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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.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 14, 2010 The Bill of Rights vs the Benefits of Expeditious Torture
If the legal rights of the innocent as well as those suspected of breaking the law are specified by statute to caution any and all before intimidating questioning (now perhaps torture), how can those rights be defied by agents of the state?
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 5, 2010 Citizen Troublemaker: "Where's My Bonus?"
An irredeemable idealist, my friend Bob got upset upon learning of the second round of bonuses to executives of AIG, and penned a brief letter to President Obama, in its entirety asking: "Where is MY bonus?" SATIRE.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Humanity or Nuclear Holocaust: Do We Have the Courage and the Moral Intelligence to Choose?
One would think that the very concept of nuclear weapons and the two hideous examples of their use 64 years ago would have at least scared the world into preventing their existence. But no, the hellish game proceeds, with the American cowboy ever antsy by the gate of the Nuclear OK Corral should anyone dare to offend him.
SHARE Tuesday, February 2, 2010 Should We Support GOOOH? If Not, then Who?
There's a new voice emerging from the wretched political landscape of today's America. It's proponents have labeled it GOOOH: Get Out of Of Our House! It's voiced intentions -- it claims -- are nothing more than to replace a corrupt House of Representatives consisting of indentured politicians by decent, honest, non-partisan, everyday citizens.
SHARE Saturday, December 5, 2009 Why Escalation was Not Announced at a Homeless Shelter
A friend asked the question. It gave me pause, but then I took a crack at an answer to why West Point was chosen as the venue for President Obama's speech rather a homeless shelter.
SHARE Friday, October 30, 2009 Rotten Government Reigns, and Like Bad Weather, We Do Nothing About It
It seems there is a want of sense to comprehend that our current government operates counter to the best interests of the citizens or of humanity, and that those who do sense this apparently lack the integrity and courage to do anything that will result in actual beneficial change.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 16, 2009 Urgent We Unite to Take Back America!
Each activist organization has its own agenda and its own nuanced message. It's high time we got together in common cause to take back America and possibly preserve humanity.
SHARE Friday, October 9, 2009 High Time for a Real Victory over the War of Lies and Government Indecency
The War of Lies now incredibly moves into its ninth year. Actions by the peace movement in protest -- some quite heroic -- have in reality had no consequence in stopping the treachery. It is high time for the peace movement to get beyond its organizationitis and unite in common cause to make a real difference. It is high time for this war to be stopped.
SHARE Thursday, October 1, 2009 The Invasion of Pittsburgh
The G-20 came to Pittsburgh, and so did an outside army of politzei intent upon stifling the voice of the citizens. It appears they succeeded, by force. One can but wonder what next infringements upon the Constitution are in store for us.
(10 comments) SHARE Monday, September 21, 2009 Who Are Our Masters?
There are the ongoing wars 8,000 miles from our coastline. 5,500 of our soldiers thus far killed, and over a million indigenous people slaughtered. We have an economic depression with people forced to leave their homes while trillions of our treasure are gifted to the professional and moral failures who caused it. Who is in charge here? Who are our Masters?
SHARE Monday, September 14, 2009 Covering the Truth of 911 Invites Similar Atrocity
It appears that humanity has but two choices: To discover and reveal the truth of 911, or to continue obscuring the truth and invite the peril that the treachery becomes precedent for like atrocity in the future.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 10, 2009 Secretary Gates Offended by Photo of Dying Marine
Secretary Gates has expressed his indignation over the decision by the media to print a photo of a mortally wounded American marine in Afghanistan. One is tempted to wonder whether the Secretary ever considered that his management of the atrocity in the Middle East contributed to this sad outcome and many, many more.
SHARE Wednesday, September 2, 2009 Torture Now Good !
Today's Washington Post, under the banner line "How a Detainee Became an Asset," tells us that thanks to waterboarding and other "enhanced techniques," Khalid Sheik Mohammed is now fully cooperating, giving lectures in English as well as chalk talks to his fellow detainees, and has asked for a bible to study in his cell.
SHARE Friday, August 28, 2009 Eight Years of Snazzy Signs, Nifty Slogans and Weekend Vigils Doesn't Hack It.
My good and honorable friend, a dedicated and hard working advocate for peace and decent governance, for years a weekly demonstrator and pamphleteer, now is bent upon further exposing the 9-11 treachery with the idea that it will finally spark the citizens to demand peace and decent governance. This is my response to his conviction.
SHARE Monday, August 17, 2009 The Rewards for Speaking Truth to Power
Colonel Timothy Reese, a senior American military advisor in Iraq, deserves the nation's respect and gratitude for recently advising his "superiors" to expeditiously pull out of Iraq as a continued presence there would serve no benefit. Then somehow his report was leaked to the media. We can but surmise how Colonel Reese will be rewarded for his courage and integrity.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 13, 2009 Government Prostitution Must be Stopped
We have complained about escalating treachery in our governance for nine years. We can ignore our lack of progress only at our peril, that is it will get worse or that other forces will intervene.
SHARE Monday, July 27, 2009 The Great American Medicine Show
Why has not America moved to a national medical system as have so many other nations who provide superior care at half the cost? The answer lies in the politics, and the masters we allow to control our better interests.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 26, 2009 License for Slaughter, Charter for Treachery
Americans now know we were lied into war, and yet we allow the war to continue. We know our government employed torture, but have not insisted that the torturers and their directors answer for their atrocities. And we rightly sense that generally our recent and current government does not represent the best interests of the people. It is high time we change this sorry state of affairs and move on to decent governance.