.

We are all a mix of our parents, ourselves, personal beliefs, and the experiences, good , bad, that we have learned so far in our lives. There are wonderful memories, sad ones also, and hopefully much more to enjoy in being who we are to become in the future.

For all of us, there will come a morning when new days like this will not come. There will be no more. So while there is still time and life ahead, maybe its best to look at what still awaits.

It may or may not end with a rainbow, I wish for a huge, beautiful, colorful rainbow. That is my promise to myself.

NEIL YOUNG -OLD MAN

I never understood the speed of life, until I became older. I didn't understand timeless perfection until recently. I always though that time would slow down with age. The reality is the opposite, time flashes by incredibly fast, a speeding uncontrollable kaleidoscope.

How did it get to be the year 2012 so fast? I remember, often with precise images in my mind, the beauty of all those years before, the magic of those years gone by, and it all seems like it was just yesterday. Where did the time go?

There is a certain beauty to life, a magical, unpredictable journey through time. We share those moments with loved ones, ourselves, and each one of us looks back in longing affection at those simpler times.

It's now 5:00 a.m. and the first light of a new day is streaming across the sky. Laying here alone, I wonder about the future. What does it have waiting for me, how many rainbows, what will it be like, how will the next phase of my life play out?

"Old man look at my life,

I'm a lot like you were.

Old man look at my life,

and there's so much more

Live alone in a paradise

That makes me think of two.

Love lost, such a cost,

Give me things

that don't get lost.

I need someone to love me

the whole day through

Ah, one look in my eyes

and you can tell that's true.

I've been first and last

Look at how the time goes past.

But I'm all alone at last."

Memories of life. Popping up here on my blog from time to time. There are some things that are felt but never said. Some questions that get asked, for which are no answers.

Sometimes, such as these simple moments I write about; No finer gifts could ever touch my life. I am grateful for that and a part of me believes that it may be possible to have a remaining journey that will be good. We will see, says my inner voice in the old man, we will see.

I'M YOUR PUPPET

2012-01-25T20:19:00.029-05:00

SOPA ISN"T DEAD YET- MONEY TALKS- CORRUPTION PAYS!

The lobbyists are not afraid of the citizens and are publicly telling your politicians, vote for SOFA\PIPA or lose the special interest "bribe" money that they give them to buy and own politicians to use as they wish on a puppet masters string.

Sign the new petition above, just click on the paragraph and it will take you directly to the petition please.

I'M YOUR PUPPET

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/mpaa_cash/?akid=1175.309958._8x6cS&rd=1&t=2

Please sign this new petition now at the above link above before

Congress sneaks it through because they are all crooks, and $ talks! Will it be the will of the people or the usual money buys votes in politics. It's up to you. Let the politicians know we are watching them and they better listen to we the people.

This is what corruption looks like in Washington. It’s outrageous that Dodd himself a former senator is leveling these threats. Our elected officials must send a signal back to Dodd and the rest of K Street that our nation’s laws can’t be bought.

It's time that Congress showed that its votes are no longer for sale. Congress must give back the MPAA’s dirty money or give it to charity.

Congress must make it clear to the world that it won’t be bullied into supporting censorship.

Motion Picture Association of America President Chris Dodd ( former Senator from Conn,) just threatened to cut off Hollywood campaign contributions to any member of Congress who doesn’t pass his Internet-censorship legislation.

After Congress shelved the controversial PIPA and SOPA bills, Dodd told Fox News:“Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.”

This is what corruption looks like in Washington. It’s outrageous that Dodd, himself a former senator is leveling these threats. Our elected officials must send a signal back to Dodd and the rest of K Street that our nation’s laws can’t be bought.

It's time that Congress showed that its votes are no longer for sale. Congress must give back the MPAA’s dirty money or give it to charity.

WE must make it clear to Congress that it won’t be bullied into supporting censorship.

FYI, these are the MPAA "Dirty Dozen", the top recent recipients of the MPAA's cash (data comes courtesy of the Sunlight Foundation's Influence Explorer).:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.), Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.), Rep. Howard Berman (Calif.), Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Sen. Chuck Schumer (NY), Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Rep. Henry Waxman (Calif.), Rep. John Boehner (Ohio), Sen. Daniel Inouye (Hawaii), Rep. Colin Peterson (Minn.), Rep. Melvin Watt (N.C.

It's up to you. Make your politicians serve your needs and not the Corporate puppets who own them.

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Thank you to my friend Ken A. for the shout out about the"YOU HAPPY PUPPET" song by 10,000 Maniacs from 1989 during the Regan era, sadly nothing has changed since then, as it fits so well with its lyrics below about this post and the puppet politicians.

"How did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string? How did you learn everything that comes along with slavish funnery?

Tell me something, if the world is so insane, is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your nodding head?

How did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string? How do you manage to live inside this tiny stage you can't leave?

Tell me something, if the world is so insane, is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your nodding head? A dullard strung on the wire. When the master's gone you hang there with your eyes and your limbs so lifeless.

How did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string? How do you manage to speak, your mouth a frozen grin? A dullard strung on the wire. When the master's gone you hang there with your eyes and your limbs so lifeless.

Tell me something, if the world is so insane, is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your empty wooden head?

Your hollow head, your marble eyes, your wooden hands and your metal jaw pins all wait in limbo for the man who knows how to move you this way".