Author: The 40 year old magpie

Dharma Dueling Satirist and Time Traveling Bunny Rabbit. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
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Open Letter to UC Davis Chancellor Katehi

Posted on by The 40 year old magpie

As a former Cal Aggie, and damn proud of it, I call upon you to resign your Chair in the wake of your unconscionable support of the pepper spraying of non-violent students:

The actions of the Campus Police are shocking, disgusting, unlawful and are reminiscent of the tactics used in the South to break up lawful and peaceful Civil Rights demonstrations:

 

 

These students could have been simply carried to the wagons. With your implied support for such unlawful and excessive tactics, you have paved the way for the Police to escalate their assaults until someone, namely a student is shot and killed. You know, like what happened at Kent State? You remember Kent State?

 

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What am I Thankful for

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What am I thankful for?

I am thankful for all who turned their backs and kicked me to the curb, you know who you are. I am thankful that my “Landsmen” did the same – I am thankful to not be part of such a community that turns its back upon those who are homeless, indigent and needful. I am than thankful for all the handwringing by the majority over the prospect of having to give equal time for other beliefs, by claiming it was an attempt to shut their worship down.

Thank you all for giving me Power.

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The Sheltered Existence Pt. Snippy or, I was right, this is not a Secular Shelter

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Yesterday, I went into a snit over being unceremoniously kicked from the cafeteria where the only useful outlets are so the church ladies who hold bible study in the “library” could have the space for their Thanksgiving celebration. I should point out, that a lot of other women were also kicked out when Staff came in announced that there was to be church in the cafeteria. No notice, nothing. So I got bent out of shape. A caseworker came out and I complained to him, and he got defensive (because he knew it was wrong) and then essentially said “Tough shit, this is a Christian majority.”

So, this Thursday, which is Thanksgiving, I will not be partaking of the traditional turkey dinner, as it means I will be forced to sit through Christian prayer and testimony in order to do so.  Now, there are those who would call me ingrate and those that tell me to suck it up and compromise my religious convictions, such as they are.

 

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BREAKING: I AM NOT A MENTAL MESS!

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Yesterday, I spent 14 hours on the set of an Indie comedy titled HAPPY THANKSGIVING I am playing the lead character’s Mother. I had five scenes involving mltiple takes, and I am happy to report, that I AM NOT EXPERIENCING MENTAL NUMBNESS/FATIGUE today. For me, as a mTBI thriver, this is an awesome development. See, up until yesterday, the energy expended in keeping myself focused was such, that I would have to lie down, or be totally non-functional the following day. This mental fatigue eats into your desire to do. anything. When I awoke this morning completely energized, I was thrilled. So very thrilled. This wall has crumbled. It will not be rebuilt.

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING will be making the festival circuit in 2012.

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The Sheltered Existence, Pt 12 – On Resentment & Gratitude

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Last night, an event was held at the Park Avenue Armory on one of the “forbidden” floors. Forbidden due to the fact that we shelter residents must use the Basement for entry and exit and cannot walk on the first, second or fourth floors. There is actually good reason for this: there are a few of my sheltermates who have crashed events have stolen from them. I remember one evening when they, the Armory staff, was setting up for an event on the first floor, and they were quite nervous about us residents crashing it. That’s when I learned of the party crasher who took with her upon exit, several bottles of alcohol. A few of us who reside there know quite well that the only reason the Armory puts up with all of us and the 911 calls to break up arguments is the money that is paid to them to lease two floors. There is not a night where there isn’t some bullshit drama, whether it be over the remote, or just from boredom. Staff will let the yell-fest continue with not very convincing attempts to shut it down.

Staffer 1

(unconvincingly)

ladies, please stop…. really stop…

Staffer 2

(sitting at the desk next to staffer 1)

I think I’ll call 911

Am I resentful? a bit. I shouldn’t be there. I should have been sent to transitional housing last July.I won’t start seeing place til January – shelter gets another $9K for those three months. But someone at the Williams Street Assessment shelter decided to send me to a shelter for mentally ill women. So, here I am.

Am I grateful? Yes. I have a roof over my head, shower, meals. I am not sleeping at copy shops or on the subway. I am not sleep deprived, I function. I don’t have carry my life on my back like a turtle.

Do I feel safe? not completely.

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The Sheltered Existence, Pt 11, Crossing the Abyss

Posted on by The 40 year old magpie

So, I let all my facebook friends/enemies/frenemies know what my living situation is. No one has defriended me over it. Hell, I even posted it here. So why am I still outing myself? Because I can. I am the 99%. I work, I am disabled, though exceedingly high functioning, and I currently done earn enough to afford anything, anywhere in the USA. I know, that with the assistance I am being given by both City, State and Federal, that I will rise, like a phoenix out of this mire and be self-sufficient.

Being hospitalized for “suicidal ideation” has led to a certain amount of self-censoring. Just erased a paragraph, because you, the reader, may take it in ways than it’s intent. It sucks.  Just let me say, that I am over this particular “adventure” and I want my own place.

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The Sheltered Existence, Pt 10 or, It really does take a poke in the eye

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So, Friday.

Friday, I returned from my weekly meet up with a friend for late lunch and margaritas. When I returned to the shelter, I rode the elevator up with another resident who was just back from the hospital. She proceeded to tell me that the “Indigenous” Bigot[1]attacked her and  bit her so hard,  she required a tetanus shot. She was holding yellow paper.

Saturday, I had the day off, so I hung around, which was wise, as I don’t have a winter coat, and it was helacious outside with the snowstorm that blew through. I didn’t see either of them.  So, I asked where “I.B.” was, and I was told ALMOST the rest of the story: I.B. sees her victim and calls the cops. Cops arrive, and she starts calling telling the white cop to “go back to where he came from”. He tells her to be quiet. She takes this as an acknowledgement to continue her anti-EuroAmerican rant. THEN she sees the person she attacked and started in on her. The cops tell her not to speak to the victim. Again, she takes it as an acknowledgement to continue. She ends up under arrest, as does the victim.

On Sunday, on my way  back from work, I run into another from the shelter on her way home from work, who proceeds to tell me that the I.B. is at Bellevue for Observation and Evaluation. The victim was also stabbed in the eye with a pencil, a a piece of lead is still lodged in her eye.

Others had been repeatedly telling their caseworkers that the I.B. was close to harming someone, but they didn’t listen. A lawsuit may change that.

 

 

 

[1]The “Indigenous” Bigot (I.B.) is not First Nations. She’s German, Asian Indian and Black.

Image via Glasgow: Emblem: IUSTA VINDICTA

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Wherein I out myself on Facebook as Being Homeless

Posted on by The 40 year old magpie

I just wrote:

I am the 99%.

I have a single paycheck job, while trying to make it in the theater and in Real Estate. and, with that single paycheck, I pay my phone bill, buy my medications, pay for a permanent mailing address, and to hear the caseworkers talk, that is a “skewed set of priorities”.

I live uncomfortably in a shelter with 99 other women, some of whom are incapable of holding down even one job. I do not earn enough to rent a room let alone an apartment.

I do not get anything more than food stamps, as even with the little I earn, I am still making more than I’d get on SSDI or SSI. I prefer to be working. So would those who are #occupyingWallStreet. Like the young man who lost his home when he lost his job. or the Vets who are treated like shit upon their return from too many tours. or the Seniors who are seeing their life savings piddled away by Banks shifting derivative risk over to their insured savings.

The only student loan I have is for a now defunct Theater Conservatory I attended over a decade ago. I have no car, no credit card, nor good credit (Thanks, VESID & SAE). I have a smart phone as adaptive device and a computer so I can work.

I worked for those fuckers on Wall Street @ the PSE and for Investment Bankers in NYC.Let me tell you,  their cocks got harder talking about money than they did talking about their wives and girlfriends.


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UPDATE: Open Letter to the California State Bar Disciplinary Board

Posted on by The 40 year old magpie

NOTE: I WROTE THIS LAST YEAR, ALL NEW ADDITIONS WILL BE IN RED. PLEASE COPY/PASTE ALL LINKS.

It has been a full two (2) three (3) years since a formal petition to disbar on Dr. Orly Taitz for was filed. To date, there appears to be no action regarding this complaint.

I am adding my voice to the chorus of complaints regarding ORLY TAITZ, ESQUIRE, BAR NUMBER 223433.

Dr. Taitz has a record of scurrilous and unprofessional behavior, that is tainting the perception of members of the California State Bar (my father recently retired as a member), in that she has pursued with the compulsion of a stalker spurious allegations that our duly elected President of the United States is not a citizen, has presented documents, including a “kenyan” birth certificate later identified to be a forgery, has harassed members of the Supreme Court, leveled derogatory charges to Judges (“idiots”) and anyone else who rejects her absurd and demonstrably false claims regarding the POTUS (whom she calls “Usurper in Chief), with terms not limited to but including “thugs” “treasonous” “traitor”, “terrorists”, and  the list goes on.

  • Taitz has now gone on to plead for help in acquiring private (home) phone numbers and personal email addresses of Judicial officials who have ruled against her: http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=31213
  • Stalking Deputy Administrative Judge Michael Malihi, for being “corrupt” and inciting  against him for being an alleged Muslim: http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=31279 (question on his middle name) http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=31259 (questions regarding an AZ LLC due to the name “Malihi”)
  • Encouraging her followers to harass GA Secretary of State Kemp to set aside Judge Malihi’s decision regarding President Obama’s remaining on the Ballot: http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=31284; http://networkedblogs.com/tDdgU (“Burn up” the phones)
  • But more importantly, is demanding that only she be the recipient of “donations” for her “work”, warning people against donating to others who are trying to unseat the President.  Solicitiations, I might add are ongoing.
  • Providing no proof other than an Uncertified Personal check (not her Law Account) to show she paid the $20,000 fine that was levied against her.
  • Considering her lack of legal knowledge, I believe she needs to be investigated as to whether it was she who actually attended Taft Law School, took the Baby Bar and sat for the Bar Exam, as well as verifying she has complied with Continuing Education. I should add, that this concept has been floating around since 2009

It is apparent, that her tactic is the same as she used in her “lawsuit” against the Principal of the Yeshiva she sued when her son was accused of cheating: harrass them til they resign and go away.

When will you take action and disbar this embarrassment to the United States legal system and the California State Bar? It is painfully obvious that she has a worse grasp of the Law than a one-armed man in a wrestling match.