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Interests: modern music; modern thought; historic preservation; conservation; performing arts
Expertise: Tax Accounting & Property Management
Occupation: Accounting/Finance
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9/11/2004
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| Casino RoyaleBeen ages since I was here. Watching Peter Sellers and David Nivin with Ursula Andress in the 1960's vintage "Casino Royale." Peter Sellers as 007 Bond has a brilliant line after sipping a drugged Champagne: "My goodness this is strong shampoo." Laugh? I thought I'd cough up my better lung. Man, I love going back in time... and since I can't help going forward in it (without dire consequences), I'm actually enjoying this late winter. Now, If I could just keep our dogs from eating out of my office trashcan... | | |
| FireIt's true that the Santa Anna firestorms are an accepted part of life in Southern California, just as tornados are here in Iowa. Still, it's bitter irony to wonder if things might be different in my old hometown if the National Guard wasn't all shipped overseas to protect W's personal interests. Here's a photo shot Tuesday morning about 2:38am from beside the elementary school I attended:  On the left in the distance is Mt. San Miguel, which I watched burn over in 1970 from my roof-top. It burned over again in 2003. Before 1970, My Dad hadn't recalled it ever burning-- and he'd lived there since 1912. Of course, W's gonna show up there Thursday to announce he's done a heckuva job.... Wonder if he'll blame global warmification on these fires? Makes sense, from his simple-minded perspective. Big fires make the Earth hotter. Hotter Earth = Hearth, like hearth and home. Now, don't you feel better?
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| MIss America... Is That An Order? The 9/11 Pilots Didn't Obey It... (This reminds me of playing the Beatles backwards to hear John say, "Paul is dead,. Miss him, miss him, miss him.") (Caution, don't try this at home. It gouges up your vinyl recordings because the stylus is set at an angle jutting forward.) Yeah, I miss America, too. She seems to have wandered astray. Somewhere between New Orleans and Falujah we've lost our way... and don't forget those six nuclear warheads that flew on a WWII vintage B-52 from Minot AFB in North Dakota to an air force base in Louisiana a couple weeks back, unnoticed and unsecured for thirty six hours. Heckuva job, Curious George (with apologies to the picture-book monkey.) We in Iowa who are in the flight path are especially impressed with this level of strategic oversight. (Whoops, sorry, it was an oversight.) Didn't we have an "end of the cold war, peace dividend" budget surplus pushing trillions of dollars just seven years ago? Now we're unable to account for millions and millions of hard cash, printed and stacked on pallets and shipped to the middle of Hell and our mercenary delivery boys at "Blackwater" (OOOOH, a spooky name, I'm scared, it's almost Hallowe'en) are shooting innocent civilians because they heard a car bomb in the neighboring province. What a lot of brave little boys and girls our mercenaries are! Hooray for Blackwater. They're killing them over there so we don't have to teach the refugees English over here! Pull over! Who's driving? It's time to drop the pilot. Dennis Kucinich looks smarter by the day. He's right, you know. We need to start impeachment proceedings with the "Go fuck yourself" VP Dick first. And how was your weekend? | | |
| Iran's Next!I wrote about this more than two years ago. Looks like our fearless (brainless) leaders are actually gonna start another war before these idiot neo-con nincompoops are run out of office: This news just out today:  AP Can't somebody with some sense stop these war-happy, blood-thirsty, money wasting jerks? Better start digging your bomb-shelters now, America. We're gonna keep pissing them off over there until they come over here to kill us. Remember "shock and awe"? Sure makes me feel safer. You too? Got your gun loaded? Doors locked? Be sure to say goodnight to Big Brother before you close your browser and go off-line. | | |
| Note to all pot farmers:Harvest what you can now! Then move all your crops indoors or onto government land! It's the black-ops helicopters from 25 years ago all over again! Our government is at war within our borders against our citizens!
The U.S.'s top intelligence official has greatly expanded the range of federal and local authorities who can get access to information from the nation's vast network of spy satellites in the U.S. The decision, made three months ago by Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, places for the first time some of the U.S.'s most powerful intelligence-gathering tools at the disposal of domestic security officials. The move was authorized in a May 25 memo sent to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff asking his department to facilitate access to the spy network on behalf of civilian agencies and law enforcement. | | |
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