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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.
(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        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.
(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.

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