The Closer: Problem Child

Where does it go wrong for children that turn bad? Is it in the genes or are they bred that way?

The Closer: Dial M for Provenza

This episode opens with Provenza working undercover on a murder for hire scheme with the wife at the scandalous center as a suspect. It was about to wrapped up nice and neat until Provenza's car gets slolen along with all the evidence they had.

The Closer: Live Wire

Live Wire is the episode of blow-outs. Sergeant Gabriel and Detective Danials have an erormous blow-out at work leading to Brenda blowin up at the both of them. It also contained an explosive argument between Brenda and Fritz after Brenda led Fritz to believe she was going to turn her case over to him, but boy was she wrong. (No, it's not a typo)

A True Leader

A leader above all must be well respected and one way to achieve this respect, as a leader, is by taking a stance on controversial issues or by performing actions that provoke change. This change should be the grounds on which this leader stands at all costs. For the same grounds will hold the followers of said leader. The respect comes when the leader continues to hold the same significance or importance on the same issues without fear of losing followers. There we have the difference between political and military leaders.

The more respected of the two leaders is without a doubt the military leader. These leaders work very hard every day to become the leaders they are. They carry out orders from higher ranked leaders with supreme efficiency and order. Thereby creating better leaders from the training and hard work that are daily routines in their lives. Rank by rank increments increase their position of leadership and are by far the most respectable leaders in our world today.

Our political leaders are respected because of their ability to remain a leader without necessarily taking a stance or provoking change on any controversial issues. This is primarily because the political leader is trying to lead a much wider range of followers. They can not take a stance on issues as this would narrow the people following them, and in politics it is the people that elect you as their leader and so numbers matter.     

A Leftist View on Fear Policy

Our democracy has inaugurated pirates to repeat past mistakes we have already learned. The streets of New York have been used like its playground to blame for the evil when the tables are turned. The first phase of their powers took just a few hours, Bush sat in the schoolhouse while our towers burned. Then remained through the danger, as if nothing seemed stranger, to remain with the children after what he had learned.

In just a short while, and in a demolition style, our towers imploded and the story commenced.  We were told from Osama, but all through the drama, he remains free but we watched Hussein Lynched.

The lies have exploded, our policies corroded, each word that you speak is senseless and untrue. Your only true policy is fear of democracy, as you re-write what we stand for according to you. You are paying off media, outlets and reporters, to withhold anything that has its own view.  We ask for a reason, your acts become treason, stating we would agree, “If we knew what you knew”.

War crimes are committed, torture is now admitted, and the commanders now face a brand new challenge. With no Geneva convention, it has created new tension, to calm the blue soldiers who seek to avenge.  Your words leak like venom, through every addendum to policies by this administration.  Still nothing, to show for, this incredibly slow war, if the war in Iraq is a true demonstration.

 

They have made “free speech” a “no speech zone”. Habeas corpus, the cornerstone, “for Americas laws, is as good as you get”.  The right to know a reason they have chosen to arrest you, it is very American to have the great writ. Still this administration, without hesitation, removes habeas corpus somehow to fight terror.  Removing this right, should have put up a fight, from Americans who saw this incredible error. Some leftists reporters, say drugs from our borders, have links that tie our own Cheney and Bush, would explain two patrol men, locked up for their role in arresting a drug lord for drugs that they push.

 

They pay off the media outlets, reporters and think tanks. They fire district attorneys that do not share their views, they hand off the headlines to make all the deadlines and make all the papers for tomorrows news..  The views of the few become the facts of the many. Individual reporters fight the embedded view. Stories used to be filtered but never were censored; stories once primetime are now kept from you. There are Journalists with photos but no photojournalists. Stories have become neutered, fixed on words filled with fear. Some even implanted, like September 11, No interviews with anyone asking real questions here. 

 

Do not mention dead soldiers, death tolls, or coffins. No pictures of the war, or drills on 7/7, do not use the word invasion, instead call it occupied. Or how the same eerie drills ran on 9-eleven. Lose all our emails along with a smooth trillion. While sneaking a billion packed on crates on a ship.  Lie again about weapons of our own mass construction and then use the same chemicals on more than one trip.
 

Bush decides he is the decider and he de-sides how he is doing.  His mind is made-up, to the wrong choice again. His final decision is that he has not yet decided. Either you agree with these decisions or the terrorist win.  He accomplishes nothing but he has drained all our resources. In addition, spread out our Forces incredibly thin. We hear temporary involvement, and build permanent bases.  Announce mission accomplished, but increase troops again. No levels or benchmarks we know our results, and repeat the same mistakes until there is no end.  Our results? Low ended! Our resources? Gone! We have no real advantage and we have no more friends. 

 

Our future is bleak and tomorrow uncertain. But, you've certainly cashed the blank check we gave. How can we give what is readily taken.  You use men like toy soldiers until they lie in their grave.  I cannot fight for you. I will rise against you.  The policies you offer I do not choose to save.  Your wasting our money you say to buy oil, but when your questioned of progress have nothing to say. You bring death and disaster, and nothing but turmoil. I just hope we return you the favor someday.

If I Were President!

I have an abundance of awards and ribbons for almost every athletic activity. Running, Jumping, Sit-ups, and Pull-ups.

I have always been very political, but just never pursued the field because the people I would share my time with would end up being other politicians. However, in light of the situation at hand I feel this is a sacrifice easily adjusted and necessary to talk some humanity in to each and every one of them.

I am currently a returning Journalism Student at CSUN. I was born in Baltimore, MD and I am 40 years young. I do plan to write on many of the ethics of this new administration and do all I can to try and sway the minds of anyone still behind the ideas and behavior of this group, but not to the left or right, to the center of the common good of the nation.

I believe in the good people of America, and the greatness of our proud heroes. I know that we can overcome the damage of a corrupt administration through the deliverance of justice and the necessity of truth. There is always responsibility that comes with being an enormous power, but it is not to use brutal force to steal wealth and luxuries from a weaker nation. It is to set prime examples of greatness through humanity and good will. It is to represent yourself as leading the way in to a brighter future by holding the #1 position in education, healthcare and above all economic growth and prosperity.

It is to never fall to the levels of others and instead remain standing strong and tall, proud and free. These are not mere words to be used up like wet napkins they are words that America was built on. They are words that describe what we must be made of especially in times that show signs of an evil corruption that is feeding on the hopes and dreams of our future by keeping us fearful of it.

People, Good People, stay strong and fight hard to keep the freedoms we have fought so long to create. Fight against this bitter few. Turn off your television sets, and do what is right, do whatever you can, use your influence and beautiful minds to lead our troops home!

Is the United States a True Free Society?

In the next few paragraphs, I am going to discuss what freedom means to me. I will explain what ways I feel freedom is vital to the art of being human. In addition, whether freedom is an inherent right of humankind and how our societal institutions limit our personal freedom and how all this make total freedom impossibility, even in a free society.

The idea of freedom is a strong desire for any human being and one that is worth fighting, and even dying for. What is life if it cannot be experienced free? The problems with freedom always arise when we deal with the very real and easily corruptible side of humankind. Unfortunately, it is very easy for man to be corrupted by greed and power to which freedom quickly shrinks and bows in comparison. You see, as strong as the desire to be free is it is not even comparable when you look at the desire to be rich and powerful.

Our institutions were designed to keep some of those checks and balances in place, so that when any one member or members began to jeopardize a society's freedom by utilizing too much power or greed or took away another individuals freedom we could remove that entity from their position and in theory assure our members were out of harms way.

One way this system is flawed is that jurors are not paid very much money for their services. Employers wrongly are given a choice to pay them (should be mandatory) or not, so some people receive only $5.00 a day from our government for their services. This, I feel, harms our system as jury members may be more willing to stay and state their opinions longer if they did not feel forced by loss or no income of their own to come to swift and often hasty verdicts. Not only that, our institutions are also ran by corruptible men who see that filling their prisons makes their pockets thicker and it has come to the point now that any member who becomes a prisoner gets tangled in the politics of institutions for the rest of their lives even after they are released back into society.

However, after the 2006 passing of the military commissions act, almost all of our bill of rights was eliminated with the removal of Habeas Corpus. George W. Bush rushed this bill through so fast some members did not even read it before they signed it. It eliminates our right to ask why we are being imprisoned and hold us indefinitely without even showing us the evidence against us. Without that right, our first right, freedom of speech becomes mute, our second right to bear arms will be hard to do if we are imprisoned indefinitely, our fourth search and seizure becomes a mute point, trials? Forget it there goes the fifth, speedy trials, no! There goes 6th and 7th, 8th bails? Right Ninth? Other rights retained by the people, well as Keith Olbermann says about the 9th and 10th if you can name them while were water boarding you maybe we will consider it. In addition, powers not delegated by the US Government, he reminds us that is where they ended up anyway.