Am I Just Crazy or Has The World Gone MAD?

The body is decomposed so badly that the forensic evidence has been basically destroyed when it comes to knowing how little Caylee was killed.

From what little I hear from the endless odds and ends, mostly odd ends, of this case, as I go from one room to the next trying to avoid listening to all the reasons why or how Caylee died, I think the world has gone mad again. 

Caylee's mother did not report her own missing child for over a month leaving no existing forensic evidence to determine the cause of death. If my child who needs my attention 24/7 comes up missing, I would be screaming down the street.
There are parents who don't even kill their kids who go to jail for child endangerment.
The Law should either throw Caylee's mother into jail without a trial; or send her into a psyche ward and stop wasting taxpayer money.  

What's with our society that we go through every little microscopic detail of how Caylee might have been killed or who killed her when there sits her mother who just ignored the fact that she even had a kid for a month; while the evidence was deteriorating in the swamp; whether she knew it or not. 

How much parental neglect evidence does the court need to send her to jail? 

Holy Smokes!!!  Someone shoot me before I go insane TOO.

Sex and Politics

These videos and websites expose the problem that too much male libido or testosterone in one room or one country can destroy the success of a company or a country. 

Chinese tried to control the sexes of their country by killing the baby girls because they felt girls were of less value to them. Obviously, science was not very high on their list of priorities. 
Not until, the wifeless men started kidnapping neighboring town women because they couldn't find any women to marry, did it dawn on them that there was a problem. It only took 18 years.   
Who's bright idea was it to eliminate women?
I can't imagine a man wanting less women around; even his penis would object. 
The truth be told: I think history will show that most men are threatened by women, especially and most definitely, in leadership roles.  
Could it be that the first woman in a man's life, his mother, who controlled him from birth, created that initial fear?  Hey! Let's blame Mom, in a good way. 
Unconditional love that will make any little boy give in to her love. The fear of succumbing; there is a history of men behaving badly; but not as badly as Eve, if you believe everything you read in the Bible. 

But I digress...
In Rwanda, Africa, after the genocide took place, the people have added more women to their government; proving that equality of the sexes made the difference in their country's successes.
"This was a broken society after the genocide," said Aloisea Inyumba, Kagame's former gender and social affairs minister, who was also a prominent official in his ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front when it was still a rebel group fighting the country's genocidal government. "We made a decision that if Rwanda is going to survive, we have to have a change of heart as a society. Equality and reconciliation are the only options."
While many African legislatures have adopted quotas reserving seats for female lawmakers, none has done so as ambitiously as Rwanda. The country's overall attitude toward gender puts it at odds with its neighbors.
Just next door, an epidemic of sexual violence has ravaged eastern Congo, where law and order have almost completely broken down. In the run-up to Kenyan elections last year, several female candidates were beaten and threatened with sexual violence. One was murdered. Out of the legislature's 222 lawmakers, 21 are women."
We made a decision that if Rwanda is going to survive, we have to have a change of heart as a society. Equality and reconciliation are the only options."


Sex and Politics video
Maybe that's why God created a man and a woman with separate libidos; if only, to balance the outcome of any given situation.
  In opposition to the Rwanda's laws giving women equality; most Arab countries refuse to give equality to women; thereby victimizing them, to all kinds of physical and mental abuses.
An example of this lack of parity in the Arab world is this horrific video of a Libyan woman being sodomized by Libyan men bringing to light the fabrication of the Arab laws; said to protect Arab women.  The cellphone video of this woman being raped are, typically, disposed of by the government or her family because the woman brings dishonor to herself and her family, if this rape is acknowledged.
Where is the justice? Where is there a change in the law if the crime is ignored and erased?

America doesn't give equality to women either because Americans, including some women, are too afraid of electing a woman as President. To say we haven't had the right woman. How would you know until after the election? 
It should not have come as a surprise that we elected an unqualified half black man as President; instead of the qualified woman candidate.

People seem to forget that black men could vote, at  least 50 years before all women could vote in America which tells you that the color is not the issue, it has always been the lack of parity between the sexes.

And just maybe, the American economy will turn around if more women were involved in solving the problem.

 

Montana Home

Whitefish, Montana: "There's gold in them thar hills": Our home is just right on the lower hills of Big MT.Its no coincidence that Montana is nicknamed the "Treasure State." Our state motto, Oro y Plata  means "gold and silver" in Spanish. As we'll see, gold and silver were responsible for first bringing large numbers of settlers to Montana. The economy and culture those men and women created led to Montana's statehood in 1889. Montana's mining history is full of wild west adventure and intrigue. You could spend weeks exploring that history in the state's numerous ghost towns and museums. 

The house is finished, but not without some tweaks.  The only taboo showing these pictures now is that we are waiting for the loan to go through. Nothing like jinxing myself. 
We are still waiting for our High Point, NC furniture to come.

Our friend showing my husband 'how to correctly split logs.'

Reviewing the 'house control system'  on the TV and staining the stone mantel: work is never done, no matter how smart the house is. 

Retirement??
Once we walked through the house to see visual problems that needed corrected; we discovered other less visible problems. The flow of subcontractors reminded me of crawling cock roaches, swarming all over the house to fix problems; and or, give us a run down of how the mechanical room worked with two water heaters, humidifier, soft water, well-water thermal heating, and the heating pipe system in the basement floor.  We also had a review of the "smart house" features which sounds less smart today than 15 years ago when computer companies were still trying to work out their innovative bugs.
Although, I don't have a mechanical, electrical or mathematical mind, I can follow step by step instructions. Our hot water is on a timer and can be timed to the minute for hot water. I don't know how to explain the two well water tank system.
Since my husband wanted a 'smart home', we are able to use an iPad in California to control our Montana home to some degree; however, it's still a work in progress, just learning how to use it enough to see if there are any problems with the system. The iPad should control the lighting, music, heating and security system which has two live cameras and a water leak alert alarm.   
 We also have a central control panel in the television sets and on a hallway wall by the entry. We can set the temperature of the Montana house before we leave California. Control music in any room. It sounds so easy and it's all in the wiring system. 
By next year this should all be obsolete. What do you think? Steve Jobs is already putting out the icloud.
We added a central vacuum system with some kick open vents under the bathroom and kitchen cabinets that suck the dirt directly into the main vacuum container in the garage.

I don't cook much these days, so I am wondering if I will start now that the kitchen has two Wolf ovens and a stove; if not, I know my daughters will use them. 

I have 2 pull out trash cans by each sink. I should have had a pipeline dug to the town dump. 

Yes, we have to drive our trash to the dump site since we are in the country. But, I can remotely control my house while sitting at the dump. Modern living?  Beaming up my trash, would be nice.

Library: the desks and rug arrived from High Point, NC

Great room adjacent to the hallway and Kitchen

My Orange Tree will go here between the kitchen and the Great room. A drawing I did years ago, fits perfectly; which tells me that some things planned in the past, actually makes it into future. 

The pullout for the juicer
There are two pull up shelves from lower cabinets for the mixer and juicer. They are hidden until I need them. For some reason the Interior Designer said I should not clutter the counters with mixers and juicers, etc.   

Too late. Once you have a family, you can't get away from clutter. I have adjusted the cells in my brain to accommodate for clutter, so I wouldn't commit suicide.

Art Studio: shelves and more shelves elsewhere

Art studio: sink and TV

Basement bar across from the studio: It's empty? Not the refrigerator up stairs where you will find my favorite Montana beer 

Since my art studio is on the ground floor with doors, I do think about Black bears, Grizzlies and Mountain lions coming in to entertain me. Our cabinet guy said a bear tore his garage door off.  

Our first night, lying on the floor, on our air mattress, it was deathly silent in the woods. Then I heard a snorting noise similar to what I had heard from bears on TV. The North side Master bedroom windows are level with the ground since the home backs up against the rock hill. I was too afraid to look out the window knowing I would be eye to eye with whatever it is that is making that sound. Then the sound changed. It sounded higher in pitch like a whining sound. Maybe, it's a mountain lion. I started imagining both creatures prowling around in the distant wooded area, coming closer.  It must have been some hours, lying there listening, not sleeping, before I lifted my head, slightly, so I could hear a little better. As I moved my ear slightly to the left, the sound got louder.  It was coming from the pillow next to mine. I think they call it snoring. 

The architect came by, the one we fired. His plans started out with over 6,000 sq ft which we cut to around 4,000.

Our friend in Montana said that our basement should not be a 'crawl space' because it would be too difficult to manage the mechanical and electrical problems of the house.
 As we blasted, at a greater cost, to make a basement; we added the theatre and gym in that expanded crawl space; thus the extra approximately 600 sq feet. One thing always leads to another.

Theatre:  High Point, NC chairs we had not planned to buy now, but the prices were too low to walk away from; in fact, he fell right to sleep.  

 A military charity auction purchase for the theatre wall:
One of my old time favorite comedy teams, Abbott and Costello in their movie,
 Who's On First?

We felt comfortable in our new home.  We didn't want to leave Montana, although it rained all week. As soon as we boarded the plane, it felt as if, we had never been in Montana, as we were already replacing those Montana memories with the tasks ahead in California. 

Whitefish Lake from the Master bedroom window: when we clear some of those branches; there should be a better view.
Now if we could only live there.