Trying to Improve my Situation

As you will see in the description below, I am really needing to move out of the apartment I moved into a year-and-a-half ago. At the time, it was a blessing for which I was very thankful. I am still grateful that I have had a roof over my head. But, I had no way of knowing what the management company was like nor did I realize they were going to go through managers like crazy. Our SIXTH manager just quit, and we are moving on to number seven. 

My regular readers will recall the problems I had in late 2018 because they went two months without a manager. This apartment complex is very small. There is no real parking lot, just an area in front of the office with about ten parking spaces. In order to enter, you must go through a LOCKED security gate. At that time, our mail was given to the office which then sorted the mail and put it in wooden cubicles with our apartment numbers on them. If no one was in the office, no one got any mail.

Since then, they put in actual mailboxes...INSIDE THE LOCKED GATE. So, when no one is in the office, we STILL cannot get our mail because the Postal Service does not have a key to get in. Neither does UPS, nor FedEx, etc. (Please check my previous posts for more information about the problems tenants have had.) 

The situation is untenable. The good news is, I found a place right across the street that would be a perfect place to move. The bad news is, with my fixed income I will not be able to move any time soon and will be forced to renew my lease unless something happens to change my financial situation.

Which is where the following link comes in. Please share it with anyone you think might like to help. Thank you very much.

http://www.gofundme.com/f/d28jd3-a-better-home

#LasVegas Homeless Hit the Jackpot

Hello, everyone!

This will be a brief post; I am buried in study materials to make my religious conversion complete, which is why I have rarely posted in this past year.

I just have to CONGRATULATE all of the HOMELESS in Las Vegas, Nevada! YOU HAVE WON!

Seriously. My readers will recall I was homeless until about a year-and-a-half ago. The legislature has just passed a law, effective January 1, that makes it a misdemeanor to sleep on the streets. KA-CHING! The "penalty" is six months in jail and a $1,000 fine (good luck collecting that shit!) So, on New Years' Day, grab your blanket/tent/whatever and park in front of the #LasVegas Police Department! They will bring you inside, assign you a bed and give you the first of many meals courtesy of the citizens of Las Vegas. 

Of course, I think they are going to need to build a couple of new jails....

And it gets better for those who are mentally ill and/or addicts, because the public defender's office is going to make sure you are placed in a mental health facility where the food is undoubtedly better than the jail house stuff. Of course, Las Vegas is going to have to build some more mental health facilities, too.

SERIOUSLY. I think this is great! However, there is one little drawback that people are going to start complaining about: HOUSING THOUSANDS OF NON-CRIMINALS AND BUILDING JAILS AND MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES WILL NOT BE CHEAP, so get out your wallets, Tax Payers! (I bet you wish you had just given the guy on the corner $1, huh?)

Slum Lord Advanced Management Group, Las Vegas

These people do not give a flying fuck about their tenants. My sewage backed up again a couple of weeks ago. After stringing me along all of this time, they finally notified me that there is nothing wrong with my plumbing. Apparently it is normal to have feces back up into your bathtub!

Do not EVER rent from these people. The only thing they give a fuck about is protecting their Facebook page from negative comments and policing your language (the "f" word is anathema to them).

I am actually LOOKING FORWARD TO the next time the septic backs up. I AM GOING TO LEAVE IT THAT WAY. I will go to a motel and the sewage can flood this apartment, overflow into the apartment next door, and maybe after they suffer permanent structural damage they will GET OFF THEIR ASSES AND TAKE CARE OF THE FUCKING PROBLEM!!!

For the history of this insane problem:

http://ladonnarae1961.blogspot.com/2019/02/slum-lords-in-las-vegas-nevada.html

Slum Lords in Las Vegas, Nevada

I apologize for the long absence, but I have not felt compelled to write anything until now. My readers will recall that I finally secured housing last June, and for a while things were wonderful. I guess you can call it the "honeymoon period". However, right before the holidays, things went south. When I first moved in, there was a female manager here who seemed to be nice enough. Then she disappeared, and a man took her place who also seemed to be nice enough, at first. Until he blamed me for something I did not do, and actually had the nerve to put a warning letter in my file. Until my septic backed up and, while the maintenance man admitted the plumbing problem was somewhere down the line away from my apartment, he simply snaked it until the toilet flushed and went on his way. That was about four months ago or so.

Last Friday, all hell broke loose. As I posted to the management company's Facebook page,

"HOW ABOUT THIS? My plumbing backed up Friday afternoon. Maintenance could not snake it, so a plumber came out. He tried to snake it but said the blockage was somewhere down the pipe away from the apartment and said he would come back Saturday with some other equipment to try and clear it out. I went to sleep. My neighbor woke me up at FOUR THIRTY IN THE MORNING pounding on my door. I could not hear what she was saying, so I jumped out of bed ready to cuss her out...AND LANDED IN WATER!!! THE. ENTIRE. APARTMENT. WAS. UNDER. WATER! The reason my neighbor was there is because it had overflowed into ANOTHER apartment!!! We managed to get the water up, and Ivy (manager) arranged for the plumber to arrive around 11:30, which he did. After putting a camera into the pipe, he showed me where tree roots have grown into the pipe and that obviously this was going to be a major job for which approval was needed. He told me to keep the water in the bathroom off except for occasionally flushing the toilet. He said I MIGHT be able to take a quick, two-minute shower, but that there is no guarantee it would not close back up and flood the apartment again. Fast forward to today...NO ONE CAME. Apparently management is worried about bids. FUCK the health code violations! I guess you people are independently wealthy and a few fines are no big deal for you. I have been MORE than patient. MORE than patient. MORE. THAN. PATIENT. TOMORROW, I call the health department and HUD so they can freeze payment to you until such time as you decide to LIVE UP TO YOUR END OF THE FUCKING LEASE!!!!!"

The explanation (if we can call it that) is the plumber did not send the video and work order on Saturday, but rather just before noon Monday. Then I find out that the plumber has to submit an estimate which has to be approved but only after whatever hoops get jumped through....

EXCUSE ME, BUT I CANNOT SHOWER. I CAN ONLY FLUSH MY TOILET A HANDFUL OF TIMES, AND I HAVE TO SLEEP WITH MY VALUABLES ON MY BED IN CASE I HAVE ANOTHER FLOOD! When I mentioned the damages I have incurred already, I was told to talk to my insurance company. APPARENTLY ADVANCED MANAGEMENT GROUP THINKS I HAVE $250 LYING AROUND TO PAY FOR DAMAGES THEY CAUSED!!!

Where in my lease does it say that, if the apartment becomes unsafe, I must wait while everyone goes through a bidding war and figures out what, if anything, they deign to do????????????????????????????????????????????????

Maybe I should sit around and make them wait until I figure out if I want to pay them rent next month?!

BOTTOM LINE: NEVER SHOULD ANYONE EVER lease an apartment whose management is "Advanced Management Group".

Meanwhile, maybe someone would be willing to take me to a truck stop and pay for me to take a shower, since these people clearly do not give a flying fuck?

Thanksgiving: A Lesson in Gratitude

I found myself becoming irritated yesterday as I watched people I know on social media talking about the various plans they had for today. My irritation grew this morning as I realized how little I have of the traditional holiday fare. 

One of the things that is unique to Judaism is that Jews pray after they eat. The reasoning is that it is easy to be grateful when one is hungry, but once sated it is even easier to forget from whence it came. After I finished breakfast this morning I did my usual post-meal prayer and, while searching for other things for which I should express gratitude, I realized how ungrateful I was being.

How soon we forget. Just six months ago I was homeless and I had been homeless for four years. There are no holidays on the street, except that is the one time of the year people are generous and give the homeless things they lack the rest of the year, one of those things being food. I remember being grateful and annoyed at the same time that people were showering me with clothing, food, and cash for a couple of weeks at the end of the year while forgetting the homeless even exist the rest of the year. I always tried to focus on the gifts I was receiving instead of dwelling on my annoyance, but I am human. 

But, right when I had resigned myself to being in this state for the rest of my life, at long last the Veteran's Administration managed to get me off the streets. I now have a studio apartment, a small wardrobe, food in the cabinets and refrigerator, and a door I can lock and enjoy quiet solitude, emphasis on "quiet". I rarely emerged from my home during the summer, loving the fact that I did not have to interact with another living being unless I wanted to do so.

What, then, was my complaint? Hearing other people's plans reminded me of the "good old days" when I had a real life with family and friends. On every special occasion, I cooked and/or baked whatever the particular holiday required. I enjoyed playing hostess and having the opportunity to show off my culinary skills. Frankly, I should be at a point in my life where I am grateful not to have all of that work to do!

But, as I prepare to cook my chicken dinner for Thanksgiving, those same memories point out the stark contrast between those days and this day. Ordinarily I would be serving turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, a green vegetable of some kind (maybe in a casserole), salad, homemade salad dressing, dinner rolls from scratch, homemade whole berry cranberry sauce, and cans of jellied cranberry sauce for people like myself who do not care for the actual berry. We would have the usual range of things to drink, with the additions of wine and egg nog.

Instead, I am baking chicken leg quarters (because all of the turkeys at the store were huge and cost a minimum of $22!), making Stove Top stuffing, and canned cranberry sauce. Quite a step down, right? Except when I recall where I was this time last year, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before. Then I realize I get to cook everything to my liking and serve it hot when I am ready to eat it. I may not have much, but I have what I need with periodic treats the L-rd sees fit to give me.

So, I apologize for my ingratitude and embrace my Creator for providing me with this new life and for enabling me to enjoy today with a renewed sense of thankfulness. May I never forget where I have been nor the people who are still out there. May He give them comfort and bless them the way He has me.

Happy Thanksgiving

#JamalKhashoggi

I was holding out for the information I requested from the State Department before writing another article so as to keep the series uninterrupted, but this situation is too important for me not to post my thoughts.  I will post a link to my Twitter Moment on this subject at the bottom of this article so readers can see where I got the information I will be recounting.

On October 2nd, Jamal Khashoggi was seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. A few hours later, we were told he was missing. Initial reports from Al Jazeera said Khashoggi had been seen leaving the consulate twenty minutes after he entered. This information has since been tossed aside. The next day, we received very disturbing information that the Saudis had flown fifteen "diplomats" to Turkey, that Khashoggi had been tortured, killed, and dismembered, and that these "diplomats" most likely removed the body parts in diplomatic pouches that are not subject to being searched. The only evidence we were given was a very brief video clip of Khashoggi entering the consulate.

Very few people questioned this narrative. In fact, it was readily adopted and calls to hold Crown Prince MBS to account for this alleged butchery soon became shrill. These calls reached fever pitch when Turkey claimed to have audio and video recordings proving their claim as to Khashoggi's fate.

I was suspicious of the story from the start. It made no sense to me whatsoever, and evidence began to filter in that supported my apprehension. Supposedly Khashoggi was engaged to a woman who just happened to be Turkish, and photographs began to emerge of the "couple". Fortunately, there are a lot of sleuths on Twitter, and they went to work. 

The first thing we learned was that Khaled Saffuri, the man who held the press conference making the outlandish claims as to Khashoggi's fate, has ties to Al Qaeda and Islamic Jihad (again, refer to the link below). Then someone analyzed one of the photographs of the couple and concluded it had been Photoshopped. At the same time, someone purporting to be a Syrian journalist began circulating the story that the Lebanese Prime Minister, Hariri, had been kidnapped last year by Riyadh (@BBassem7). We got into a heated argument because I remembered the incident in question. Hariri had resigned his post, on the air, and gone to Riyadh out of desperation because his government is heavily infiltrated by Hezbollah. I began to suspect this was an assault on Saudi Arabia by Turkey and Iran.

Then a reporter from the United Arab Emirates (@HSajwanization) posted astonishing information about Jamal Khashoggi's Twitter account (I had not even thought to look and see if Khashoggi had a Twitter account; my bad!) While the journalist was still missing, his Twitter account had been altered, with posts being deleted and following/unfollowing people! That is somewhat difficult to do if you are in fifteen pieces somewhere in the Sahara desert, and I cannot imagine why his captors would have demanded his Twitter password so they could screw around with his stats!

Now, I have no idea what has happened. My point is, neither does anyone else, and I am disturbed at how readily people are believing the narrative out of Ankara, practically demanding MBS' head on a platter with ZERO evidence to support Erdogan's claim. It is my hope that President Trump and Secretary Pompeo are treading very cautiously and are not jumping on the bandwagon like the media and the general public are doing. Obviously, we should watch this story very closely, but we must exercise our critical thinking skills and not jump to conclusions because the MSM wants us to do so. 

One other thing. It is possible the reason Erdogan released Pastor Brunson was to get in Trump's good graces. Given the impromptu question-and-answer session this morning, it seems the ploy worked. Fortunately, he can always change his mind and I hope that he does so. 

I will keep everyone posted, and will continue with General Flynn's situation as soon as I get my FOIA back from the State Department.

https://twitter.com/i/moments/1021919887071928320

General Flynn vs. Peter Strzok: Mounting Evidence of a Vendetta

What a difference a day makes. The evidence is mounting rapidly that this was, indeed, a hit job on General Flynn. I will let everyone read these first two background articles for themselves so that I can get to the real bombshells:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/28/documents-suggest-possible-coordination-between-cia-fbi-obama-wh-and-dem-officials-early-in-trump-russia-probe-investigators.html

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/general-flynns-family-reacts-new-bombshell-report-revealing-peter-strzok-personal-relationship-judge-involved-flynn-case/

This next article reveals information that, were I in military intelligence, I just might want to find out what was going on:

http://www.investmentwatchblog.com/who-is-peter-strzok-very-important-and-revealing-family-connections-to-obama-check-it-out/

Skipping past Peter Strzok's family history, the final paragraph brings Uranium One into the picture. Readers will recall from yesterday's article that Strzok Sr., as well as Mark Strzok, both have backgrounds in nuclear activity. The George Webb video (which was also in one of yesterday's links) at the bottom tells a very frightening story of uranium being transferred from Russia to the United States beginning back in 1993. As I listened, I kept asking why on earth we were buying uranium from Russia when we appear to have just turned around and sold it back twenty years later! But when I thought about it for a while, something occurred to me. If this uranium was being brought here, not just to help the Navy but as cover for a nefarious enrichment program, the plan may have been to ship it to Iran. However, the plan did not come to fruition before the administration changed, and with the "War on Terror" starting, and the administration's strong desire to strike Iran, it was temporarily scuttled. Why would this scenario even cross my mind? Because when the opportunity presented itself, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED:

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/358339-uranium-one-deal-led-to-some-exports-to-europe-memos-show

Rumors have swirled around that deal ever since it was made, and since I am not a nuclear expert I do not want to get very far afield. But rumor has it some of the uranium is "missing", and rumor has it the "missing" uranium went to Iran. [NOTE: The Hill article says "Asia"; for those who do not know Iran is in Western Asia (not the Middle East, as I am certain many people believe).] Can I prove it? Of course not. But we are not here to play military intelligence officers. We are here to figure out what Peter Strzok's problem is, so let us continue.

The following article forced me to take a long break to try and calm down:

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/exposed-peter-strzok-grew-up-in-iran-worked-as-obama-and-brennans-envoy-to-iranian-regime/

"EXPOSED: Peter Strzok...Worked as Obama and Brennan's Envoy to Iranian Regime"

Let that sink in. 

I urge my readers to study every single word of that article, but I want to draw your attention to the dates it covers on this subject. 2011 through 2015. Who was Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency for most of that time?

General Flynn.

Do you think he might have been slightly interested in what was happening in Iran? 

YOU BET!

But, we are not quite done. It is time for the piece de resistance. We have been discussing Peter Strzok for a while now, and John Brennan's name keeps rearing its ugly head. But now we add another name:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-11/brennan-strzok-and-kerry-allegedly-set-espionage-traps-trump-team-hunt-fbi-mole

JOHN. FUCKING. KERRY.

If you are like me, you are now wishing you could just move into a padded room somewhere, safe from the world, with plenty of medication to keep you looped. So, I will allow you to read that article on your own; it has some excellent information on the spy infiltration of the Trump campaign. But, we are getting there, readers. Again, if anyone has anything to add, please comment below or reach me on Twitter at @PizzaGateLibya.

To Be Continued