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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.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 24, 2009 A Toxic Plan for Toxic Waste?
The "Public Private Investment Program" works like this: The Treasury provides capital for new investment funds, matched with investments from private investors such as hedge funds. The funds can magnify their returns--and scale of borrowing--by borrowing money from the FDIC and Federal Reserve. Do you think this is a good idea?
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 19, 2009 Terrorist Threat Revealed!
The Associated Press reports that burgeoning numbers of the homeless are now seeking shelter from the dark and the cold in the nation's airports. And what does our government say about this? Hey, they may be terrorists disguised as homeless!
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 16, 2009 Treachery and the Stages of Reaction
Most moral and intelligent Americans comprehend that our country has been victimized by treacherous masters for most of the past decade. What we have not come to grips with is what we must actually do to stop the treachery and to reinstitute decent governance.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 19, 2009 It's Bigger than Wall Street, Worse than the Economy, and It Requires Anger
Why have we allowed the interests of greed and treachery to usurp our government, beggar our economy, drive us into endless wars and disgrace the image of America around the world? It's time for Americans to get angry and to do something about it.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 18, 2009 Shush, You Cynics!
The mantra was "Change!" Once again, the more things change, the more they seem to remain the same.
SHARE Saturday, December 27, 2008 It's the WAR, Stupid
News of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan has virtually disappeared from the media. But the war goes on, and we ignore it at our peril.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 25, 2008 So Caroline Wants to be Senator Kennedy...
Caroline wants to become Senator Kennedy, and too many respond with "That's nice." But it isn't nice. What it is, of course, is oligarchy.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 18, 2008 Kudos to the Shoe Launcher
It is amazing how many Americans criticize the action of the Muslim who threw his shoes at the personification of lying treachery when we should in fact commend him for displaying courage literally to the face of slaughterous power.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 13, 2008 The Mystery of the Obtuse Electorate
Why do Americans sit on our hands as our chosen political champions continue to fund today's Viet Nam in the Middle East, to shred our Constitution, to gift our treasure on the one hand to the Wall Street millionaires gang, while refusing two percent of that swag to the auto industry to avert multiple millions of jobs to be lost, etc, etc?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 9, 2008 Democrats in Full Farce Mode re Auto Bailout
The Democrats hid out when $700 Billion were gifted to Wall Street, but are in high dudgeon over $15 Billion for the auto industry. They now choose to posture as the people's auditor, regardless of the potential loss of millions of jobs and devastation to the national economy.
(13 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 2, 2008 Mr. President Elect: Change Has Always Meant Something Different
Barack Obama campaigned under the mantra of CHANGE. Having awaited all too patiently for the specifics, we now get temporization and the appointment of war supporters to his cabinet.
(8 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 27, 2008 We Must Raise Our Voices for Our Country's Redemption
The Obama people have shown no evidence of eagerness to address the American treachery of the past eight years. It now falls to the citizens to raise our voices if our country is to regain the respect of the decent peoples of the world.
SHARE Saturday, November 22, 2008 REALLY Support Our Troops
The lies continue virtually unchallenged as the treachery in the foreign deserts endure. It is high time for the citizens to stop both.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Make Sure America Gets the Correct "Change," Mr. President-Elect
President-Elect Obama's campaign featured the "Change" mantra and little in the way of specifics. His early appointments leave us wondering if America will indeed get the correct change.
SHARE Tuesday, November 18, 2008 The Bailout Moralities
Other than knowing it is our money that will be given away, we don't know how the bailouts were sized, how much and to whom they will be distributed, upon what justification, what we will get in return, and when or even if we will get repaid. We should know.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 5, 2008 America's Morning After: Time for Specifics
President-Elect Obama's campaign was cautiously crafted to the need for "change," a compelling however vague proposition. The electorate now deserves more details.