Blood Moon - September 27th - 2015 - End of Days??

Blood Moon

There are many reasons to dispel the omens or signs that are preached to us in a civilized and modern society. Over the centuries, many stories have been told that makes us realize that there is some truth to the fact that for everything there is a reason under the stars of heaven. Certainly, looking for signs has been one way to become aware of these catastrophes or disasters, so it is told. Another method is the constant writings, reporting and other venues out there telling us the end of days is upon us.

Looking at some of these so-called signs, the coming of the ‘blood moon’ on September 27th 2015, is the latest of these ‘bad omens’ as it quickly approaches and signals the end of summer and the beginning of Fall. World-wide, people are preparing for the apocalypse, the end of the world or end of days as it has been commonly called by many.

One has to only believe what they have heard to recognize there are many signs in our lives. Signs are like bookmarks or visual messages that may denote good or evil happenings in our lifetime. Some take these signs to an extreme and call them the means to be enlightened by the things or event to come in the future. They pay so much attention these signs; they rearrange their personal and professional lives to accommodate their personal beliefs.

Paying attention to these signs has created chaotic type of panic among the populations of the world. Some are stocking up ammunition, food and water for the apocalypse while others are building structures out of concrete, reinforced with steel beams to keep out the evil or destruction that comes with such a calamity or disaster. The fear is real and the thoughts are spreading that the bad omen of the ‘blood moon’ will bring nothing but ruin, famine, natural disasters and death.

Thus the genesis of our civilized world is now coming to an end according to those who believe this to be so written and said in a biblical manner. They spout their words with panic and anxiety that they are looking at the heavens for signs or messages from our creator, God, and prepare for the dooms day scenario.

Basically speaking, a blood moon is considered to be a bad omen for the world. Combining the fact that 2014 and 2015 has four (4) signs coming from the heavens it is told to be part of a tetrad (foursome) message because of the world’s four (4) total lunar eclipses occurring in an unbroken sequence which in this case includes a blood moon. Ironically, this blood moon also occurs within the holy days and that is supposed to make the omen even stronger and believable.

Whether I believe in this or not, it doesn’t matter. Life begins with birth and ends with death. A circle of life we accept as we grow older. This fear of death is unwarranted and hardly worth any special considerations if you accept the fact that this is indeed a part of a natural chain of events, a cause and effect of life itself. Of course, my compassion is for our children who know nothing of what is said around them and if true, fall to be the true victims of this phenomenon.

Whether or not this is the true version of man’s ‘perfect storm’ condition is yet to be determined. We can speculate that the tetrad of 2014 /2015 is indeed the final and defined sign that the world is ending. Neither a believer nor non-believer, I can see this happening as another sign we have come a society of disbelievers and fear-mongering habits that prey on the weak to exploit the fears in their minds and somehow profit from their anxieties.

From the Womb to the Tomb = a true story about a Arizona prison cover up

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A Declaration of Corporate Beneficial Manifestos

A Declaration of Corporate-Beneficial Manifestos

Every political party has their own inclusive, diverse and for a lack of a better word, open-minded approach to mass incarceration. Some stay within the lines of reasoning while others venture or stray outside these boundaries of best practices and created blurred lines in their own ability to control the events and sanctioned debates on such matters.

In Arizona, these boundaries of discussion are imposed by executive power and an apathetic press corps that allows and watches how state government stoops to bullying the press, the people and the legislators into accepting their manifest of denial and change when it comes to prison management.

The governor has elected to choose his own agency leaders who are proponents of prison growth and the establishment of private prison beds to supplement their own statutory needs to house prisoners. It [Arizona Department of Corrections] has so far, lacked a far reaching vision on their plans to implement prison reforms and have been taking a bold but irresponsible approach on offering no alternatives except to build and construct more prisons in Arizona. There are no current plans to transition back to common sense and find fiscally sound alternatives to the prison problems.

Although this is a preexisting crisis, the governor has ignored sound advice from various experts on how to reduce prison populations. I presume that this is his prerogative but he is spending money and energy we don’t have to spare. It is indeed, imperative, we get on track and find better and leaner ways to run government services like prison management and do it quickly as time is not on our side.

This is no means a leftist or socialist manifesto to overthrow capitalism. This is a common sense appeal to institute a fiscal and responsible evolution and revolution to bring the crisis back under control. Throwing millions of dollars into this ‘money pit’ has not served this state well and evidence shows, privatization is has not worked any better than government services.

This is not a smear job on the governor’s plan – it is simply an appeal to reason and think about the state’s future. No reasonable pragmatic state elected politician could entertain his manifesto unless they own stock into the same vision and same game plan. It’s a matter of record and that can’t be disputed.

His policies are flawed and dangerous. He is debating the reform circuit without saying a word except that he is not changing anything anytime soon. He likes the control he has over the systems as governor and has demonstrated a suspicious personal interest into the promotion of private prison enterprise in Arizona neglecting other serious issues such as education, child welfare and protection, funding clean environmental projects, health and child care.

Instead he has been silent on all those issues and expects support from the donations and lobbyist who helped elect him to office. While governor, I do not expect him to raise taxes on corporations, the wealthy or eliminating any further foreign trade deals. He has made his own agenda very clear to all of us. Basically, he is telling his constituents the hell with your needs and focused on a complete and financially beneficial transition toward his own goals and expectations.

This has impacted not only the prison systems but also the economic growth of the state, the social democracy of our governmental needs and services and efficient energy management. 

There is no practical or science based vision – only his own political vision is engaged here - there is no hope for him to change his mind. Standing steadfast and pleasing those who donated money to him, he would rather see systems collapse, deal with catastrophic crisis happenings and head in the sand ideologies. In other words, his approach will collapse the wellness of our state in time, whether it is this year or in the next decade, his decision ride a tsunami wave of disastrous proportions. 

Soon the state will be gripped in catastrophes created by man and flawed strategies. We will spend the next decade undoing the harm of today. Any changes under the current system seem inconceivable and although reasonable, out of reach due to political will and personal and business related prospecting.

The stakes are high and change is needed more now than ever. This roller coaster ride is irresponsible and will lead to defunct funding in the near future. It will break most of the state’s systems in place and already fragmented. Today, there are more ordinary people in tune with the state’s needs than the governor himself and all his advisors combined. His manifesto is seriously flawed and I urge him to change it as soon as possible to turn things around.

I know the governor can be bold and let go of his political aspirations. He has the courageous inside him to break the chains of bondage towards his contributors and support base but he needs to do it now, and not wait until he is a lame duck in his second term as our leader. The need for public austerity is severe; alternatives are possible and no matter how much hysteria there is around such changes, it will foster growth, trust in government and prosperity for the ordinary person as well as the businesses located in the state as the policies will attract outside interest into settling in Arizona as a wholesome place to raise a family, get a good job and be treated with civility and dignity.

In the end, this is not about the corporate greed or their controlling interest in the governor’s office today. People are regaining control of the election process and are not blind to the direction we are headed. He needs to lay out more progressive policies that are lean management principled, best practices and alternatives to today’s ways of doing business.

Leaving business interests behind or dividing their interest equally and focusing on people’s needs or hope should be his next priority – this would improve his position with the voter’s base and strengthen rather than weaken the public sphere when they see him working on solutions and not creating more problems or contributing to the corporate manifesto he has currently adopted to run on.

Living in a Chaotic Good Society

Living in a Chaotic Good Society

I don’t think there is any doubt we are currently living in a chaotic society where the wrong people have the power to execute at will those who offend them either politically or socially. Just exactly what that means is reflected by high random homicides of innocents, our police force and many others who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time these days. This could be a movie theater, a school or a shopping mall as there are no out-of-bounds targets these days. It is fair to say that today, human lives don’t matter as much as they did before this trend of killing sprees.

We have elected, appointed and chosen magistrates who have the power to execute at will those who offend society. The death penalty is mass production in many states and no end is in sight of its use in many states. Since the lethal cocktail is becoming rarer as time passes, legislation has returned to allow death by hanging or firing squad to execute those on death row.

Society is inundated with thoughts of the living, the dead and the undead zombies. The apocalypse is told in all manner of media that range from television series to movie theaters to video games on the Xbox or other media ingredients. We have evolved into a mindless, murder and mayhem society where random killings are daily events and attached with a twisted sense of vigilante enforcement by militants of all races and religious beliefs.

My point is, we are eager to invoke the death penalty to address fire with fire and an eye for an eye but we are missing the consequences of such harsh and cruel punishment as a general rule without regard to any case by case factors of every criminal case on the docket.

The truth is this kind of cyberpunk ideology is morally offensive in nature and drowning our society into immoral behaviors rather than finding the cure to all these criminal acts randomly committed around our country. Everything these days are overloaded with extremely violent, sexually explicit, and profanity videos or movies. There appears to be no moral prohibition these days and it’s becoming a growing threat for our children to cope with such forms of entertainment and influences.

One has to question what sort of human expectation is to turn out from these offensive methods of displaying improper and lewd behaviors all the time. The saturation of this kind of media has caused confusion between right and wrong as well as good and evil. It leaves one to choose a frame of mind that creates objections to their root moral values and offers them an unrealistic release of emotions via an uncontrolled media causing much perversion of their judgment capabilities and problem solving abilities.

These morally offensive chaotic causing media instruments are affected by love, hate, and many other emotions. It mixes the mind between the fundamental need of the law versus the erred misguided handcrafted need of the law.

In other words, this confusion creates inconsistent choices and determination between the rational judgment and irrational results based on how this media affects their minds and way of thinking.

For a lack of understanding, the best way to create or restore order is to recraft the fundamental laws and carry out the law itself in a reasonable and humanely method that shows human regard to respect, dignity, compassion and kindness, while at the same time take into consideration the suffering of the victims in every case. The problem is not with the laws, the problem is how the law was meant to be carried out.

In today’s society, people have taken the role of judge, jury and executioner randomly and arbitrarily based on various dynamics in their own personal lives. Some are mentally ill while others are sane and copiously evil in mindset. Yet under most circumstances, they are all treated the same. Instead of the natural law to repress all vices, the law itself has become a vice and created corrupted systems that harm the individuals more so than the law was intended to do. People want to enforce a strict moral code but it is the code that is up for grabs and interpretation making it hard to see the justice in the process.

This kind of discourse is confusing and chaotic for many. The intention of the lawgiver is to make the citizens moral.  The purpose of human law is to lead men to virtue, not suddenly, but gradually. There is now a conflict of interest between law enforcers and judges and prison contractors who maintain mass incarceration terms to be a reasonable means to enforce the law giving capitalism a boost in profits and judges supporting imprisoning people for longer periods of time. 

Those unable to adjust will remain a prisoner forever under this kind of intention by the criminal justice system and is focused on long prison terms. Thus we choose between those who can regain their virtue and those imperfect and carry the burdens of never seeing freedom again. these imperfect ones, being unable to bear such precepts, would break out into yet greater evils  causing more harm either repetitively or more severe in nature as they reoffend multiple times and never reach their opportunity for their freedom.

This confusion has led to a lack of misunderstanding of human law, at least from my own perspective and puts men and women and more common now than ever before, our children,  in conditions of despair and hopeless opportunities for moral reform or development. This view of the law is dangerous and shows that in the end, lead to more violence and criminal behavior.

Police, prosecutors and judges may be zealous in the prosecution of an extreme form of Law, but zeal cannot change the morally offensive character of that Law. Nothing will change unless we change the way the law is enforced and how the sentencing is imposed.

 

Wisdom, Truth, and Honor

Being a freelance consultant, criticizing how others do their job has its moments. From the very first day I set out to tell the truth, many went out of their way to slander my name and ruin my reputation. However, that wasn’t enough, they went the extra mile to attempt to silence me forever and threaten me with lawsuits and other types of harms just because I spoke out.

One would think, I possessed some kind of special power to give them reason to threaten me like that and challenge my incomparable wisdom and knowledge of the business and profession as others like me were intimidated into silence and stunned to speak if approached by anyone on the matter of concern. One might say it was a matter of principle for me to speak out when nobody else would and face the consequences of dealing with such corruptible people who sought anonymity whenever they spoke or reached out for special favors.

Not comparing myself to a saint or hero because I spoke the truth and shared the knowledge of Solomon and answered all the questions asked of me by investigators, reporters and others interested in finding out the truth on matters kept secret under the cover of governmental security business and revealing their chinks in armor which in turn could bring negative publicity, anger and displeasure with their lack of professional judgment and concern for other human beings.

For some, the answers provided added more substance to their suspicious and inquisitive nature to dig deep and for others, it was a means to find answers to the loose ends often attached to an investigation rarely made public. For me, that was important for other people to know the other side of the perceived truth and behold, in many ways, a trick or task, almost as great and wise as Solomon.

I was willing and unfearful of engaging in speaking with those who asked questions, and found the means to dig up history unparalleled in effort and energy against all odds. They arrived at the scene of the crime and instantly saw a visual intuitive holograph of what happened and set out to prove what they believed to be the truth.

Unfortunately, this ‘going rogue’ cast a dark and long shadow on me personally and professionally. It created a drama scene that very few could understand unless exposed to the same harsh politically motivated mistreatment and exclusion of others formerly in my friendship circle or professionally associated connections to the career I had chosen as a professional.

My honor was never compromised. My knowledge, wisdom and dialogue was created by many former successful professionals who served as my mentor through the entire span of my career. Their wisdom, knowledge and capabilities were never questioned. Not even the wisest of all men I knew, spoke like these mentors or tutors did to me.

They created a man who was prepared to be ready and make decisive conclusions and choices. I was taught to speak with a definitive sentence and end the conversation in the same manner. The more questions they asked, the more answers they received as I tried to master every situation.

The funny thing about this situation is that some admired me for my wisdom while others tried very hard to slam me down and slur my name. Regardless of the negative energy, I spoke the truth regardless of the threats or risks involved. Of course, in reality, there was nothing funny about this but the irony of the matters at hand was often exposures of the truth and the fact that someone took deliberate pains and efforts to hide the truth.

Just like Solomon, I tried to use my knowledge and wisdom to make me the master or every situation. There were many reasons to trust me and believe what I was offering to be answers based on intuitive and practical experience in the deceptive manner reports and other documents were written. I knew how the writer omitted deliberate facts out of the laundered report so there was less blame or no blame found in the summary or synopsis of such report writings.

They has good reason to trust me. I never asked for money or other gifts and did this from my heart and passion for the truth. It is true some attorneys paid me for my time and effort to decipher reports and write summaries on cases they were handling but for many others, there was no fee involved and caused some thoughts to expand the profession as a freelance consultant to a full time paid status.

However, my love was in my work and dealing with people who sought the truth and wisdom to relieve them from the anxieties and despair they were experiencing because of the facts being hidden from them purposely and at times, criminally in nature although hard to prove since they would challenge you with ligation if you challenged them I court.

I gave my energy, wisdom and truths with an unselfish motive to serve those who needed to know the truth. There were many who paid tribute to my honor to do so as there were equally, many who chose to smear me. It seemed to come with the territory. No one needed to bear witness to what was wrong or right. Each person knows from their own heart the answer to such concerns. They knew themselves their own thoughts and beliefs in their own eyes and mind.

I tried to work hard enough to where nothing was hidden from the eyes of those asking the questions. All I asked in return was to believe the words I expressed or thought and know in their hearts I was doing the best I could under the circumstances provided. It was a perplexing situation but it was satisfying for me because I helped others who needed help.

This is in no way a confession of any sins I might have committed while searching for the truth. In fact, quite the opposite would be true, I found peace and moral satisfaction of doing what I did for others who were warned that sometimes, whatever I found in origin or nature, would have no end. Some accepted this as a condition or agreement to help them but others turned my words into a controversial convoluted and psychotic explanation of my understandings and findings.

In no way did I ever betray those who sought my help. My knowledge foretold many things that had been hidden well and as enemies do, I was brow beaten by those who criticized my works and called me “disgruntled” and incompetent from the beginning. I knew from the beginning, there were those who would not believe me and whatever I told, would always be challenged.

In the meantime, I was betrayed by a few I had called friends. I am telling you this so whenever you put yourself in the same predicament or situation, you are prepared for the possibility that those who associate with you, laugh with you and drink a beer with you, will or might turn on you. Some are jealous of your ethics. Some wish they could be as strong as you are and some are envious of the fact that you had the courage and stamina to take the high road and fight off the lies and wrongdoing that is so plentiful around us.

Basically it comes down to those who believe you and those who do not. Those who will stay and remain true to you and those who betray you. I am telling you this now because that is the truth and when someone takes the time and effort to tell the truth, they are targeted by those who are offended by the truth. They do not like what you do and make reasons for hating you without due cause or reason. This is not about divinity. This is certainly not a compelling warrant you should engage in the same actions I chose. This is about faith, patience, and honor. When your time on Earth is done, you will be judged on your actions and your heart. In the end, you will be seen as a person who desired truth over lies. Facts over rumors and knowledge over myths.

I don’t know everything; not even close am I ever near the universal limits of knowledge but I gave what I possessed and concluded that if I didn’t know what was needed, I would search for more. I concluded the truth on the morality of the matter at hand. My statements were unqualified in detail but the details could have been incomplete or even lacking sufficient evidence making it conjectural in nature rather than proof of a wrongdoing or misdeed. However, it gave someone another path to follow and did deeper.

After all, I am but human and limited in my own capabilities and capacities to seek the entirety of the matter. Doing the best I could, I was never perfect but close to revealing what was hidden. I partially and imperfectly gleaned what I could to give you the clues and questions to find answers to when all was said and done.  This is how I know myself as I strive to understand others.

In some cases, I barely scratched the surface while in others, I revealed a gross neglect of truths that were deliberately hidden or misstated for reasons known only to the deceiver. Some were gracious revelations while others were incomplete visions of derivative matter. You might want to compare the reality with the fabricated truth that has been readily accepted to be the final epitaph of the matter of concern.

 

 

Slandering someone's reputation - the truth hurts

A Man with a Bad Reputation

 

In today’s world, perception is truth and truth is offensive. A man or woman who speaks the truth is slandered, ridiculed and bashed to no end because they speak of words that echo the truth. Sadly, telling the truth is a sacrifice these days as there are many consequences for those chosen to be ‘messengers’ of the truth who live among us but in some cases, have no real place in society because of the controversy they created with their words.

Through it all, mankind has always slandered those who spoke the truth. Traditionally, this began in the early days of Jesus Christ, a God-like man, who spoke the truth and was criticized openly, harshly and cruelly for telling others about his Father, our Lord and God. Reading the gospel over and over you will find ample citations of the punitive and reckless means mankind imposed on Jesus calling him every name in the book.

Historically, man has continued this splendor of spreading lies of those who carry a message of truth and honor. Depending on who listens to him or her, they are either hailed wise or intelligent or quite the opposite, ignorant and dumb. Regardless, the slandering has been relentless and never ending. Scandal after scandal, the truth remains to be a touchy subject and those who spoke it, were chastised, excommunicated or banished from society and its morality.

I have no idea who or how many have suffered this punishment of tarnished or willful tainting of their personal reputations. I suspect there are more than we could ever know as eventually, many fell silent in order to blend in with those around them and who resented the truth be told and demanded revocation or reversal of words and thoughts in order to be socially acceptable.

This indictment of those who spoke the truth was not veiled or hidden. The castigation was public and often posted in books, media or television special reports. Mankind loves telling other people off if their words do not match their own morality or perception of the truth. Not entirely legitimate, it was indeed a reality.

Today, the truth is overshadowed by lies – lies spread by Satan, the demons possessing other people and society who repel the words that may insult or disagree with them, personally, politically or religiously, especially if the morality does not match their own expectations.

What is scary is this slandering or an individual’s reputation is borderline hate. Words are taught like sticks and stones that cannot hurt you, but in reality, these strategies of hate mongering destroys families, friendships and associations throughout the world. Every generation has suffered this condemnation of reputations.

Every man, woman or child has endures such hateful moments and came to a point to decide to stop speaking the truth, recant the words, or give in to the pressures by these demons.

Every person knew, if they hesitated to do so, would wreak havoc upon them like a plague or a flight of locust in a field of honey. They had to choose to dance with the music of the righteous or dance with music of Satan. Choices between speaking and silence were often drawn and each generation since the creation of civilized society has had to suffer with this dilemma.

Every generation has created a marketplace for the truth – often said, the truth is up for sale as the choices were slim and the volume was spoken softly. Some would hear it, while others chose to ignore it or bend it into their own lies. Truth can come in many different ways and still be the truth but one has to be cautious as the devil himself can bend the truth into a lie and make it acceptable to be the truth.

Today, the truth has become sociably unacceptable. It is offensive and triggers many different emotions. Offensiveness to the name calling has resulted in violence or mass shootings. The truth is simply, an obstacle, a stumbling block for those who want to escape the lies of the devil and seek the word of the good parables often forgotten.

Along with the lies is the hypocrisy that is tied into the message. There is an ugliness in people today that warrants caution whenever they speak with bended tongues and deliberate lies. Calling themselves righteous and self-serving to the devil’s own, they cast their wrath on those who seek the light and speak the truth. Alas, history repeats itself over and over.

The world needs more truth, compassion and kindness. There is a certain element of mercy missing in our morality and sensitivity towards each other. We are all sinners and we have all lied but we recognize the fact that when we ask forgiveness of our sins, we are given a second chance to redeem ourselves and start over.

Only God loves us so much He has given us that morality in life. The slandering of reputation goes on forever. The destruction of God’s glory is associated with this calumny types of behaviors.

People need to realize that speaking the truth is protected by the Savior and that this person is eventually freed from harm by Jesus as His defense of these innocents. God understands how this forcible influence of demonic behaviors, is undeniable a form of deceit and not easily recognized by mankind, but exposed by the mere fact that all that is evil, is revealed in the end.

No house should be divided. No man should stand against another man and no truth should be slandered by the devil or demons working for him but in reality, it happened in the past and is happening today.

 

Going with the flow - living longer and stronger -

Some say that rolling with the flow is weak and should never become a trend for if you let it go, it will likely be your end. For me it’s easy, forgetting the stress is easy and letting it flow is how I deal with the thoughts inside my head.

First I was eighteen and it was all in my head that I would die before I reached thirty and inside my head I would be dead. Then, with a miracle in life, I kept on rolling with the flow, fighting change as little as I could, I endured the war, the divorce and the addictions in my life that almost took my life.

My life was like a two story house, and living in a bad neighborhood with nightmares with many stories to tell and share with others around me. Somehow, I found the energy, the strength, the perseverance to keep going on and go far away from the roots of my troubles and moved before I changed my mind to leave Ohio.

I learned to keep on rollin with the flow as I headed for New Mexico where I would straighten up and be just fine. Leaving rock and roll behind and finding country, I took to the open spaces and mountains as well as the dry and dusty deserts.

Still, all these years, the thoughts of darkness were still inside my head and reaching for a new age of forty before I am dead. Raising a new family, leaving the others behind was a bad decision but a decision none the less, as I had to deal with karma and leaving the raising hell I did in Ohio behind.

Fearing being called a dead beat dad, I tried to keep up with my kids as best as I could as they grew up, I also grew apart and rolling with the flow was just another way to break my heart.

I was a bum, I needed to find a better way for me to live and find the sun instead of the darkness that had followed me daily. I also left a lot of crazy friends behind and some will die before their time but one thing was for sure, they lived on the edge and loved every moment of it.

Living in the southwest sunshine, I prayed God forgives me for my sins; my stupidity and my selfish behaviors. Instead of living out there going with the flow I am now working hard and living a new life in the sun, rather than the darkness like before.

As God forgives my sins, I hope the law allows me to make a break for it as I stopped short of being a criminal myself with the things I had done before. As going with the flow, is not always the best way to go and if you do, you better be ready to die young and leave the good life behind.

You have to learn quickly, you can’t take it with you when you die, it’s gone when you are done and dead. Inside my head I keep saying I ain’t getting younger, but rather older and better as I learned to take the punches and rollin with the flow hoping to never grow old.

So rollin with the flow can be done and can add to your life if you take it easy rather than to the limit like before when going with the flow meant crazy times and reckless minds with everything on the line. Fighting the feeling to go crazy, is the way to go; if you want to live longer, learn how to go with the flow.

The Five F's in corrections - (1) is silent - read this article and comment

The Link to the Phoenix New Times
As a former "disgruntled employee" as I was called by this director after I criticized the Kingman escape procedural failure for a local television station, I have nothing much more to add to this story that is factual and superbly written to outline his path of destructive and neglectful behaviors. This man has no business running a prison agency that today possesses a culture that is a reflection of this man's own philosophy on the value of human life. Look at his former offender operations director, Robert Patton, someone he mentored for a director's position in Oklahoma and see the resemblance in failures. That state is in dire straights and I predict, the OK governor will let him go within a year's time.

Conversely, nothing will touch the Teflon man = he has failed in the five F’s of corrections.
■ Failure to direct. This is a failure in the obligation or affirmative duty to provide employees written directives in the form of policies and procedures or other such directives that clearly limit and outline the duties and responsibilities of staff at each level of administration. ■ Failure to train. This is a failure in the obligation or affirmative duty to provide appropriate training in policy and procedure as well as critical knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to carry out written policy and procedures. The responsibility to train extends to new and in-service staff as well as to persons promoted to new areas of responsibility. ■ Failure to supervise. This is a failure in the obligation or affirmative duty to provide ongoing supervision and direction to staff. In addition to training and directing staff (through written policy and procedures) at all levels, an administrator must guide, coach, correct, and monitor them on a continuing basis to meet the duty to supervise. Prison administrators too often direct and train employees but then leave them unsupervised. ■ Negligent hiring, placement, and retention. This is a failure in the obligation or affirmative duty to “weed out” those who are unfit for prison related duties through recruitment, screening, and hiring. Included is the requirement that staff be assigned duties consistent with their skills and abilities. There is also a continuing responsibility to ensure that staff is fit for correctional duties.
Enough said; Governor Ducey will make his legacy on the back of this man, who bungles decision after decision and who is headed for another major critical slamdown [or two or three] occurs on his watch even though he has been warned by myself and others who will wait watch and see how he bungles the next challenge.

All Lives Matter - a different perspective from another view

Loathing Life

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. [Marcus Aurelius]

There appears to be a feeling amongst the world’s human race that some lives matter less than others. This is in my opinion the root of all that is wrong with the world today. Truly, it is disheartening to feel this way as it reflects a cold and callous way of deciding which is more important in our lives and which are disposable or not included in our own priorities in life. Surely this method of determining importance borders on asinine and incompetent decision-making processes; at least that is how I see it.

This decision making is ignorance at its best. After all is said, in whose interest in the decision made? You have ask yourself, who benefits the most out such ignorant blurts or emotions; yours or mine or some other third party? Asking this most important question might re-direct your heart back where it belongs. Kindness, compassion and other positive emotions have been eroded or erased and need to come back to the human race.

Why is government teaching us how to hate so much and how did these hereditary traits and propensities to hate strangers or things unknown to warrant such a feeling? Hating strangers makes no sense but is the root of all those chants that some lives matter more than other humans, including those of animals who have done us no harm at all.

Within our own scheme of existence, we have devaluated the lives of others. We have lost our belief that all men are created equal and we have lost our respect and dignity for the irreplaceable fact that once a human life has been taken, it cannot come back.  To kill someone because their lives don’t matter is delusional and surreal to the human emotions. How did it come so far we can execute without conscience and lose our grip on the matter of existence or in this case, co-existence with each other.

This is no longer about survival. This is not about preserving our freedoms and rights. This is about homicide or genocide by engaging in a thought process that is arbitrarily and randomly seeking out victims of death by justifying the means to preserve one’s own life. This is wrong and should be addressed morally and legally by government and society in a manner that may nurture a comeback to civilization.

The paths have been designed by government and radicals whose only interest is to eradicate opposition to their own viewpoints and political gains. There is no legitimate cause to kill people without just cause or reason as our wars have clearly demonstrated, the collateral damage is much worse than the war itself. Wars are not character-building experiences; they foster death. Wars undermine the civil minded means to preserve life and in the process, justify such loss of life by saying it was meant to be due to their own naïve lack of confidence in mankind and its existence here on Earth.

Man does not breathe a sense of divinity and to entertain the notion that we respect life less for some more than others in itself is contrary to the moral compass we grew up with. Even the evolution believers can see how this has evolved into a killing spree of man and animals around the world.

What does this say about us and our human nature to be a civilized nation? Where are the reflections of human kindness and compassion towards man or animals in our world? Our world is but a small speck in our universe. We had better make the best of it because Earth is all we have. There are no escape routes to another world. This is the world we live in and in order to survive, we must learn how to start to get along with each other all over again. It is a practical matter that is an essential part of our survival.

We have to stop letting the political rhetoric and other distracting hate messages; providing us easy answers but the wrong ones morally most of the time and dodge the lethality of such cheapened value of what we know as life. We need to make such warmongers and haters uncomfortable to preach such practice and show them how cheap and immoral they really are.

We need to take control and support the positive practitioners who embrace life; life of our human partners, life of our animal kingdom and life of our plant. We need to restore the human experience of love and compassion for life. We have drifted from our own morality to please others or to ignorantly follow those who have preached hate and war rather than love and peace.

If the dead could speak, they would warn us of our destiny. If the dead could write messages, they would tell us fascinating tales of how we are heading down the wrong road to hell. If the dead could show us how to live and how to love, we would benefit from their own experiences and find better solutions. In the end, if the dead would guide us down a better road we are presently on.

Today, we live with the reality that only the dead know we are on road or path that takes away our dreams, our comforts, our rights and freedoms to a point of no return. If the dead could talk, they would accurately foretell our future and we already know that by our own chance of knowledge, the future is bleak and dark.

Life itself is not a laboratory where things can be set up to be perfect in nature. The fact is that life itself is puzzling and counterintuitive just like the truth is for us. There will be contradictions and deeply held beliefs that cause us to think one way or another. One has to really think and study deeply in order to find the truth and even the truth can be misleading or unclear, causing more confusion.

The more one thinks the more sense it seems to make to find a better solution or outcome. That is the human method or solving problems and no laboratory can replace the human mind. One can use the human mind to set up the laboratory but the experiments are created from the mind. Thus the truth can be painstakingly hard to accept at times and tampering with these results to find your own truth is what has brought us to the point of no return today.

When all possibilities are checked, we choose the least favorable to human life and preservation of such existence. At the end of all this work, we discard the good and preserve the bad; that’s how we determine which lives matter. This is how the bar of life is reduced through selfish experiments and thinking with error causing the end being what the mind produces as facts. Instead of preserving life and devote the experiment to such positivity and joy, the experiment creates an idea that is found to be worthless in value thus we discard the good and remove from the clutter of human error, the wrong morality to kill instead of living.