Leonard Nimoy

[MorkandMindy]

Mork .. I don't think I fully understand what your saying by you lost touch with everything in your move. But your a smart guy and I know you'll get it figured out.

Many thanks day hiker, I think I've sussed it. Britain is run by the banks and having only one corporate owner in charge of the country both main political parties are indistinguishable. They have a third party for variety which is also indistinguishable from the other two.

The US has a number of different corporate owners: banks, oil companies, weapons makers, pharmaceuticals, and big business, so it is up to a President to choose backers who will give him enough money and media support to win an election and keep in power. Most of those corporate interests are fairly similar so there isn't a lot of change after an election, but there is some and therefore some point in voting.

So moving from UK to US was really a trade off between being homeless there and the small risk of getting shot or knifed, so I'm very happy with the choice I've made.


The part where I got confused was as I discovered the high rate of violence here and started to wonder if coming here was a good idea. The first event was that my sister no longer has her handyman to do things because he was shot dead outside his house 6 months ago. A gun is not much good as a defensive weapon, full body armour is defensive, and then you could add a gun.

Then three weeks ago I was invited to dinner at one relative's house because another relative and her children hadn't been able to make it so there were some spare places. The person who couldn't make it had a good excuse because she was with the police with her children giving a witness account of a murder. She had been waiting in her car when an angry woman knifed a man she claimed had been 'bugging her'. That happened just next to the person who was waiting's car but none of the mess got on the car. I don't read papers or watch the news so I only know about killings from my relatives but apparently they are so common they usually don't get reported anyway. There is no question the crime rate here is far higher and it sometimes seems like the dystopia in Back To the Future part 2,

but I feel there is a lot of hope. For one thing the rising use of credit and debit cards means there is less and less cash carried and stored so the crime rate should go down a lot.


Getting back to the thread, I'm less confused now so becoming more focused on my vocation and have written a few computer programs in the last few days; one my nephew's children like as pushing various buttons lead to 'making' various colored cars and there are counters so addition and subtraction can be done, and I'm doing one now to simulate a type of computer system.

Leonard Nimoy knew his vocation and was amazingly productive in acting, singing, directing, the author of Star Trek IV and VI, and got along well with so many people.

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!!