Yeah, we all had a good laugh about it. My next door neighbor and the man in the next house were on his front porch talking when this girl came walking along the road and stopped to talk to us. She was a skinny white girl. She told the man she wanted to cook some rice on my stove. That was her way of saying she wanted to have sex with me. After she had gone on her way he was laughing and kidding me about it, asking me why I didn't want to do it. I could just picture her yelling at the imaginary man while we were 'cooking rice'. There are countless ways that could go all wrong. Besides, it would be like feeding a stray cat, I would never get rid of her.

Most schizophrenics are not violent, but they can be. You're right about them and their meds. I had a black male patient come to the pharmacy one day when he had gone off his meds. He told me they smelled bad so he knew he shouldn't take them. But the reason he gave for coming to see me was that he said he knew what I had been doing. He knew I had come into his house and gone to the bathroom inside of his leg, many times. He said it smelled really bad and he wanted me to stop doing that. He was really polite and sincere about it. I asked him about his medicine and that's when he told me it smelled bad. I called his doctor and they got a social worker to get him back on his meds.

Yes, the arrogant blond guy liked to show off. He wasn't too bad skill wise, though not as good as he thought he was. His biggest problem was that he wasn't teachable. Though he was told to keep his finger off the trigger during pistol training I noticed that he kept his finger on the trigger and had to be reminded several times. He was more interested in showing how good he thought he was, and was defensive when corrected. He wanted to sell himself rather than learn. He would have been killed if he were sent over. That short girl was very impressive. So was the man with one leg. I enjoyed that series.

I think you had a narrow escape !! That girl would have ended up attacking you and maybe even killing you. I have sympathy for most all people who are mentally ill - they can't help it - but in some cases they really are a danger to society and should be hospitalised or imprisoned permanently. I know we used to have medical centers over here - not residential - just places were schizophrenics could come and get their meds - talk to nursing staff - get some support for their various issues. The government closed them down and said they should have "care in the community" which meant that they were turfed out onto the streets with no support at all. It was disgraceful - and it is still the case.

We have a similar situation here. This country used to have asylums for schizophrenics and other seriously mentally disturbed people. They were criticized as being "Warehouses" for the mentally ill. Perhaps some of them were of poor quality, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that were true. But the solution they came up with was to release them to the communities and have them get outpatient care, for the most part. Some of them wind up killing themselves, by accident sometimes. A schizo might think that Tylenol is good for him and decide to take a whole bottle full of them at once, and die from acute liver failure. And in other preventable tragedies they may believe people are attacking them and begin fighting and killing people. It is an awful shame when that happens. It is rare, but it represents a breakdown in the system. Luckily that fellow who came to my pharmacy was helped and got back on his medicine. But it doesn't always work out for the best.

I have been listening to a speech by a former head of FBI who did a lot of investigative work in private life after he retired. His name was Ted Gunderson. He exposed some of the pedophile scandals. Eventually someone poisoned him and he died. An old girlfriend of mine thinks I am a conspiracy nut, or at least thinks I should not allege things without having categorical proof. But the evidence is there that among the global elites there are some very powerful people who engage in Satanism, ritual murder, pedophilia, and many other crimes. They have networks of people in our government, intelligence, Justice, law enforcement, news media, and entertainment industries, as well as other powerful positions. I think most people in the law enforcement and intelligence areas are good people, but there are certainly some in key positions who are involved.
I think it was FDR who said 'nothing happens in politics which wasn't planned', or something similar. I think the same can be said for terrorism attacks. Most of them are planned events, known ahead of time.

I just found out some things about the Oklahoma City bombing from back in 1995 I think was the year. You may recall that a good part of the Alfred Murrow building in OK City was destroyed by a powerful explosion. It was said to be a fertilizer and diesel bomb. But that type of explosive doesn't have enough brissance or power to do what happened there. Gunderson gave information about that as well. Timothy McVey was a patsy for that bombing, and he was executed for it. He had been groomed to be a CIA operative. I am so glad I decided I couldn't do that kind of work. You would never know if you were really working to protect your country, or if some dirty politician put you on a job and would have you taken out later on.

In Waco Texas a few years prior to that, four BATF agents were shot and killed, ostensibly by the Branch Davidian religious cult. But autopsies showed they were shot from above, from a helicopter. And out of hundreds of federal agents there, the only four who were killed were former bodyguards for Bill Clinton. The body count of former bodyguards, and other associates of the Clintons is very high. If you were a close friend of theirs or somehow came to know secrets about them, your chances of committing suicide became much higher than normal.

We have already talked about 9/11 and JFK a fair amount. The official story is never true.

Well, enough about that for now. Let me know where you are in Intelligence and what you think about it.

I am on series 2 ep 11 - I have one more episode to go. I have a few comments - regarding Laura - she knows or strongly suspects that Francine has stolen her ID and house keys - but she doesn't change the locks? She continues to pursue Jimmy knowing that Francine is crazy and violent. Francine waits for Jimmy with a kitchen knife whilst her daughter is making her a drink downstairs - she attacks Jimmy with it - that is grounds right there to remove her daughter from her custody but Jimmy just shrugs it off. Francine then tells Jimmy it is over - she is leaving - she drives away - within five minutes she is back on the scene - it reminded me of that old music hall joke "GOODBYE FOREVER - (I'll be back tomorrow night)" I also question the way that Jimmy wanders about the street knowing there is a plan to kidnap and probably kill him - he doesn't seem to be armed - in fact - none of his gang seemed to be armed- which I find implausible given the business they are in and the fact that two lieutenants have been shot by the rival gang. I am not convinced that claiming Jimmy was an informant would lead to his death - all he has to say is "Yes, I am an informant, but I only tell them what we want them to know - I am a mole for our side". I am also confused about this Blackmire thing - the Canadians have Jimmy as an inside source - the C.I.A. are demanding access to that source and now Mary is trying to block that access because she has found out that it is a C.I.A. front and that they will either use or kill Jimmy. Is that the scenario? This series is slowing down again towards the end - too much talk and not enough action - I also found it a bit implausible that a billionaire would fall in love with a prostitute - tell her all this highly classified information - and engage her as his secretary - again with access to all his business - when he has known her a couple of weeks. It's all very well her saying she has erased her footsteps - she is still working for an escort agency. And now somebody is asking where is Sweet? That doesn't bode too well. I have the feeling that a lot of stuff is going to be left up in the air when the last episode is done - I am not a fan of that - it really annoyed me when they did the same with "Life" (Damien Lewis) and "Alcatraz"(Sam Neill). I like Damien Lewis - but I didn't fancy "Billions" at all - I am not really into high finance or high political dramas. Maybe you are a conspiracy nut - maybe that's why we get on so well !!! Conspiracy nuts are people who think - who look beyond official explanations - above all who ask "WHY" - we are people who are fated to be ridiculed by people who are conditioned to believe what they are told without question. What are your thoughts on the moon landings? (We don't always need a movie or a tv series to indulge our interests!!!)

Update - ok so I just watched the end of "Intelligence" - why wasn't I surprised - it was all leading up to that - Jimmy was just so arrogant - as if talk could resolve those kind of issues with those kind of people. In my world Series 3 would have seen the return of the bulletproof vest featured in the earlier episodes and Jimmy will survive - he will go to all out war with the Americans and drive them out of town. Julianna will not survive - I don't like farewell looks out of taxi windows - that always ends badly. Ronnie and Sweet will marry anyway - despite what looks like a miscarriage and Francine will eventually O'D and die - or Laura will kill her. Something has to be done about Francine - she's not a safe mother !! I think they ended it because it was just going to be more of the same - over and over which gets boring.

I thought the same thing about Jimmy walking around, often unguarded, and unarmed, not even wearing that light weight bullet proof vest that Ronnie had tried to get him to wear once, all while that kidnap or murder team was still known to be in town killing people. That was very unrealistic even for someone as blase as Jimmy seems to be concerning danger. He was more cautious initially when he only heard they were after him than he was later on when the American crew began killing off the competition. That's what you call a harbinger, yeah? You don't taunt fate, you don't mock God, you don't tug on Superman's cape, or spit into the wind. If Jimmy can put 50 million into a bank, he must have funds enough to hire sufficient muscle to protect himself, his crew, and his operation much better than he is doing. He seems as indifferent to the danger as he is to Francine's craziness. I think the reason he has never tried to get custody in a court hearing is that Francine would go nuclear and both of them would wind up looking so bad that the courts could find both of them unfit to raise their daughter. That was basically what his lawyer told him once. But Jimmy had the option to have Francine deported back to England on a drug charge, and he wouldn't do that because his daughter would miss her. Well, she would get over it. How about protecting the daughter against a mentally unstable, irresponsible, and dangerous mother? Jimmy, the drug king who sometimes orders hits on people, with the big, forgiving, heart. I am not sure what the writers were going for here. They wanted to make him a sympathetic character, sure, but you don't make the guy stupid to do that.
Back to my pet peeve; they make characters make really stupid mistakes to create the crises they want us to worry about. But when the crises are problems of their own obviously stupid mistakes, we viewers are as likely to become fed up with the show as we are to be worried for the character. The ending scene of the series finale will not surprise you. I think you will see it coming before it happens.

The moon landings. I have never read up on any of the conspiracy theories about them being faked. I know big things do get faked, but I've never felt that was one of them. If it was a fake landing, then it was certainly a long play. JFK set the stage for it almost a decade prior to the event.
It is understandable why people might question the validity of the story, given all we now know about false flag attacks, huge propaganda stories, and our efforts to deceive the Soviets, etc.
I believe the push to land a man on the moon was a real effort. So the only question would be: did we actually achieve it, or was it an elaborate hoax to fool the Soviets into believing we were more advanced that we actually were? I've never felt there was anything that smacked of it being a hoax. The number of people who would have had to have been in on the hoax would be too great, and the number of really smart scientists involved in the project was so great that if it had been a hoax, many of them would have figured out something was wrong.

After the big hoaxes and false flags, there are often a lot of people who die at statistically higher numbers than ought to happen, people who had inside knowledge or were in positions to know the story doesn't add up. I am not aware of that sort of thing happening with regards to the space program. I think this was really something we wanted to do. It was a point of pride for our scientific and space communities and for the nation. I can't see us faking it, risking all that egg on our faces when the truth was eventually found out. And what was the payoff? You can fool the public forever in many cases, but you can't fool the intelligence services of the world as easily.

What have you heard about it?

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Update - ok so I just watched the end of "Intelligence" - why wasn't I surprised - it was all leading up to that - Jimmy was just so arrogant - as if talk could resolve those kind of issues with those kind of people. In my world Series 3 would have seen the return of the bulletproof vest featured in the earlier episodes and Jimmy will survive - he will go to all out war with the Americans and drive them out of town. Julianna will not survive - I don't like farewell looks out of taxi windows - that always ends badly. Ronnie and Sweet will marry anyway - despite what looks like a miscarriage and Francine will eventually O'D and die - or Laura will kill her. Something has to be done about Francine - she's not a safe mother !! I think they ended it because it was just going to be more of the same - over and over which gets boring.

Fantastic. Yes, I was thinking along the same lines. Juliana took so many chances early on that I suspected she would ultimately get caught, and get dead. Going to Paris isn't going to keep the CIA from finding her either. If the series went on, Jimmy would probably have been found to have listened to Ronnie and put on that vest. He would have to survive or the show is over. At that point they would have to go to guns and take down the American crew. Michael has been running his club all this time, have not seen him for a while. But you know he would be going full bore psycho murderous rampage after that. He would do some damage. But it would be Jimmy and company who worked out the strategy for pushing them out I think. Francine would have a major meltdown, but they get so much mileage out of her character that they wouldn't kill her off. The writers have shown they like using her too much. Poor Stella, what kind of person will she be growing up with a mother like that?

I have just read this on IMDB - "In 2017, when Netflix bought this show, John Doyle, Canada's "The Globe and Mail" newspaper television critic, commented regarding the cancellation: "At the time the show was cancelled by CBC, there was a widespread belief that the theme of political corruption was what got the show killed. In those Harper-era days, the series was in dangerous territory for a beleaguered CBC. The fact that it was superb TV, widely praised, was less important than fear of government criticism." - Got too close to the truth it seems. I have only seen a documentary on the doubt cast on the moon landings - it questioned the photographs of the moon surface - the lines on the graphs did not appear to match up - the shadow on the foot of the landing vehicle could not have been there given the position of the sun at the time - the flag they planted appeared to be in motion and there is no wind on the moon surface - things about dust on Armstrongs boots - it's so long ago that I watched it I can't recall it in detail. I know they had interviews with Russian scientists who said that they had tried but the Van Allen belt was impenetrable - the radiation was too strong to get through it - they also said that the skin of their spaceship was too thin to withstand the heat of re-entry - they would have been destroyed. I don't know enough to say whether I believe them or not - all I can say that is in 1969 I do not believe for one second that they had the degree of technology required for space travel - and if they did - why not set up a permanent base on the moon rather than a space-station. They are talking about doing that now - so why not then? From what I have seen of American methods of deception their policy seems to be - if you are going to go - then go large - that's why we are expected to believe that they took six trips up there. For what? NOTHING ever came of it except a few rocks and boasting rights to the Russians. Trillions of dollars and nothing established up there - I am glad they have the money to waste. If it is now a walk in the park to visit the moon why aren't our elite queuing up for a safe place to go if ever there is a nuclear war - why aren't they stocking the pantry up there ? It's been 50 years - surely enough time to get some sort of base established up there. As I say - I don't know what to believe - but my instinct tells me that something is rotten in the state of Denmark. https://listverse.com/2012/12/28/10-reasons-the-moon-landings-could-be-a-hoax/ This addresses some of the points I remember.

I can easily believe it was cancelled due to it being too close to the truth. In fact, during the second season it occurred to me that several aspects of the plot seemed to mirror things we know or suspect to be the case in real life.
Having Blackmire perform functions the CIA needed to be done seems very real. We know that real companies have sometimes been created to perform jobs for the CIA. Howard Hughes created a company as a CIA cover for example. It was ostensibly mining rich mineral deposits from the ocean floor, but had a very different function.

The idea that a consortium or cabal of wealthy, powerful, business and financial interests (Blackmire group) was seeking to move countries toward, first regional and ultimately a global government, is taken straight from reality.

Likewise, the idea that such cabals seek to control the fresh water supplies is based in reality.

The apparent involvement in the drug business of government agencies, or quasi government related organizations, is based in reality. There is so much money there. (The CIA decided to get into the drug business when Congress wanted oversight on their black budget programs, i.e. show us how the money is being spent or we will turn off the tap. So they began bringing drugs back from South east Asia. And I would not be surprised if members of Congress have also gotten in on the action.
Do you recall ever hearing about Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, a green beret army doctor who was convicted of killing his pregnant wife and children? He is innocent. But he was sacrificed because the people responsible were involved in muling drugs back from SE Asia for the CIA. Bringing them to trial would have exposed the drug business. So evidence was destroyed, other evidence was planted, and people lied on the stand in order to wrongly convict MacDonald and keep the drug business from being exposed. )

I will have to look at the evidence regarding the moon landings. Hitler is famous for having noted that people will believe really big lies when they are told them consistently. Normal people would never concoct or tell really, really huge lies, and they don't believe anyone else would do that either. So there is a presumption of honesty, and a basic disbelief that anyone would tell such a big lie. This is why false flag operations fool the public so effectively. That and the technical ability to create visuals which fool them.

I am aware that we were conducting space based research into the use of nuclear weapons to disrupt communications and enemy ICBMs during the late 50s and early 60s. So there were many military related reasons for us to be in space, and chasing Kennedy's race to the moon was a good cover for the many missions we were conducting.

I scanned those items at the link you provided, and I must say they present some very interesting points. The flag I might be able to overlook, if it were simply moving rhythmically from having been touched or something. But there are other photographic pieces of evidence there which certainly point to fraud.

I rarely believe what politicians tell us at face value, and our news media is largely a propaganda organization today. In fact, Obama changed our laws to allow them to spread propaganda inside the US, something which was officially banned prior to that. That relieved the news companies of worries about being sued for their participation in furthering the false flag terrorist events which politicians love to use to help pass laws gutting our privacy protections. The US is nothing like the country it was when I was born. It was almost completely in the hands of the Bilderberg/Bankers/Club of Rome group of people and the politicians they own, until Trump won the election. I hope he gets another four years and can expose the traitors before his term is over. But ultimately I fear this world is headed for a global government, and the loss of individual rights for everyone.

It is really telling that a show portraying government corruption would be cancelled because a corrupt government put pressure on the network to cancel the show. Not ironic, because it is just what you would expect, right? But sad.

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If you ever want to start a conversation with someone in any television forum, especially if you want to start an argument, just find the Star Trek topic and say something critical about how Kirk, Spock, or really anyone handled a situation. Hell, you can say just about anything and you will get replies from people who are pissed off that you didn't like the show. It is really kind of funny.

There is a community of hard core Star Trek fans who will argue til the world ends over just about anything. "Kirk should not have surrendered his weapon and communicator to the ___________"

Before you know it you will have replies from people giving you quotes from the show, Federation by laws, and their own interpretations to show why Kirk handled it correctly. It is like a fanatical ideology, like communism or a religion. They will use pretzel logic and "prove" to you why they are right.

I find it funny. I don't try to provoke them, and I rarely post on Star Trek. I am not a fanatic. I used to watch the show when it was on originally, sometimes. And I've seen the reruns. Now sometimes I will watch an old episode for the nostalgia aspect. It's fun to see the differences in culture which the show reflects as well.

In one show Bones treats an alien woman (who looks completely human) who is pregnant. She slapped him and said "you will not touch me there". Bones is initially stunned, then he knocked her upside the head and forcefully tells her: "I'm a DOCTOR. and I will touch you however I see fit" or words to that effect.

It's funny. No show would ever have that in their script today.

I have watched all the Star Trek series except "Enterprise" - I have this thing that I don't like retrospective events - or prequels - I enjoyed most of them at the time - Star Trek The Next Generation - "Deep Space Nine" (not so much) and "Voyager". Of course looking back you can pick fault with some of them but for the most part I liked them. I am not a fanatic either. I must be one of the few people that actually like William Shatner - he may be arrogant and all the rest of it - but anyone who can take the mickey out of himself and laugh at himself has my vote. He does a lot for children's charities also. Apparently the entire cast of "Star Trek" The Original Series didn't like him - that does not surprise me as most of them were unknowns then and remained unknowns after the series ended. Oh yes - I could see that line of dialogue today - can you imagine the feminist response to that one!! Of course today Bones would be a black empowered female so that wouldn't arise. I am still looking for a series we both can watch but I am having no luck - I thought "Reign" might be in with a chance - the story of Mary Queen of Scots - but after having watched it for ten minutes I couldn't stand the teen approach and apparently according to some posts on here it wasn't historically accurate anyway. Do you watch "Homeland" the last series is to air soon - I enjoyed that. The next series of "Peaky Blinders" is to air here in September. I was looking at "Queen of the South" have you seen that? If nothing turns up on new additions I will probably revisit some old favourites like "Fargo" (Series 1&2) or "River".

I have seen Fargo but cannot get it presently on Netflix. I wish I could get it.

I started to watch River once, saw a few episodes, but left it for something else and have not gone back to it, sort of forgot about it.
It was OK, and we can watch it if you want. There were a couple things I didn't like when I watched it.
The nonsense about blaming the detective for the death of some person of interest who ran from him when he wanted to speak to him for example.
The PC way they treat the police bothers me. It's like some kind of blond logic (you know blond jokes? making fun of blond girls for being dumb?). The internal affairs PC cops seem to use some 'butterfly effect' type reasoning to always find a way to blame the cop for anything which goes wrong. You know:

"If you had not said "hello", the subject would not have become frightened and begun to run away from you. If he had not run away from you, he would not have lost his balance. If he had not lost his balance, he would not have fallen over the railing to his death. So....what justification can you show for having said "hello" to the subject?"

Cop: "I wished to ask him if he had witnessed the incident."

PC internal affairs idiot: "Did you wish to speak with him because of his skin color? HMMM? DID you?! You are hereby suspended pending investigation into your possible motives, and white privilege"

OK, it isn't quite that bad, but damn. They did fault him for chasing a subject who ran away from him, which is suspicious. I think in most jurisdictions, when a cop asks someone a question and they turn and run away, it is justification for pursuing them and bringing them in for questioning. I get irritated with the overly PC cops.

Did you try Colony? It is a sci fi type alien invasion story. It went on three seasons and was pretty good sometimes. It is one of those which starts off without explaining things, and you have to pick up things as you go along. Then later on it shows how things got started. I wasn't sure if you would like it or not.

Over here Homeland is shown on the ShowTime paid channel, which I used to get as part of a package deal. I no longer get it so cannot see it. I liked it a lot, especially the first season. At some point maybe Netflix will buy the whole show and I can catch up.

Can't wait for Peaky Blinders to come back.

I had started to watch Reign and was turned off by the teen approach as well. I guess there is a market for that stuff, but I cannot stand it. There used to be a show called "The Originals" and the spinoff to that series is a teenie, high school type drama which I never could stand. The originals was about the original family of vampires, and their interaction with werewolves and witches. Sounds pretty dumb, and often it was. But for that genre, it wasn't geared for teens per se and I liked the story.
But the teenage angst and drama of the spinoff I could not tolerate.

Keep looking

You didn't mention "Queen of the South" - can you get it? Have you seen it? I am not sure about it but it's getting desperate on Netflix - I can't find anything I would find interesting to watch. I haven't seen "River" for a while - we don't need to watch it if you are already irritated by some aspects of it - I've watched it twice already !! Some British shows are ridiculously PC, and it is irritating. It is only reflecting the tight rein that the police have to work within though - they have to justify everything they do - particularly if they are dealing with an ethnic minority. They have so little power now - in our area alone - which is a fairly quiet small suburb - drug dealers operate quite openly - and off road vehicles roar up and down at all hours of the day and night - not insured, not licenced and fairly certain to kill somebody one day - they are never apprehended - the police simply don't bother. It's a waste of court time because they only ever get a slap on the wrist anyway. Our new PM has promised to recruit 20,000 more police officers - just about as many as were cut a couple of years ago - and which - according to the then government - had nothing to do with the rocketing crime rate. I haven't watched "Colony" yet. I will maybe have a look tonight. I don't understand why Netflix doesn't have the same shows on both sides of the pond.

I can get Queen of the South so we can try it if you like. You decide. Look at Colony and Queen of the South and let me know which you want to watch

Hey, can you get The Expanse?

It's a good space show that was canceled and then picked up by Amazon I think. So it will have another season coming out soon. It has some really great special effects. It is about the politics of the Martian colonists, the "Belter" colonists (people who live on colonized asteroid belts, and Earth. I might start taking Amazon now. Netflix is getting pretty slim on good shows.

I have just checked on Netflix - "The Expanse" is not there. I tried "Colony" but it didn't really engage me - a bit too derivative - I felt like I had watched it all before. Shall we give "Queen of the South" a try? I subscribe to Amazon prime time - although I haven't looked at it for a while - maybe they have some shows worth watching by now which are included on prime time. Their favourite trick is to offer the first few seasons free and then you have to pay for the rest. Good business I suppose - but irritating !!