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Rafe Pilgrim, after "a life largely wasted on hard honest work," found himself a jungle of turkey oak, scrub pine and giant palmettos up a dirt road running east of Crystal River, Florida, which neither school busses nor the U.S. Postal Service dare to assay. Sharing a house of his own design with Spanky the cat, Darla a pit bull, and a foundling of mysterious breed named Alfalfa -- all collectively known as Our Gang -- he spends his time "productively: writing poetry, working for peace, and gazing at the sky."
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Central High School of Philadelphia, University of Maryland, Syracuse University, University of Maine, Ursinus College, Air Force Intelligence (Washington D.C., Germany), Ford Motor Company, Philco-Ford Corporation, Eighth Day Gallery, Phi Kappa Phi, Romey Everdell Award for Journalism,(1988), Hole in one (1998), and struggling to find America ever since 2000.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Tweedledee or Tweedledum -- Who's to Win in 2012?
With evidence of growing discontent among liberals, does the incumbent President have a lock on re-election? Could a Republican win the day? And would either outcome make much difference for the people?
Monday, June 13, 2011 The October Initiative
Activist luminaries are planning a major protest in D.C. in October, something special that will hasten the peace and petition for decent governance.
Monday, April 18, 2011 2012 is Coming. What to Do?
The choice for a national government is due again in about eighteen short months. We need to be ready to make a change to something more decent than we've had for the past eleven years. Get ready!
Sunday, March 6, 2011 Support-Our-Troops Redux ! (1 comments)
The propaganda machine has now been activated in support of the NEXT U.S. attack in the Middle East.
Saturday, July 10, 2010 The We're-the-Best Syndrome, an American Affliction
Too many Americans are afflicted with the compulsion to proclaim "we're the best" at practically everything, which is not only stupid and annoying, but simply wrong and counterproductive to the best interests of our citizenry.
Friday, July 2, 2010 Celebrating the Birthday of a Dying Republic (2 comments)
Is it not bizarre -- on July Fourth -- that in celebrating the birth of America so few realize that the republic has been actually dying incrementally for the past thirty years?
Sunday, June 27, 2010 The Conditions-Based Integrity of the Obama Government
Atop the farce of command change in Afghanistan, we get the "conditions-based commitment" for troop withdrawal, whatever in the treacherous employment of polit-speak that portends.
Thursday, April 29, 2010 God, Flags, Family Values and Terrorism
It will be interesting -- if we indeed are spared the opportunity -- to witness history's judgment of the plastic perspectives of today's Americans.
Monday, April 19, 2010 The Security State is Necessary
We must do everything that's necessary to stop the threats of terrorism.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 Love America or Leave It? An Interesting Proposition.
Most Americans appear to be still unaware that their government does not perform to their best interests nor to humanity's, and the few who are aware seem unwilling to do anything sufficient to actually change the situation.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 The Outliers and the Usual Lies
President Obama has announced that our strategy for use of use nuclear weapons will be narrowed with the exception of certain nations
Sunday, April 4, 2010 Who Actually Controls America and Our Fate? (1 comments)
More ominously with each passing day, it appears that the three branches of "our" government do not pursue the best interests of the electorate but rather are directed and apparently rewarded from elsewhere. But, to quote Butch Cassidy: "Who are those guys?" And where are they leading us?
Sunday, March 28, 2010 The Treachery of "Winning"
We have been told for nine years that more slaughter is the "cost of winning," but what exactly are we to win and when?
Monday, March 22, 2010 Team Obama Wins, We Lose, Again
Obama and his Dems got their "victory" with the new medical care bill. This question remains: What did the citizens get and how much will they actually pay out for it.
Sunday, March 21, 2010 Yet Another Mouse Fart in a Hurricane
With all due respect to the mice of the world, endeavors such as the one this past Saturday have zero impact on the resolve of our masters for endless war, their lust for power and enrichment, and their subjugation of "good Americans" to serfdom.
Sunday, March 7, 2010 Two Angry Americans, Perhaps Three?
It's time for Americans to wake up and smell the treachery being dealt them by the posers they voted for.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 Slaughtering Children Requires Budgetary Disciplines
It costs us $2000 in compensation for each Afghani child we slaughter. This is a situation that cries out for the appropriate financial controls.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Greetings Fellow Serfs !
The corruption of our economy with the complicity of our government has gone far enough. It is high time for the citizens to take direct action to confront this abuse and to restore some decency in our governance and some hope for our children's future.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Let's Attack Iran !
Just in case anyone's not noticed, we're being conned into yet another war, and its propagandist-in-chief is our highest DIPLOMATIC officer.
Saturday, February 20, 2010 Nuremberg Precedent Trashed
It was the United States that insisted the Nazis be held accountable for their atrocities. Who will insist and when that the United States be held accountable?
Friday, January 29, 2010 In Praise of Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn was a champion of the people and a recorder of their rare history.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Fascism Without Swastikas
Only the formal albeit superficial guises of a republic obscure the reality that our government no longer represents the best interests of the citizens. Some would have it that fascism is now the de facto force of our governance.
Saturday, January 23, 2010 Different Suit, Same Substance: George W. Obama
An Alonzo Hardy, apparently representing (?) Unite Ocala (Florida) exhorts us to continue to support President Obama, that "the best is yet to come," that "He's resolved a whole lot of ... challenges despite the birthers, the teabaggers, the party of 'no,' and even some of the unreasonable demands of some of our Progressive friends."
Sunday, January 17, 2010 Peace and Decent Governance are Not Gifts from God
There is a tendency among good people to expect peace and decent governance as their due, and that we deserve such simply because of the compelling virtue of these qualities. History tells us, however, that such is not the case, and that violence and force are the prevalent order of man's story, and will dominate our lives unless actively and courageously resisted.
Sunday, January 10, 2010 The Democrat Majority and then...Fascism, or a Decent Option?
By penalty of law we are forced to pay into our government for the War of Lies. By penalty of law we are forced to pay the salaries and perks (including handsome medical benefits) of our congress folk and president, whether or not they serve our best interests. And now the Democrat-majority government would have us -- again under penalty of law -- pay private insurance interests directly for a sham of a national healthcare program.
Saturday, January 9, 2010 Bailout the Homeless, Not the Banksters (1 comments)
Awarding the economic stimulus to the homeless rather than to the banksters, appears to be a notion not only morally superior but of greater practical advantage in stimulating the economy.
Friday, January 8, 2010 The Ways of a Rotten Government
The ways of a rotten government are a challenge to the imagination of the most creative innocent minds.
Sunday, January 3, 2010 The Protest Planned for March and the Status of America (1 comments)
Does the encampment announced by Cindy Sheehan for March have any authentic chance of making an actual difference? And after nine years of government lies and treachery, what is the demography of the body politic and the persuasions of the electorate?
Friday, December 4, 2009 Torturers Encouraged by Dems and Supreme Court
The Supreme Court's decision to overrule the federal district's court decision to release the torture photos will serve to encourage like-treachery in future.
Monday, November 16, 2009 The Death of Activism
The Messiah is on the presidential throne, the war continues, the venality undiminished in Congress, but the streets are quieter. What else has changed? Get ready, my friends, to howl, but suck it up to admit that activism has died.
Sunday, November 8, 2009 Advice to a Democrat Apparatchik: It's Time to Actually Serve the People
We voted for a Democrat majority of both houses of Congress in 2006, and for a Democrat President in 2008, upon the proposition that the malfeasance of the Bush administration would be addressed and corrected -- yet the War of Lies persists and very little else of substance has been corrected.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Tap Dancing While America Burns
Despite sizeable majorities at the national level, Democrats lose two major state elections. It's time for the Dems to wake up and catch the scent of the American people.
Saturday, October 31, 2009 Slicker Treachery?
Obama is certainly smarter than his predesessor, but more straightforward?
Saturday, September 26, 2009 Little "Hope" of "Change" from these Dems
Obama offered "Hope" and "Change." What we're getting is substantially more of the same old bullshit.
Friday, July 17, 2009 The Dark Import of a U.S. Destroyer in the Black Sea
An American destroyer is in the Black Sea to engage in exercises with Georgian ships, while not far away Russian warplanes are conducting their own war games, a situation rife with potential for mistakes or mischief, even of the stuff that can start real wars.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Time to Address Torture or Get Accustomed to It
Torture not addressed becomes precedent. It will be employed more quickly and aggressively next time. Now is the time to prevent that from happening.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 The Audacity of Duplicity (1 comments)
Candidate Obama promised "Change" and offered "Hope." Now President Obama gives us more war and too little beyond nuance in domestic issues. We are disappointed, many say betrayed. We need to so advise him.
Saturday, May 2, 2009 Daze of Whine and Poses
It appears that the electorate will do little more than to sit and watch the greed machine being fed by our elected politicians.
Saturday, May 2, 2009 Lest We Forget
So much for the dissing of Republicams.
Saturday, January 10, 2009 The "Delicacy" Posed Americans by the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Israel and its sponsor, the United States, employ slaughter in pursuit of their objectives in the Middle East. It is time for Americans to decide if this is to be permitted or to demand that humanity will prevail.
Monday, December 29, 2008 The Relationship
Our government continues its treachery. We fecklessly complain. And over the years, nothing ever changes.
Monday, November 24, 2008 "Sun Sets on U.S. Economy" Golly!
It appears that there could finally be an enhanced awareness on the part of honest working folks that their choice in leadership has a profound effect on their welfare.
Friday, November 14, 2008 How to SUPPORT-OUR-TROOPS
The extremely difficult thing to do under America's wretched circumstances today is to muster the integrity to accept the truth, and then if we're really good, intelligent and courageous people to deal with it beyond errant popular sentiment and sloganeering.
Monday, October 27, 2008 The Trillion Dollar Bailout and its Bipartisan Handmaidens
Much of the treachery of the Bush administration can be attributed to poisonous partisanship. In their fervor to rid the people's house of this contagion in a new government, the Democrats would do well to guard against a similar affliction.
Sunday, October 26, 2008 Serious Shortage of Real Political Champions
Senator Paul Wellstone was one of few who clearly and loudly spoke against empowering George Bush to attack Iraq. Where are such champions of political integrity and peace among our partisan choices today?
Monday, October 20, 2008 Powell's a Tarnished Endorsement (5 comments)
Before we celebrate Colin Powell's support of our favored candidate, we'd do well to reflect upon the character of the endorser, and how that possibly reflects upon our expectations of the next administration.
Thursday, September 25, 2008 The Pathetic Monster (2 comments)
It was a different George Bush who addressed the national TV audience on the economy last night, but less we be deluded: the same responsible Decider.
Monday, September 8, 2008 Keith Olbermann Misbehaved (4 comments)
Keith Olbermann should have known better than to violate today's canon of allowable commentary.
Monday, August 18, 2008 Out, out Damned Spot! (Hillary Gains Podium)
Amidst America's current perils, it is high time for the gender agenda to be layed aside with -- yes, among manifold other diversions -- preoccupations that deny our choice of capable leadership.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 The Story of America
America: What it was, what it is now, and what we can expect as its future.
Monday, March 24, 2008 What the Campaign is Really About
Neither of the Democrat candidates boldly and honestly level with us on hard issues, but rather dance about in the political arena.
Friday, January 18, 2008 The Cosmetics of Treachery
Every tyranny needs the cosmetics of danger and opposition to justify its treachery. Hitler had the Jews. Stalin had the Counter-revolutionaries and Enemies of the People. Bushco has Terrorism and the Peace Movement.
Thursday, June 28, 2007 The Immigration Bill: Fiasco or Furtive (1 comments)
The immigration bill currently stumbling around Congress just doesn't pass muster in terms of security, precedent, rationality, full disclosure, fairness or goodwill.
Friday, July 30, 2010 The Price of Justice in America (1 comments)
If all citizens are equal in the eyes of the law, why do convicted rich criminals get paid more than convicted poor criminals?
