Maybe Meredith Whitney’s forecast of our economy for the next two years provided the grist in my mind overnight to foment elements of a novel or screenplay:
Setting: Outbreak or Epidemic with limited ability of the Administration to provide treatment (perhaps medicine or antidote) to all infected or to be infected.
[Subtext: Medical coverage ; medical insurance].
Historical parallels: The Titanic (limited lifeboats available); Nazi Concentration Camps (Quarantine and “liquidate” lower “classes”).
Basis of Plot: Administration must make a Sofie’s Choice , decides to segregate those with medical coverage from those without medical coverage or other means to pay for treatment, medicine or antidote.
Dark Side: Save covered patients; quarantine (and let die) uncovered. Historical references: Titanic & lifeboats, Nazi Concentration Camps & Genocide.
I’m watching The Crisis (1950) starring Cary Grant as the doctor and Jose Ferrer as the Oil Man. I wonder if this movie influenced me too. Definitely regarding who gets medical treatment and who doesn’t. “Save me doctor!” pleads the revolutionary to the doctor, played by Cary Grant, pondering whether to acquiesce in extreme close-up…fade out–THE END.
Bright Side: Comic Relief: vignettes or dialogues re: Love: Romance, Familial, Fellowship with one’s congregation/Holy Spirit, peek through the clouds often–THE BEGINNING
New paradigm of “coverage” emerges in aftermath (as globalism or the “New World Order” has come after the World Wars).
copyright January 8, 2012
JOHN RUBENS
Lest We Forget: BUCKLER UP (See Psalms 18:1 et seq.) What My Father Taught Me: I’ve got to do “it” (a tough task) or “It” (the civil authorities) will find me.
Impetus: “Some Heads Are Gonna Roll” (Judas Priest & Jesus Christ)
My father taught me: I’ve got to do it!!
Impetus: “Some Heads Are Gonna Roll” (Judas Priest & Jesus Christ)
Michelle Bachmann joins the list of informed red shirts. What a screaming Yenta. The only advantage of electing her President is to get her further away from me… but those Presidential visits!
Where did Kenny go?
Leading a caravan East?
The computer world is showing brilliance by integration with human mind—a jump perhaps (evolutionarily speaking).
I’ll fight against Affirmative Action if it will save Congress’ “economy” of errors.
In its current form, Affirmative Action has become arbitrary and capricious. Or, “who’s preferring who?”
Codename: Witch-hunt [or, how far can we go with this?]
Re: Casey Anthony Trial in Orlando Fla.
Hyperbole: Jane Vellez-Mitchell; Star Power: Nancy Grace; Perry Mason-like Perseverance: Judge Perry and Cheney Mason
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Fair Banking and Lending Ordinance Hearing and Vote Before Los Angeles City Council 01-30-2012: Comment : CHECKS AND BALANCES
Hearing and Vote of Los Angeles City Council on Fair Banking Ordinance: 01-30-2012
THIS ORDINANCE PROVIDES THE NECESSARY CHECKS AND BALANCES TO ACHIEVE STABILITY BETWEEN THE BUYER AND SELLER OF REAL PROPERTY IN LOS ANGELES.
IT’S BEEN RUMORED WE’VE BEEN RIPPING-OFF THE INDIGENOUS AND SO-CALLED “UNDER-CLASS” PEOPLES OF THIS LAND CALLED AMERICA IN LABOR, TREASURE AND RESOURCES FOR OVER FIVE HUNDRED YEARS. IT’S TIME FOR THIS STATE AND THIS CITY TO REVIEW HOW BANKS, BROKERS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES (THE “OWNERSHIP SOCIETY” PROMOTORS) HAVE IMPACTED COMMUNITIES HERE IN LOS ANGELES OVER THE PAST DECADE. MAYBE THE REGULATORS HAVE ALREADY FIXED THE PROBLEM NATIONALLY, BUT I DON’T SEE THE REMEDIES WORKING HERE VERY WELL. THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE ATTEMPTS TO RECONCILE THE COMPETING INTERESTS OF THE CONSUMER AND FINANCIAL PROVIDERS IN A FAIR AND RESPONSIBLE MANNER AND I ASK MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF IT. MANY ANGELENOS NEED A LIFELINE BUT MANY ARE FINDING QUICKSAND.
After writing this, I continued thinking about the fall-out from the so-called “Mortgage Crisis” and the human suffering which is occurring not just overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan post-911, but here in “America” as well. The ownership society was promoted post-911 to shore up our “economy” but where’s the follow through now? I feel like we as individuals were “pumped and dumped.” Let’s get started came to my mind. A swami told me once: “act: don’t react.” Father Leo, the celebrant at Mass tonight said we would do well to provide a “life-line” to others. Later, I met a 93-year old woman at Ralph’s market who told me she is being evicted from her West Hollywood home by the banks who bought a Lehman Bros. mortgage. They would not allow her a Make Home Affordable Modification. She said the story of Robin Hood had been rewritten. In the original Robin Hood, Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Nowadays she said, Robin is stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. Her name is Hilda. I invited her to the Hearing and Vote next week. She’s going to tell her attorney, who’s handling her case, about the Ordinance vote.
Remember, they got the figures WRONG…so wrong. Alleviation of human suffering is priority #1!
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