Family of Secrets - an important book about the Bush clan.
Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America by Russ Baker
eddie evans
crime scene cleanup
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Those pesky probes!
There are those biohazard companies that I call "probes" because they call me and pretend to seek my services. They want to know "how much?" I will charge, seeking to underbid me.
They also want to know how I will "do it," hoping to learn something, rather than spend $29 for a 3 year membership to crime scene cleanup school. I mean really Mr. and Ms. Probe, get a life!
Here's a job I did for $350. I always charge $350 out the door and it only goes up. It's the
Then there are those twelve-year olds who call simply to talk to a "real crime scene cleaner." They are cute, and I understand and appreciate them. But like the probes, they are a nuisance.
I left the public school system on purpose, and here it is following me!
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crime scene cleanup
They also want to know how I will "do it," hoping to learn something, rather than spend $29 for a 3 year membership to crime scene cleanup school. I mean really Mr. and Ms. Probe, get a life!
Here's a job I did for $350. I always charge $350 out the door and it only goes up. It's the
Then there are those twelve-year olds who call simply to talk to a "real crime scene cleaner." They are cute, and I understand and appreciate them. But like the probes, they are a nuisance.
I left the public school system on purpose, and here it is following me!
eddie evans
crime scene cleanup
Apartment Management Companies Cleaning More Trauma?
It sounds to me, based on calls to crime scene cleanup, that more and more management companies are choosing to cleanup blood in their apartments. I guess that I and the other trauma cleaners are charging too much.
Of course, if you are an employee cleaning up homicides on blood soaked mattresses for $8 an hour, you may want to change your working-class status real soon.
As it goes, more and more companies do not call back.
eddie evans
crime scene cleanup
Of course, if you are an employee cleaning up homicides on blood soaked mattresses for $8 an hour, you may want to change your working-class status real soon.
As it goes, more and more companies do not call back.
eddie evans
crime scene cleanup
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Are biowaste and biohazards different?
First, all biohazardous waste is biowaste. But not all biowaste is biohazardous.
I receive a lot of comments about poop and whether or not it is biohazardous. So for this topic, consider poop as a first example of biowaste. For my purposes, poop is not biohazardous unless it has been polluted by blood or blood products. Because our primary concern is blood-borne pathogens, disease carrying blood, we do not classify blood-less poop as a biohazard.
Just an aside here, human blood carries over six hundred known viruses. A simple flush of the toilet causes many of these viruses to become airborne. But we have immunities to these viruses developed over many generations.
I cannot at this time make such a claim about, say, pigeon poop. It is known to carry over sixty diseases. For whom, under what conditions, do these viruses become a health issue? Generally, pigeon poop is probably biowaste besides being a nuisance. For some people under the right conditions, pigeon poop is a biohazardous substance. So there is no simple answer for everyone when it comes to biowaste and biohazards.
There are exceptions. Consider anthrax as one airborne pathogen that is a known biohazard for just about everyone.
My concern remains bloodborne pathogens, though.
Hernia's, hemorrhoids, and anal sex create, in part, biohazardous poop because of damaged blood vessels in the anus. Once poop is contaminated by blood, it is biohazardous. Therefore, poop soiled by blood must be handled as highly infectious, as a biohazard. HIV and Hepatitis C are two pathogens carried by blood found in anal intercourse.
An aside here, it is not uncommon for schools and university custodians to remove poop from walls and floors on a daily basis. At this writing, I do not know of studies for the handling of this matter in education and other institutional settings. We must assume that custodians are taught as suggested above. That is, if poop has blood in it, remove and decontaminate soiled areas as if soiled by infectious blood, biohazardous blood.
It is likewise with urine if it is contaminated by blood; it is biohazardous; however, urine tends to have a high acidic content and creates a hostile environment for many micro-organisms. Just the same, if it is known that urine has blood in it, it is a biohazard.
As I mentioned in a prior post, just think of the nightmare that would be created if all feminine napkins, if all bandages were handled as biohazardous, rather than as biowaste?
Just think what would happen if we treated everything soiled by blood as biohazardous? If we could not remove, if we could not clean blood from property, we would live in a very awkward World!
Blood must be handled carefully. As seen in the above diagram, we consider all blood and blood by-products -- other potentially infectious materials (OPIM) as biohazardous. The only safe handling of blood requires creating distance from it; otherwise, sealing blood off so as not to contaminate property, persons, or environments must be carried out safely, quickly.
We need to keep biowaste separate from biohazardous material for practical reasons. Once we label something as "biohazardous," we have created special conditions, special handling requirements. For example, placing biowaste in a biohazard (red) bag means that the biowaste will not come out of the bag. Whatever goes into a red biohazard bag remains until buried or burnt. Although the bagged biowaste may have been safe to treat or dispose of otherwise, it has become a burden of some sort.
For example, what if all hospitals tossed their blood soiled bedding into biohazard bags? Can you imagine the costs? Can you imagine the additonal load on the biohazard stream of containment? Hospitals tend to wash blood from bedding at very high temperatures. There are times when bedding is so heavily soiled by blood that it must go into the biohazard stream. Before this occurrs, someone makes a critical decision: Can the bedding be restored?
What about blood soaked carpet, can it be restored? According to most professional cleaners and OSHA, blood soiled carpet cannot be decontaminated for the purpose of continued use. It must be cut out. The question then becomes, "Can it be pre-treated to a point at which it is biowaste rather than biohazardous waste?" This is a question for responsible parties to answer. Like baby-poop and soiled hospital bedding, placing all blood soiled carpet into the biohazard stream may or may not be economically feasible.
What we can say for certain is that less than a generation ago carpet cleaners "restored" blood soiled carpeting. This sounds icky at best, but a good carpet cleaner with some time and patience can do a remarkable cleaning job. What he/she cannot do is prove that the soiled carpeting is disinfected. Disinfecting carpeting would require soaking it in a high concentration of medium to high level disinfectants. Bleach, as an example of a medium, but corrosive, disinfectant can destroy a large number of micro-organisms as well as destroying their food source. Replacing carpet treated in this manner is not practicable, unfortunately.
Perhaps carpet and other materials can be pre-treated or properly sealed for containment and disposal as solid waste. Given the tools, chemicals, and time, many infectious substances can be neutralized for purposes of disposal. In any case, once pre-treated and sealed for disposal, once infectious materials should never go into dumpsters where anyone might come into contact with such.
A last comment to help clarify this issue of biowaste versus biohazards. Anthrax is biohazardous to humans. Under no conditions can it be handled as biowaste like lawn clippings.
I know that I have played fast and loose with the above terms. I will tighten up this usage as times passes, but for now, this is where I am at. I know that "biowaste" and "solid waste" are one in the same in many or most cases. More on this will follow because there are serious cleaning issues and ethical issues involved with these terms and what they represent.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Dead Cops and Nationalism
I remember listening to Professor Lumpin so closely. "This man is so smart" and a "terrific reader" I would think. I remember the time that he read Fanshine overnight. He came into class totally stoked on William Hinton's stories. The starving Chinese peasants' story to break with their ancient ideology's landlord-versus-peasant relationships kept my attention.
Starvation cultivates critical thinking in the right circumstances. For the revolutionary Chinese peasants, this meant that they broke with tradition going back 10,000 years to the agrarian revolution. From the fertile banks of the Euripides in today's Iraq to the village of Fanshine, labor created wealth. Labor generated profit created by turning soil and sun into surplus value. Food storage and its guardians were needed. History would not, probably could not, have had it otherwise. From the growth of the clan to the emergence of the nation state, surplus value needed to be guarded. I was impressed with Professor Lumpin's recounting of China's revolutionary changes through this micro-story of the nation state turning upside down. Starvation has a way of destroying the subordination of peasants to ideology.
On another day, another subject, I heard him say it, and I heard him say it again, and then again even later. "I hate cops." "Wow, what's this about?" I wondered. Lumpkin did not give much reason for this hate, other than that the cops had somehow mishandled him and others. I could see how someone without much education might make a blanket statement like this, but a sociology professor? What a generalization, and from what sort of stereotype does this hate arise?
I knew from my own teenage years that my rights had been violated by the police, rights that go to the heart of being an American citizen. I had been accused of a deed that I had not done, a deed that I was incapable of performing. Just the same, the cops walked right into my bedroom without invitation to my home, and ordered me to get dressed. This was foul I knew and I knew that they were wrong. In the following hour I could easily have become a "juvenile delinquent," but I did not. I could see from this experience, though, how people come to "hate cops" ("Constable on Patrol' as the British put it).
I did not lose my admiration for the professor, but I did discount his objectivity while continuing to trust his academic skills.
Now I'm thinking that societies have always needed "cops" since the agrarian revolution. How else could the ruling elite keep their surplus wheat, their surplus goods once extracted from the labor of the weaker, landless classes? Without cops, without some sort of repressive apparatus civilization as we know it would not exist. People do not share wealth as if they were Jesus Christ. That was the whole point of "Giving unto Caesar," keeping the peace between the haves and have nots. Granted, Roman soldiers were not cops, but their role was pretty much the same, to repress uprisings generated by the theft of surplus value from the fields. Fanshin's peasants were not repressed by soldiers; they were supresed by the dominant ideology. Either soldiers or ideology will do the job for the ruling elite. Social control is quite simple in this regard.
Moving fast-forward from the agrarian revolution to the Industrial Revolution, British cops in the 19th century spent their "graveyard" shifts rousting the poor and homeless from park benches, from alleys and porches. There were the surplus working poor, the "surplus army of labor" needed for union busting and wage control.
This surplus army of labor needed to be controlled. So it was understood that in London, no one sits at night. "Keep them moving" was the order to the British cops. For the poor and homeless, night time was hell. A sleepless period of moving about, zombie-like, followed the Sun's setting for both adults and children. I can see how the homeless working class and lumpen-proletariat came to "hate cops" in those days and nights. Some would say that at least the poor "were as free as the rich to sleep under bridges."
It is ironic, too, that the cops came from the same class of people that they were paid and directed to displace, keep moving, keep honest, control. In many cases as today, the cops then would have come from among the rousted, penniless, working class survivors of industrialism's unequal distribution of wealth. Police work provided a source of upward, social movement for an otherwise surplus worker.
Like London's "Bobbies," many of the police officers that are policing our streets have few or no real marketable skills. They would not, could not do well in the competitive sector, and for one reason or others, do not have those honed social skills necessary in the monopoly corporate world. Still, many police complete high school with high marks. They are generally bright. They enter the military where their education in obedience and iron-like discipline comes to serve them so well as public servants. Many learn to listen more closely then they did during their 12 years of regurgitating classroom stories.
Overall, I believe, as stereotypes go, and as my 62 years have lead me to believe, the typical cop is more savvy, and more sophisticated in the ways of the World then the average citizen. Also, by virtue of their socialization during 8 and more working hours each day, they learn and hone social skills that most of us cannot imagine. There is no way to measure or judge the many quips, queries, and ways of seeing humanity that a cop develops.
That "thin blue line" gives cops a background and fellowship most of us do not experience, but for church going. For the cops, the community of cops creates bonds only exceeded by the combat veterans of the World; for their hazards in the workplace, cops gain in solidarity what the most fervent revolutionary cherishes, a cooperative comradeship unmatched elsewhere.
Cops are not perfect by a far cry, and why should they be? After all, their ranks grow from society's public education system. There are drug dealing cops, crony cops, and worse (which is hard to imagine). But then, by far cops are generally the guy that I want living next door. The guy (gal too) that I look to for an even shake in business. As stereotypes go, I expect a fair shake from cops in their civilian World.
Starvation cultivates critical thinking in the right circumstances. For the revolutionary Chinese peasants, this meant that they broke with tradition going back 10,000 years to the agrarian revolution. From the fertile banks of the Euripides in today's Iraq to the village of Fanshine, labor created wealth. Labor generated profit created by turning soil and sun into surplus value. Food storage and its guardians were needed. History would not, probably could not, have had it otherwise. From the growth of the clan to the emergence of the nation state, surplus value needed to be guarded. I was impressed with Professor Lumpin's recounting of China's revolutionary changes through this micro-story of the nation state turning upside down. Starvation has a way of destroying the subordination of peasants to ideology.
On another day, another subject, I heard him say it, and I heard him say it again, and then again even later. "I hate cops." "Wow, what's this about?" I wondered. Lumpkin did not give much reason for this hate, other than that the cops had somehow mishandled him and others. I could see how someone without much education might make a blanket statement like this, but a sociology professor? What a generalization, and from what sort of stereotype does this hate arise?
I knew from my own teenage years that my rights had been violated by the police, rights that go to the heart of being an American citizen. I had been accused of a deed that I had not done, a deed that I was incapable of performing. Just the same, the cops walked right into my bedroom without invitation to my home, and ordered me to get dressed. This was foul I knew and I knew that they were wrong. In the following hour I could easily have become a "juvenile delinquent," but I did not. I could see from this experience, though, how people come to "hate cops" ("Constable on Patrol' as the British put it).
I did not lose my admiration for the professor, but I did discount his objectivity while continuing to trust his academic skills.
Now I'm thinking that societies have always needed "cops" since the agrarian revolution. How else could the ruling elite keep their surplus wheat, their surplus goods once extracted from the labor of the weaker, landless classes? Without cops, without some sort of repressive apparatus civilization as we know it would not exist. People do not share wealth as if they were Jesus Christ. That was the whole point of "Giving unto Caesar," keeping the peace between the haves and have nots. Granted, Roman soldiers were not cops, but their role was pretty much the same, to repress uprisings generated by the theft of surplus value from the fields. Fanshin's peasants were not repressed by soldiers; they were supresed by the dominant ideology. Either soldiers or ideology will do the job for the ruling elite. Social control is quite simple in this regard.
Moving fast-forward from the agrarian revolution to the Industrial Revolution, British cops in the 19th century spent their "graveyard" shifts rousting the poor and homeless from park benches, from alleys and porches. There were the surplus working poor, the "surplus army of labor" needed for union busting and wage control.
This surplus army of labor needed to be controlled. So it was understood that in London, no one sits at night. "Keep them moving" was the order to the British cops. For the poor and homeless, night time was hell. A sleepless period of moving about, zombie-like, followed the Sun's setting for both adults and children. I can see how the homeless working class and lumpen-proletariat came to "hate cops" in those days and nights. Some would say that at least the poor "were as free as the rich to sleep under bridges."
It is ironic, too, that the cops came from the same class of people that they were paid and directed to displace, keep moving, keep honest, control. In many cases as today, the cops then would have come from among the rousted, penniless, working class survivors of industrialism's unequal distribution of wealth. Police work provided a source of upward, social movement for an otherwise surplus worker.
Like London's "Bobbies," many of the police officers that are policing our streets have few or no real marketable skills. They would not, could not do well in the competitive sector, and for one reason or others, do not have those honed social skills necessary in the monopoly corporate world. Still, many police complete high school with high marks. They are generally bright. They enter the military where their education in obedience and iron-like discipline comes to serve them so well as public servants. Many learn to listen more closely then they did during their 12 years of regurgitating classroom stories.
Overall, I believe, as stereotypes go, and as my 62 years have lead me to believe, the typical cop is more savvy, and more sophisticated in the ways of the World then the average citizen. Also, by virtue of their socialization during 8 and more working hours each day, they learn and hone social skills that most of us cannot imagine. There is no way to measure or judge the many quips, queries, and ways of seeing humanity that a cop develops.
That "thin blue line" gives cops a background and fellowship most of us do not experience, but for church going. For the cops, the community of cops creates bonds only exceeded by the combat veterans of the World; for their hazards in the workplace, cops gain in solidarity what the most fervent revolutionary cherishes, a cooperative comradeship unmatched elsewhere.
Cops are not perfect by a far cry, and why should they be? After all, their ranks grow from society's public education system. There are drug dealing cops, crony cops, and worse (which is hard to imagine). But then, by far cops are generally the guy that I want living next door. The guy (gal too) that I look to for an even shake in business. As stereotypes go, I expect a fair shake from cops in their civilian World.
And when they are in their World of policing, I tend to expect a professional relationship from cops. I also keep in mind that the cop that I'm dealing with may have been verbally abused, insulted, maligned by their last interaction with Joe six-pack or his wife Jane makeover. I keep in mind that the cop I'm facing has spent his/her time in a briefing room with comrades on this very day; the cop I'm facing has information that deals with death and dying, and tomorrow the death and dying may involve his own World of comrades. this goes on for cops 24/7/365.
I want to keep on this thread, this death and dying among cops, especially after this weekends quadruple police officer homicide in Oakland, California. How could it come to this? How could one ex-con, parole violating dirt bag come to single-handedly kill four trained, experienced police sergeants? The newspaper that I read claimed that the first two officers were motor officers, and both were gunned down on a typical traffic stop. Motor officers are by their nature gung-hole; like paratroopers, they get their first prepared to take on their adversaries by surprise or not. They are meant to jump into the middle of the fight and win.
What happened?
I want to keep on this thread, this death and dying among cops, especially after this weekends quadruple police officer homicide in Oakland, California. How could it come to this? How could one ex-con, parole violating dirt bag come to single-handedly kill four trained, experienced police sergeants? The newspaper that I read claimed that the first two officers were motor officers, and both were gunned down on a typical traffic stop. Motor officers are by their nature gung-hole; like paratroopers, they get their first prepared to take on their adversaries by surprise or not. They are meant to jump into the middle of the fight and win.
What happened?
Well, number one, a motorcycle does not provide much concealment, let alone cover. But I doubt if either were necessary in this stop. Two trained motor officers would have known to stand apart, to stand so as to cover one another's backs at all times, to keep their eye's on the subject's hands. They did not anticipate. They were complacent. They were not thinking critically -- What if?
Complacency kills cops just as it kills soldiers. Some times curiosity kills cops too, but when they are curious, their critical thinking skills are working. They get killed simply by virtue of police work's demands, especially when they are conscientious.
Also, it is when moving toward a disturbance that cops tend to have an elevation of that male hormone testosterone, a real focus orienting hormone. So when moving towards a threat, we expect, cops have their adrenaline up and their basic police skills up front. Their pupils become pinpoint circles, the blood in their bodies moves inward away from their skin's surface, and their fight-or-flight reflexes become way overwhelmed by the fight side of this physical equation. As helpful as this condition becomes in a fight, it hinders the mind's judgment because it narrows attention too much for a predator-like attitude.
Simply by performing routine duties cops hurt, when they become complacent, when their bodies are out of touch with the reality of their environment. i know this is true from my own experience with cops. Some forty-six years ago Billy Foreman's daddy put a bullet through his head with his policeman's revolver. It was New Years Eve. He had been drinking. Mr. Foreman could no longer work because one of his knees was ruined while breaking up a bar fight. He had no skills to sell. No capital to invest. He went from being a savvy, sophisticated, dedicated police officer to a social dependent in a split instant while doing his inherently dangerous job. So there are social psychological issues to consider here besides patrol tactics and complacency, at least in police casualties. ("Who cleaned up that suicide I wondered at the time.") Little did I suspect what I would be doing in my "retirement years.")
So I know that cops get hurt while in-tune with their environment, and while out-of-tune with their environment. Just the same, the two dead cops at that traffic stop in Oakland somehow got away from their fundamentals of police patrol procedures. How else can we explain two dead police sergeants at a traffic stop, both killed with a handgun? It happens, sure.
Then, how do we explain the two dead SWAT officers responding to the apartment building in which the cop killer sought safety? Therein he armed himself with an assault rifle (God save the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution!) and, apparently, ambushed the SWAT team. He killed two and wounded one with a "graze" to the head. Who was this puke? Only Audie Murphy could claim such skill; Rambo and the Rifleman could pretend such, but and ex-con? There is something wrong with this story. Either the Faiths were working against civilization as we know it, or there is something amiss in the Oakland Police Department. But then again, I must consider that the puke would shoot anywhere and the police do not have this luxury. The police are accountable for every single round that exits their weapons. Place this requirement on soldier and our ours will be fought hand-to-hand or with cross-bows.
How would Professor Lumpin explain the doings in Oakland this weekend? Were these police officers acting as part of the "repressive apparatus" when they stopped this violating parolee? Or were they more like working class keepers of the peace trying to earn a middle-class income by risking their lives? The latter appeals to me, the former has its place in a general discussion of nationalism and the State.
So what happens to the police now that the US economy is broken, or if not broken, damaged? More people will have less, which is not such a bad thing if you are an environmentalist. But if you are a shopkeeper on Mainstreet, today's "downturn" means fewer sells, fewer employees, and overall, less growth and profit for all but the rich. Surplus value must still be protected, even when there are fewer places to extract it.
So I know that cops get hurt while in-tune with their environment, and while out-of-tune with their environment. Just the same, the two dead cops at that traffic stop in Oakland somehow got away from their fundamentals of police patrol procedures. How else can we explain two dead police sergeants at a traffic stop, both killed with a handgun? It happens, sure.
Then, how do we explain the two dead SWAT officers responding to the apartment building in which the cop killer sought safety? Therein he armed himself with an assault rifle (God save the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution!) and, apparently, ambushed the SWAT team. He killed two and wounded one with a "graze" to the head. Who was this puke? Only Audie Murphy could claim such skill; Rambo and the Rifleman could pretend such, but and ex-con? There is something wrong with this story. Either the Faiths were working against civilization as we know it, or there is something amiss in the Oakland Police Department. But then again, I must consider that the puke would shoot anywhere and the police do not have this luxury. The police are accountable for every single round that exits their weapons. Place this requirement on soldier and our ours will be fought hand-to-hand or with cross-bows.
How would Professor Lumpin explain the doings in Oakland this weekend? Were these police officers acting as part of the "repressive apparatus" when they stopped this violating parolee? Or were they more like working class keepers of the peace trying to earn a middle-class income by risking their lives? The latter appeals to me, the former has its place in a general discussion of nationalism and the State.
So what happens to the police now that the US economy is broken, or if not broken, damaged? More people will have less, which is not such a bad thing if you are an environmentalist. But if you are a shopkeeper on Mainstreet, today's "downturn" means fewer sells, fewer employees, and overall, less growth and profit for all but the rich. Surplus value must still be protected, even when there are fewer places to extract it.
Physiologically, psychologically, and socially, police officers have a lot going on. Now the US economy conspires against them; the drug war conspires against them; the gun lobby conspires against them, and their work gets harder and more dangerous as a result.
I will continue this thread soon, I hope. My mind seeks to explain a few issues and writing helps my critical thinking by clarifying and distinguishing the World that I find myself in.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
Monday, March 23, 2009
Suicide by shotgun
There are many ways to commit suicide, and none of them are honorable. I would think that a person committing suicide would do their utmost to save the survivors from the terrible sight of a mangled body, but it is not always so.
Here I'm cleaning another shotgun suicide. The victim wiped out his life by removing his head, two barrels to the throat -- big, ugly mess. What was he thinking? Did he think that those finding him have no feelings?
What about the cops? What about the para-medics and coroner's technicians, besides his family?
It seems that the American way of suicide for many men conspicuously points to the male's ego as a very large place; their minds are conspicuously narrow, shallow places.
Now the word is beginning to go around that the future of the US looks something like "Latvia if you want to see America's future." So what does this mean for my line of work. More work, more money, more horror stories and scenes. It's obvious to me that something is wrong with the American psyche.
Obama was on Sixty Minutes last night. i wonder how long he's going to remain in the public eye, considering that he's going to fail at most of what he attempts. There's no way around it. It's too much, and he's got so little time, so little to change history's onward movement. How will he handle his own mental health?
Obama has plenty of good support. The White House looks so holesome (swings in the yard, a garden, and the great great great grandchildren of the blacks that built it); he looks so under control and intelligent. Obama's intellect is so great and a great thing to hear and see. He'll hold up. His ego is the right ego at the time and place it's landed. The US could not have done better for the circumstances, any circumstances. He's more than ready, more than we should or could expect. I think the man is up to it all, even if I don't agree with him. Sorry Obama, you are not going to save capitalism from itself.
These suicide victims could save everyone a lot of trouble by making Obama their role model. I like the way that Obama referred to reading last night, over and over. I like the way that Obama referred to "so much information to digest." He's the "digester, the intellect." Before people commit suicide, they need to consider what they are leaving behind. They need to look to people that struggle with issues much larger than their own problems.
I'm just rambling again -- got up too early.
eddie evans
crime scene cleanup
Here I'm cleaning another shotgun suicide. The victim wiped out his life by removing his head, two barrels to the throat -- big, ugly mess. What was he thinking? Did he think that those finding him have no feelings?
What about the cops? What about the para-medics and coroner's technicians, besides his family?
It seems that the American way of suicide for many men conspicuously points to the male's ego as a very large place; their minds are conspicuously narrow, shallow places.
Now the word is beginning to go around that the future of the US looks something like "Latvia if you want to see America's future." So what does this mean for my line of work. More work, more money, more horror stories and scenes. It's obvious to me that something is wrong with the American psyche.
Obama was on Sixty Minutes last night. i wonder how long he's going to remain in the public eye, considering that he's going to fail at most of what he attempts. There's no way around it. It's too much, and he's got so little time, so little to change history's onward movement. How will he handle his own mental health?
Obama has plenty of good support. The White House looks so holesome (swings in the yard, a garden, and the great great great grandchildren of the blacks that built it); he looks so under control and intelligent. Obama's intellect is so great and a great thing to hear and see. He'll hold up. His ego is the right ego at the time and place it's landed. The US could not have done better for the circumstances, any circumstances. He's more than ready, more than we should or could expect. I think the man is up to it all, even if I don't agree with him. Sorry Obama, you are not going to save capitalism from itself.
These suicide victims could save everyone a lot of trouble by making Obama their role model. I like the way that Obama referred to reading last night, over and over. I like the way that Obama referred to "so much information to digest." He's the "digester, the intellect." Before people commit suicide, they need to consider what they are leaving behind. They need to look to people that struggle with issues much larger than their own problems.
I'm just rambling again -- got up too early.
eddie evans
crime scene cleanup
Sunday, March 22, 2009
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