eclectic git

We Are Officially a Police State

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:14:19 GMT

We are officially a police state. Go read your history of the Nazi and Soviet regimes, how they protected their states, and you can see the parallels with present practices of the American state. Yes, the American state, not just the Bush administration. We are all culpable either by our political actions or inaction. We deserve a police state. For those who oppose the actions of this administration on our behalf, you did not oppose it strenuously enough. For those who approved, you are fools, fascists, or practitioners of the most profound self deception. We all deserve what happened and what happens next. The vote to approve retroactive telecom immunity and to make legit warrantless intrusion into our lives limns our national character as something alien and ugly.

I recommend that all members of the house and senate who voted for this bill should be defeated in their next election. That includes Senator Obama. Senator McCain should also be defeated because he wimped out and did not vote. I am a Republican libertarian who originally supported Representative Ron Paul, but after the Republican hierarchy ignored and marginalized Representative Paul I was planning to support and vote for Senator Obama as the least objectionable candidate. I have changed my mind! I may support and vote for former congressman Bob Barr or some other third party candidate. Senator Obama cares more about winning than for the U.S.Constitution and the liberties of Americans. I have lost all enthusiasm for his candidacy and had none for Senator McCain.

I have to ask the the questions: Are we now fascist because of the remote chance we may be victims of a terrorist plot? Have we always been closet fascists?

Links in lieu of me telling you what I said or said about me

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:02:48 GMT

http://attrition.org/postal/z/037/1089.html
http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2004/12/20/the_operating_system_oriented_security_d_2/
http://www.wherewereyou.org/search/index.php?start=5&searchtype=age&searchtext=59
http://www.moria.co.nz/sf/testament.htm
http://www.zhibit.org/mkaggen/portraits/thomas-elias-weatherly
http://www.geocities.com/eliyahuman/
http://www.securityfocus.com/comments/columns/416/33933#33933
http://www.whosonsecond.com/id19.html
http://www.bookrags.com/browse/Dictionary%20of%20Literary%20Biography/W/100
http://www.elon.edu/predictions/ContributedPrediction.aspx?id=831

http://edwards.orcas.net/blog/archives/000215.html

OBAMA'S VP RUNNING MATE

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:11:21 GMT

No previous job prepares a person to be president.

I believe that all would be good choices for vice president and good presidents.

Senator Obama choose one of these people:

Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska

Governor Chris Gregoire of Washington

Governor Joe Manchin of West Virginia

Governor Janet Napolitano of Arizona

Representative Ron Paul of Texas

Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri

Representative Artur Davis of Alabama

Susan Eisenhower, president of the Eisenhower Group, Inc.

Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

Representative Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin of Wisconsin

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont

FREEWARE & some paidware programs I've Used and Use

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:24:37 GMT

This is an easy way to tell my friends the programs that I use, I consider good programs, and which may make computing simpler and safer. Non-friends can benefit from my amateur expertise. I recommend some sites for information about configuring, maintaining, and securing Windows XP systems (some include info on that dog Vista). You will note that I have bought* only about a dozen programs and the rest are freeware.

The essential programs ERUNT, MozyHome, Online Armor, NOD32, Maxtor OneTouch, Sandboxie, Trojan Remover, SpywareBlaster, Password Safe, PGP Desktop, and Mozilla Firefox are important because in some way each add a layer of protection to my system. The router is the second layer; the first layer is whatever filtering the ISP does for malware and hack attacks. Get a router with NAT and SPI firewall. You see below what I have, but D-LInk and NetGear also make some good routers.

paidware*

freeware

Much of this post a repeat of the previous post. I wanted to place the diagnostic, information, and testing site links closer to the top. Although I am a bit geeky on this, I am still very much an average end user. And I am poor, so most of the programs here are freeware. Some of the programs come in paid and free versions. Peace.

If you suspect that a file may be malware even though your present security programs did not detect them as such, you can upload the file to these scanning sites. They use multiple scanning engines.

Virus Total http://www.virustotal.com/
Jotti's Malware Scan http://virusscan.jotti.org/

Test your firewall and browsers on these sites:
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

http://www.pcpitstop.com/pcpitstop/default.asp

http://www.pcflank.com/

http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/index.php

Check the evaluation of antivirus programs here:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/

Check firewall evaluations here:
http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewall-challenge/results.php

Check these pages for information on configuring XP Professional, some settings also apply to Home too, and other sites for security information, and security programs.

Optimize XP - good site for the novice
http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html

Black Viper - good advice about how to configure XP and Vista for security
http://www.blackviper.com/

Gizmo's TechSupportAlert (He produces a free internet publication and paid. Subscribe to one.) He lists the best free programs in all categories. You can populate your computer with all freeware if you wish.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/dr/

The Elder Geek on Windows XP
http://theeldergeek.com/index.htm

Spyware Warrior
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/

Eric Howes' Privacy & Security Page on Spyware Warrior
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/uiuc/main-nf.htm
Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

Linksys WRT54G2 v1 Wireless Router * - You can find this at your local computer store, Circuit City, Best Buy (avoid their Geek Squad), or the like.

Other programs that I use:

BACKUP::
CDBurnerXP http://cdburnerxp.se/download?latest
ERUNT      http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
Maxtor OneTouch*   http://www.seagate.com/maxtor/
MozBackup   http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com
MozyHome* http://mozy.com/home
WinRAR* http://www.rarsoft.com/
WinZip*    http://www.winzip.com/index.htm

BROWSERS & MAIL:
BrowserTraySwitch - easy switch of multiple browsers http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/browsertray/index.html
Flock   http://flock.com/
K-Meleon   http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla Firefox           http://www.mozilla.org/
Mozilla Thunderbird   http://www.mozilla.org/
Windows Live Mail   http://get.live.com/wl/all
Windows Live Messenger http://get.live.com/wl/all
Internet Explorer 7   http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/default.mspx
Opera   http://www.opera.com/

Mozilla Firefox is my default, but I can change defaults with a couple of clicks using BrowserTraySwitch. I use Flock, a social network browser for Facebook,Flickr, YouTube, and other social and photo sites. The other browser have different uses and with homepages that reflect their use. I have nine email addresses that I download into Mozilla Thunderbird and three more are downloaded to Windows Live Mail, but I leave one other as webmail. I use the Lightning addon for Mozilla Thunderbird which adds calendar function to it.

DEFENCE:
Brain:
IMPORTANT, READ THIS FIRST ONE.
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci531120,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/organs/brainmap/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/
http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm
http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/brain/

Eset NOD32 Antivirus*   http://www.eset.com/
Gmer        http://antirootkit.com/software/index.htm
IceSword   http://antirootkit.com/software/index.htm
Online Armor* http://www.tallemu.com/
Sandboxie*   http://www.sandboxie.com/
Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html
SpywareBlaster    http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Trojan Remover* http://www.simplysup.com/
ewido antispyware microscanner   http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/
Rootkit Unhooker   http://antirootkit.com/software/index.htm
RootkitRevealer   http://antirootkit.com/software/index.htm
Sophos Anti-Rootkit   http://antirootkit.com/software/index.htm

DIAGNOSTIC:
Belarc Advisor   http://www.belarc.com/free_download.htmlDrive Spacio
ProcessExplorer   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Secunia PSI   https://psi.secunia.com/
System Info for Windows http://www.gtopala.com/

ENCRYPTION:
KeyScrambler - for Mozilla Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3383
Password Safe http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
PGP Desktop* http://www.pgp.com/

INTELLIGENCE:
Port Explorer* - I do not place link here, the vendor is dodgy, so download and buy are your own peril. I got it before the dodginess. But there two freeware alternatives that I would use if I hadn't bought PE.

TCPView for Windows v2.53

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx

CurrPorts v1.36 - View Opened TCP/IP ports / connections

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html

Weather Watcher    http://www.singerscreations.com/Free-Software.asp
WinPcap - Needed with SmartSniff - http://www.winpcap.org/
FastResolver   http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/fastresolver.html
ID Serve   http://www.grc.com/id/idserve.htm
IPNetInfo   http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ipnetinfo.html
NetScan   http://www.download3k.com/SoftPerfect-Network-Scanner/Download-Free-netscan.exe.html
SmartSniff   http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/smsniff.html

OFFICE:
Calendar Magic   http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,944-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html
Copernic Desktop Search   http://www.copernic.com/
DS Clock   http://www.dualitysoft.com/dsclock/
Foxit Reader -Download and install instead of Adobe Acrobat Reader, it uses fewer resources - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Kompozer   http://www.kompozer.net/
MoffSoft FreeCalc   http://www.moffsoft.com/freecalc.htm
PDF reDirect*   http://www.exp-systems.com/
Rough Draft - dont work in an office use this one, especially writers and works with Mobysaurus and WordWeb- http://www.salsbury.f2s.com/
Windows Live Photo Gallery   http://get.live.com/wl/all
Windows Live Writer   http://get.live.com/wl/all
Convert   http://joshmadison.com/article/convert-for-windows
Mobysaurus Thesaurus   http://www.mobysaurus.com/
WordWeb Pro*   http://wordweb.info/

TOOLS:
CCleaner   http://www.ccleaner.com/
Diskeeper Lite ver.9 http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-disk-de-fragmenter.htm
JV 16 Power Tools 2008*   http://www.macecraft.com/jv16powertools2008/
Logitech ITouch* http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/keyboards/&cl=us,en
Logitech MouseWare* http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/keyboards/&cl=us,en
PC Pitstop Optimize* http://www.pcpitstop.com/
WinRoll   http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/
autoruns   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
Dial-a-fix   http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Dial-a-fix
PageDefrag   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx
ProcX   http://www.ghostsecurity.com/procx/
xpdite   http://www.grc.com/xpdite/xpdite.htm
XPlite* http://www.litepc.com/

paidware*

freeware

CBP, NKVD, or Gestapo?

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:20:53 GMT

CBP, NKVD, or Gestapo?

Logged in as: ________@_____.com (If you are not ________@_____.com click here.)
Question Reference #080517-000016
Subject: Why are you searching laptops and other data storage devices
and media at the...
Type of Problem: Abuse/Excessive Use of Authority
Unwarranted Search/Chase
Ports of Entry, Pre-Clearance or Border
Patrol Sectors:
HQ
Language: English
Country Code Number:
Phone Number:
Suffix:
Country:
Postal Code:
DOB:
Passport #:
Issuing Country: United States
Alien #:
I-94 #:
Trusted Traveler ID#:
Flight Number:
Dist Field Office:
Border Patrol Sector:
Incident Date:
Submitted: 05/17/2008 10:44 AM
Last Updated: 05/19/2008 11:31 AM
Status: Solved

Update My Question https://cbpcomplaints.cbp.gov/cgi-bin/cbpcomplaints.cfg/php/enduser/...
2 of 2 5/19/2008 4:23 PM

Problem solved was the response of the Customs and Border Protection Agency. Here was my complaint, or harangue:

Why are you searching laptops and other data storage devices and media at the borders? It has no efficacy, balanced against violating the rights of citizens, for discovering miscreants, either terrorists or other criminals. It is a behavior, I believe, more suited and practiced by the like of Nazi Germany, the old Soviet state, and other police states. Your behavior and the courts decision, the reversal of a lower court's decision, have finally convinced me to buy strong encryption to
protect my information. I have also joined a group, quickly growing in number, to voluntarily grow a fund to retain lawyers to fight in
court, all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary, any confuscation(sic; the danger of writing in a web form on the flipflop and fly ) of any of our information carrying devices. Your behavior has increased the bottom line of the PGP Corporation, and more people are considering using encryption.
I do not like the expense of encryption to protect my family photos, personal information, and sensitive data, like Social Security Number, banking information, emails, and other personal documents which are none of your dang business. So if my devices are confiscated and accessed at any border all you can expect is encrypted data that would take even the N.S.A., using all the computing
in the world, until the sun goes nova to decrypt. PGP Corporation should thank you for your action. No one else, no American who regards the Constitution and liberty should. I ask myself: Why is my government behaving like fascists? Why is it behaving like fascists that America fought in World War Two and Korea to defeat? I will fight in the courts and politically to restrain such fascist impulses and behaviours. It is the American's duty to resist tyranny, to defeat enemies foreign and DOMESTIC. I want the officials in the U.S.Customs and Border Protection Agency who conceived this policy fired. We may have to fire some politicians first.

This was the response of the Customs and Border Protection Agency:

Discussion Thread
Response (Frederick) 05/19/2008 11:31 AM
Thank you for contacting CBP. We appreciate your comments on the issue of laptops.
CBP is charged with facilitating legitimate trade and travel while at the same time enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws. All persons, baggage and merchandise arriving in the United States are required to participate in CBP processing. As part of the process, CBP strives to facilitate the routine processing of all travelers while determining admissibility. It is not the intent of CBP to subject travelers to unwarranted scrutiny. However, unless exempt, all travelers entering the United
States, including U.S. citizens, are required to participate in CBP processing. As part of the process, CBP Officers are verifying admissibility and looking for possible terrorists, terrorist weapons or narcotics. Laptop computers may be subject to detention(sic) for violation of criminal law such as if the laptop contains information with possible ties to terrorism, narcotics smuggling, child pornography or other criminal activity. CBP Officers adhere to all requirements to protect privileged, personal and business confidential information.
Customer 05/17/2008 10:44 AM

Auto-Response 05/17/2008 10:44 AM
Title: How do officers decide which passengers to examine or search?
Link: http://help.cbp.gov/cgi-bin/customs.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=27&p_created=1043364935
Title: Why did a CBP officer search me?
Link: http://help.cbp.gov/cgi-bin/customs.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=26&p_created=1043364935
Title: Authority, right to search
Link: http://help.cbp.gov/cgi-bin/customs.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=176&p_created=1043364937
Title: Transgender Personal Search Procedures
Link: http://help.cbp.gov/cgi-bin/customs.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=290&p_created=1043364937
Title: FACT SHEET - Air and Marine
Link: http://help.cbp.gov/cgi-bin/customs.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=1020&p_created=120612097

And this is my response to it.

I could understand, somewhat, doing the searches of media devices and media storage of non-citizens, perhaps of people suspected, probable cause, of smuggling narcotics or possessing child pornography, but you do random searches or searches of all without probable cause.

What is your reaction if I have the data on my computer encrypted and refuse to decrypted it for you? I will do this unless the congress and/or the courts do not stop this practice. I will, if this occurs to me, fight this in the courts and congress for the remainder of my life if necessary. I am a Republican, patriotic, but a libertarian in political ideology, so you know where I am coming from. Stop giving me the programmed spiel

"There are many reasons for deciding to examine someone. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a program of random checks that helps us calibrate our information regarding smuggling trends. In addition, CBP officers will occasionally observe something that fits a smuggling characteristic. They will then want to conduct a search to see if anything else in the passenger's goods or answers would provide information that would indicate whether or not there is additional need for concern. Many people think that Officers only target people who look disreputable or suspicious, and are therefore offended when they themselves are singled out. Please be aware, some of CBP's biggest seizures have come from inspections of "respectable looking" people, such as grandmothers, corporate executives, college professors, etc. Everyone is subject to a CBP inspection when they arrive in the U.S."

You are infringing on the privacy and abrogating the rights of the many to catch a few. To extend your logic, the police departments should search every apartment and house in the cities; I am sure that they would catch some criminals by doing this. But this is the United States of America and we have a Constitution that constrains the use of government power. These constraints keep us free. If this practice of yours continues you may lose the respect, trust, and cooperation of the American people. When that happens your job will be impossible. Random searches is the problem. Do you have any people in your department who understand the internet? All a terrorist needs to do is upload plans outside the country to online storage encrypted and simply download when in the country. Or they can simply use a lowtech approach and send someone with a photograpic memory with the plans memorized, or someone with the plans written in code in an innocent looking notepad whereas it appears to be a diary, travelogue, or other notes. You plan to confiscate all these? I fear for this country when the people who are supposed to protect us are bumblers, who don't know the Constitutional protections or even care, and cannot or will not do the real, hard work of valid, none intrusive intelligence to protect us.

Americans have to protect themselves from enemies foreign and domestic. You are increasingly becoming the domestic enemy. Take a civics course!

Simple honest speech

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:30:40 GMT

Simple honest speech

a rarity in public discourse

a rarity in private.

Say the facts, some say

you opine. Some opinions

you hear spoken as if fact.

In politics, the occupation

of governance, simple honest speech

the necessary requirement

to produce a free, peaceful

society; language without guile,

pretension, or calumny

in which you try

to clarify public policy, not obscure.

Language that you do

not need to parse to understand.

President Bush, vice president Chaney,

secretary Rice, secretary Rumsfeld please

simple honest speech profane

liars ever choose.

for,and under the influence of, Ronnog Seaberg (1932 – 2007).

Photo by Mark Wolfe

WhosOnSecond

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:14:09 GMT

Yeah, it's a play on a play on baseball play by that classic comic duo;

the first was used so it had to take seconds, but it ain't second-rate. Naw,

it ain't second to any other. If you are interested in baseball cards, basketball

cards, et cetera cards play your cards right and check on by this site.

I am tired of my own tired word games, so some plain old lingo:

Whos On Second Sports Website For Card Sharks

is run by a fanatical Yankee fan and card collector. It is a work of love

by a nice guy, Steve Salinas. You damn right I'm biased, he has been a

friend for over a decade. Check out the site even if you are not a card

collector or sports fan because he has a resident curmudgeon who is a

Brooklyn Dodgers, Greenbay Packers, and Chicago Bulls fan. He does not

collect cards; he just contributes to Salinas' site Side Arm Pitch, a column

of what moves from his brain to the keyboard. Guess who's on second

with his friend Steve. Go by, leave a comment, say I sent you along.

babe ruth

rare july

What matters is stronger

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:16:11 GMT

What matters is stronger than what does not matter;

it seems that we come from the tough side

of the universal tracks. That seems to be so,

according to a team of scientists at the Stanford Linear

Accelerator Center, in Palo Alto, California. They arranged

a rumble between antimatter particles and matter particles,

and some matter was left. So matter is tougher,

according to them, than antimatter: that is why we have

the universe; that is why we have life.

So it seems that god

favors matter over antimatter; god favors life over anti-life.

The creation is such a wondrous phenomenon to contemplate;

it stimulates the imagination of all, except those humans

numbed by opiates or ennui. Imagine the effects on one inspired

and animated by poetry.

If it, the matter of the universe, is the result of an accident,

a chance occurrence, it is a magnificent one. That accident

would be worthy of reverence. I do know that intelligence

could not produce such a result.

I agree with the line of thought from the Rambam: we can

only know what God is not.

From that premise, we may say that God is not

intelligent. What caused and operates the creation

is transcendent. It is beyond intelligence. The concept

intelligence we use for more mundane beings. We know from observations

of the produce of human intellect that the creator is above intelligence.

We may not know the substance of transcendence, it is beyond

our ken, but we know what we don't know and name it god, tao, or transcendence.

We may make the leap of faith and poetic license

to say that God does not like anti-life as much as it likes life.

Moral principles have been based on less.

I Forgive Imus

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:09:54 GMT

I forgive Imus.

I forgive Imus and I want him off radio and television. I will not buy any product made and sold by a company that buys advertising on any show with Imus. I may even extend that to shows which have him as a guest.

He is not a satirist like Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, or Colbert, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Mort Sahl, or Lenny Bruce. You understand, whether it is Juvenalian or Horatian satire, the point of their satires even when they use race, gender, sexuality, religion, et cetera.

Imus does not just attack evils in the society, committed by institutions, government entities, or public figures from entertainment, politics, social, and religious institutions. Often he spouts sexist, racist, and homophobic drivel which he spuriously calls humor. It has no point, no lesson for us, no attempt to point out an evil. He does not hold up our foibles in the light for us to see. His spurious satire or humor ain't funny, except to a racist. That's because it is racist. I don't care how much good he has done.

Rev. Sharpton would be a legit target; Rev. Jackson would be a legit target. They are public figures. They are flawed, especially Rev.Sharpton.

Hiphop artists are legit targets.

The priests who molested children and the church officials who covered up the misdeed are legit targets. The liturgy and creeds, no matter how silly one thinks, are not legit targets, unless that religion attempts to impose them on others and into public policy. Then it is the attempt to impose their creed that is targetable.

Actors who take ideological political positions in public are legit targets for satire and humor. Any public figure who tries to affect public policy is open to be satirized.

Those young women were not legit targets, except for a program about how people can achieve in this society. Imus did not see that. He saw race and he saw loose women probably because of their race.

It is an unfortunate fact that most racists in American society are good people.

u s a

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:23:28 GMT

I prescribe that all Americans read The Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers), The Beatitudes, and Friedrich A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom.

Some folk seem hell-bent on the enslavement of everyone.

If you voted for Bush and his Democratic rival the first time, you were a fool; if you voted for Bush a second time, you are a fascist. I don't suffer fools and some of my political ancestors shot fascists. I am an intellectual wimp because I still believe that truth talk can convince fascists in training to read the U.S.Constitution and follow it.

Liberal ain't a bad word, especially if public liberals practice that humane art in private.

Conservative ain't the way it's practiced today; it's properly an admix of living the ethical life and the the libertarian ideal of not fracking with other folk. It certainly ain't the use of the government to to frack other folk.

Most folk today who call themselves conservatives - mostly Republicans, and some Democrats - live something else, lie to us, lie to themselves, and endanger the republic. You know in your brain that this is true, unless you share their delusion.

You know that we have a problem when the only senators I trust completely are Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, and Susan Collins, the only representatives I trust are Ron Paul and Barney Frank. I know that most of you cannot see that this is not a contradiction or paradox.

In case you want to know, I am a Republican. I evolved from conservative to libertarian. I believe in simplicities and the acts of many today confirm me in my simplicites. Liberals want to force you to spend your money their way and conservatives want to control how you have sex and with whom. Except today there is an anomaly, the Republicans, especially ones called to conservatism, have spent our money like it was theirs, and spent it with their business partners. They will ignore a true sexual crime to retain a seat.

Representative Tom Davis what in the living hell is wrong with you? Your statement at the CIA Leak Investigation and questions later are a brain fart that defies rational examination.

How about a fusion ticket? Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders? Either way. Or if you really want to retain the Republicans and Democratics, how about Senator Susan Collins and Representative Ron Paul versus Senator Barack Obama and Senator Bernie Sanders (If elected they must nominate Barney Frank for Attorney-General, later to the Court). These are my picks for 2008. With these we win either way.

I don't expect the parties or electorate to behave rationally and humane.

I plan to seance with Tom Paine and clean my ancestor's flintlock.

If I can't have my tropes, I've been sold a bill of rights rotted.

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truth lecture
jeffersonians
no right left
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o moral jonah
tom jefferson
morale erects
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thomas jeffer-
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short history of the saxophone

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:37:28 GMT

triage

suffering makes us special
o hear the darkies croon    
from hills of alabama          
to mountains of the moon    

some seed of abraham            
hebrew christian muslim      
dream to grow up nazi          
   suffering makes us special    

one genus one species          
one specific genius              
suffering makes us special
suffering makes us special

------------------------------------------------------------------------
simple honest speech
bright simile awaked
flower symbol blooms
father mother rhythm
bodies earthy singer

thomas son of thomas
repots flower tropes
simple honest speech
people forgot within
earthy rhythm bodies
...........................................................

trivet

 
i have means
at my disposal moons
never used until the tiger moans

bama mines   
where i exhume grave omens
for whose gamic magic there no names

dark mānēs   
conjure my cryptic menus
the son of a woman i have many

------------------------------------------------------------

levantine

olive oil
to anoint
royal    
 and prophet

light     
the shack  
enlighten
the palace

...................................................................

thomas mouths
smooth mythos
medusa
seemed amused

times

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:46:16 GMT

times

truly alone muley
knows truce death music
never muted heart
knows moody brute hurts
human blows sound blues

weatherly

PATRIOT Act

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:09:30 GMT

I have a mild proposal that will prevent postpartum depressed women from killing their babies. It has the additional benefit: it solves the abortion controversy. Under the PATRIOT Act arrest and detain all pregnant women until the offspring are eighteen. I recommend this to the compassionate conservatives in the Bush administration; it fits in well with their other humane initiatives.

I am a loyal American.

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:01:07 GMT

Dear folk

I am a loyal American. I would never burn an American flag for protest; although I would burn it in accordance with the rules for retiring a flag. I say this with stern loyalty to the spirit of America, to its freedoms, that if this amendment is ratified, I will load my flintlock and defend the right of those mean or angry creatures who do burn the flag in protest to do so. We decry the mechanisms that fascist states use to stifle dissent, yet in this some of us wish to add one to our Constitution.

I propose one solution. We should make one Flag. We should use the very best materials and craftmanship in its creation. We then place it in an enclosed container, along with the official American flags from our past history, in the Capitol building. Then we pass a law stating that these original Flags may not be desecrated. All other flags thus become copies of the originals, not Flags. Let contrary folk do anything that they wish to them; these are not the Flag. Does England have a law forbidding the burning of a picture of the queen? If it does, it should not. It does, I'm sure, have laws forbidding the burning of the queen. We can enact laws banning the desecration of that one true flag on exhibit in Washington.

affably, a patriot,

SIMPLE HONEST SPEECH

Fri, 19 May 2006 11:29:09 GMT

Simple honest speech
a rarity in public discourse
a rarity in private.
Say the facts, some folk say
you opine. Some opinions
you hear spoken as if fact.

In politics, the occupation
of governance, simple honest speech
the necessary requirement
to produce a free, peaceful
society; language without guile,
pretension, or calumny
in which you try
to clarify public policy, not obscure.
Language that you do
not need to parse to understand.

President Bush, Vice-President Chaney,
Secretary Rice, Secretary Rumsfeld please
simple honest speech. Profane
liars?

Prosody: levantine

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 03:45:00 GMT

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tōō   ə     noint

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thə   shăk

ĕn    līt   n

thə   păl   ĭs

What matters

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 20:32:27 GMT

What matters is stronger than what does not matter; it seems that we come from the tough side of the universal tracks. That seems to be so, according to a team of scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, in Palo Alto, California. They arranged a rumble between antimatter particles and matter particles, and some matter was left standing. So matter is tougher, according to them, than antimatter: that is why we have the universe; that is why we have life. So it seems that God favors matter over antimatter; God favors life over anti-life. I have made an assumption, some may say, that the research does not imply. The creation is such a wondrous phenomenon to contemplate; it stimulates the imagination of all, except those humans numbed by opiates or ennui. Imagine the effects on one inspired and animated by poetry.

I admit that this does nothing toward the proof of the existence of deity; it does fill one with the awe and majesty of the creation. If it, the matter of the universe, is the result of an accident, a chance occurrence; it is a magnificent one. That accident would be worthy of reverence. I do know that intelligence could not produce such a result. I agree with the line of thought from the Rambam: we can only know what God is not. From that premise, one may say that God is not intelligent. What caused and operates the creation is transcendent. The concept intelligence is more aptly used for more mundane beings. One knows from observations of the produce of human intellect that the creator is above intelligence.

One may not know the substance of transcendence; it is beyond us. One may make the leap of faith and poetic license to say that God does not like anti-life as much as It likes life. Moral principles have been based on less.

Copy and Paste Security

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:29:07 GMT

This a tip for the ultra-security conscious.
Do not keep passwords for internet banking, license codes, social security number, or credit and debit card numbers on your internet connected hard drive. Buy a USB flash drive and store those sensitive numbers and codes on it; only connect to a usb port when you intend to use codes and passwords. Copy and Paste your username and password or code into the form; that way keyloggers cannot record keystrokes. I have two flash drives: a 128 MB one for the frequently used passwords and codes; a 1 GB for all of them. This is more secure than having this sensitive data encrypted on your hard drive; also you may encrypt the data on your flash drive. Keep the flash drive in a safe place. Keep mine on a chain around my neck under my shirt; at home I them in a locked safe when not using them.
Remember: alway COPY and PASTE to the forms.

About Kevin Weiss

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:19:33 GMT

Kevin Weiss, About’s bike guru seems knowledgeable about cycling; in fact, he is knowledgeable enough to know that money from ads is more important than safety. He does not speak out clearly about the danger of child seats on bicycles. There is no way to make the seats safe. The bicycle falls over and BANG the child hits the pavement. Trailers are the safest way to transport small children by bicycle. If a parent on the bicycle falls over the trailer remains upright and the child is safe. Think about it; use your commonsense. I also suggest that pediatricians and the League of American Bicyclists should also speak out about this. Cycling is dangerous enough without the added risk of carrying children in bicycle seats.
I have to amend this statement about Kevin Weiss. He still has not come out and said that bicycle seats on back for children are dangerous; although he has written about bicycle trailers. I hope that he sells a lot of them. I hope that he makes a plea for parents, teachers, pediatricians, and the League of American Bicyclists to discourage their use. See

Dave Van Ronk

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:05:54 GMT

The Lion's Head was one of the memorable places from my past. It was a source of work, friends, and inspiration. One of the most profound influences on my life was Dave Van Ronk; he, as much as anyone else, helped me to really understand what is was to be black. He understood. If black were a sensibility, he possessed or it possessed him more than any man black or white. I remember one night early into the morning, the bar had closed, and we, not wishing to go home, were invited to Dave's place for his mushroom barley soup. I can't remember all who went, but it included Ethan Eldon (Commissioner of Air Resources in the Lindsay administration), Joel Oppenheimer (poet, Vlllage Voice colunmist, and my son's designated godfather and a mentor of mine), Dave's landlord, I believe was there, and several other Lion's Head regulars. He made a superb mushroom barley soup. He sang acapella;he played records from his collection. He played some early Satchmo records, and pointed out that Satchmo liked the horn section of the Guy Lombardo band. The selections that he played for us of Armstrong had a similar sound to that of the Lombardo band, with Armstrong's particular influence. Dave was a warm man, could give a good hug, and he kept me, a young poet, from the polar extremes of racialism or complete submersion in the majority. He influenced one of my favorite, and maybe best poems, "short history of the saxophone." His was a voice in the wilderness of this society that will be missed.

Photo Album: GrandGals

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:56:04 GMT

GrandGals

Taylor and Shelby Laws 4 - Easter 2008.jpg

Shelby and Taylor Laws 2 - Easter 2008.jpg

Shelby.JPG

Taylor.JPG

Shelby and Taylor Laws 2 - Easter 2008.jpg

Taylor and Shelby Laws 4 - Easter 2008.jpg

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Photo Album: "funky knife" - camp/survival knives

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:47:50 GMT

"funky knife" - camp/survival knives

Paula Largin (Kelgin Knives;K.C.Largin)designed and made length overall 9 1/2", blade length 4 9/16", cutting edge 4 9/16" mixed plain/serrated, blade steel 440-C stainless, blade thickness 7/32", handle length 4 1/2", 7/16" steel butt juts past handle end for use as hammer, handle material Oosik, weight 8 ounces, It replaces hammer, hatchet, trenching tool, signal mirror.

K C Largin - Paula

K.C.Largin Paula (1)

K.C.Largin Paula (3)

K.C.Largin Paula (4)

K.C.Largin Paula (5)

K.C.Largin Paula

D'Allara Drop Point from Spyderco, good general purpose and survival knife. It and the Rescue are named after Police Officer D'Allara of NYPD who was killed 9/11.

D'Allara Rescue from Spyderco used by many rescue, emergency, and law enforcement personnel. The sheepfoot blade

LADYBUG from Spyderco a good backup emergency knife that I carry in mini survival otter box kit with other survival gear like fishing line, flint and steel et cetera. The kit is pocket size.

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Photo Album: May 29

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:08:26 GMT

May 29

Peleton

13th Street

13thStreetSnow

CanyonU

canyonUsWindow

Zan

Gene

Untitled Photo

Robert

Saint Satin Stain

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Photo Album: August 16

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:09:06 GMT

August 16

First book.

Steve Fried, a great imagist; painfully so sometimes.

Gus, the mystic of the spurious rivers.

without

With

12th Street and 7th Avenue, top of the Village.

Custom List: Beautiful

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:28:15 GMT

Beautiful

Barbara Jordan
"Madam President..."
Helen Thomas
Madeline Tiger
Lucy Liu
Drew Barrymore
Halle Berry
Mary-Louise Parker
Isabella Rossellini
Madeleine Stow
S. Epatha Merkerson
Katherine Hepburn
Jennifer Beals
Michelle Rodriguez
Gina Gershon
Dorothy Dandridge
Ingrid Bergman
Julia Kasdorf
Angelina Jolie
Emma Thompson
Won 2 Oscars, wrote screenplays, smart, fine, mmmm.
Ursula Huebner-Bromberger
"muse mama"