tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13935372269216636252024-03-19T04:00:41.074-04:00Unabashed LeftMission:1)Advance the principle that Pacifism, Liberalism, Environmentalism, + membership in the Democratic Party are not sins nor of which one need be ashamed. 2)Move us in the direction of a political culture which would enable public persons to proudly proclaim their leftist tendencies, just as those on the right may do at present.
ADDENDUM: TO VIEW ARTICLES JUST SCROLL DOWN. DON'T FEAR SCROLLING; NO INJURIES HAVE RESULTED, JUST ENLIGHTENMENT. ;o) PEACE PLEASE.... STEVEUnabashed Lefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003861414639215586noreply@blogger.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1393537226921663625.post-53345162445971802822015-01-08T19:33:00.000-05:002015-01-08T19:38:21.992-05:00IS HOMICIDE THE NEW ADRENALINE RUSH THAT LION HUNTING WAS FOR OVER-TESTOSTERONE FOLKS BEFORE!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>What with the frustrated blood lust engendered by the likes of idiotic directors, actors and producers like Clint Eastwood and Chuck Norris and the legions of vulnerable kids being propagandized into the benefits of murder for no reason, it's no wonder the U.S. has more people incarcerated per ca pita than Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, or Iraq under Saddam Hussein.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>I've been thinking, though. What with the 9 killed the day Gabby Giffords was shot, the trial just begun regarding the bloody bombing at the Boston Marathon a year and a half ago, the DC Snipings right after 9/11, and what about those 'darling' Tylenol poisonings and the Ft. Hood murders. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>But of course the worst is poor-on-poor violence in the inner cities EVERY day! :( More than will ever die in our absurd 'war on terror.'</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>It all started with arses like Eastwood and Norris glorifying blood and murder on film. But now, with interactive and excruciatingly graphic gore, violence and murder via computer games, it just is NOT too much of a stretch to comprehend that the perpetrators of evil deeds like Sandy Hook Elementary , the VA Tech Massacre, Columbine, and the Boston Bombing are more motivated by our Main Stream 'Entertainment' than they ever have been by the Prophet Muhammad or by the Koran.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>THEIR MANUFACTURE;</b></span></div>
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Unabashed Lefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003861414639215586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1393537226921663625.post-32621632486161493172015-01-05T08:26:00.001-05:002015-01-05T18:09:00.878-05:00FINISHING THE U.S. REVOLUTION-ENDING THE BRITSH MONARCHY AND COMMONWEALTH!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Lest you doubt it, articles and photos prove that he continues to mingle with convicted US child rapist and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein AFTER his conviction and lifetime placement on the sex offender registry. </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-large;">It's not even like this is the first scandal in recent times among the sick, maladaptive Windsor family. Just look at the "family values" inculcated among British and Commonwealth kids that heir to the throne "Prince" Charles. He had a lovely white wedding for all to see with a beautiful Princess all fell in love with, impregnated her with two kids then booked for Camilla. Then Diana died, proving royalty had nothing to do with public LOVE.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-large;">I was looking up a man who I consider a brother, a mentor, a man I looked up to growing up an whose National Holiday all Americans celebrate this month. That would be the Reverend, Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. I found a quote from him that epitomizes LOVE from a true disciple and leader. He calls frequently upon members of all races to recognize the irrelevance of skin color, but this poignant and prophetic quote shows his deep love for all souls, whether human or contained in the body of another critter. I happen to LOVE this quote.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">solely for our comfort and luxury.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I plan to send them a certified signed receipt required letter requesting time on their podium, send emails and to invite my readers and friends to do the same!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I'm 100% serious about this, I already have the phone and fax numbers for CPAC, and their ground address. Their email should be coming shortly. With the support of all my leftist and liberal friends just maybe we can get Steve Alexander a surprise speaking spot at CPAC 2015. C'mon, it can only be fun! Here's the contact info I have now, I'll get the email toya as soon as I can. Let's get an impoverished disabled old hippy up there to tell 'em how life REALLY is! Peace...</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;">the Fall of Saigon </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Television brought obscene</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">American involvement in Southeast Asia (the region where Vietnam is located) began with the introduction of non-uniformed ‘advisors’ under the John F. Kennedy Administration. After President Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) became President of the U.S. Under LBJ, the United States became increasingly involved in the conflict already ongoing in Vietnam.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After World War II the United States, under President Harry Truman and the dictator of the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin, agreed to carve up large parts of Asia and Europe. For example Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany were conceded to belong under Soviet influence while West Germany and the remainder of Western Europe were under U.S. and our allies control. In Asia we agreed that North and South Korea would be divided and that North and South Vietnam would also be carved in the same manner. North and South Vietnam are one nationality, speak one language and we signed treaties following WW II agreeing to this division. The people of Vietnam were NOT happy with this division, which divided families, friends and neighbors. A battle ensued between South Vietnamese opponents of the government supported by the U.S. and the North Vietnamese government. In the 1950s France tried to end the rebellion by force in Vietnam, but failed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In August 1964 the USS Maddox, an American Navy Destroyer ship was conducting illegal espionage on Vietnam when it attacked three North Vietnamese ships, but the United States claimed North Vietnamese guilt, and passed through Congress what is now known as the Gulf Of Tonkin (the body of water off Vietnam to the east) Resolution. Under the U.S. Constitution a formal Declaration of War is required for us to go to war, but this resolution was easier to get through Congress because a 2/3rds vote was not required, only a majority of 50% plus one in both the Senate and House. So at the very beginning of the introduction of U.S. troops in 1965 our involvement not only violated international law (the American post-WW II treaties, and laws outlawing attacks against other sovereign nations) but it also violated our own Constitution.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gradually our involvement went to as many as 500,000 uniformed troops on the ground, and Navy and Air Force bombardments of the South and the North. The people in South Vietnam had a leader we were supporting named Nguyen Van Thieu, who was corrupt and despised by his own people. In the South a movement of native South Vietnamese sought to stop the American attempt to occupy the nation, and they were called the Viet Cong. A rag tag group, they fought a different style of warfare called ‘guerilla warfare’ which was very effective in demoralizing American troops, prolonging the war and enabling opponents of the war in America to mobilize against the war. In North Vietnam the leader there’s name was Ho Chi Minh, and he was viewed as a national leader and he had the support of China and the Soviet Union with weapons (but NO troops from either Russia or China).</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;">the only American non-President</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;">(and killed himself by a</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;">"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world:</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;">I CANNOT BE SILENT."</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">During the buildup of the war under LBJ, American boys, 18 and 19 years old were being forced to fight because a draft was instituted, and virtually all young men in the 1960s were drafted. Lots of young people saw the illegality and the immorality of the U.S. war on the other side of the world which did NOT threaten the United States in ANY way, and began to refuse the draft. There were many protests against the war, and many draftees refused to go.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is John Lennon</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;">singing his great anti-war tune,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;">with his beloved wife, Yoko</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;">and a bunch of friends.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, a secret war was being conducted by the United States against two neighboring nations-Laos and Cambodia. Congress never authorized these wars, and they were expanded under LBJ’s successor as President, Richard Nixon (who took over from LBJ after Johnson was bound to lose the 1968 election because of his Vietnam atrocities). We bombed these nations obscenely, illegally and mercilessly; dropped chemical weapons, defoliants called Agent Orange, Agent Red, and so forth designed to eliminate huge parts of the jungles in those two countries imagining this would end the shipment of weapons to South Vietnam from North Vietnam. Unfortunately this led to several horrid results. First is that huge numbers of American soldiers got sick and/or have died from these chemicals, and still suffer to this day (as do Laotians, Cambodians and Vietnamese). So it backfired. Second, our attack on Cambodia actually led to the takeover of that country by a horrible dictator named Pol Pot who killed nearly half of his own people (well over 1 million people), and is the cause for the famous movie “The Killing Fields.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Opposition to the war, the lies and deceit of the American government became so intense, and the casualty tolls so high (over 58,000 uniformed Americans died in the war and hundreds of thousands of Southeast Asians died) that it almost seemed at times here in our country that we were on the verge of our own civil war against the war. Fortunately most opponents of the war such as Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lennon, and many others advocated a peaceful approach to protesting. Nixon resigned under disgrace in 1974 for trying to steal the 1972 election, and after 10 long years, the capitol of South Vietnam, then known as Saigon and renamed by the victors as Ho Chi Minh City, fell and Americans as well as Vietnamese workers in the U.S. Embassy had to be evacuated from the roof by helicopter in what are harrowing videos. At that time Vice President Gerald Ford had just taken over (in summer of 1974, Saigon fell a year later) from the disgraced American President Nixon.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One-time Beatle founder</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;">He (and countless others) also helped to put</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I grew up and graduated High School the summer before the war ended in 1975. My whole time growing up I had to decide what I would do if I were drafted. My other three brothers were all drafted. One went to Vietnam, the other two did not. I would have protested, I opposed this unjust war, and continue to oppose war whenever and wherever it can be avoided. Which I believe is almost always, especially since the United States is separated from any serious potential enemy by thousands of miles--both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Thank you so much Anna, for giving me this chance to reflect on this sad and tragic chapter in American history. Peace...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">From time to time I like to update and re-release articles that have received wide readership or which I personally like. This one qualifies on both levels-<b><u><i>-I encourage everybody who reads anything on this site to read this particular article more than any other on the website. Peace pleeeeze...</i></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">This anti-war anti--US Offense Department Lennon article attracted more readers than most in Unabashed history. So here it is, just like decent soda pop, coming back atya one more time:</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">My childhood hero and role model John Winston Ono Lennon(born October 9th 1940) was killed 30 long years ago today with a handgun, and I'm still angry and disappointed that peacenik John's "Empty Garden"[a tribute song written by fellow British subject Elton John] is still empty. Poor Yoko. <a href="http://www.yoko-ono.com/">http://www.yoko-ono.com/</a> is where to go to read about her tribute to Johnny--the "Lennon Peace Prize."</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr. Lennon decided to stop being a Beatle and settle down to be a great father and house-husband for Yoko and his darling son Sean. He wrote a great song off the Double Fantasy album that was one of his posthumous hits entitled "Beautiful Boy" about Sean. At one point in their lives both Sean and John looked sorta like this beautiful boy I <u>Imagine</u>:</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After founding the greatest Rock and Roll band of all time[The Beatles] and being the greatest songwriter and establishing the songwriting duo Lennon/McCartney, founding a new record label--Apple Records--helping to end war, create gender equality, and all that good stuff, John Lennon rearranged his life priorities to spend a decade or so at home to raise his kid and learned to love the children of the world even more personally--such as the beautiful children of the world depicted in this photo from Michael Jackson's project "We Are The World" at one point co-opted by the Coca-Cola Bottling Co.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr. Lennon despised missiles such as this vintage product </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">taken from the McDonnell-Douglas website:</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The United States has had 3 Generals become President so far </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">as near as I can remember:</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They used to tell me in history class as a kid that everyone wanted</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">They also told us that he was so honest that he chopped down a cherry</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">tree as a kid, and didn't lie about it to his mom. "Sure Mom, I whacked</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">as near as I can recollect. General George was the first. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">"There were 11 scandals directly associated with Grant's two terms as President." Quite a legacy presidency that particular Republican General's wuz, huh?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Now click on this link please and listen to John and Yoko sing</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">victory(see Bob Woodward's "All the President's Men" or "The White House Transcripts"--<u>expletive deleted toya boys and girls</u>--for </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">not-much-fun winter</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After JFK was killed and LBJ botched some things, the constitution had</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">and we needed another emergency VP. So when Nixon quit we got Jerry "I didn't make a deal to become president but pardoned Nixon" Ford, who never</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">congressional district as Pres now. Above, the Ford of the Jerry variety is seen with Rumsfeld during his first failed attempt as Defense Secretary on the left--the guy on the right is just another irrelevant guy I won't bother naming.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jerry botched things pretty badly, following Nixon losing N. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, S. Vietnam and bringing us an economy</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">that required wage and price freezes and controls that when he ran for election </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">the first time as the only anointed incumbent President he was a shoe-in to lose.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">who almost blew his chances of winning by</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">us guys have been joking about for decades). One more Unabashed note of interest about Playboy magazine. When I was a youngster and sneaking peaks at their airbrushed centerfolds, on the back of the pinup centerfold was a monthly feature entitled something similar to Unabashed Jokes (which featured juvenile sexist jokes). THAT is where I learned the word and went to the dictionary to find out what unabashed meant. Dictionary.com defines it as folows: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">adjective</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even though the world was at peace, no one had run 767s into </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">high rises, the economy was humming, etc. Bubba's sexual</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">proclivities with young interns caused Dubya's close 2000 election </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">theft by brother Jeb in Florida-the "hanging chad" governor/brother. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dubya wound up being so bad after his illegal theft of the election,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">The Great Recession, 9/11, Katrina, "Freedom Fries," </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">say that the dominance of the uniformed brass</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">has continued under President Barack Obama. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">It is the one aspect of his Presidency </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Our departure from the Iraq invasion and occupatiion</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"> was clumsy and the brass</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">wanted us out, otherwise we would have </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">been there even longer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">We are still in the absurdly longest war</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">in US history. We must leave </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Afghanistan <b><u>now</u></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">We have attacked by various means </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">or the approval</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">of sovereign </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">nations, in violation</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Drone strikes are being used and</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><b><u>Drone strikes must end</u></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">And we must at some point <b><u>soon</u> </b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">declare an end to the undeclared</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">which is </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">justifying our violent aggression </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">ad infinitum.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">PLEASE Mr. President, you've accomplished so much.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">The first black president to win not one.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">but TWO elections in the most racist</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Your perseverance in</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">was a </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">to quote Vice President Biden.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Ending DADT in the uniformed military</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Passing the TARP ('stimulus bill'' legislation</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Violence does NOT beget peace, sir, if</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">It only causes more slaughter, rape, and destruction</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">those Uniforms, DOD chiefs and PhD's like Kissinger and Brzezinski and Condoleeeeeza (not exactly a San Francisco treat--that bowl of Rice) Rice. Only the USA, Russia and China have InterCONTINENTal nukes deployed(we and Russia still have land based missile ICBMs, Submarine worldwide-commuter missiles, AND aging rust-bucket B-52s and migs that can wing it to any world capital and nuke 'em 2 within minutes forya)</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">planes[or missiles--what fun] to get their conventional or nuclear weapons to us. If they want to get Europe or Asia, they can walk to those wars. Same with China. They could walk, drive or hop a train or trolley to any war with any major world power except the USA. And WE have 2 oceans between us and any real threat to takeover militarily by anyone at all. WE have the best interCONTINENTal nukes on earth and WE don't even NEED them for DEFENSE at all, only for intimidation and offensive(attack) purposes. And we are the only nation--with an unstable Presidency like we have--OMG--lets get this START Treaty passed somehow someway, pleeeeze liberals--to have started a nuclear war-<strong>and won one</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">PhD genius Henry A.(Professor Kissinger obviously being lectured--and lending global legitimacy to--by the self-proclaimed "Great Leader And Teacher" himself, atheist and Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, with Premier Chou En-Lai looking on as a witness) snuck off to China in the 70s to talk to Mao. Now Mao has a carbon footprint to end all carbon footprints, his godless communist successors own our national debt via our own Treasury bills, and they own all of our manufacturing jobs, now. Henry decided to be Defense Sec AND State Sec in all but name and-- using conventional weapons--lost S. Vietnam(we were defending our Dictator-of-Choice Nguyen Van Thieu against Ho Chi Minh in the North), N. Vietnam AND his illegal secret wars in Laos AND Cambodia[along the way stupidly and accidentally providing the Khmer people and the world with dictator Pol "Killing Fields" Pot]. Kissinger. What an idiot. A PhD can be a dangerous thing. Ivy league credentials can be a problem for Republicans. Our earlier non-Congressionally declared war under Republican Ike in the 50s was Korea. We stalemated there, after ramming a Security Council resolution through when the Soviets stormed out during the debate and we pushed thru a vote when they were out of the room and couldn't issue their veto. So we stalemated that one with the full resources of the US DOD <u>AND</u> the United Nations. OMG. American Presidential leadership of the world. Nuclear war. The first one already happened and WE DID IT!!! After Nam, Carter's people botched rescuing the 52 hostages in Tehran(where our preferred dictator--the Shah of Iran-Reza Pahlavi--had to wing it out quick to asylum with oodles of cash in order to avoid being strung up by the toes and caused the Islamic revolution that wound up distorting the Koran and resulting in the Sunni Bin Laden and his Jihaddist nonsense and ultimately his "lucky day with 19 plastic box cutters" and four 767s on 9/11/01). And since 9/11 our Trillion dollar a year conventional forces haven't even come close to winning in 10 years against people who don't even have an armed boat or plane-no navy, air force, marines, nothing. Just ragtag bands with old rifles, shotguns, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana;">These three are the nuts who have lost totally unnecessary illegal and undeclared wars for years since 9/11, with the biggest defense budgets in world history. All the kings horses and all the kings men have been granted them and they still lost! Trillions, thousands dead, millions wounded, homeless and scarred for life. And we're still in trouble.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana;">WE HAVE 2 OCEANS BETWEEN US AND THE REST OF THE WORLD! WE DON'T REQUIRE <u>MUCH</u> TO <u>DEFEND</u> THE UNITED STATES FROM ANY SERIOUS THREAT TO OUR SURVIVAL! ALL WE NEED IS A <u>BIGGER COAST</u> <u>GUARD AND A SMALLER EVERYTHING ELSE MILITARILY</u>, THAT'S IT!!! THE ONLY REASON OTHER COUNTRIES WANT NUKES IS BECAUSE WE UNNECESSARILY ARE POINTING THEM AT ALL THEIR MAJOR CITIES. OUR NUKES MAKE AHMADENIJAD STRONGER AND MORE POPULAR IN TEHRAN AND KEEP THE BUM IN OFFICE. SAME WITH THE FOOL WHO CALLS HIMSELF 'DEAR LEADER' IN PYONGYANG! IT'S <u>PRECISELY</u> WHAT IS MOTIVATING ILLITERATE VULNERABLE PIMPLY TEENS TO SIGN UP FOR SCUMBAG-MOTIVED BIN LADEN'S JIHADDIST IDIOCY!!! GATES HAS TO GO, THE HOLDOVER FROM THE BUSH CIRCUS, AND DEFENSE SPENDING MUST BE SLASHED, AND WE NEED TO RATIFY START AND ELIMINATE OUR OWN NUKE ARSENAL. THEN OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AND THAT OF THE WORLD WILL FINALLY BE OK!</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That sure is a pretty visual above, no? That's horrible. I think there really<strong> is</strong> something sexually perverted about all this nonsense. The military establishments world wide, but especially here in the USA are still primarily males. Males in western civilization have dominated women and children. The constitution was written by white slave-owning "founding-fathers" who suppressed women and minorities and are still attempting to do so. Our Emancipation Proclamation was only a century and a half ago. Slavery was legal under that silly Constitution for nearly 100 years. And for nearly 150 years the Constitution prevented half of all Americans, women, from even having the right to vote! What a lousy document it was! Getting better at a snail's pace, from what I can see. I've studied military affairs for decades now. I AM an expert. Undergrad degrees in Economics, Pol Sci, International Relations and Psychology. Graduate work and Teacher for the Pol Sci dept at Boston University where they paid me as a Teaching Fellow to pursue my PhD in Arms Control and Disarmament. These uniforms and social science PhD's can complicate a wet dream, I'm sorry for the analogy, but I'm angry today[upset about John Lennon, Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Edwards' death, the lack of numbers in Congress now, etc. etc.]. Military strategy is simple. We have two oceans protecting us. The only really major wars we've fought in our country have been the Revolutionary war[we won that one] and our own internal squabble--the Civil War. Thats it. No one can "get" us. Anything else is paranoia. <strong>It's <u>us</u> pointing nukes at the rest of the world that is <u>the</u> problem militarily for us and for the world. </strong>If we disarm nuclearly, slash the defense dept. budget to a fraction, spend a bit more on "Coast" Guard, invest the savings in infrastructure and jobs....<strong><u>THEN EVERYONE'S A WINNER - ESPECIALLY UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. LEFTISTS, LIBERALS, DEMOCRATS UNITE, PLEEEEEEZE!!! THIS AND WE MATTER AND IT'S OUR JOB AS WORLD CITIZENS TO CAUSE OUR OWN GOVERNMENT'S DISARMAMENT! I PRAY FOR PEACE AND HONOR</u></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’m a common story. Pretty healthy except for some emotional concerns, until a few years ago. Came down with pneumonia. First time. Felt like being kicked in the chest by a few mules. 200/100 blood pressure. 2 months later needed radiation for an endocrine disease. At the end of that year 10 months of chiropractic hadn’t cut the mustard so I saw Dr. Howard Lantner associated with St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, CT. He botched a NON-FDA approved amalgam implant as attested to by a Yale neurosurgeon when he had to do corrective surgery one year later. While at Yale Hospital a deadly pulmonary embolism was found in my lung, cutting my O2 levels, and threatening to enter my heart and kill me imminently. So an implant was installed to prevent my death.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In October 2013 my cell phone was out of commission and I was suffering severe chest pains. I had to struggle to my neighbor’s house where he called 911 and ambulances carted me off. It was pneumonia caused by a chronic disease discovered in recent years, polycystic kidney disease which is slowly eating both kidneys. After getting out of the hospital a week or so later I was having severe chest pains again (one good thing about chest pains is the ambulance ride and no waiting at the ER) so Wallingford’s bravest were out again to cart me to the hospital. It was a pneumothorax--a lung collapse. I am prone to them because of certain of my genes I’d like to annihilate. This was followed up by a pneumothorax again a few weeks later, along with two chest insertions, and two different lung surgeries.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There have been times when I’ve been unable to keep up with housework--cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc. I haven’t been able to work at all. My income fell and I can’t afford a car, TV, cable--nought. I have no kids on purpose, knowing at a young age I was a bit--shall we say--eccentric and that the world needed two more white Dadless kids like it needed nukes in South Asia. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My family is me, Bluebelle the WonderCat and Angel Orange (Angelpie). I have been offered an opportunity to live in one of the best elder/handicapped care communities in the nation, right here in Wallingford. The Masonicare Campus now includes much more than dependent living. Founded long ago by the Episcopalean do-gooders and Friday night beer swillers, the Masons, it’s reputation is unparalleled. It has the Wright Residence just designed for mostly able bodied folks like me, but who are chronically ill and weaker with lots of bad days. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Wright Residence wants me to be part of their independent living community and I’d love to live there. I’m scheduled for a tour with the CEO on April 3rd. But when our phone conversation left the sublime and we got down to brass tacks, two issues arose for me. Number one was a no pets policy. They have a community bird. Really. Number two was that I can’t bring a 50cc scooter there. Really? </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are lots of pluses to such a move now. I’ve been deathly sick all winter, and this is a guaranteed home through all bad weather. I haven’t been able to take care of paying bills and record keeping, the arrangement at the Wright Residence would eliminate those concerns. They serve three great meals a day (I’ve eaten there many times for benefits...) and I have access to a community kitchen. I’d have a kitchenette and an efficiency, private bath, and routine cleaning--including laundry and linens if I choose. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I could always find a place on grounds to stash the scooter. My mind is made up. Simple. Bluebelle, Angelpie and I are a family. Unless and until I’m convinced they are safer with somebody else, we have a loving family unit that really does depend on me for certain provisions. That includes food, shelter, health care, and love. LOVE. More than anything else I need to show these kitties, one rescued literally out of a backyard wishing well and the other abandoned by some wretched soul in the dead of the upstate New York winter, LOVE. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They’ve shown me so much love I could never repay it. When I adopted Angel I knew risks were involved. Bluebelle is a tiny kitty with no claws, and Angel is big with claws. Angel gave Bluebelle time to accept her into our home, and has never once threatened Bluebelle that I’ve seen. She defers to Bluebelle, even though she knows she could kick her ass to Kingdom come if she chooses. She loves her. She loves me. She’s a great lapcat and she likes to bump your nose with hers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bluebelle has been with me since she was born 5 years ago. She’s forgiven me for some stupid stunts I pulled with her when I was married. She’s taught me all about forgiveness and UNCONDITIONAL Love. Bluebelle is the Queen of Unconditional Love. She’s earned her own bunk box--a shelf in my dresser. She loves it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They’ve saved my life like other pet family members have in the past. And even now as I write this story they’re teaching me even more lessons about LOVE. If it’s not unconditional then it’s not love.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why would I have it any other way, no matter how inconvenient. I’ve never had it so good. I rescued two kitties and they plan on repaying me with LOVE every day they live. No complaints here. If you’re in a position to do so, I highly recommend being a hero and rescuing a K9 or feline today! Just call your local shelter. I don’t know anybody who ever regretted it. </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love you Bluebelle the Kittie. I love you my sweet Angelpie. Always and forever.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Uncle UL and I live in Connecticut, not very far at all from where all those little 5 and 6 year old boys and girls and their teachers were killed just before Christmas. :( Uncle UL asked me to write a few words about that horrible day and my story. He says this is the most popular story on his blog page by two times over, even though he originally meant it to be only politics and satire. I think it's popular because deep down everybody wishes there was no need for guns. Yeppers, I sure do. Even those mean guys who talk big for the NRA and even cops who act like Clint Eastwood. Yup, I suppose some people want rifles to hunt critters, and even though I don't like it, I understand that they would want to. I like to fish, so I can't say they shouldn't hunt. Right? </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But WHY can't we stop people from having guns and stuff that let them</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wipe out 27 people in 10 minutes?? Why??</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People aren't allowed to have intercontinental missiles, right?</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They can't have nuclear bombs? Right?</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nobody can privately have a load of tanks, can they?</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The line has to be drawn somewhere is common sense to me!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And NOBODY should be able to have an assault rifle.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NOBODY should be able to stick a cartridge into a gun</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And NOBODY should be able to buy a gun without</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with a gun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm proud this is Uncle UL's most popular article. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I'm even prouder of his readers because it tells me</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At least deep down they don't.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Me</strong>:"Reverend Sara, can I talk to you for a minute, please?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I know you're really busy. But I have to ask you a question. OK?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "Sure Lisa, ask away, I always have time for questions."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "Hmmm. Good question. A sword is a weapon people</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">used to use a long time ago in battles. The used them for fighting."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "Well... A catapult is a bigger weapon they used</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "A rifle is a long gun used to shoot from long distances."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "A handgun is a short gun that isn't so accurate at long</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Me</strong>: "So, Reverend Sara, if long guns are good for shooting from</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">far away, they use them for shooting cute deers and bears and stuff?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "Yes, Lisa. You sure are a smart girl."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Me</strong>: "Now this is another important question. What are handguns for? Animals</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">always run away, and you can only hit things close up with a handgun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Are handguns designed to kill other people, Reverend Sara, ARE they???"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "Yes, Lisa, yes they are. They're only designed for killing</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">other people. People practice target shooting, but besides hitting</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">fake targets their only purpose is to kill people."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Me</strong>: "OH MY GOD!!! That's horrible."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "A missile is a rocket designed to carry bombs."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Me</strong>: "You mean like to hit buildings and stuff?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "Yes Lisa."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "Lisa, a nuclear bomb is the worst thing ever invented.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">It's a bomb so strong it destroyed two whole cities in an instant. One was</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">called Hiroshima and the other was called Nagasaki. Hundreds</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">of thousands died instantly, and hundreds of thousands suffered until they died</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">years later. People got burned, got sick and had broken bones and kids and old people, women, men and children died. Cats and dogs. All the buildings</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "War is horrible, and just a sin. Violence is never the answer,</span></div>
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<span closure_uid_gxokei="114" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Lisa. Never. </span></div>
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<span closure_uid_gxokei="114" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">It is always <em><strong>the</strong></em> problem. And nuclear war is the worst</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">kind of war. It's horrible."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">gentle, kind, considerate and thoughtful. You are beautiful, too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I pray that you never see any war. I pray that all violence ends today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I especially pray that nuclear war never happens again!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "Promise me you'll always work for peace, please Lisa?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Me</strong>: "I already do! I am right now."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "What a smart girl you really are. You ARE working for</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">peace right now, aren't you? Who sent you in here just now?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Me</strong>: "Jesus."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">your sermons to preach for peace. Huh? Right?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "Yes, Lisa, you're right."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Me</strong>: "How come you never give sermons about ending war and anti-nuclear bombs and stuff? Why??? How come? Please start. OK?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "Well Lisa, sometimes people in church don't want to hear</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Me</strong>: "I think they need to hear about Jesus, and Unconditional Love, justice, equality, ending war, non-violence, ending guns and understanding ALL the time. I think that anything else is wasting time. I think Jesus said a lot that was hard for people to hear, but He said it anyway. I think he stood up for his convic..convi..how do you say it?? His convictions!!! I think you should say Jesus' name and say love a lot more in church. And I think you should tell people on Sunday mornings just like you just told me about Hiroshima and Nagasaki just now!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Reverend Sara</strong>: "Jesus certainly did send you! What a good girl. And what a great little messenger. I will spend my sermon next Sunday talking about war, guns, nuclear bombs, Love and say Jesus' name a lot more often. I promise."</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;">man from Vladd -</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;">imir Putin </span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Putin: Your people, Barack, have interfered in Ukraine “from across the pond in America as if they were sitting in a laboratory and running experiments on <strong><u>rats</u></strong>, without any understanding of the consequences.” “All threats against Russia are counterproductive and harmful,” blathered Putin, adding that Russia was ready to host the G-8 but Western leaders who did not want to attend “don’t need to.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At this point the former KGBer and long too long Russian President/former Prime Minister [who, as you may recall, after an hour talking to him through Russian language interpreters, George Dubya Bush gazed into Putin’s eyes in a press conference proclaiming him a “friend” and somebody he could “trust”--I suppose he could be forgiven since his second in command, Cheney, was NOT a friend to anybody] might as well have added--after telling Mr. Obama “across the pond” that he was still going to stay in the G8 despite threats, and that our president “don’t need to” come to the summit he was hosting--”Nyah nah nah nah nahhhh!!!”</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But it is our Democratic President Obama who is now talking about “<strong><u>costs</u></strong>” after getting in big trouble almost exactly two years ago talking testosterone-driven junk about “<strong><u>red lines</u></strong>” at Syria’s Basher, Bashir Assad. Lest you’ve forgotten here’s my best transcript of President Obama’s threat of the day:</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;">THIS is a what a <u>red line</u> looks like.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I have not at this point ordered military engagement in this situation. But the point about chemical and biological weapons is critical. It's a critical issue that doesn't just concerned Syria, it concerns close allies in the region including Israel and concerns us. We cannot have a situation where chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people. We’ve been clear not only to the... Assad regime, but to other players on the ground that is a <strong><u>red line</u></strong> for us. If we see a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my whole calculus. That would change my equation.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This <strong><u>red line</u></strong> nonsense has haunted Mr. Obama ever since he uttered them in off-the-cuff White House comments, and he has too much testosterone to say I’m sorry. Instead he gave the man from Vladd, the never gladd, KGB operative turned “statesman” Putin the chance to look good by twisting his nearby friend’s ( Basher Bashir Assad) arm into handing over a ridiculously huge stockpile of chemical weapons to the UN.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here’s a simple map forya, President Obama. As you can plainly see, Russia shares a huge border with Ukraine. They also are just a few hundred land miles from Syria. Despite our bloated Army, Navy, Air Force and all the Marines we could muster sir, we have to face that fact that Putin could send ground forces to both places without any of his troops getting their feet wet. In other words he has a strategic advantage. These places are REALLY close to Russia and they could walk to wars in both places should they choose. We have the Atlantic, all of Europe AND the Mediterranean between us and them, sir, regardless of what the missile-envy uniformed brass are tellingya. They have an entire Military Industrial Complex to feed. So stop the idiotic rhetoric, sir, please.</span></div>
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Unabashed Lefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003861414639215586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1393537226921663625.post-37255619400612338402014-02-26T10:54:00.000-05:002014-02-26T10:55:32.016-05:00VICTORY!!! POSTCRIPT TO: WALLINGFORD (CT) HOUSING AUTHORITY BRINGS DOZENS OF DISABLED/ELDERLY TO COURT-OFFERS NO AID!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Bluebelle The WonderCat and Angel [a.k.a. Angelpie] Orange</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Sorry to say I'm beginning to run low</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>on tunes pertaining to greedsters.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Here's a quality little performance</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>of their "Money" by none other than</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">YES, IT'S TRUE! My loving family--Bluebelle the WonderCat, Angel [a.k.a. 'Angelpie'] Orange and I will not have to live in a tent for the duration of New England's currently brutal winter! YES WE CAN! We did a very good job in eviction court yesterday. :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My own trusty steed has earned her own name.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>This is the company vehicle transporting</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>me from Wallingford (a.k.a. Wallyworld)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>to New Haven.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Hi Ho Silver, AWAY!"</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The company vehicle that can't ride </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>company (Wallingford Housing Authority)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>tenants, only employees.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1 WHA</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>even has a vanity plate</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>paid for with YOUR tax dollars.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Tracy Blackwell,</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and self-described</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>drove in this vehicle,</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>don't worry about him being</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> subject to the 17 degree</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I waited at for 33 minutes.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the courtroom itself, after his attorney plumped me down in a seat directly in front of the guy who refused me a ride to court, New Haven/Wallingford Housing Authority employee Tracy Blackwell, I leaned back and said to this dude sporting a 1980's style fade "I checked it out, Tracy, your company vehicle has a current retail value of over $21,000 even used!" </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>34 years later,</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the same courtroom I asked him if it was really true that the vehicle can't ride residents, when I asked in whispered tones why the WHA has it at all, then, he was stifled. So I helped Mr. Blackwell out. "Then it can only ride employees, right, Tracy?" I queried. Tracy affirmed this. When I pointed out that the Dodge Ram Nitro company vehicle has 5 seats and the WHA only had 3 full time employees, Tracy was again stifled. Ever helpful, I asked Tracy if he didn't like what I was saying. Believe it or not this WALLINGFORD [OR IS IT NEW HAVEN--EVEN THE HOUSING COURT CHIEF MEDIATOR DIDN'T UNDERSTAND NEW HAVEN'S ROLE IN THE WALLINGFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY NOR DID SHE KNOW THEY WERE 'RUNNING' THINGS HERE, NOW] HOUSING STAFFER ACTUALLY HAD THE AUDACITY TO TELL ME THAT TO HIM "WHAT YOU SAY DOESN'T MATTER." Dejected and rejected, I quoted Tracy repeatedly in private and before the court that WHAT TENANTS HAVE TO SAY SHOULD MATTER TO HIM!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>we finally arrived at OUR destination.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The bus stop at Sylvan and S. Main</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>in Wallyworld.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>So, by 10am I was actually in the shadow</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>of this amazing structure:</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>THE NEW HAVEN COUNTY COURTHOUSE!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And by 10am I was in the courtroom, and nothing happened [oh, yes, the judge made 3 brief appearances, including one in which a heroic attendee actually briefly refused to rise for the robed white guy, like me--white guy, that is, I left my robe home] for me for two solid hours. A stiff wooden chair for that time, until Attorney Mike Burdo called me out of the courtroom--so rude and self-absorbed that he felt introducing himself was unnecessary [he knew who I was because he was there when I arrived and announced myself to the recorder--I stuck my hand out and said "My name is Steve. And you are???"] And then there we were in the hallway with the mighty Tracy Blackwell and his fade haircut.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What halls are these???</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once in the hall, after Burdo tried to deny that I'd attempted to negotiate a 3 month deal through him to the housing authority [detailed in the prior article linked here: <a href="http://unabashedleft.blogspot.com/2014/02/wallingford-ct-housing-authority-brings.html">http://unabashedleft.blogspot.com/2014/02/wallingford-ct-housing-authority-brings.html</a> ], and demeaned me in other ways--including demanding repeatedly that I tell him my medical expenses for this month [I finally told him I was seeing a psychiatrist for ADHD, I kid you not--I AM proud to be an UNABASHEDLY left wing fellow and to report that I said this solemnly to Mr's. Burdo and Blackwell]. LOL! We struck a cash deal during this lobbying, before appearing before New Haven's Chief Housing Arbitrator Cynthia Tiexear to sanctify it. I admit that I was rather harsh on Tracy during our hearing, but Attorney Burdo [whom I couldn't stop referring to as "Mike" in front of the arbitrator, rather than Mr. or Attorney Burdo because of his boyish looks and the fact that during the last year we had become VERY familiar by phone despite his attempts at denial of our near constant contact] had NO right to do what he did next. Wallingford Housing Authority Mike Burdo actually THREATENED me by saying that I'd better go easier on Tracy or he could "negate the agreement and have me removed in 5 days." Shame on you, Mike--I mean... MISTER Burdo! But also a some shame goes to you, Cynthia [who was actually nice otherwise, and showed some of the humor I was displaying as well--when I leaned over once to talk with an empty chair next to me pretending MY attorney was there, Cynthia pointed to a chair behind her and told us Mr. Murphy--of "Murphy's Law" fame--sat in that seat at all times] for not either recognizing or rebuking ATTORNEY Burdo for threatening me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cynthia was given a copy of our previous article-- <a href="http://unabashedleft.blogspot.com/2014/02/wallingford-ct-housing-authority-brings.html">http://unabashedleft.blogspot.com/2014/02/wallingford-ct-housing-authority-brings.html</a> -- but said the judge was unlikely to read it lest the purity of his objective mind be tainted. Cynthia and the New Haven Housing Court were clueless prior to my appearance yesterday that New Haven was running the WALLINGFORD Housing Authority. She was fascinated by the dollar amounts I was throwing out [Tracy actually said "You know more than I do"], but more by the shear volume of eviction cases that the WHA was bringing as I alleged that she began looking back to the caseload back to 2012 during our hearing. LOOK SOME MORE PLEASE, CYNTHIA AND I <b><u>ASK THE COURT TO COMPELL THE WHA TO CEASE AND DESIST WITH THEIR ABUSE OF THE COURT AND TALK WITH, REASON WITH AND EVEN HELP TENANTS LONG BEFORE SERVING EVICTION NOTICES</u>! </b>I repeatedly reminded Tracy [in front of the court, his attorney and in private] that his and the Authority's primary job is <u style="font-weight: bold;">caring for their elderly and handicapped tenants, not threatening, abusing and tossing them on the streets as I have been observing</u> since New Haven took over WALLINGFORD'S Authority! But, most importantly, Angel, Bluebelle and your intrepid unabashed correspondent need not sleep in a Wal-Mart tent in 4 days as Mike Burdo threatened. WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE A HOME [unlike the poor lady neighbor of mine, mentally incapacitated and dependent upon her electric wheelchair for mobility and now housed in the New Haven homeless shelter]!</span></div>
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Unabashed Lefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003861414639215586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1393537226921663625.post-89218300207421305692014-02-24T13:37:00.001-05:002014-03-04T17:50:24.787-05:00THE NUMBER ONE REASON TO HATE WAL-MART: S. ROBSON WALTON-THE MOST HYPOCRITICAL SILVER SPOONER EVER!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">S. Robson Walton, a.k.a. “Rob,” began his career running Wal-Mart the way he’s continued ever since. He heartlessly took over as Chairman of the already monstrously sized retail corporation within 48 hours of his father’s (Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton) death in April 1992. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whether you like corporate success or not, Sam Walton became Forbes Magazine’s unofficial ‘richest person in America’ (their list of wealthiest billionaires hadn’t yet been established before the time of Sam’s death) with a bit of scruples--a word Rob does not comprehend nor apparently ever learned from Daddy. Sam’s formula for massive success was simple. He discovered that if he could turn around sales quickly, say within 3 days of acquiring inventory, that would leave him with 27 days to pay off vendors--the interest of that 27 days all accruing to Wal-Mart. He became the master of getting stuff on and off the shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Rob’s plan was a bit more sinister. No. A LOT more sinister, damaging to the U.S. economy, harmful to the global economy and devastating to the environment. He implemented it quickly, using the cash he (he shared most of Sam’s inheritance with 3 siblings who let Rob run the show, and DO deserve our animosity in a big way for that alone) got from Daddy 2 days after he died, Rob began buying and renting real estate very, very close to competitors. Remember Caldor, Bradlees</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">, KMart and other discount chains? He intentionally began to chase them out of the market by undercutting their prices. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">And just how was Robby able to lower his prices? Do you quality built hardwood furniture? He turned it into pressed wood boards made out of paper chips and packaged in puzzle pieces for the consumer to bring home in boxes and assemble themselves. He took the good jobs carpenters had in our great furniture shops across the land and shipped the manufacturing of his paper furniture overseas (with the able assistance and cooperation of favorable treatment by the Cheney/Bush Administration and their deregulation of everything allowing him to send U.S. jobs to Asia). Now, utilizing abused women and child laborers in the still Communist dictatorship of China primarily, but also in other nations, he was able to cut both the quality and price of furniture. But not just furniture as we all know. Everything from lamps, to tables, to underwear, bras and jeans were also in Rob’s plan. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the United States, quality union laborers who were making things like solid maple and oak furniture for example, were far too expensive for Rob. They earned way over minimum wage, worked full time and received benefits such as health care and time off. This was anathema to Robby. His slave labor in China (his pal Mitt Romney once visited such a manufacturing plant with media present and observing the tall fence topped with barbed wire surrounding it, commented that he thought it was intended to keep potential workers out--of course it was a slave labor camp and the fence kept brutally treated workers IN), cheap shoddy merchandise along with his occupation of storefronts in the shadow of competitors was Rob’s plan for success! </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sam Walton had a bit of a different approach to his employees, by the way. Here is what the L.A. Times had to say about Sam’s attitude: “Walton used to work with American manufacturers, helping them to become more efficient in an effort to prevent them from manufacturing products overseas. Walton, in fact, was proud of the fact that he was actually increasing the number of products he carried in his stores that were made in the U.S. by American companies. Walton apparently understood the importance of having a domestic manufacturing sector, perhaps knowing that well-paid employees would actually help his own bottom line.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">WHAT ON EARTH HAPPENED TO YOU ROB WALTON? You are now the greediest, meanest, vicious employer on earth and farmed out all these jobs your father tried to protect!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>So ya can't have slaves here in the U.S.A.?</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Go to China.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wal-Mart is now unfortunately earth’s largest corporation and its largest employer--if you can call his workers ‘employees’ rather than what they actually are, slave laborers. Walton’s own employees in American stores are so grossly underpaid, averaging $8.50 an hour or so, that a huge percentage are food stamp and other forms of welfare recipients, each store estimated to cost taxpayers approximately $1 million a year in such sickening subsidies as milk money for kids of hard working Wal-Mart ‘associates’ who cannot afford to feed themselves, their kids or even purchase clothing at the store employing them--instead having to buy used clothing at their local Goodwill or Salvation Army outlet. :(</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>has the audacity to call Barack Obama</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>the "Food Stamp President"</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>when the truest of "Food Stamp Presidents"</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>creating a deregulatory environment</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>enabling greedster</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>S. ROBSON WALTON</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>to pay slave labor wages to his own</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>on the tax dollar.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>YOUR MONEY SUBSIDIZES WAL-MART!</b></span></div>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for Rob? His own worth stands at $33 billion and rising at last count. Along with his three silver-spooning siblings, the family is now worth more than any single American government department than the Defense Department ($150 billion and climbing). ALL WHILE HIS OWN EMPLOYEES REQUIRE FOOD STAMPS!!! </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been doing a series of articles here and at Examiner.com headlining my local store-entitled Wallingford Walmart. I began the series because around Easter time a few years ago now I went to a public men’s room at this store, and the conditions in there were so despicably filthy that a poor 5 year old whose Mom was waiting outside the restroom kicked a piece of feces out of the way in order to enter a toilet stall. I began to photograph conditions at the store. I had the Health Department inspect repeatedly. The then Store Manager was compelled to have the regional cleaning crew come in and sanitize the store, especially those restrooms within sight of their produce department.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and dozens of outdated</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>from my local store.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>WELCOME TO WAL-MART!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I documented outdated food, including some REALLY moldy cheeses I discovered on their shelves. I was so outraged that I actually showed the Mayor in addition to the Health Director. That Store Manager (who was always being stifled by the Wal-Mart corporate headquarters in Arkansas from speaking to the press--not allowed they’d say, but the Manager would always slip up and talk to me) had to fire the manager responsible that very day and pull all the refrigerated items he had off the shelf. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Employees of Rob’s at the Wallingford store became acutely aware of my publications and loved it. I acquired countless secret supporters and even received a military salute from one of their ‘greeters’ each time they arrived. Oh, and about those ‘greeters’ who are a Wal-Mart trade mark? I’ve been reliably informed that their primary assignment is keeping an eye on shoplifters until police can arrive, and other such security tasks, rather than merely saying “Hello, welcome to Wal-Mart.” What a risky business, indeed, for $8.50 part time and no benefits, huh Rob?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>S. ROBSON WALTON.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was once taken in the back warehouse portion of the store by a “Co-Manager” of that store, surrounded by half a dozen warehouse workers, and reamed out by that manager for my publication exploits. He tried to intimidate me and the entire crew surrounded me as though forcing me out of the store. I had a basket of merchandise and as I approached the front of the store, with witnesses now present, I was able to tell his goon squad to leave me so that I didn’t have to shoplift my stuff myself, and rather bring my cart through the register. This Manager didn’t call the police on me, because I had violated no laws whatsoever. I merely published the entire story with the guy’s name attached, forwarded it to the Store Manager and his job was now history.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">More than one female employee has told me that they do occasionally have difficulty with male customers stalking, especially into the parking lot. An evening employee told me the stalking of one customer became so bad the police became involved and an arrest ensued. That Wal-Mart store REFUSED to allow a single male staff member to accompany her into the dark parking lot as she would leave her shift around midnight. At least she and one other employee has had to resort to suing the store for such a sick attitude and behavior!!! Sexual harassment in the extreme is what I call that, Rob!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>You SUCK Rob!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And Robby is so unfeeling that he has the audacity to publicly display his material excess with a public “hobby.” He has a $16 million dollar race car collection (including his Maserati, Ferrari and Corvette) and races them publicly in California while his own store a mile away has workers slaving away, unable to afford food. WHAT A SICK DUDE!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, for all these reasons and more, we hereby declare Wal-Mart Board Chairman Samuel Robson (Rob) Walton to be the number one reason to despise and BOYCOTT WAL-MART!!! Aside from employee abuse, creating permanent U.S. industrial unemployment, cooperating with the Communist regime in China to employ slave labor, shoddy merchandise, food you REALLY have to check before putting into your cart including moldy stuff, sexual harassment and abuse, and just plain GREED!!! We support all efforts to organize and unionize Wal-Mart associates here, and call on Congress and the President to investigate labor conditions of Walton employees overseas, re-regulate and pass legislation outlawing these sick practices!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you thought you hated Wal-Mart and weren’t quite sure why, well here you go. The number one reason has to boycott has to be the guy running things since Daddy died. ROB WALTON is just number one. How about moldy cheese? Slave labor? Tax subsidies for stores because employees can’t afford food, clothing, shelter and health care? Shoddy merchandise? GREED?</span><br />
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Unabashed Lefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003861414639215586noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1393537226921663625.post-19658394596968543252014-02-23T13:09:00.000-05:002014-02-26T08:30:19.800-05:00WALLINGFORD (CT) HOUSING AUTHORITY BRINGS DOZENS OF DISABLED/ELDERLY TO COURT-OFFERS NO AID!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Shame on Michael Misiti </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In December 2011 26 year Director Stephen Nere of the Wallingford Housing Authority (WHA), under the bizarre leadership of Board Chairman Michael Misiti, resigned under a cloud with a large deficit looming. Two weeks later his assistant resigned and by February 1st the entire staff of Wallingford civil servants had either resigned or replaced when DeMarco Property Management Corporation of Hartford was contracted to staff the office with a completely new staff under the even more bizarre leadership of Property Manager Maria DeMarco whose frustration with Misiti’s Board was famous. Within 8 months of taking over on February 1st 2012, Ms. DeMarco was quoted as saying to this Board "I no longer feel we are effective here." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She resigned and the firm gave only 60 days notice and no specific reasons for severing their ties with the WHA on January 31st 2013. The Board promised an investigation which never happened. What was the WALLINGFORD Housing Authority Board’s solu</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">tion to DeMarco’s departure? They entered into an extremely bizarre relationship which gave the Authority to NEW HAVEN’s Housing Authority for a 90 day period, followed by a one year contract extension.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Ring number 1: Stephen Nere</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have you been able to keep track of who’s in charge? Imagine what it has been like for the vulnerable disabled and elderly tenants the WHA is supposedly watching out for. But it gets worse.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The managers brought in from New Haven have launched a bevy of eviction cases against dozens of WALLINGFORD’s own tenants! This correspondent followed a sheriff (Timothy Wall) as he served more than HALF A DOZEN eviction notices at the South Side Terrace elderly and handicapped complex which housed fewer than 35 people at the time. They have consistently refused tenant requests to settle back rent issues out of court in a reasonable manner, being obsessed with the budget deficit at the expense of their responsibility to ensure the safety and care of the severely handicapped and elderly people they have been entrusted with.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This correspondent happens to be one of those served an eviction notice by Mr. Wall and the Housing Authority--I don’t know, at this point, whether to call it the WALLINGFORD Housing Authority with NEW HAVEN employees actually staffing the office. I personally approached the office months before being served for overdue rent, and a Resident Service Coordinator named Tracy Blackwell refused to discuss the matter or consider an offer of repayment. Since moving to this complex I have been beset by a series of medical tragedies. I was doing coursework, employed by and receiving scholarships and low interest loans from Hartford Seminary when a malpracticing surgeon in Hartford botched a fusion of my 4th and 5th lumbar disks causing me to ultimately leave my employment and lose the funds mentioned. I fell briefly behind on my rent then, made a payment arrangement with the Coordinator for my complex and paid it ahead of schedule without any sheriffs, courts or the related expenses and stress.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">In January 2013 I underwent the scalpel again, this time for corrective surgery to the botch-job performed a year earlier on my spine, and while in Yale New Haven Hospital my oxygen levels approached dangerous levels, and a series of radiology tests revealed a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. So once again I found myself under general anesthesia, this time for surgery to implant a filter in my heart to prevent the embolism from killing me, followed by blood-thinning treatment for 6 months. It was during this period I once again found myself behind on rent, and approaching WHA Residential "Service" Coordinator Tracy Blackwell regarding the matter. I made further attempts to make payment arrangements by phone throughout the year, but the WHA refused! Sheriff Wall served my eviction notice, which specifically indicates that any funds paid by me could and would be applied to my back rent, not my current rent, and if they did remove me from my home of 3 1/2 years that money would remain with them. They finally referred me to their attorney Mr. Michael Burdo, whom I promptly contacted. Mr. Burdo asked me to provide him with specific numbers and a payment arrangement as soon as possible, so within one business day I called Mr. Burdo back and offered to make a down payment and pay my balance at that time within three months. Attorney Burdo considered this a reasonable suggestion, and said he would present it to the WHA managers from New Haven. When contacted again Mr. Burdo said they had refused my offer, saying that they were going to bring me and other tenants to New Haven’s Housing Court for eviction instead! When I discussed with Mr. Burdo that notice and the fact that paying even my current rent under these circumstances would be foolish, he was nearly speechless and replied simply “I know you have to do what you have to do.” Burdo couldn’t offer a sane reason for the Authority’s refusal of a reasonable payment arrangement at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why does the NEW HAVEN/WALLINGFORD Housing Authority insist on bringing every past-due tenant to court, making a mockery of the New Haven Housing Court, regardless of the amount? My neighbor and friend, also then subject to eviction harassment from the WHA, said he was told that “Over $90,000 in back rent is owed” and they need to balance their deficit, run up under Stephen Nere and DeMarco Mismanagement. They are clearly abusing the eviction process, running up incredible fees and costs--for both tenants and the Authority--as well as clogging up the New Haven Housing Court!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The primary job of the WALLINGFORD Housing Authority is to provide low-income elderly and those suffering from severe disabilities in OUR COMMUNITY WITH SAFE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Instead what these NEW HAVEN managers are doing is threatening those they are supposed to be helping and stressing out the entire WHA tenant community. Due to my own mobility problems (I use a cane or walker and should use oxygen for longer excursions) I have had difficulty finding transportation to a court date in New Haven at 9am on a Tuesday, so I swallowed my pride and called the WHA and spoke with the Property Manager assigned to my case, Ms. Leasley Negron, who seemed sympathetic to my plight but indicated that Resident "Service" Coordinator and self-described "Court Liason" Tracy Blackwell would be the staffer going to court that day, and she transferred me seemingly assuring that I would be transported. Astoundingly Mr. Blackwell actually had the audacity to say that driving a tenant in “the company vehicle” (a currently listed $21,000 Dodge Ram Nitro 4 x 4) would be a “CONFLICT OF INTEREST!” I have observed this vehicle riding about town carrying only Mr. Blackwell and ask the Court and the WHA if this vehicle is intended ONLY TO TRANSPORT A STAFF OF THREE, or does it ever transport a client. If not then HOW ON EARTH CAN THEY JUSTIFY THE EXPENSE OF THIS 5 FIGURE “COMPANY VEHICLE??”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Stephen Nere left his job under a cloud of suspicion in December 2011 he was handed $110,000 for mismanaging the Authority, just short of the total $180,000 publicly stated shortfall at the time. Over $98,000 (I hardly passed algebra, but Nere's cash award along with his cronies' adds up to $208,000 or $28,000 in excess of the entire WHA deficit at that time) was given to the others who resigned after Nere stepped down. The total budget of the WHA was reported at $1.6 million at a Board meeting last year. According to the Meriden Record Journal, the “WHA will pay New Haven $485,814 annually for services, plus a 10 percent administrative fee.” The math is simple, $585,814 for three staffers from New Haven, one part-time Social Worker who does no effective Social work to help tenants with their finances, and a part time director. WOW!! That is over ONE THIRD OF THE ENTIRE BUDGET they are mismanaging in this way and doing such harm to their tenants! And remember, by the only figures available, tenant rent shortfalls only account for about 20% of the current deficit at WHA! And the WHA/New Haven Housing Authority staff get </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>exclusive</b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> use of a lovely ‘company vehicle’ for their staff. OMG!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I appear in court on my own behalf and seek, once again, a reasonable payment arrangement for a past-due rent which has climbed in amount due to huge medical matters and the passage of time since my first offer to Attorney Burdo, I also ask this Court to take a look at the sheer volume of eviction cases the New Haven managers of the WHA have brought and consider to please, at least discuss with them and/or COMPELLING THEM TO SEEK OUT-OF-COURT SOLUTIONS PRIOR TO THEIR POLICY OF AUTOMATICALLY BRINGING ALL TENANTS IN ARREARS TO COURT WITH THE THREAT OF EVICTION! I know that due to this eviction process my own stress is at a near all-time high, and has done severe harm to my chances of recovery from 2 lung collapses, two lung surgeries, and 2 hospitalizations for pneumonia in the last 3 months. I can only presume that it has done the same for all those being dragged unnecessarily into court, especially my poor neighbor with her electric wheelchair! I am happy in my home, love my neighbors, my pet is happy here, and I am beyond willing to pay my balance and desire strongly to continue living here.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">I also ask Wallingford’s Mayor William Dickinson and the Town Council to bring Chairman Misiti and his Board before them to explain their harassment and harm done to WALLINGFORD’s Housing Authority tenants by the NEW HAVEN managers, and to end their contract with them quickly and take responsibility for the WHA by once again hiring WALLINGFORD citizens to run its Housing Authority. Just because Stephen Nere and his cronies posed a problem is no reason to relinquish WALLINGFORD’s control of this essential feature of our town! DeMarco did NOT work, and now this crisis being created by these NEW HAVEN managers proves that outside management is not only a cop-out, but is costing tenants and the Authority large sums of money and the serenity of the WHA tenant community.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ve supported you in many ways since 2008 and continue to do so. Though I live well below poverty level as a disabled American, I’ve given cash support to both of your campaigns; as an author and reporter I have enthusiastically endorsed you twice; and as an active member of your campaigns I have opened my home to others for recruitment and fund raising. THANK YOU for persevering and passing the Health Care Reform Act! Thank you for the TARP bill, preserving Social Security and Medicare. To borrow a phrase from Vice President Biden, your elections and Administration have been “a big f_____g deal” for all Americans! :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I must reiterate a frequent criticism and perhaps state it a bit more clearly now that you’ve drawn yet another “line” threatening “consequences” against a government on another continent. We have no business threatening fools like the Basher of Syria-Assad--nor do we have any such business doing so in the Ukraine now! PLEASE GET THE TESTOSTERONE OUT OF YOUR MILITARY AND FOREIGN POLICY, SIR, AND STOP THREATENING AND AGGRESSING AGAINST SOVEREIGN NATIONS! VIOLENCE DOES NOT BEGET PEACE, MR. PRESIDENT! By threatening to intervene in the Ukraine you are inviting the idiotic leader of Russia which happens to be next door to that nation and shares a huge border with it, and has legitimate national security concerns there to take charge once again while you sit in Washington manipulating our bloated military. Vladimir Putin does not need you making him look good once again, as you did when you threatened Syria with a ‘thin red line’ and a potential bombing campaign while Putin resolved the matter of chemical weapons without firing a shot, sir!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What’s happening in the Ukraine is a tragedy and I also call upon the government and protesters to seek only peaceful options, but peaceful options will not come about as the result of threats from overseas. AND PLEASE STOP DRONING SOVEREIGN NATIONS AS WELL! I CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE HALT TO ALL DRONE STRIKES UNTIL WE CAN REVIEW THE IMPLICATAIONS OF THIS STILL BRAND NEW TECHNOLOGY! AND INTERNATIONAL LAW DICTATES THAT YOU REFRAIN FROM USING FORCE IN ANY OTHER SOVEREIGN NATION, PARTICULARLY WITHOUT</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> THAT GOVERNMENT’S KNOWLEDGE OR APPROVAL! And for crying out loud, sir, let us finally LEAVE AFGHANISTAN TO THE AFGHANS! Sometimes, sir, I hate to say, that when I look at your abuses of force and misuse of violence and/or threats, I’m more reminded of the RepubliCON Cheney/Bush insanity rather than a reasonable and liberal Democratic foreign policy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I support your Administration, and look forward to a Democratic victory, especially in the House, this November. However I will say it once again: PLEASE, MR. PRESIDENT, GET THE TESTOSTERONE OUT OF YOUR VEINS WHEN CONTEMPLATING MILITARY ACTION AND CONSIDERING MORE THREATS OR IMPLIED THREATS OF VIOLENCE ON OTHER CONTINENTS!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left has acquired medical photographs of failed former Vice President, failed former Defense Secretary, and greedy former Haliburton CEO DICK Cheney’s chest cavity before and after his heart transplant. The medical community and the so-called ‘intelligence’ [are they really intelligent or just bullies?] community have kept the astonishing find inside Cheney’s chest highly classified. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first photo [above] shows the incredible sight surgeons saw. His heart was as cold and lifeless as stone, and embedded in poor quality soil and pebbles rather than ventricles and what-not! </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you Ellen DeGeneres. Thank you CNN daytime. Even thank you AC 360. Thank you to anyone who is aiding in placing the focus on bullying among kids and young adults especially. I was bullied mercilessly as a child as an adolescent and am still recovering from the scars. I was not referred to as Steve in junior high school. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Not that it's relevant, but I am neither homosexual, nor bisexual. I was, perhaps, behaving in a less testosterone- ridden way than most boys my age in the society and culture of the day in 1960's suburban America </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">--maybe somewhat effeminate might even be an apt description, but I'm hardly subjective enough to offer an accurate appraisal. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">My nickname chosen for me by virtually all my fellow pupils was "Fem." It was my misfortune that the brand new over-the-counter pharmaceutical "Femiron" and the consequent Madison Avenue ad campaign had hit the airwaves simultaneous with my arrival in 7th grade.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I entered Kindergarten at the early age of 4, due to accident of birth and grew up consistently the smallest and weakest, physically in my class. As Janis Ian sang so poignantly all those years ago in that awesome tune of the day, "At 17", I was always last when "choosing sides for basketball." Even after the last girl was chosen. Tough situation for a little boy. I couldn't hit a ball for beans, couldn't jump, run, or kick well at all. Gym teachers despised me, and I them. Different time. Even the President's Council On Physical Fitness' emphasis on athletics injured me, the way it was presented. I hated jocks as a kid, for example, grew my hair long and reacted badly in many ways.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I never took up arms like the kids at Columbine, though. Never committed suicide, though thoughts were entertained, obsessively, at times. Not even close to that now. If any kids read this, please know that it ends. My life today is so full and so rich, and I have so many friends, such a wonderful family, such a great home, and such great cats, and so many opportunities in my life today that I wouldn't trade my life for any one's on earth. Just hang on, please, you'll make it. The cliche goes: "Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary situation." Catch phrases like that used to enrage me, but its so true. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Billy Joel's corny but awesome tune, "Second Wind" is appropriate. If you can hang on, just for today, believe you me, that old second wind will indeed come along and you will fly and celebrate indeed! Please don't do it. Talk, instead--you can find someone who will. The whole journey is worth it in spades, and I have no regrets, not even of being bullied. Absolutely not!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">So my nicknames included three primary ones that began with an "f". "Fem," as I've mentioned. "Fairy." And the other "F" word hurled at homosexuals by homophobics who imagine they just might have some sexual ideas of their own others might not find acceptable so they hurl them at those they perceive as vulnerable. HOMOPHOBIA IS HORRIBLE AND NEEDS TO END! And I didn't even have any such tendencies, I can only imagine the nightmare for kids who are in a homophobic environment. What a nightmare.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Talking heads, shrinks, counselors and such debate whether there's more bullying today than yesterday. Doesn't matter. One suicide is too many. One sad life is too many. I saw a piece this morning on CNN about a Jiu Jitzu instructor on the left coast who teaches kids self-defense, but physical is a last resort and what he teaches is 100% defensive, not offensive. He talks a lot about making and holding eye contact, saying thank you, please and no thank you. Respect. Respect. Yes respect. Great stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I created my own solution to my problem in 8th grade that was maladaptive to say the least. To counteract the "Fem" label I started a campaign for acceptance that included smoking cigarettes, drinking and doing one B and E (breaking and entering, I actually broke into a private home with one of the toughest kids in my class). Fortunately I did not follow a path of felonious conduct my whole life and backed off. Many don't. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">If we can nip bullying in the bud, before it blossoms into the black rose that it is, then maybe the Qaddafi, Mubarak, Mullah Omar, Bin Laden, Hitler, and Stalin problems can be avoided. If we can evolve in this direction and alter our kids' views of each other and their world towards an Unconditionally Loving perspective, then maybe military uniforms will be museum pieces to marvel at in my lifetime. I'd like that a whole lot! I never give up hope. And I never stop praying.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">If the adults and kids in my life at that time had the courage to talk to me, I would have gladly opened up. I understand schools today have armed guards and metal detectors. Unabashed Left does not like that. End bullying, and they may no longer be necessary. Thanks to you and thanks for the Memori. And please don't do it, talk instead. I love you far more than my words can even begin to say. <3 <3 <3</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">There are oodles of local helplines and places to call if you DO find yourself thinking of hurting yourself or going the suicide route. Suicide is NOT the answer, but phone calls can be made totally anonymously; nobody needs to know who you are or that you made the call. There is also an awesome national number you can call, <span style="font-size: large;"><strong>800-448-3000!</strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"> Even though it is sponsored by a group known as Boys town, this suicide hotline is for everybody, especially young men, women, boys and girls who are thinking about hurting themselves. There is absolutely no shame in making the call. People who reach out and ask for help are the most courageous people I know (and I wound up spending most of my career working with patients who have emotional and/or mental disorders--and I respect and luvem all, and give them all credit for having the guts to ask for help from others!). I will close this article with one more big fat <span style="color: red;"><strong>I love you</strong></span><span style="color: blue;"> and a link to the national suicide prevention hotline:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>case which allows billionaires and corporations</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>without anybody knowing who is donating.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>These same 5 dudes</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">In recent years, particularly since the onset of the absurd Tea Party movement and the subsequent radicalization of the Republican party, states have been doing their utmost to limit people's access to the polls on voting days. States with Republican Governors and legislatures have passed laws requiring Photo ID cards at the polls, rendered early voting difficult if not impossible, cut the number of hours available to vote and in recent elections, especially 2012 lines at the polls due to restrictions were enormous. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">A very few states, like my home state of CT have been doing their utmost to expand voting and render elections much easier for the populace to participate in as the most basic democratic right. In response to the decision of the Court on the Voting Rights Act, our Secretary of the State, Denise Merrill reacted more eloquently than I can: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">“Today’s Supreme Court ruling is worse than wrong; it is an injustice to the millions of voters in this country that face potential disenfranchisement at the ballot box due to discriminatory election laws that are still passed in many states throughout this country even today. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">This ruling is dismantles a centerpiece of the civil rights movement that thousands of brave Americans fought to enact. This decision is an affront to the memories of those like the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. and many others who sacrificed everything to allow disenfranchised Americans the simple right to vote.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">For decades, section five of the federal Voting Rights Act stood as a critical check and balance against states and local jurisdictions that time after time passed laws in reality designed to exclude certain portions of the electorate – mostly poor, the elderly, young, and minority voters – from casting ballots. Recently, this federal review of local election law changes has successfully struck down misguided attempts to rig the electoral playing field in the name of preventing so-called “voter fraud” that there is barely any evidence to suggest is a real issue. This ruling suggests to me is that basic principles of non-discrimination and universal voting rights are now under siege by those who really don’t want every eligible American to vote.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">I am grateful that here in Connecticut we are moving in the opposite direction under the leadership of Governor Dannel P. Malloy – enacting Election Day voter registration, enabling voters to register online, and next year allowing voters to change our constitution to allow early voting. Instead of restricting our citizens’ right to vote, we are expanding access to the ballot box and we must stand united with our allies in other states who will fight to prevent discriminatory election laws where they are passed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Congress should act immediately to rewrite section four of the Voting Rights Act, which was struck down today, so that the Justice Department can continue its nearly 50 years of vigilance in protecting the right to vote for all Americans.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">In response to Secretary Merrill's statement and her work on behalf of CT voters, so totally unlike that in states seeking to win elections by choosing their voters rather than having the voters choose their office holders I wrote to her the following: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">"Thank YOU Secretary Merrill! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Between this decision and the earlier Citizens United decision, the federal Supreme Court is transforming our election system in horrendous ways. Your work here in CT has been awesome and while Governor Malloy has been instrumental in making legislative and Constitutional advances enabling more people to vote with fewer obstacles, it has been your hard work and leadership which is setting a pattern other states and the nation should be emulating.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">I join with you in calling upon Congress to rewrite Section 4 ASAP. I am certain that Senate Majority Leader Reid will be able to accomplish this in the Senate, and I certainly believe it is incumbent upon Speaker Boehner to take a firm position in favor of this rewrite, and to assure a floor vote in the House. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">I will publish a piece shortly detailing the accomplishments here in our state and contrast them with the US Supreme Court's actions, and the actions in other states in recent years to actually suppress voter turnout.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">I appreciate all this work that you've done, and hope to speak with you again soon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">"Thank you Steve, for your vote of confidence. It is important that we all call on congress to change the formula, especially because here in Connecticut the constitutional amendment to allow early voting and no-fault absentee balloting will be on the ballot in 2014. It is important to get that passed, and the more discussion about why it is important the better!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Thanks for anything you can do to illuminate this issue."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">The last few elections have proven that this nation has shifted politically to the left. The election of the first black president-not once, but twice-and the success of Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primary are evidence of that. The anti-war sentiment, the overwhelming public support of gun control measures and the sudden success of marriage equality are all evidence that the American electorate is now considerably left of center and far more inclined to vote Democratic than Republican nationwide. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Despite all their efforts to suppress the vote and the hundreds of millions of dollars that flowed on the Republican side without accountability due to the Citizens United decision, the voting public is now so Democratic that President Obama won again handily in 2012. In order to ensure that the shift in the electorate's political position will not result in Democratic successes at the polls, the reactionary and radical Republican party of forced ultrasounds and 'Bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran' is resorting to manipulating the rules in order to steal elections (of course their first theft was in the 2000 race). The only reason the US House is in Republican hands despite more votes in-total for Democrats, is their gerrymandering because of their control of more state houses following the 2010 census. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If they succeed in suppressing the vote, they know that when the 2020 census rolls around they can carve districts up in their favor even more so than is the case now. They believe that they have every incentive to cheat in any way they can, and the belligerent Supreme Court Five are the key to their efforts at the federal level. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Too many people sacrificed too much to allow this voter suppression to continue. We MUST elect another Democrat in 2016 to the Presidency so we can finally tip the scales on the U.S. Supreme Court. Peace...</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CRAZY-EYES BACHMANN SURRENDERS!!! She claims it has nothing
to do with investigations into redirecting funds from her silly Prez bid to
illegal purposes. She claims it has more to do with her view that a US Rep
should serve no more than the same 8 years allowed a President. REALLY
Michele?? Never heard that one before! LMAO. She also claims it has nothing to
do with the likelihood of losing next year. A former MN state RepubliCon chair,
Ron Carey, said: “This is a great chance to exit stage right rather than have a
knockdown, drag-out re-election fight. The reality also set in that she is not
a favorite of Republican leadership, so she is not going to be rising up to a
committee chair or rising up in leadership.” If she's being torn apart the same
day she steps aside by MN GOP leadership, I wonder just WHO she IS a 'favorite
of?' Another observer said she will have the chance to blink for the first time
in years. Here is the sort of intellectual commentary that the US House and
the American public will be deprived of now that Michele Bachmann will reside
in that House no longer after the next election. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful
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let's all say 'Happy Birthday' to Elvis Presley today.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne
was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too." Bachmann,
who is from Iowa, mistook John Wayne the actor for John Wayne Gacy, the serial
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that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy
Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an
interesting coincidence.” Which actually happened under Gerald Ford as she was
trying to blame Carter and Obama for influenza strains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at Lexington and Concord.” Unfortunately for Bachmann and her stupefied audience,
she wasn’t in Mass., she was in New Hampshire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their
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those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United
States. ... I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our
forbearers who worked tirelessly -- men like John Quincy Adams, who would not
rest until slavery was extinguished in the country." Bachmann botching 5<sup>th</sup>
grade US History, unaware that most of the ‘founding fathers’ of which she
spoke and is supposedly so fond actually OWNED slaves and that John Q. Adams
was 8 years old at the time of the ‘founding fathers’ founding of the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So George Zimmerman, after having the benefit of a delay of
6 weeks following his admitted handgun killing of unarmed seventeen year old
Trayvon Martin last February before being arrested and only following Trayvon’s
family’s public pleas, state and national uproar and even comments from the
President saying that if he had a son he would have looked like Trayvon, seeks
a delay in his trial after absurdly being free on $1 million bail for nearly a
year. THAT bail was allowed by the Florida courts after his $150,000 bail was upped
when it came to light that he had hidden a successful fundraising campaign
which had by then netted him an additional $150,000 in personal cash which he
kept secret from authorities along with a secret SECOND passport. He was
clearly not only a flight risk, but had and continues to have contingency plans
to escape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No wonder he wants more time before going to trial, the guy
killed a kid in possession of no more than a bag of candy and a can of iced
tea. His defense that this relatively small young kid with his bare hands was a
threat justifying deadly force with a handgun after tape recordings of a 911
operator ordering Zimmerman to stand down that Zimmerman ignored is absurd,
even in this fanatically right wing state with its fanatical right wing laws
like it’s fanatical ‘stand your ground’ law. The injuries suffered by Zimmerman, if they WERE due to an
altercation at all (and nobody’s seen THAT evidence yet) are so minor that
killing his high school victim was tantamount to using nuclear ICBMs against
Jamaica should it post a higher tariff than the USA would like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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amount to an attack on the character of the deceased kid who was talking to his
high school sweetheart when Zimmerman clearly profiled him as a ‘danger’ simply
because of his skin coloration, his age and his wardrobe. When I was Trayvon
Martin’s age, I was a regular marijuana smoker and had dabbled in attempts at
growing the weed and photos from the teen’s cell phone show such evidence.
There are also photos of a gun and magazine in the cell phone, and in this
country today, unfortunately too many people including teens are in possession of
these, but on the night of Zimmerman’s slaughter of this kid he was NOT in possession
of this weapon and had never been charged with anything pertaining to gun
violence or drug charges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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restraining order against him because he had allegedly hit her. Zimmerman
worked that year as a bouncer at illegal parties and had to be let go from that
position due to his rage problem. A co-worker described him as a “Jekyll and
Hyde” personality type to the NY Daily News. And as too his defenses that he is
not racist in nature, his own MySpace account name denounces that myth:
DatNiggyTB. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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extremely dangerous in this gun-crazy society, but when mixed with racism and
Florida’s successful attempt to steal the Presidential election of 2000 when
Jeb Bush was governor; and their attempts last year to steal the election again
when Governor Rick Scott compelled the poor and black to wait in such long
lines that he hoped it would deter them from voting (it didn’t, and Barack
Obama won Florida and won the nation by such a large margin that the FL results
wouldn’t have mattered); and when Zimmerman’s defense doesn’t even stand the
test of the “Stand your ground”—[exactly whose ground was Zimmerman standing
anyway???]—doesn’t hold water; anything but a first degree murder verdict will
and should shake the very foundations of the state and of the nation. “Justice”
is already a joke in this nation, but let’s not make it open season based on
race once again and set the clock back to 1859 please. Peace…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; text-align: start;">WEALTH OF THE GLOBE. The hands down winner,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our "Speaker" John Boehner actually said:</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when they do what they do, you've got more CO2."</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My question to Mr. Boehner would then be:</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is depicted here in this photograph of the Republican symbol, </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A bit less than a year ago Commander Mark Kelly answered
three of my questions in front of a New Haven audience, and had one surprising
answer about his own future career plans. He reported Gabby continues to
improve, spoke of their relationship and afterwards we had a nice conversation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Former AZ US Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in a
public district meeting with voters over on January 8, 2011 in a killing fest
that killed 6 and injured 13. I had the chance to hear one half of an American
couple I greatly admire, Mark Kelly (Gabby’s husband and a 4 time Space Shuttle
veteran, including commanding the next to last Shuttle mission) speak at
Southern CT State University on May 4th, 2012. I happen to believe that the
enduring love affair between these two incredibly accomplished people,
particularly since the Traumatic Brain Injury which compelled Gabby to step
aside from her House seat and sit out this election (Mark indicated that she
continued to make slow but very good medical strides) is one to be emulated. It
seems as though their relationship has only grown stronger in spite of their
travails since a fanatic carried out his mass murder, including a 9 year old
girl, a staff member and friend of Gabby’s and a judge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After his inspirational speech about NASA, relationships and
more, I asked in front of the audience of several hundred: “I’m going to try to
compress several questions into one… Do you believe that, if her medical
condition allows it, Gabby is interested in running for public office once again and
would you ever consider a run for elective office yourself?” Captain Kelly
indicated that Gabby IS interested in a future run but just ‘not this cycle’
(which I took as a VERY positive sign), and said, among other things regarding
his own political future he “would never rule ANYTHING out.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Following the event, I had the chance to meet Mark, and I 1)
Encouraged both he and Gabby to run in the future; 2) Told him that I admire
their durability as a couple and congratulated him saying that I consider him a
relationship expert; and 3) Gave him a personal note to Gabby in which I
encouraged them both to consider replacing such Arizonans as Jan Brewer and
John McCain, offered my thanks for her service and prayers for her recovery.
Mark read the note at my request, and promised to hand it to Gabby personally.
When I criticized some of the Arizona incumbents to him privately, he laughed
with great fervor. The poor quality of the photos at the New Haven event is
partly due to the fact that I could only use my poor quality cell phone camera.
The brace he is sporting in these photos on his arm is due to a pole vaulting
accident (his daughter is a pole vaulter, and apparently Commander Kelly is NOT
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ve checked into Mark Kelly’s positions on political
matters prior to the couple’s foray into gun control advocacy with their
founding of Americans for Responsible Solutions, <a href="http://americansforresponsiblesolutions.org/">http://americansforresponsiblesolutions.org/</a>,
and it seems as though he is a bit to the left of the positions his wife took as
a more or less conservative Democrat from a very conservative state while she
served in the House. He supports investment in green technologies and jobs, he
has advocated the election of other fairly progressive candidates, and he
advocates policies to “strengthen Social Security and Medicare” on his Facebook
page and is unimpressed with calls to change the COLA formula for Social
Security. Gabby was asked by a CNN interviewer (Dana Bash) this week whether
she would have been a supporter of the legislation before the Congress on gun
control and she gave an emphatic “Yes!” even though she received high ratings
from the NRA while in office. What matters is that both she and Kelly are now
strong and effective advocates of background checks, an assault rifle ban and a
ban on clips of 10 rounds or more so that slaughters as happened at Sandy Hook
can’t be duplicated. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I asked Captain Kelly how he felt about the news coverage
of the Tucson massacre, and he said that as he was flying from TX to AZ he made
the mistake of turning on the television, and saw erroneous reports of Gabby’s
death, which obviously panicked him to no end. He was particularly livid at Fox
News Channel and did not mince words about his angst at the right wing network.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kelly is a great public speaker and had his audience riveted
in New Haven. He spoke glowingly and lovingly of Gabby, calling her an
overachiever, unlike himself he said, and proudly spoke of her as a Fulbright
Scholar. He had the audience laughing with such comments as “Just think of how
impressed the aliens were when I told them I had been to earth 4 times” referring
to his 4 space flights. He spoke about his time as a pilot for the Navy during
the fighting over Kuwait and the terrifying process of landing jets on aircraft
carriers telling the audience that as he approached the deck at breakneck
speeds “I’m not very good at this” and the audience loved it. He said taking
off in a space shuttle is like being a “butterfly on a bullet.” He clearly loved being in front of the audience, was relaxed, adept, and
completely unscripted except for a message he read that was composed for the
talk by Gabby. Interestingly and significantly he began his talk by saying “He
comes in peace” and he spoke about liberal activist and U2 front man Bono’s
call to the couple two weeks after the shooting and their friendship. He was
particularly touched that Bono’s band was ending each of their concerts by
playing their tune “Beautiful Day” and dedicating it to Gabby. He said his desk
was decorated with a photo of Gabby with Bono.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whacko Tea Party nut AZ Governor Jan Brewer cannot run again
and her office is available in 2014 and Kelly is in a good position to run and
likely the only Democrat who would win that office and be able to turn the
state around after being decimated with Brewer’s brew of idiotic policy for the
past few years. Additionally there are 5 Republicans in the US House and only 3
Democrats, and Gabby’s replacement in the House in their current home district
is a former staffer and friend who was injured in the Tucson shootings and who
may not be interested in another run or who would want to defer to Kelly. Given
Gabby’s frustrating expressive capabilities due to her injuries, it is not very
likely she’ll be able to run for office soon. However, I can think of nobody
better able and qualified to help turn the political landscape in Arizona
(dominated by whackos like Brewer and McCain) than Commander Mark Kelly, and I
urge him to run for Governor in 2014 [if not for the US House]! He certainly
has my endorsement for whatever that is worth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2011 entitled <u>Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope</u>, is the one chapter
written in Gabby’s voice rather than Mark’s. Some excerpts:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Lots of people died. Six wonderful people. So many people
hurt. Always connected to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Long ways to go. Grateful to survive. It’s frustrating.
Mentally hard. Hard work. I’m trying. Trying hard to get better. Regain what I’ve
lost. Want to speak better.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am absolutely delighted to report that her words in 2011
were prophetic. Former U.S. Representative turned gun control advocate
Gabrielle Dee Giffords is most certainly <b><u>stronger
and has returned</u></b> and more! Thank YOU Gabby and Mark!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">t seems clear now that three
successful assassination attempts by Aryan prison gang members have taken 4
lives in Colorado and Texas. Colorado Prisons Director Tom Clements answered
the door of his home last month and was shot dead. A recent Colorado prison
parolee and member of an Aryan gang who was also found to have bomb-making
materials in his car was engaged in a high speed chase not far from Dallas/Ft.
Worth and was killed in a shootout just days after the assassination of the
Colorado public official.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On January 31 Assistant District
Attorney for Kaufman County, TX Mark Hasse was killed in the county which is in
the Dallas/Ft. Worth metro area. This past Saturday night the bodies of chief
District Attorney for Kaufman County Mike McClelland and his wife Cynthia were
found in their home after friends had not heard from them for a day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The likelihood that these three
assassinations and the shooting death of Mrs. McClellan were due to racist
prison gang members is being widely reported tonight, and in the case of the
Colorado prison chief it is as near to absolute as can be. These killings
highlight a clear and present danger in the United States. It is our ‘Criminal
Justice System.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To begin with the most recent
statistics I could find show that 94% of federal cases are plea bargained and
do not go to trial and even more at the state levels, in most states. The
United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world (way beyond any
dictatorship on earth)—in 2009 our prison population was 2,267,000 adults.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Tom Clements</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For a number of reasons my life
has been intertwined with the criminal court and prison system in this country.
I can tell you that in 4 out of 4 cases in which I was personally involved and
the charges eventually dropped, one minor fact is that unless there are
witnesses, nobody is read their Miranda Rights. That is a joke. So are the rights themselves. If you cannot afford an
attorney and one is appointed for you; you might as well line up at the prosecutor’s
door right away to cop your plea-guilty or not. You are not going to win your
case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Evan Ebel</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inside the prisons conditions are
horrendous. The caveman revenge motive rules the system, and does NOT work, as
the U.S. also has the highest recidivism rate in the world. But the punishment
is not primarily meted out by the administrations of our prisons, but by the
inmates themselves. Not only do virtually all state and federal prisons turn
their head at gang membership, but they also sanction racial hatred with their
willingness to allow it to be. Inmate beatings, stabbings, rapes and killings
happen at an unknown level, because all but the most serious of offenses are
not returned to the courts, but dealt with as administrative matters. What is
evident is that prison yards across the country are allowed to be carved into
gang territories, and the gangs are mostly based on ethnicity or race. The
Florida Dept. of Corrections lists their major prison gangs as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aryan Brotherhood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Black Guerrilla Family<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mexican Mafia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">La Nuestra Familia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Texas Syndicate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All of these gangs are racially
or ethnically based, and have established street franchises, rather than vice
versa. In the inner cities very often what happens on the streets is dictated
by gang leaders from inside the prisons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Nobel Peace Prize winning
advocacy group for international human rights has consistently decried the
American prison system. There is no doubt that it is one of the most abominable
on earth. It not only breeds the kind of hatred that any Aryan ‘brotherhood’ or
hate-based group can thrive upon. And what’s worse is that crime is actually
exacerbated by the system because inmates come out angry and without resources
to build a life and because the tentacles of the gangs inside the prisons are
reaching far outside the prison system itself. Thinking outside of boxes is
necessary, and giving up our knee-jerk caveman revenge motive which causes our
country to believe this form of ‘punishment’ is justice will only help reduce
violent crime, gang activity in and out of prisons and possibly create a more
humane society altogether.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These assassinations of public
officials bring a different dimension to the crisis of our criminal courts and
prisons. PRISON AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM MUST BECOME AN AGENDA TOPIC FOR ALL
THOSE WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR FAMILIES, THE COUNTRY AND THEIR KIDS’
FUTURES. IN THE WORDS OF THE SONG THAT INTRODUCED THIS PIECE “HELP US RAZE, RAZE
THE PRISONS TO THE GROUND!”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I recommend listening to Sir Elton John whilst reading.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">He's a Sir cuz he got Knighted by a Queen.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">He doesn't wear armor or nothin' though!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My Pet Blue Butterfly <3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My Pet Brown and Yellow Butterfly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Pretty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Huh?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went to Daddy today and I said to Daddy:</span></div>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Daddy I went outside and caught two butterflies in the yard.</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I have two butterflies. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was proud.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:)</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One was pretty and all yellow and brown just like this one.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other one was pretty and blue.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were both in pickle jars.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was happy</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because now I had</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">two pet butterflies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I said:</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They're beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love beautiful butterflies. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are so many different kinds of beautiful butterflies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They all look so different,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but they're all so beautiful, Daddy.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I said to Daddy:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See Daddy, there's my brown butterfly.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my jar.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daddy said:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why don't you open the jar, and then tell me that you have a butterfly?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I said:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But Daddy, she'll fly out and get away.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daddy said:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do it for me. You have two butterflies.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Open this jar and then tell me you have a brown butterfly.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My butterflies were so beautiful, I was afraid to let them go.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought if I opened the jar they'd get away.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I did it!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I opened the jar of my brown butterfly!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was so scared!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">ONO!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">When I opened the jar, my brown butterfly immediately</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">flew out of the jar</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: blue;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">high, high, high</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">far, far</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">away!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gone</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forever, I thought.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:(</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started to cry.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daddy asked me:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, do you want to tell me you have a butterfly?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I said:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No, Daddy.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I never had the brown butterfly.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She was my prisoner and she wanted to be free.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm so sorry.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want to tell her I'm sorry.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daddy said:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I asked:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Open the other jar with the blue butterfly.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I smiled a big smile.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:-D</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> When I opened the other jar the blue butterfly flew </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">high, high, high,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">far, far </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">away.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But not too far.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the distance</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw the brown butterfly in a</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">flower garden.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pretty blue butterfly</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">flew there, too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: blue;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They played together in the garden</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: blue;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: blue;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and now Daddy said:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Now you have a couple of butterflies.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: blue;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: blue;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And Daddy and me, </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we hugged and hugged and hugged!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The End.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">For now.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">:)</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Written By,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Yours Truly...</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">LISA!!!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><3</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">EVER'BODY</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">:-D</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Amen.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">My Uncle, Unabashed, likes a guy</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">who used to call himself a Beatle,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">He was John Lennon, </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">his whole name was</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">John Winston Ono Lennon.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">He sang this song:</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">He called his song "Bring on the Lucie" and he also called it<br />
"Freeda People"</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">like kinda of a funny way of saying </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Free The People,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">like freeing people so they can be just as free</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">as my butterflies. In his song he sings</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">"Stop the killing, stop it now,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">do it, do it, do it now!"</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">I like that idear. </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">John was killed</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">with a gun</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">in </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">1980 </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">around </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Christmas.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">OMG!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">His widow,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Yoko Ono </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">created</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">the </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Lennon Peace Prize.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Lookie here:</span></strong></div>
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<a href="http://yoko-ono.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>yoko-ono.com</strong></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have fun everbody,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">and hug somebody </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">today!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hi again
everybody. It’s me again. Lisa! Guess what? You’ll NEVER guess what this time! Ha-ha!
I asked Uncle UL to do me a BIG favor—and he did it!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">You see, I’m
just plain sick and tired of the way everybody in the government thinks they
have the right answer for the economy, but they don’t know anything about the
economy. I told Uncle UL “All the members of Congress are lawyers, for crying out
loud. They may know about law, but what the heck do they know about the
economy? Cheeeze!” Uncle UL said I was right, and asked what I wanted.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">And boy did
I tell Uncle UL what I wanted! I said I wanted a conference on the economy. I
said I wanted two Congress people (Congressman Bunk and Speaker DeLay), an
economist,</span></b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"> two CEO’s (one from a big oil company, the other
from a big defense contractor), my friends Sharon, Malina, Juanita and their
folks. I told Uncle UL I wanted to run the conference and that I wanted media
there. Uncle UL said that this was quite an order, but I gave him my special
Uncle UL eyes, batted them a few times for him and he said he’d get right to
work on it.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">So two
weeks later there Uncle UL and I were, in Washington once again, strolling up
the Capitol steps. While I waited outside in the lobby, Uncle UL went inside a
conference room to check it out. He came out a few minutes later and said
everybody was there, so he took me by the hand walked me in, and introduced me
saying “Here she is, the one, the only—LISA!!” Everybody applauded, and I
thought that was a nice touch. Lol.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">So I
started by saying “Ok. This conference is about the economy. Let me start with
a few questions for Congressman Bunk. Congressman Bunk, how many federal
budgets have you succeeded in passing the last, oh, let’s say, 4 years?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Bunk: “Well, let me rephrase your question, Lisa.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Well,
let’s not let you rephrase my question Congressman. A number between zero and
four. Exactly how many federal budgets have you succeeded in passing in the
last 4 years sir?!”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Bunk: “Well… The White House…”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Stop
it right there Congressman. EXACTLY how many federal budgets; zero, one, two,
three, or four; have YOU succeeded in making law in the past 4 years???”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Bunk: [inaudible]<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “I’m
sorry Congressman Bunk; I don’t think anybody heard you or that the microphones
picked that up. Could you repeat how many budgets you’ve made law in the past 4
years?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Bunk: “None.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “I’m
sorry sir, was that ‘none’ as in zero, nada, squat, nuncamente?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Bunk: “Yes, ZERO!”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “What
were you before you became a politician, Congressman Bunk?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Congressman
Bunk: “An attorney at law.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “A
lawyer?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Bunk: “Yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Hmmmm.
Do you have any background in economics? Any degree from a college?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Bunk: “No, no degree.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Would
you say you were born into a poor family, a middle class family, an upper
middle class family, or a rich family?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Congressman
Bunk: “Well, I suppose you could say we were well-off.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Ok,
let me ask a few questions for economist Tim. Hi Tim, how are you today?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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fine, you Lisa?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Just
plain dandy. Now it says here that you have a doctorate in economics, and held
a high level cabinet position during a Presidential Administration when we weren’t
at war and the economy was doing great. Is that true?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Tim: “Well,
yes it is.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “What
do you think of the fact that Congress is mostly lawyers and that they are
constantly stopping budgets from passing, or creating one deadline after
another threatening to shut down the government or cut it willy-nilly?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Tim: “Well
I think it just might be a good thing for a few trained economists to be
sitting in both houses, yes, that would be very good. And these constant
artificial roadblocks will eventually do REAL damage to the economy even more
than we’ve seen already. Part of the reason we don’t have full employment is
Congress, if they’d stop obstructing in this way and scaring every market from
consumers to the stock market, then the economy would be humming along much
better.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Thanks
Tim. Hi Sharon!”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Sharon: “Hi
Lisa. Pretty impressive, this conference you have going here.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Teehehe.
Thanks. Would you say your family is rich?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Sharon: “Well…
No, not really. Mom’s been laid off from her job a long time now, and so we
only have my Dad’s check and his hours have been cut back so that we don’t have
health insurance, and he doesn’t even get vacations anymore. Mom says we might
have to move soon. That scares me, because we’ve always lived there.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Wow.
I’m so sorry Sharon. Hi Juanita! Let me ask you the same thing, is your family
rich, or not?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Juanita: “Well,
my Mom always says we are because we all love each other and have each other
and God. I agree. But as far as money goes, Mom has to take care of all 4 of us
alone and there are no jobs for her. If it weren’t for the fact that we get to live
in a supported house and get help with food and stuff I don’t know where we’d
be. On the streets I guess.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Wow.
Oh my God, Juanita! What about you Malina? How’s your family doing?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Malina: “Pretty
much like Karen’s and Juanita’s. From week to week it seem really iffy is the
best way to put it. I worry about my little brothers a lot, and so does my Mom,
I know. I can hear her tossing and turning at night, even at 4 in the morning!”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Wow!
It says here that the Oil Company CEO is here and his name is Thomas Killjoy.
Here is my first question for you, Mr. Killjoy: How much did you get paid
altogether by your Oil Company last year?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Killjoy: “Well,
Lisa, things like that aren’t that simple to state…”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Give
me a break. I don’t have time for stonewalling. Did you get paid more or less
than $10 million?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Killjoy: “Well…
more.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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much profit did your company make last year?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Killjoy: “Let’s
just say billions. I get your point.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “How
presumptuous of you MISTER Killjoy! How much oil did your company dump into the
oceans altogether last year from pipes, tankers and refineries?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Killjoy: “Well,
I’m not sure.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “How
much have you paid to clean up that spilled oil and fix the damage altogether?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Killjoy: “Again,
Lisa, I’m just not sure.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: [looks
up to the sky and asks rhetorically] “How is this guy worth $10 million?” “Mister
Killjoy, do you know how much the guy who sweeps your office makes?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Killjoy: “No,
I’m sorry, I don’t.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa “Well,
I called and asked him. He just got cut from full to part time, no longer gets
benefits and makes minimum wage. Just ONE PERCENT of what you’re raking in, and
he could answer every one of my questions and you can’t! Enough of you! Mister
Defense Contractor, it says here your name is Stephen Demolishus. Mister
Demolishus, you’ve been arguing that cuts in social programs are ok, but that
we NEED to keep spending trillions on defense so we can protect ourselves from
people who are all the way across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Is that
true?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Demolishus:
“Well, I wouldn’t put it quite that way, but yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “When
was the last war fought by us in North America?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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“I suppose you’d say the Civil War.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “And
who fought in that war and how many years ago was that?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Demolishus:
“It was the north against the south and it happened about 150 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “So
it was Americans against Americans, no outside threat and there has been no war
HERE in all that time?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Demolishus:
“Well… I suppose not, if you put it that way.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “And
how much did your company pay you last year MISTER Demolishus?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Demolishus:
“I’m not at liberty to disclose my pay, Lisa. Some components of it are
classified.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “I
bet they are. Is it safe to say you got more than $10 million like the oil
baron over there?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Demolishus:
“I guess you’d be safe in saying that. Yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Would
either you or Mister Killjoy care to share your wealth with my friends’
families? Will you donate enough money to keep them in their homes until all
the kids are grown?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Demolishus
and Killjoy: “Well, um…er.. excuse me..um er…”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: "Would either or both of you EVEN be willing to let your taxes go up a smidgen so my friends and I can have food and a place to live?"</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Demolishus: Well, raising taxes is a tricky matter, you see Lisa, it would damage the economy in the long run.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: "Yah right! You want the programs that feed and house my friends and me cut, and your own huge income protected from taxes to help us out! While ALL your money comes from government contracts. YOU, sir, are a sick joke."</span></b></span></div>
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go back to Tim for a minute. Tim, when people are out of work what is the best
way to put them back to work?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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create jobs, and to put money into the hands of the people who need it most and
will spend it, thus creating demand for goods and services in the
economy-creating more jobs.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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Molina’s. When people are out of work, should the government borrow money in
order to make sure people can get jobs, food, shelter and clothing?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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the government should do that, but we could find cost savings elsewhere, for
example by cutting the Defense budget now that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
are pretty much done and that is the biggest part of the budget. We could
balance the budget easily by getting money into poor peoples’ hands, putting
people to work and slashing the Defense budget within 4 to 6 years and NO
austerity measures such as has created the ongoing recession in Europe and the
political riots in Greece and Spain would be necessary at all.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">DeLay: “I
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “Do
you have any training in economics at all?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">DeLay: “No,
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “But
you know all about politics.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">DeLay: “Well…
yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “You
know, since you’ve been speaker Congress has passed fewer laws than any time in
American history, and that even includes ceremonial laws like naming buildings.
Did you know that Mr. DeLay?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">DeLay: “Well…
yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “And
each time you guys come up with another dramatic financial deadline with a
horror movie sounding name like ‘Cliff’ or ‘Sequester’ that it clogs up the
works in Congress again and prevents work on real legislation? Did you know
that?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">DeLay: “Well...
sorta… yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Lisa: “And
of course you know that when you call a vacation no bills can be passed. So I
think that as long as the President is from another political Party, you are
going to gum up the works in Congress on purpose whether it hurts real people
like my friends Molina, Sharon, Juanita and me! Your only goal as Speaker and
your majority is to PREVENT laws from passing until you can beat the other
party eventually for the Presidency. I know that you don’t know about
economics, don’t care about economics, you only care about politics and helping
out the uber rich folks that you’ve come to hang with. YOU, sir, are a
remarkably orange-colored BUM!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">I’m done! I’ve
had enough of this conference. Come on Uncle UL and all my friends, you
Congressmen and CEO’s can sit here and answer questions from the press now. I’m
fed up with you guys!"<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">The end once again.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">But just for now.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Promise.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b>And don't forget to donate</b></span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b>to my favorite cause, the</b></span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b> Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b><a href="http://la-spca.org/"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">la-spca.org</span></a></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia on Facebook was abusive in defense of handguns and
military style assault rifles towards a friend of mine, and even threatened one
of his friends in this thread of twisted comments (see the underlined bold
comment).<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia Absolutely, and with
good reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left Sad outlook on
life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left Pathetic, really. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left Speaking of
cowards, that is. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia So all you can do is
throw ad hominems. I get that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left No, look at Vic's
wall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left I offered you a
detailed explanation of a simple post you were incapable of comprehending,
following your extremely cowardly and rude treatment of a friend of mine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left Sticking to the coward
theme that you've raised. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left Today's Cowardly
Lion Award goes to.... Drumroll please.... Mr. Eddie Garcia! What the members
of the Tea Party mean to me. Every member of the Tea Party I've ever interacted
with has been cowardly indeed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia Talk all the shit
you want, child, I can't see Grider's wall, the punk unfriended me because he
couldn't back his shit up. This is probably you anyway, Grider, you just don't
have the balls to say so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left I see you've
disappeared, Eddie since I've called you out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left Ah, back. With
vulgarities instead of content. Intellectual man I see. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia You don't deserve
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left Paranoid, as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left This is fun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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woman cuz she couldn't help me with my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia Fun for you, maybe,
but you could have more fun with youporn and ajar of vAseline. Run along, now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia Sorry I'm not
responding fast enough for you, I'm busy elsewhere with a substantive
dsicussion with another adult.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left Yes, fun. Not
exactly intellectually stimulating, but fun, nonetheless. Vic did NOT deserve
your abuse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left Congrats on the
Cowardly Lion Award, btw, its only the 5th Ive ever awarded. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Todd Bailey No one deserves the
abuse Eddie dishes on this subject....I called him out for the bully he is on
this subject and all he could do is tell me to fuck off. Interesting how it
seems the other person ALWAYS loses the debate. Me think Eddie thinks he's the
smartest person on the internets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left Thanks for that
Todd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia Bailey, lets meet for a beer at Wes' and we'll see if
you talk this shit to my face, okay, swetheart?<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia And I'll buy the
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left Just so you know
Eddie, all Cowardly Lion Award Recipients get published on all 6 populated
continents. Congratulations author! And I do think I just detected a cowardly
threat! Lol! </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>assault weapons, a la Adam Lanza's mother. OMG!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Todd Bailey right, your not a
bully but just look at your last post....give me a break....I'll pass meeting with someone that backs up their position with threats of physical
altercations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left You'll be able to
see all of your writing shortly, along with your award at <a href="http://unabashedleft.blogspot.com/">http://unabashedleft.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I care?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left After rudely
harrassing a friend of mine named Vic who reposted my original post, I offered
this detailed substantive comment in response to your insulting putrified trash
hurled in a cowardly electronic manner: Eddie: I originally posted this, and
the point is clear. But evidently you need things spelled out: pictured in this
photo are only handguns and assault rifles--all designed solely for the purpose
of killing other people. And my comment is self-explanatory, I hope. NRA logic,
that 'guns' don't kill people makes about as much sense as the notion that
victims are responsible for their murders by guns. Opposing controls or an
outright ban on tools designed only for murder is like opposing an end to
weapons of mass destruction on a global scale. Its just sick. And Vic does not
deserve your rudeness. Peace please...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia ANd your point? Yep,
guns are intended to damage things, or kill them. Could be a deer, could be a
rabid dog, could be a bad person. What, exactly, is your point?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>THE NRA LOGIC: Guns don't kill people, it's people who choose to bleed excessively and allow their internal organs to get in the way of several bullets who cause murderers with assault weapons to kill.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left READ FOOL! OMG!
Picured are only handguns and assault rifles: designed only for killing
PEOPLE> address issues please. Eddie Garcia Todd Bailey If you can look me
in the eye and say these things, what you'll get out of me is a handshake and a
compliment. I'm too fucking old to be scrapping. I did all that already.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Todd Bailey "..... if you
talk this shit to my face" What American culture did you grow up in that,
that statement is not a physical threat? Dude if you think I wouldn't say this
to your face you have no clue who you are talking to.....I have no problem
challenging people to their face. If you want to meet to talk...I will always
sit and have a free beer and talk but I won't discuss guns with you. On this
subject you are like talking to the Tea Party about taxes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia AGagin: your point?
I have a handgun. Its purpose is self defense. Your other comment is deleted as
unproductive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia I'm sure it is
different. But it makes sense if you think about it: my views on this subject
make me the odd man out on the left. It makes a difference. I know I ain't
hardly preaching to the converted here. Hell, you saw how it goes. Sometime
I'll tell you why I see myself as entirely consistent. In the meantime, go
Pats. I want them to be in the SuperBowl against my 49ers so I can REALLY piss
motherfuckers off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia Unabashed Left
deleted as unproductive. Further bullshit will result in a block. <b>[neither were done]<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia ANd no, you can't
affect my career. Do your worst, sweetie pie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eddie Garcia Not enough people
consider you relevant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left Got it right this
time, I'll be sure to sendya the final article including your genius comments
and the threat! </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Below you'll find Eddie Garcia's entire Facebook Profile page, <b>I urge all to call, write or email his employer for the threat and danger that he poses. Those contacts are: </b></span><b><a href="mailto:thenotch@notchfm.com">thenotch@notchfm.com</a> <span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the phone numbers at this station are: </span><span style="color: blue;">603 444 7060 Studio Line - 603-444-5106 Office <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">located in Littleton, NH.</span></span></b></div>
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<a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=126380044098485" href="https://www.facebook.com/notchfm"><span class="fwb">106.3 The Notch Radio</span></a></div>
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<span class="fcg">Talk Host & Production Director</span> · <span class="fcg">Fall River, Massachusetts</span> · <span class="fcg">Oct 2007 to Oct 2008</span></div>
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It was insane.</div>
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<span class="fcg">Announcer/Production Director</span> · <span class="fcg">Jun 2005 to Oct 2007</span></div>
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Classic Top 40 in the afternoon.</div>
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<span class="fcg">Morning Announcer/Program Director</span> · <span class="fcg">Jan 2003 to Jun 2005</span></div>
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Hot AC PD and de facto broadcast arts instructor! Had a great airstaff of green, enthusiastic kids. THAT was FUN.</div>
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<li class="uiListItem"><span class="fbProfileBylineFragment"><span class="fbProfileBylineIconContainer"><i class="mrs fbProfileBylineIcon img sp_2d8hvj sx_619bc5" id="profileByline_10150150968148488_end"></i></span><span class="fbProfileBylineLabel"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kestrel9000/timeline/story?ut=32&wstart=1117609200&wend=1193900399&hash=10150150968148488&pagefilter=3&ustart=1">Left Job at WBOP/WSIG (Vox Communications)</a></span></span></li>
<li class="uiListItem"><span class="fbProfileBylineFragment"><span class="fbProfileBylineIconContainer"><i class="mrs fbProfileBylineIcon img sp_2d8hvj sx_619bc5" id="profileByline_10150150968143488_start"></i></span><span class="fbProfileBylineLabel"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kestrel9000/timeline/story?ut=32&wstart=1191222000&wend=1225522799&hash=10150150968143488&pagefilter=3&ustart=1">Started Working at WSAR-AM</a></span></span></li>
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<li class="uiListItem"><span class="fbProfileBylineFragment"><span class="fbProfileBylineIconContainer"><i class="mrs fbProfileBylineIcon img sp_2d8hvj sx_619bc5" id="profileByline_10150150968153488_end"></i></span><span class="fbProfileBylineLabel"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kestrel9000/timeline/story?ut=32&wstart=1041408000&wend=1120201199&hash=10150150968153488&pagefilter=3&ustart=1">Left Job at WZEC-FM (Vox Communications)</a></span></span></li>
<li class="uiListItem"><span class="fbProfileBylineFragment"><span class="fbProfileBylineIconContainer"><i class="mrs fbProfileBylineIcon img sp_2d8hvj sx_619bc5" id="profileByline_10150150968148488_start"></i></span><span class="fbProfileBylineLabel"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kestrel9000/timeline/story?ut=32&wstart=1117609200&wend=1193900399&hash=10150150968148488&pagefilter=3&ustart=1">Started Working at WBOP/WSIG (Vox Communications)</a></span></span></li>
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<li class="uiListItem"><span class="fbProfileBylineFragment"><span class="fbProfileBylineIconContainer"><i class="mrs fbProfileBylineIcon img sp_2d8hvj sx_619bc5" id="profileByline_10150150968158488_end"></i></span><span class="fbProfileBylineLabel"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kestrel9000/timeline/story?ut=32&wstart=1020236400&wend=1044086399&hash=10150150968158488&pagefilter=3&ustart=1">Left Job at WORK/WSNO/WWFY (Vox Communications)</a></span></span></li>
<li class="uiListItem"><span class="fbProfileBylineFragment"><span class="fbProfileBylineIconContainer"><i class="mrs fbProfileBylineIcon img sp_2d8hvj sx_619bc5" id="profileByline_10150150968153488_start"></i></span><span class="fbProfileBylineLabel"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kestrel9000/timeline/story?ut=32&wstart=1041408000&wend=1120201199&hash=10150150968153488&pagefilter=3&ustart=1">Started Working at WZEC-FM (Vox Communications)</a></span></span></li>
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<li class="uiListItem"><span class="fbProfileBylineFragment"><span class="fbProfileBylineIconContainer"><i class="mrs fbProfileBylineIcon img sp_2d8hvj sx_619bc5" id="profileByline_10150150968158488_start"></i></span><span class="fbProfileBylineLabel"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kestrel9000/timeline/story?ut=32&wstart=1020236400&wend=1044086399&hash=10150150968158488&pagefilter=3&ustart=1">Started Working at WORK/WSNO/WWFY (Vox Communications)</a></span></span></li>
<li class="uiListItem"><span class="fbProfileBylineFragment"><span class="fbProfileBylineIconContainer"><i class="mrs fbProfileBylineIcon img sp_2d8hvj sx_619bc5" id="profileByline_10150150968163488_end"></i></span><span class="fbProfileBylineLabel"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kestrel9000/timeline/story?ut=32&wstart=915177600&wend=1022914799&hash=10150150968163488&pagefilter=3&ustart=1">Left Job at WHBC-FM</a></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Mittens Romney arrived in a 4 x 4</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>NOT a Presidential Limo, </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>but he did ride inside</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>President Obama greeted his former opponent</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>by singing a few tunes, including his complete version of</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unabashed Left has obtained a transcript of the entire post-election lunch conversation which took place this
week between President Barack Obama and his vanquished, egotistical,
narcissistic failed former rival, Mitt Romney (thank you Jimmy Carter IV). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Contrary to published reports the
luncheon menu was far different than identified by the mainstream media. The
President enjoyed a shrimp cocktail appetizer, followed by twin 2 ½ pound stuffed and broiled lobsters, baked potatoes
smothered in a sour cream and vegetable sauce, asparagus with hollandaise
sauce, and a rich fresh and hot nutmeg crumble apple pie topped with vanilla
ice cream for dessert. Recognizing the Hostess company bankruptcy and
displacing 18,000 workers this week in a similar manner to the procedures of
Bain Capital, Mr. Romney’s White House lunch consisted of a glass of water, a
slice of Wonder Bread and a Twinkie for dessert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr. Romney arrived INSIDE a 4 x 4
with no Secret Service protection, and was whisked in a back door where a
photographer sneaked a photo which made it appear as though he was a
well-dressed intruder on the White House grounds (again, thank you Jimmy Carter
IV).</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They met and dined in the Oval
Office and after shaking (Mr. Romney was the one shaking) and then shaking
hands, their comments included the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: Hi Mitt. How you
doing? Been awhile…. I’ve been doing GREAT!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: I’m ok.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: Just ok? Is
something bothering you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: YEAH! Don’t you think I’d
be just a bit pissed after November 6<sup>th</sup>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: Sorry dude, one
of us had to win. And remember after the second debate you said to me ‘May the
better man win?” You DID get what you asked for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: Get outa here with that!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: How’s Ann?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: Pissed off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: And why is that,
Mitt?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: Because I lost. She’s
blaming ME, of all things!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: What a crazy
woman! Why on earth would she blame you for losing your election?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: Ah! She says that with
all the money poured in by the superpacs because of the Citizens United
decision we bought, Karl Rove’s help, and the money and time she and I sunk into
an EIGHT year campaign, the only explanation for me losing is that I have no
personality, no principles and no scruples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: Hmmmm… It seems
like Ann has learned some profound lessons from the election, there, Mitt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: She says she’d divorce me
now, except she doesn’t want to give up the quarter billion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: Awwww. Michelle’s
fine, thanks for asking Mitt. That’s you, always concerned about others. In
fact, Michelle and I are VERY happy. We had a blast the night of the election,
stayed up till 3am dancing to Al Green tunes!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Al Green at the Apollo:</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: It’s going to be a long
time before Ann’s going to even want to be seen in public with me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: Awwwww again.
Listen, I have some presents for you which should cheer you up. Here’s a bumper
sticker from the campaign: it’s one of those Obama/Made in the USA with my
long-form birth certificates on it. And here’s a framed picture of Joe, Jill,
Michelle and myself the night of my victory speech. And I also have for you an
exclusive limited edition Presidential Seal Inauguration 2012 china plate for
you, Mitt. By the way, how’s that Wonder Bread? Does it taste like it used to?
Better enjoy it now, because Hostess is shutting down their shops and closing
the doors on their workers. Sound familiar, Mitt?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: I’m really kind of
hungry. Do you think I can have one of those lobster tails at least, guy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: No WAY! Eat your
Twinkie! If you behave, I’ll have them grab you another Twinkie. BTW, how’s
your dog. I hope you didn’t try to bring her onto the White House grounds
riding on top of your 4 x 4. You’d have been nailed and broken out in handcuffs
for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: She’s fine. I’m never
going to take a dog on vacation with me AGAIN! Wow do people make a big deal
out of stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: I suppose if you
crated me on top of a car and drove me at 80mph from Boston to Canada, with one
stop to wipe the diarrhea off the car I spewed because I was so terrified, I’d
make a big deal out of it too. Whenever anybody says ‘big deal’ now, I always
think of that precious open mike moment when we were celebrating the passage of
the Health Care Law and Joe said “This is a big f*cking deal, Mr. President!”
That sure was funny, Mitt! So no ‘repeal and replace’ is going to happen now,
huh Mitt?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: I guess not. I suppose
Paul Ryan will keep preaching that. One good thing about this campaign ending
and losing is that I don’t have to hang around that nudnik anymore. WHAT a
loser!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: Yeah. I heard
that he was calling you names on his campaign bus, and would try to avoid your
calls during the home stretch. Can’t say that I blame him, especially after
Jimmy Carter’s grandson managed to get ahold of your famous 47% speech! LOL!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: I wish that whole Carter
family would just DISAPPEAR! I’m sick and tired of him. I’ll tell you what; I
think I might be more pissed at that dude—the original Jimmy Carter—than even
you or Newt Gingrich!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: Yeah, Newt did
everything he could to try and sidetrack you. Hahaha! Your primary was a blast!
I enjoyed every bit of it. Herman “999” Cain taking the lead over you! Donald “You’re
fired” Trump leading you in the polls! Michelle “Twisted as a pretzel” Bachmann
taking the early lead before Iowa! Rick “No sex” Santorum racking up primary
victories! Rick Perry surging ahead in the polls and entering then exiting
after proving his stupidity when he couldn’t remember the cabinet departments
he wanted to wipe out! Yeah, you also ran a heck of a primary campaign too
there, Mitt! LMAO. It sure was fun to watch two dozen debates on your side with
a dozen folks all jockeying for position! I bet you had fun in the primary,
too!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: (inaudible, sounds like
grunting). Hey, man, do you think I can get that other Twinkie now? And what
about a glass of water?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: Sure. The
Twinkie will be $1.00 and so will a bottle of water. So that’s $2.00 please.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: WHAT DO YOU MEAN TWO
DOLLARS!!?? I don’t carry cash or cards. C’mon, I’m thirsty as all heck from
that bread and hungry as heck now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: Well, Mitt, the
Poland Springs water and that there Twinkie you want are owned by the White
House, a federally owned and administered national landmark, and I know you wouldn’t
want a free government handout! That’s for sure, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: Can you just bill me for
them??<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: (wiping his chin
as he swallows his last bite of apple crumb pie) Do you have an account with
us, Mitt?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: I think that’s enough
lunch for me. I’m getting outa here. Is there a quick take out joint around
here, I need something fast!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: (Hollers out)
HEY JOE! ARE YOU AROUND?? (Picks up phone and presses button) Hey, is Joe
nearby the Oval office? Great, send him over right away, Mitt’s here and needs
some advice from Joe.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vice President Joe Biden: Hey
Mitt, how goes it dude?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: Ask that guy (pointing at
President Obama)! He can fill you in. Do you know a decent take out joint
around here? All he gave me for lunch was a piece of Wonder Bread and a
Twinkie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vice President Biden: He GAVE you
the bread and the Twinkie? Isn’t that welfare, dude? ROFLMFAO!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: Give me a break!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vice President Biden: Well, if
you head out Pennsylvania Avenue, just stay on it and eventually you’ll see a
McDonald’s. They’re everywhere. I recommend the double quarter pounder with
cheese, large fries and chocolate shakes!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: Ok. I’m outa here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vice President Biden and
President Obama: Good!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama: Listen, Mitt.
After all you’ve done to me and my administration for the last 6 years; I just
am really concerned about your health and want to offer you a bit of health
advice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney: What’s that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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