Obama

Obama's pragmatism and intelligence seem to refresh everything US, with a few exceptions that I won't dwell on here.

I enjoy seeing someone with color in the White House. It is interesting to see his family in the White House. They seem to give the White House a vitality that's been missing for a long time. It has become alive, at least in my mind.

I am no longer ashamed of the US's president. I feel better about being a US American.

As far as the depression goes, I don't see how Obama can really make a big difference, but maybe he can. I don't know it all, although I did call this one as well as attacks on the US.

What I like more than anything about Obama is that he understands the necessity of moving toward renewable energy and the serious consequences of not doing so. To think that the US population sat on its hands for 8 long years is beyond my imagination, but now something is moving, something is happening. To my mind, Carter was late, but at least he was moving, doing something. Then came Raygun and the movement died. Now it's back.

Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup

Cronyism in Crime Scene Cleanup

"The economic and social costs of cronyism are paid by society. In the form of reduced business opportunity for the majority of the population, reduced competition in the market place, inflated consumer goods prices, decreased economic performance, inefficient business investment cycles, reduced motivation in affected organizations, and the diminution of economically productive activity. " Click here for source.


Because of cronyism in crime scene cleanup, the public suffers; friends and relatives of the deceased are cheated by cronyism. Also, honest crime scene cleanup companies lose needed revenue to service the public's need for professional death scene cleaners.

Cronyism in crime scene cleanup means that (usually) coroners' employees receive money from a crony crime scene cleanup company (green/blue above). In return these government employees give special favors to these companies, like the telephone numbers of crime scene victims and others needing professional death scene cleanup.

Sometimes coroners' employees start their own business with their privileged information. This privileged information is about who died, how, when where, and the telephone number of the deceased's family and friends.

Again, for example, in crime scene cleanup, coroners' employees give the public (bereaved) telephone numbers to crony companies for cleaning services. The crony companies get rich because they charge the public whatever they want. They have few real competitors. These companies are cronies because the coroner's employees give their telephone numbers to friends and relatives of the dead. The crony coroners' employees also get rich by selling their information to crony crime scene cleanup companies. The public pays more because of this unethical business between private companies and tax payer paid government employees. In a sense, the tax-paying public pays twice because of cronyism.

Crony's competitors and the public then suffer, we see. We can see how cronies gain much money, power, and influence while the public gets cheated. How would you like to pay more money for a service because your government favors one company over others? We know for a fact that this happens in many places.

We see that bureaucracies (like the coroner's office) in local, county, state, and federal governments hurt the public. Cronyism has crippled, in part, the Russian economy. So we can see again how cronyism steals from the public because it destroy free enterprise.

Bureaucracies become self-serving. Some even forget who they were created to serve. Add cronyism to this self-serving tendency, and we see again how free enterprise suffers as well as the public good. In regards to crime scene cleanup and cronyism, we can see how some coroners' employees work to benefit from their inside, special information.

After time, sociologically speaking, these relationships reflect an abbreviated form of fascism, but without government sanction.

Note: Legally, for a government agency to exclude one company for the benefit of a quasi-monopoly requires open-bidding for a contract. A contract all are entitled to bid for.

More though, in some areas coroners' employees have seized control of referrals for the benefit of relatives and friends who have started crime scene cleanup businesses. Callers have actually, gleefully, confirmed that they were to receive all or most of the referrals from those in control of referrals. It is like these callers had no idea that they were, in part, no different than cronies in the late Soviet Union.

These relationships cause one to wonder if there are many other ways that the US reflects Russian bureaucracies' cronyism. How else is free enterprise perverted by our various government agencies?


Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup School

Important Link for Political Economy

Fresh Air and Clean Politics

Way behind!

Too much going on and I was way behind before today. Now I'm so far behind there is no catching up. March on, I guess, since there's no alternative anyway.

Obama's skeleton plans sound fair enough, considering the limits to what he can and cannot do. Renewables and jobs make sense. Get the Co2 out of the air and stop producing it as soon as possible. Sequestering Co2 is not ecologically sound. Just stop producing more than nature will absorb ecologically.

I am pleased to hear the democrats making the correct connections between the environment and economics. It's about time. They too are way behind! The republicans remain to make the connections between "eco" and economics and the overpowering domination of ecology to all else.

Obama is a hard worker and driven to ends that I can only imagine. It's really pleasing to see that we will have an ambitious, intelligent president after 8 years of oil mogul rule.

Obama sees the importance of a paradigm shift, and it's underway with or without him or anyone else. The important idea is to keep the greed barons out of the way. Anything less will be criminal.

Eddie Evans

Crime Scene Cleanup

A look at Palin

Palin is what she is, an evangelical mom with an urge for attention; hence, the PTA and now the election for Vice President.

Like everyone, she has her strong and weak points. Her strong points are found in medieval cosmology. Palin's got strong points in her skill and ability to stand before crowds and project strength and vigor, plus she's very well spoken on her own turf. As for complete honesty and a "Christian" respect for truth, she bends to the wishes of her peer group.

I expect to see her develop the skills and relationships that she has forged in her campaign for vp. These relationships are and will be made with other evangelicals as well as professional involved in republican politics. The latter need work and whether she can win or not, they need the work.

I cannot wish her future as a politician well because she endorses war and nukes, neither of which have anything to do with Christianity or the future of species populations in the wild.

Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup

McCain has lost it -- As if it matters.

It looks like John McCain's blowing it in chunks.

He's lost my respect. He says that "Obama will say anything" while Palin does say anything!

This guy's 72 years old and he looks and moves like he's 82.
The presidency requires someone with a certain amount of vigor, and I don't recall any film clips of McCain exercising for pro-longed periods of time. How's he going to stay awake and alert for prolonged periods of time? I'm 61; so I know for certain what he must be dealing with. There are perky, strong and agile 72-year-old men, McCain is not one of them.

He's not over-weight, judging by the pictures. But he's beatup terribly.
McCain must be taking a handful of pills to keep going. How could it be otherwise judging by his history and age. I don't see it. Where's his medical records?

Just by placing the US at risk because of his age and condition, just by selecting this Palin character, just by running the campaign he's running, he's lost my respect.
This is the guy that I thought should have had the Republican helm years ago. Now look at him.


Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup

Obama looks like he's got a chance.

It looks like Obama may actually have a chance at the presidency. Just why he would want to be president is beyond me.
There is not much that he can actually do at this point, considering the mess that he's going to inherit. I suppose that he can get some green technology subsidized at the expense of oil subsidies. I suppose that he can get the ball rolling for a decent, affordable health care system. After all, remove the pork, remove the wars, remove the corporate socialism and something could happen for people.
If he is savvy, he'll throw-in with those Europeans talking about finance capital serving people and business rather than people and business serving finance capital.
I can barely imagine the cost savings when 140 US military bases around the World are closed.

Now all of this is conjecture of course because the Republicans and Dibold are nearly one in the same. And those Dibold machines would have served Stalin, as they have served the Republicans. The point is not who votes and how, but "who counts the votes," Dibold in this case.

Eddie Evans
Fighting crime from my chair.
Crime Scene Cleanup