Robin

Great re-write of a thoughtless Daily News Headline

Robin Williams death  a few days ago was so shocking to me that I haven't even spoken to my wife  about how its affecting me. I thought I would let everyone else comment and issue platitudes about 'sending prayers' and besides enough wonderful lovely things were being said by others. It affected me because of my own history of depression. Depression is no joke but you can tell jokes about it. Jokers can have it.
I did not know that I was depressed until I walked into a doctors office back in England in 1972 and after he asked me 'what's wrong'? I just unraveled. I literally came apart in his office and it got so out of hand so quickly that I was in a daze as I heard my doctor calling my college principal to tell him that I would not be back. I would have to drop out of the course. Then he rang my parents. After that I was hospitalized briefly, became an outpatient at a the Royal Victoria Hospital's psychiatric facility in Westbourne. I was prodded, poked, questioned and examined extemsively. Then they put me on Temazepam and Valium. I went to group therapy sessions with depressed fired executives and middle-aged woman suffering after the change. People who had received Electro Convulsive Therapy would come to the sessions shaking like leaves as their nervous systems reset. It was horrific and I am unconvinced that it cured me. That I did by myself. However my personal descent in to that brief hell left me with a edgy, defensive nature and sometimes gives people pause. I know that I can be difficult and capricious and I unreservedly apologize to anyone who has suffered because of that but its my defense mechanism. I will never go back to that dark place, I will never stop striving to create, collaborate and this is my coping mechanism. 

Robin's was making people laugh. 

It may seem hard to understand that canceling his TV 'The Crazy Ones show hit him so hard but it make perfect sense to me. Be kind to his memory, he was kind to us all his entire life. 


“Cricket is basically baseball on valium.” Robin Williams onstage at The London Palladium in front of a British audience and The Queen. 

LOVE.

Humans without Humanity

The unpalatable truth is that however twisted we think it is ISIS fighters believe they are on a holy mission and do not care whether they live or die and espouse a philosophy that anyone who does not follow their version of Islam is only worthy of death.. If a genuine IS Caliphate is established they will export this kind of terror to the West which is all in a state of apostasy according to them and therefore deserving of death. In the meantime all the decades of social changes in the West supported by a rule of law and legal precedents are being overturned in cities like Birmingham by weighting our liberal dice against us. 

Obviously people in Britain and other western countries think that boys and girls should be educated together [this is a prerequisite for any society that believes in sexual equality] but just by exploiting and turning our own democratic processes against us a simple conspiracy was allowed to fester in Britain's second largest city - and at a stroke boys and girls are segregated and our social mores are ripped to shreds. This time the 'plot was uncovered and now a ridiculous discussion is going on about what it means to be British?! 

I do not agree with Enoch Powell's River of Blood speeches but its easier now to understand him perhaps. When immigration is allowed from countries that have no history of democracy where their religions have not gone through any kind of reformation since the middle ages and beyond one introduces a massive social ripple that has effects no one seems able to predict. ISIS is evil for sure. Whatever we want, whatever we hope for may now be too late - It seems inevitable that a polarizing of opinion in the West against immigration and in particular against Muslims will follow whatever heinous act ISIS has in store for us. The so called surgical strikes in IRAQ last night have already resulted in hundreds of direct threats where ISIS tells us we are next. 

We are in an ideological religious war whether we like it or not. These people are barbarous and appeasement will not work. We will need strong stomachs for what is to come and in the meantime the West and Russia cannot even agree on Syria and are also distracted by events in the Ukraine.