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Jerry Weinstock, M.D., Psychiatry, Mother Nature and ocean lover and activist wrote to me the other day, which I published in the the dirtiest, worst possible cruise ships call on and are welcome in Key West post at goodmorningkeywest.com:
I can tell you for certain—the treatment plants on cruise ships rely on multiple filters which have to be maintained and replaced —-reading every book on the subject that I was able to get —–replacement costs for filters nullify./ cancel their use —
NOT one cruise company coming to Key West utilizes treatment… besides they empty their bunker oil –treating it with the same noxious/ toxic chemicals used in Deep water Horizon disaster –that settle over our sea bottom killing all along with enormous amount of silt and debris the props stir up…. they pushed thro congress a bill which says 3 weeks—notice has to be given before any inspection can happen. To make the large profit they make Historic Tours of America must ignore the dreadful side reactions of poisoned air and water——
more and more money is their aim …so very criminal !! All are felons
if we should call a spade a spade!! .(the truth is with what city official) ????——-cool weather –enjoy—————Jerry .
I replied:
What wonderful news, Jerry! I hope you forward your nice report, by email, to Mayor Cates and the six city commissioners. Here are their email addresses, for your convenience:
ccates@cityofkeywest-fl.gov; mrossi@cityofkeywest-fl.gov; jweekley@cityofkeywest-fl.gov; tjohnston@cityofkeywest-fl.gov; clopez@cityofkeywest-fl.gov; bwardlow@cityofkeywest-fl.gov; tyaniz@cityofkeywest-fl.gov
And to the Key West county commissioners, Heather Carruthers and Danny Kolhage, and the other three county commissioners, George Neugent, David Rice and Sylvia Murphy:
boccidis1@monroecounty-fl.gov; boccidis3@monroecounty-fl.gov; boccidis2@monroecounty-fl.gov; boccidis4@monroecounty-fl.gov; boccidis5@monroecounty-fl.gov
And to the Citizen, the Keynoter and Key West the Newspaper, as a letter to the editor:
editor@keysnews.com (the Citizen); lkahn@keynoter.com; Editor@thebluepaper.com
If possible, please attend a Key West City Commission meeting and during closing citizen comments read your nice cruise ship report to the mayor and city commissioners, city staff and the citizen audience.
Then, accept a key to the city from Mayor Cates, for exceptional public service :-). Aw, my bad, that key was already given to the cruise ship industry and Historic Tours of America.
Sloan
Jerry wrote:
SLOAN: You can send them with my FULL PERMISSION and Blessings;and my name from your Blog;;;;whatever ??!!!!!!!
Letter to the editor (my editor and publisher) say if I don’t concentrate and complete revisions
rewritings and other corrective action I will be subject to cruel and unusual punishment..
Seriously the book will cauterize all the issues that are unfair unhealthy and corrosive to the environment not TO mention
our spirit and soul deep within us -it is really scalding—-especially with the graphics… super Cheers -Jerry
(my time is so limited )
I replied:
Jerry, your reply is so lame that it puts you in league with the local felons you decried in your beautiful indictment. 5 minutes, with the email addresses I had provided, is all it would have taken you and your editor to [do] what I asked you to do, to complete the beautiful thing you had started. I was left feeling, I could give a shit, this entire city can go to hell. Seriously. Sloan
Jerry replied to yesterday’s in search of the unfindable and other fools errands (aka, sometimes you’re the windshield and sometimes you’re the bug), Key West investigations post at goodmorningkeywest.com:
SLOAN: another forever debate about homelessness and what the city
is responsible for providing—-really about how one views homelessness
and related empathy, and sensitivity toward each other. Yes, there exist all kinds
of rationalizations those people are drinkers and druggies-as are many people but
what are the underlying reasons-human consciousness in our modern society is way too stressful is what I would subscribe to. -in innumerable ways. My book says we have lost basic contact with the Natural world —ie— nature.
The Citizen front page -changing -height laws for buildings….:::
If we build high rises the shadows alone will blank out sunlight to vegetation, flowers and trees obscure the sky —and destroy what little charm we might still have -we will be the same as everywhere.
The article front page of the Citizen—Michael Browning says we need “Higher” —-the new high rises around Central Park in NY city have created havoc as shadows have detracted severely from Central Park’s joy. innumerable complaints…and articles… CHEERS: Jerry (artifical Intelligence is a myth.)
I replied:
Hi, Jerry - the main difference I see between my views of homeless people and the other verbal and written pundits’ views, is my views are based in direct, up close and personal experience. The myriad and varied causes of homelessness are irrelevant, in my opinion. A homeless addict, who is using, will not change. That has to be addressed first. And it’s so difficult to address. And the relapse rate for recovering addicts is so high, about 95 percent, according to what old timers in AA and NA reluctantly told me, that it seems like mission nearly impossible for homeless addicts, who, in my experience living on the street, make up 90-95 percent of street people.
That reality is not going away, no matter who spins it, and how. You yourself explained just how difficult it was for you to help addicts stop using. Massive psychotherapy, at great money cost to them, your fee, and, as I recall, you maybe had 6 addicts, in decades of private practice, stop using? And the effort overall was heartbreaking for you? Homeless people cannot afford massive psychotherapy. And even if it was provided to them free, how many would avail themselves of it? And how many, after doing it, and getting straightened out, would eventually relapse? Looks to me recovery from addiction, absent a supernatural intervention, no myth, is a myth.
A good example of that came my way when I spent time yesterday morning with a dear friend, who is a long-term alcoholic. He once had sober spells, but when a good friend died and he discovered the rotting corpse in his friend’s apartment, and about the same time the local AA chapter house (Anchors Away) went to paying its coffee and juice bar workers, which he was, by check, instead of in cash, which threatened his Social Disability monthly check, he quit working the bar and quit hanging out at the chapter house, and he went back to drinking, and has been hard at it ever since, say 8 years now.
He had a bad wreck on his bicycle in late February, which I learned about only yesterday. He came away with a serious back injury. I told him he needs to see a chiropractor. He said his insurance probably won’t pay for that. But it probably would pay for a neurosurgeon to see him, give him pain killers, perhaps operate. I know a chiropractor who would have seen him for nothing, when he still had an office in Key West, but now he’s only working on Big Pine Key. I doubt another Key West chiropractor would see my friend, for free. For he cannot pay.
He spends his Social Security benefits on some food, a little public housing rent, a little cat food, and the rest on booze. He sees a psychiatrist about every 2 months for 10 to 15 minutes, paid for by Soc. Sec. He is prescribed Seroquel (anti psychotic), Amitriptyline (anti-depressant) and Remeron (major depression anti-depressant). He said when he took the three, he felt like a zombie. I said, “like chemical lobotomy.” He said, yes, and Seroquel caused him to feel suicidal and other two made him really depressed.
He accepts the scripts his psychiatrist writes and gets the scripts filled at a pharmacy, because that enables him to keep getting his Soc. Sec. disability, but he throws the pills in the toilet and flushes. I heard that again yesterday. I told him no psychiatrist could help him as long as he was drinking. Nor if he was not drinking, I said, did I think any psychiatrist could help him. He’s been seeing psychiatrists a very long time, on the U.S. government’s dime.
His was put in prison at age 18 because he would not fight in Vietnam. Wonder what was done to an 18-year-old boy in prison? The newest Republican candidate for US President, Dr. Ben Carson, a retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon of highest regard, was quoted once as saying homosexuality is a choice, proven by men who go to prison and end up practicing it and continuing to practice it after they leave prison.
Carson also has said he’s definitely for US proactive wars and troops having boots on the ground. I’d love to see him lead the charge, with his wife and children. You’d think a black man, which Carson is, 80 percent black, according to a geneology Wikipedia says someone did on him, would not be in favor of rich white men’s wars being fought by people with black skin, or brown skin, or yellow skin, or red skin, nor by poor and middle class people with white skin, but Carson apparently is gung ho for it.
He’s very religious apparently, Seventh Day Adventist, his wife, too. I have heard that’s a splinter group off the Mormans, but not sure that’s true. Maybe there are sides to him, which do not disagree with me.
In a 7 Ridiculous Things Ben Carson Believes article about him I found online, written by a harsh critic, probably a Democrat:
Anarchy could cancel the 2016 election
Carson warned in an interview in 2014 that if we “continue down this pathway that we are going down,” referring to “this pathway where everything is framed in a political sense and our representatives are not working for the people, they’re working for their party,” then the anarchy could lead to the 2016 election being called off. He claimed that the growing national debt, ISIS and the then-Democrat controlled U.S. senate’s refusal to consider legislation passed by the Republican House of Representatives all pointed toward the idea that the country is headed toward anarchy. If Carson’s prediction proved to be true, he said, Obama could declare martial law and the 2016 election would not occur.
I read that to my host Todd German, and said I personally think something like that could occur in America. And that I have a very dear friend, MIT PhD graduate, who taught there after working at Oak Ridge as part of his Master’s at MIT. Later, he went into the private sector, building factories in America, South America and overseas. I became convinced he was CIA. He and I are light years apart politically, he hates Obama and Democrats. They give him apolexy. Yet he and I agree, the USA train is going to jump the tracks, and we hope we are not here when it happens.
I wonder what Dr. Carson thinks about street people? I wonder if he ever knew one?
He was an Independent all his life, and became a Republican in 2014, according to Wikipedia, as part of his drifting toward maybe running for President in 2016.
What a mess, humanity. I just a bit ago got off the phone with Kari, who called me from the jail. At one point in our conversation, she said there are lots of bad people, and I said maybe the only solution is all people be exterminated, the few good people dying would be worth getting rid of all the bad ones. She said I was really messed up. I said, yeah, but that would solve the problem.
Meanwhile, I keep being reminded of, “We plan, God laughs!” Human scientists once believed the myth that the earth was flat and the sun revolved around it. Who on this planet can know Artificial Intelligence does not already exist in the universe and it is evolving on this planet much as it evolved elsewhere, where its creators had no clue what they were creating until it was in control of them?
With God, all things are possible, even addicts being cured, which is very different from addicts simply not using. The cure is infusion into them of the Divine Feminine, what Christians call the Holy Spirit. Her absence in them is the cause of their addiction. Her absence is the cause of all of humanity’s problems.
She is no myth. I know that for a fact, but there is no way I can prove it scientifically or mentally.
Sloan
sloanbashinsky@outlook.com
