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former US Marine, retired police; in other words, professional babysitter. "Ah's jes' th' ign'nt sonuva po' ol' shahcroppah, yas ah is. . ."

20100331

hootie & the blowfish http://pi.pe/-1mlpu1
President Obama wonders why he has so much opposition from the Republican Party
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Fox Nation Punks Itself with Global Warming "News" Story

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Once one is alerted to psychological situations wherein persons are 'damned if they do and damned if they don't', then one tends to wonder why millions of people are not psychotic as hooty owls. - Charles Hampton-Turner, "Maps Of The Mind"

20100330

Teacher Who Inspired 'Stand and Deliver' Dies

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putting Sam's videos on Mindi & Wayne's homepages. . .

What If Fox News Actually <i>Wants</i> Mob Violence?

Rod Serling covered this in the 60's when he broadcast 'The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street' on 'The Twilight Zone' (available on YouTube, divided into 3 parts). . .



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvmyObRoH9c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxc-0uKSWck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GE9-YWh1Hc



"And this pattern is always the same?"

"With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find, and it's themselves. All we need do is sit back and watch. . ."



Of course, these tactics have been used extensively in history. They're not limited to the Republican party, Fox News or right-wing media figures.
About Glenn Beck
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
"There ought to be limits to freedom." — George W. Bush, news conference, May 21, 1999
"How wonderful that we have met with paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." - Neils Bohr

20100329

"If I don't see you no more in this world, then I'll meet you in the next one: don't be late. . ." - Jimi, 'Voodoo Child (Slight Return)'

20100328

All the have to do now is put the final pieces together, and they'll see that the destruction of Atlantis is being described in the Book of Exodus. . . http://ping.fm/2SsqX
"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." - Albert Einstein

20100327

"To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time." - H A Overstreet
Learn the Sword and forget the Sword.

20100325

"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican." -- Vice President Dan Quayle
Know what this is?
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"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is
being very wasteful. How true that is." -- Vice President Dan
Quayle

20100324

"Rather let us have wars, for which someone else is always to blame, nobody seeing that all the world is driven to do just what the world flees from in terror." - Carl Justav Jung, 'The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairy Tales'

20100321

the ugly spectre of right-wing extremism, including homophobia & racism, rears its head again. . .if i had my katana, i'd chop it off. . .
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20100319

. . . oooh-ahhh, kiss ya when i meet ya / oooh-ahhh, kiss ya when i meet ya / oooh-ahhh, kiss ya when i meet ya / oooh-ahhh, kiss ya when i meet ya . . .
http://bit.ly/aqIwso Huffpost - Iraq War Seventh Anniversary: 'We'll Know Better

20100318

. . .currently upgrading software & security. . .
gonna get a nap. . .been about 26 hours or so. . .ya'll have fun. . .
'Rakugaki ni / koishiki kimi ga / na mo arite.' ('Among the graffiti / The name of / Beloved you.') - Basho, 1644-1694

20100317

The Stan & Ollie Project: Video 1
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i've got good news & bad news: (1) it's not parkinson's, but it's incurable; and (2) i'm back on the net; but, as usual, i'm having problems. . .(sigh)