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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
(5 comments) SHARE 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 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 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 Sunday, July 31, 2011 Debt Crisis Propaganda and the Obvious Economic and Moral Solutions
Debt Crisis Propaganda and the Obvious Economic and Moral Solutions
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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.