Women want Men Who Will Support Them


By Lynn A. Granata

Have you ever met a man who charms you so much that you believe that -Hey, he may be the One?

But after he called you approximately 39 times within a month's time, then you see him, but then you find out he's not who he says he is?

It has happened to me.  I will not disclose this person's name, for privacy purposes.

At first he was sweet, and quite impressive.  He wanted my phone number, I gave it to him. He called me sometimes 2 or 3 times within a day. When I first started talking to him on the phone, I told him I wanted to meet at the Village Cafe. No! he insisted. I want you to meet me, or meet at the Village Playground (not real name of place). So, I said Okay. We meet there. Things don't turn out too bad. I get up and want to go to the place where we should have met, the Village Cafe, again this is not the real name of the business, undisclosed for privacy purposes. 

Nah, he says. So, I tell him that since this is technically a date, I don't want to go walk up there alone. He rode his bike to this meeting, and I took the bus. So then he agrees to come walk with me to the coffee shop. Low and behold, he locked up his bike to a pole outside the shop. I waited for him to do that, so we could walk into the shop together. Once we get inside the shop, he plops down in a chair at a table.  He doesn't go up to the counter and order a coffee or sandwich or anything. So, naturally I don't hesitate to go up and order my lunch. He didn't eat anything at all, he tells me he doesn't like coffee or tea. Of course you can understand he never paid for my order. He wouldn't order nothing, nor did he at least have the class to pay for my coffee and sandwich. We sit there, he hates the music that's playing on the shop radio, saying it's too loud.

I find out later this guy has never held a job, was once homeless, divorced with 3 grown children who take him everywhere, like he's a child. And the most worst of all, he doesn't have/own a car. He doesn't want to drive a car, I kept coaxing him to get a car! I myself have been without a car, for the last year, and I can't stand it!  My mom's car got towed away for reasons that I just can't talk about. She passed away last March 2014.

He tells me he's into the "green" movement and that he gave up driving. That didn't sound right. You can be into the "green" movement, but you still can drive.  Was he ever in trouble with the law? I do believe he was. His son drives a Prius. Why not he?

I was hoping for a husband to come my way, really.  I am alone both my parents have passed away, I have settled their estate and got their house.  So I fell into depression once again once he stopped calling, then I realized that he may have been concealing something. The something turned out to be that he was dating several women at once.  He did say that he belonged to an online dating site, Plenty of Fish.  But that the people he had met in it were weird.  I don't bother with any of those, I told him, as the risks are high that a woman could meet another Ted Bundy.

Well, I don't intend on boring my readers anymore, as you can see this guy is a dud.

Here is my list of what I had hoped for, since meeting him was unexpected.

 I thought that he had a car, at least one, if not two.

It would have been the perfect match if he was never married with no children.

He didn't live in a nice house, house looks rundown and in a rundown section of town, house unsafe needs a ton of repairs.

He said that his job was that he ran a homeless shelter. But homeless shelters cost money, they don't generate a profit, he lied about himself. He himself is homeless!

He took out his wallet, he had no cash, but a SNAP card and a public assistance bus pass.

I expected him to have been a former state retiree, collecting a pension.

He told me that he worked at the maximum security prison, was he ever in that same prison as an inmate or was he really an employee? There's a huge difference between the two, and it has to be one or the other.

He was expected to have a running car, so that we could go out on dates.

He refused to visit my lovely home, but he insisted I go to his, no way! The guy must go to the girl's house first, never the other way around.

He insisted I meet him in a park, instead of saying "Okay" honey, wherever you want is where we'll go.

He flirted with an another woman, while we were together in the Village Park on the second and what turned out to be a final date. Good Riddance! He called for about a week after that, and I was too busy to meet him anymore, thus he abruptly stop calling just 5 weeks after we met. I wouldn't get nowhere with him, because a tiger, plain and simple doesn't change his stripes.

However, it would have been blissful if he had turned out to be less crude. There's a strong possibility he may be a misogynist.

 Here I was figuring that getting asked out, was going to make my life brighter, after I had suffered a whole year of a string of losses.  If he didn't like me, then why bother asking me out? He wasted my time, and made me sick, he made me revert back to being depressed.  Girls should never be treated this way. I was feeling better, met him, he turned out to not be Prince Charming, and backward it set me. 

 I want to make a note that this subject matter is very sensitive, but I wanted to get it off my chest. So, I share it with you, my readers.

The Involuntary Commitment

Why wasn't Elliot Rodger

"5150 ed?"

By Lynn A. Granata

Just Last year, a young 22 year old college student the son of movie director Peter Rodger, went ballistic in the city of Ista Vista, CA. This is where he was attending the University of California Santa Barbara.

Elliot Rodger a biracial young man, unhappy he couldn't find a blonde haired blue eyed goddess.

Elliot was born in England. When he was six he emigrated to the United States with his parents and then settled in Los Angeles, CA. His father Peter wanted a career in Hollywood as a movie director. His mother Lin Chen is of Chinese Malaysian descent. She met Elliot's father while she was playing on the set of Raider's of the Lost Ark pt. 2 as an extra, as a nurse. 

They met and fell in love, got married. Then about a year later, Elliot Rodger was born. To make a long story short, Elliot grew up as a shy, small, child who needed counseling because it was discovered that he may have been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. That is a high functioning form of autism. Later on as he grew up, he began having problems making friends, of both genders in high school then later college.

He wanted a girlfriend, but had troubles getting a girl to notice him, as he constantly fretted over it. He was 22 and still a virgin. What Elliot didn't realize was that he was socially inept. Elliot didn't have friends of his own gender first of all. 

He lived a life of isolation playing games such as World of Warcraft on his computer. He was a very depressed lonely young man. At home things weren't working out all that well for him.  His father and mother divorced, and his father remarried soon after. 

Peter Elliot married a French actress and nudity model named Soumaya Akabourne. Rodger's relationship with Soumaya wasn't that good. His father decided it would do good for Elliot to get away from home, attend college and live near the campus in an apartment, which he eventually began to do and shared it with 3 other male roommates. 

Soumaya Akabourne Elliot's stepmother

Elliot was always comparing himself to other people. He wanted a girlfriend, but if someone else had one, he felt wasn't fair, he made fun of people of other races because they had what he felt he should have had instead.

Elliot started to become a walking time bomb. He was given a nice new BMW car by his mother. But he still wasn't happy. Elliot's mother, Lin Chen had sent him to a psychiatrist for his what was believed to be antisocial personality disorder and schizotypal tendencies.  His psychiatrist prescribed him the anti-psychotic medication risperdone. When he researched risperdone, Rodger refused to take it, stating in his 141 page manifesto that risperdone was the wrong medicine for him.

  He started filming himself and uploading his videos to You Tube. Once he started doing this, he clearly began showing signs of insanity. He would talk violently in these videos, send them to his parents. Then he ordered firearms through the mail. 

He began to write the 141 page manifesto. Once his parents caught wind of his plans, they became concerned and called the police. There were about 7 cops who showed up at his apartment for a welfare call. But when Elliot answered the door, he was polite to the officers, and they left, because Rodgers did a great job of convincing them that there was not a problem in the world. So they all left Elliot alone to his own devices.

Rodger as he appeared in his own self loathing video

If the police had intervened right at this time, it has been speculated that what was to come would have been prevented. Elliot was already known by the cops in that city as a mentally unstable individual. Rodger could have been taken to a psychiatric hospital emergency room and placed on a 72 hour hold. A psychiatric evaluation or a 5150 could have kept Rodger from killing innocent people on the streets of Ista Vista that night. 

Rodger killed his 3 roommates, then 2 sorority girls, injuring 23 more others, he also killed another young man, Michael Martinez, in a convenience store.  Rodger then went on a high speed case through the downtown area, but the cops couldn't stop him until they fired a round into the driver's side door of his black BMW. The round hit Rodger in the left hip, Rodger continued his chase, running over the poor pedestrians and bicyclists randomly on the street. By the time the police found Rodger's car, it was totaled and smashed through the windshield, and Rodger was found with a self inflicted bullet wound to the head. He had killed himself before the police got to his stopped car after it had done a plethora of property damage.

Aileen Wuornos:

Was She Really a "Monster"

Or Just a Helpless Victim?

By Lynn A. Granata

    One thing is for certain, though, she became the most notorious if not one of the first well known female serial killers of the late 20th Century.

 Aileen Wuornos got off to a very rocky start in life. Her mother Diane, was a tragic victim of domestic violence. Her father was a hardened life long criminal. She in fact never got to know either of her biological parents. She and her brother Keith were abandoned by their parents while they were infants. Aileen and Keith were raised by their grandparents. Diane, Aileen's mother dropped them both off at grandma's house one day and just left them there for good.

No, this was no doting grandparent's home, far from it.

Aileen and Keith were more or less treated as unwanted visitors, guests, and intruders.

Lauri Wuornos, Aileen's grandfather was an abusive alcoholic who gave regular belt whippings to both children and dubbed it "discipline."

Once Aileen turned 14 she got pregnant and then left home.

This is when her permanent downward spiral began. She turned to drugs, hitchhiking, and prostitution; she was born in Troy, Michigan.  But, her vagabond lifestyle wasn't conducive to Michigan's frigid cold weather in winter. She figured out a way to cope and she hitchhiked to Florida. There she met an older man of means, named Lewis Fell. The relationship at first, began as a quick romantic wedding, but then soured quickly. Fell was smitten at first, but then once Aileen began to show the dark side of her personality, the marriage to Fell came to a screeching halt. Fell annulled Wuornos as fast as he married her. They were married for only 9 weeks.

Aileen Wuornos with brief husband Lewis Fell.

A few years went by, and Keith died from throat cancer. Aileen attempted suicide with a firearm. Eventually she recovered. But she then kicked off her own little life of crime. Aileen walked into a Daytona Beach convenience store clad in a bikini, and robbed the store at gun point. She then served her first 3 year lengthy prison sentence. Wuornos began a lesbian love affair with Tyria Moore, after they met at a bikers bar in Daytona Beach called the Last Resort Saloon.

Tyria Moore

From 1989-1992, a string of middle aged men were being found dead in a nearby Dade County Parking Rest area.  Each man was reported missing, and they all had a similar pattern of their whereabouts. They traveled the same road, for example, they were all middle-aged fathers, husbands, and working men that carried cash in their pockets. They were found dead as they were reported missing, not collectively all at once.

Wuornos was found guilty of first degree murder with a deadly weapon, ( a .22 caliber revolver) her blood, finger prints, and DNA lifted from the crime scene all tested positive. Wuornos, used many of her own strategies during her second trial. She testified that these men all raped her, and sexually abused her. 

However, she lost her case, after 2 tries a jury found her guilty of 7 counts of murder in the first degree. In Florida the death penalty is the only punishment for murder in the 1st degree. Aileen was sentenced to die by lethal injection. Her victims had picked her up and figured she was a highway hooker. She went with them to the swampy area, parked, took out her revolver, and shot her victims at point blank range. Then she took their cash and left, returning to a motel where she and her lover Tyria Moore lived together. 

Tyria betrayed Wuornos, it's been said, because she was instrumental in bringing her lover to justice by co- operating with the police in aiding them with Aileen's capture and arrest. Moore agreed to plea bargain, so that she wouldn't be charged as a conspirator to Aileen's charges. Moore knew about Aileen's working as a prostitute, because she often questioned Aileen about how she got all this cash. Aileen after much coaxing finally broke down and told Moore what she was doing.

Conclusion

         Aileen Wuornos was born on February 29, 1956 to Diane Wuornos and Dale Pittman. During her turbulent train wreck life, all she knew was hatred, abuse, drugs, beatings, forced into prostitution, and death by lethal injection. A lot of experts have postulated that she was neglected and should have been brought to the Department of Child Protective Services. Instead she was dumped in the lap of a non-loving family, her own grandparents and an estranged aunt and an older uncle.  She and her brother Keith were told that they were their sister and brother. Nevertheless, these two extended family members took just as much a part in the grisly abuse as did their mother and father. Aileen wanted to die by lethal injection, because she had tremendous faith in God. She prayed all the time she served on death row. She wanted to go to heaven, and truly believed in a divine power greater than this life could ever provide to her. 

May her soul RIP.

Aileen Wuornos at the time of her execution

Kimberly Fry

                                    A Hometown Woman

                                 With Multiple Personalities

By Lynn A. Granata

     Back in October 2011, a 35 year old mother was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, but not until 2034.She murdered her 8 year old daughter Camden Fry on a warm summer evening in 2009. Camden was killed by her own mother all because she refused to take a bath that night.

A beautiful Camden Fry

     But during her trial which took place in a Rhode Island Superior Courthouse room, Kimberly was emotional putting on her best courtroom drama act. Kimberly, behind crocodile tears, feigned how she was really the victim and not necessarily Camden. The burden of proof showed different results. The mountain of evidence presented to the jury. Her husband found his little daughter's limp unresponsive and pale body in her bed late that night when he returned home from a hockey game.

    Camden died from asphyxiation. Kimberly as presented in the room sat on her face, literally.It is not really known if Kimberly strangled her daughter by strangulation. By placing her hands around Camden's neck. Kimberly had a psychiatric evaluation at the time when Camden was found dead, because she attempted suicide by poisoning herself with the anti anxiety medication clonazepam.  

Kimberly Fry looking very much like a victim.

    During the trial Kimberly was like a real life Sybil, showing the entire community that she was deranged enough to malinger a multiple personality disorder. Kimberly came from a pathetic abusive background, with two abusive parents who abandoned her. Hopefully, she's regaining her foothold in a maximum security prison, she hopes to regain her sanity, so that by 2034, her release date; she will be long past menopause.

The Honey Moon Killers,

 First Couple to Meet the Electric Chair

By Lynn A. Granata

Who were the Honey moon killers?

At first, I wondered as well.

They were two lame miscreants a total mismatch.  She was morbidly obese.  He was a fledgling drifter of Mexican descent.

The Honey moon Killers scene from the 1970 movie.

But what they did could break the record for the fastest and most undetectable crime spree ever known.
Martha Beck was obese and lacked self- esteem. She was a nurse who juggled full-time in a hospital and was taking care of her aged mother. One day, however, a friend called her and mailed a personals ad in a newspaper to her. Martha looked through it attentively, and found a man she liked. His name was Raymond Fernandez.

Martha (left) watches enviously while Raymond passionately kisses their next unassuming victim.

So, they agreed to meet. Martha's mom however, was concerned that Martha started missing appointments to go see her in the nursing home. Martha's mother became angry and then disowned her. Remember disownment isn't normal for any family member at any age, space, and time. Martha's mother was in the end stages of Alzheimer's disease. A disease that back then was simply called old age dementia. So her mother was technically would've been labeled a paranoid schizophrenic by today's standards.

She and Raymond agreed to start a crime spree campaign which spanned several states across America. Raymond was like a gigolo, who didn't have the gravitas to treat a lady with love and respect. Instead he was a thug that conned every woman that he met through the personals like his personal piggy bank. Martha at first, was high on his list.

The two of them traveled together. Raymond navigated the trips with his personals ad in the newspaper. Where they traveled to was contingent on what fish Raymond could catch while he baited women through his ad's description of himself, he hoped to find not just any woman, but a wealthy one. There was a wealthy dowager he and Martha met. Problem was he only would introduce Martha to them as his sister.

Raymond got them in bed, then talked them out of their bank accounts.
Raymond would get the money, then kill the victim, by bludgeoning them.

There were a few who were poisoned. And then left for dead. Until one day the fun ended forever. The last dowager was hip to his antics. She nearly corralled the two of them, until Raymond killed her first. Then Martha called the police. They were arrested and charged with robbery, first degree murder, and conspiracy. The twain were sentenced to die an execution by electric chair. They were fried in March 1951 at Sing Sing Prison in New York.

Endnote: Personal ads existed back then. The stigma of meeting a person through a personal ad existed just as much then as it does today. Bottom line never meet in a deserted area go with a friend and meet at a public place, such as a coffee shop. Today's dating scene is like a jungle, just a word to the wise stay safe.

Theories of Crime in America

Theories of Crime in America

Theories of Crime in America

Theories of Crime in America

Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, Go On Take the Money and Run

By Lynn A. Granata

In the middle of the 20th century 2 troubled young teen aged lovers went on a natural killing and crime spree in Lincoln Nebraska.

Caril Fugate (left) and Charles Starkweather

       They remind me so much of Bonnie and Clyde. Only a 1950's version of the infamous crime couple taking place in the beginning of modern times.

       They went on a vicious killing spree killing so many friends and even family members.

Charles was motivated by money, as he lived in poverty his entire life through. He robbed a gas station attendant for $100. Later on he graduated to grand theft auto. He killed and robbed a shoe salesman for his vehicle.

A 14 year old Caril Fugate with her 19 year old partner in crime Charles Starkweather (right).

            And used it to escape to Washington state.

        A high speed police chase ensued, and finally Starkweather was captured and arrested.

Caril Fugate was only 14, Charles was 19.  She testified that she was under duress while she accompanied Starkweather throughout his crime rampage.

Charles was executed in 1959. Caril received a life sentence, she was charged with aiding and abetting and guilt by association.

 She was later released from a woman's prison on parole in 1976, and was considered cleared and rehabilitated enough to get back into society.

Not much about her has been known since, but it's presumed that she changed her name and wanted nothing more to do with her sordid past, she made a new life for herself where she could go where nobody would remember who she was and what she did.

Dogs Make Great Sleuths

By Lynn A. Granata

Dogs 🐶 have got be the greatest fuzzy friends in the world. They not only keep you company for hours on end, but they can solve crimes better than mankind ever could.

A Blenheim Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

The reason is obvious, dogs have the keenest sense of smell. No matter what their size is or the breed. They all share the smell factor equally. Dogs are truly crime fighters. Aside from detecting scent, they are natural sentries ready to alert you when they know long before you ever could, who's at the door or on your property.
The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is awesome. Because they make great little watchdogs and they are small enough to sit in your lap. The have a truly sharp nose, they are used to flush birds and other small wild critters.

Two German Shepherds

A bloodhound is used to find missing persons, relating to a cold case. German Shepherds work with the police, aiding them in the search for drugs and explosives. Bernese Mountain Dogs work with the United States Department of the Coast Guard. They can find a capsized boat, locate and rescue those who may have capsized from drowning.

A Bernese Mountain Dog

As for me, believe it or not a small lapdog has just as much credentials as a larger breed.

Police training Bloodhounds

My last little fur ball was a ShihTzu. He was a great little protector.

 Last year, he passed away from old age, so it's time to get another 🐶 dog. Dogs keep you in shape.

 Dogs never have to be told what to do, they just love you, and automatically defend you while they're by your side. Not bad for a dog.

Theories of Crime in America : What Causes Crime?By Lynn A. GranataFor years ...

Theories of Crime in America : What Causes Crime?


By Lynn A. Granata


For years ...: What Causes Crime? By Lynn A. Granata For years many people have been asking this question. Crime is caused by a complex numbe...

What Causes Crime?

By Lynn A. Granata

For years many people have been asking this question.

Crime is caused by a complex number of variables.

I have always believed that the most common reason for crime is impulsiveness. 

Criminals are impulsive or they act on impulses more often than those who are not criminals.

For example, a shop lifter may see a dress on a clothing rack and suddenly take a feeling of "I just cannot resist this and I have to have it."

Although she doesn't have the money to pay for the dress, technically.  She feels that urgency gnawing from within. At the moment she isn't thinking about the consequences of what may happen if she goes ahead and takes the dress off of the rack and conceals it under her clothing, then walk out of the store.

She has done it before and she never got caught. This is what gives her the confidence to keep on doing it.

In order for a crime to occur there are 3 elements that must be met, of course don't do it, because it is illegal and it isn't worth losing your freedom over it.

Many department stores have been using warning signs like this one in order to deter shoplifting and to prevent the loss of property and revenue due to store theft.

 Now the 3 elements are:

1.        Opportunity

2.   Desire for a thrilling experience, low threshold of tolerance for regular everyday       mundane tasks-boredom. 

3.      Cost v. benefits of the wrongdoing. Remember, if an individual is anxious to do something wrong, the intent has to be there or they know it's wrong, but they'll do it anyways because they feel nobody will catch them in the act. Thus in this rare scenario, the benefits outweigh the costs.   

The shop lifter took these 3 elements into consideration.

We don't know whether or not if the shop lifter ever got caught, but the thing you must be aware of is that as time goes on, she will eventually get caught, that I can assure you. It's difficult to know why she shop lifts. One or more theories can apply as to answer the why question. 

Kleptomania

Lack of Resources

No money=Poverty

Mental illness         

Different levels of crime connotes different levels of severity. Felonies are more serious than misdemeanors. A felony can result in prosecution and a 3-20 yr. prison sentence.  A misdemeanor carries no more than a 1 year prison sentence.     

Stalkers: Are They  Lonely or Just a Turn Off?

By Lynn A. Granata

There's so many of us who have played the dating game. Searching hard for strategies to find a perfect match.

However, many times more that perfect match turns out to be less than perfect. Stalkers come to mind whenever this topic arises.

So what is exactly a stalker must you ask?

Stalkers are people who for some reason are plagued with the fear of abandonment. Many of times they have a personality disorder.

 The most common personality disorders for them are borderline personality, narcissistic personality, avoidant personality, and obsessive compulsive personality.

If you break up with them, until that time comes on quickly enough, it is then and only then that you begin to learn the truth about their stealthy habit.

They will continue to call you and ask for dates long after the relationship has ended.

Ignoring them does absolutely no good. Why do they continue to chase you long after you have broken up with them? Well they are in denial. They feel oft times betrayed and are doing it out of spiteful anger.

While you were dating them, they portrayed some upsetting characteristics bordering on eccentric.

 They may have tried to do a number of things to you without your consent, for instance. That is a turn off. The negativity of their way of acting is an incredible turn off.

 They seem as though they wallow in sorrow all the time. Nobody wants to be around a stalker.

 Stalkers need help and are very toxic. If you are involved with a stalker, don't just pretend they are not there. Seek help for them if nothing else transpires.

 As they can become more dangerous as time goes on. It's important they get to a health center where they will receive an evaluation and medication if necessary.

Another Case of Excessive Force Used Against a Black Female Student

By Lynn A. Granata

Yesterday at Spring Valley High, in Columbia, SC what appears to be an innocent young woman was brutally assaulted by a school resource officer. It was portrayed on a video that went viral.

Resource officers are public law enforcement employees. Technically they are police officers,  except with specialized training in psychology and liberal arts or social work. They are there to serve and protect our high school students.

Ever since the violence in public schools has escalated in recent years, and most particularly after the Sandy Hook tragedy resource officers were created to help quell potentially troubled students from acting out.

The young woman, only a teenager was sitting at her desk, but was asked to leave the classroom.

She had no reason to leave, at least from my research, I couldn't find any. Save for she may have been using her cell phone during a class.

Using a cell phone is a minor issue if not an issue at all. And that shouldn't have been no reason to yank her out of her chair and throw her across a room and against a wall.

What is happening in our country today? People are getting arrested, beat up, subdued and jailed for no reason.

The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution is supposed to protect the people from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Police officers can't arrest without a warrant issued by a judge.

This scene speaks for itself

This has been happening more than once within the past year.

Back in July, another young black woman was asked to pull over on side of the road in Texas.

Sandra Bland being dragged from her car in Texas July 2015

She was brutalized by a police officer and arrested without probable cause. She died in her jail cell from suicide. Sounded quite questionable, she was not depressed.

What's happening is that these resource officers are flying too far off of the handle. They are power drunk, obsessed with the thrill they get from using excessive force upon those that they see as weaker.

What should change is that resource officers should only be called when truly needed (crisis) on a campus of a high school or college.

Otherwise they are standing or sitting around looking for something to do. They are bored and virtually not needed in our schools.

If they haven't got nothing to do while they are on duty; they figure that it's okay to go look for trouble elsewhere.

Poverty and Loss of Family Values is why Crime has Risen

By Lynn A. Granata

Families of today have a lot to think about. It's not very easy. Most families want to raise their children in a stable environment.

The middle class has suffered many set backs in recent years. Recessions, inflation and unemployment have dampened the spirit of many American families.

To add to such trouble is the prolongation of suffering in poverty for a middle class family that has suffered from a major life changing event.

Unemployment is the most common set back for those who live pay check to pay check. One pay check away from being put out on the street haunts most American families who are struggling to make ends meet.

Children who grow up in poverty are at an all time high in growing up to engage in a life of crime than are their wealthier peers.

Single parent homes can't give a child the same amount of attention as two parent homes. Nonetheless, it's the loss of family values that stunts the growth of children growing up in poverty. It's a double edged sword.

Impoverished children get involved with gangs. They are more apt to commit petty crimes, such as stealing and shop lifting. They have no older adults available to supervise them. The loss of family values has caused a generation of misfits to lose respect for authority.

Nowadays, there are no more sit down dinners at suppertime. Parents have to work long hours to get paid a sustainable amount of money to keep their roofs over their heads.

How are kids going to learn family values? Politicians can't come up with good honest answers.

More decent paying jobs need to be created. So that parents will have more time to spend with their children.

Death Penalty Inmates that were Botched Executions

By Lynn A. Granata

Over the last few decades there are literally hundreds of thousands of accumulated condemned inmates awaiting execution on death row.

Clayton D. Lockett from Oklahoma was one of them. He was executed last year in an Oklahoma State Penitentiary. 

But, his execution went horribly wrong.  Because of the state using the wrong cocktail of drugs which all of a sudden, deviated from the norm.

Lockett's death by lethal injection took an hour.  When it ordinarily takes 10 minutes or less.

Lockett apparently wanted to commit suicide because he knew that the state was using cheaper less useful drugs. He feared his own botched execution.

 He tried to starve himself, it was learned. But when the "hangman" came for him in the early hours of April 29, 2014, he refused to comply.  So they tasered him. 

Once Clayton was subdued, it took the paramedics 45 minutes to locate a vein, they tried all areas possible, both his arms, legs, and feet, before they finally settled on the femoral vein in his right groin-Ewww! Lockett's veins were inaccessible. 

He was dehydrated because he hadn't eaten for 48 hours. The scary part is while he was on the gurney.  He convulsed and spoke he tried to get up off of the gurney, even though he was in restraints. He died from a heart attack an hour after he was tinctured with the lethal concoction. 

Also, in Ohio there were several death row inmates who took longer than usual because of the different mixture of lethal drugs. 

Later on it was discovered that the prison was getting these drugs from prison doctor's who made them up themselves.  Before the drugs were imported from Europe. Europe, however, discontinued making them and shipping them to American Penitentiaries. In Europe, drug manufacturers and pharmacies are growing increasingly against the death penalty.

Death by lethal injection is legal in 38 states.  But, the drugs now have been banned until further notice. Executions have been suspended until they can find another way to supply the proper drugs again. The death penalty to me personally is Barbaric, and I don't believe in it.

The Rise and Fall of the Institution of Mental Health Across America

By Lynn A. Granata

An institution for mental health was located in every single state in the union, going back 50 -100 years ago.

These huge fortresses once housed the criminally insane. Despite that, they also were used to warehouse many unfairly committed members of a civilized society.

It's not like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In fact the movie is a laughing stock almost Disney Land compared to the reality of what an insane asylum truly was like inside and alas outside it's looming walls.

Long ago, sanitariums or asylums were known as snake pits. Because of the number of such unspeakable atrocities going on inside them.

ECT and insulin shock therapy and then later came the short lived lobotomy or psycho surgery. It wasn't until the early 1950's until drug therapy came to save the day.

Thorazine arrived and when it did, the need for long-term mental health treatment was changed forever.

The 1960's and the Civil Rights Movement came then the deinstitutionalisation of mental health hospitals started to gradually take place. Just a pointer, don't believe that President Ronald Reagan did it, either.

The gradual closings of large public mental hospitals started soon after Thorazine was discovered. President Reagan's idea wasn't until a good 30 years later.

President Reagan ended federal funding to the states to help stop public mental hospitals from abuse. States were then unable to sustain them on taxpayer dollars alone. As a result they closed and many of these dinosaur brick asylums were left abandoned completely. Leaving so many vacant buildings to become dangerous to children who played within their horrid walls and Kirkbride style underground tunnels.

An abandoned Kirkbride style tunnel.

As a result the very last of them had shut down and were boarded up by the time President Reagan took office. These were expensive entities and were no longer sustainable.

An abandoned mental hospital.

In favor of community mental health centers the public asylums ended. Taxpayers were spared the burden of funding these long gone houses of Barbary. Advocates for the rights of the mentally ill had won a long standing battle.

An abandoned American asylum with the entrance to it's tunnel.

Today, unfortunately there are some remaining homeless individuals that were affected by the deinstitutionalisation movement. However, there are now better places they can go for humane treatment without risking losing their civil liberties, such as the outpatient community mental health centers, homeless shelters, and soup kitchens.