OPERATION LYSISTRATA

'Lysistrata' is a 2400 year old Greek play. The women of Athens and Sparta stop a war. They do this by agreeing among themselves that no women will have 'relations' with any man until the war stops. The women leaders were joined in this endeavor by all women including the ladies of the evening.

I think that what I am doing is important.

I REALLY NEED the $20,000,000 non tax deductible donation from Google to FIX THE WORLD.

If you have been reading my blog, you know what I am trying to do.

So let us women stop having sex with men until I get my $20,000,000 from Google, who can afford it.

I have been signaled that the ladies of the evening are prepared to join us.

WOMEN, YOU KNOW WHAT NOT TO DO!

BayCon 2009

I had a fabulous vacation. My only complaint is that it did not last longer.

I DO want to tell the Klingons that I delivered merchandise that I did not get paid for. I am certain that it was an oversight on the part of the Klingons.

I was also amazed at the power of old ceremonies.

See you all next year, or maybe at SiliCon.

IMPORTANT ADVICE

LAND LINES

Land lines have their own low level electricity, so they may work during an earthquake when the normal electricity is out. In order to have this important safety net, you must have a phone that does NOT need to be plugged into an electrical outlet.

Land lines are also a VERY SAFE way to get your banking and credit card information. The bank and credit card company can verify that you are calling from a land line owned by you. The information sent back and forth on the Internet is NOT SECURE. The Internet was not designed to make the flow of information secure.

CARPEL TUNNEL

I had horrible carpel tunnel, which I fixed by doing hand strength exercises with that little thing that looks like a 'V' with a coil spring in the bottom of the 'V'. (History channel said that this may have been invented by Bruce Lee.) I am guessing that putting weight behind the exercise opens up the carpel tunnel. Now I can again type, which is good for me, at least. I got my hand exerciser at WalMart, which had two for less than $5.00.

CONSEQUENCES

Muslims around the Mediterranean were the Silicon Valley of their era. THEY INVENTED ZERO! 

But they did not listen to the farmers, and allowed overgrazing by sheep and goats. (Sheep and goats eat the roots if there are too many per acre, and the plants do not grow back in the Spring.)

So the Sahara ate cities that had been in existence for 2000 years.

American farmers remembered this. But we had to shoot Navajo sheep to prevent them from destroying their amazing landscape.

Did you know that Genghis Khan was a Muslim? I have watched a lot of American Genghis Khan movies. Not once was it mentioned that he was a Muslim

Legend has it that when Genghis Khan was the ruler of the entire silk road, a virgin carrying gold could walk unmolested from Persia to China.

SAN MATEO COUNTY CPS

NOW San Mateo County CPS is telling me that if my lift is broken, I still have to come to their offices or they will interview my frightened client without me.

DOESN'T ANYONE KNOW THE LAW ANYMORE?

ANOTHER INVITATION TO DREAM CONFERENCE

I would like to also invite the Queen of England. She gets 27 guest invitations.

I REALLY want to introduce her to my mother. They are an awful lot alike.

Anyway, if the Queen comes, bringing important people from Europe, James Bond will have no trouble also attending.

PLEASE VOTE TODAY IN CALIFORIA

GOVERNOR IDIOT is saying that if people do not vote, he will just screw us over anyway.

You can vote WHERE EVER there is a little vote sign. DO NOT fill out the driver's licence information. You will have to give your address and sign the ballot. So fill out everything except for the licence info.

I AM TIRED OF BEING GOVERNED BY IDIOTS.

SO GO VOTE. It is easy. JUST VOTE NO FOR EVERYTHING.

SLOW LEARNERS

Not content with treating all voting black men in Florida as felons, the Republican Party is requiring driver's licence numbers in order to vote in the California special election.

THE SIMPLE RULE. If something is not required to REGISTER TO VOTE, then you cannot require it to ACTUALLY VOTE. 

There is no driver's licence requirement to register.

HONESTLY, ARNOLD IS SO STUPID IT IS BEYOND BELIEF.

I want Governor Moonbeam back. He started Earth Day, did you know?

SAN CARLOS POLICE

The San Carlos Police have an officer who is so bent on framing an abuse victim that she is willing to state that it is impossible to self inflict a wound on a finger.

Doesn't San Carlos require ANY intelligence testing AT ALL?

And, of course, the District Attorney ALWAYS charges 4 felonies for a small stab wound on a finger. NOT.

Can you say RETALIATION?

People do NOT like to lose.

Oh, well. I will just add to the damages I intend to sue for. I think I am now up to $10 million.

THE SAN MATEO COUNTY JAIL REDWOOD CITY

I am an Officer of the Court. You are officers of the law. Unless I am under arrest, you respect me. I only need to respect you, if I actually do respect you. I DO need to be polite, of course. Unless I am tired, in pain, angry and being held up for three hours because of a pissing match. 

Such children.

BTW, I think they deliberately keep the women's side of the jail cold so that the women will shiver. Sort of like in a wet T-shirt contest. How sick is that?

My Dream Conference

Please understand that I cannot hold my dream conference because Google STILL has not given me the $20,000,000 that I asked for so that I could SAVE THE WORLD.

However, many of you will enjoy the guest list and rules of the conference. The rules will be at the end of this posting. 

I hope there will be entertainment by the Bold and Stupid Men from the Casa de Fruita RenFair. It would be fun to have Irish line dancing, and folk music, and a couple of fractured Shakspeare plays. 

President Obama 7

First Lady Obama 7

Former President Clinton 7

Secretary of State Clinton 14

The Los Angles County Bar Association, continuing education division 14

The California State Bar 14

The Arizona State Bar 14

Tom Johnston from Minimax 7

Jim Robideau, Esq. 7

Franklin from Papago Legal Services 7

Russell Means

Dennis Banks

The two main Google Guys

James Abourezk

The two main Mythbusters guys and the engineer Mythbuster

Joan Shullo 7

Fidel Castro

Steve Silver 7

Patricia Wrede 7

Mercedes Lackey 7

Janet Evonovitch

J.K. Rowling

Marcella Cluff 7

George Cluff  7

John Lawler 7

John Lawler's wife or former wife (as the case may be) 7

Any child that was on my Odessey of the Mind team

For one year 1

For two years 2

For three years 7

Christine Seachrist 7

Damian Lucas 7

Andy Hill 7

My black belt judo friend from the U of Hawaii 7

The Strocks 

The Reaves

Emily Drumm 7

David Kessler 14

David Souter

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Harlan Agnew 14

DA Delores Carr

DA Paul Colin

Chuck Smith 14

Chris O'Brien

The two Steves from Apple 7 each

George Lucas 14

The real NCIS 14

Those two 'news' guys from the comedy channel 7 each

The comedian from HBO, I think, who has people sit around a table and invites the opposition 14

Jay Leno

The Palo Alto principal that told the truth and had to take it back. Early childhood education is really important.

The reporters for "Broken Families, Broken Courts" and the one on the scam being run about forcing guilty pleas in domestic violence cases.

The entire staff of the current San Jose Mercury News

Shou Yongjun 14

Colin Powell 14

Edward Sousa, Campbell's defense attorney

Nancy Pelosi 14

Diane Fienstein 14 (sorry, I cannot spell)

Geri Lynn Green

Paul Dean Nelson

Hal McCall

Ed formerly of A&J Auto 7

PBS 14

Smithsonian 14

Michael Guluso 14 (again I cannot spell)

The Dali Lama 14

Mel Roshi 14

Speakeasy 7

Linda's son 14

Carlos Puig 14

My client with all the patents 14

Linda

Dan McFadden 14

The Pakistani Supreme Court Justice who led the lawyers march for justice. 14

My entire family. My parents, their children and grandchildren can each bring 7 people each. My aunts, uncles and first cousins can each bring 3 each.

There may be more, but these are the ones that came to me this weekend.

RULES

If there is no number by your name, you can bring three people. (Or send 3 people, if you cannot come.) Your current lover is also invited.

You may bring your trophy wife as long as you remember that I do not like people who sell themselves into slavery.

NO HIGH HEELS, including cowboy boots. You have to be comfortable to think well. NO TIES. No suits. No pantyhose.

I, at least, do not intend to obey the drug laws.

I am going on vacation.

SLOW LEARNERS

People seem to resist learning some very simple lessons. Here are a few simple lessons.

1. People who ignore the social consequences of their profitable acts are almost always harmed by those social consequences. The Black Plague is an excellent example of this.

Did you know that Nostradamus got his reputation when he went around teaching towns to clean up their sewage and slums, which got rid of the Black Plague?

2. We were never meant to love things and use people. We are meant to love people and use things.

3. We ALL need vacations. I am taking a vacation until after BayCon. I may blog a little. Then I will be back with more ideas on how to get money to FIX THE WORLD.

MY DREAM CONFERENCE RULES

Each person that I invite to my conference will be able to bring three friends. If the person I invite cannot come, he/she can invite four friends. Each invitee may bring a lover or partner. ALL are welcome to attend the conference, which I am chairing.

I will be polite to trophy wives, but keep them away from me. I disapprove of women selling themselves into slavery. I admire prostitutes who are making a living despite having been sexually abused as children.

This conference will be small. We will be using the two hotels by downtown Campbell.

I, at least, will not be obeying the drug laws.

HOW DO CATS PURR?

Did you know that scientists still may not know exactly how cats purr? This is because cats will not purr when being examined by scientists, no matter how nice the scientists are to the cats.

MY VACATION

I am taking a vacation so I can figure out how to get money. I will even talk to new clients if they can pay me as I need money, but I am pausing all old cases as I do need a vacation.

But first I am going to BayCon, where I will try to decorate enough dragon wheelchairs to have a flight of dragons.

I am also hoping to play the LARP game I was too tired to play last year.

Mara's Bar calls.

I badly need some fun.

MY CLINTON JOKE (NOT PC AT ALL)

About two years into the Bush Administration I started saying, "When Clinton ran the country, it was running like a top. We were paying down the national debt and we were all getting rich. I want Clinton back. I will even give him an intern. Hell, I would give him two interns."

Even die hard Republicans laughed.

SPEAKERS AT MY DREAM CONFERENCE

I need a lot of money partly because I want to pay the current speaker fees for former President Clinton. He and President Obama both are VERY GOOD, but Obama is busy and Clinton has the time.

I have to tell you that I admired Monica's gumption, if not her methods. A graduate of an obscure university who quickly became friends with the President of the US is a person to watch. Too bad she picked such an old fashioned method, but women are still pretty oppressed in Montana.

I also admired Hillary's ability to forgive. We all need to start forgiving people.

BTW, did you know that the Republicans spent $4 million on investigating the Clintons. Could you survive a $4 million investigation? Didn't you EVER do something Fox News would disapprove of? I certainly have.

MY DREAM

I have been dreaming about how to solve three problems.

1. Stop the war on drugs (otherwise known as idiots trying prohibition one more time).

2. Fix the problems in the court system. Courts are the way we solve problems without violence. This does not work unless the courts are fair to everyone.

3. Fix the problem with junk science. We are making policy based on "scientific studies" which have NO VALIDITY. This is like ignoring a soil report when building a home. (The home starts sliding down the hill.)

I was intending to ask the Google guys for $10,000,000. I figure that the Google guys are my kind of crazy. Also they have the money.

I HATE writing the formal language usually used to acquire funding, so I approached a mutual friend, who was unsuccessful.

He was probably unsuccessful because Google is now a publicly traded company and they were STRONGLY ADVISED not to get involved in the War on Drug Laws that I am starting.

Meanwhile, I have decided that I need $20 million dollars because I want to hire class action, personal injury and appellate attorneys. I also want to start a private legal services organization in the local ethnic communities modeled upon Papago Legal Services.

(BTW, the Navajos actually came up with the working model for tribal self government. Turns out that if you grab all of the children and force them to get an education, you end up with VERY ANGRY well educated people.)

I am certain that the pressure on Google to NOT HELP ME is VERY STRONG. Illegal drugs are VERY profitable. One marijuana crop, grown in the Santa Cruz mountains by one man, using only a hose from a stream and pesticide, is worth $1 million on the streets. And you can grow 3 crops a year.

Michael Weston would say, "When that much money is involved, people do bad things."

So my dream will almost certainly not happen, which is too bad as I think I can solve the problem of the mystery chips. (These are chips being used that engineers are not certain exactly what the chips do.)

I already have a project manager and a chip designer for this project.

MISTREATING VETS

The Veteran's Department has decided that disabled vets must pay a percentage of their monies which THEY ARE OWED BY LAW to an uninsured community organization who will dole out their money as the Veteran's Department sees fit.

Two years ago, the Veteran's Department would not even approve of a new car purchase for the disabled vet.

They told me that they had to approve EVERY PURCHASE that was over the allowance set for the vets by the Veteran's Department. This allowance was ALWAYS LESS than the monthly amount paid by the Federal Government.

HONESTLY, OUR VETS ARE NOT CHILDREN.

THE GI BILL

My Vietnam vet husband and I put me through law school on student loans and the GI Bill. (He was getting his degree in anthropology.)

This powerful tool to educate returning soldiers has always made life better for the returning soldiers.

Did you know that the Bush Administration sent the Minnesota National Guard back ONE DAY before they would qualify for the GI Bill?

The San Jose Mercury News said that they did this as a matter of policy, and that it had happened to many National Guard units.

PRESIDENT OBAMA, PLEASE FIX THIS. By fixing, I mean that you should change the rules so the National Guard units qualify from their past service.

Lets get these men and women into college!

BULLIES

The Realtors in San Mateo County believe that it is legal to enter an occupied apartment, rented by a person who is hiding from an ex-husband, and photograph the private apartment and then post the photos on the internet in order to sell the apartment building.

THIS IS ILLEGAL, even if the tenant is NOT an abuse victim. Let me tell you why. 

ALL citizens of the United States of America have the right to privacy in their own homes. This was decided by the US Supreme Court in the sodomy case out of Alabama, I think.

TENANTS are the persons who control the property they rent. THIS IS VERY ANCIENT BRITISH COMMON LAW, still effective today. Landlords have limited rights to enter a rented apartment in order to INSPECT AND REPAIR ONLY.

MY WAITRESS KNEW MORE landlord tenant law than you stupid yuppies who are allowing this to happen to you.

THE LANDLORDS IN THIS CASE ARE REALLY NICE PEOPLE. They just believe that their agents know the law. Obviously, they are wrong about that.

The real estate company who did this is DOA Property, hereafter known as Dead On Arrival Properties.

The supervising agent I asked to fix the problem is Steve Hicks 650-670-4064. The agent who walked into the home without knocking is Wendy 650-596-1000. I do not know the name of the photographer whom I had to push out of the apartment when he would not leave after I requested that he leave.

HAVE FUN!

KEY ADVICE. When you move into an apartment, change the locks. If your lease does not permit this, wait until the landlord enters without your permission, THEN CHANGE THE LOCKS. This plan requires that you be present during all repairs. Those who live in poor neighborhoods should change their locks RIGHT AWAY upon moving in, no matter WHAT THE LEASE SAYS. 

I will be attempting to set up a company that will provide legal services to people who want to stand up for their rights.

Those of you in Santa Clara County and San Mateo County should be careful about pissing off your landlord. THE COURTS IN THESE COUNTIES DO NOT OBEY THE LAW.

LIBEL AND SLANDER

TRUTH IS AN ABSOLUTE DEFENSE.

I believe that Wells Fargo Bank used unethical collection methods in order to make a good showing on the federal government's stress test.

I am very angry that Wells Fargo Bank did not insist that a borrower pay the legal co-owner of her home even though there was a RECORDED court order regarding her former husband's community property ownership rights in the home. I do not know if my former client got paid, but some of the money he was to be paid for his share in the home was to be paid to me as legal fees.

The $11,000.00 that I am owed is important to me. Because Wells Fargo was willing to rip off both me and my client, I will not be able to go to BayCon for three days like I normally do. SO I AM REALLY ANGRY.

Since there are no laws or regulations or legal ethical requirements stopping me from blogging about my case against Sharon Rodriques, Wells Fargo, and American Title, Inc., I will keep you all posted about my quest for this money. If I can figure out how to post pdf documents, I will convert all the legal filings to pdf and post them for your amusement.

Wells Fargo should know that it is unlikely that Sharon Rodriques will actually pay me the money. When she was ordered to sell the home to pay her former husband his share of the house, she did not even clean the house or empty the garbage when someone came to look at the house.

The attorney for Sharon Rodriques allowed the court to believe that I recorded the Family Court judgment in order to protect my legal fees. Actually I really intended to protect my client, as it was clear that Sharon Rodriques had taken out multiple loans on the home without ever paying her former husband for his share of the home.

Michael Rodriques got into this mess because he is a nice man who allowed his former wife and children to live in the family home while the children were growing up. Unfortunately, this led his former wife to believe that she would not have to pay him for his share.

I still do not know whether my former client got the money the court ordered that he should be paid.

LEGAL ETHICS

As an attorney, I am required to keep the confidences of my client. Sometimes I do not even let my assistant know that I am working on helping someone.

What happens in most courtrooms is PUBLIC. So I can talk all I want about what happened in a courtroom which is not closed to the public. Anything that is said by someone who is NOT my client is not confidential and I can talk about it.

I believe that child custody and visitation cases should be held ALWAYS in closed courtrooms. So I am VERY CAREFUL about what I say about child custody cases, as I would not want to damage a child.

I have a right to free speech, just like the newspapers have a right to publish things like the Pentagon Papers.

LEGAL PROOF

It is easy to prove legally that the HOLOCAUST actually happened. The Germans are excellent record keepers. The original documents of who was gassed, who was used for medical experiments, and who was starved to death, still exist in Holocaust museums around the world. The records are complete down to the number of gold fillings they took out of the teeth of the dead before they burned the bodies.

Jews were the overwhelming majority of the people who were mass murdered in a chillingly efficient manner. However, Gypsies, homosexuals, and Roman Catholics were also murdered. SIX MILLION murders. No wonder some people do not believe it happened. It is too horrible for words.

You can read about the entire concentration camp system in 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.' You will not sleep very well afterwards. Or you can watch 'Judgment at Nuremberg', a great movie about the war crime trials.

BTW, my father only gave me two books to read, 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' and 'Grant Rides South'. He said that 'Grant Rides South' was a great book on how an army operates on its stomach.

Mom gave me a lot of books. Here are my favorites:

The Firm

Hawaii by Mitchner

Exodus by Leon Uris (I have probably misspelled his name.)

Atlas Shrugged

We The Living also by Rand (her best book)

WEDDINGS

If you love someone and are committed to live a life with this person, you should get married.

People in love do not care about the right to share in pensions and Social Security. They care about taking care of the person they love.

If you are NOT MARRIED to someone, YOU ARE LEGALLY NOT A MEMBER OF THAT PERSON'S FAMILY. 

THIS MEANS that you do NOT have the right to visit this person in the hospital unless your lover is awake enough to say he/she wants to see you.

THIS MEANS that you do NOT have the right to claim your lover's body after he/she dies. His/her family can even bar you from attending the funeral.

NICE FAMILIES do not do this to their children's lovers. However, grief is a very strong emotion. Grief can sometimes manifest itself in irrational anger. Angry people can make vindictive decisions.

Some states have domestic partner laws which try to give some of these rights to unmarried people.

WHEELCHAIR LIFT UPDATE

My lift is STILL not repaired. Pride Mobility, who bought the lift company which made my lift, refuses to sell a $40 receiver end of a long screw without selling the long screw. They want $800.00 for a 4 foot screw and receiver.

My genius mechanic and a genius McGyver type engineer are REALLY ANGRY about the price of these parts. My mechanic says that the part is the equivalent of the screw that operates garage doors.

Now I have to go to an industrial part store to speak with them about an equivalent part so my lift can be repaired. Thanks to Wells Fargo, I do not have the money to purchase the $800.00 part.

I think that wheelchair lift companies feel free to rip off the disabled because Medicare does not cover wheelchair lifts, so the companies charge whatever they want, knowing that most people are so desperate for their lifts to be fixed that they pay whatever the companies ask.

My lift does go up and down, but has to be pulled in and out of the car. This means that I can no longer take my heavy chair that fits into courtrooms, but have to use my light scooter which is 17 years old. (Thank you Medicare for insuring that wheelchairs are reliable.) This old chair cannot go anywhere where I do not have help as it has an intermittent electronics glitch.

Also, the lift does not go up and down if I park on a even slight slope, so I can injure myself getting to court on time. (I am unable to be late to court. Usually I arrive a half hour ahead of time, even though I know my case will be the last heard, because it will take a lot of court time.)

UPDATE ON MY HEALTH

I am now again able to conduct difficult negotiations. I have been in a lot of pain ever since I had to walk into court when my wheelchair lift broke.

I try to NEVER do anything that puts me in that much pain.

Being in almost overwhelming pain makes a person VERY grumbly. It is easy to lose ones temper. When I lose my temper I usually tell the exact truth. Doing this is ALMOST NEVER a good idea. For instance, telling someone that you dislike them and hope never to see them again, usually insures that you are unable to ever speak with them again.

It also make it hard to hide that you think someone is an idiot.

BTW, the Respondent in one of my cases called me, "A senile old woman." I laughed, but my friend got really mad when she read his email.

Did you know that emails kept correctly are admissible in court?

ANOTHER WELLS FARGO RIP OFF

WELLS FARGO BANK has seized all of the bank accounts of a businessman in order to pay off his WELLS FARGO CREDIT CARD.

NO PERSON OR ORGANIZATION is allowed to seize bank accounts without a court order. (There is a loophole for income tax collectors, but they ALWAYS send at least one registered letter of warning.)

WELLS FARGO is also ignoring any liens on a property when loaning on a property. The lien I know they ignored was there to protect a person who was not on title, but was a co-owner of the home under community property court orders.

IF YOU HAVE A WELLS FARGO CREDIT CARD, you should IMMEDIATELY remove all your monies out of WELLS FARGO bank and from any bank owned by WELLS FARGO.

THIS IS HAPPENING because the Obama administration decided that the Federal Government would be the only government that is allowed to enforce the laws regarding credit card companies. This mean the Federal Trade Commission is now in sole charge of credit card fraud and illegal credit collection practices. The FTC is understaffed and has NEVER been eager to enforce the law regarding collection practices. I know, because Citibank ignored collection regulations and the FTC did NOTHING.

The government needs to let the states help enforce the rules that credit card companies are supposed to obey. The Attorney Generals of the larger states were VERY EFFECTIVE in enforcing fair credit collection practices.

PLEASE SEND THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN. SEND IT TO AS MANY senators and representatives AS YOU CAN. Maybe we can stop this.

WELLS FARGO will almost certainly refuse to return the monies they have illegally taken. The bankruptcy courts are totally jammed with new cases. So WELLS FARGO correctly believes that the only way they can be punished is by a lawsuit that they can fight so it takes five years to collect the monies.

Pamela E. Smith

Attorney at Law

Campbell, CA

www.LawandLaws.com

www.LawandLaws.blogspot.com

HOW TO GET A WHEELCHAIR LIFT

For over 20 years, General Motors has had a program where they will modify a vehicle for a disabled person. They will change steering wheels, brake pedals, put in hand speed controls, and put in lifts. Then they bundle the cost into the car loan.

If you have money and credit, this is your best solutions to your problem of taking the wheelchair out of the house so you can shop.