Daily Archives: Saturday April 10th, 2010

Flying Cat, Police & SCOTUS

Well, this time I remembered to put subjects down when I thought of them to remind myself of what I wanted to write about.  =)

Today we actually got a few things done, hubby got the place vacuumed of all the cat fur…not a fun job. We did some outside work.  Hubby got it done much faster then I thought it would take. I got #8 of strawberries cleaned and frozen, shortcake made, laundry done & a blog post.  Tomorrow, debating on making up some egg salad and need to finalize our taxes….fun, fun….  I really need to get back focused on our project….need to get that done.  What I need to do, is put on my ipod to my classical music and just tunnel vision myself.

I finished the Secret Lives of the Supreme Court last week. That was a very interest for a SCOTUS geek like me….grin I’m now reading True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy.  I’m really enjoying how he wrote it.  It is filled with humor, personal insight…..telling a story without it being dry.  So far you get to know people like he knew them….  I have been trying to give myself reading time…it really helps for chilling out and keeping my sanity.  =)

I so can’t wait for more hiking weather…just to get out of the house more.  The gym is getting ho-hum…I think I’m getting restless with it.  I don’t want stop it, just want to get more drive again and less boredom.  Changing between the treadmill & elliptical is helping.  But by the time I get my abs in, I don’t feel like getting my weights in….not good.  But as long as I’m maintaining for now, it is a good thing.  Once we get out more, it won’t be so bad.

We discovered that our other cat, Sakura, can fly….grin  But unlike her brother, she didn’t care that we saw her.  We have a black leather chair that spins with a foot stool about 5-6ft away from the end table.  As we were watching a Ron White stand up, I saw out of the corner of my eye a chunky furry body flying through the air from the end table to the chair….she landed on the top of the chair and it went spinning around in circles.  LMAO  She just looked at us like “What? I do this all the time”  Holy cow…..we just lost it…  I don’t get these 2 cats….we’ve never had cats act like they don’t give a rats ass about us correcting them and don’t care if they do things in front us that they are not allowed to do.  They are something else…we have never had cats fly before….LOL

There is one thing that I find very different to me here in Portland.  I guess there is a history of police brutality from the PDX police.  And from the news reports it sounds like they have taken a lot of steps to correct the actions of the past.  But there have been a few deaths from police shootings in the last year or so.  One of the shooting, sounds like the cop totally screwed up, but unfortunately we had one a few weeks ago and there has been protests….but this one doesn’t sound like a screw up.

This last shooting, the guy was covered in blood, had a knife and was acting crazy.  A knife is a deadly weapon, I would prefer and would hope that they could find another way to disarmed them….but a knife is not something that you play with when it comes to the public and your safety.  So with the info that has been released, at this time I feel it was more like a justified shooting….but I like to hear the all the info.

I hate the arm chair “cops” that act like they know what should’ve been done without being in that situation and knowing all the facts.

Now yes, I know that there are cops that abuse their authority….ever dealt with a small town cop on a power trip?  Not fun.

But now a days, in most places (there are some cites that are nothing but corruption…..not going to name the ones I won’t trust) most cops are just doing their job, trying to keep the public safe.

Maybe I just have been lucky with my dealing with cops, especially the county and state cops in IN, even when I’ve gotten pulled a lot when I was younger and dumber (very well deserved pull overs, 90% of the time). I’ve only had one bad experience, it was in FL and that was due his attitude and talking to others…this cop was known for being an ass….so I don’t actually count him.  Every other cop I’ve dealt with has always been professional.  I treated them with respect and it has always been returned.

My first two jobs were in food service and when cops and emergency responders came in they got 50% off. There are two main reasons for that.  One you know their jobs don’t pay…..so two, if you take care of them and they keep coming back they keep even a better eye on your place.  One of places I worked, it was the only location in all of Lake Country that hadn’t been robbed, because we had cops there all the time. And when they saw cars that they didn’t recognized in our parking lot after hours, they called us to check on us to make sure that everything was ok.  So it is a win-win situation.

So, even though I know that PDX police’s history has been spotty, I’m very uncomfortable with how quickly that they “burned at the stake” no matter what the info is….like the knife and the threats.  It so ties the hands of the good cops that are putting their lives on the line to do a thankless job.

Well, if you follow my tweets with all the links, you know that I’ve totally tied up in the retirement of Justice Stevens.  When you are addicted to politics, history and social issues you know that the Supreme Court is a huge part of our advancement in society, ie Civil Rights…women being allowed to control their own bodies.  What is really sad about Justice Stevens retirement is that he is seen as the force on the liberal side when he is actually old republican moderate.  It is the court that has changed.

The right-wing-nuts rally against “activist judges” (which is code for liberal judges) but their hypocrisy shows because the actual activist judges on the bench are the conservatives.  They are always rolling back our rights…..I feel as if they are going to throw us back to segregation and back alley abortions.  Screw our rights as long as corporations are allowed to do what they want and the white men keeps their power…..ggrrrr No ONE tells me what I can or can’t do with my body, my husband respects that.

Time to do a little bit of reading.  =)

Pauline’s Daily Tweets

  • I really didn't feel like the gym today, but it was last day before 2 days off for the weekend. Glad that I did it, but totally hit the wall #
  • Need to get my butt into the shower & need to run an errand, I really don't want to go back out but it is needed. #
  • Did my errand, laid down for about an hour….now need to focus myself & get to some of the emails that piled up in the last few hours #
  • The End of an Era, for Court and Nation – http://lnk.ms/7xVfj It is going to be a long summer, politically. #
  • The messed up part is that Stevens is a mod, not a liberal…the Court is what has become more right-winged #
  • This makes 2 of us….Hubby : wonders if I will ever see the day a atheist will be elected POTUS or selected for SCOTUS… #
  • Just took my 76th mugshot! http://www.dailymugshot.com/main/show/44426 #
  • Got dinner in, started in on some of my emails…….debating on doing a blog entry. #
  • Watching the best of SNL with Best of John Belushi….totally loving the Blues Brothers part….I love it when that music hits me at the gym #
  • Justice John Paul Stevens' 10 Most Important Supreme Court Decisions http://lnk.ms/6KgKt #
  • John Paul Stevens the restrainer http://lnk.ms/7xwLv #
  • @KATUMeghan I never understand that….I hate having to turn my head to talk, gives me a headache. in reply to KATUMeghan #
  • Justice Stevens, Last of the Moderate Republican Justice http://lnk.ms/7xxVb #
  • There are no more moderate Rep in leadership anymore, just wing nuts =( That is why I'm so disgusted with them #
  • Retiring justice an 'unexpected liberal,' negotiator – http://lnk.ms/6KlYB #cnn #
  • Stevens Retires: The End of "Old School" On the Court – National – The Atlantic: http://lnk.ms/7xyBK via @addthis #
  • Veterans Administration Pulls Funding From Therapeutic Farm Training Program http://lnk.ms/7xyYH #
  • By the Way, Conservatism Is Dead http://lnk.ms/6KmMt #
  • Justice Stevens – http://lnk.ms/7y3Pj #
  • O’Connor on the Court – http://lnk.ms/6Krtm #
  • Reposting my Justice Stevens link, it didn't work the 1st time =( http://lnk.ms/6Ks64 #
  • Our evil cat Sakura just decided to show us that she can fly, by jumping from the end table, 6ft to our chair, that totally spun when landed #
  • I just saw a furry bod going flying through the air & the chair spinning around with a fur body holding on to the back… #
  • The messed up thing is that you can tell it wasn't 1st time she's done that & she had no issue with doing it in front of us……LOL #
  • I about choked on my cheese & cracker I was laughing so damn hard……LMAO #

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