The Hollies Stop, Stop, Stop

Such a great performance

The Hollies "Carrie Anne" 1967 (Smothers' Brothers')

Courtesy of youtube.com

The Hollies Just One Look

A Great song by a Great band

Courtesy of youtube.com

Here are the Beatles with an Excellent version of their hit song "Slow Down"

Courtesy of youtube.com

When they were live at the BEEB.

What Was Home Like for Little Lisa?

By Lynn A. Granata

Michelle Launders gave birth to Lisa on May 14, 1981. When this beautiful little red-haired Irish beauty left the hospital to be put into her new home, she was named Baby Launders.

Someone had dropped off the little infant at the Steinberg residence. There's no confirmed account as to the identity of who the person was.  It's been theorized that the gynecologist who brought Lisa into the world did. Nobody knows for sure whether or not if he knew that Steinberg wasn't going to make the proper arrangements to get Lisa legally adopted. Instead opting to keep her himself to raise? This was more than an illegal adoption. It was more of an infant kidnapping.

Hedda began to take to the baby immediately naming her Elizabeth "Lisa" Steinberg.  Hedda, apparently received too many shots to the head by Joel's fists by this time to understand that Joel's surname didn't have to be the name selected to use for Lisa. Steinberg didn't impregnate Hedda. This wasn't neither his nor her own child in way shape or form. 

And of course, unlike adoption agencies, who dutifully try to match babies given up for adoption right, will always match the parents to children with the same religion, nationality and background. If these two misfits were ever to go to an adoption agency themselves their chances of getting a baby would be 0. The unkempt house, Hedda's battered condition, Joel's shady business dealings, Joel's unhealthy high-strung prone personality, the lack of responsibility of the both of them, the lack of work stability on account of Hedda. Sorry, they wouldn't even be allowed to get passed the door.

At the time of this meeting, Hedda had just gotten released from the hospital. Joel had given her a severe beating. That he ruptured her spleen, and Hedda required emergency surgery to remove it. Who would want an infant in such an environment? To be Continued...

How Lisa Steinberg

Fatefully Crossed The Joel

Steinberg Hedda Nausbaum Path

by Lynn A. Granata

Her name was Michelle Launders. A junior in high school, in the spring of 1981. Who had not yet found her calling in life. She was dating another teenager her own age at the time. His name was Kevin. His surname name is uncertain. We'll just call him Kevin. After a few dates and fun times they spent together, Michelle panicked because she found out she was pregnant and didn't want to have a child at this time in her life. 

However, she did agree to carry the baby for the full term. While she was pregnant, Michelle was working hard, or so she thought she was. To find a good home for her baby and place the child up for adoption. No one knows exactly how and where Michelle found out about Joel Steinberg. But, it has been presumed Steinberg was in the black market baby business. 

Lisa and "her father" Joel Steinberg.

Michelle's gynecologist was a friend of Steinberg. He agreed to discuss the particulars over with Michelle right around the time she was about to give birth to Lisa. Michelle was assured by this doctor that her baby would go to a good loving home. But then a strange twist took place. Steinberg, promised his friend that he could take care of the placement and the adoption himself. To find a decent home for Lisa. Unfortunately, this never did happen. 

Unbeknownst to Michelle Launders, she just gave up her baby right after having her. She handed her infant to the gynecologist who then in turn passed her over to Steinberg, figuring that there was nothing amiss with Steinberg and that he'd do as promised as his fiduciary duty as an attorney. They figured at the time that he could be trusted. Instead of placing Lisa into a decent home, Steinberg only went and took her home to Hedda, who was unable to conceive. Lisa was just one day old. Part 3 to be continued...

Hedda Nausbaum

She Had to Be Joel's 

Pygmalion 

By Lynn A. Granata

Why? You may ask would a supposedly bright, articulate, and attractive young woman like Hedda Nausbaum continue to remain in an abusive relationship with a man?

At first, things weren't out of the ordinary for Joel Steinberg and Hedda Nausbaum. They appeared to be the perfect match within their own circle of friends. The two came together in 1975. Hedda met him at a party thrown by their mutual friends. Joel was a criminal defense lawyer and Hedda was a children's book publisher for Random House.

Galieto sculpting "Pymalion."

The two hit it off nicely. They moved in together into a fashionable Greenwich Village brownstone. Joel was Hedda's coach, mentor, boyfriend and therapist all rolled into one. They would go out to business meetings together, and Joel would "critique" Hedda's performance afterward. Hedda's own account of his critiquing was described as "therapeutic."

As time passed, Joel's quirks started becoming more annoying and noticeable.  Steinberg would stay out late many times and picked up some very unsavory characters for clients. There were plenty of drug dealer clients who gravitated toward Attorney Joel Steinberg. 

Free basing cocaine became a regular habit at the Steinberg/Nausbaum residence. Joel and Hedda literally took up FreebaseCoke 101. Later came BDSM. With these two interesting pass times, it was no secret that Steinberg was becoming more psychotic. Nobody more than Hedda recognized this. One winter's day in 1978, Joel punched Hedda across the face with enough force to give her a left black eye. They had been together for 3 years by this time. Despite the act, she refused to hold him accountable.  Furthermore, she failed to leave Steinberg. 

Only after Nausbaum was taken into custody and gained celebrity status did she begin revealing Joel's horrific abuse to the press. Nausbaum claimed that she tried to leave him six times, but always went back. She made allegations of him giving her a more severe beating than before she left each and every time. It's been known that abusers do get more volatile when their victim "tries" to seek refuge by leaving. The abuse escalates and many times these men who beat their girlfriends go too far and kill these women.

However, after Hedda's last unsuccessful attempt at leaving Joel failed did she realize that "she needed him more than ever." Hedda hoped that Joel could keep his promise and "sculpt her into Pygmalion."

Steinberg refused to marry Nausbaum. She didn't care though, "being in any relationship, even a bad one was better than none at all." The couple remained in a tenants in common status until 1987, when they were both taken into custody.

Between 1979-81, Steinberg and Nausbaum began getting serious about starting a family. However, after many, many attempts at trying to conceive and failing, they then started considering adopting children.

The two probably realized they were both unfit as adults, let alone parents in order to legally adopt a child. To be continued...

The Trump Campaign

Must Continue it's Momentum

by Lynn A. Granata

Donald Trump has just three weeks to go before he takes the chance and gets elected. We must take our America back.

There is no doubt that the Democrats have cheapened our greatness as a sovereign nation.

Hillary Clinton will say anything to take trust away from American voters. She already has said too much as it is. She has ingeniously thought up some bogus allegations about the Donald as being a brash womanizing pervert. Totally false.

The Donald hasn't used negativism on Hillary at all. And why should he? He is too presidential to stoop so low.

You must ask yourself, do you want the greatest country in the world to become a third world sheep like North Korea? Where people have no say in the matter when it comes their basic civil liberties.

 Don't give up now, we have come so far, Vote for Donald Trump on November 8th, 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znAJTnQiVyE
Get a look at Graham Nash Prison Song.

Hedda Nausbaum and Joel Steinberg

A Dysfunctional Couple Who

Destroyed 2 Young Lives

by Lynn A. Granata

It was almost 29 years ago that an illegally adopted 6 year old girl was beaten to death. On November 2, 1987, police were summoned to a large Gothic style apartment located in New York City's stylish Greenwich Village.

The sight of Hedda Nausbaum (left) left it's mark on humanity, Joel Steinberg (right) made Hedda's appearance
an atrocity which took years in the making.  Photo courtesy of API (November 2, 1987).

 This place was just not any old place, but a place where story book legend Mark Twain lived.

At the exact same apartment, police knocked on the door at 6:30 am. The large oak doors slowly creaked open, behind it within the unveiled darkness an elderly woman answered it. The small hunched over dark- haired woman with hints of grey strands, appeared much older than her normal age.

She had old injuries healing over new injuries on her pain ridden contorted face. She was frail and emaciated. Behind her was the wafting wailing sound of a man's raspy voice hollering maniacally "Hedda, "she's stopped breathing!"

As law enforcement forced their way through the heavy oak doors and into the squalid apartment what they found was the most heart breaking scene ever.

Inside the apartment, was a disheveled couple wielding the limp, battered, bruised, and unconscious body of a small female child. In the next room, an 18 month old male child was found tethered to a playpen lying in dirt. He was rescued unharmed. And taken by police to Child Protective Custody.

The rescue crew quickly sprang into action and started giving the child, whose name is Lisa Steinberg CPR. The little girl was bruised and had overt signs of regular beatings showing on her pale skin. Old bruises healing over new ones donned her back, trunk, arms and legs.

Lisa was rushed to St.Vincent's Hospital. She had a large fist sized bruise over her right forehead. Upon further examination by medical professionals, she also had numerous other bumps and bruises about her head. She was unable to breathe on her own and was placed on a respirator.

It was later determined that she had a subdural hematoma exerting too much pressure on her brain. Lisa was technically declared brain dead and taken off life support and died 3 days later.

The police questioned the two unkempt mentally incoherent adults at the New York Police station. Upon further investigation, the police obtained enough evidence to arrest them both on aggravated felony assault and murder of a minor.

I will discuss this case in more depth in later blogs. The new blog is just to give you an introduction into the case and players involved for now. This is a very long and complex saga. And requires more than one posting. To be continued...

The Donald: Why is He Taking Such Abuse?

Donald Trump is the nation's only hope. We as Americans must take our country back. Inflation, recession, and lack of a strong leadership has put us in a gridlock. Come November, remember to vote Trump!


By Lynn A Granata

Elliot Rodger:

Was he Really a Misogynist or Just a Spoiled Man child?

By Lynn A. Granata

I think that the media has it juxtaposed when they call Elliot Rodger a misogynist.  Elliot Rodger can't be considered a misogynist, in fact he is nowhere near the concept of misogyny at all.

He was more a misanthrope than a misogynist.  Why? Because he hated practically all of humanity. He didn't just hate women exclusively, but he hated men probably just as much and even more than he purported to hate women. After all, he did murder more guys than he did girls on that fateful Friday night in Santa Barbara's swanky Isla Vista College town. In his You Tube rants, he has this creepy vibe that he sends out, with fake laughter, almost as though he's rehearsing for the leading part in an arch villain horror film.

Seems so contrived. Rodger's father was a movie director for the infamous film the Hunger Games. Peter Rodger in addition to that was also a photographer.  His most favorite subject of his photographic niche was no other than his second wife, Soumaya Akabourne. He enjoyed taking pictures of her naked fanny. Elliot couldn't stand Soumaya.  He found her to be a much more harsher disciplinarian than his own biological mother could ever hope to be. Soumaya kicked Elliot out of hers and Peter's house once she found out about Elliot's violent rants that he put up on his You Tube network. Naturally, Soumaya was frightened.

However, Elliot's own mother became just as concerned as did Soumaya.  Lin Chin called Elliot's father once she received word from him on what he stated on the You Tube videos about what he was planning on doing. She and Peter then agreed to contact the police. The police responded appropriately, by going to the address of the apartment in which Ellliot shared with 3 other male roommates.  The welfare check proved fruitless because Elliot was able to elude the cops that did show up that there was nothing amiss. When in truth, Elliot had just finished cleaning up what would have been a major crime scene had the police not taken his word for it and searched the apartment instead of brushing it off as harmless. Elliot himself was relieved when they left, because he would have been discovered immediately, and his whole plan of retribution would have gotten stopped dead in its tracks.

Unfortunately, this didn't happen, as innocent lives could have been spared and plus the bodies of the three dead roommates that Elliot butchered to death would have been found.  Elliot would have been arrested and then charged with 3 counts of first degree felony homicide and punished accordingly.

Why in heaven's name did this boy, who appeared from all of those around him to have everything in life to be grateful for, want to kill and maim so many innocent souls? There are so many questions, but not enough answers to come up with a reason. Some believe he was mentally ill, others think that he was autistic and that he lacked empathy and didn't understand how to read social cues. The only good hypothesis would be that Rodgers was a product of his own dysfunctional life patterns.

He couldn't make friends, and the ones he did make friends with later abandoned him. They could pick up on his creepy vibes, by his going on puahate.com and airing out his bottled up feelings about how much he hated women and men that were in better shape than he was. How much he hated that they could get laid and that he couldn't. He complained about how much he felt that blonde women should have been attracted to him, but apparently were not.

Finally, he hated his own kind because he felt that although they were beneath him, they still, despite that were able to score with the opposite sex and he was insanely jealous over it. His own father, Peter was a target of his insane jealousy because he could get a girlfriend right after divorcing his mother.

Conclusion

Elliot was a spoiled man child. Because he didn't have to earn what he had been given in his short miserable little life. He was wearing Armani shirts and $300 designer sunglasses. He owned a late model BMW. Once he began complaining about how much he was bullied in school, then in college, then later still in his early adulthood, his mother started giving him materialistic things, such as a large allowance and the BMW. Yet, Elliot didn't make any effort to tackle his shortcomings on his own terms. He expected others to do it for him and he thought that others were to blame for his unhappiness. He never made an effort to talk to any girls, despite putting up videos on his You Tube channel and advertising the things he did have, and why girls should pay attention to him. Elliot would instead brood about how much life was so unfair and write a 140 page manuscript detailing why going all the way back to his early childhood. Nowhere does it ever mention in this140 page rambling diatribe that the real fault lies within himself, the true reason why he was miserable.

The Hollies

Blowing in the Wind

Great Classic Dylan Song

uploaded from youtube.com

Play Misty For Me:

Clint Eastwood in One of His Worst Acting Movies

By Lynn A. Granata

Okay, why would a guy like David Garvey want to shoo a female admirer away in the first place? Does he really find her to be that repulsive? Not bad for a guy who has no interest but yet accepts the expensive groceries that she just had the generosity to bring to his empty refrigerator.

My opinion of his character in Play Misty for Me is that Eastwood acts as nothing more than a mindless brute. He ought to be ashamed of himself.  Jessica Walters who plays the admirer is stunning in her acting ability if not outstanding. I feel sorry for her character, Evelyn. Likewise as the movie's arch villain, she tends to become more and more vilified as the film progresses.

But, if you were being treated like her, wouldn't you as well? She was treated worst than a garbage dumpster. "Oh, why did you just come in here traipsing around?" "What if this was a business meeting being conducted?" Or more hurtfully asking her "what if I had had some female company here?" "Now think how that would look, with you coming in here with the grocery bags?"

If Evelyn was mentally unstable as they have portrayed her to be in this film, why would she continue to take his insults and lack of interest as a clue to stay away from him in the first place? Apparently as she draws closer to David Garvey the more he recoils. Her feelings are literally being trampled on with each act of kindness she conjures up toward him. He is a mean and arrogant phony macho fool in this film and makes nothing more than a jerk out of himself. 

Now, I am not saying that he should make believe that she doesn't bother him at all, and become romantically involved with her just so she wouldn't feel bad.  What I am saying is that he should have been less crude and dysfunctional toward her. Evelyn is a borderline personality which means that she can't stand being alone, and feels insecure whenever she is alone. Garvey shouldn't have given Evelyn the come on if he was already involved with another woman in a relationship. So, who's fault was it? His, his and his fault.

Now for Some Twisted Enjoyment

"Play Misty For Me" Scene from the 1971 movie

Starring Clint Eastwood and Jessica Walters

It's probably the best way to put Erotomania into action!

uploaded from youtube.com

By Lynn A. Granata

The Hollies

We're Through

uploaded from youtube.com

The Hollies

Have You Ever Loved Somebody?

This rare classic was recorded live in France, 1967.

uploaded from youtube.com

Susan Atkins:

Bad Girl

Found Love and Bliss

She Never Deserved--EVER

By Lynn A. Granata

Whenever I happen to come across a story such as this one that I am about to tell you, I get a sinking feeling like no other.

Susan Atkins, as many of us in the 50 year old + age category, give or take a few years on/off, knows that she was the witch who massacred Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, and other innocent people in a Hollywood Hills mansion owned by a famous and talented film director at the time, Roman Polanski. Polanski was also married to the beautiful 1960's actress Sharon Tate. 

It's not fair to mention Susan Atkin's association in this grisly crime without also including the infamous Charles Manson as well.

Mansion was the ringleader in this bevy of heinousness.  He ordered several of his followers, the aimless hippy runaway girls especially Susan Atkins as his right hand assistant in carrying out his dirty work. Manson was a born loser. He was the son of a low-life prostitute and had many run-ins with the law as a youth and had spent most of his youth in juvenile detention centers. He was a tinker by trade, meaning that he'd try his hand at anything where he could get something for nothing, where he could take advantage of others-then which led to him getting his cowardly ass-kicked time and time again. He would weasel his way into, for instance, a famous rock star's house (Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys) and pretend that he was looking for a recording contract, then commit armed robbery.

Enter James Whitehouse

Susan Atkins was incarcerated at the Woman's facility of San Quentin State Prison in San Francisco, CA. She had plea-bargained back in 1971 during the Manson trials and received life in prison w/o the possibility of parole in exchange for the death penalty. The murders took place in August of 1969. 

By the 1990's, Susan Atkins was up for release from prison on account of good behavior. James Whitehouse, a Harvard Law School graduate and now criminal defense attorney, became Atkin's lawyer and but then something else very strange and creepy as well, her lover, then husband!

She killed people and yet found love? Doesn't make any sense does it? I had figured her to die in a solitary confinement cell, without never knowing what love truly is. Where's the justice?

Hey Everybody Look At:

The Hollies

"Listen to Me"

This great video simply speaks for itself.