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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.

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(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 8, 2011
The Old Lie: It is Sweet and Fitting to Die For One's Country Horace said it first. Wilfred Own exposed it for the lie it had always been. And it will eventually kill us all if it is not stopped.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        Friday, November 13, 2009
Is it Later than We Think for President Obama to Do the Right Thing? President Obama is beset by a dilemma: he must now make the decision for peace or to escalate the forces in Afghanistan. What must he do? What can he do? It is time for him to decide.
SHARE More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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.

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