What Say You?

What say you

Aspiring scribe?

What wisdom,

What discernment,

What vision,

Rises to the fore of

Your bedazzled brain.

What say you

Idealistic dreamer?

What magic,

What illusion,

What fantasy,

Streams forth from

Your enchanted keyboard?

What say you

Pedantic draftsman?

What narrative,

What chronicle,

What yarn,

Springs to the page

Of your wondrous tome?

What say you?

--Ken Ferguson--

Artista di Parole

Cheers!!!

Not at all surprised.

Right???

"Hey there little red ridding hood..."

Who taught him how to spoke???

Exhaling my last breath,

My life’s span complete.

Yet here in the heavens,

I’ve landed on my feet.

I step into the boat,

Firmly take up the oar.

I launch from the dock,

Move away from the shore.

I float into the cosmos,

Sail along past the stars.

I navigate through the galaxies,

Universes and quasars.

I’ve returned to the ethereal,

I’m home I can tell.

Secure in the Mother’s womb,

No heaven, no hell.

--Ken Ferguson--

Artista di Parole

The video of the July 26th arrest of a nurse in a burn ward for refusing to allow an officer to draw blood from an unconscious patient is disturbing, but in my case, not surprising.  The officer, Detective Jeff Payne, of the Salt Lake City Police Department, apparently lost his composure when a civilian challenged his authority, even after hearing the same opinion from her superiors over the phone.  The detective was told my his supervisor, Lt. James Tracy, to arrest the nurse if she refused to allow him to draw the man's blood. Other officers at the scene were apparently also ignorant of the law and refused to step in to assist the nurse and save the detective from a false arrest. 

The nurse, Alex Wubbels, is the head nurse of the burn ward at the University of Utah Medical Centre, in Salt Lake City.  She refused to allow Detective Payne to draw blood from her patient and was physically removed from the hospital and placed into handcuffs and into the detective's police car.  Nurse Wubbels sat in the police car for 20 minutes before being released without charges.

The back story to this is that the patient was in a traffic accident  at the end of a pursuit involving the Utah Highway Patrol.  The suspect being pursued was killed in the accident.  

So I can see the need to obtain the man's blood for the sure to come law suit against the pursuing agency, but it doesn't take that long to get a search warrant.   The detective could be facing false arrest, battery and false imprisonment charges. 

L.A. County Fair starts today!!!

It was 111 degrees here in SoCal today!!!

I kept seeing memes that said tRUMP was wearing a "tRUMP campaign hat" while visiting hurricane Harvey earlier this week.  So I did some quick checking and found that yes this cap is for sale on the Donald tRUMP campaign site for $40.00.  So I can safely say that tRUMP was shamlessly pitching his cap ad the site of a major catastrophy.  What an ass.

https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/official-usa-45th-presidential-hat-white

Cleveland Browns Kneel

Twelve Cleveland Browns players took a knee or stood by for a word of prayer during the national anthem Monday night.

 

The players who knelt were running backs Duke Johnson Jr. and Terrence Magee, safeties Peppers and Calvin Pryor, cornerback Jamar Taylor, tight end Seth DeValve, wide receivers Kenny Britt and Ricardo Louis, linebackers Christian Kirksey and Jamie Collins, and running backs Isaiah Crowell and Brandon Wilds. Crowell and Wilds were not in uniform.

 

Standing nearby in solidarity were punter Britton Colquitt, cornerback Jason McCourty, quarterback DeShone Kizer, defensive tackle Trevon Coley and offensive tackle Shon Coleman.

 

In response the Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association and the ILA Local 1975 (Cleveland Association of Rescue Employees) decided to not become involved in the next Cleveland home game where they were invited to hold a large American Flag on the field.  C.A.R.E. union president Daniel Nemeth said, "This hit home with me. I am a veteran, an 8-year veteran with the U.S. Marine Corps. So, to disrespect the flag by taking a knee is not something I was going to be a part of," 

 

I guess Nemeth forgot that one of the freedoms he was fighting for was freedom of speech/expression.