Escape the Okie Zone

Garvald loves this area of pristine wilderness in the Ozarks of Missouri where he migrates for schwag gatherings.(Schwagstock) Maybe it will be a precelebratory event for the Kerry campaign?? Garvald cannot see the signs that his state of chosen unemployment bothers Muffy and so she pushes him to go to this playground of his.

A full moon is out tonight :(
Garvald fails to connect with her anymore. His dry humor only appears to get on her nerves. She becomes tired of his mental disability, his poor listening skills, his lack of focus and his "spare tire". She denigrates his lack of organization in his life, his teaching then finally puts down his lovemaking. He slowly learns that she will never be into the idea of this website evolving into a book. He wondered why she even asked him to come up?

Muffy condescendingly responds,
"It was only because I felt sorry for you living with all those rednecks."

Garvald packs and is about to leave, when she starts crying and appreciates him tolerating all of her anger.

He takes her downtown for dinner and then she discards him in the middle of the night.

He prepares himself for the spookstock for a fun weekend of schwaggers and schwagmaidens in their costumes to help lift the old man out of his mid-life crisis that has been opened up before the whole world of cyberspace.
He hopes that his once and future soulmate might rescue him when she discovers this site and the words that are beckoning her to him.
This soulmate of his dreams would always be comforting and supporting.
She understands him and has the same hopes and dreams.
(and does not think of him as just a crazy old fool with a "spare tire")

Scientists uncover possible new species of human
Dwarf skeleton is 18,000 years old
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Posted: 7:09 PM EDT (2309 GMT)


Professor Chris Stringer shows a cast of a skull of Homo floresiensis, a newly-discovered species.
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The discovery: The bones of a human dwarf species marooned on the remote Indonesian island of Flores between 95,000 and 12,000 years ago while modern humans rapidly developed elsewhere.
Best specimen: One tiny adult female, measuring about 3 feet tall.
Implications: Flores Man smashes the conventional wisdom that modern humans began to crowd out other upright-walking species 160,000 years ago.
Skeptics: Some researchers say Flores Man doesn't belong in the genus Homo at all, even if it was a recent contemporary.

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(AP) -- In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian island say they have uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species marooned for eons while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet.

One tiny specimen, an adult female measuring about 3 feet tall, is described as "the most extreme" figure to be included in the extended human family. Certainly, she is the shortest.

This hobbit-sized creature appears to have lived as recently as 18,000 years ago on the island of Flores, a kind of tropical Lost World populated by giant lizards and miniature elephants.

She is the best example of a trove of fragmented bones that account for as many as seven of these primitive individuals. Scientists have named the new species Homo floresiensis, or Flores Man. The specimens' ages range from 95,000 to 12,000 years old.

"So the 18,000-year-old skeleton cannot be some kind of 'freak' that we just happened to stumble across," said one of the discoverers, radiocarbon dating expert Richard G. Roberts of the University of Wollongong in Australia.

Flores Man was hardly formidable. His grapefruit-sized brain was about a quarter the size of the brain of our species, Homo sapiens. It is closer in size with the brains of transitional prehuman species in Africa more than 3 million years ago.

Yet evidence suggests Flores Man made stone tools, lit fires and organized group hunts for meat.

Just how this primitive, remnant species managed to hang on and whether it crossed paths with modern humans is uncertain. Geologic evidence suggests a massive volcanic eruption sealed its fate some 12,000 years ago, along with other unusual species on the island.

Still, researchers say the perseverance of Flores Man smashes the conventional wisdom that modern humans began to systematically crowd out other upright-walking species 160,000 years ago and have dominated the planet alone for tens of thousands of years.

And it demonstrates that Africa, the acknowledged cradle of humanity, does not hold all the answers to persistent questions of how -- and where -- we came to be.

"It is arguably the most significant discovery concerning our own genus in my lifetime," said anthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University, who reviewed the research independently.

Discoveries simply "don't get any better than that," proclaimed Robert Foley and Marta Mirazon Lahr of Cambridge University in a written analysis.

To others, the specimen's baffling combination of slight dimensions and coarse features bears almost no meaningful resemblance either to modern humans or to our large, archaic cousins.

They suggest that Flores Man doesn't belong in the genus Homo at all, even if it was a recent contemporary.

"I don't think anybody can pigeonhole this into the very simple-minded theories of what is human," anthropologist Jeffery Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh. "There is no biological reason to call it Homo. We have to rethink what it is."

Details of the discovery appear in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

Researchers from Australia and Indonesia found the partial skeleton 13 months ago in a shallow limestone cave known as Liang Bua. The cave, which extends into a hillside for about 130 feet, has been the subject of scientific analysis since 1964.

Near the skeleton were stone tools and animal remains, including teeth from a young Stegodon, or prehistoric dwarf elephant, as well as fish, birds and rodents. Some of the bones were charred, suggesting they were cooked.

Excavations are continuing. In 1998, stone tools and other evidence were found on Flores suggested the presence 900,000 years ago of another early human, Homo erectus. The tools were found a century after the celebrated discovery in the 1890s of big-boned H. erectus fossils in eastern Java.

It is arguably the most significant discovery concerning our own genus in my lifetime.
-- Bernard Wood, anthropologist

Now, researchers suggest H. erectus spread to remote Flores and throughout the region, perhaps on bamboo rafts. Caves on surrounding islands are the target of future studies, they said.

Researchers suspect that Flores Man probably is an H. erectus descendant that was squeezed by evolutionary pressures.

Nature is full of mammals -- deer, squirrels and pigs, for example -- living in marginal, isolated environments that gradually dwarf when food isn't plentiful and predators aren't threatening.

On Flores, the Komodo dragon and other large meat-eating lizards prowled. But Flores Man didn't have to worry about violent human neighbors.

This is the first time that the evolution of dwarfism has been recorded in a human relative, said the study's lead author, Peter Brown of the University of New England in Australia.

Scientists are still struggling to identify it's jumbled features.

Many say that its face and skull features show sufficient traits to be included in the Homo family that includes modern humans. It would be the eighth species in the Homo category.

George Washington's Wood, for example, finds it "convincing."

Others aren't sure.

For example, they say the skull is wide like H. erectus. But the sides are rounder and the crown traces an arc from ear to ear. The skull of H. erectus has steeper sides and a pointed crown, they said.

The lower jaw contains large, blunt teeth and roots like Australopithecus, a prehuman ancestor in Africa more than 3 million years ago. The front teeth are smaller than modern human teeth.

The eye sockets are big and round, but they don't carry a prominent browline.

The tibia in the leg shares similarities with apes.

"I've spent a sleepless night trying to figure out what to do with this thing," said Schwartz. "It makes me think of nothing else in this world."



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Verses an Aristocratic well educated white collar thief?

Or then there is the blond Caucasian crank head wearing a blue bandanna.
Garvald had arrived late about 3am at Muffy's after procrastinating and still forgetting most of his clothes and his electric toothbrush. :(
She wakes up to catch him piggin’ out on her enchilada mixture warmed up in the mwave,
Coming down the stairs, she greets him with,

"Don't Kiss me with your enchilada face!"

Garvald realizes she's in one of her moods :(.
The dejected man goes outside to get the rest of his baggage. He sees at what he first thinks is a very large raccoon and realizes what it is! A common crank head with a blue woolen cap over it's short blond hair.

Garvald goes into his cro-Magnon instinctive nature becoming the survivalistic werewolf/caveman where adrenaline is pumped throughout all of his limbs and his 6-4 frame. All he sees is prey that is stealing from his Muffy and it has something valuable in his hands. He has to take it from it and save her worldly possessions.

He grunts,
"HEY!"

The animal takes off like a deer and Garvald is on the chase. He is about five feet from him and about to overtake him with wolf/man legs and tackles his 150 pound body.
Garvald sees the animal turn his head and sees the wild scared eyes of a redneck caveman losing his young teeth worn thin and missing by too much crank.

Garvald's human side takes over feeling sorry for the pathetic scoundrel. He also worries that it might have a knife or a gun(doubtful) hidden somewhere when coming down to close combat. The thief does not see a 6 foot deep storm gully with about a ten foot width partially filled with the water from rain. It is totally dark so all Garvald hears is a thud! He knows that the Gollum like animal is hurt but still crawling fast in instinctive fear for it's life.

Garvald's human side asks him,
"Give up the stuff, cousin!" (he remembers the bartender's term of endearment)

Garvald hears the animal stumbling up the creek. There are too many shrubs and trees for him to run after it in the gully. It wanders up the bush surrounded by suburban bush and forest for about 50 yards before the street.

He goes back to his abode for the evening to see his Muffy smiling like the way she did over a year ago when he had arrived to come work in Kansas City for a year.

"My hero!"


Garvald smiles and is happy to be her hero and basks in her occasional warmth and support. mi He momentarily feels that this will be a great week will be great!....

Until

"I know you are going to really stretch this "hero" thing, aren’t swell your head"
His ego is deflated and he goes to sleep with lowered reality check and no dreams of fantasy.

Muffy rolls her eyes,
“You are no Walter Mitty!”

Outfoxed the Movie; Showing Fox for the Extreme Right Wing Propaganda Machine it is

By Anthony Wade

OpEdNews.com

The silence remains deafening from the media over the firestorm that should have been Outfoxed. As previously discussed, this documentary sheds light on the fact that not only is the FOX News channel right wing leaning, but they are actually nothing more than a propaganda tool of the Bush White House. Director Robert Greenwald creates a pattern that proves this by using four separate areas. In part one we looked at his use of actual FOX News clips, testimony from former FOX employees, and a study commissioned by Greenwald, conducted by FAIR, which exposed an 83% republican bias on the flagship news program on FOX, Special Report with Brit Hume. For details of these areas, see part one at this link:


This article is examining the fourth area, the internal memos leaked by FOX employees, which clearly show the leaders of FOX News as trying to slant the news. Some may be curious what the issue is here, because FOX is obviously a conservative channel. There are essentially three major problems. The first is the false advertising, which comes along with their packaging. There is nothing “Fair and Balanced” about FOX news, and as was pointed out in Outfoxed, no channel has ever “reported” less than this station with the tag line: “We report, you decide”. The second point is that they blur the line. Commentary shows are fine to express opinion, but disguising commentary shows as hard news shows is despicable, and is the norm at FOX. These two problems combine to mislead the American public who may be tuning in to get their news, and then form their opinion. However, FOX has removed that annoying second step, because they have already made your opinion for you, and present it as news. That is what is so insidious. The third aspect of these problems is that FOX is not just espousing a conservative viewpoint; they are actually parroting the administration’s talking points. True conservatives do not agree with this President on matters such as the ballooning deficits and rampant spending. However, you do not hear that on FOX, because they will never have a negative spin on this administration or it’s policies. This amounts to government media, which exists in communist societies, to keep the people at ease, by hiding the truth.

These memos were passed out by the Senior Vice President of FOX News, to the employees at FOX, as daily marching orders. These were the talking points of the day, meant to be used throughout the day, on the various FOX programs. Now, the issue is if the memos are instructing staff to slant the news and if they are, which way is the slant and who stands to gain. Here are some of the excerpts, directly from the memos:
“Let's keep in mind that the G-8 contains the most obstreperous dissidents against the war on terror. Bush has a long memory and new friends in Poland the rest of Eastern Europe.”
“Two style notes: Rudolph is charged with bombing an abortion clinic, not a "health clinic."

“The president is doing something that few of his predecessors dared undertake: putting the US case for mideast peace to an Arab summit. It's a distinctly skeptical crowd that Bush faces. His political courage and tactical cunning are worth noting in our reporting through the day.”

“Scary thought of the day: what if it's a consortium of terrorist groups working together?”

“John Kerry may wish he'd taken off his microphone before trashing the GOP. Though he insists he meant republican "attack squads," his coarse description of his opponents has cast a lurid glow over the campaign.”

“Gas prices are at all time highs in the US. There are reasons for the surge, some economic, some mere business tactics. Remember: US prices, while they seem high to us, are a half or less the cost of gasoline elsewhere.”

“Kerry, starting to feel the heat for his flip-flop voting record, is in West Virginia.”

“The so-called 9/11 commission has already been meeting. In fact, this is the eighth session. The fact that former Clinton and both former and current Bush administration officials are testifying gives it a certain tension, but this is not "what did he know and when did he know it" stuff. Do not turn this into Watergate.”

“…let the ACLU stick it where the sun don't shine”

“As the witness list indicates, today is likely to be the apex of the so-called 9/11 commission hearings. Tenet, Clarke, and Clinton NSC advisor Berger all testify. We will carry their statements, along with he Q&A, live. Remember that while there are obvious political implications for Bush, the commission is looking at eight years of the Clinton Administration versus eight months (the time prior to 9/11 that Bush was in office) for the incumbent.”

“As is often the case, the real news is Iraq is being obscured by temporary tragedy.”

“The Laci and Conner Act passed the Senate and the Prez will sign it. What does this mean for law enforcement and what does it say about the status of the unborn?”

“Into Fallujah: It's called Operation Vigilant Resolve and it began Monday morning (NY time) with the US and Iraqi military surrounding Fallujah. We will cover this hour by hour today, explaining repeatedly why it is happening. It won't be long before some people start to decry the use of "excessive force." We won't be among that group.”

“The continuing carnage in Iraq -- mostly the deaths of seven US troops in Sadr City -- is leaving the American military little choice but to punish perpetrators. When this happens, we should be ready to put in context the events that led to it. More than 600 US military dead, attacks on the UN headquarters last year, assassination of Iraqi officials who work with the coalition, the deaths of Spanish troops last fall, the outrage in Fallujah: whatever happens, it is richly deserved.”

“The President goes to Charlotte to talk about job training. Buoyed by the 300K job figure last week, he can boast his policies are working.”

“Air America, featuring Al Franken and other liberals, got on the air last week, but at what cost? Well, in New York, it took the place of an ethnic show. In LA, it knocked off a Korean program. And in Chicago, a Spanish language broadcast was replaced. None of these people are happy.”

“Err on the side of doing too much Iraq rather than not enough. Do not fall into the easy trap of mourning the loss of US lives and asking out loud why are we there?”

“American deaths in this renewed fighting are an important element, but not the only element of the conflict. A battle is more than a macabre statistics report.”

“The inconsistencies in the Woodward book are beginning to mount to the point of questioning the accuracy of the Watergate hero's latest tome. Brian Wilson is looking through the book, what was said, and what's been denied and what's just plain wrong.”

“More serious and more important is the US military's end of waiting game for Fallujah. If, as promised, the coalition decides to take Fallujah back by force, it will not be for lack of opportunities for terrorists holed up there to negotiate. Let's not get lost in breast-beating about the sadness of the loss of life. They had a chance.”

‘John Kerry has positioned himself squarely on the fight over abortion. He attends a pro-choice rally in DC, then addresses newspaper editors. We'll take the latter live… At the Vatican, which operates behind closed doors, Catholic theologians are discussing the moral responsibility of lawmakers who claim to be Catholics. While John Kerry's name will probably never be mentioned specifically, the debate includes his candidacy.’

“Ribbons or medals? Which did John Kerry throw away after he returned from Vietnam. This may become an issue for him today. His perceived disrespect for the military could be more damaging to the candidate than questions about his actions in uniform.”

“Let's not overdo the appearances by Kerry's swiftboat mate John O'Neil. While his appearances so far have been OK, he represents one side of the 30 year recollections of what Kerry did, or didn't do, in uniform. Other people have different recollections.”

“let's refer to the US marines we see in the foreground as "sharpshooters" not snipers, which carries a negative connotation.”

“The president and VP are MEETING with the 9/11 commission. They are NOT testifying before it as did witnesses last week. It is an important distinction that we need to make.”

“We'll get to the electronic voting machine debate, making the point that it has the POTENTIAL to delay elections in many states.”

“The president goes to Michigan, accompanied by a powerful campaign asset, the first lady.”

“It is important that we keep the Abu Graeb situation in perspective. The story is beginning to live on its own momentum. The facts of the story may develop into the need to do much more in the days ahead. For the moment, however, the focus appears to be changing to finger pointing within the administration and how it plays out as an issue in the presidential campaign.”

It is fairly obvious to any impartial person that these quotes represent someone with an agenda, and the truth is not on that agenda. News outlets are supposed to investigate stories, find the truth and report it, not decide for their viewers what is the truth and how coverage will be framed. The slants are always pro-Bush, anti-democrat, and often are straight out of the White House talking points. These memos and the Outfoxed movie go to the heart of one of the largest problems facing this us today. That is the media consolidation in this country, where about ten companies own all mainstream media. The truth is that CBS or ABC are not much better substantively than FOX, they just aren’t as deceptive. People spend so much time analyzing what is on the media, we often don’t realize what is not, and that is more telling. This past week we see four stories, which should be big news, yet there is barely a blip. They are:

Clear Channel denying a billboard ad in midtown Manhattan which is critical of war, during the Republican National Convention.

The fact that the administration is looking at how the election can be postponed.

The story about how Larry King tried to get Michael Moore to come on his show to meet with a representative from the Bush administration and defend his movie. When Moore agreed, King backed out, possibly at the behest of the White House.

The premier of Outfoxed, exposing the corruption of FOX News.

Murdoch threatened his counterparts in the media to not make Outfoxed a story, and they apparently have bowed. The Larry King Story has gotten minimal attention at best. The Clear Channel debacle is paid lip service and the potential postponing of an election has been buried. It all points to the dangers of media consolidation. Most people are left to the Internet to find reputable news.

FOX News has perpetrated an injustice to all of us for a long time now. Don’t lose sight of the fact that they had Bush’s cousin, John Ellis working election 2000, and it was his call of the election for Bush, that gave Bush the credibility he needed. The fact is that the AP knew it was too close to call, yet FOX News, throwing all journalistic ethics out the window had the cousin of Bush, call the election for Bush. When you see facts such as these, with statements from ex-employees, independent studies, and the actual FOX clips you begin to see the pattern Robert Greenwald was talking about. When you then see the actual memos passed out by the people who run FOX news, you see that pattern for what it really is. FOX News is nothing more than a shill for Bush. They have lost whatever credibility they may have had. Thanks to Robert Greenwald, they have been Outfoxed.

Anthony Wade takebacktheus@yahoo.com is an independent writer from New York. Website: ibtp.org
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Hey freakshow, I don't care if you believe me or not. What book is it you're going to send? You really are from another world if you think anyone would publish you.
# posted by Anonymous : 10/25/2004 08:14:07 AM

"I almost wish I was I was from another world, the way you behave!"
Garvald replies.

Muffy replies,
"You are the one to talk about behavior getting kicked out of Bars!(in her hypoglygemic hurry ur ass up moment)


Virgil,
"The funny part about this obnoxious drivel that you spew across this site is how many times you mention the various people that would like to kick your ass."

Virgil, you have used the word "drivel" or "dribble" several times. I appreciate you adopting a word I used in my delf deprecating humor.
Which one is it?
Running down a basketball court or left over saliva?

Vigil responds in a louder more guttural octave,
"I would say there is approximately 30 to 40 percent of your postings mention a situation that you had gotten yourself into that cause people to react to you in a violent manner."


Bravo, Virgil, for making a brilliant observation! I am so flattered that you made an attempt at math when reading all of my website!

"My personal favorite is the point you make about being a pacifist. It seems to me that a pacifist wouldn’t provoke people as you are always doing, then stand back with some sort of indignation and proclaim to be nonphysical."

I do not provoke people unless they want to discuss the incompetence of your administration that you voted for. Martin chose to interupt a conversation with a tri-athlete when I was writing down my website for her. Martin then proceeded to do a Karl Rovian Machiavellian job of slandering my name and criticizing me rather than the site. He has done an excellent job of helping to kick me out of our favorite Huddlestones by gathering the animosity based on slander ala Karl of the club by sharing my site and speading half truths like Karl and the Prez to all the rest of the Re puke licans.

"Why can’t you just keep your opinion to yourself, especially when no one is interested in your political views and public bashing of all things conservative? "

Aparently, there are a few intelligent "liberals" that enjoy conversing with me over
many things from unions to the "Free Masons". I am sorry that some dislike our conversation. I will gladly sit at a table with others that enjoy talk that is a little deeper than the weather or OU football.

"There is no one side to any philosophical position and everyone is protected by the constitution to be allowed the freedom to express ones self."

That is one statement, that I agree with virg...think about what you just said and look at yourself in the mirror! Do not be angry that people have a right to freedom of speach and just as I'm sure you do not want to be stifled.
The beauty of this country is also to protect the individual that expresses a different, opinion, lifestyle, etc. than your own!

"Whereas you are prone to stuff your far left wing political agenda down peoples throats to the point of physical violence against your person."

When an argument becomes confrontational to the point that others are screaming their redneck thoughts, I exit thoughtfully to read the Gazette or write, blocking out angry vibes and physical violence that proceeded to occur in Hudstones.


"You come into a heavily conservative setting and start fouling the air with your left wing liberal garbage when no one wants to hear it."

As I said before, I only responded to comments directed towards liberals and chose not to continue if you became loud or violent.


What is it; do you actually think you are going to sway the public to vote Democratic? Hell, even if I was a Democrat I would be prone to tell you to shut the fuck up already. Why don’t you leave your political ramblings to this website instead of the left wing zealot that you portray in public, and leave people alone that don’t agree with your philosophy?

It is a shame that it has come to this point that anyone left of Coburn is a zealot. Well, I do have a lot of passion and zeal for helping to make a change in our government. We have the freedom to publish these sites that seem to attract Republicans much more than democrats. I am so happy that you are reading these sites and hope that inwardly you might at least be questioning your belief systems and not listen to Bush's Fox network. His cousin is a ceo there.

"Sooner or later someone is going to catch you unaware, such as in the men’s room or putting the key in your car to go home and put a serious hurt on you. I believe you would find the world a much friendlier place were you to heed this very good advice. But then again, maybe not."

This part makes me worry about you and the state of violence that continues to increase in this country. Apparently, I do not know who you are in person but you are contemplating physical violence on someone that differs with your views. Read up on how this country has often had a lynch mob mentality and decide if that is really in your nature, Virgil. If so that is very sad.
I hope that you are not a regular patron of Hudson's and that they do not condone this and others intiating and getting away with physical violence as in other clubs around Oklahoma City. I will avoid this club for how violent behavior is accepted by a patron that might throw his money around on a regular basis but ban thoughtful discussion on the way this land is falling apart.

Virgil, I have to go now. I'll have the barber shave my head and trim my goatee while Muffy watches in glee.Muffy reads a magazine about rifles. lol

Muffy snorts at Garvald's humor.




Virgil
# posted by Anonymous : 10/25/2004 02:10:41 PM
Dear Freakshow watcher,
It is folks like yourself, Bubba, Martin, Niles, Bubbannette, etc that keep this dribble (?) alive!
I am happy that my writing was inspiring enough for you to write and eventually draw threats of violence.
Which of you blokes is Virgil. The name sounds familiar and because I am forgetful of names, you might have responded to me while you were doing your best to show your redneck strength when I might have shook your hand.
Your friend, Martin, was not as brave as you to finally know the true source of what I always suspected.

Let me know your last name so that I may post a court order in regards to several of me cornering me in a restroom or keying the car.

If you are under 30 you still have time to enlist in the war. If your bubba gets reelected, the war will be going for years so you will have the chance to kill innocent people on the other side of the world and you won't have to go to jail for killing people.

The fact that you have finally resorted to violence with your threats shows the rest of the cyberspace world how violent some of you underinformed Repukes are!

Have a nice day and please think of peace as a choice.
Your anger only breeds cancer in yourself and others.
I am sorry that you have so many issues. Therapy and writing will help you get over your anger.
# posted by Garvald : 10/25/2004

Wow! Sure nice get out of the heat!! Feeling those evil Repuklican eyes staring at me wondering if the Neanderthals will gang up on me in the restroom!


Fears of my Kerry Edwards sign being further ripped to shreds

a flag standing ground through the swarm of redneck bubbamentalism

filling the air with stupefying ignorance

a deadly pollution of the mind

closed to different thought

through out Bubbaland!


Garvald escapes to the KC comfort zone

of intellectual thought that feels warm to his soul

the center of America

a haven for eccentric thinking


"thou shalt not talk politics

thou shalt only listen to thy minister"

escape from the Okie Inquistion!



Muffy rolls her eyes'

"You think you're gonna write a book with that shit?"

I have a little more time on this library computer to respond to you and all the anger that is coming to a crescendo as the moon becomes full and emotionally disturbed boys and girls fill up the hospital rooms, drunk tanks and jail cells (for becoming violent defending Dubya's most historically incompetent administration.

After a little taste of Adderall, I am inspired to write many pages to draw as many comments from misinformed plebians as possible. I am very excited that this site is getting so many hits (of course, at least 90% of the comments are from angry rednecks,more than Virgil's guestimation of hostile hits)..... I am trying to concentrate but there a kids having a continual conversation while surfin' the "internets".

I need to get out of here, before the caucasian feces hits the fans....
and talk to folks a little higher on the bell curve and more open minded (the definition for liberal is generous and open minded)

This library puter won't copy Virgil's eloquent comment so I don't have the ability to critique his essay that is well above average for a Bubba). His writing is effective and he does have good points about the impending danger of the rising level of testosterone which causes an acceleration of violent redneck tendencies (i.e cornering a liberal in the restroom)

I will not go back to this pub for a while ....it is much safer in KC and other areas of the world where violence is not a way to solve problems!

I am so happy that gentlemen (I use the term "liberal-ly")such as Virgil (Have you read Virgil's "Aneid" about all the angry Greeks that caused a lot of violence? a few thousand years before people knew that rednecks would evolve!)

I am so excited about getting access to a puter that works in the library. It is almost as frustrating as getting good service in a Rebublican bar. (I'll get into being banned for (not!)talking about politics. I was good enough to avoid the word and then got banned because I offered to spell the word "utopia" for the bartender.
The bandana redneck and his wife on the perpendicular corner were screaming at me to not "belittle" him and to "get the fuck out of the bar!". I wasn't doing that. My teacher mode kicks in sometimes on my sabbatical)...

I need to publish this just in case you might be close to your laptop Virg...(I think that you were one of those closet nerds in school that pretended that you didn't get good grades, because you were writing so well until so started getting angry and violent in your writing!)

let me cut and paste your inspiring comment:

"Your neighbor isn't the one who wrote to you earlier. It sure seems you have issues. I'm just someone who happens on to your (website?) once in a while. You need to take a step back and not be so paranoid. No wonder you have issues."

Dear cowardly man or woman,
Thank you for telling me what I already know. Your syntax actually reminds me of my neighbor when she wrote a nasty comment. If you are not actually the neigbor, I am sorry for suggesting it when it is obvious from the comments that you are. If you are not why not at least tell me a little about yourself before your throw stones and try your best at being at an amateur shrink.

But thankyou for writing and if and when you gain the courage to tell me who you are (private email), I will send you a copy of this book with your sophomoric comments including the one where your friend blew his gasket! I certainly hope that you were telling me not to say chairman unless you might be his wife. She has already slung mud at me but gets upset if her dress gets mud on it too in the process.

I am really tired of all the ignorance and hatred with the folks down here. I'm sure you will be happy when I finally take off to Australia, contrary to your opinion, I have had the best time of my life with the happy people of OZ that are not materialistic and have no life other than get very fat and bitchy.
But please, you appear to be the type of person that enjoys inflicting their high moral judgement on others as long as you don't become angry with the replies.

Dear anonymous neighbor,
I presume that this is my neighbor that questioned my manhood but you did not have the courage to say who you are. All three of you in this family moved into the neighborhood less than 2 years ago and the chairman, if that is you, and apparently took over the neighborhood. At first, I enjoyed your gregariousness and sociability regardless of your very loud and abrasive nature. I was going to rent to someone else for a year, but as a favor to you, I gave a substantial discount on the rent, if things were going to be fixed up. Instead many things went wrong and things were not fixed and the place was left with many things wrong including a whole in the wall and burned carpet and a dishwasher that no longer works.
I was left with many repairs and things not working that were working when I had left. It was my fault to not have things put in writing and your brother was only going to stay until the spring.

You wrote this to me:
"I haven't been to this site in some time because frankly I don't care to. I was surprised to see how many times you've mention the chairman. Do you stand up and say these things to his face."

I will not talk to you because of your violent nature. I have had a relatively healthy life avoiding getting physical. If that is your violent nature to handle things physically rather than peaceful negotiation I feel sorry for you and have no respect for you just as you have continued to be disrespectful, angry and loud to me.


"I don't think so. You are no measure of a man."

I suppose you feel that you feel the same way about men that chose to do things peacefully and abhor violence. There a many men out there that chose to talk peacefully (without becoming angry and loud).

"All of your problems are self generated. You're a common thief. Keeping things (TV and DVD player) that don't belong to you is stealing. You can't justify it by saying it's return for the tenant paying leaving a bill. That's illegal. You are not allowed by law to do that."

It is stealing to walk away from rent and the summers ac bill. It is stealing to hook up natural gas illegally and get gas for free. It is stealing when items are taken such as trash cans without asking. It is stealing to take liberties with another neighbor's property.

"I'd advise you to leave the chairman out of the mindless dribble you post on this site. You're making it personal and that's not smart."

Please do not threaten me. I do no want to be intimidated from going outside in my own neighborhood. You are a violent family so please stay away from me.

You chose to make this your own personal matter instead of your "brother" who acts like a child and you act as you are his parent when he is well over 40 by fighting his battles. Or is because he will also become physically aggressive when he can't control his anger.

You do many things illegally and have an obsession with guns which makes me nervous and question the safety of the neighborhood. It is a free country unless Bush gets reelected and he will do many things under the guise of the "patriot act" to take away our freedoms such as prevent these bloggers from getting out information. This is a great outlet and tool for communication to prevent corrupt people from getting away with injustice. This is my own personal tool for writing. I will continue to write. I am sorry that the word, chairman, bothers you but I will continue to write with whatever tools I have whether it be a blog or only a pen or pencil. I do not like injustice and I will write about that or whatever that I feel like writing about. I actually feel much safer with pens than guns. That is my opinion and you can start a website and say anything that you like. That is the wonderful freedom that we have in the free world. The government (esp. Karl Rove intimidates the media) would love to censor us and prevent us gaining information about what is truly going on in the world.

I have the courage to be honest and bare my soul to anyone that wants to read my material. I agree that I have made many choices that are wrong and have the option to respond to amateur shrinks that make comments that are ignorant.
You do not have to read my site just as you don't have to listen to Rush Limbaugh or Howard stern.

As far as my physical safety is concerned and public harassment in front of neighbors, that goes way beyond the tolerance that a free person has to endure. Do not knock on my door or bother me anymore. Stay away from me and my property. Do not steal my garbage cans.

"You have to be the biggest waste of oxygen around. Do the world a favor and take your ass back to Australia. You keep threating to go so go. Maybe they don't want you around either."

I enjoyed a really beautiful day other than leaving an angry emotionally disturbed neighbor screaming cuss words at me because I chose not to listen to him. I enjoyed sleeping till noon and decided to get out and enjoy the sun. The neighbor's dog started barking and the social chairman doing his rounds of visiting the local neighbors a few houses down started screaming epithets towards me for the benefit of the whole street.

Some people just enjoy war and want to go fight. I don't enjoy war or confrontation. When I have the benefit of having an assistant in the classroom and a student becomes verbally ballistic, I just tell the assistant that I'm getting a cup of coffee so as not to give the angry child any attention or positive reinforcement for his uncontrolled temper tantrum.

When I have the benefit of a good administration, the child will remain in time out until he has calmed down and can write 10 good senences about why he is so angry and what is the appropriate behavior for when he loses control of his emotions.

By the way, what does "threating" mean?

I've been having problems with my blog and getting all that I write published. I noticed there were alot of hits in the last 2 days, especially in the last 12 hours! Maybe, after telling the aol election chat room about my site. It's amazing (right word?) how much better I feel when I can communicate to the whole world (even my Dad and all the Australian relatives if I dare tell them about this site). My biggest concern is that they will know that I ocassionally imbibe in the weed. I'm hoping that this site will help remove some of the stigma about smoking bud. Most marijuana smokers are in the closet (keep it quiet and often don't even want their kids to know about it, when it is far less harmful than cigarettes and far less impact to your reflexes and driving than alcohol). I've been without it for a couple days again and I don't go through withdrawals like you nicotine addicts. I'm sipping this green tea before I go see where I can get an absentee ballot so I don't have to be in Oklahoma when Kerry gets elected. I want to be with openminded friends that I've made in KC. I miss them already and enjoy myself more. It's amazing how stifling you feel with the conservative close minded thinking all around you. At least there is one other Kerry sign in the neighborhood and no one has taken my sign!

I was wondering how safe it is to go into past relationships on this blog that the whole world can see. Right now, there might be a readership of less than 100 (there have been over 4000 hits but most are the same readers clicking on different essays). I still love most of my ex gfs as there was something so special about each of them. It's sad that I have lost connection with most of them. It would be nice to know if they are at least happy or grew as a person from being with me. I am glad that I am still friends with some of them. I had chances to be a father to their children and chose not to let it happen with some. Maybe, it's my pack rat syndrome that wants to hold onto friendships. Since Alene died, I have had far more female relationships, friendships and connections. I used to have my tennis friends and that was my life.

In so many ways, I prefer being around women because it is so much easier to talk to them about feelings that I would feel uncomfortable talking to a man about. I think that most of the audience to this site is female. There are so many qualities about women that irritate me, but the fact that I had such a wonderful safe and secure relationship with my mother, helps me be nurturing and loving in relationships that I am involved in. I have had the longest on and off again friendship and love for Muffy since Alene left this world. She has helped me grow as a person and I hope that I have helped her. It is hard to tell her as with other relationships about living in the now and enjoying each other day by day rather than a long term commitment. I know women want that long term investment and I understand why they do. They feel that they are wasting their time with the man if they feel that there is no future with him. It seems that as soon as a man commits to that person long term, then all sorts of expectations arrive such as being a father and role model to their children. They see that he won't meet her expectations and then she gets angry and the man might prefer walking home rather than dealing with the anger erupting over idiotic trivial things like him asking if he has to pay extra for onions at McDonalds or wondering if the child maliciously hid the remote.

I prefer to keep a sense of humor about everything in order to deal with all the anger and frustration. My sense of humor, I think, helps me keep a healthy perspective on life's bullshit.
Before I get to deep, I will publish this and maybe delve into this controversial subject of relationships later.

From Bob Bresny's horoscope for Sagitarians:
Yellow jacket wasps have never been known to journey north of the Arctic Circle. They prefer warmer climates. But recently they began buzzing around a village in the northern part of Baffin Island, surprising the local residents, who have no word for the insects in their native Inuktitut language. I predict there'll soon be a comparable event in your life, Sagittarius. You will need new terms as well as fresh concepts to understand the appearance of an unprecedented phenomenon.

I see a change in government! Maybe I should buzz more around KC when I get my house ready for a non violent, educated renter!

For some reason, The oklahoma gazette has a different horoscope and I'm not able to cut and paste it or find it on cyberspace.
So I will write the crucial sentence:

"Extend forgiveness even to those who hurt you long ago and ask forgiveness even from those you hurt long ago. Halloween costume: religious penitent or self-flagellant"

I will even try to forgive that bully, Skippy Shy of 6th grade, and all the exgfs that broke my heart. I will also ask forgiveness to all the loved ones that I might have hurt long ago. I hope that this apology in cyberspace might help when I can't ask them in person.

I'm sure some amateur shrinks out there will have a field day with this and give me some more obvious one liner comments.

If you are you going to get personal, refrain from cussing.

I know the social chairman is eager for me to go to Australia. I need to buy a laptop, buy a portable camcorder, fix up my roof and get a renter who's good about getting things done. The previous tenant, besides walking off not paying the summer's ac bill, left me a leak in the hot water tap to the master bedroom bath so it uses gas and water. A plumber will charge 50$ just to look at it, but I spend at least 10$ bucks a month with wasted gas and water. It's these little things that get on my nerves and often seem to put me into a "fuck it" state of mind, before I go get a few beers at the "red dog" and go worship the female body with a few 1$ tithes to the temple.

Sometimes, I wish that, Muffy would do a "Vulcan mind meld" with me and give me motivation to work, just to get shit done. She is one high metabolism woman! I only have to feed about every hour or two. (just kidding, she eats more than I do and I'm twice her size. She even mentioned my paunch the other day so much that I became self concious and was worried that it would be one of those days, but we had fun walking around Independence. We went to a Japanese restaurant and there was a bloke who looked like he had an extra 100 pounds of belly. Muffy apologized for mentioning my belly when she was totally disgusted with his. She agreed that I'm still in better shape than most blokes over 30 and the fat social chaiman of my neighborhood.)

Each day passes by with nothing done except a little writing. I hate to have to depend on adderall and coffee to get going in the day. There are so many things I have dreams about doing and now I'm getting very close to 50 without doing any of these noble aspirations.
Sometimes, I have delusions about writing this big 6 or 7 figure book, but I've made no attempts to contact publishers or magazines. At least Muffy says that the writing is getting better, but it jumps all over the place. I guess that is my ADD. Ill try this vitamin now at see how it affects my writing and my outlook for the rest of the day.

Today the temp will get up to 70 and then in the mid 80s for Thursday and Friday! Maybe, I can find a clean swimming pool to work on my cardiovascular system. ( I was worried for a moment that an hour of writing had disappeared again if the puter froze on me.I will explain my motivation for writing later.)

I know that many times, some of my readers will find this drivel boring, but this site is for cleansing my soul and getting it all out as a way to put things in perspective. I am figuring out a plan for the rest of my life and overcoming my desire to just vegetate and be a hermit. Then I get out and feel the need to connect with the world like I went out for an hour before the rest of the Republican rednecks trickle into Huddlestones. Steve's wife was there and gave me a hug before she played her favorite video game.
I miss Steve but I'm banned from Lumpy's. I'm sure from my controversial talk about rednecks and the hatred towards liberal was one of the reasons. I think Chris, the owner, thinks I'll send him the bill for visiting the emergency room after being a victim of assault from an emotionally disturbed customer (that they previously had banned) and the angry schwarzenegger bartender (he was fired until he takes a Dale Carnegie course, "How to win friends and influence customers without resorting to violence".) I think many bartenders become that way or grow up in a violent household.(i.e Jr at Mikes in KC). There was a nice new bartendress there but how long before she becomes bitter at the customers"? My last few ex/gfs have been bartending. It causes them to develop attitudes sometimes.
Ill continue this later unless some of my readers say it's too boring.

OK! It's 1:36 pm and I've taken one of these Phospherine tablets that is one of these natural aids to the function of the brain.
" a naturally occuring phopholipid that appears to play an important role in the function of the brain". I'm feeling a little more focused but still don't feel like getting out of the house other than take a walk with Charles, the peaceful friendly neighbor that doesn't have to yell to get his point across. I am almost intimidated from going outside before the fat neighbor comes over and harasses me about his brother's DVd and TV. With Muffy's inspiration to not let rednecks walk over me, I'm holding onto these for deposit for the electric bill. (uh, oh. Just writing this might draw their ire and the lady next door will write a nasty comment like she did before). I know Bubbas will think I'm a chicken shit, but I know how some of my neighbors are obsessed with guns and axes.
There is a stray bullet in Charles' gargage door. I know that they won't go to that but I'm sure they would love to meet me in a dark alley. It is best to avoid confrontations with violent people. I was sure glad that Charles was the witness to their agression.
The social chairman mentioned getting a police officer, but I have witnessed his volatile mood like I do when I'm trying to talk to emotionally disturbed teenagers. When they become loud, it is best to walk away. He threw something at me one time when I walked away from one of his "interrogations" and it just hit the wall of my house. Sometimes his military background concerns me for what steps he might take to aquire his brother's tv and DVD. The ex/tenant refused to pay the electric bill and walked out to live with his "brother". It almost makes me feel like I'm dealing with the mafia and extortion.

The social chairman seems like he's taking off from work to, so he will bother me if he sees me outside or chatting with Charles. I'll call Charles and see if he wants to go for a walk! :)

I am happy that I at least walked a few miles to the Chinese buffet.
I think that I would feel better about myself if I subbed a few days but it's always the first step of signing up, visiting the college.
Then I will feel better about myself. I have to get out of this morbid selfdeprecating depression. I also make a joke about it because the amateur shrinks might call me bipolar.

Now, I'm watching 60 minutes. I'll write some more later.Ok, it's a commercial. I was just watching ED Chapelle who is gonna get 50 million in the next 2 years for his comedy. I would be just happy with 6 figures so I could travel around the world on the interest :).
I keep getting "You will inherit a large sum of money" when I go the buffet. That doesn't make me happy because I want Dad to be around to 100 when he sees my book published and started a family. !2 years ought to give enough time, but I gotta get my shit together and not worry about emotionally disturbed violent neighbors.
Chapelle, who at 31 is already a sucess, was saying that you have to embrace my failures. I feel that I have a lot more failures and I'm even more of a minority being of Australian aboriginal descent.

Now I see Muffy roll her eyes at making that last statement the way she would when I brought up my famous aunt, who is a dead Australian painter. Her art is on Australian postage stamps.
I miss playing scrabble with her. She thinks I cheat. I can beat her without having to cheat...lol,,,but she is one of the smartest women without a degree that I've met. The last 3 gfs are very intelligent, one an artist, one a published writer and maseuse, and now for the last year an ardent very sharp feminist who is the best reality check for this crazy idea of a book!

The last paragraph was erased into cyberspace. I should write it all down in the microsoft first so that when the blog is down like it was the last half hour, it won't be lost or I should cut and paste it before publishing. Oh well, no use crying over dead words lost in cyber heaven.

I was talking about being a common survivor of someone surviving the death of someone close. My mother and Alene passed away within 4 years. Common survivors don't get the attention and concern like the survivors of Columbine, 911 and the Murrah Building. They are told to move on but some never completely heal just like many of the Vietnam vets who got the shaft when they came back. At least now we treat the veterans well with this war that is at the moment more popular than the Vietnam war. At the moment, most Americans are brainwashed into thinking Saddam was Osama's "brother". At least I get that feeling when I go into an Oklahoma pub!

If you are you going to get personal, refrain from cussing.

Wow. It is so much of a change coming back to here. Thank God, that I have a friend like Charles in this sea of voluntary ignorance.
It is always great to have a friend to talk to where he won't want to dominate a conversation and keep interupting.

We were having a great conversation about gun control and the fear of terrorists getting access to uzzis. We often have a little chat in the middle of the day over a beer until the other neighborhood social chairman next door decides to interupt.(the whole family appeared to have taken off Tuesday or they must have a very long lunch hour). I won't go into details.

I had it all written down and the puter went down so maybe that was a sign. My horoscope was telling me that I had one chance to settle an issue or there would be an explosion. I guess I blew that chance by just standing ground. Muffy backs me up on this one!

Sometimes, I think it is just safer to just go south for the winter and work on my tan. That would make the social chairman of the neighborhood resentful of me going off to play in the middle of a career (what career?) Then he would be even more angry when I came back.



"when r u goin' to Australia. You've been talkin about it fer 2 years?"

Boy, that sure makes me feel welcome.!

While I am on this sabbatical/midlife crisis, I am enjoying the search for knowledge for the subject of love. I enjoy meeting my readers occasionally and think about if it was a mistake to bare my soul about love, vulnerabilities, career, organization of my life, embarrassment about mistakes that I continue to make. Right now it's Tuesday morning and it might as well be Sunday as the days drift by with self imposed guilt of not working. Is it me or society that puts this guilt when we don't work or doing something that is not continuing to make us grow as people? I've had a few hits (I sometimes censor myelf over society's views of shwag, especially by the fact that I'm honest to tell you that I'm a teacher and enjoy this sometimes magical herb) and so I'm in a sort of melancholic
relaxed creative state...Sometimes, I feel the magic too and then love to share the words like they are music....but then I censor myself as to how, I will communicate with you when Muffy might say it's bullshit or when Bubba says I'm crazy.... I hope sometime that past loves will read this and at least be able to laugh with me or at me...:(

This site is at the moment free (earning no $_), but If I want to be serious about this endeavor, I need to start looking for magazines, TV shows, reality shows, newspapers, and publishers, (wow!, now they are having drug tests with students, and anyone coaching with athletes. This is the Yukon schools. They are infringing on peoples' lives more and more. Under the guise of the patriots and this scary moral conservatism is invading our society like the Spanish Inquisition!)

I am going to post this now even though, I will continue to edit this little editorial, just to keep readers looking back to various essays that I have written. If there are grammar mistakes, feel free to correct me and I will do my best to not become defensive :).


I disagree with Joe's philosophy. If one approaches the "platonic" up front about their friendship, he/she will be at a much stronger position of strength.
Women are another species, but there is always something that they want from you, even if it is someone to listen to them. The fact that they enjoy your intelligence or your view from a male perspective, gives you the knowledge that they want something that makes you desirable. She will want to know how a man thinks when her male lover jilts her, rejects her, puts her down, etc. so that she will call you at 12:30 am when you are in deep rems (rapid eye movement while sleeping deeply). She will have you to cry on your shoulder and get some free therapy. If you help her realize that
that you are helping her, she should be grateful and at least buy you breakfast especially if she is earning more than you.
I know that I will get a lot of ire from angry women but that is the fuel for my website just as Bubbas are. I love the controversy as long I don't get physical harm or castration... probably stay anonymous! I worry about some folks reading this site especially Dad , my older brother, and ex principals that were power hungry and use the Karl Rove principal of political smears!

I do agree with this part of his philosophy as I have recently dicovered confirmation of this theory:

"They are obligated to pass on their knowledge to the Psychological Warfare Division of the Sisterhood to Destroy All Men."



Here is a cut and paste from
joe@joelogon.com:


Do's and Don'ts of Cultivating and Maintaining a Platonic Friendship with a Woman You Would Otherwise Want To Have a Relationship With and Quite Possibly Marry.
DO play and replay scenarios in your mind where you come out and declare your true feelings to her, whereupon you proceed directly to frenzied yet sensitive, passionate, and completely fulfilling love-making.
DO NOT actually attempt this.

DO rehearse elaborate and impassioned declarations of your love
DO NOT ever let anyone hear you doing this.
DO NOT ever actually give her the speech. (Instead, drop little, enigmatic, self-deprecating hints to her, and then agonize over why she does not pick up on them.)

DO listen to all her problems with men:
No matter how many times you have heard her make these same mistakes (with other men), DO NOT get so entranced by her soft, full lips that you lean forward and kiss her. (Fantasize about it instead.)
DO feel the knife twisting and your insides tearing up as you listen to this
DO develop a gnawing enviousness that grows into an insane jealousy

DO commiserate with your close guy friends. See who can come up with the most heinously painful story about "The Treatment." Shudder in unison.

DO NOT confide in any of your female friends, because:
They won't understand.
They've done it themselves. In fact, they enjoy doing it.
They'll think you are talking about them.
They are obligated to pass on their knowledge to the Psychological Warfare Division of the Sisterhood to Destroy All Men.


DO get drunk and maudlin about her
DO NOT get drunk and confront her

If you do reveal your true feelings to her while drunk or in an otherwise abnormal or altered state of mind (incl. unwarranted happiness, ridiculously deep depression, brain fever, etc.), DO deny and disavow all statements the next day.
DO say how it would be such a big mistake if you were to get together with her.
DO joke about it afterwards.
DO NOT cry, break down, and admit that you have been carrying a torch for her for ___ weeks/months/years/aeons.
DO NOT consciously avoid her for the next two weeks (avoid her unconsciously).

DO curse yourself for being a miserable, spineless, pathetic, emotionally-stunted fool.
DO promise that you will change, that things will be different.
DO NOT actually change.

DO agonize about whether to sign letters to her "love" or "your friend"
DO NOT pretend you are kissing her when you lick the envelope.

DO vacillate between fearing that she will discover how you feel about her and hoping that she does.
DO seek out opportunities to hug, air/cheek kiss, and give/receive back rubs
DO NOT let things get out of hand (if this should happen, apologize profusely and disavow everything)

DO become trapped in a shallow, meaningless, lifeless relationship.
DO NOT actually seek out a secure, quality, lasting relationship, as this would interfere with your fantasizing about her
DO complain bitterly about this awful relationship to all your friends and to her.
DO create a web page that is vague enough to be relevant to the masses, yet specific enough so that the one, special platonic friend you've been carrying a torch for reads it, comes to her senses, and fulfills Fantasy #4
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Do Not Overfeed Your New Platonic Friend
How Can They Do It? Reasons given by women on why they destroy men.
It can't be her fault. It must be my fault.
To be or not to be...that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to start over or just admit ignorance....
You are a sexist, misogynist pig. I'm checking your home page to see if you rate "babes," too.

What is the psychology of getting angry?

It becomes difficult accepting another persons' interpretation of our own behavior.

We raise our voices.

We become defensive.

It is difficult looking another person in the eye without getting into the fight/flight mood of nature.

Our blood pressure rises and we are prepared to become violent or run away.

There are certain types of intelligence.
Some people love to flaunt their knowledge and then lack the common sense to disguise it in front of others.

There are some that are genetically inclined towards becoming teachers.

Some take the chance of risking their safety for intelligence.
Some ask questions that others would never dare ask.

Some use their intelligence to become more powerful regardless of others almost as if life were truly a chess match, sacrificing everything for the sake of checkmate.

Many use intelligence as a way of getting higher on the human pecking order.

But I love intelligence
when it is synchronized
like the surfboard is to the wave
two intelligent minds working together
like a conversation with a common goal
workers together on the same beautiful house with a common theme
so there are not interuptions to the building

one intelligence combines with another...
beautiful minds in harmony
so much that you are both going together with that thought
on the surfboard to truth and wisdom

there are 5 senses
feeling
seeing
hearing
smelling
tasting

and then there are senses tuning into a vibe, connecting with the world that our common senses don’t see

feeling when there is going to be a storm
or the premonition of something bad about to happen

walking into a room filled with anger
or walking into a room filled with acceptance

some of this is learned intelligence
some is from years of learning to tune into what we can’t explain

I only have 10 minutes to write a post so I'll talk about her energy.
I sometimes feel her presence helping me and giving me guidance.
She's upstairs talking to Mom,
hoping that I'll make the right choices and the ripples created will hopefully help save the world
from destruction, misunderstanding and anger

There will still be life, if we destroy ourselves, but it's a shame that all written word will be left for the insects to devour...

A girl named Phoebe was born on the same day, October 18th, a few years after Alene left me.
Was it coincidence or some twist of fate for her to come into my life for only a few months?
She started calling me "Daddy".
Oh well, I was about to send a birthday card but I was afraid that it would be intercepted again by "grandmommy dearest", who is the matriarch of the family.

It is a shame that there is so much anger and hatred in the world to not let us forgive and love each other. I am hoping that there will be a chance for peace and love among fellow humans to flourish somewhere or at least find that place to be with others of the same philosophy.

I know it's a fantasy but sometimes I think that this schwagatopia will be reality somewhere someday....(to be cont)

It's 115 pm and I know 5 of my readers are eager to hear about Garvald's adventures. My Australian father would always tell Ron and me stories every night religiously before or during a cuddle with Mom. Dad would be in the hall and we both would focus on him and the hall light while we listened from our separate rooms.

I'm upstairs writing while I have a chance before the kids come home.
Muffy's daughter was actually surprised when I gave her cash and a card telling her how I've been hearing great things! She even thanked me. I'm sure she still hates me cuz I'm fat, bald and retarded. This will give me a little time to talk to my friends in cyberspace. I long for these moments with my readers esp after a few tokes :). of creativity!

Dad would always start a story with,
"A long, long time ago in the land of Vithjod" (the name sounded Nordic and magical)

I wish that we had taperecorded all of those great stories and I wish that I could remember some of them.

I love thinking how lucky I was to have good parents and not have a "mommy dearest". So many women that I've dated grow up in restrictive or abusive families.
Sometimes, when I see all the good in my father and mother, I can see myself being a
good father figure for children. I would love to tell them stories at night before they went to sleep and my soulmate would be there to give them love and cuddles like any good mom would do each night. I became so accustomed to this ritual, that I thought it strange that other parents did not do the same for their children.

I've had relationships where I have really bonded with the mother's children. I became very close and attached to them but then I couldn't help bring them up with love and good nourishment of the soul when it did not work out with the mother. I was sad when they called me "Daddy" like the little girl who was born on October 18th. Her son was telling me often how he was looking forward to me being his father. I tried to teach him how to ride a bike without sucess, while his mother was cleaning our "home" before grand- mother arrived for the claustrophobic weekend of disapproval. I don't know about home repairs :(.

Im looking outside Muffy's window seeing the colors change as seasons pass faster and faster.
Wishing that I could pause time, like you can with the DVD and see that moment forever or at least until the photo fades also with time.

Muffy has a photo of me ( by the 'frig) at summer camp in the summer of 69' barely younger than her daughter. My looks have changed so much in 35 short years and not wanting to think how old and hagard I might be after 35 more. Garvald momentarily thinks he's the highlander of the "clan Mc Cloud"!

Ms. Reality says,
"Garvald, you are no highlander!"
as she hurries him off the 'puter from her daughters' bedroom (what an inconvenient spot)"

She reads his thoughts from the look on the forlorn pathetic unemployed teacher snatched away from his creative outlet!

"Then why don't you buy a laptop??"
she says with disgust at his chosen obsession that brings no immediate financial gain!

Another of the many things Garvald has to do before getting even close to this gargantuan task of self-actualization.
He thinks back to one of his past ancestors in his own evolutionary gene pool.
(Muffy walks in on him looking for the phone and tells him that he has 30 minutes before their Sunday walkabout town alla fussganger (pedestrian and umlaut on the u).

"Why do you waste your time with such deluded fantasies?"
while she emptys the bladder. (I will probably have to do some serious censoring so as not to make the angry minority that's a majority even angrier!)

Garvald responds with mock seriousness,
"Hey don't give me credit for that delusion. I stole it!"

He gets the desired result of getting the female to laugh instead of goin' into the grump mode. He uses his conversational judo to help her out of her temporary grumpy hypoglygemic negative bashing of the Garvaldian philosopy.
She rolls her eyes again as she goes into the high metabolic cook mode.

OK! He's got 10 minutes to go into his really true "fair dinkum" fantasy that Garvald actually thought of himself in his cannabized state. Garvald launches (Muffy said that last night in front of Lillian and Eric! It brought back memories of his cute group therapist who threw her napkin in disgust while he had one of these "launches")

The cromagnon Garvald seizes the spear and launches himself onto the woolmammoths back from the overhanging cliff. He stabs his 16 inch spear into the mammoth neck with passion and mad visions of his shwagmaiden seeing his act of bravery so she would have his little gene pools run around his cave further on down the beach.

So garvald finished the gorgeous day with Muffy keeping his little transgressions from normal conversation in check especially under the influence. Independence has a beautiful little sqare telling all of its history including the civil war battles going on in town. (Hopefully we wont have a civil war the way we are headed to bipolarity) (to be cont)

So we finish the beautiful day and tomorrow is an "addaboy" day to be on the road again before 11. Get all the crap out of storage, and really make plans for the next 3 weeks, esp if Bush get's reelected. I am more worried about the state of affairs in this country so it is critical that we all talk to as many folks as we can! You all have a nice evening and maybe I will have a chance later to write, but I doubt it.

It's Saturday am and no significant dreams that I can remember, but thinking how critical it is that the Americans know the evil behind the scenes. I wish that folks could just read this or watch the documentary about him and how he will win at all costs. He is the DR Frankenstein. Bush did not think that he even had a chance to become governor of Texas. Rove knew exactly where and when to hit below the knees with lies about any candidate that they were running against. Kerry has remained above all of this. Now, I would not be surprised if Pres. Rove is behind telling everyone to make a big deal that Kerry mentioned that Cheney's daughter is a "lesbian" when Cheney already aknowledged it a long time ago to the American public!
Rove is so effective at intimidating press and telling national reporters like Novak what to write! Why is the press not continuing to ask about where George was during Alabama??... yet all they want to do is go on about Kerry's legitimate war record with Sinclair news ( a conservative organization). Please get on the "internets" and look up these things. Be informed about what is going on or we will lose our freedom as we already under the "Patriot Act"!


Fantastic documentary about a man on a mission. An unauthorized biography of a political killing machine. Karl Rove is an evil genius that will go to whatever lengths to destroy a person's career. He has the same tenacity as Mcarthy did in the communist witch hunt of the 50's !
Here's a post about the DVD and the book:

BuzzFlash Interviews


Who is Bush's Brain? Karl Rove is, according to a New Book Chronicling the Political Life of the Machiavelli Behind the Throne of King George

A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
With James Moore, Co-Author (with Wayne Slater) of "Bush's Brain"

Some readers have e-mailed us asking why BuzzFlash is offering a book about Karl Rove as a premium. Our answer is simple: know your enemy. Rove may be evil, but he is an evil genius. Freedom loving Americans ignore him at their peril. Rove never graduated from a college, but he is a masterful three-dimensional chess player, albeit working for the forces of radical extremism. Rove runs circles around the Democratic leadership. He's a bear hunter who knows how to bait and trap with the best of them.

It's too bad he is the most powerful man in Washington, working on behalf of the forces of evil. Karl Rove would do Lucifer proud.

In a May 7th op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, this is what James Moore had to say about Rove:

Karl Rove led the nation to war to improve the political prospects of George W. Bush. I know how surreal that sounds. But I also know it is true.

As the president's chief political advisor, Rove is involved in every decision coming out of the Oval Office. In fact, he flat out makes some of them. He is co-president of the United States, just as he was co-candidate for that office and co-governor of Texas. His relationship with the president is the most profound and complex of all of the White House advisors. And his role creates questions not addressed by our Constitution.

Rove is probably the most powerful unelected person in American history.

The cause of the war in Iraq was not just about Saddam Hussein or weapons of mass destruction or Al Qaeda links to Iraq. Those may have been the stated causes, but every good lie should have a germ of truth. No, this was mostly a product of Rove's usual prescience. He looked around and saw that the economy was anemic and people were complaining about the president's inability to find Osama bin Laden. In another corner, the neoconservatives in the Cabinet were itching to launch ships and planes to the Mideast and take control of Iraq. Rove converged the dynamics of the times. He convinced the president to connect Hussein to Bin Laden, even if the CIA could not.

This misdirection worked. A Pew survey taken during the war showed 61% of Americans believe that Hussein and Bin Laden were confederates in the 9/11 attacks.

Here is the BuzzFlash interview with James Moore.

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BUZZFLASH: The title of your book is pretty provocative – Bush's Brain. Where are we supposed to go with that concept?

JAMES MOORE: Well, originally I didn't intend for it to be pejorative. I wanted it to strictly speak to what Karl Rove's role was, and that was his nickname. It was one of three nicknames that he had from the press corps and from Governor Bush. Governor Bush called him Boy Genius. And the press corps -- when everybody referred to him in the thirty party -- we said: Oh, he's Bush's Brain.

And it was meant as he's a brainy guy, a brainy fellow. But the title of the book is sort of two-fold; I wanted it to cut both ways. I wanted it to be a little pejorative, but I also wanted it to directly refer to Karl. The other nickname for Karl, which the President has, which is a sort of Texas colloquialism, is Turd Blossom, which means something wonderful that grows up out of a cowpie.

BUZZFLASH: What exactly do you think Bush means by that?

MOORE: Well, I think what he means is that there's a lot of stuff he hates about Karl, and about having to be political, and the games that he has to play and indulge in in order to get where he wants. But the fact that Karl is very good at this is a positive, and it brings a benefit. It puts a bloom on a thorny old Bush.

BUZZFLASH: In your book, certainly I think it's fair to say that there's a mixture of admiration for Rove's political skills and his smarts, his strategy. But you certainly provide factual evidence that his intelligence has been put to use for strategy over principle, for anything it takes to win. And you've got some very detailed examples of that: the bugging of his own office, the gutter tactics used in unseating Jim Hightower as Texas Agriculture Commissioner, and so forth.

So here's the proverbial question: What makes Rove tick? You mention at least a couple times that it's a drive toward being at the pinnacle of power; I think you use something like the phrase "the highest unelected official in the United States." Does he have an ideology? Or is it simply to win?

MOORE: Well, two things: One is, you said admiration, and I don't think it's as much admiration as it is awe. I am amazed by his grasp of both the big picture and detail. I've never, ever seen anyone who's able to look out beyond the event horizon and sort of create the next environment that will support his political ends, and then, at the same time, manage details right down to the precinct level. He's phenomenal in that regard.

In terms of ideology, Karl does have an ideology, and it is very fundamentalist, conservative, Republican to the right. If he had to pick a group which he most closely associates with, that group is going to be very conservative, Christian fundamentalist Republicans. And all of the messages that the White House sends in the way the White House governs is to that base Republican core that Karl believes is the foundation of the Republican Party and its future, and its hope for election in 2004.

By design, they have no enemies on the right. And they'll take them on the left, but there are none on the right. And that's precisely what Karl chooses to do.

BUZZFLASH: Does he choose to do that for political and strategic reasons? Or because he himself is of that extremist ideology?

MOORE: I think he believes both. I think that he believes very much in that particular ideology, but he also thinks that strategically, if those people aren't there, and if those people aren't energized and using their mechanism to turn out their votes, the Republicans can't stay in power.

BUZZFLASH: He packages Bush as the "compassionate conservative" -- the images of Bush surrounded by black schoolchildren, surrounded by Elizabeth Smart, who had been abducted. The images America sees are not of the extremist ideology -- they're of a caring man, a caring President. So there's clearly a dichotomy. Some would call that hypocrisy. And in your book, you again detail that his methodology doesn't necessarily live up to the espoused morality that Bush and the extreme right articulates –- that, as Tom DeLay hypocritically proclaims, there should be no moral relativism. BuzzFlash argues that this administration is the epitome of moral relativism. It's the original bait and switch administration.

What Karl does to achieve his goals in terms of the candidates he's worked for is unscrupulous. He thinks nothing of slandering people. He is a rumor mongerer. He has allegedly used law enforcement personnel to undercut his opponents. How is that balanced, do you think, in his own mind? That the means, even if illegal or skirting at the edge of the law, don't matter as long as you achieve your ends? Clearly, there's a lot of moral relativism going on there because he doesn't have any compunction about starting a whispering campaign against John McCain in South Carolina, claiming that he has a black child, and he wasn't really a war hero and so forth. And yet Bush and Rove and the White House espouse these absolute, moral values. So how do those two things exist within him?

MOORE: Well, it's something I said all along. Compassionate conservatism in Texas is where they ask you if want green Jello or red Jello before they stick the needle in your arm and execute you. That's compassionate conservatism. But Karl's method for governance, which he has gotten this President to use very effectively, is completely cynical and it's based on the whole idea that we are all too busy to pay attention to the details of what's going on. We're all running around worrying about our mortgages and our 401Ks, and getting the kids to school or daycare, and picking up the dry cleaning, and planning vacation or retirement, that we don't read deeply into the story.

He once told a consultant that we interviewed for "Bush's Brain" that you should run every political campaign as though people are watching television with the sound turned down. And toward that end, you rely heavily on imagery and not very much on substance, knowing that if the President is photographed in a school of minority and ethnic children, and is interested in their future in that particular photo op, that people will trust that image. And they don't go beyond that image to look at his policy, which is signing the "Leave No Child Behind Act" in a big, high-profile moment with Senator Ted Kennedy, and then gutting the heart out of that bill with the funding that he offers up for it.

The President has become very good at these phony linkages. For instance, you'll see him running around talking about the tax bill, saying we need to get it passed so that we can create jobs for people. Factually, this tax bill -– there's not an economist in America or a successful business person, Warren Buffet among them, who believes that getting rid of the taxation of dividends is going to create jobs anytime in the near future, and ostensibly in the long term. But if the President says it over and over enough, people will believe it, just as Karl Rove got him to say over and over that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11.

At time of the war in Iraq, the Pew survey showed 61 percent of Americans believed the canard about Iraq. So the whole concept is to speak as though you are a compassionate, sensitive, caring guy, and create these photo opportunities that prove that. But do whatever you want to do when you govern, because the public isn't paying very close attention. And they've gotten away with it thus far.

BUZZFLASH: Well, I don't know if you cover this explicitly in your book, because the book you wrote with Wayne Slater is very much based on your interviews and fact, and not as speculative as I'm asking you to be. But how do you think Rove balances -– getting back to my last question -– the White House espousing the sense of absolute moral superiority, if you want to call it moral purity, with tactics that include lying, deception, and use of government agencies for political purposes?

MOORE: Well, the dichotomy exists within the collaboration between Bush and Rove. And you see it in his campaigns, and you see it in their governance. And it works this way: The President is oblivious, and chooses to stay oblivious, to the things that Karl does, and the contradictions about morality that Karl does. The whole concept, and it works in all of his campaigns, is the candidate or the officeholder takes the high road -- talks policy, talks moral clarity, and honor, and principle -- while the operative does all the dirty work down in the ditch, and splashes the mud, and spreads the scurrilous smears and rumors and whisper campaigns that have the desired political effect to keep the candidate elected.

And so they ignore the contradiction because they've sort of compartmentalized it in their collaboration. Karl has no problem with it, and the President has this rationalization that, well, I really don't know that's going on out there; I'm just saying what I believe. It's almost like this phenomenon after the Jews were released from the concentration camps, where they couldn't remember certain parts of the experience because of the psychological phenomenon called selective recall.

I think what takes place in terms of Karl and the President is almost a sort of selective consciousness.

And I also think it's possible that Karl is pathological. And I didn't realize how strong of a statement that is, but if you look at some of the things that we heard during the course of doing research for this book -- in one instance, we wrote about these debate contests, and we wrote about him running for office. We interviewed six people who he went to high school with who were very close to him. Remember that this is the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, and most of us are growing our hair long and wearing tie-dyed t-shirts, and Karl is wearing a coat and tie to school at a public school every day. Now when you talk to six different people, the one characteristic that stands out in their mind about Karl is his dress -– him dressing like a businessman when everyone else is dressing like rebellious hippies.

You got six people say that, and then Karl saying: Oh, that's nonsense; I only wore a coat and tie on debate days. Well, you begin to believe that there's something pathological about a guy who can perceive a reality that everyone else says does not exist. And it causes me some concern about him being in as much power and influence as he has within the White House.

BUZZFLASH: As you detail in your book, Rove has some interesting biographical notes. His father left the family; his mother committed suicide; he avoided service in the military and Vietnam; he never finished college. It's a very interesting background for someone who is probably the most powerful unelected official in the United States. And you don't get into too much psychobabble in analyzing him, other than to say perhaps this chaotic background left him prone to seek some sort of strong influence and sense of order and the authoritarianism in the Republican Party. But it is a sort of an unusual pedigree for what he has attained. After all, his biggest accomplishment up to working for George Bush the elder at the RNC was a record of dirty campaign tricks that he accumulated during his Young Republican days.

MOORE: Well, I do think that's true. And part of the direction he's gone in, however, is also a product of that background. I mean, he grew up in an irreligious family, and now he embraces fundamentalist Christianity in a very strong way. And he is very, very driven to achieve and to accomplish things that will be of note. And I think that a part of that -– you know, a lot of us who come from those kinds of backgrounds are driven in those kinds of ways. And I think it informs everything that Karl has become, because I think there was so much uncertainty that he sought clarity. He wanted things simple. He wanted them black and white. And he's found a President who thinks the same way. And unfortunately, life is not lived in the black-and-white zones. It's lived in the gray zones. And this President and Karl don't acknowledge that the gray zones exist.

BUZZFLASH: You mentioned before his comment about most Americans receive their news from television with the sound turned off. That seems like a very telling comment, considering that Rove's certainly the best master of the television image since Mike Deaver handled Reagan's image. Rove may be more masterful, because Reagan was an actor and he just walked onto Mike Deaver's sets.

But let's take an example of what happened on the U.S. Abraham Lincoln, and the fact that now even Ari Fleischer's admits it wasn't an issue of not being able to take a helicopter because it was too far away, since it was only 30 miles offshore, changing the story and saying that Bush really wanted to see what it was like to land on a carrier. And then we learned that the ship was delayed, and the delay cost a lot, and Condoleeza Rice flew out ahead on a helicopter -– all sorts of things are coming out.

This seems to capitalize on what you just said –- that Karl Rove isn't concerned about the lies getting out, because that's all sort of an insider's story that the average American is never going to learn about or hear about. All the average TV-watching American sees is that image of the Commander in Chief landing on the deck there, triumphantly, in a pilot's uniform. And that's the image Rove knows is going to be in the campaign commercial. The White House all but admits it was preparatory for the campaign. And it's almost at this point that it doesn't even matter if the truth comes out, because when it comes out, it's really only being absorbed by a very select group of people. The country at large doesn't suck in that footnote information that reveals the charade and lies.

And Rove, unfortunately, just seems to be brilliant at that. It seems the Democrats don't understand that at all -- they don't understand the power of image. They don't understand that even on the rare occasion that they do object or criticize an extremist Bush policy, that it doesn't matter, because it's not translated into an image that Americans can understand.

Where did Rove develop this? He wasn't really a journalist. He started in the political world; ironically, as a college Republican, since he never graduated from college. But basically his political consulting started off as a expertise in direct mail. How did he develop such skill at playing the media like a fiddle?

MOORE: Well, he's always been a very quick study, and he's an extremely intelligent guy. He's one of the brightest people I've ever met. And I guarantee you he was watching closely what Deaver did. And he knows the way the media works, he knows what drives it. He knows that if you get the big image and the big moment, you can use it. And he's fearless when it comes to intimidating the media and making them think twice about asking questions.

I was astonished by the Abraham Lincoln event because it is such an irony, and so hypocritical for the President to don a flight suit and take that flight because we're talking about a President who used family connections to get into the National Guard. He lost his flight status after four years because he refused to show up for his physical in 1972, which also happened to be the year that random drug testing was begun. And in his first campaign he said that he couldn't find his family physician to give him the physical. And then it was pointed out the military doctor gives these physicals. And then they said, well, he didn't go because he decided he would no longer fly, as if an enlistee gets to decide their future service and duty.

Punishment was issued for him to do civilian duty in Denver, for which he did not show up. He claims to have showed up in Alabama, when he transferred to Alabama to work on his Senate campaign. The commanding officer there said that he never showed up. I mean, he takes a privileged position in the Guard and then does not honor his commitment -- disappears for the last two years of his hitch and uses family privilege to avoid combat and making any kind of political statement about the War in Vietnam. And yet they have the chutzpah to put him in a plane and fly him out there, and think that no one will ask him about these contradictions.

And guess what? All there was was media gushing about what an amazing event this was, and how great the President looked, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And no one called him a draft dodger. No one said: Mr. President, there's a difference between you and the people you're here to honor. They finished their commitment -– their military duties -– and you shirked yours.

BUZZFLASH: How have we gotten to this point –- to a point Rove's skill can be confident of success in a situation like that, despite the gross and blatant hypocrisy of the situation?

MOORE: They have a 24-hour machine that attacks. And it's constantly staffed and it intimidates and it distracts. It uses head fakes. They jump on John Kerry for saying that he is part Jewish. They jump on John Kerry and Howard Dean for debating each other too strongly. And any reporter who would deign to ask these kinds of questions of the Bush administration would get the White House in their face, saying: How dare you? And then they would be threatened with access.

They play this game of access. They know very well that once a reporter loses his or her access to the White House, their job is gone. And so the reporter is sort of intimidated into not asking these kinds of tough questions. This is a game that they perfected here in Texas. As a matter of fact, in 1994, when he was running for governor for the first time against Ann Richards, I was panelist in his broadcast debate. And I was the first person in his life to ask him the question, particularly in public –- how he got into the Texas Air National Guard when there a hundred thousand young men on waiting lists around the country that ranged from three to five years.

How did he get into the National Guard and avoid the draft? And he answered the question, not very well -– he didn't tell the truth. But after the debate, both Karl and Karen came up to me and jumped on me, and said: What kind of question was that? How dare you? Why would you ask such a question? That's so irrelevant. He served, you know. He was in the National Guard, et cetera, et cetera. And I said: Wait a minute -– I'm a few years younger than he was, and I know from my experience and my friends that we all tried to get into the Guard because it was a way to avoid combat. And we at least admitted it. And he's trying to pretend that no strings were pulled.

I said I have a sense of obligation to ask that question because I lost friends in Vietnam -- and I tried to avoid it myself. And I know the way the game was played. If you had family connections, you were safe. If you didn't, you weren't. And he's got ‘em.

The point is that they use rank intimidation to silence the media. And they certainly are not beyond going to management and asking questions. I had the office of former President Bush one time call a television station in Texas that I worked for, asking them why I had asked such a difficult question of the President during an appearance in San Antonio. Those are the games they play, and they work.

BUZZFLASH: Now tell me -– getting back to the election of George Bush to the governorship, let's go back even before that, as Rove is positioning things for the Republicans to solidify their control in Texas. In the book Bush's Brain, you devote considerable time to this period, and it's just absolutely fascinating to read -- a case study of how Rove dislodged Jim Hightower as Agricultural Commissioner, and you bring up this curious relationship between Rove and an FBI agent, Greg Rampton.

MOORE: Karl first met Greg Rampton in 1986 when Karl bugged his own office, and Rampton was one of the FBI guys who came to his office to investigate. Rampton had been stationed in Austin for a few years and was part of an investigation that was setting up these phony bribes for state officials. And he went after a number of state officials there, and got some trials but no convictions.

Anyway, my belief is that somehow, during the course of the phony bugging investigation in Karl's office, Rove discovered that he and Greg Rampton were politically sympathetic with each other. And Greg Rampton ended up investigating every Democratic officeholder on a statewide basis in Texas, and never got anything against any of them. And they went after Jim Hightower, the Agriculture Commissioner, and were interviewing dozens of people at the Ag Commissioner's office, hoping to get Jim Hightower indicted, but they couldn't.

But there were two elderly guys who had been fundraisers for about 30 years over there. They ended up being indicted and prosecuted and convicted. And during the course of all that, they got many offers to roll over on Hightower and the charges against them would be dropped. They refused to do it.

Also in process, numerous people were told during the course of their interviews by Greg Rampton: Look, if you think you've got anything, call Karl Rove and he'll get in touch with me. It was quite, quite clear to everybody in town, and from the attorneys who were defending these people at the Ag Department –- dozens of people had retained attorneys for their FBI interviews -– that Rove was running the operation, and Rampton was taking directions from Karl Rove.

BUZZFLASH: And also that some of their investigation was timed for the media.

MOORE: Yeah, the day that Hightower announced that he was running for reelection, Rampton showed up at Hightower's office with 10 different subpoenas for documents and individuals and said it was strictly coincidental.

Just as the timing on the bugging in Karl's office was "coincidental," in that the bug was discovered on the day of the only debate in the Texas gubernatorial campaign in 1986, and Karl's candidate happened to be a horrid debater. And the coverage of that bugging completely covered up the entire debate. On the front page of the newspaper the next day, hardly anything was written about the debate.

BUZZFLASH: And it also made his candidate and him look like victims. Just two other quick things about Hightower: You also point out -– in a somewhat scary and humorous fashion at the same time -– that a reporter at one point called Hightower's office about their reactions to subpoenas that had been issued, and no one in the office knew, meaning that this reporter had been leaked the subpoena information -- possibly by Rove -- and had just jumped the gun.

MOORE: It actually happened several times with several reporters. But that was the one where the Ag Department people put the pieces together. Rove denied to me that he leaked.

BUZZFLASH: But Rampton says he didn't do it. Rove says he didn't do it. So –

MOORE: Who did?

BUZZFLASH: – someone's not telling the truth.

MOORE: Well, then it has to come out of the U.S. Attorney's Office, and that's the least likely place because then a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office runs the risk of obstruction of justice charges and going to prison for a long, long time. So I don't think that happened. I think it was Rove or Rampton.

BUZZFLASH: The attack on Hightower is so illustrative –- and that's one of the reasons I assume you spent a lot of time on it –- of Karl Rove's tactics. You mentioned Hightower was a target because he was the highest profile Democrat at the time and sort of a rising star. And we all know he's still around and is still a populist. And Rove came up with this strategy to tarnish him, and eventually unseat him, even though he looked like a shoe-in. And the person who ran against him is the current governor of Texas –

MOORE: Rick Perry.

BUZZFLASH: – Perry. And once again, Rove succeeded. In a race that looked like it was Hightower's to lose, he lost it. But he lost it because of the sideshow that was created.

MOORE: Well, he lost it. A big part of it was this phony-baloney investigation. But Hightower did make one major misstep, and that was Jesse Jackson pressured him for a presidential endorsement, and Hightower gave him that endorsement. And that's also at the time when flag-burning legislation was being kicked around, and Jesse Jackson was fighting a Constitutional amendment against burning the flag. And so, in East Texas, which always has the greatest turnout in this state in terms of percentages, Rove and Rick Perry put up a bunch of ads with Hightower and Jesse Jackson and a burning flag. And that pretty much brought Hightower's demise.

BUZZFLASH: Your book ends shortly before the Iraq war, but it's very prescient in terms of its predictions -– the way you left it then is pretty much how it has actually played out. I just read today that Rove is now careful not to call it a war, but rather "the Iraq battle."

MOORE: Right. I thought they would, for alliterative and marketing purposes, call it the Battle of Baghdad, but they decided to call it the Battle of Iraq.

BUZZFLASH: You point out how Rove saw his opportunity, and he took it with the war on terrorism and with creating a permanent condition where Bush becomes unattackable, and all other issues are secondary to protecting the nation against the terrorist threat. He saw this as an opportunity to basically put every issue by the backburner, as far as a debatable issues by the Democrats. And not only that, but to actually turn the war to the advantage of the right-wing agenda and claim that anything that's being done is being done to advance the war on terrorism.

They had said for a while that even tax cuts would help fight the war on terrorism. Everything became a part of it. We needed drilling in the Arctic wilderness because we needed more oil, to ensure our supply in case it's cut off in the war on terrorism. Ashcroft's powers increased, also due to the war on terrorism. Rove masterfully turned September 11 –- a tragedy –- into a win-win situation for the right wing of the Republican Party. Of course, the fact that the Democrats rolled over like dogs on their backs helped him achieve his goals.

Indeed, you point out that when they started the "permanent war" political strategy, one of the key assumptions that Rove had was that the Democrats wouldn't fight back in terms of trying to change the definition of the debate, particularly when they were beginning the "war on terrorism," and Daschle and Gephardt went along with the Patriot Act and also with giving supreme war powers to Bush and so forth. And you point out that Rove was right. By the time we were leading up to the Iraq invasion, Rove had succeeded and it was pretty hard to lay a punch on Bush. This again seems like a masterful triumph of defining image in the mind of the voter. Rove knows how to define the issues in a way that, even if the Democrats were willing and had some guts, it doesn't seem they would be able to master a media counter-campaign.

MOORE: Well, a big part of the success of Karl has been the absolute befuddlement of the Democrats, and also, in many, many cases, their own lack of righteous indignation and lack of message. I remember that it was Joe Lieberman of Connecticut who was pushing Homeland Security, and the White House said: No, no, no –- we don't need another gigantic bureaucracy. And then what happened was, all of a sudden, they cobbled together very quickly their own Homeland Security Department. And they release it on the day that Colleen Rowley is testifying before the Senate on the failure of the Bush administration's FBI to take action on her memo about a potential 9/11 event.

After the Senate tries to create a bill that's much more reasonable than the one the White House has put together, the President says in New Jersey that the United States Senate is not as interested in the security of our country as it should be. Now in the United States Senate, you have Daniel Inouye, who served in World War II. You had Max Cleland, who left two legs and an arm in Vietnam. And the draft-dodging President is saying that they're not interested in the security of the United States! Well, there was no screaming and hollering from Max Cleland or Daniel Inouye. They sent Tom Daschle out there, and Daschle's an easy target. Strategically, it was a bad move to send Daschle out.

The White House operatives have now taken the war in Iraq –- Karl has -– and they have made it into the defining context of the Bush presidency. Coming next is that they will take both of these things –- the economy and the war against terrorism –- and they will bundle it up into one package. Another one of Karl's many gifts is a simplicity of message, and finding the right message that the public gets, that it understands, and is able to access very quickly and easily, and doesn't have to think in great depth or detail about actually what's going on.

So he's going to market the economic problems and the war on terrorism under the purview of a message called security. And we're going to be talking about economic security and national security. In terms of the economy, Karl is going to have the President say, look, if I hadn't been distracted by the war, I would have got my tax cut plan through Congress. And it would have already begun to work. But because I was distracted, I only am just now getting this through. Don't toss me out until this thing has had a chance to work. And look, I didn't get all of it. So re-elect me and I'll go back. And I'll fight that mean old Congress, and we'll get the rest of the tax bill. And we'll turn this economy around.

Now, on the other side of this message, in terms of national security, Karl will have the President say we've made some progress in the war on terrorism, but it's not over. This is an ongoing war. And we resolved the whole mess with Saddam Hussein, but there are other dangers out there. And whatever you do, you shouldn't change your Commander in Chief in the middle of a war. I believe completely that it's possible, if the President is politically on the ropes late next summer or early next fall, that there will be a military incursion into Syria, or they will say that there are hidden weapons of mass destruction there, or there are some Iraqi leaders in Syria. Or they will go into Pakistan. And they will suggest that bin Laden is in a compound in Karachi. Or they will go into Iran, and they will suggest that too many Shiites have been crossing over from Iran into Southern Iraq, and they're creating an unstable situation in Southern Iraq, so they're going after Shiite leadership in Iran. It's all going to be positioned as unfinished business. And why would you bring a new CEO in to finish out the business when you got the guy in there who started it?

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Get your copy of the "Bush's Brain" from BuzzFlash.


When's the DVD coming out about "Escape to Schwagatopia?"

48 to 48 with Nader getting 1% for the 2nd day in a row according to ABC ( a big crap). If only these right wing news stations weren't so afraid to tell the truth like they are overseas (Australia). All foreigners that I meet in my travels seem to know more about the corruption in this government than the normal Joe.

I'm still hanging out here with far more positive Kerry vibes than I would in the dreaded Okie Zone. I know that I will have to face the ire of the zone but I want to survive till at least after the election so I know whether or not Armegeddon for the human race is around the corner when angry postal immigrants leave their pizza huts and dominoes to go shoot people with the oozis (spelling?) that they were able to get thanks to George and his NRA (National Redneck Association) lobby sleeping buddies who let it pass after all the previous work to prevent them from getting on the market!

George never put any thought in how we are just breeding angry young Arabs in Iraq and other countries when we never had to be there. Bush took all out attention away from failing to trap Bin Laden to getting revenge for his father's embarrasment.

The more, that I read about all the dirty tricks from Rove, the more I feel the need to let others know. Even though, I am registered for Oklahoma, I want to be in a place with positive Kerry Vibes so we can celebrate a change from the most evil regime that this country has ever had.
Watch everyday, readers, how we are bombarded by ads, capitalism and big business trying to control our lives. This administration is more into sleeping with the big lobbys and the rich than ever before! We have to do everything to prevent the powerful rich from keeping away our freedoms by keeping us poor and ignorant!

read this site:
http://www.mediamayhem.blogspot.com/

Tomorrow is Muffy's daughter's B'day and will get over being 13! Hooray! 13 is a tough number for moi!
October 18th is a special day. That is when Alene was born. I will go more into the significance of that day, Monday. Muffy, when I go back to the zone, I will see about getting Alene a headstone . I want to get something special for her and I know some wonderfully creative people!


A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
Joe gets up at 6:00 AM to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot with good, clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan. Because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast -- bacon and eggs this day. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

Joe takes his morning shower, reaching for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount that is contains because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and the breakdown of its contents. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree-hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer meets these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he'll get worker's compensation or an unemployment check because some liberal didn't think he should lose his home to temporary misfortune.

It's noon time. Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.

Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification (those rural Republican's would still be sitting in the dark).

Joe is happy to see his dad, who is now retired. Joe's dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to. After his visit with dad, Joe gets back in his car for the ride home. He turns on a radio talk show. The host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees, "We don't need those big government liberals ruining our lives. After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."

In the years to come, Joe's life will change dramatically. The U.S. dollar will be devalued as a result of our huge deficit, our living standards demolished, our standing with the world diminished and our social security gone...all because some conservative republican made sure he could take care of himself and his buddies.

This magical soul mate would often haunt his conscious and his subconscious. She would enter into his magical world of dreams where he was often more in control of his own life and happiness.

This world was often by the beach . Most of the time, he was in his early twenties, just out of college and free from the worries that his real world has now.

"Is this the story that goes into your ex/scwhagmaiden?"

"How dare you answer a question with a question!"
Garvald replies in his grumpy middle aged teacher mode.

"Ha! Ha!"
the Bohemian audience responds with canned laughter!
but they are too lazy to look up the word!

"What does "bohemian" mean?"

Garvald hands her the dictionary and she walks off in disgust to go have the cigarette!

"I got too many problems to go look up the word. I am a mother and don't have time to go look up words like a little girl in school!"
she says defensively.

Garvald has quite the imagination to create such characters or are they real???

He remembers as much of the dream as he can trying to decipher her words that her entity spoke to him before the interuption would let her finish...
She was so beautiful and calm but still very angry...
she had accepted her tarnished views of what she thought was her hero and saviour from another life..
the Civil War? (she had wondered if his back problems were from being shot in the back while trying to escape the rebel prison of death and disease)

Garvald had been waiting for the chance to speak to her throughout this garbled dream of a community that was often by the beach...
from what he could remember, she was sitting on the grass like they were at shwagstock listening to the music that wafted through the forest...
she was aware of him but would not look him in the eyes...
He could feel her power and knowledge almost as if her real energy force was trying to communicate to him....
He tried to go back to sleep to talk to her but she was gone...

The last two nights, two dreams made a deep impact on Garvald.
Garvald is developing his spiritual connection to his soul through his dreams that talk to him each morning before interruptions.

From the first dream, he sees and feels his power and his talents in conjuction with good souls such as John Kerry to make an impact on this world ....
together they see all the good in this country and in the people around the world...
but there are many sharks roaming the oceans ready to tear you apart limb from limb with no mercy...
they both see a world happiness...
by working with their combined efforts of knowledge, strength, humor and love

Garvald shook Kerry's hand and thanked him for signing his shirt that he's now lost ..:)

He felt his energy and the common bond of having a deep desire to help the world

He saw the kindness in his eyes ...
not the evil or selfishness that he saw in Bush about 25 yards away ....
while he was spewing off lies like an evil dragon
in the Lees Summit High School stadium

seeing everyone him around believing his lies ...

"It don't sound like it's finished!"
says the voice of poor grammar ....

Garvald wakes up to reality and all the abundance of rednecks in the world....
and he has to take a shit... (will be continued)

Garvald's philosophy on life is evolving while he discovers himself, his limitations and his talents.
He is searching for self actualizion and his utopian community. Most of his friends and acquaintances don't understand him and his desire to go on this mecca to his pyramid, but he feels the need to express these feelings to everyone.
So much of his own spirituality is developed daily after his trials and tribulations.

Garvald is taking this gambit as the only time to really reflect on his present location and his future destination.
He puts his teaching career in limbo.

Garvald is formulating a plan for this journey while he writes.
The writing will be a barometer of his world and his wave of life conjoined with other companions in their own searches.
Garvald has momentarily reached what he thought was ultimate happiness only to be taken away in a moment.
This helps him learn to love the moment of this short life with passion like tasting the nectarine

Garvald will learn as he helps others to smell her rose, the flavor of life here and then gone....
do all these visions last in the eternity of space???

long flowing golden hair running towards him in the meadow
Garvald enjoyed the momentary taste of happiness...

His mind often going to those sweet images of a future that didn't happen..

but then he discovers happiness is the search of finding the best person that is deep inside of Garvald...
Only when he finds him,
will he deserve the soulmate of his dreams...

Garvald feels there's time to have his family and find his purpose for being here..
he wants pictures of his thoughts all written down to share with his family in his future shwagatopia....
the writing documents how he learns to savor every drop of life
....

If you are you going to get personal, refrain from cussing.


Aunt Flo just arrived and normally Muffy has a complete turn around in mood, usually
for the better, but after Garvald is almost over his miserable 24 hour bug, she goes into
the attack mode first over Garvald’d supposition that her mischievous 13 year old
daughter has hidden the remote. Garvald must tread lightly so when they are off to
Lillian’s for some Bohemian anti-Bush conversation, Muffy forgets her medication.
Garvald makes the mistake of asking Muffy twice if is she is heading back home.
She berates his mental ability and says that’s why his daughter hates him because he is
“SOFA KING RE TAH DED!” The daughter has the same genetic quality of rolling her
eyes at his mental disability. Garvald goes easy on the medication when Muffy is in this
mood because his processing will only become worse and make her lose patience at his
poor listening skills. He tells her to be more accepting of a person that is a little dingy.
She said that dinginess is only attractive in females and not MALES! He tells her that all
women have a double standard especially feminists! He buys her gas and thinks she
might be happy now but then he is short on cash so he only donates 2$ instead of the
normal 5$ for the Kerry campaign. He did not budget a larger amount on his itinerary.


She blows a gasket!
Serious engine damage has already taken place.
Rather than face the barrage of an emotionally disturbed angry woman he tells her to let
him out of the car. She stops without hesitation to let him off to walk 3 miles to her
home and his car. He stops off at the Democratic picnic for canvassers and chats about
his favorite subject “BUSH” and then after eating a couple of apples to soothe his healing
stomach, he takes the hike to her home thinking of what essay he will write and the title
for it.
“TAKE A H IKE” ??

After finally arriving to his car he goes “carabout” through the suburbs of south Kansas
City. He finds out that there is some sort of festival blocking off downtown Belton.
There is a band called “Bobby Carson” playing at the end of the street beckoning him to
sway with the sounds.
After a while he walks further down the street to discover a lot of friendly German folk
at the german beer garden with great Wurst, Strudel und Bier! Garvald gets to practice
his German with the Madchens (unfortunately there is no umlaut on this keyboard that I
believe is supposed to be over the “a” in Madchen). This German community has been
here in Belton for fifty years! He wonders if there is a pagan community here too
mistaking a family of Baptists for Pagans. He has visions of finding out some sort of
hippy community in Peculiar, Missouri. Peculiar borders Belton.

Garvald finishes the evening tanzen with the “Bobby Carson” band! They were playing
all sorts of blues and great funky music that makes you wanna flow with the sound!
While in the flow of the music waves, Garvald smiles and forgets the “blown gasket”.

If you are you going to get personal, refrain from cussing.
I know that Ill probably get on the Bublican hit list for printing this on my site.
Isnt this the tactics that George likes to use in his campaign?

Laura Welch Bush, driving east on Farm Road 868, was approaching the only highway in town on a clear night with a bright moon. She lived only a couple of miles away and had been through this particular intersection hundreds of times in the years her family had lived in Midland, Texas. On her left Laura Bush could see her boyfriend’s car approaching the intersection for the entire time he turned off of Solomon Lane, where he lived, and onto the highway. She knew it was her boyfriend’s car driving south, because of the unique headlight configuration of his 1962 Corvair Sedan. Laura Bush knew her boyfriend, she knew his home, and she knew his car--the headlights are low slung and a full 9-inches narrower than any other car on the road. The entire profile of the car is small and easy to distinguish anytime, day or night.



Michael Dutton Douglas, 17, had driven only half a mile before America’s Black Widow of the Night deliberately ran the stop sign at high speed, striking the small car with such ferocity that her boyfriend was ejected from the car and into the dirt. Laura Bush, “America’s First Murderess of the Land,” had literally ripped a hole in her boyfriend’s neck. Michael lay there for eight minutes staring at Laura and her once loving arms, while Laura stared back wondering, “Is the head dead yet?” “No child left behind,” unless it is Michael Dutton Douglas gasping in the dirt. To date, there has never been an adjudication of this wanton murder, even though there is no Statute of Limitations on murder. Laura and her girlfriend had conspired to murder Michael Dutton Douglas and been laying-in-wait for his car.

INDICT LAURA BUSH!

A premeditated, child torture butcher--who perpetrated her act during the commission of two other crimes--should not be permitted unsupervised access to the President of the United States.



CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT

THE LIES OF LAURA BUSH

Laura Bush has spent a lifetime lying about deliberately murdering her boyfriend with malice aforethought.

Laura’s Litany of Lies #1: Laura Bush for years insisted that she was not driving. No, Laura, we have the police report.

Laura’s Litany of Lies #2: Laura Bush said that it was raining and slick. No, Laura, the weather was dry and clear. We have the police report.

Laura’s Litany of Lies #3: Laura Bush said that her boyfriend was riding in an open jeep. No, Laura, it was a 1962 Corvair Sedan. We have the police report.

Laura’s Litany of Lies #4: Laura Bush said that Michael Douglas was not her boyfriend. No, Laura, the District Attorney said that Michael Dutton Douglas was your boyfriend when he released the police report!

Laura’s Litany of Lies #5: Laura Bush said that she did not know who her murder victim was until she got to the hospital. Michael Dutton Douglas’ father was following his car and was on the scene seconds after the “accident.” Laura Bush knew her boyfriend, she knew her boyfriend’s car, and she knew his father.

Laura’s Litany of Lies #6: Laura Bush said that she was sorry. While she did stay home from school for several weeks, it certainly hasn’t kept her from any of the class reunions! Was it murdering her boyfriend, or claiming to be sorry, that made her The Perfect Wife?

HEARD IN MIDLAND

“Laura Bush thought that she was pregnant by her boyfriend Michael Dutton Douglas. When she told him, instead of agreeing to marry her, Douglas had instead broken up with her.” Perhaps she mulled over murder after reading this article in the local paper

Laura Bush, Midland’s Emissary of Death, had the means, the opportunity, AND the motive!



WE GET QUESTIONS

Dear Justice for Michael:

“What make you so sure it was murder?”

Wondering

Dear Wondering:

When you are speeding and run a stop sign and someone in the other car is killed, that is an accident. When you are speeding and run a stop sign and that someone the other car is your boyfriend that is killed, that is not an accident. It is murder!



Dear Justice for Michael:

“Reader’s Digest (January 2004, pages 166-167) said that "Michael Douglas was only a good friend of Laura's, or ‘a boy in her crowd.’"

Confused

Dear Confused:

The District Attorney of Midland, Texas, at the time he released the police report, said Michael Douglas was Laura’s BOYFRIEND. He did not say, "A boy in her crowd."

And how about this revealing line from the spin doctors at Reader’s Digest, “Perhaps the local authorities regarded the whole episode the way Laura described it to me, as 'a tragic accident.'" Note that telling choice of the word “Perhaps.” They even hyphenated it, so it ran from one line to the next: Per – haps.

Dear Justice for Michael:

“The Republicans are always insisting that they are the “Rule Of Law Party,” yet I haven’t heard about the law being applied in this case. Also, they claim to be the “Right to Life Party,” yet nobody seems to care about Laura taking the life of her boyfriend.

Just Asking

Dear Just Asking:

Republicans even say, “No child should be left behind,” unless of course it is Michael Dutton Douglas twitching in the dirt.

As for the Republican Party’s claim to be the “Right to Life Party,” Michael Dutton Douglas would only have had such a “Right,” if he had been a fetus!

The Republicans only care about the Rule of Law when it involves a Presidential cum stain. Republicans care nothing about the Rule of Law when it comes to a child’s blood stain. After all, what is a Republican, but a traitorous, cock-obsessed psychopath, specializing in being an apologist for their favorite child torture butcher, Laura “Threat to National Security” Bush. If George and Laura aren’t murdering children, they simply are not happy!

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Midland Reporter Telegram

1963 articles

LEE HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR DIES IN TRAFFIC MISHAP

Michael D. Douglas, 17-year old Lee high School senior, was killed almost instantly Wednesday night when the automobile in which he was riding alone collided with another vehicle at the intersection of State Highway 349 and Farm Road 868.

The youth, described as one of the most popular students in his high school, was declared dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital shortly after 8 p.m. Police said death was attributed to a broken neck.

Ninth 1963 Fatality
He became Midland’s ninth traffic fatality of the year---the city’s deadliest year for traffic death---and the second death this year at the same intersection.

Police said the Douglas youth, who lived on Solomon Lane with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Douglas, was headed south on State Highway 349, when the collision occurred.

The driver of the second car was identified as Laura Lane Welch, 17, of 2500 Humble Street, who suffered minor injuries along with a passenger in her car, Judy Dykes, 17, of 2409 Neely Street.

Both girls were released after treatment at Midland Memorial Hospital.

Funeral services for the youth will be held at 9:30 a.m., Saturday in St. Mark’s Methodist Church, with the Rev. O. A. McBrayer, pastor, officiating. The Rev. J. B. Sharp, pastor of the Aldersgate Methodist Church of Abilene and former pastor of St. Mark’s, will assist.

Internment will be Saturday afternoon in Memorial Park Cemetery in Austin, with the Newnie W. Ellis Chapel in charge of arrangements.

A native of Corpus Christi, the Douglas youth had moved to Midland in 1950 from San Benito, where the family had lived five years.

In his junior year at Lee, he was nominated for most popular boy. He was active in track and was presented with a sportsmanship trophy during the recent football game between San Angelo High School and Lee.

Survivors, in addition to the parents, are a sister, Mrs. J. W. Sims of Midland; a nice, Mindy Michelle Sims of Midland; a grandmother, Mrs. Myrtle Douglas of Shawnee, Oklahoma, and several aunts and uncles.



Midland Reporter Telegram, Friday, 8 November 1963, p. 3B

SATURDAY RITES SCHEDULED FOR DOUGLAS, CRASH VICTIM

Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in St. Mark’s Methodist Church for Michael D. Douglas, 17, who was killed here Wednesday night in an automobile accident.

The Rev. O.A. McBrayer, pastor, will officiate. He will be assisted by the Rev. J.B. Sharp, pastor of the Aldersgate Methodist Church at Abilene. Interment is scheduled at 5 p.m. Saturday in Memorial Park Cemetery at Austin, under the direction of Newnie W. Ellis Chapel of Midland.

Survivors include the parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Douglas, a sister, a niece, a grandmother, and several aunts and uncles.

Pallbearers will be Mike Jones, Jackie Hanks, Kim Hammond, Dwayne Casbeer, Ben (Purty) Franklin, Harold Nelley, Mike Procor, John Tom Williams, Bill Shands, Bill Wood and Jimmy Olds.

Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Rebel Brigade, the Lee High School football and track teams, Benjamin Franklin, Albert S. Kelley, Charles R. Ervin, Clifford Baker, Don Stacy, Sam Volpe, G.P. Mueller, C.K. Word, L.H. Humphrey, Bill Wood, Charles Arnold and Bill Shepherd.

The family requests memoriam be directed to the Michael D. Douglas Memorial Fund for the Lee Rebel Brigade and the Lee Youth Center.

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

Will The Liberal Press Ever Get Over The Fact That Laura
"Ran A Stop Sign, Inadvertently Killing A Friend"?

..."This carefully managed image of Laura Bush begins with a core, undisputed narrative, related in nearly every media profile by the same set of family friends and White House insiders. The daughter of a homemaker and a homebuilder, Laura hails from "unpretentious folks" in Midland, Texas, where children ran in the street until twilight, when they returned home to unlocked doors. Laura's was a storybook upbringing marred only, as all have breathlessly reported, by an eerie brush with death not long after her seventeenth birthday. (She ran a stop sign, inadvertently killing a friend.) [more below] Not long after, Laura left Midland for Southern Methodist University, where she was part of the "cusp" generation whose rebellion went no further than smoking Winstons and wearing peasant blouses. She then spent ten years teaching, earning a graduate degree in library science, and ostensibly not caring if she married or not." --New Republic, 8/13/01

Note: I wonder why they failed to mention the "friend" was her fiance?


Questions Still Surround Laura Bush's Midland Tragedy
from The Dallas Morning Whore, May 4, 2000

"Report Finds Fatal Crash Attributable to Mrs. Bush"

"The wife of Gov. George W. Bush was responsible for a traffic accident that killed a high school classmate in
Midland 37 years ago, according to a newly released accident report. Investigators said a 1963 Chevrolet driven
by Mrs. Bush - then Laura Welch, a high school senior - ran a stop sign and struck a Chevrolet Corvair driven by
Michael Douglas. Copies of the accident report - parts of which are illegible - were released Wednesday by
Midland City Attorney Keith Stretcher after state Attorney General John Cornyn held that the information
was public....Mr. Stretcher, the Midland city attorney, initially declined to release any information about the
accident on the grounds that it involved minors and therefore was exempt from disclosure under the Texas
Public Information Act. He also contended that disclosing the information would violate the parties' privacy rights.
Police listed two violations as contributing to the accident, both by Mrs. Bush. One checked box read
"disregard stop sign or light," and the other was illegible....Both drivers were Robert E. Lee High School students.
Neither was drinking, and no citations were issued, according to the report." (more from DMN)


Note: I'm not eager to see Pickles in prison, but "no citation was issued?"
She ran a stop sign and caused the death of her fiance and no citation was issued?
If you back into a car doing 5 MPH in a parking lot, you get cited for it.
Perhaps the police looked into her soul and saw she was guilt free?


GLOBE, August 8, 2000

"Bush's Wife Still Haunted by Death Crash Nightmare"

Presently available on newsstands, this story reviews material found in the DMN story documented above and an
AP story on the same day, as well as a relevant interchange from a Barbara Wolters interview with Laura Bush
on 20/20 the next day. A partial copy of the original Midland police report is included, along with photographs
of the crash scene. Judy Dykes, a friend of Laura Bush who was in the passanger's seat at the time of the accident,
was unnamed in the DMN story, but told the DMN reporter, "[The story] is not worth digging into. It was an accident, a horrible, horrible accident years ago, and it has no relevance." The GLOBE appears to believe relevance may possibly
be found in its reporting of comments made by two unnamed members of Texas' law enforcement community.
One wondered why no ticket was issued by the Midland police.
The other wondered why no grand jury was convened by the City or County of Midland. --Politex, 8/7/00

One damn sure does.



Almost all of this story came from www.Bushwatch.com

And we can't let this go without mentioning the certain media frenzy,
if this had been Hillary who killed her first fiancé.

Barbara Olson would have a best seller on it.
Ann Coulter would have a best seller on it.
Peggy Noonan would have a best seller on it.
Laura Ingraham would have a best seller on it.
Laura Schlessinger would have a best seller on it.
David Limbaugh would have a best seller on it.
Christopher Hitchens would have a best seller on it.
Dick Morris would have a best seller on it.
Bob Woodward would have a best seller on it.
Christopher Ruddy would have a best seller on it.
Ben Stein would have a best seller on it.
Gail Sheehy would have a best seller on it
Neal Boortz would have a best seller on it.
David P. Schippers would have a best seller on it.
David Maraniss would have a best seller on it.
Mike Barnacle would claim he was in the car with Hillary.
Joe Klein would write a best seller on it, but swear he didn't
Judas Stephanopolous Maximus would have a best seller on it.
Joe Eszterhas would fabricate quotes from Hillary's vagina.
Michael Isikoff would swear the conversation was "off the record"
but then turn around and print every word (plus some he made up.)
Kenneth Starr would write an impeachment referral over it.
Susan McDougal would still have to do time in prison,
and Julie Hiatt Steele would still lose her house.

The vulgar Pigboy would pound on her 15 hours a week until 2009.
O'Reilly would pound on Hillary for months and years.
Hannity would pound on Hillary for months and years.
(and Colmes would remain silent while he did...)
Paula Zahn would pound on Hillary for months and years.
Brit Hume would have weekly "Special reports" called "Accident? You Decide!"
Juan Willaims and Mara Liason would agree Hillary belongs in prison.

CNN would create a spin off network to cover it 24/7.
Tim the Whore would mention it every Sunday until he died.
Chris the Screamer would pound on Hillary for months and years,
but no guest would ever get to answer any questions about it.
Cokie Roberts would mention it every week, then giggle.
Henry “Home wrecker” Hyde would scream, "The flag is falling."

Richard Mellon Scaife would pay David Brock $80,000 to talk to the cops who were
paid $80,000 to say "We thought we smelled liquor, but everyone in Arkansas
knows there'd be hell to pay if we wrote this up as a drunk driving accident."
The American Spectator would then run a front page story on it, and somehow Paula Jones would run into the spotlight screaming, "Hillary was trying to kill me--and missed," then the whore mainstream media would've made Paula a star on this story instead of the other one. Then every night, Larry King and his "panel of experts" would search for the connection between Hillary's accident and Clinton's cock--as he always does, but since it was Bush's wife, Karl Rove gave orders not to bring it up.



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Is this the reason Laura has this glazed over Stepford Wife look whenever she's in interviews??

If you are you going to get personal, refrain from cussing.

10. Oktober 2004 Druckversion | Versenden | Leserbrief


TV-DUELL

Hatte Bush einen Einflüsterer?

Nach dem TV-Duell zwischen dem US-Präsidenten und seinem Herausforderer kreisen in Amerika die Spekulationen: Unter dem Jackett des Amtsträgers wölbte sich auf dem Rücken eine eigenartige Beule. Wo kam sie her? War George Bush mit einem Einflüsterer verbunden und schaute deshalb so häufig auf den Boden?



AP
Beule am Präsidentenrücken: "Das ist nur eine Falte"
Berlin - Die rechteckige Beule, die sich während der ersten Fernsehdebatte in Miami auf dem Rücken des Jacketts des Präsidenten abzeichnete, hat das Interesse etlicher Blogger und sogar der "New York Times" geweckt.

Auf Seiten wie www.isbushwired.com wird seit Tagen spekuliert, unter dem Jackett sei ein Funkempfänger versteckt, mittels dessen ein wortgewandter Assistent Bush schlagfertige Antworten einflüsterte. Der Hauptverdächtige ist Bush-Berater Karl Rove.

Bush-Sprecher Scott Stanzel wies den Vorwurf gegenüber der Nachrichtenagentur AP als "lächerlich" zurück. "Einige Leute verschwenden zu viel Zeit damit, sich linke Verschwörungs-Websites anzuschauen", sagte er.

Doch die Internet-Diskussion zog Kreise. Am Freitag veröffentlichte das liberale Online-Magazin Salon.com einen gewohnt süffisanten Text. "Es ist nicht bekannt, dass der Präsident ein Korsett trägt. War die Wölbung unter seinem maßgeschneiderten Jackett also ein versteckter Empfänger?"

Schon die Körpersprache des Präsidenten sei verdächtig gewesen, so der Salon-Autor. "Mehrmals hörte er für eine unangenehm lange Zeit auf zu reden und starrte mit einem merkwürdigen Gesichtsausdruck vor sich hin. Hörte er jemandem zu, der ihm half, die Frage zu beantworten?"

Salon weist darauf hin, dass schon bei früheren Reden Bushs der Eindruck entstanden sei, seine Antworten seien ferngesteuert.



AP
Bush (rechts) beim zweiten Duell: Kabel unterm Jackett?
Auch die "New York Times" fragte nach und erhielt von einer Bush-Sprecherin die Antwort, es sei gar nichts unter der Jacke gewesen. Weder habe Bush einen Empfänger noch, wie auch spekuliert wurde, eine schusssichere Weste getragen. "Es war höchstwahrscheinlich eine Falte", sagte die Sprecherin. Warum die Falte rechteckig war, konnte sie auch nicht erklären.

In der "Seattle Times" meldete sich schließlich der Schneider des Präsidenten zu Wort und nahm die Schuld auf sich. Es habe sich um eine Falte an der Rückennaht gehandelt, sagte er. Diese werde noch betont, wenn der Präsident sich nach vorne lehne.


Who reads German? "Der Spiegel" is the "Time Magazine" of Germany.

I have so much to tell my readers after the remnants of the hurricane finish pissin' over KC. (Lillian, what about the god of hurricanes?..or is he just a son of mother nature?) I had an amazing dream with John Kerry as one of my best friends helping me to deal with all the sharks. He's had experiences with Viet Cong and Republican sharks in the senate. Its amazing how your subconscious invents scenarios in dreams. I was in a water filled room with a 6-7 foot shark and Kerry was giving me advice. My own thoughts were to just keep holding him/her up into the air in the corner so that the (female (?) wouldn't bite me. As soon as I let go of her, she would go crazy! I had to pacify her the way I would hold an angry dog just wanting to bark and really just wants to be held! I was in a big grain elevator type building and was in only late in the dream that I realized some of my special powers that made everyone stare at me. ..
Instead of just flying I could walk on air. I told the bloke that was staring at me that it was very easy to do. He just kept staring at me through thick Republican glasses like I was crazy! I told him to just finish his cigarette and I would get him a picture (they last longer!) ... I was enjoying this dream and all these talents within me until Muffy woke me up wanting me to at least help call people with the Kerry campaign on Troost before we watch the debate (it will be fun to poke fun of the energizer president with batteries and all and not worry about bodily harm from violent emotionally disturbed 4 eyed Bubbas!)
speaking of batteries heres this comment from a new blog:

http://www.isbushwired.com/

Monday, October 04, 2004
The Voice in Bush's Ear
Some of the comments being posted about the Bush earpiece on other sites are clearly planted by Bush supporters who hope the story won't make it out, [Postscript, Friday a.m: Salon just posted a story by Dave Lindorff, adding a bit more to his Counterpunch piece] because when people start thinking about it, it's obvious that Bush's been doing this for at least four years in plain view. And there goes the election for the Republicans: the president is not only a miserable flub, but a cheat.

That's why Drudge et al are puffing up silly stories about Kerry's pen!

The point of the Bush wire wasn't to voice entire answers for him. It was to slip him critical information and phrases and cues and prompts. Bush can talk perfectly well for the limited kinds of things he wants to say. He can be folksy and funny. Dyslexic, yes, but he can talk. What he can't and won't do is apply himself (you know, "hard work") to learning things, or considering issues carefully, formulating arguments, assimilating facts. He's lazy. He hates thinking.

And he's always cheated when he could. He believes in cheating and dirty fighting as much as he believes in anything. Still, I suspect that it's been a slippery slope for Bush and Rove and Karen. First they gave him an audio prompter, so he wouldn't have to read speeches and stumble on words. Nothing wrong with that -- it's like a teleprompter for a dyslexic. They should have 'fessed up to it, though. When he started using a human cue card in his ear for press conferences, that's when it became very wrong. Taking it into the debate was outright fraud, a "fuck you" to truth, justice, and the American people.

To me, the most appalling aspect is the role of the press. The Washington press have sat on their smug behinds for four years and watched him do it, and closed their eyes and ears to it, even denied it in his behalf on occasion. They think "reporting" is giving the White House the benefit of the doubt, without even asking the question in the first place! Most amazingly, they actually think they're smarter than Bush.

Here's a posting from The Washington Monthly online."I was watching the Bush press conference and I saw something that I think is interesting. I remember seeing some comment on another blog (Eschaton?) about Bush wearing an earpiece during press conferences and being fed answers. I think it was a joke or idle speculation. Well, if you watch the press conference starting at about 13:23, Bush is going through a list of names of Al Qaeda terrorists they have caught and he stumbles over the name of Ramzi Binalshibh, eventually calling him Ramzi Alshibh. He jokingly apologizes to Ramzi if he got his name wrong and then, at 13:32, he looks down and to his right intently for about 2 seconds, like he is listening to something, and looks up and says "Binalshibh, excuse me." As I recall, people usually look up and to the left when trying to recall something from memory. So where did he get the correct name from? I've watched the segment several times, and I am sure he has an earpiece in his right ear. It just looks so obvious from the expression on his face and the way he holds his head."

Actually, he looks as if he's being prompted in the minutes after that, too, straining to "listen" at times, and pausing and hedging as he awaits a cue.

posted by is bush wired? at 1:00 AM

Muffy's 13 year old daughter is about to come home from a middle school football match and it's better if she knows that I haven't been up here typing in her room!
(I wish (for all u folks that watch way too much tv) that the 'puter was in Muffy's room so I wouldn't get accused of anything! GOLLY!)

So much has happened and it is so much more fun staying in Kc with positive liberal vibes instead of the angry neighborhood that loves guns, pro-life, church and Nascar AND WAY TOO MUCH TV!
The hardest thing for Garvald to do is learn to not outstay his welcome and daughters can do such a great job of making him feel unwelcome.
A woman can do so much of a better job of pretending that you do not exist esp if she's an angry bartendress impatiently waiting for her aunt to arrive!
(will that be a quotable quote when Garvaldian philosophy becomes famous? Muffy rolls her eyes.)

If you are you going to get personal, refrain from cussing.

Wow! These last few days were as volatile and emotionally bipolarized as smoking cannabis while the tornado is heading directly for you!
I have another essay that I need to cut and paste about blown gaskets over missplaced remotes.
Right now, I need to find a way to get to the John Edwards chat, "FIGHTING FOR US!"
after my meeting the with the back breaker. A cold front has come through before the storm really arrives in a few weeks....all over this country... you can feel it in the air.... there is both a nervousness and excitement in the air before all Hallow's Eve of the George Bush disaster or JFK saving the country!

The redneck lady interrupts'

"Who the hell is JFK? Dint' he die 'bout 30 years ago when I were an adolescent?"

Garvald goes on with his writing....irritated with the interuption...
George Bush lends to the dumming down of Americal with no behind left.
"(How do u like them' play on words... my bipolar friends probably are thinkin' of the ole' JFK")
Garvald does his interpretation of the okie.

She says,
"I ain't an Okie. I was born and bred in the Ozarks!"

Garvald replies to her,
"Well this lady ain't uuu!"

If you are you going to get personal, refrain from cussing.

Wow! These last few days were as volatile and emotionally bipolarized as smoking cannabis while the tornado is heading directly for you!
I have another essay that I need to cut and paste about blown gaskets over missplaced remotes.
Right now, I need to find a way to get to the John Edwards chat, "FIGHTING FOR US!"
after my meeting the with the back breaker. A cold front has come through before the storm really arrives in a few weeks....all over this country,,, you can feel it in the air.... there is both a nervousness and excitement in the air before all Hallow's Eve of the George Bush disaster or JFK saving the country!

The redneck lady interrupts'

"Who the hell is JFK? Dint' he die 'bout 30 years ago when I were an adolescent?"

Garvald goes on with his writing....irritated with the interuption...
George Bush lends to the dumming down of Americal with no behind left.
"(How do u like them' play on words... my bipolar friends probably are thinkin' of the ole' JFK")
Garvald does his interpretation of the okie.

She says,
"I ain't an Okie. I was born and bred in the Ozarks!"

Garvald replies to her,
"Well this lady ain't uuu!"




with my bipolar friend with poor grammar at the Flounder park neighborborhood reunion. (actually it was "Marlborough Heights". She takes her poor grammar personally. Boo Hoo!

If you are you going to get personal, refrain from cussing.

10/6/04
Dear Friends,
You may have heard by now that the Michigan Republican Party has called for my arrest. That's right. They literally want me brought up on charges -- and hope that I'm locked up.
No, I'm not kidding. The Republican Party, yesterday, filed a criminal complaint with the prosecutors in each of the counties where I spoke last week in Michigan.
My crime? Clean underwear for anyone who will vote in the upcoming election.
Each night on our 60-city "Slacker Uprising Tour" through the 20 battleground states, I've been registering hundreds (and on some nights, thousands) of voters at my arena and stadium events. I then ask for everyone over 23 who has never voted (or didn't vote in the last election) to stand up. I tell these slackers that I understand and respect why they think politicians are not worth the bother. I tell them that I may have been the original slacker, and that I do not want them to change their slacker ways. Keep sleeping 'til noon! Keep drinking beer! Stay on the sofa and watch as much TV as possible! But, please, just for me, on 11/2, I want you to leave the house and give voting a try -- just this once. The stakes this time are just too high.
If they promise me that they'll do this, I give the guys a 3-pack of new Fruit of the Loom underwear, and the women get a day's supply of Ramen noodles, the sustenance of slackers everywhere.
I then close by having them repeat the 2004 Slacker Oath: "Pick nose! Pick butt! Pick Kerry."
It seems to have worked, as each night the volunteer tables are swamped afterwards with hundreds of new and young voters signing up to campaign for regime change for the next four weeks.
The satire of all this seems to have been lost on the Republicans. Or maybe it hasn't. The state of Michigan (where we spent most of last week) reported that over 100,000 young people recently registered to vote, a record that no one saw coming. The Slacker Tour has turned into a huge steamroller with a momentum all its own.
So, the Republican Party, to show their gratitude that so many young people will now be involved in our system, has demanded that I be sent to jail for trying to "bribe" students to vote.
Of course, this would be quite laughable if they weren't so serious about their charges. But they are. I may soon be a wanted man in Michigan -- simply because I convinced a few slackers to change their underwear and eat a healthy meal of artificially flavored noodles.
I thought I'd seen it all this year -- Disney refusing to distribute the film they paid for, right-wingers harassing theater owners who showed "Fahrenheit 9/11," conservative action groups trying to get the FEC to kick our film ads off the air, the unnecessary restrictive R-rating that forced teenagers to sneak in to see it, and all the stupid, crazy attacks on me and my movie that I've had to listen to as I watched the public ignore them and pack the movie houses anyway, where my film was being shown. And when all that failed, five different Republican groups made five different attack dog tapes (oops, "documentaries"!) against me in a period of about six weeks. But they were all so bad, so boring, so right-wing, no one wanted to watch them and they too went away, a sad waste of good videotape.
Now, after enduring all this, with no tricks left in their bag, they've just decided, "Let's toss his sorry ass behind bars -- him and his noodles and his gift of clean underwear!"
My friends, they will not catch me. Though I may be on the run, and I may never be able to return home to my beloved Michigan, I make this solemn vow to you and yours: The slackers of America shall not be denied their noodles, they will proudly wear their clean underwear as free Americans, and they will vote Bush out of office come November 2nd (though they will not show up to the polls until well after noon)!
Stay strong, stay slacker, and please remember to turn the underwear inside out every three days. As for the noodles, add boiling water, stir.
Yours,
Michael MooreMMFlint@aol.comwww.michaelmoore.com
P.S. My favorite moment of the VP debate: Cheney saying to the moderator that this was the first he heard that that many black women in America had AIDS. Clueless. Cheney, for an entire 90-minutes, only mentioned Bush's name -- that's his running mate, the "president" -- once. They should have called this the "President (Cheney) -- Vice President (Edwards) Debate."
P.P.S. Tomorrow's letter, as promised for today, will be about my new book, "Will They Ever Trust Us Again?: Letters from the War Zone." And thanks, everyone, for sending "Fahrenheit 9/11" on its first day to #1 on Amazon. If you find that your store didn't order enough copies, or to report other problems, please e-mail Sony Home video at HeySony@michaelmoore.com.

If you are you going to get personal, refrain from cussing.

Everyone, thanks for all your comments esp from Niles and Martin. I am happy that you took enough interest in the site to read many of the articles and posts. As far as the article about George having pics of his favorite cheerleaders that was fictional and my own cretive license. I did not say that he masturbates in his favorite bathroom of the ranch. But I wonder when was the last time he had a "roll in the hay" with his Stepford wife. I wonder what kind of drugs she's on to always have that glazed over android stare? With all the other posts I always gave the source. Niles, the majority of Michael Moore's movie is factual especially when you see the special features about troops abusing prisoners. The video does not lie! All the senators and republicans who have children eligible to go to war but don't. That is on video. George does not correctly answer any questions unless he has his boss, Cheney, is right there with him.

Last night I was at Mike's at 53rd and Troost in KC for the debate watch. The folks were very friendly and intelligent. They did not get upset when talking about politics. The overall intelligence was at least 30 points higher on the bell curve than most pubs I've been to in OKC. But at least most of the kids at Mike's in OKC are friendly and also hate Bush. The head of security there is actually a very intelligent conservative who enjoyed my site and the writing style even though he disagreed with the content. Half the bartenders at the OKC Mikes are friendly but JR, the head bartender in the KC Mike's never smiled and was always very short with all the customers. It was freezing there and he wouldn't budge as to mellowing out the temperature and the fans.

Except for JR, everyone was very friendly last night and I had very lively stimulating conversation. It's nice to be able to go to a bar and talk politics. Emmanuel Cleaver, the black mayor of KC, was there and I had a photo taken of him and me. I am still thinking of posting it, but then I would lose my anonymity. He spent a year in Tishomingo when he was going to school in Oklahoma for a year. They were very prejudiced then. Wewoka, Oklahoma had a dividing line between the black part of town and the white part of town. I'll go into Wewoka and New Lima in future essays. We all watched George make a fool of himself while we constantly berated his low intelligence responses. I guess a lot of Bubbas can relate to him because they are as stupid as he is.

Gore is speaking today in St. Joseph, Missouri. Just think if he was the president, the economy would not be fucked and we wouldn't be at war with Iraq. The environment and ecology of this country would be taken care of. (that statement ought to get you Republicans riled up!) You all have a nice day and let's pray for a new president!

If you are you going to get personal, refrain from cussing.

Its amazing how you feel after a hard portage through many miles of forest and there is this beautiful crystal clear water waiting for you to just envelope yourself in the rejuvenating and tasty water!
Went to the Buzzard the past couple nights and it was like a breath of fresh air!
Saw Toothless Dave who still has the bullet in the back of his neck having lost his family and almost his life putting his arm in front of the bullets but one going through his mouth and lodging itself in the back of his cranium...to be continued!

# posted by Anonymous : 9/25/2004 02:51:36 PM

THE EGO HAS LANDED

Bush And Busher: What IS His Problem?According to Matthijs van Boxsel, author of THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STUPIDITY, "stupidity is not the same as a lack of intelligence...'It's a quality all its own. It's unwitting self-destruction, the ability to act against one's best wishes...It's a typical human talent." Perhaps that begins to explain George W. Bush. As Mark Crispin Miller writes in THE BUSH DYSLEXICON:"Our president is not an imbecile but an operator just as canny as he is hard-hearted--which is to say that he's extraordinarily shrewd....As Bush himself has often said--it suits a politician to have everybody thinking he's a dunce, especially if he wants to do things his way. The satire that sells him short, therefore, can only work to his advantage, by blinding us to his team's big-time plans and causing us to overlook his own prodigious skill at propaganda." (pp.2-3)Miller goes on to write that Bush's "gross illiteracy" is often used as a focal topic to cover his more telling failures: "his neglected military service, his many shady business dealings, or his close ties to the likes of Representative Tom DeLay."But none of this means that Bush is not stupid in van Boxsel's sense: one whose actions appear self-destructive or , to be more specific to Bush's case, one whose actions, both at home and abroad, are, much too often, not in the best interests of our nation. Where does Bush's national self-destructiveness, his willingness to destroy nearly 65 years of national social betterment, come from? Maureen Dowd thinks it's Bush's Attention Deficit Disorder.Just as Bush's illiteracy reflects the illiteracy of the common man, so, too, does Bush's ADD reflect the mental problems inherent in our dysfunctional society. Dowd reminds us that The New Republic "recently dubbed this "historical attention deficit disorder," when a country gets distracted from focusing on any one place for very long. Our scattered consciousness is the reason we're so bad at empire, too impatient to hang around hot climes trying to force cold natives to like us."

Dowd believes that Bush is our ADD model par excellence, pointing out how our foreign policy mirrors symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder:

*I find my mind wandering from tasks that are uninteresting or difficult*
I say things without thinking and later regret having said them."
*I make quick decisions without thinking enough about their possible bad results*
I have a quick temper, a short fuse*
I have trouble planning in what order to do a series of tasks or activities*
"In group activities it is hard for me to wait my turn."
*I usually work on more than one project at a time, and fail to finish many of them."
While Dowd couches her criticism of Bush in her usual ironic tone, the same point was made without humor during the presidential campaign by Gail Sheehy for Vanity Fair, documenting symptoms of both dyslexia and ADD found in the Bush family. She wasn't alone, as you can see on our BUSH AND DYSLEXIA page. Here's what we wrote in 2000:"It's not just that Bush begins to lose focus earlier than most administrators in high pressure jobs, but his language breaks down and he sometimes becomes incomprehensible. When reporters began writing about his language difficulties after the New Hampshire primaries, excuses were made by both Bush spinners and sympathetic reporters that he only made his language gaffes late in the day. Then it was late in the day and early in the morning. After that it was late in the day, early in the morning, and when under pressure. Then Bush began to schmooze with reporters on his plane and we were given stories that he didn't sleep well on the road and missed the comfort of his Austin bed. All of these explanations are true, but they don't really get to the heart of the matter. Bush appears to be incapable of working long, hard, pressure-filled days, the kind of days common to the presidency, without suffering a loss of attention and an inability to clearly communicate. Can we afford a president who works a six hour day and devotes little of those hours to "studying specific issues or working on executive matters"? Bush may want to do more, but his language and attention problems appear to prevent him from doing more."We don't think the conclusions we arrived at in 2000 are any different than the conclusions we arrive at today, except that Bush has chosen to attempt to work long days under pressure, resulting in the behavior that Dowd has pointed out above. We don't think such self-destructive behavior is in the best interest of our nation. In fact, we think it's stupid.--Jerry Politex, 07.07.03
# posted by Anonymous : 9/25/2004 03:54:10 PM
http://www.bushwatch.net/ego.htm
# posted by Anonymous : 9/25/2004 03:58:52 PM
http://www.unknownnews.net/insanity061704.html
# posted by Anonymous : 9/25/2004 04:07:42 PM
Psychoanalyst describes Bush as "paranoid megalomaniac," "untreated alcoholic" Capitol Hill Blue June 14, 2004A new book by a prominent Washington psychoanalyst says President George W. Bush is a "paranoid meglomaniac" as well as a sadist and "untreated alcoholic." The doctor's analysis appears to confirm earlier reports the President may be emotionally unstable.Dr. Justin Frank, writing in Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, also says the President has a "lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions ... [and] pumping his fist gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad." Even worse, Dr. Frank concludes, the President's years of heavy drinking "may have affected his brain function -- and his decision to quit drinking without the help of a 12-step program [puts] him at far higher risk of relapse." Dr. Frank's revelations comes on the heels of last week's Capitol Hill Blue exclusive that revealed increasing concern by White House aides over Bush's emotional stability. Aides, who spoke only on condition that their names be withheld, told stories of wide mood swings by the President who would go from quoting the Bible one minute to obscenity-filled outbursts the next. Bush shows an inability to grieve -- dating back to age 7, when his sister died. "The family's reaction -- no funeral and no mourning -- set in motion his life-long pattern of turning away from pain [and hiding] behind antic behavior," says Frank, who says Bush may suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.Other findings by Dr. Frank: . His mother, Barbara Bush -- tabbed by some family friends as "the one who instills fear" -- had trouble connecting emotionally with her son, Frank argues.. George H.W. Bush's "emotional and physical absence during his son's youth triggered feelings of both adoration and revenge in George W.". The President suffers from "character pathology," including "grandiosity" and "megalomania" -- viewing himself, America and God as interchangeable. Dr. Frank has been a psychiatrist for 35 years and is director of psychiatry at George Washington University. A Democrat, he once headed the Washington Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. In an interview with The Washington Post's Richard Leiby, Dr. Frank said he began to be concerned about Bush's behavior in 2002. "I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything he did and reading what he wrote, and watching him on videotape. I felt he was disturbed," Dr. Frank told Leiby. Bush, he said, "fits the profile of a former drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not treated." Dr. Frank's expert recommendation? "Our sole treatment option -- for his benefit and for ours -- is to remove President Bush from office ... before it is too late." White House spokesman Scott McClellan refused to comment on the specifics of Dr. Frank's book or the earlier story by Capitol Hill Blue. "I don't do book reviews," McClellan said, even though he last week recommended the latest book by the Washington Post's Bob Woodward to reporters at the daily press briefing. Published byCapitol Hill BlueExcerpt from Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the Presidentby Justin A. Frank, M.D.Introduction:"Curious about George"If one of my patients frequently said one thing and did another, I would want to know why. If I found that he often used words that hid their true meaning and affected a persona that obscured the nature of his actions, I would grow more concerned. If he presented an inflexible worldview characterized by an oversimplified distinction between right and wrong, good and evil, allies and enemies, I would question his ability to grasp reality. And if his actions revealed an unacknowledged -- even sadistic -- indifference to human suffering, wrapped in pious claims of compassion, I would worry about the safety of the people whose lives he touched.For the past three years, I have observed with increasing alarm the inconsistencies and denials of such an individual. But he is not one of my patients. He is our president.George W. Bush is a case study in contradiction. All of us have witnessed the affable good humor with which he charms both supporters and detractors; even those of us who disagree with his policies may find him personally likeable. As time goes on, however, the gulf between his personality and those policies -- and the style with which they are executed -- grows ever wider, raising serious questions about his behavior: . How can someone so friendly and playful be the same person who cuts funds from government programs aiding the poor and hungry?. How is it that our deeply religious president feels free to bomb Iraq -- and then celebrate the results with open expressions of joy?. How can a president send American soldiers into combat under false pretenses and then proceed to joke about the deception, finding humor in the absence of weapons of mass destruction under his Oval Office desk?. How can someone promise to protect the environment on the one hand and allow increased arsenic in the public water supply on the other? And why does he feel he can call his plan to lift logging restrictions in national forests the "Healthy" Forest Initiative?. If the president's interpersonal skills are strong enough to earn him the reputation of being a "people person," why is he so unwilling and even unable to talk to world leaders, such as Jacques Chirac or Gerhard Schroeder, who disagree with him?. How can the president sound so confused and yet act so decisively? And given the regularity with which he confuses fact with fantasy, how can he justify decisions based largely on his own personal suspicions with such unwavering certainty? As a citizen, I worry about what these contradictions and inconsistencies say about the president's ability to govern; as a psychoanalyst, I'm troubled by their implications for the president's current and long-term mental health, particularly in light of certain information we know about his past. Naturally, the occasional misstatement or discrepancy between word and deed may be dismissed as politics as usual. But when the most powerful man on the planet consistently exhibits an array of multiple, serious, and untreated symptoms -- any one of which I've seen patients need years to work through -- it's certainly cause for further investigation, if not for outright alarm.President Bush is not my patient, of course, but the discipline of applied psychoanalysis gives us a way to make as much sense of his psyche as he is likely ever to allow. At its simplest level, applied psychoanalysis means the application of psychoanalytic principles to anybody outside one's own consulting room. The tradition of psychoanalyzing public figures dates back almost as far as psychoanalysis itself; Freud based some of his most important theories on his observations of individuals he could never get onto his couch, Moses and Leonardo da Vinci most notable among them.Indeed, if Freud were alive in the second half of the twentieth century, he might well have been recruited to offer his genius in the service of the U.S. intelligence effort. Somewhere in the bowels of the George H. W. Bush Center for Central Intelligence in Langley, Virginia, psychoanalysts are currently reviewing audio recordings, videotapes, and biographical information on dozens of contemporary world leaders, using the principles of applied psychoanalysis to develop detailed profiles for use by the CIA and the U.S. government and military. According to political psychiatrist Jerrold M. Post, M.D., who has chronicled the history of "at-a-distance leader personality assessment in support of policy," the marriage of psychoanalysis and U.S. intelligence dates back to the early 1940s, when the Office of Strategic Services commissioned two studies of Adolf Hitler. The effort was regarded as enough of a success that it was institutionalized in the 1960s, Post writes, first under the aegis of the Psychiatric Staff of the CIA's Office of Medical Services, which "led to the establishment of the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior" (CAPPB), which Post founded within the Directorate of Intelligence.As Post reveals, CIA psychological profiles of Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin played an important role in Jimmy Carter's handling of the 1978 Camp David negotiations. And applied psychoanaly-sis continues to enjoy a privileged place in the intelligence universe."At the time of his confirmation hearings, Secretary of the Defense Donald Rumsfeld identified as his nightmare [the possibility of] not understanding the intentions of dangerous adversaries," Post writes. "Accentuated by some of the recent intelligence ‘surprises,' the need to have a robust applied political psychology capability has been highlighted and increased resources are currently being applied to human intelligence and to the study of the personality and political behavior of foreign leaders, both national leaders and terrorists."A vote of confidence from today's CIA, of course, might be described as a mixed blessing. Nevertheless, applied psychoanalysis remains a vital tool for understanding political leaders. And since one can scarcely imagine Bush Center resources being committed to a Bush son's psychological profile, this must be an independent inquiry, albeit one that is informed by the CAPPB goal as articulated by its founder, Jerrold M. Post: "to understand shaping events that influenced core attitudes, political personality, leadership and political behavior."Published byHarperCollins New information showsBush indecisive,paranoid, delusionalby Teresa Hampton, June 17, 2004The carefully-crafted image of George W. Bush as a bold, decisive leader is cracking under the weight of new revelations that the erratic President is indecisive, moody, paranoid and delusional. “More and more this brings back memories of the Nixon White House,” says retired political science professor George Harleigh, who worked for President Nixon during the second presidential term that ended in resignation under fire. “I haven’t heard any reports of President Bush wondering the halls talking to portraits of dead Presidents but what I have been told is disturbing.” Two weeks ago, Capitol Hill Blue revealed that a growing number of White House aides are concerned about the President’s mental stability. They told harrowing tales of violent mood swings, bouts with paranoia and obscene outbursts from a President who wears his religion on his sleeve. Although supporters of President Bush dismissed the reports as “fantasies from anonymous sources,” a new book by Dr. Justin Frank, director of psychiatry at George Washington University, raises many similar questions about the President’s mental stability. "George W. Bush is a case study in contradiction," Dr. Frank writes in Bush On The Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. "Bush is an untreated ex-alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies." In addition, a new film by documentary filmmaker, and frequent Bush critic, Michael Moore shows the President indecisive and clearly befuddled when he learned about the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. While conservative critics who have not yet seen Fahrenheit 9/11 dismiss the work as an anti-Bush screed, Roger Friedman of the normally pro-Bush Fox News Network has seen the film and calls it “a tribute to patriotism, to the American sense of duty - and at the same time a indictment of stupidity and avarice.” Friedman also says the films “most indelible moment” comes when Bush, speaking to a group of school kids in Florida, is first informed of the 9/11 attacks. “Instead of jumping up and leaving, he instead sat in front of the class, with an unfortunate look of confusion, for nearly 11 minutes,” Friedman says. “Moore obtained the footage from a teacher at the school who videotaped the morning program. There Bush sits, with no access to his advisers, while New York is being viciously attacked. I guarantee you that no one who sees this film forgets this episode.” Dr. Frank says the episode is typical of how Bush deals with death and tragedy. He notes that Bush avoids funerals. “President Bush has not attended a single funeral - other than that of President Reagan. In my book I explore some possible reasons for that, whether or not it is "presidential". I am less interested in judging his behavior on political grounds than I am in thinking about its meaning both to him and to the rest of us,” Dr. Frank says. “He has spent a lifetime of avoiding grief, starting with the death of his sister when he was 7 years old. His parents didn't help him with what must have been confusing and frightening feelings. He also has a history of evading responsibility and perhaps his not attending funerals has to do with not wanting to see the damage his policies have wrought.”

If you are you going to get personal, refrain from cussing.

Dear Niles,
I first want to thank you for having the courage to at least give your name and I do agree with some of your points. They are valid and you do write well showing that there are many conservatives that do write well just as Martin can write well when he refrains from resorting to Neanderthal comments. I will post your comment. I am flattered that Martin sent my essay to half of the patrons at the pub to give others the chance to read it and maybe get upset about it just as they would with Howard Stern, or when "The Last Temptation of Christ" was met with resistance in Oklahoma. Michael Moore's movies are also met with similar resistance in a state where "The Daily Disappointment" and freedom of speech are squelched. I love that freedom that is in this country and other countries. I would love for Rush and his big fat ass come into the democratic convention with his right wing propaganda. He would be eaten alive!

Here is your comment and I will respond to it some more when I get the chance to write some more.
I could chose to edit or censor all the comments from Martin who continues to show disrespect by calling me names like asshole, douche bag, etc. He would never admit that it was him that was writing the comments and I did not know him from jack. He immediately latched onto my site like an unwanted leach attaches itself when you are swimming. I had thought it was his friend that gave me a bullet and when I asked him if he was the author of the comments he lied and was as rude as he was in his comments. He appears to be obsessed with my site and made it a personal thing. I hope that he has a good side to him instead of the rich private school boy from Michigan that grew up insulting kids in the school cafeteria that were not as fortunate as his rich Republican family. If he would he would prefer to stay anonymous I could use a scatalogical term as he always does and just call him "fartin". He will probably want to bend back my middle finger for just giving him a taste of his own medicine. I abhor violence but I will defend myself and feel that the establishment should have sent him out for his violence just as they suspend violent students.
Here is your comment:

"I also have a problem with the fact that you are a teacher that has self diagnosed ADD and smokes weed. WOW. That is just what our public school students need, an ultra liberal, mentally ill, dope head, alcholic (I say that because apparently you spend a lot of time at bars) teaching our impressionable students your personal political views. Do you see how I just characterised you in one simple run-on sentence? You might say that I am very judgemental to say all of that. I feel the same way about your personal writings.
Love Niles"

Wow! I think I conversed with you while inhaling your cigarette smoke from your addiction and while you were drinking your favorite drug that was outlawed long before you were born during the prohibition. I do not go into a panic as nicotine addicts do. I have been without it for the past few weeks except for the occasional smoke from friends. I do not have to rush to the convenience store when there is a blizzard to spend over 120$ a month on a pack a day habit (double if you smoke 2 or 3 packs when you chain smoke in pubs).
When I do smoke it, I have a nice buzz and feel less need to get a much more dangerous buzz with alcohol. Alcohol impairs your judgement and reflexes far more than marijuana. I was teaching one year at a school where the football coach, the assistant principal and many of the teachers were closet smokers.(no, I won't tell you the school!) When I go to these concerts , I meet many teachers (even in special ed) that are recreational users that like to use it ocassionally. It does not make you want to "graduate" to heavier drugs and the smoke never bothered me the way tobacco does even when I did not smoke it way back in my college days. After a tough day dealing with emotionally disturbed students, I would relax a little with this "illegal" medication instead of having a beer which only aggravates acid reflux. I would feel fine the next day with no hangover that one often gets from drinking poor domestic beer. It is so ridiculous that is illegal when Clinton and George probably were recreational users. George won't tell us about his cocaine use or what else he did while he was supposed to be with the national guard in Alabama! I will go more into how ridiculous the prohibition against marijuana is in this country when so many have smoke it. Have you smoked it, Niles, or did you just not inhale?

I resent the fact that you call me mentally ill when I have the courage to come out in the open with my own ADD and you are immediately labeling me. I have far less hostility and anger than you and your favorite friends that enjoy getting violent. I avoid violence and confrontation in my job when students becomes loud, angry and potentially violent as your friend appears to relish doing. He appears to have many issues and the need to become loud to get the attention of his "friends". So before you "throw stones" question your own state of mind and your friends' as to what emotional stability truly is. I am paid to help these students but not adults that cannot control their anger. You and all the rednecks do not have to read this site. I believe your friend has read more of this site than anyone else! (My friend, Lillian, will help me get more attention to this site than 1000x all your nasty emails to other Bubbas and Bubbettes) He has definitely left more comments than all of my readers combined. Does he not realize that I enjoy the fact that he has only given more publicity to my writing just as everyone wanted to see "Farenheit 911" especially because it is so controversial here and hard to get! As to talking politics in my classroom, I keep that away from the school. I am happy when they are behaving and learning to look in the mirror before they "throw stones".
Writing is a way for them to analyze their own behavior and decide what are the right choices to make.

I consider that I am on the "front lines" in a war against ignorance, crime and stupidity. I love the challenge of helping students that have difficulty with processing or dealing with their issues so that they can learn to make the right choices and become productive members of society or at least avoid spending time in jail where we will be spending at least 40k a year to keep them incarcerated. Our priorities are all wrong spending 200 billion over there in Iraq when we should take care of our own backyard here. Our children are our future! Niles, believe it or not, my job can be very strenous at times, as special ed teachers only average 3 years at their jobs before they become burnt out. I have made a choice to take a sabbatical so that I can write, recuperate and travel for a few months to a year. I am fiscally conservative so that I can afford to take this hiatus. My father lives in Australia and I will be visiting him as he is getting on in years and he wants to see my book before he dies. I hope that you read more of my essays and maybe even give some thoughtful insight to your own perspectives, instead of nasty, angry, emotionally disturbed comments as you good friend does. Our country is the most polarized it ever has been since the civil war. Maybe we ought to give "peace a chance" in dealing with our neighbors or at least be able to talk civilly without getting loud and violent. Thank again Nile, for your comment that avoided getting as low and guttural as some rednecks love to get.
love, Garvald.

I haven't written much in the last 2 days, but I am very passionate about staying healthy.I also want the kids that I teach to stay healthy in order to stay focused to learn. The educational system that is in place really doesn't care about nutrition or they wouln't have coke and candy machines all over the school. Instead, there would be refrigerators filled with healthy snacks like baby carrots and fruit to help them when their blood sugar is low. I'd like to devote at least the next half hour to share with you my thoughts on the subject.

Pharmaceutical companies don't want us to use preventative medicine to take care of ourselves so we can be independent of chemicals.
European medicine is not governed by this powerful lobby. There are many other holistic ways to take care of ourselves. I will tell you first of all about the nutrition and herbs that I use. It does get expensive to stay healthy the older you get, but in the long run it will be cheaper than having to constantly refill the prescriptions.

I just went to Akins and spent over 80$ and I spent about that amount last month. Hopefully, I won't have to spend so much the next time. I am concerned about some of my ailments that can be taken care of by foods and herbs rather than a chemical made by man.
Unfortunately, I still enjoy a few beers, and that is not good for acid-reflux and my mild esophagitis. I have been cutting back except for last week when I did indulge in several beers. (that's why places like that for social interaction can be replaced by coffee or better yet tea houses) Tonight, I only had one beer during the Chiefs/Baltimore football game after going to Akins. The lady there was very helpful telling me about how she went on the very low carbohydrate diet and there was immediate improvement on her own schizophrenic behavior. She also mentioned about the case study in Europe of autistic children and mentally ill children who were able to go off the medication when they went on a diet avoiding processed carbohydrates.(That would not be allowed in this country because of the very powerful medical lobby which is very much against using nutrition instead of drugs!) She also told me of the autistic child that was able to start formulating sentences, started looking into her mother's eyes and could start telling jokes. That is an amazing accomplishment for autistic children!

I bought Limonene which is the oil extracted from the citrus rind. She told me of the lady that had serious gastric reflux disease. She was able to go off of the prevacid and eventually even after a month of these pills, she was able to cut the limonene pills too. I will look forward to not be dependent on prevacid because it is so expensive. I have only 1 pill left for an emergency. I also bought a gallon of aloe very juice which is so good for so many things including acid reflux.

I invested in some butterbur to provide nutritive support for normal smooth muscle tissue function. This will increase the flow of the urethra which is affected by the enlargement of the prostate. The doctor a few years ago said that half of men over 50 have enlarged prostates (men are too afraid to often talk about it). I decided to do whatever I could do to improve my condition by at least halting the growth of the prostate by using saw palmetto and nettle. When I started being more concerned about everything that went inside my body, and eating healthier, I started feeling much younger and healthier. I will hope that Butterbur which the German commission calls an antispasmodic will help me cut back on the Flomax! Europeans often prescribe herbs rather than chemical medications. I have been taking the flomax (very expensive without a major medical) only a couple times a week because of the cost. Hopefully with these herbs and continuing to improve my own diet, I am hoping to cut back on the flomax and prevacid.

I asked about something that can naturally help my own focus instead of the Adderall. The attendant at the store showed me phosperine. She said it helped clear her own mind to focus better. I tried it a couple of hours ago and I feel a natural focus that is in many ways a better feeling than the Adderall. Phosperine is a naturally occurring lipid that appears to play an important role in the function of the brain cell. It also helped me relax after Muffy had yelled at me on the phone when I advised her to try flax seed to help with the hemorrhoids. She resents the fact that I'm not working and she had a very hard day standing on her feet all day.

The stuff is still kicking in because Im still writing now and it's 1:30 in the am! I do feel focused even with all these stray crickets chirping in my house.
In the past, I have noticed great improvements in my health with all the wierd food and herbs that I eat. I have far less colds and allergies, besides improving the circulation in my engorged extremities. Muffy has no complaints about the increased circulation in my plumbing.

I will continue this later, but I need some sleep.

If you are you going to get personal, refrain from cussing.

Main Entry: [2]liberal
Function: noun
Date: 1820
: a person who is liberal: as a : one who is open-minded or not strict in the observance of orthodox, traditional, or established forms or ways b : capitalized : a member or supporter of a liberal political party c : an advocate or adherent of liberalism especially in individual rights

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Pronunciation: 'li-b(&-)r&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin liberalis suitable for a freeman, generous, from liber free; perhaps akin to Old English lEodan to grow, Greek eleutheros free
Date: 14th century
1 a : of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts liberal education b : archaic : of or befitting a man of free birth
2 a : marked by generosity : OPENHANDED b : given or provided in a generous and openhanded way c : AMPLE, FULL
3 : obsolete : lacking moral restraint : LICENTIOUS
4 : not literal or strict : LOOSE
5 : BROAD-MINDED; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms
6 a : of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism b : capitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives
- lib·er·al·ly /-b(&-)r&-lE/ adverb
- lib·er·al·ness noun
synonyms LIBERAL, GENEROUS, BOUNTIFUL, MUNIFICENT mean giving or given freely and unstintingly. LIBERAL suggests openhandedness in the giver and largeness in the thing or amount given . GENEROUS stresses warmhearted readiness to give more than size or importance of the gift . BOUNTIFUL suggests lavish, unremitting giving or providing . MUNIFICENT suggests a scale of giving appropriate to lords or princes .

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There's a bloke in the land of Okies who's running for senate, Tom Coburn, and he constantly has ads saying that his opponent is a liberal. Since 1988 Bush senior started using the word for Dukakis. Then Limbo started using the word like it's a dirty word.
Liberal used to be a good word. It meant that you were generous with money and openminded. I am not liberal with my spending on dates or tips. Muffy knows that very well! So does that mean that conservatives are "TIGHT" like me? But I am liberal (open minded) as far as listening to conservatives, even Rush.

His opponent would be very conservative in other states, but conservative anywhere else is liberal..The word is so dirty that they don't even say "liberal arts". I believe they call it "letters". What letters? B U B B A?
"Kids, lets learn how to do the letters in cursive today!"

In Australia and Britain, they call the conservative party , the Liberal party. The "liberal" party is the "labor" party.

So if liberal means openminded then, shouldn't we start calling conservatives "closedminds"?

p.s. I don't know why this changed colors but it's kinda cool!

I am excited that there were over a 100 clicks on this site in the last 24 hours! Thank you, readers, friends, Romans, and Okies. Lend me your ears for a cup of coffee! I am still very intimidated by puters but I am so glad that others are doing some avid reading of this site. With 85 posts, it is getting close to having enough for a small book, but I have not made any efforts to get a hold of some magazine that might like this everyday journal of a man suffering from ADD. I understand that so many of us have different degrees of processing enough so that it sets us apart from others. With me, it might appear to others especially in the environment of a pub that I am aloof or in my own world. I guess sometimes I am in this place to hibernate and figure out really what I want to do with the rest of my life before I get out there in the cold world of violence, agression, anger, opression, pollution, cigarette smoke blown in your face by angry female cigarette addicts and domination of others.

It would be so nice to just wake up on my own private beach and run down to the ocean and get the rejuvenating feeling of the life giving water on my body. My only fear being sharks and blue bottles (those would hurt as a child when these tiny little animals,related to the jellyfish, would wrap their long stinging tentacles around you.) Now its hard to just put on a suit and run outside to go for a swim. That was the nice thing about my apartment in KC last year. It had a pool open till October to swim laps in just downstairs from me. People thought of me strange to want to swim in 65 degree water! Swimming helps my back so much and loosens up my neck to self pop it.(I just popped it then and it is such a relief when I do that. The way my neck feels stiff in the am depends so much on way I had been sleeping on the pillows!)

With the few readers that I have, you have just experienced my own "stream of conciousness". (I use parentheses to show little sidetracks of my own mind when it is going off on a tangent that might not really relate to the topic at hand). James Joyce, the most famous Irish author used this flow of thought when he wrote about Bloom in "Ulysees". Everything that was going on in his mind was shared with the readers. There is not the normal organization of an essay when you are thinking especially if you have symptoms of ADD. The mind can easily go from one channel to the next and easily tune out the distractions of the outside world when you are thinking.
(I've been writing for over an hour and then the puter froze up...I almost wonder if Bubba and the right wing neo-conservative conspiracy had something to do with it! Just kidding. You would really think I was crazy then. Some of my best writing just went up in cybespace heaven (:. Maybe I ought to break down and spend an extra 30$ to have DSL like Muffy does and drop this aol. I would lose a lot of things in the change, but oh well. Aol wants 23$ a month for bullshit! Plus Aol only had a 6% advantage to Kerry for the debate verses 16% on the Gallup poll. Are there a lot of "soccer moms" on the puter who are staunch Republicans still thinking that Bush can not fuck up Iraq more than he has already?) 'scuse the French!)

I wish that I could have pushed save when I went to the word perfect because AOL caused the whole puter to freeze up!

Back to this lady with Auspergers, Dawn Prince-Hughes . This is an excerpt from her book:

"This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people's autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it."

It is so amazing how she overcame her own processing and emotional difficulties. She wrote a book about it just as I have been thinking for 20 years to write a book and then realizing my own difficulties relating to people (esp. rednecks and women just before "Aunt Flo") There is another lady who invented a way for cattle to be euthanized peacefully before being slaughtered who has much more severe autism. I wish that I could remember her name but she was on NPR a few years ago and she was very much different and had much more severe autism in regards to relating to people. She would never smile and approached things almost the way "Dr. Spock" would on the old "Star Trek" show.

Now the coffee (no addaboy yet today and its only a small amount of the tablet which lasts a weeks since it comes out to over 3$ a pill without the major medical. Don't get me started on these greedy pharmaceutical companies!) has kick started my digestive tract but I might continue this later and see if Golda (platonic friend) wants to take a walk and enjoy this beautiful brisk autumn day!

"C" asked a frequently asked question:
c: Garvald how did you determine that you have add? Ever any prof. help or diagnosis?

Ive been talkiing to others , even another science teacher a few years ago who started taking addrall and it was like putting on glasses. As I've said before in my essays, Mom would always say all through school and college in her high Australian accent,
"Garvald, All your teachers have said that you are very intelligent, but why don't you just listen?"
"What did you just say, Mom?"

That was long before ADD was a common diagnosis and others throughout school and life would say that I was in my own little world or be a space cadet. My 3rd grade teacher, seriously thought that I had a hearing problem and so had me tested. My hearing was fine and I had a high IQ. There were some testers to come in and tested my intelligence because I believe that I was alot higher on the relative bell curve then easily acing all those multiple choice tests in 6th grade. I could even beat my father in chess at 10.
I believe the poor American diet affected my intelligence in later years but I can still play a pretty good game of chess if I'm focused.
About 10 to 15 years ago, Time Magazine came out with an article about ADD and all the famous people throughout history including Da Vinci, Einstein, and Edison had symptoms of the condition. I dwelled on it for many years. I went into teaching kids with processing difficulties and saw the similarities between the children and myself as a child. After talking to many adults with it and Muffy's very strong (nagging) encouragement I went to the Dr. He without question gave me some different meds to try and adderall was the best for me. Both of us saw immediate improvements and I was not so overwhelmed with all the Ieps (individual education plans)and all the "no child left behind bullshit" brought on by Bubba Bush (don't get me started on how test scores have to improve even with special ed kids that cannot even read so they just fill in bubbles on the "multiple guess tests" that dominate this country.)


Muffy wouldn't lose patience with mewhen I didnt have to ask her for the third time what she just said. During the summer and while I'm on sabbatical I find it helpful when I dont take all of the tablet but just a small portion when I have a task that needs to get done.
I hope this answered your question, C, whomever you are? Girls and the caller Id syndrome~! Don't get me started!

The following is a review of this book on a lady surviving Autism. I am interested in this much because I have worked with autistic students. I realized that there are many types of levels. I thought some of my readers might be interested in this, except Bubba :) and other close minded folks. This lady was on the Jane Pauley show today.


"This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people's autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it."

In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces her personal growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment when, as a young woman, she entered the Seattle Zoo and immediately became fascinated with the gorillas.

Having suffered from a lifelong inability to relate to people in a meaningful way, Dawn was surprised to find herself irresistibly drawn to these great primates. By observing them and, later, working with them, she was finally able to emerge from her solitude and connect to living beings in a way she had never previously experienced.

Songs of the Gorilla Nation is more than a story of autism, it is a paean to all that is important in life. Dawn Prince-Hughes's evocative story will undoubtedly have a lasting impact, forcing us, like the author herself, to rediscover and assess our own understanding of human emotion.

Review:
"[An] affecting, thoughtful memoir....[T]ouching eloquence and clarity." Publishers Weekly

Review:
"[O]pens a window into the world of autism to provide an unforgettable view." Kirkus Reviews

Review:
"An excellent addition to any library's collection about autism, this will also resonate with all who understand the human-animal connection." Booklist

Synopsis:
In a moving and inspirational memoir, the author tells the remarkable story of her journey out of the isolation of Asperger's Syndrome, and of the role played by a family of captive gorillas in her transformation.



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Dawn Prince-Hughes received her M.A. and Ph.D. in interdisciplinary anthropology from the Universität Herisau in Switzerland and is an instructor in the department of anthropology at Western Washington University. She is the author of Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days and the editor of Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with Autism, and is the executive chair of ApeNet, a nonprofit organization.

Read, enjoy, and feel free to leave comments but please keep the personal cuss words to a minimum. Thanks :)

Bush was leaning on the podium and Kerry appeared more presidential. Both wives wore the same suits. Aol has it 53 % to 47% and 2 to 1 for swing voters. I was watching the debate at Hudstones and the blokes on the other side of the bar were Bush fans. One gentleman got tired of Bubba bad mouthing me all the time and they were almost involved in a fight, so he had to leave, but Bubba was allowed to stay. I'm sorry that I was too involved in the debate to see it happen. I heard that Bubba grabbed his finger when he started pointing at him. It's amazing that so many cigarette addicts and alcoholics like Bush.
Cigarettes, alcohol, low blood sugar, and criticizing Bush seem to make a lot of people angry. There seem to be a lot more fights in pubs here than in Kansas City. I spent a whole year in KC. and never experienced a fight inside a bar. Maybe the folks that like violence should go enlist and fight in Iraq so Bush won't have to install the draft if God forbid, he gets reelected.

I wish that pubs had more things to do than smoke cigarettes, drink, watch football and play pool. There should be a place in a pub to talk about politics with a moderator and when Bubba starts using 4 letter grunts and smoking too much, he can be removed from the chat table. I wish that they had other games besides pool. Maybe, ping pong, chess, backgammon are things to do besides pool, drinks and cigarettes.

I do like Hudstones the way they have a bar around the bartenders so everyone sits across from each other and there can be lively, and sometimes angry interchanges. The only thing is that 90% of the bar flies smoke and it always follow non smokers. Weed has a much less offensive smoke than tobacco but I'm looking forward to the day when we can at least smoke bud outside in the patio and have a peaceful interchange about the qualities of a utopian society. Of course the "man" doesn't want us to smoke it because the paper companies don't want the hemp companies to put them out of business. I'll pursue this very controversial topic later. My only concern is Dad or my older brother might be reading this site.

Actually, Bush was better at mass debating than most because he practiced alot by himself at his "ranch" in Crawford when he got out some of his dirty old magazines hidden from his wife in his favorite personal bathroom. Sources say that he likes the pics of the Texas cheeleaders the best although he does like the girls from OU! Maybe he's got some J's hidden with the mags so he can have a nice trip while refining his personal skills as a mass debater. Does the president have to take a urine test?

Leigh Anne sent me this site and I couldn't resist just making it easier for you to see how bogus Dr Phil's interview is in the Bush "home" and how he is like a Texas yankee doing work on the "ranch" almost like he's a veteran rancher. Next week Phil is going to show the opposite with Kerry and going into his divorce and trying to sabotage the image of Kerry being a good family man. More and more, Bush is trying to follow an act set up by Rove and others the way Reagan learned from Hollywood how to follow a script!


PHONY TO THE CORE: The "Ole Family Ranch" in Crawford is a Set Completed
the Same Day the Election was Stolen
By Cheryl Seal

Have you seen all those article and pictures of Bush "at home on the
ranch" in Crawford - the ones that imply that he is "just an ole ranch
hand" more comfortable on the family homestead than in the "Big City,"
be it Austin or D.C.? Well, if you bought this image, you've been
royally snuckered. The Bush family homestead in Crawford is nothing more
than an elaborate set. The house, built in 2000, was designed to be
ready for Bush to step into - like a set awaiting an actor - during the
2000 presidential election. Not only was the "ranch" created in 2000 -
so, essentially, was the "town" of Crawford! Before then only about 400
people lived in the area. The Crawford Chamber of Commerce and
Agriculture were formed shortly after the ranch was finished.

The 1,600 acres on which the "ranch" sits was purchased in 1999 for an
undisclosed price, but it was a helluva lot less than the current real
estate agents' appraisal of $1.2 million. Yep, worth $1.2 million, but
G.W. has a sweet deal at the tax appraiser's office, where the property
is valued at about $988,000. Oh, and that "homey ole ranch house?" It's
actually a 10,000-square-foot single level mansion/compound that won't
even be 2 years old until this November! The compound features a
swimming pool for daughters Jenna and Barbara, who apparently loudly
demanded it - the Bushes call it the girls' "Whining pool." Btw - we
hear Bush got a sweet deal on the house construction, (the cost, of
course remains undisclosed): the builders came from a religious
community in El Mott, Texas. The original completion date of the house
was November 7 - election day 2000. In other words, the curtain went up
on the set on schedule for "show time." The very timing of this event
indicates that Bush was absolutely confident that the election would be
successfully engineered in his favor.

The whole idea behind the ranch set, of course, was so that the public
could be treated to footage of Bush seeking a quiet "retreat" at the
family ranch. Americans would thus assume that the ranch was a rooted
family homestead or compound like the one Kennedy's had in Martha's
Vineyard or FDR had at Campobello. But when Bush retreated into his
"homestead" in November, 2000, he was merely walking onto a prepared set
upon which the paint had barely dried, let alone even the barest of
roots put down! When we see photos of Bush bombing around the ranch in
his leather jacket in his "ole pickup," supposedly knowing every tree
and bush - it's all pure fantasy! If Bush knows every tree and bush
after actually spending, all told, a total of about 2 months on the
ranch (if you put the odd days end to end) since it was bought, then
I''d like to know when he found time to hold all those endless Crawford
press conferences! Seems to me he'd be way too busy introducing himself
to trees and bushes.

Until Bush and handlers decided that a rural ranch would be a slick bit
of PR for the presidential campaign, Bush had no interest in a "home on
the range." Instead, his preferred weekend retreat was to the Rainbo
Club, an exclusive lakeside hunting club in Henderson County, about an
hour south of Dallas, much closer to the comforts of Austin. When a Bush
run for president began to look like a pretty good bet, the 1,600 acres
were bought and the Bushes started making weekend trips to a 60-year-old
ranch house that existed on the property - not of course, before
refurbishing it! - so they could build the "lore" that would take in the
American public, hook, line and sinker.

In an interesting side note - while Bush is anti-conservation in his
presidential policies to please his corporate pals, in his OWN home, he
has installed several conservation/energy saving features, including
solar panels for heating water, rainwater collection for landscape
irrigation, an air conditioning system that uses groundwater and a gray
water recycling system. The obvious impression here is that Bush, being
all PR show and no substance or real convictions, wants to cover all the
bases. Block conservation when it is expedient, but have some
conservation "stuff" to show off when that is expedient.

So, in short, we have a "president" who, ON THE SAME DAY - November 7,
2000 - stole an election and had the last nail driven into a phony ranch
set. But with a completely snuckered press corps, we also have had a
completely snuckered public. And a platoon of completely snuckered world
leaders, chief among them Blair and Putin, who have been hosted at the
"ole ranch" set and completely taken in. Alas, the Crawford ranch is a
symbol of the utter corporate phoniness of this administration. The
whole scenario reminds me of those type of sophisticated con artists
(like the ones who recently convinced several investors they could turn
sand into gold! ) who blow into town, rent an upscale office space just
long enough to give them enough credibility to hoodwink investors. Then,
once they have fleeced enough "marks," they disappear. What makes the
Bush case much, much worse is that I doubt he will disappear.


Additional Notes on "Rancho Boguso" from Bonafide Texans


Apparently Rancho Boguso has done time not just as a small-time cattle
ranch but was once a pig farm as well! And those horses you see in
photos? Window dressing only - Bush can't ride!!!

Read with interest your article at Democrats.com. Being from Waco I know
well what you say. Crawford first of all is closer to Waco than the
Branch Davidian Compound but this is never said.

For you information Bush was just given a saddle as a gift that is now
on tour around the state. This saddle is of NO use to him since he
does't ride horses. Ask Vincinte Fox - who wanted him to go riding on
Bush's trip to Mexico. [Wonder how Bush wormed his way out of THAT?]

Another fact is that he doesn't own any of the cattle on his "ranch".
They are the cattle of the previous owner, who helps run the "Movie
Set". He's a cowboy with more hat than cattle.

W. G. Lacy


Enjoyed Cheryl Seal's story about the Crawford "ranch." But she failed
to mention that before Shrub bought it, it was a pig farm. And in Texas,
it is too small to be considered a ranch anyway -- go look up how many
100 thousand acres LBJ had or how big the King Ranch is.


William Duttweiler

http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=6687 usand acres LBJ had or how big the King Ranch is.


William Duttweiler



http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=6687

Thanks, William for giving all of us insight into what might be another 4 years of a president who screws up his lines and we are too ignorant to know otherwise. I wish that there would be a chance for us to not listen to other sheep and Baptist preachers who tell us how to vote and really make an informed decision. Bush does such a good job at being another Texan that he even has Dr. Phil fooled. Who knows?
Maybe Phil is getting some good kickbacks or he'll always have a job on the Fox Propaganda Network!