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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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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 23, 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.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 13, 2009
Dirty Pictures Our government has 2000 photographs of actions committed in our name. We need for those pics to be released so that we may know what we have done, dismiss the merely naughty, deal with the atrocious, and take action to discourage such happening again.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 6, 2009
The Washington Post: Paragon of the Fee Press The astounding news that the Washington Post was selling access to its owners and executives to private interests was beyond shocking, and is yet more evidence that "truth" is for sale in our press.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 29, 2009
Progress in the Despicability of Weapons Systems For awhile it appeared that all the war-makers had to do was to develop more powerful weapons systems than their potential adversaries. With the development of the armed Drone, however, a weapon which placed no soldier's life at risk, there emerged serious vulnerability to homefront propaganda.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 27, 2009
The Enemies of Our Healthcare The American healthcare system is rated 37th in quality of care by the World Health organization, and its costs run twice as high as the 36 superior systems. We need to recognize and deal with the commercial and political issues that stand between the citizens and a world-class healthcare system.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Democrats Mirror Bushco Treachery Those who found solace in the Democrat victory in the 2008 election may now be interested to know that their partisan choice has prevailed in the House to further fund America's permanent war against humanity.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Confessions of an Old Soldier The never-ending treacherous wars, the torture, the trashing of our Bill of Rights, the dominance of the weapons makers and big money interests, and generally the growing misrepresentation of the best interests of the citizens by our government – have all ganged up on me personally as a disgrace to the uniform I wore proudly for nine years. We need to swallow hard and face these issues. And we need to fix them.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Mourn the Dead, Honor Life The Memorial Day message to "honor the dead" serves the treacherous. We should mourn the dead, and honor life.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 31, 2009
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, No It's CYBERCZAR! President Obama has announced that he will appoint a "Czar" to secure the nation's cyber traffic. It is not intended, so states the President, that the Czar will intrude into the private cyber world, a proposition one might consider along with past presidential assurances as "We do not torture."
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 25, 2009
Seeking Comfort in Torturing the Language Although the lamentably popular coinage is "enhanced interrogation techniques," what we're dealing with here is simply one terrible, truthful word, and that word is torture.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Understanding Torture It appears that a considerable segment of the American electorate is quite readily agreeable with shushing up American torture.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 10, 2009
Prosecutions for Torture Unlikely With no stout champions for prosecution in our government or our mass media, there will most likely be insufficient momentum generated to move the unpleasant process of prosecutions forward.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 4, 2009
Better the Pain of Truth than the Cancer of Deceit The question is are we to accept that avoiding "partisan dissension" justifies covering up deceit and treachery and the precedent that such may establish?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 30, 2009
Our Choice: The Shroud or the Open Covenant THE government rather than OUR government appears to be running the nation. Is this how we would have it?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 27, 2009
Protectus Extremus It would seem there is no end to the inconveniences, discomforts and embarrassments Americans must suffer from what our government imagines it must do to protect us.
(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 20, 2009
Torture: Who Could Care? Most will agree that torture is a moral abomination. Now in the wake of the President's exposure of documents purporting to justify its employment, who will stand to demand that the torture issue be fully exposed, investigated, prosecuted as necessary, and that means be taken to prevent the odious practice in the future?
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 18, 2009
'Following Orders' Doesn't Cut It America's best chance for redemption and a decent and honorable future lies with rejecting the President's position and proceeding with investigation of torture and prosecution as warranted.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 13, 2009
Hope and Trust in Obama, or Renewed Vigilance? With the election of one of their own as president, will the black electorate relax in their traditional and much needed critical evaluation of our government and in the struggle for reform?
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 10, 2009
We, too, Can "Cut and Run" Messengers from the same masters who schemed us into the slaughterous debacles of Iraq and Afghanistan now advise that "we can't just cut and run." Well,of course we can, and must if we are to recover any shred of national morality, any respect of the decent peoples of the world, and any redemption in our future history.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 30, 2009
America's Salvation Awaits Aroused Citizens Our government lied us into war and delivered us into the hands of the greed meisters. The putative partisan opposition signed on. Only an aroused citizenry can now salvage America.

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