Ricin in Vegas

From Wikipedia -- 24 hours ago!

In Las Vegas, Nevada

<CNN reported a small amount of ricin was discovered in at the Extended Stay America Motel in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was characterized as being "100% ricin," and although there are currently no indications of it being part of a terror plot, The United States Department of Homeland Security is investigating.>>

I need to think about this stuff. Is somebody playing "payback" for Bush's wars? Or is this some other sort of crazy gang being crazy?
What does this suggest for the future of the open society?
What can be done?

I'm too old to clean this degree of biologicals. Those days are long gone, as yesterday proved, and now every day proves I'm too old for the defense of my own country and the wild.

What is to happen? The crazies are after our open society because of the greed inherent in the struggle for existence, the hyper-greed inherent in capitalism, and the ideological madness hoisted upon the many by the few.

The terrorists will destroy the open society, and like they don't need any more help from Bush.
And citizens from my own country will destroy the rest of the wild for profit and glee.
We are creating hell on Earth!

Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleaners

<<NEW YORK - For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America's rank as the world's No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars.>>

Now, this is saying something. The Russians are not likely to catch up on this one.
This is crime scene cleanup for certain.

What is there about the US that gives us this leading edge in lockups? Could it be the drug war that costs so much of posterity's wealth, health, and welfare?

This is what it is in a nutshell:

Revenge - Retribution - Isolation

Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup

Blood Cleanup Protocol

Blood Cleanup Protocol

It makes sense to me.

Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup

McCain's playing games.

Logic like this in the classroom goes unchallenged by teachers because it causes embarrassment for the naive student.

<Sen. John McCain said Friday that while lobbyists serve as close advisers to his presidential campaign, they are honorable and he is not influenced by corruption in the system.>>

It's hard to believe that McCain actually believes what he is saying. Can a grown man be so naive? Well, yes, he can. McCain like most of our other college educated leaders voted to bomb Iraq non-existent WMDs. Who do thy represent, anyway, the corporate lobbyists? Of course they do. And it is the corporate oil lobbyists with a vested interest in Iraq as well as Iran.

McCain calls Obama "naive" because Obama muttered something about bombing Afghanistan. "Naive," McCain called Obama. Well, it's McCain that raps "Bomb, bomb . . . bomb Iran"!

It's all madness, absolute madness. Is it any wonder that people write stories like No Country for Old Men.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleaners

Snowflake

Snowflake had no future when we took her in. Her mother had chosen one calico female from her litter of 3. Just nature's way of selecting the more "fit" from the seemingly less fit caused us to select Snowflake for our future.

We don't know if her mother, "Mommason," rejected her for her frail physique or lack of color. We know that her mother stopped nursing her at 7 weeks and had killed and eaten most of one of her siblings, sex unknown. Perhaps the victim, which was also white, had been a male. Perhaps nature told Momason that females were more important than males.

We know how important Snowflake is to us today. From the moment that I picked her up she has been fearless. Snowflake fears no cat, no man, no woman. Is she stupid? Na, I don't think so. She's supper loving. That fifty-cent word, "wonderful," surely applies to Snowflake. The wife calls here "adorable." A word I've never learned to use.

So it is with Snowflake, my baby kitty.

Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup

Draft - Eddie Evans bio for posting

For Crime Scene Cleanup Magazine's bio pages. It's time to have some fun with these pages.

Biosafe's Trainer

Eddie Evans is a professional trainer and he believes that biohazard cleaning is a serious business; no holds bard. He believes that proper hygiene training for the workplace ought to instill trainees with a holistic approach to bloodborne pathogens. For Eddie, this means that trainees need to learn that work place safety training ought to include training for off-site behavior, 24/7/365. Without this approach, according to Eddie, trainees are left with a part-time attitude toward bloodborne pathogen safety behavior.

Such attitudes produce real problems we learn from other aspects of our daily lives, like "part-time parenting." So it is no wonder that a part-time hygiene and safety attitude must be abandoned in professional cleaning.

So how does Eddie Evans expect to bridge the gap between work place behavior and behavior elsewhere in his trainees’ lives?

Eddie does this by bringing his personal and professional training experience to cleaning. Select students become part of an on-going program to observe, consider, test, and revise work procedures based upon soundly shaped outcomes. This is Eddie's version of the scientific method applied to cleaning.

With ten years experience as a high school teacher, Language Arts, Eddie's passion for education and the power of language reflect in many ways. He brings the subtleties of language and its power to inform and misinform to training.

Eddie helps trainees understand that their safety and the safety of their families and co-workers is bound up in their use and misuse of words -- written and spoken. Trainees are encouraged to grasp how their language behavior shapes their attitudes toward hygiene and other behavior encountered in the professional cleaning field.

Of course Eddie ensures that OSHA’s bloodborne pathogen training receives on-going attention. He shows students what he is going to cover; He then covers the required OSHA material. Studnets learn to summarize the minimum of what they need to know for OSHA compliance in their own terms - - Eddie calls this his "train the trainer" approach to combating disease while encouraging a positive attitude to life long learning.

So Eddie does not leave the trainees’ cleaning training to an indexed outline for testing purposes. He takes care to embed this training into trainees’ working and personal lives. Eddie instructs trainees to “learn to learn” and “each one teach one in a caring” manner so that students take this holistic approach to learning with them at the end of their training day.

Eddie sincerely believes that in no other way can the threat of bloodborne pathogens’ multi-dimensional ecology be controlled in the work place or elsewhere. Likewise, a respect toward controled cleaning environment learned here may one day generalize to airborne pathogen defenses.

Eddie asks trainees, “How do you know?”, and most typically, his trainees have added a new understanding to "knowing" and safety by the end of their first exposure to Eddie Evans.

Eddie brings decades of experience and education to helping others learn new ideas. His degrees include an Associate of Arts in General Eddieucation, a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, and a Master of Science in Educational Counseling. Eddie eagerly earned his teaching credentials for teaching High School English, English as a Second Language, Sociology, Social Studies, and Adult Eddieucation.

His graduate studies include World literature as well as contemporary sociological theories, which compliment is studies of education theory and methods.

Eddie taught in public schools for over ten years. He has taught privately for two years as a traffic school instructor, and he has taught English as a Second Language privately.

Eddie’s training experience includes 23 years training soldiers while serving in the Regular Army, Reserve, and National Guard. It is in the military that Eddie began his carrier handling and cleaning objects soiled by by human blood and other potentially infectious material (OPIM). This training goes unmatched as an introduction to crime scene cleanup.