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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        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.
(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.
(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?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 29, 2011
Civilization in Reverse, History Going Backwards It is beyond understanding, past comprehension how Americans can tolerate our wretched warring, greed-driven, treacherous government. Will we awaken soon enough to employ a political solution, or await the necessity employed by our founders, that of revolution?
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 21, 2011
Demopublicans or Republicrats? Americans have been betrayed by the charade of a two-party system ascending for the past thirty years, with our government (un)progressively and treacherously managing America for the benefit of the privileged. It's past time for a change, change not possible under the conjoined forces of the Democrats and Republicans.
(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.
Remember the Maine., From FlickrPhotos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 8, 2016
All Ready for the Next War No need to wait for the lies to justify our next war. We're already ready.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Bring Bernie Back! With Hillary Clinton now "sick" and other emerging negatives threatening her election, it is time to bring Bernie back rather than to allow the Democrat leadership to select one of their good old boys -- as has already been leaked.
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.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Addressing Eleven Years of War, Lies, and Bipartisan Corruption America's political leadership is bipartisanly corrupt and indentured to powerful moneyed interests. It is time for correction, the only issue being what means will be employed.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 16, 2011
Real Democrat Needed, or Something Else Democrats, even some incumbents, are starting to whisper that different leadership will be needed to win in 2012. Ignoring this message could invite their defeat.
(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.
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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!
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 2, 2011
The Wicked Old Witch of the Middle-East is Dead! Would it not be prudent -- the celebration notwithstanding -- to pause for a few questions?
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 28, 2011
Democrats: Beware the Loss of the "Lesser-Evil" Choice It seems that the labor movement is catching on to the "lesser-evil" copout. The Dems may need to exercise some integrity (Wow!) now to convince voters that they'llactually stand by them once they pull the Dem lever.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 24, 2011
Norway's 911. And the Reaction? The latest casualty report of the massacre in Norway stands at 92. Our hearts go out to this beautiful frigid country. One can only hope that Norwegians will react to their catastrophe more sensibly, humanely, honestly and morally than has been the American experience.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 22, 2011
Two-Party Con Job Too many good Americans have been conned by the propaganda that it is futile to raise a political voice outside the two-party "system."
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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.
(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.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 27, 2013
A Veteran Confesses Although many yet blindly deny the past dozen years of treachery, many others now see it more clearly, but there has been no effort of sufficient magnitude -- including mine -- to take a credible stand against it.
(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.
(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.
(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?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The Evil of the Lesser-Evil Choice The "Lesser-Evil" choice serves only to fortify the bipartisan government's indenture to the same moneyed masters.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The Excrement Pipeline There appears to be no end in sight for the propaganda supporting the War of Lies.
(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.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 23, 2011
Wanted: Decent Straight-Talking President There's a petition kicking around the WEB to support Senator Bernie Sanders for president in 2012. What a rocket shot! We'd no longer be faced with the two-headed snake of the Hopey-Changey rhetorician versus the Party of Privilege.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 16, 2011
"Lesser-Evil" is Too Evil -- An Entrapment We Must Trash Americans desperately need to grasp the notion that it is possible, if enough of us can muster the insight and integrity, to get beyond the bipartisan proposition that our choice is limited to one of only two parties, that "third parties always fail," and that we'll be the more damned if we do not support the "lesser-evil" choice.
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.
(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.
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?
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 31, 2011
Debt Crisis Propaganda and the Obvious Economic and Moral Solutions Debt Crisis Propaganda and the Obvious Economic and Moral Solutions . We are told that exceeding the Debt Ceiling is the problem, and that all federal programs must be prudently reduced, especially Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental, etc, but no mention of the costs of America's military atrocities in the Middle East nor the support of the Weapons Industry and the monster Security apparatus.
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        Sunday, June 16, 2013
They Got Manning. They Will Get Snowden They will get Snowden because of their need to get him, born of their insatiable power lust.
(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?
(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.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 20, 2007
Poem: return flight The bodies of our soldiers killed in Iraq are flown to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, then forwarded for burial. The mortuary operations at Dover are surrounded by the tightest security, not as protection against terrorism but to minimize exposure of the war's grisly price.
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.
(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.
(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        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.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Anger Yes! More Patience No! Peace and Decent Government Now! It is time to stop denigrating anger, but rather to use ut as a force in gaining peace and decent government.
(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?
(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.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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.
(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.
(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.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Political Decency, America's Masters, and the "Traitor" Edward Snowden Americans choose -- one way or another -- the kind of government we get, whether by refusing our attention, defaulting to ignorance, or in embracing charlatans indentured to the cabal of greed and lust for power now in charge -- or by opening our eyes, grasping the reality, and braving the risks, difficulties and hard work required to actually gain and maintain the ideals of our earliest schooling.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 1, 2011
Peace and Decent Governance Require a Realistic Strategy Many know what's needed. Too few know how to get it. The issues can be reduced to Peace and Restitution of our Bill of Rights. There is a strategy that can succeed in this. We need to get on it.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 2, 2007
Open Letter to My Peacenik Friends The peace movement has been ineffective in achieving its announced goals. More and different actions must be initiated if we are to finally to end the Iraq War and to prevent other wars
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 2, 2009
Countervailing Power the Only Solution (note to an activist) The incumbent treachery will not be displaced by any amount of moral suasion. Our only chance for peace and decent governance is countervailing power.
(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        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.
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.
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.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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?
(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.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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.
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.
(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.
(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.
(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."
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 9, 2008
Messiah, Lesser-Devil, or Desperately Needed Champion? What can one make of the American political process and how we choose who will be the most powerful person in the world?
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Budget for Slaughter Budgets to support the Iraq war have bought us nothing but casualties for our troops and misery for the American people.
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.
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.
(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.
(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?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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 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.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 14, 2011
Crime and (No) Punishment? Prevention is the Issue. Civilized people, a decent people, examine and punish as warranted, NOT because crime has been committed, but to prevent more crime to be committed. We are now at perhaps our history's most critical juncture of this perspective.
(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?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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.
(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?
(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.
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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
SHARE More Sharing        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.
SHARE More Sharing        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.
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.
(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?
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 14, 2007
Lying Goes Local The lying to justify the Iraq War has descended to my small community.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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.
(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.
(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        Thursday, May 17, 2007
Who's to Blame? Who bears the responsibility for the war in Iraq, our degraded international relations, and our loss of civil liberties, and our coorupt and greed-mongering domestic agenda?
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.
(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?
(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        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.
(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.
(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.
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.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 3, 2007
The Scooter Libby Fuss and Presidential Prerogative The outrage over the Scooter Libby commutation is disproportionate to the attention we give the more serious situation
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.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 23, 2007
Supplementally the People Lose Again The Democratic House's "Supplemental" betrays the voters who elected them to bring us peace.
(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        Tuesday, March 20, 2007
The United States Peace Force In the face of a treacherous administration, a dithering and feckless Congressional majority, and an ineffective peace movement, it is time for the people to rise to the task to get the peace and to resuscitate the Constution before it is too late.
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The Afghanistan Plan
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Another Triumph of Denial and Fecklessness over Truth and Courage The Democrat Senate continues to disappoint America

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