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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, October 9, 2008
Monsters vs. Yowsahs -- The Latest (Not Very Scientific) Poll A count of the political lawn signs in my neighborhood shows a preference for the McCain-Palin slate by a 4.5 to 1 ratio. But should this be so surprising?
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 5, 2008
Dems Campaign for Their Own Betrayers It is the Democrats that endorsed Bushco's War of Lies and now gift Wall Street with $700 Billion of our treasure. Why do we continue to trust them to oppose treachery?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 29, 2008
Obama vs. McCain: Who Won the Big Debate? Who won the big debate seems more than anything else dependent upon whom one liked going in.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 21, 2008
Bailing-out AIG, et al: What's the Problem? There needs to be no further problem with this sorry business if only the "oppositon" Democrats would for once muster the integrity and political courage to disallow it.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, September 13, 2008
What I Expect Hilton Obenzinger recently asked on these pages: "November 5th, 2008, What do you expect?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 23, 2008
Joe Biden and Political Expediency In October, 2002, the majority- Democrat Senate gifted Bush the sword of war, a vote that Senator Biden joined in and for which he cannot be excused.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 15, 2008
The Death Rales of Democracy? The electorate needs to wake up and respond to totalitarianism knocking on America's door and threatening to bash it down.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 9, 2008
Protest Votes and Protest Zones We need to ask ourselves if protest votes and protest devices serve any purpose beyond insulating the abusers from the abused.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 8, 2008
Democrat Betrayal Redux? After the betrayal of our votes in 2006 to stop the War of Lies and to clean up for the return to decent governance, how confident can we be that our votes for Democrats in 2008 will not result in more of the same?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 2, 2008
Reality Tale The bizarre realities of today's America are often difficult to discern from the fantastic and the treacherous. It is to the innocent, not so much a matter of conscience as of consciousness.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 19, 2008
Monster of the Century Contest The important issue of just who is responsible for the oil-grubbing slaughter and the trashing of our Constitution still requires clarification. Here you will have a vote that can help to clear up this matter conclusively.
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Must Not Waste Kucinich' Courage If we do not move quickly and in stout numbers to support Congressman Kucinich' Article of Impeachment, they will adroitly be put aside by the forces of treachery and cowardice, and his courage will have be wasted, and so will America
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 6, 2008
The Incident The citizens need to be aware of and prevent the possibility of an incident to be manufacted to deny us the election of a new goverment in November, 2008.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 27, 2008
Primary Fiasco Awakening the interest and the intelligence of the electorate appears to be a bigger challenge than many of us ever imagined. One seriously now wonders about "God smiled when he made America," and is more cogently reminded that "A people has the government it deserves," and if indeed there is truth in the latter, then heaven help this republic.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 7, 2008
Rob Kall's recent "How to Erode and Destroy Democracy" Whereas Rob Kall dealt mainly with the destructive contributions of the Bushites, we here go on to the contributions of the Democrats and the electorate.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 27, 2007
What to Do Amidst Treachery and Cowardice? What must citizens do to get decent government from the 2008 election?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 18, 2007
Confessions of an Activist A.E. Houseman said, "I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made." But it gets worse yet when we are described by partisan critics -- and beleived by their audiences to be -- the very monsters we despise.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 22, 2007
america is gone America's flaunted traditional image and the current political reality juxtaposed.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 9, 2007
Another Triumph of Denial and Fecklessness over Truth and Courage The Democrat Senate continues to disappoint America
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 7, 2007
Peace and Universal Healthcae Unrealistic Politicians from both of America's major political parties need a healthy dose of integrity and courage to handle the issue of Peace straightforwardly, and then indeed "move forward" (to quote a famous ... uh ...uh ...American) to a solution to Medical Care for our people.

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