SNAKES IN DA BRAIN

"About these Death Panels...Elected or Appointed?" snark overheard at a recent County meeting

aloha again,
still recovering from yesterday's Cowboy Breakfast here at the mobile home park.LOVED THE AUTHENTIC BISCUITS AND GRAVY!!! in keeping with the theme i wore a black cowboy hat and jeans, a purple western style shirt and a black 13 foot long hangman's noose a friend made for me years ago. just stuff i have laying around the house. gave up my cowboy boots when i got gout etc.

SNAKES
by now u know that this blog revolves around healthcare and cripness, here is another revolve...we have a friend, a sweet but rather unfocussed lil old lady (LOL) maybe we call her PANDORA? or MEDUSA?? with a huge ass dog. years ago she had minor female surgery and the ANESTHESIA was ten or 100 times the normal dosage, i forget which. this mistake put her into a half month long (?) coma and apparently caused some brain damage,undiagnosed. shortly after this she moved into a notorious drug nabe and interuppted some routine drug sales so... according to her, the drug lord started invading her house,rearranging or taking items and poisoning her huge ass dog.okay this much is plausible, so eventually she moved but her problems moved with her...even here to Santa Cruz where she accused her new landlord of being the pawn of the drug lord....so she moved again and again and sent us internet rumors verifying all of her PARANOIA. (what did crazy people do before internet access when they only had the voices in their heads to rely on?)

now here is the problem... she is NOT an activist, sh*t disturber, loony lefty radical (like me) or anything else threatening but now she is convinced that the cartels and CIA are targeting her in a remote woodsy cabin with DEW (Directed Energy Weapons as seen on the Science channel the same day we got one of her letters). she claims they are also tapping the WiFi connection to her laptop, simple enough to do too.

yesterday we were watching KATHRYN OLMSTEAD on CSPAN who wrote a book REAL ENEMIES about conspiracy theory and theorists (note she actually believes the Warren Commission which immediately disqualified her in my book, eh blog) and the psychology behind it. deluisons of granduer and importance and a usually impotent desire to make this crazy deeply flawed world make sense (she aslo quoted a need for fame and of course greed).

so here is my problem, our problem... our LOL friend thinks she has been targeted for assassination.she plans to attend a Zen meditation group to soothe the transition...in a world where COINTELPRO framed people, killed people and generally disrupted politcal process in the USA (thanx JEdgar) and the BUSH CRIME FAMILY sends the military to spy on Quakers and non violent protesters in FREE SPEECH ZONES (sic) What the Hell do we tell her? i am more aware of the DARK SIDE OF AMERICAN GOVERNACE than most yet she finds things that even i did not know which are credible , if used against someone like me or SM but against her are highly unlikely.we offer her love,support,consolation and encouragement but know a nursing home would surely hastend her demise, as well as being a Paranoid's worse nightmare...SIGH.

there is a Zen related saying IF YOU INTEND TO DIE, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING!
she tends to be heading in this direction.

in other news,
per The Senile fishwrap- the county's biggest hospital's Pysch Unit is closing it's doors in 3 or 4 years and offering $5 million to the cash starved county to set up it's own facility.i am reminded of waht is said about Texas "too small for a country but but too big for an insane asylum".IMHO likewise Santa Cruz but we like it anyway.we shall see how all this turns out.enuff of this...

and yes i did say CRAZY.

namaste
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