MY LIFE AND WHAT HAPPENED
Sunday, November 20, 2005
FIRST AIRLINE TRIP AROUND THE WORLD
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MY BROTHER AND HIS WIFE ALISA
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THE GROUP WITH JANETS SISTER MARILAN
THE GROUP
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THE B-29 FLIGHT CREW
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JOHANNA
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JOHANNA
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THE BOYS FROM SACRAMENTO, BEN, DAVE, NICK
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LEZLIE IN SUNGLASSES
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A TEMPLE IN KATMANDU
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SHOOTING IN THE MOUNTIANS WITH RODNEY AND CHET
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PROTESTING THE WAR
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Saturday, November 19, 2005
THE GROUP WITH BEARD
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A PALIMPSEST OF HAPPENINGS DURING MY LIFE
Stored as “MY LIFE AND WHAT HAPPENED” REVISED 9-15-2007
on “rods documents” C drive on the sony and the index is stored as “index to the blog, my life” C drive “documents and settings”, “rodney galloway” and “my documents”
MY LIFE AND WHAT HAPPENED
Schools, work, where we lived
B-29 crew names
RULES TO LIVE BY 6-23-1999
FRED HOCTOR
BOB PUGLIA
FICTION, “MY TRAVELS TO CHICAGO”
BUSH VS. KERRY
PATRIOTISM LOST
LAURA’S PAIN IN THE NECK 9-15-2007
PREDICTIONS 9-15-2007
MY LIFE
BROKEN BATS AND HOW TO FIX THE PROBLEM
MUSIC 8-28-2000
MY PERSPECTIVE OF THE NATION 6-17-2002
ALASKA CRUISE 5-17-02
PATROTIC AMERICAN 3-22-03
CANCER AND THE DOCTORS 6-1-03
DRUMS OF WAR by SHAKESPERE 7-23-2004
GOERINGS RULES OF WAR
MONICA’S HEARING AID
XMAS LETTER 2004
BUSH PLANNING AN ATTACK ON THE U.S.A. 8-5-2004
ABOUT KERRY 8-25-04
HOORAY FOR G. BUSH 9-1-04
RELIGIOUS ZELOT 9-21-04
THE AL-QUEDA AND THEIR DEMANDS 9-21-04
THE SUBMARINE THAT WAS BUILT FOR THE WAR ON TERRORIST 10-26-04
WHO ARE WE FIGHTING 10-28-04
VOTER REGISTRATION CARD 11-25-04
SKIPPING CHRISTMAS
WEAPONS OF MASS CONFUSION 10-5-2004
RECEPTION FOR AN ARMY VET FROM IRAQ 12-24-2004
THOUGHTS I HAVE HAD 12-28-04
THE LATEST CHARALTON 1-12-05
ABOUT RELIGION 1-22-2005
WHAT DID GEORGE MEAN IN HIS INAGURAL ADDRESS 1-23-05
THE ID CARD 1-30-05
THE GENERAL WAS RIGHT 2-17-05
JUSTIFICATION FOR THE FIRE AND POLICE, 5-8-05
JUSTIFICATION FOR THE FIRE DEPT, 5-21-05
NUCLEAR BOMB UTILIZATION 5-21-2005
TRAFFIC AND THE POLICE 5-23-05
JUSTIFICATION FOR THE POLICE, TRAFFIC 5-23-05
CONQUERING THE WORLD USA STYLE 5-31-05
THE ULTIMATE HYPOCRIT 5-31-05
WHO DO YOU THINK YOUR REPRESENTATIVES WORK FOR 5-31-05
WHY NOT GET OUT OF IRAQ 6-14-05
COLLIER PARK 6-18-05
THE JOHN CONYERS HEARINGS 6-16-05
COLLIER PARK MEMORIAL 6-18-2005
IMPORTANT QUOTES FROM HISTORY 6-20-2005
IS THE WORLD BETTER OFF TODAY 6-21-05
THE UNTAPPED GOLD MINE 6-21-05
THE USA HAS BECOME AN ATTRACTIVE NUSIANCE 6-21-05
WHO REALLY OWNS YOUR PROPERTY 6-23-05
WHEN WILL WE HAVE PEACE 7-7-05
WHO ARE THE INSURGENTS 7-7-05
THE NEW MERCENARY MILITARY 7-7-05
THE GOOD WE HAVE DONE IN THE MIDDLE EAST 7-15-05
HOW THE U.S. CAN WITHDRAW FROM IRAQ 7-25-2005
OUR SPACE FAIR FOR ADULTS 7-28-05
THE NEW PERPETUAL ENERGY MACHINE 7-29-05
WAR POWERS 8-8-05
DUNCAN HUNTERS REQUIREMENTS TO END THE WAR 8-8-2005
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS 9-2-05
DROP MEETING IN OCEANSIDE 9-6-05
PLEDGE TO THE FLAG AND THE REPUBLIC 9-19-05
THE USA WAS NOT FOUNDED ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 9-28-05
WHAT JOHN GLENN SAID
TO WALTER
WE LIVED IN THAT MOTEL 10-24-2005
DEMAND FOR OIL 10-29-05
CLOSING THE BORDERS 11-2-05
MY UTOPIAN GOVERNMENT 11-16-2005
DAVID AND GOLIATH 11-19-05
NEVER GETTING OUT OF IRAQ 11-20-05
STAYING IN IRAQ FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE 11-20-2005
INTELLIGENT DESIGN 11-23-2005
ASK THESE QUESTIONS 11-25-05
PRESIDENTS SPEECH TO THE NAVAL ACADAMY 11-30-05
THE MILITARY NEEDS OLD MEN 11-30-05
TIME LINE OF BRIBES FOR CUNNINGHAM 11-30-05
LETTER TO FEINSTEIN
CHRISTMAS STORY 12-11-05
PRES BUSH FOR PRESIDENT OF IRAQ 12-12-05
THERE STANDS THE GLASS 12-2-05
CHRISTIANITY AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS 12-18-05
TO KEITH HANSEN, SEINTINAL PUBLISHER 12-18-2005
JIM WALKER
COVER LETTER TO HANSEN EDITOR OF THE SENTINAL 12-15-05
STRANGE TERRORIST WARS 1-20-2006
PLAN TO DEFEAT HUNTER 12-21-05
LETTER TO THE US GOVERNMENT 12-29-05
DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORIST 1-22-2006
RESPONSE TO PAPER 1-24-06
WHEN DEMOCRACY IS ACCEPTABLE TO THE USA 1-26-06
HONDURAS OPPURTUNITIES ~~2-6-2006
WRITE ABOUT WHY WE VOTE THE WAY WE DO? 2-6-2006
MATH PROBLEM FOR CHET 2-06-06
MODERNIZING SCHOOLS 2-7-2006
COALITION AT A GLANCE 2-9-06
HOME WORK 2-16-2006
DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORIST 1-2202006
RESPONSE TO PAPER 1-24-2006
WRITE ABOUT? 2-6-2006
EVOLUTION,INTELLEGENT DESIGN, AND TRANSPLANTATION 2-23-06
CONNIE FRANKOWIAK A CANDIDATE FOR THE HOUSE 11-2006
TO CONNIE 2-21-2006
THE PORT PROBLEM 2-24-2006
HOW TO END THE WAR ON TERROR 2-27-2006
REBUTAL TO THE BLACKLEDGE STORY 2-27-2006
THE SAN DIEGO AIRPORT 2-27-2006
WHEN DEMOCRACY IS ACCEPTABLE TO THE USA 3-1-2006
STEM PULLER FOR A MOEN SHOWER FAUCET 3-5-2006
POLITICIANS SHOULD NEVER SAY ORTALK ABOUT GOD 3-13-2006
SDG&E SHOULD BE THANKFUL FOR THE OPPOSITION 3-13-2006
WHEN THE MILITARY DIDN’T HAVE CIVILIANS ON THE PAYROLL 3-13-2006
RESPONSES TO A POLL AND TO BARBARA BOXER 3-15-2006
DIRECTIONS TO FITZPATRICKS MEXICAN HOUSE 3-19-2006
ETHANOL INDUSTRY 3-20-2006
THE LAST OF THE VOLUNTEER ARMY 3-20-2006
PRESIDENTIAL POLLS 3-21-2006
DOWING STREET MEMO 3-27-2006
AMERICAN, USE OF THE TERM 3-31-2006
BASEBALL, TIME FOR A NEW SEASON 4-1-2006
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR POLITICIANS 4-5-2006
THE LAST OF THE VOLUNTEER MILITARY 3-20-2006
IMGRATION ISSUES 4-3-2006
BUSH SHOULD END IT AND REALIZE THE RAPTURE 4-7-2006
THE CIA AND 911 4-7-2006
THE SCOOTER LIBBY LEAK 4-7-2006
THE GALLOWAY SHOWER 4-14-2006
WHAT DID EISENHOWER KNOW?? 4-21-2006
BORDER FENCE INSTRUCTIONS 5-3-2006
QUESTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATE 5-13-2006
THE BOOGIEMAN WILL GET YOU 5-18-2006
JUST WHO ARE THE WAR MONGERS? 6-23-2006THE MOVIE ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT MOVIE 6-25-2006
DON’T GET OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST TOO SOON 6-26-2006
DON’T CUT AND RUN 6-26-2006
NEW DEAL 10-29-2006
KEN LAYS DEATH 7-6-2006
A LITTLE HISTORY 7-25-2006
CANDIDATES STATEMENT FOR THE RMWD 8-7-2006
CONSPIRACY THEORY 8-10-2006
IN SIDNEY 8-21-2006
A GOVERNMENT OF SAVAGES 9-1-2006
EXPENSES 9-16-2006
KIDS KILLING OTHER KIDS 10-11-2006
CONVERTING THE MILITARY 10-13 2006
NEW DEAL FOR THE COUNTRY 10-29-2006
THE SOLO ATW # 2 NOTE TO EMMA 10-31-2006
IGNORANT SENATORS
MY RECOLECTION OF THE ACCIDENT 11-2-2006
ASTROVIEWER KEY 11-5-2006
CONVERTING THE MILITARY AND TAKING THE MONEY OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT 11-9-2006
TAKE THE MONEY OUT OF THE WAR 11-16-2006
MICHAEL MOORES PLEDGE 11-17-2006
SAVING THE DEMOCRACY 11-20-2006
MIXING REALITY WITH RELIGION 12-4-2006
XMAS LIST 12-15-2006
MAKING HAMBURGERS MAKING MONEY 12-26-2006
GERALD FORD 12-29-2006
FORWARD BY HADELMAN FOR “MURDER FOR HIRE” BY GENERAL SMEDLEY BUTLER
SMEDLEY BUTLER ON INTERVENTIONISM
THINGS YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE TO BE A REPUBLICAN TODAY
WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT 1-10-2007
MY RECENT VACATION AROUND THE WORLD 1-10-2007
REASON FOR THE WAR, GEORGE BUSH THE MOVIE1-27-2007
JERRY FALWELL THE PERFECT ASSHOLE 5-15-2007
CONNIE FRANKOWIAK 5-19-2007
RAMONA FORUM UPDATE 5-22-2007
THE FUTURE OF IRAQ 6-13-2007
AUDIO MIXER 7-4-2007
MY SPACE LINKS 7-19-2007
ELDER CARE 7-19-2007
SINCE 911 AND SICKO 7-23-2007
THE PRESIDENTS HIGHER AUTHORITY 7-24-2007
MIKE SMITH 7-31-2007
THE PERFECT WAR 8-2-2007
THE PERFECT TERRORIST ATTACK8-2-2007
REGISTRATION FOR A PRIMARY ELECTION 8-6-2007
TSA’S NEW DIRECTION 8-6-2007
GEORGE USED THE WRONG GOD TO DECESION TO GO TO WAR 9-14-2007
A LETTER TO D. HUNTER 9-14-2007
ILLEGAL ALIENS AND EDUCATION 9-14-2007
ABOUT RELIGION 9-16-2007
BY ROD
DATE current 11-16-2005
This is an oppurtunity to view the things that have shaped my life and the things that I have had an interest in during my attempts to learn about all things in one lifetime. things such as (in no order):
baseball, basketball, handball (playing with P.Rock for probably twenty years), astronomy, woodworking, gardening, sailing, guitar, keyboard,golf, travel, welding, tennis, electronics, mechanics, building a house, writing, computers and software, surfing, photography, diving, skiing, model airplanes, on..... an on, jack of all trades, master of none.
Born in Falmouth Kentucky 1/27/32. On Chapel Street in a house owned by my grandparents Archie and Irene G. My mother is Naomi Blanche G and my father was Nelson Willis G. My mother’s parents were Missouri Bell and Lamott S from Covington Kentucky. Archie and Irene always lived in Falmouth.
MY MOTHERS WRITINGS TO MY DAUGHTER MONICA
January 22. 1976
( Exerts from a letter written to me by my paternal grandmother)
... I will give you a few highlights from the 3O'S as I
remember them. Nelson ( her husband) worked for the White
Castle Hamburger Resturant before we were married. He was
working for Bauer Auto Sales, Ford garage in Cincinnati; 0.
when "we were married. I worked for Unions Central Life Ins.
Company in Cincinnati, 0. We were married June 8, 1929. In
1930 we bought'a' four room house in Covington, Ky. In 1931
the depression was getting worse. Banks were closing in all
cities. People were out of work, wealthy people lost every-
thing on the stock market and many committed suicide. Nelson
was out of work and I was going to have a baby. I had to
quit my ,job in November of 1931 • We rented out our house and
stored our, furniture'. We moved up with Grandpa Archie and
Grandma Irene. ( Nelson's Parents) Finally the man that rented
our house could no longer pay the rent, so he paid part of
the rent with furniture of his. We had $1600.00 paid on our
house and we couldn't sell it for what we owed on it. At
that time $1600.00 was a lot of money. We had to sign it over
to the Building Association and we lost all we had paid on it.
January 27, 1932 Rodney was born at Grandpa
Archie'-s "and Grandma Irene's home. Doctor McKenny came
to the house and stayed until the baby was born. The doctor
bill came' to $15.00. Grandpa Archie worked in a small dry
goods store, but it also closed. There were three banks in
Falmouth, Kentucky, where Archie and Irene lived) two of
them closed and only one was able to remain open. Grandpa
Archie had a little money in one bank and he was able to get
it out. We didn't have a bank account. Nelson and his father
cut wood for the furnace and raised a big garden. We also
got milk from the farm to use,( Archie and Irene owned the farm)
and we also made butter. We lived with Grandpa Archie and
Grandma Irene the year Rodney was born. In March 1933 the
tenant of Archie's farm moved away and Nelson and I moved
out there to farm. That was the same farm and house that
Nelson was born in, 1907. We took our furniture out of
storage and moved it to the farm. There was no electricity,
and we had a good electric radio console it cost over $150"
and we had to sell it for $15. We also sold our little
modle A Ford car for $60.00. We used the money to buy a few
pieces of farm equipment. We bought a horse drawn cart, a team
of horses and a few cattle. We bought a 25 1b. bag of flour
for 35 cents bread was 5 cents and margerine was 5 cents coffee was
15 cents a pound. We got enough to do us for a dollar. Of course,
we butchered our own meat and we had milk and butter. We
used kerosene lamps, no electricity, no refrigeration, no ice.
We were lucky, we had a place to move where we
could raise some things to eat, had some chickens, our own
milk, etc. Grandma Irene had an old cook range in her base-
ment, one leg was off it, but it sure cooked good. We propped
it up on •some' bricks-and it was fine. Nelson cut wood and we
heated with a woodburning stove.
October 5 1933 David was born at the home on
the farm. The doctor came early in the afternoon and stayed
until after midnight when he was born. The doctor charged
$15•00. Men worked for $1.00 a day and dinner. They started
early and worked late. no eight hour days then. They used
horses to do all the heavy work.
People in the city were going in debt everyday,
and were going on relief from the government. We didn't have
much money, but we raised plenty to-eat. We butchered
hogs and cured the meat or we cold packed it. or canned it that
is. We also canned beef. But if the weather was cold you could
let beef hang a long time and cut it off as you needed it. We
carried water to the house from the cistern. We used an out-
side privy and a Sears and Roebuck catalog. Now we didn't
have any fuel bills, no electric bills. We had no insurance
of any kind, in other words we had no bills. Gasoline was
19 and 20 cents a gal. We had our own garden vegetables, meat,
chickens, eggs milk and butter. Nelson milked cows, wheeled
milk cans to the main road in a wooden wheel barrel, where
the milk truck picked them up. In April 1933 they paid him
5 cents a gal. for the milk, that was the lowest price he ever got.
We finally got an old car but it sat in 'the corn crib most of the
time as we didn't have money to buy gas with. (About 1934)
Later the government started a work program called
W.P.A. They came out to the farm with trucks' and lots of men
and picked up rock off the whole farm and hauled them away.
That got a lot of men work. After that you couldn't hire a
man for $1.00 when you needed him, they wanted more money.
You didn’t use fertilizer in those days and we had 5 acres of
tobacco and we got 8 cents a pound and altogether we got $l80.00
and half of that went to Archie and Irene, we got $90.00 for
our part. They got half of everything we raised on the farm.
In 1934 I bought l5 calves at $1.00 each & fed and raised them
on a bucket, in two years I sold them. for $35.00 to $55.00° each.
1935 the old range stove grates burned out. We sent to
Kalaraazoo, Mich. and bought us a new range stove for $56.00
on time. It was a real pretty stove and I loved it. We didn't
know if we could ever pay for it or not, at $5.00 a month. But
we sure did. We didn't have any money but it sure was a nice
place to live with our two boys. ,
That same year Nelson raised a nice field of cane.
He made sorghum molasses from the cane. Grandpa Archie cooked
the molasses outside himself. A lot of neighbors raised cane
too, so they brought their cane and he made their sorghum for
them.
When we could get gas for the car, we would drive
to the city (Covington) and we, always took some molasses to sell to the
people. My mother lived in the city, so we could always see
her and my father at the same time. I have an old snapshot of
Nelson grinding the cane. You use a mill and the horse goes
around and then Nelson would hold the cane in the mill. As the
horse went around the juice from the cane would come out. .We
were on the farm 4 years, our tobacco brought in 8 cents lb one yr,
13 cents a lb the next year, l6 cents and then 24 cents the following years.
1937— Things began to improve a little. Nelson went to work for the soft drink company driving a truck and delivering soft drinks. We moved back to Falmouth. He made $25 a week and we thought we were
doing great. And we were! We paid $8,00 a month rent and we
were able to have a nice garden there too. The war in Europe
was bad and getting worse. Various things were getting short.
Sugar, meat, shoes, gasoline and tires were all rationed. Some
time about then Roosevelt took the money off the gold standard
and everyone had to turn in their gold money. No one was
allowed to have any.
In 1938 we bought a new Plymouth..
THIS IS MAYBE THE LAST LETTER I RECEIVED FROM MY MOTHER...
PROBABLY NEAR THE TIME MY FATHER DIED.
11-5-1993
Dear Rodney and Janet:
Here are the prescriptions. ( I would go to Mexico and fill the prescriptions)There are 3 for me and 2 others for my eyes. the Cardizem is for Nelson and one from the skin doctor. i am ordering 2 bottles of the lotion. this lotion has to be mixed they may not do that. If not just let it go.
let me know what all of it cost & your expenses also postage.
I imagine you have the tapes of the record. David got the record & a tape and Shirley Meyers did the job. She had a record player so we have her to thank. David did not know anyone with a record player. ( this was a recording of "theres a starspangled banner waving somewhere" by Hank Williams) Then I thought of Shirley, she had been an entertainer all her life. She has quit now for several years but has equipment. It was a Hank Williams long playing record. David or we didn't hear it. He took it to Shirley & she did it & got it ready to mail & David addressed it & mailed it.If you want to send them a thank you note you can. Her husband helped her. Their address is Mr. & Mrs. Clare Meters, 525 Adams Ave. Cape Canaveral Fl. 32920.
I hope everone is .ok. Daddy uses the walker if he is walking a little piece. It does help some. We are still going to the dinners 2 or 3 times a week. Don't know how long Nelson will go, He gets so tired. Love Mother & Daddy..
END OF MY MOTHERS WRITINGS, BEGINNING OF MY WRITINGS
My life began as best as I can remember on my grandfather Archie’s farm. I seem to remember playing there in the yard, but I also saw this in photos, which is what I remember. I was born in the small town of Falmouth Kentucky on the 27th of January 1932, in my grandfather’s house on Chapel Street next to the movie theater (one of two in the town of 2000 people). We lived on farms most of my juvenile life. My mother and father lived in Covington Kentucky when they first married. My mother worked at 5th third bank and my father worked at a ford repair shop as a mechanic. The depression caused them to move to Falmouth. Soon after that they moved to my grandfathers farm in order to survive. They milked cows and my father carried the cans of milk on a sled pulled by a horse to the main road about a mile away. I seem to remember that. My brother was born on that farm the 5th of October 1933. When things got better my father got a job delivering soft drinks. We were living on Shelby Street in the west end of Falmouth. Friends on Shelby Street were the Waddell boys, Oliver and Frank, the Chipman's, Sonny and Bob, the Ballinger’s, Margie and Midge, Betty Joe McCardwell. We played on the streets and on the river, which was not far from home. We played kick the can and other night time games. One time I had 22 rifle shots and I knew if I heated them they would explode, well I put the shells in a piece of paper and set it on fire and it worked very well till one time it didn't explode and I had to see what happened, well of-course when I walked up to the paper and reached down it exploded, I was lucky and it only burned my right thumb. I was always fascinated with guns at the time and I would get my fathers 22 rifle when he was gone and shoot it for the fun of it.
My mother would take us to church on Sunday. My father would go on Easter. What I remember most about that was the violent arguments that they had during church. It was probably about getting a new pastor or getting rid of the old pastor.
In 1938 they bought a new Plymouth automobile. Things were good. I became aware of my father drinking a lot (alcohol). He would come home drunk and it was best to be very careful what you said or did because if he didn't like it you may have gotten whipped. He would also verbally abuse my mother. Divorce was not a thing to do in those days; I could never understand how she stayed with him.
When the war started we moved to Norwood Ohio. I was about eleven years old. He (my father) worked at Wright Aeronautical, as a security guard, they made engines for aircraft like the B-17, and the B-24 bombers. The effort to move to Norwood was two fold, one was for the money and the second was to avoid the draft. Getting a job in a defense plant meant a deferment from the draft and he didn’t want to go into the military. He had many friends that had joined or was drafted and they did not come back. One I remember was John Will Ballinger; he was also a good friend of the family. It was here that I took trumpet lessons and learning to swim at the YMCA. I also joined the boy scouts but didn’t go far because we moved and scouts was not offered in Butlerville, O. I was first introduced to the guitar in Norwood. A friend offered to teach and I remembered learning the song by Hank Snow, Theres A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere. I seemed to never forget those words or the melody, they were very patriotic times. My father tried to get me to swim in the river at Falmouth but I did not like that. The old school learns to swim by throwing you in the river.
After living in Norwood for a while we had enough money to buy a farm in Butlerville, Ohio, so we moved there and I continued schooling there. Memories of that place were good. I won the marble championship at the school. That game was conducted in a ten-foot diameter ring and you shot from the edge and if you knocked out a marble you could continue shooting from that location until you missed. During the summer I worked in the hay fields pitching hay. We had a cow, which I learned to milk and we had a lot of sheep but did little farming. I had a pet ram and we had a tractor, a Ford Ferguson that was a step above a farm in Kentucky because it was a flat farm. The hills in Kentucky was not a good place for a tractor and horses were used except in the bottomland that we never owned. We would swim in a creek pond at a small waterfall and I remember that we had to share the swimming hole with the snakes. During the fall when the corn was ready to be picked I worked for a man with the name of Greisinger. Maybe my brother also worked but I remember it was a muddy field and the conditions were not good. Greisinger was probably a gentleman farmer and he used to swim 25-mile marathons in New York. They would feed us lunch and the sandwiches were beef tongue. We played a lot of baseball. We would hitch hike to a larger town, Blanchester, to see a movie. I remember pretty girls there and in Butlerville. I was twelve to fourteen years old.
After the war the defense plants closed and we sold the farm and moved back to Kentucky. We lived for a while very close to the Licking River in Falmouth where I continued to trap for varmints in the area. I trapped mink, maybe two and skunks and muskrats. I learned to trap in Ohio and was determined to move to the great north woods and trap for a living. I didn’t know exactly where that was but I was sure there were many animals to trap and sell the pelts. So much for a kids visions and San Diego is not the North Woods.
My father bought a farm on the Lenoxburg road a number of miles from Falmouth. I hated that farm. It was very stretched out and I always had to get the cows for milking and they always was at the far end of the farm. We had a razor-backed mule that I rode to get the cows. The other thing that happened was we didn’t have a tractor and my father bought a team of horses. That day I cried because I didn’t like the horses. I can’t remember where we were when we were in the field trying to catch the horses and the horse kicked my father and hurt him so bad that his ribs were broke. I never forgot that day but I couldn’t remember where we were.
I was about to go to high school and I had to ride a bus to school. I wanted to play baseball and butler the high school didn’t have a baseball team but for that year I made the varsity basketball team. I liked that but I wanted to play baseball and the only way I was going to be able to do that was to move to Falmouth where they had a team and I would live with my grandmother and grandfather. That was not too bad, my grandparents did not smoke or drink and were churchgoers. A lot better than my father but my mother was always good to David and myself. It was during this time we learned to smoke and drink beer. We had to drive to the nearby Campbell County bars where we knew the owners and we could drink beer. All the ballplayers were welcome everyone knew the players. That is where you learned to drive drunk in order to get back alive. We always made it with few accidents and no fatalities. You could buy beer in Falmouth but because it was a dry county you had to get it from a bootlegger. The county was voted dry because the bootlegger and the Christians wanted to outlaw alcohol. And they did. Today the town is wet and the bootleggers do not exist and the Christians can get their liquor legally. They don’t have to drive into the next county to get it. There are maybe two bars in Falmouth and very few people in them but when we go there we always go to the bars. I worked one summer constructing highway 27 shoulders as a laborer, Bill Coleman drove the truck and I drove the shovel.
PLACES I WENT TO SCHOOL
SEPT 1937 JUNE 1943 FALMOUTH GRADE SCHOOL
SEPT 1943 JUNE 1944 NORWOOD VIEW GRADE SCHOOL, NORWOOD, OHIO
SEPT 1944 JUNE 1945 BUTLERVILLE GRADE SCHOOL, BUTLERVILLE, OHIO
SEPT 1945 JUNE 1946 BLANCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL, BLANCHESTER, OHIO
SEPT 1946 JUNE 1947 FALMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL, FALMOUTH, KY.
SEPT 1947 JUNE 1948 BUTLER HIGH SCHOOL, BUTLER , KY.
SEPT 1948 JUNE 1949 FALMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL, FALMOUTH, KY
SEPT 1949 JAN 1950 UNIV. OF KY EXTENSION, COVINGTON, KY
JAN 1950 JUNE 1950 UNIV OF KY, LEXINGTON, KY
SEPT 1955 JAN 1960 UNIV OF KY, LEXINGTON, KY
PLACES I HAVE LIVED, ADDRESSES
JAN 1937 SEPT 1943 FALMOUTH, KY (WEST END TOWARDS THE HIGHWAY 27
SEPT 1943 JUNE 1944 5226 RALSTON AVE. NORWOOD, OHIO
JUNE 1944 JUNE 1946 BUTLERVILLE, OHIO FARM OUTSIDE TOWN
JUNE 1946 JUNE 1947 FALMOUTH, KY
JUNE 1947 JUNE 1948 BUTLER, KY RR#1
JUNE 1948 JUNE 1949 FALMOUTH, KY
JUNE 1949 JAN 1950 COVINGTON, KY
JAN 1950 JUNE 1950 BRECKENRIDGE HALL, UNIV OF KY, LEXINGTON, KY
JUNE 1950 MARCH 1951 NORWOOD, OHIO
MARCH 1951 OCT 1953 MILITARY SERVICE USAF
OCT 1953 SEPT 1955 3110 WOODBURN AVE, CINCINNATI, OHIO
SEPT 1955 JUNE 1956 KINCAID HALL, UNIV OF KY, LEXINGTON, KY
JUNE 1956 JULY 1956 3110 WOODBURN AVE, CINCINNATI,OHIO
JULY 1956 AUG 1956 SPANISH TRAIL MOTEL, TUCSON, ARIZONA
AUG 1956 DEC 1956 SIDNEY APTS, SIOUX CITY, IOWA
JAN 1957 JUNE 1959 600 GIBSON AVE, LEXINGTON, KY
JUNE 1959 SEPT 1959 4006 ROSSLYN DRIVE, CINCINNATI, OHIO
SEPT 1959 JAN 1960 600 GIBSON AVE, LEXINGTON, KY
JAN 1960 SEPT 1960 3804 MERRIMAC AVE, SAN DIEGO 17, CALIF
JAN 1960 SEPT 1961 3073 JEMEZ AVE SAN DIEGO CALIF.
SEPT 1960 APRIL 1963 3073 JEMEZ AVE, SAN DIEGO, CALIF.
APRIL 1963 NOV 2001 3046 BRIAND AVE, SAN DIEGO 92122
NOV 2001 PRESENT 3046 H STREET, RAMONA, CALIF 92065
PLACES I HAVE WORKED
JUNE 1949 JUNE 1950 BUS BOY, KENWOOD COUNTRY CLUB, CIN. OHIO
JUNE 1950 MARCH 1951 ASSEMBLER, GENERAL MOTORS, NORWOOD OHIO
MARCH 1951 OCT 1953 MILITARY SERVICE, USAF
OCT 1953 JAN 1954 HELPER, CINCINNATI AIRCRAFT
JAN 1954 SEPT 1955 ELECTRONICS TECH GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. CAASS
SEPT 1955 JUNE 1956 STUDENT
JUNE 1956 JAN 1957 ELECT TECH GENERAL ELECTRIC CO, NORWOOD OHIO
JAN 1957 JAN 1960 STUDENT
JAN 1960 RETIREMENT CONVIAR ASTRONAUTICS AND GENERAL ATOMICS AND IRT CORP AND MAXWELL LABS
CREW OF B-29 DURING MILITARY SERVICE, USAF
A/C OWENS, HUGH S. CAPTIAN, MICHIGAN
PILOT FARLOW, RICHARD S. CAPTIAN, CALIF
NAVIGATOR, APPLEBY, DONALD B. 1st LT. NEW YORK
BOMBADIER, GREGORY, BILLY CAPTIAN, OHIO
RADAR, KING, WILLIAM J., 2nd LT, TEXAS (TEXARKANSAS)
ENGINEER, CRISMAN CLARENCE N., SGT, VIRGINA
GUNNER, HANSEN, JAMES V., CPL., WASHINGTON
GUNNER, SWANSON, RICHARD, H. CPL, MINESOTA
GUNNER, MEAD, CARLTON D. CPL, NEW HAMPSHIRE
GUNNER, RODNEY GALLOWAY CPL, KENTUCKY
RADIO, MEAD, PETER, B. PFC, VERMONT
RULES OR MORALS TO LIVE BY
6-23-1999
1. DO NOT KILL FELLOW HUMANS.
2. DO NOT DO BODILY HARM TO FELLOW HUMANS.
3. DO NOT STEAL FROM YOUR FELLOW HUMANS.
4. DO NOT HAVE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE PRIOR TO MARRIAGE.
5. IF YOU DO HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS USE CONTRACEPTIVES, PRACTICE SAFE SEX AND DO NOT PRODUCE UNWANTED BABIES. DO NOT ALLOW A VENEREAL DISEASE OR AIDS TO CONTROL YOUR LIFE.
6. TREAT YOUR FELLOW HUMAN BEING WITH RESPECT, DO NOT ALLOW RACE COLOR OR RELIGION TO INFLUENCE YOUR LIFE STYLE.
7. DO NOT ALLOW DRUGS TO DOMINATE YOUR LIFE, INCLUDING MIND ALTERING DRUGS, ALCOHOL, TOBACCO. ALWAYS MAINTAIN CONTROL OF YOUR ACTIONS.
8. DO NOT ALLOW GAMBLING TO DOMINATE YOUR LIFE.
9. MAINTAIN YOURSELF PHYSICAL FIT AND MORALLY STRAIGHT.
10. DO NOT USE LANGUAGE THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOUR FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES OR OTHER PEOPLE THAT MAY OVERHEAR YOUR WORDS.
11. DO NOT ACT OR DRIVE IRRESPONSIBLY, MAINTAIN POSITIVE CONTROL.
12. LIVE BY THE LAWS OF THE LAND WHERE YOU RESIDE.
13. CHANGE THE LAWS BY THE MEANS THAT ARE ALLOWED BY LAW.
14. DO NOT ACCEPT BRIBES.
15. BE A GOOD CITIZEN, HELP YOUR COMMUNITY, YOUR CITY, YOUR STATE, YOUR COUNTRY.
16. BE KIND TO ANIMALS, INSECTS AND EXTRATRESTRIALS.
17 DO NOT LIE OR BE SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE NOT.
18.....
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EXCEPTIONS
RULE ONE DOES NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE THE PRESIDENT OF A COUNTRY WITH A LARGE MILITARY THAT DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO,,, THEN YOU CAN INVADE SMALL COUNTRIES AND KILL AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN IN A SHORT TIME WITH WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION...
POLITICIANS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO FOLLOW RULE 14. AND 17. VERBATIM...
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ROD GALLOWAY 6/23/99
FRED HOCTOR
c/o WESTERN OUTDOORS
P.O. BOX 469011
ESCONDIDO,CA. 92046-9011
HELLO FRED:
IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE WE HAVE HEARD FROM YOU. I SAW YOUR ARTICLE IN WESTERN OUTDOORS ABOUT THE TUNA FEEDING FRENZY AT LA BUFFADORA. I WAS IN THE BARBER SHOP WHEN I READ IT AND I THOUGHT THAT SOUNDED LIKE FRED,, MAYBE A LITTLE HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT I ENJOYED THE READING. GIVE US A CALL AND LET US KNOW HOW WE CAN REACH YOU.
OUR PHONE IS LISTED IN THE BOOK, 619 455 5347 AND WE STILL LIVE AT 3046 BRIAND AVE, S.D. CA. 92122. RODJAN@AOL.COM
AS EVER
ROD & JAN GALLOWAY
DEAR BOB PUGLIA
I THOUGHT YOUR RECORDING WAS TOPS, I PLAYED IT FOR SON RODNEY AND HE THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD RECORDING. HE HAS SET UP A RECORDING ROOM IN HIS HOUSE IN LAKE MORENO AND HE HAS BEEN TRING TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE A GOOD RECORDING. I TOOK A CLASS IN “ELECTRONIC MUSIC” AT THE LOCAL JR. COLLEGE AND IT IS VERY COMPLICATED TO RECORD AND GET GOOD QUALITY. YOUR FRIENDS MUST HAVE A NICE STUDIO.
SEND ME THE NEXT ONE BEFORE IT GETS TO BE ON THE TOP 10.
ROD GALLOWAY
My travels to Chicago (FICTION)
4/21/03
About a month ago I was flying to Chicago seated next to my
Husband, Bob. Bobs sister and her husband Henry was seated in
Back of us on the plane. We lived in the suburbs of Nashville
and we were neighbors. Bob was a good-looking fellow and he
Worked as a truck driver. His sister Jane worked at the local
diner and Henry were out of work and on unemployment. He was
A drunk and spent most of his time drinking beer
Life was simple in our little village. Most of the people had
graduated from high school and the rule of the day was to
have a good time.
We had been invited to Chicago to appear on the Jerry Austin TV
show. That’s the show that exploits peoples weakness and misgivings of there everyday lives. I had called the show and explained that I was having an affair with my husband’s sister. I was going to confront bob and tell him about the affair but none of the participants knew why we were going to Chicago, only that I had entered a contest and won four seats to Chicago including the hotel and meals. I also told them we had tickets to the Jerry Austin show. I usually watched the weekday show and thought it was good entertainment.
Bob and I had been married for two years and things were going good but he was away from home most of the time. He made good money and I did not have a job. Two or three nights a week Jane, Henry and I would go to the local dance bar and drink some beer, dance and sing karaoke. Occasionally bob would go with us when he was in town. I would dance with bob when he was there but when he was on the road I would dance with Jane. Henry was usually not up to dancing so I would dance with bob or Jane. One night we had drank too much, bob was out of town and Henry was practically passed out. We went home and dropped Henry off and I suggested Jane come over to my place and have some coffee. I put a record on by hank snow and when cheating heart started playing I asked Jane to dance and we did. Sometimes when we danced to a slow dance we would get real close and sometimes too close. It would get me excited and I could tell that Jane also liked it. That night one thing leads to another drinking and dancing and we ended up in bed. I had never had a sexual relation with a woman and Jane had not either. I found it very enjoyable and noted bob had never made me feel like that, but it was different and Jane said Henry and her had tried that kind of pleasure but usually he was drunk and not too interested. Whenever bob was on the road this little rendezvous would occur and we looked forward to the nights we could get together.
Jane suggested that we should have a threesome with Henry and I agreed after some sole searching. So about four months after we started this I decided to tell bob and try and get him involved and maybe have a foursome.
While I watched the Jerry Austin show a few days later they asked if you had a sexual experience that you wanted to reveal to your mate all you had to do was call the 1 800 number and be interviewed. I called the number and talked to a producer and told her the story and what I wanted to do. She got back to me and told me that they had accepted my offer and that I had to determine when we could all come to Chicago. All expenses would be paid and they would get new clothes and get our hair done all at the expense of the show.
I was thrilled about the trip to Chicago for none of us had traveled anywhere except bob and that was his job. Traveling to Chicago by plane was an experience none of us had. So I made up the story about winning the trip and the Austin show.
Bob could take some time off and Jane could also get time off from her job so I made the reservations and we were off to Chicago two weeks later. We drank beer and wine all the way to Chicago.
The hotel was a Hilton in downtown Chicago and was the most luxurious place we had ever been in. the bar was very nice and we celebrated that night and went our separate ways that night bob and I and Jane and Henry. The next morning the producer contacted us and we were off to a dress shop and we chose the best-looking dress I have ever had. Jane was thrilled also and I had to tell her that we were going to be on the show and not just attending. She assured me she would not tell bob or Henry. Back at the hotel things were moving fast for we had to be at the studio by four o’clock when the program was supposed to be taped. We ate all of our meals at the hotel and charged it to the room. Everyone thought that was just great and we drank all we could because it was also on the room.
We were anxious to go to the show so we got dressed in our new dresses and went to the front lobby where we were picked up in a limousine and driven to the studio. The producer told me to tell the men as we were on our way that we were going to be in the show, not just spectators. I told bob and Henry that we were going to be a part of the show and not just watching. Of course they asked why we would be on the show but I told them they would have to wait and find out for themselves. Bob had heard of the show but he never had many chances to see it and Henry always had something else to do instead of watching so they didn’t know what kind of people was on the show. Jane knew and I had told her what we were doing there and what I was going to tell bob and Henry.
When the show started I was on first and as the host came on the people in the audience yelled jerry, jerry, an on until he started to speak and then his stage man asked for quite. He then ask me what I was doing at the show and what was going on. I told them my husband was a truck driver and had little time for me and I had recently been having sex with his sister and her husband. He then asked why I came to the show and I told him that I wanted to tell my husband what was going on and ask him to join in and we could have a foursome and even move in with Jane and Henry. There was a little discussion about how he would take this news and I told jerry that I hoped he would accept it and go along. So jerry called out bob. He had not heard any of the conversation. He walked out on the stage and immediately began asking me what was going on and why we were here on this show. I told him that I had been having a relationship with Jane and Henry and I wanted to continue the relationship and have him join in. he was furious and said “why would I do this to him” and what was wrong with our relationship so I told him that Jane made me feel like a real woman and that he would not do the kind of things I wanted. He then told me I was a lesbian and a prostitute. I tried to calm him but he was out of control. He wanted to see Jane and Henry so Jerry brought them out. He was in a rage with Jane and wanted to fight poor Henry but the bodyguards held him back and he finally got quite. He explained that he wanted me to get out of the house and we were going to get a divorce. Needless to say I was heartbroken because I didn’t want it to turn out like this but that was how it was going to be. The show then went to a commercial and jerry had his next guest.
The ride home was not nice and we had to have the flight attendant separate our seats for the flight back to Nashville.
Today I am living with Jane and Henry. I have a job at the diner as a waitress with Jane and Henry is working as a day laborer and we all live in their double wide in the suburbs of Nashville.
Rodney Galloway
LAURA BUSHS PAIN IN THE NECK
9-9-2007
A SECOND OPINION FOR LAURA BUSHS PAIN IN THE NECK I RECCOMMEND A DIVORCE BEFORE SURGERY.
ROD
PREDICTIONS 9-15-2007
The governments predictions in the past have proved to be false so how would anyone believe their predictions in the future??
BUSH VS. KERRY 2002
I COULDN'T REMEMBER IF I RESPONDED TO YOUR QUESTION SO HERE GOES. I DON'T THINK THE ELECTION IS ABOUT KERRY, OR WHAT HE HAS DONE. I DON'T KNOW JUST WHAT THE BASHING OF BUSH IS ABOUT BUT YOU DO HEAR A LOT ABOUT THAT SUBJECT. THE ELECTION IS ABOUT WHAT LITTLE GEORGE HAS DONE SINCE HE HAS BEEN IN OFFICE. HE HAS KILLED AND OR SACRIFICED OVER 900 YOUNG AMERICANS AND CLOSE TO 20,000 CIVILIANS WHICH IS CONTRARY TO THE GENEVA CONVENTION AND HE SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR THAT ACT. BUT THEY HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE UP THE RULES AS THEY GO AND DO WHATEVER THEY WANT TO WHENEVER THEY WANT. I WOULD VOTE AGAINST KERRY IF HE HAD COMMITTED THE SAME KIND OF AUTOCRACIES.
I WOULD VOTE FOR HIS BROTHER BECAUSE HE SEEMS LIKE A RATIONAL PERSON, WELL EDUCATED AND LIKED IN FLORIDA. GEORGE IS POORLY EDUCATED, HARDLY KNOWS HOW TO WALK AND HAS FUNNY DELIVERIES AND IS NOT PRESIDENTIAL. I CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW HE WAS ELECTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. OF ALL THE SMART PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WE GOT THIS BOZO.
SO WHATEVER KERRY HAS DONE HE IS HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE GEORGE.
ROD
PATRIOTISM LOST (I DON’T REMEMBER WHEN I WROTE THIS)
When I was young the impression that was imposed on me was one that caused everyone to work for the common good. The common good was working for food, housing, charities, schools, and the good things in life, luxuries, and the good of the country, among other things. It was clear that hard work would provide the necessities of life, and thru the taxation process the infrastructure for a great country would be implemented by the state or the federal government. Getting out of High School was a sad time for it meant going to work. During the summers I worked on the farm doing tobacco, hay milking cows, castrating sheep, butchering hogs, working on the new highway, US 27 that goes thru Falmouth. High School was a fun time, playing basketball, baseball, partying, and a carefree way to spend time for time was everlasting. The world war was finished and it was clear that we would never have to fight a war again. My father didn’t have to be inducted in the military because he had an essential wartime job at Wright Aeronautical in Cincinnati as a guard. During that time there was always concern that he would be reclassified and have to go on active duty. Many of his friends were drafted and enlisted in the Army. I did not know many of them but it seemed that none of them came home. One I remembered was John W. Balinger, he died in the war. Regardless, everyone pitched in and helped with the war effort, buying savings stamps, bonds, collecting scrap of all kinds. That was the mood of the land and it was generally felt that if everyone did his or her part that we would win the war. Doing the things that would win the war was what patriotism was all about. Things that was not patriotic was stealing gasoline, getting food stamps illegally, getting gas cards that were more than your entitlement, and other things that would be a detriment to the war effort. The patriotic character never left me and today I feel emotional every time that I hear or see an unpatriotic event. As I have grown somewhat older these unpatriotic events stir me more than ever until I have found it necessary to put my thoughts on paper in an effort to stem the rush to an unpatriotic country.
A poor political situation would show up occasionally and I would immediately think that was an unpatrtotic happening and I would try and avoid the problem. One of the first situations that I learned about growing up in Kentucky was that if you were a registered Republican you could not get a job with the state. My grandfather a staunch Republican, and a farmer, he finally got a job with the state when a Republican was elected governor. He worked for four years until the next Democrat was elected. That was probably the only Republican that was elected during his lifetime. When I became of age I was quick to register Democrat even though I would probably never apply for a job with the state because of the tentative nature of the work. Working as a busboy in order to make enough money to go to the university I had the opportunity to see many people that had lots of money but I was never impressed that making a lot of money was a thing to dedicate my life. I was also sure that having a lot of money was not a thing that would ever be part of my life. I worked at a night club in Newport, Kentucky, the Glenn Rendezvous and the town was an open town, gambling was wide spread. Later I worked at the Kenwood Country Club, was in love with a members daughter (a big paper company in Cincinnati). They didn’t think I was a good match for her. The country club was in northern Cincinnati. Ray Tewell my cousin worked with me and his uncle Russell was the head- waiter and the reason we got the job. It took about two hours on the bus and trolley to get to work from my grandma Steven’s house in Latonia, Kentucky. I remember watching television across the street from her house, a local bar and deli, the only thing on during those times was wrestling and wrestlers that had Mohawk haircuts.
Working in the Chevrolet assembly plant would provide more money. I installed a steering bracket under the left front fender and a bolt on the left side of the rear bumper bracket. After approximately six months the Korean War started and the second shift was terminated and I was looking down the road as being drafted into the Army. I was sure I didn't want to go in the Army and my father said the best duty would be in the Navy. I tried to enlist in the Navy but was rejected. The day of the physical for the navy I had to get up very early and drive to Cincinnati and then wait in line until they opened. They only took 20 each day and there were a lot of people trying to avoid the draft. By the time I was taken in for the physical I didn’t feel so good and during the physical I passed out. Well that was the end of my Navy career they didn’t want people that would pass-out and they had plenty of volunteers that didn’t want to be on the ground in the “god forsaken country of Korea”. I volunteered for the Air Force and was accepted.
After World War II I learned to be a gunner because of all the war movies about the B-17 and the B-24 bombers, so I volunteered for that duty. It was always clear to me that the patriotic thing to do was enlist and get the war over as soon as possible but above all avoid the draft and a ground war in Korea. Well volunteering for being a gunner in a B-29 also put me in the shooting war, but an air war and it was a “heroic thing to do”
The USAF was a good experience for me I met a lot of people but the majority of people were alcoholics, criminals and whoremongers. At that time if you got in trouble with the law you could have chose the go to jail or go into the military, most chose the military. I was a poor student in 1-12 school and I think I just was not interested and did what I had to just to get by. My parents just wanted to know when I received a report card “did you pass” and that was the criteria for success. Well that was easy and I really wanted to play baseball and basketball. And then when we were able to drive to Campbell County we would go and drink beer. Any way the military gave me some direction and I was going to schools for mechanics of the turret systems and after the mechanic schools we were ask if we wanted to learn to be gunners on the B-29. Well I couldn’t have asked for a better thing after all my WWll movies showing the gunners of the B-17 and B-24 I was ready for that experience. I didn’t even think about the fact that I would eventually end up in Japan flying into Korea in a hostile war and participating in the nighttime bombing of North Korea. That was the thing I was trying to avoid by joining the USAF. Getting drafted was a sure indication you would end up in Korea fighting on the ground in poor conditions. Many of my friends did just that. Flying was a lot easier because you were only in North Korea for a short time during each mission but you were getting shot at during that time.
During the training for being on a flight crew we flew many hours at Denver, Randolph AFB in San Antonia, Lake Charles La. and a base in Kansas. At Lake Charles the crew broke up because the aircraft commander’s wife was going to have a baby and he could not go into combat with that situation, a good way to avoid the war. The remaining crew became spare and was finally sent to Okinawa or Japan. The disposition to Japan took some time and I became bored and while waiting for an assignment I was asked if I would like to go to pilot’s training and I accepted, but before I could get started orders came for me to go to Japan and I accepted, probably a mistake because getting a pilot’s training was worth a lot and going to Japan was not worth much more that a good time. That was what happened and I flew once a month, night missions, to get in my flight time and make a penetration into North Korea. The remainder of the time I played with the girls and drank beer. I liked it so well I didn’t want to leave and I avoided going back to the states for a month. They finally caught up with me and I had to go to the states and on to Savannah AFB in Georgia where I stayed doing pretty much as I did in Japan. Savannah was a B-50 base but we were trained in B-29’s, B-50’s and B-26’s. I didn’t get to fly in a B-26 but that would have been a good experience. While at Savannah I went back to Denver and trained in the gunnery system for the B-36, getting ready for the next war after we lost the war in Korea. The B29, B50’s were being phased out. I didn’t get to fly on the B-36 because the Korean War (police action) ended and that was when Dwight Eisenhower as president let out the personnel that were not critical and I got out. They had not changed my AFSC (air force specialty classification) to the B-36 so I had a choice of getting out and going to school with the GI bill or staying in and become an alcoholic and live a short life.
Two years, six months, and twenty-nine days after I had enlisted I was discharged, thanks to Dwight Eisenhower, the President, and most important I had a GI bill that would get me a degree from the University (of Kentucky), I wouldn’t have even considered going anywhere else. Tution was $51 per semister. After completing the requirements for a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, getting married to Janet lee a 16 or 17 year old beauty, having children Monica Sue and Rodney Jr., plus one on the way which was to be named Lezlie Irene after my grandmother we moved to San Diego to start a new life. My mother suggested Monica’s name. The assets that we had to move to California were an Automatic clothes washer, cooking equipment, schoolbooks and some clothes, no money. Very little money for when we graduated we sold the trailer, a 32-foot Fleetwood. Bought a Plymouth station wagon and pulled a trailer (must have rented it) to San Diego.
While I was going to school money was tight, I worked washing cars, helping the maintenance man at the trailer park clean backed up sewers, and Janet worked at the telephone company. I borrowed $200 from the school and when I ran out of money they wouldn’t let me have any more. I’ll never let them forget that. My father wouldn’t loan any money unless he was sure of getting it back and I was not a good risk. One summer after we were married I worked with General Electric Co. that was also where I worked when I met Janet. I was on a traveling maintenance team that was maintaining the fuel control system on the F86D fighter aircraft. The civilian team was sent out to a number of air bases in order to show the Air Force that if the aircraft were maintained properly it would fly well. That proved to be true and today you will see many civilians doing maintenance on all kinds of electronics for the military. We first went to Los Angles driving a 1949 Chevy, got a briefing and then we were off to Tuscon Arizona and Davis Monthan AFB where we stayed in the Spanish Trail Motel. It was so hot that Janet would not get out of the motel during the daytime. After Tuscon we moved on to Souix City, Iowa where it was getting on into winter and cold weather, very cold weather the snow falls sideways in Iowa. Janet was getting along with the pregnancy and went back to Cincinnati. I must have gotten back before the delivery. Rodney was born in Lexington and after the delivery I went to the football game.
The requirements at the university were difficult and I had to work very hard to meet the requirements for graduation. The real problem was that I was not a very good student as far as learning was concerned and I went to a country school that did not prepare you for college very well. I don’t think we were given Plain Geometry and very little algebra, anyway during the first semester as a freshman I had to do catch up and that required me to take college algebra, solid geometry and trigonometry along with chemistry and physics for engineers. The remaining years at school was high intensity but I got thru it and after completing the requirements for the BSEE
I got a job with General Dynamics Astronautics in San Diego. It was a time when engineers were in high demand and we had many choices as to which company to work for. The work at Astronautics was doing environmental testing on the Programmer and the Servo Amplifier that guided the Atlas and Centaur missles. The task was to build the test equipment and the conduct the tests. The environments were temperature, altitude, humidity, vibration, acceleration, shock and radio frequency interference. One interesting job while at Astro was flying in a converted 707 at Wright Patterson AFB doing zero gravity experiments. While the centaur missile was in development the question came up about where the fuel was during zero gravity flights, which the centaur was involved. The fuel was liquid hydrogen and it was important to know what the boiling characteristics were during the zero G flights. So that was the experiment to fly a simulated parabolic arc and create the environment. The test was to test the boiling characteristics of liquid hydrogen in a zero G environment. Hydrogen a very dangerous gas was tested with a self contained capsule on an umbilical about 2 by 3 feet cylinder that had its own power supply and a dewar (a dewar is a thermos bottle) that contained the liquid hydrogen and a thin film glass plate with a resistive coating that was heated to boil the hydrogen and a movie camera would look thru the duer and photograph the plate and the effect from the boiling. The experiment took place in a large balloon shaped area that housed the experiment and two persons that did the routine work for the test. They were on oxygen and their exhaled breath contains enough oxygen that would finally reach an explosive mixture and had to be purged frequently. A flying bomb. I had the job of watching the experiment out of the bag thru an electrical link and I could control and shutoff the experiment before the resistive plate burned up. The big requirement was that you had to fly these trajectories repeatedly and not get airsick. So a number of volunteers went to Wright Pat AFB and flew, the ones that got sick went back to San Diego. I had flown a lot in the military so it didn’t affect me.
In San Diego we lived in a duplex on Merrimac Ave and Jemez Ave in Clarimont before moving to University City on October 31 1964, where we lived until 2001 and then to Ramona.
I really liked that 1949 Chevrolet and while working at General Atomics at Torrey Pines I bought one from a friend for $50. Except that the radiator leaked so bad I had just enough water to get to work and then fill it up at work in order to get home. The starter did not work so I had to start it on a hill at home and at work. I could always get to where I was going and I finally sold it for $50.
After a few years at the Astronautics Division I transferred to General Atomics and worked with the radiation effects group headed by Dr. Victor van Lint and that was where I got a good education. Most of the employees were PhD’s. We built all kinds of equipment mostly for the nuclear underground testing at the Nevada test site. It was always work, work, and work. We would go to the test site and work full time or work all week in San Diego and go to the test site for the weekend work, flying into and out of Las Vegas. When we stayed at the test site we would rent a car and every one would ride to the site from San Diego.
I did a lot of testing for radiation effects and we did work for storage of spent nuclear materials, measurement instruments that went into space. It was a good time and we had many good experiences. (I will write more later)
All the “kids” graduated from UCSD with non-technical degrees and they have all done very well a family to be proud of. Janet became a Vice President at San Diego Trust & Savings Bank, Wells Fargo, First Interstate bank and Scripps Bank. She made good money and after I was retired kept the ball rolling until we both retired.
Monica has since became a Paralegal, and got a law degree. After she graduated from UCSD with a communications degree she worked at Mervyns as a seamstress that is how all lawyers start out. She is now a Staff Attorney for the Superior Court in San Diego and has been doing the research for that court for the past eight years. She is married to Kevin Barry, an aerospace engineer with General Atomics working on the predator unmaned aircraft. They both have property in Ireland, Rosemond, Calif.,and two rental properties in Kauai, Hi, and they live in Rancho Penuscitous a village in San Diego.
Rodney got a start in selling insurance and has since started selling real estate with a family of two wives and a son Chet and a daughter Johana. Rodney was married to Cindy, Chet’s mother and to Elizabeth, Johana’s mother he is currently getting single.
Lezlie had lots of jobs, always thinking she knew better how to run the company. Finally started answering the phone for the Governor Wilson at the San Diego headquarters and after he was elected she went to Sacramento and worked with the chief of staff (name). She met David Puglia and got married and subsequently had a set of twins Nick Robert and Ben Rodney. She now works for the state fair after working for the state lottery, jobs at the pleasure of the governor and subsequently for her own company as a fund raiser. I hope she likes the management. Dave works for Western Growers as a lobbyist. Members of Western Growers do not get subsidies. They have had a number of houses in and around the Sacramento area.
During the time we lived in San Diego I did a lot of work gardening both in dirt and in water using hydroponics techniques. I would plant various trees and vegetables, did some canning of fruit for jelly and jam’s. Growing herbs for seasonings but most of the time we didn’t use much of what I grew. Sometimes the kids would peddle the crops in the University City street where we lived.
Today we live in Ramona California in a 1700 sq ft town house, kind of country and city mix. In the small space I have I grow as much as I can. I also chose to have a small outside yard and not to have a large house. We downsized. After I was out of a job and needed something to do, I had a lot of plants in University City but when son Rodney came to me to cosign for a house that he and Cindy could live with son Chet, I finally decided to build a house in the country where they wanted to live. We found a 9-acre lot near Campo and proceeded to build a house. We bought the lot with the provision we could drill and find enough water that they would allow for a house. About $10,000 later and maybe 5 gallons of water per minute we consummated the land purchase. I had in the meantime had designed the house on a computer in the UC house and had the plans approved and got all the permits required to build. The house was a two story with 2200 sq ft on each floor but the bottom floor was unfinished to reduce the amount of taxes. The house had a deck that ran the length on the southside overlooking the old railroad track and the Campo valley with the mountians of Mexico on the southern horizon. The start of construction required grading and I was determined to do it myself so I rented a bobcat and pulled it up the mountain behind my 150 Ford truck. Burned up the transmission and I think the engine but started the grading, changed the plans a few times and finally got a guy to help and dig the footings for the house. Cindy’s father and brother were carpenters and the came to San Diego to help build the house. I paid them for their work and they lived with Rodney and Cindy in Pine Valley during the construction. I got subcontractors for the specialty jobs, concrete, electrical, plumbing, insulation, drywall, septic but we did most of the other work. Billy Ball’s boy Leif did the electrical and an apprentice plumber that Rodney knew did the plumbing both with me watching closely. I bought a lot of the material from the lumber store in Campo, the owner was Joann. I drove to the site almost every day for six months, 60 miles each way and almost every day I would go to Home Depot and pickup supplies. I had to be there at 8 o’clock and stay till 5 each workday. A good experience but I would let someone else do the work next time. Rodney, Cindy and Chet moved in on the first of June (year) and Cindy moved out the end of that month. I was devastated after all the work I did. I did want to build a house and got that behind me. I would have moved in the house but Janet didn’t want to live in the country. Today the property is worth a lot.
We have traveled to many places and I will try and list them below.
Mexico 1st trip was to Tijuana and to Rosarita and the Rosarita Beach Hotel and to Encenada. Other trips to San Felipe and El Gulfo with the Kemps a classmate from high school and a pharmist in Brawley. Later a train trip from Mexicali to Guadalajara with stops at Guaymas. Stayed in a grand old hotel in Guadalajara and left on a bus to San Blas on the Pacific coast. We ate fish from the local fishermen. The return to Mexicali on a 4 star bus, very nice and very fast with two drivers. Another trip was to Playa Blanca a Club Med on the Pacific coast close to Manzanio. From there we went to Mexico City and suffered from bad food at the club. Saw Mexico City got well and went on to Palenque to visit the ruins. Landed in Villhermosa in a huge rain storm, rented a VW bug and drove to the ruins and spent the night, cock roaches everywhere in the motel room, visited the ruins and headed back to Villhermosa where it was still raining and the city was being flooded. There was no rain at the ruins. The airport was closed and we went to the bus station thinking we would get a bus to Merida, the next stop on the trip. It was the day of the dead and the southbound busses were all full so we decided to wait for a bus. The rain did not let up and the depot flooded with thigh deep water. The next day we waded out to a hotel lobby and dried out. We left a suitcase full of clothes in the depot and walked out of the depot in chest deep water with the remaining suitcases over our heads. A Dutch salesman, a German doctor and a Jewish doctor accompanied us with their wives. Later the next day the airport reopened and we flew out to Merida. Visited the ruins around Merida, there are lots of them. There must have been a hurricane in the area to have caused all that rain but during thoes days we didn’t have weather satilites to locate bad weather.
Other trips to Belize, Windy Hill Hotel and Ambergris Key, on a dive boat off the coast of Belize with a group from U. of Kentucky sponsored by a coal miner. The basketball team had just won the NCAA championship.
Another trip was to Cozumel and my first dive after I got certified.
Visits to Costa Rica for investing and to see the country.
Cruises from Florida to Aruba, then to the Panama Canal and to Costa Rica, Mazatlan, Cabo San Lucas and then to San Diego.
Flights to Paris, train to Madrid, the south of Spain and on to Barcelona and then by train to Edinburgh, Scotland, ferried to Ireland and visited the Barry house near Cork at Passage and then ferried to France and back to Paris and the flight to San Diego.
The first around the world trip took us to Raratonga, the capital of the Cook Islands, then to Fiji and on to New Zealand, train from Auckland Christchurch with a stop in Wellington. Then to Brisbane and a train to Sidney and on to Melbourne. A flight to Perth and a visit with Janet’s nephew Joey, Ronnie’s son. A flight to Bangkok, Thyland and a hotel on the river, most of the travel was on the river and with a cab driver that we employed for a few days. Then flights to Athens, Rome, Madrid, bought a Ramirez guitar and flew to Dublin and again visited the Barry house and his cousins. Met with the Parkers in Dublin an unusual meeting. Then on to San Diego.
A recent trip to South America starting in New Orleans and then to a Caribbean cruise to five islands from Puerto Rica, then to Caracas, Venezuela and then to Manaus, Brazil, Sao Paulo, the falls at Iguasas and then to Rio de Janeiro, then to Buenos Aries, then a flight to Santiago, Chile and on to Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales on the southern tip of Chile, tours of the state park and a boat tour to the glaciers, back to Santiago and a flight to Quito Ecuador via Peru, then to the Galapagos Islands and a tour on a boat that looked like Columbus used to discover the Americas for a week. I was glad to get off the boat. I started the beard because they didn’t have hot water on the boat. We then flew back to Quito and then to Miami and on to Orlando and a few days visit with my brother and his new Costa Rican wife Alisa and then to San Diego.
Driving trips within the states were many to Cincinnati, Kentucky, Renfro Valley, Mammoth Cave, Florida to Orlando and other cities, up the coast to Vermont and Rhode Island, into Canada, Niagara Falls and back to Cincinnati and to San Diego.
Driving to Oregon and visiting the Colbert’s and then on to Yellowstone and visiting the radio operator from our flight crew when I was in the military, Peter B. Meade in Jackson Hole, Wyoming then to Red Lodge in Montana to visit UC neighbors that moved to Red Lodge, they weren’t home then back to San Diego.
Another trip we went to Seattle, rented a car and drove the southern road to the Columbia River and down the river in Washington and visited the dams and picked blackberries along the way
Visits to Sacramento to visit the Puglias and the grandkids. Other visits to Phoenix to visit Billy and Lana Ball.
Sometimes-in Cincinnati and drive to Florida and visit the Kantmans in Huntsville Alabama.
We did a lot of skiing at Mammoth, Big Bear, Heavenly Valley, Whistler in Canada, Banff and Lake Louise, Park City, and Vail, Colorado.
Since that time I have made an around the world trip, solo and Janet and I have gone around the world on the QE2. that cruise took almost 4 months before we got back home. More of the traveling will be put on a blog named rodjanrg_vacations@blogspot.com .
Recently I discovered I had stomach cancer and was taken to the emergency ward in Poway after I passed out and threw up a large amount of blood. With an endoscope the doctors discovered two ulcers and a 5 mm growth that was biopsies as stomach cancer. A week or so later I went to the hospital; Sharp on Kearney Mesa and my stomach was removed. A rather traumatic experience but I was soon at home, recovering and when I had recovered some of my strength we started going to Escondido and I received radiation to my chest area because the doctors thought they could not get all of the cancer. That lasted a few weeks and then I couldn’t eat food so I was put on a feeding tube and injected with a syringe nutrients directly thru a hole in my abdomen and into the small intestine. We did this for the next 6-7 months every two waking hours. After I was able to eat again the food tasted somewhat strange as I remembered and it took a while to get back to “normal”. I have to eat frequently, sleep on a ramp to keep the food from coming up into my mouth and choking me. You get used to these things and you don’t have any stomach problems. Wine does not taste good and I don’t drink much. My vitals are very good, blood pressure, PSA, cholestral, weight, 155# from 260#. Slowly gaining strength thru exercize.
The surgeon, Manley told me shortly after the operation and I was able to listen that he gave me 6 months, chew your food good, and sleep on a ramp. A year or so later I went back to him to remove a #30 test line about 12 inches long that had worked its way out of my abdomen. Early in 2007 Manley corrected a hernia by inserting a screen in my lower right groin.
Areas that are repugnant and unpatriotic are listed below in no order:
Farm subsidies
Welfare fraud
Liberal welfare policies
Grants to schools for frivolous programs
Grants to companies for frivolous programs
Politicians that are taking kickbacks
Citizens that provide the kickbacks
Rich politicians that insist that the community’s workers are underpaid.
Rich citizens that feel the teachers, police, and the firefighters are underpaid but never seem to know what salary is adequate. Almost like they feel ashamed that they have so much and in order to pay there dues they can proclaim an injustice to those groups. They do not realize that they are a small pea in the sea and the majority must pay for their share. Teachers that seem to think the world’s problems would be solved if they were paid more money, not knowing of course how much that is or thinking that they are priceless and the world owes them a living.
The following are writings that I have written mostly about the Iraq war and other pet peeves that have bothered me during my life. In chronological order.
PLACES I WENT TO SCHOOL
SEPT 1937 JUNE 1943 FALMOUTH GRADE SCHOOL
SEPT 1943 JUNE 1944 NORWOOD VIEW GRADE SCHOOL, NORWOOD, OHIO
SEPT 1944 JUNE 1945 BUTLERVILLE GRADE SCHOOL, BUTLERVILLE, OHIO
SEPT 1945 JUNE 1946 BLANCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL, BLANCHESTER, OHIO
SEPT 1946 JUNE 1947 FALMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL, FALMOUTH, KY.
SEPT 1947 JUNE 1948 BUTLER HIGH SCHOOL, BUTLER , KY.
SEPT 1948 JUNE 1949 FALMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL, FALMOUTH, KY
SEPT 1949 JAN 1950 UNIV. OF KY EXTENSION, COVINGTON, KY
JAN 1950 JUNE 1950 UNIV OF KY, LEXINGTON, KY
SEPT 1955 JAN 1960 UNIV OF KY, LEXINGTON, KY
PLACES I HAVE LIVED, ADDRESSES
JAN 1937 SEPT 1943 FALMOUTH, KY (WEST END TOWARDS THE HIGHWAY 27
SEPT 1943 JUNE 1944 5226 RALSTON AVE. NORWOOD, OHIO
JUNE 1944 JUNE 1946 BUTLERVILLE, OHIO FARM OUTSIDE TOWN
JUNE 1946 JUNE 1947 FALMOUTH, KY along the river (street)
JUNE 1947 JUNE 1948 BUTLER, KY RR#1
JUNE 1948 JUNE 1949 FALMOUTH, KY
JUNE 1949 JAN 1950 COVINGTON, KY
JAN 1950 JUNE 1950 BRECKENRIDGE HALL, UNIV OF KY, LEXINGTON, KY
JUNE 1950 MARCH 1951 NORWOOD, OHIO
MARCH 1951 OCT 1953 MILITARY SERVICE USAF
OCT 1953 SEPT 1955 3110 WOODBURN AVE, CINCINNATI, OHIO
SEPT 1955 JUNE 1956 KINCAID HALL, UNIV OF KY, LEXINGTON, KY
JUNE 1956 JULY 1956 3110 WOODBURN AVE, CINCINNATI,OHIO
JULY 1956 AUG 1956 SPANISH TRAIL MOTEL, TUCSON, ARIZONA
AUG 1956 DEC 1956 SIDNEY APTS, SIOUX CITY, IOWA
JAN 1957 JUNE 1959 600 GIBSON AVE, LEXINGTON, KY
JUNE 1959 SEPT 1959 4006 ROSSLYN DRIVE, CINCINNATI, OHIO
SEPT 1959 JAN 1960 600 GIBSON AVE, LEXINGTON, KY
JAN 1960 SEPT 1960 3804 MERRIMAC AVE, SAN DIEGO 17, CALIF
JAN 1960 SEPT 1961 3073 JEMEZ AVE SAN DIEGO CALIF.
SEPT 1960 APRIL 1963 3073 JEMEZ AVE, SAN DIEGO, CALIF.
APRIL 1963 NOV 2001 3046 BRIAND AVE, SAN DIEGO 92122
NOV 2001 PRESENT 3046 H STREET, RAMONA, CALIF 92065
PLACES I HAVE WORKED
JUNE 1949 JUNE 1950 BUS BOY, KENWOOD COUNTRY CLUB, CIN. OHIO
JUNE 1950 MARCH 1951 ASSEMBLER, GENERAL MOTORS, NORWOOD OHIO
MARCH 1951 OCT 1953 MILITARY SERVICE, USAF
OCT 1953 JAN 1954 HELPER, CINCINNATI AIRCRAFT
JAN 1954 SEPT 1955 ELECTRONICS TECH GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. CAASS
SEPT 1955 JUNE 1956 STUDENT
JUNE 1956 JAN 1957 ELECT TECH GENERAL ELECTRIC CO, NORWOOD OHIO
JAN 1957 JAN 1960 STUDENT
JAN 1960 RETIREMENT CONVIAR ASTRONAUTICS AND GENERAL ATOMICS AND IRT CORP AND MAXWELL LABS
CREW OF B-29 DURING MILITARY SERVICE, USAF
A/C OWENS, HUGH S. CAPTIAN, MICHIGAN
PILOT FARLOW, RICHARD S. CAPTIAN, CALIF
NAVIGATOR, APPLEBY, DONALD B. 1st LT. NEW YORK
BOMBADIER, GREGORY, BILLY CAPTIAN, OHIO
RADAR, KING, WILLIAM J., 2nd LT, TEXAS (TEXARKANSAS)
ENGINEER, CRISMAN CLARENCE N., SGT, VIRGINA
GUNNER, HANSEN, JAMES V., CPL., WASHINGTON
GUNNER, SWANSON, RICHARD, H. CPL, MINESOTA
GUNNER, MEAD, CARLTON D. CPL, NEW HAMPSHIRE
GUNNER, RODNEY GALLOWAY CPL, KENTUCKY
RADIO, MEAD, PETER, B. PFC, VERMONT
BROKEN BATS
TO
BILL CENTER
STAFF WRITER
UNION TRIBUNE
RE. ARTICLE JUNE 29 1998
I was surprised to read about broken bats, I didn’t think any one cared. anyway i have always wondered why the pro ballplayers hardly ever paid attention to how they held the bat. I was convinced that they grew up using aluminum bats and it didn’t matter how the bat was held. years before aluminum bats when kids played with wooden bats, the first lesson was how to hold the bat to keep it from breaking. the lesson was that the plain of the grain of the bat should be held parallel to the ground. its easy to see how weak wood is when breaking it with the grain. that’s how the judo people break the wood so easy. when the batter holds the bat parallel to the ground the label should be either up or down, rotate it 90 degrees and it’s very easy to break (splinter) the bat. I watch the players on tv to see if they pay attention to how they hold the bat. steve finley is the only player that knows how. i have seen him break a bat but it usually is a shear rather than a splintered break which would indicate a weakness in the bat. the shear occurs in the handle or the small part of the bat which is easy to break.
I WOULD THINK SOMEONE IN PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL WOULD HAVE RECOGNIZED THIS CHARACTERISTIC.
SINCERELY YOURS
R G
BRIAND AVE
S.D. CA. 92122
RODJAN@AOL.COM
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ROD
MUSIC 115C
M-W 1-2 PM
DR.FERNIZ BREWER
08-28-00
MUSIC IN MY LIFE
I was born in 1932 and my first experience with music was with a
crystal set listening to whatever was being broadcast. about the
same time i was taken to church and heard the music of the church.
later we listened to radio but I cannot remember any thing specific.
as i got older the radio played "popular" music and i learned all the
songs. for reasons i can't remember I took trumpet lessons when i
was about 10 years old. i played in the garage with a mute because my
father worked the night shift. I remember a friend tried to teach me
the guitar and play the song "there's a star spangled banner waving
somewhere". I later found out it was played by hank snow.
music became a priority in my life when I insisted my children learn
the piano. I learned there lessons until it got to be work and then I
quit and soon after they also quit. I tried to encourage them to play
and promised them if they could learn to play rhapsody in blue I
would buy a grand piano. we finally gave away the upright. later I
decided to set an example and I took guitar lessons for quite a long
time. I must have had private lessons for 5 years. I learned to relate
the music on the staff to the frets on the guitar. the music keys and
names of the notes I decided were not important. (bad decision) I
learned classical, country, popular, and flamenco. I did not learn
any theory and it always bothered me because I had questions that I
could not answer. as a result I started taking music classes at mesa
and I am pleased with the instruction and enlightenment about
music.
today I am learning theory and the piano which helps with the
guitar. I listen to old popular (kpop 1360am), popular classical,
country, on tapes and cd's. no rock or current music. I don't go to
concerts because the sound systems are so bad that its not worth
listening to all the noise. If a guitarist is playing without
amplification I will go to those kind of concerts. I listen to the radio
while driving and at home but we mostly listen to cd's.
music affects my lifestyle because of my playing and when I practice.
I very seldom play for strangers because i can't concentrate if I
know someone is listening, I have had small successes doing that.
My perspective of the nation
6/17/2002
Since 911 G.W. Bush has tried and found guilty Osama bin Laden, then sentenced him to death, all in one afternoon. American justice has really gone fast track. There has been little or no evidence to support the claim that he was responsible for the event. Since then the government has spun the so-called “war” in a daily barrage to the American public. it is amazing how the sheep are led down the primrose path, assuring them the “war” is justified by bombing where ever they see life and letting the Northern Alliance fight the “war”. It is surely good planning to let others fight the conflict, which they have been, engaged in for a number of years and then take the credit. Finally after the Taliban have been driven into a gurrella type of warfare, declaring the war a success and letting other countries maintain the status quo. Always admitting the “war” will last a long time.
We went into Afghanistan after the Taliban refused to turn over bin Laden. It was probably obvious to the casual observer that the request would be met with a negative response. The ultimatum required that if they did not turn over bin Laden then we would start a “war” and go in and get him. This sounded rather ridiculous from the start but if you want to start a “war” then this was as good of a reason as any. Rather than doing something smart and get him we bombed and sent in troops to find him. They must have thought he was not too smart to fall for something like that but if you are looking for an enemy Afghanistan is a good choice. not many countries would defend then and you could increase the budgets and increase the bureaucracy, which is the roll of governments.
A big deal was made of the prisoners that were taken during the fighting. These were foot soldiers that had been fighting the Afghanistan conflict. it was never clear what these troops knew or if they even knew that the U.S.A.us had entered the conflict and why. But they were taken to Cuba and interned there for the duration which is probably never. Now they are getting information from these foot soldiers about world efforts to attack the U.S. Most of them never heard of the USA.
The 911 “war” was over in a day and it cost the USA billions of dollars, and will cost many billons of dollars in the future. Twenty years ago the Isralis decided to fix the doors of the airline El Al cockpits so no one could get in. a simple fix of that type could have averted the 911 attack. so now after the fact the US flying population is going to pay by standing in long lines at the airports because the government has overreacted and implemented security that is unnecessary. If the terrorist wanted to blow up an airline it would be very easy and the long lines would not cause them to abort that mission. Probably they don’t want to blow up an airplane or they would have done it long ago and often.
The FBI and the CIA are now indicating they knew about the terrorist training for pilots school and did nothing about it. Trying to justify to congress that they knew but did not decimate the information. They probably disregarded the information. As far as what the pres knew about the flight schools of course no one will ever know. If he did know he probably was not able to do anything about it. And if someone could have surmised hijacking and flying into buildings no one would have believed it.
The military has been looking for an enemy since the fall of the Soviet Union and I am sure they were thanking god because of the 911 event. Now they could start a “war” and get big increases in the budgets and build missiles and airplanes and ships to fight the rock-throwing enemies of the USA.
THE ALASKA CRUISE
05/17/02
This is the third day on the good ship mercury of the celebrity company. the resemblance to Royal Caribbean is very good, being they have merged into one company. The first day was from hell. we got to the dock at 1:30 pm, stood in line for 2 hours, finally got on board and shortly had to go on deck and participate in a lifeboat drill that probably took an hour. I ate a small bowl of soup earlier about 11:00 am. I was starved, beings that I had established a routine of eating small meals and eating when I got hungry. Well there was nothing to eat until 8:30 pm; we had to get the late seating. After I got something to eat, via room service, I started feeling better. The next day Thursday went better and I started the ship routine for food. We were in the port of Avalon on the island of Catalina, which used to be Santa Catalina. I didn’t go ashore but Janet brought back some beer, Adkins bars and v8 juice. Later that day I went to the gym and started an exercise routine. I ate all day. My weight has dropped to 243 pounds.
Today is the third day we are at sea all day, going to San Francisco tomorrow. We had room service at 7 am, I went to the gym and after that I had a nice breakfast of poached eggs and corned beef hash with Kadoka figs. I expect to do this routine daily and will go ashore occasionally. Some of the food has been very good. (appetizers, salads and desserts). Of course the soup tastes good but has no substance. Mostly water.
Today in San Francisco had a small bowl of clam chowder at Aliotos, which was recommended by Lezlie. It was fairly common. Went back to the ship. The wind blew very hard and was not a very nice day. The next two days will be at sea so we will go to lectures and watch movies.
Next; a change of plans, back to the original plan of one day at sea and then into Victoria. We walked into town, probably a half an hour walk thru the neighborhoods of Victoria. We ended up in the downtown area where the government buildings and the Empress Hotel are located. The price of food in this small area is very high even with the exchange rate. But it is a well-traveled area by tourist. $24 for tea at the Empress. We had a good fish and chips dish at an Italian restaurant, Julia’s. It was much better than on the ship. Today the day after Victoria we are at sea going to Ketchikan and will be there tomorrow morning. We have to go thru customs because we went into a foreign country.
Each day the gym has been a lifesaver. We spend 20 min. On the treadmill, 10 on the stair climber, the press and pull, free weights, bikes. We will go ashore in Ketchikan and get some land food and find an Internet café. My weight has increased 1 kilo to 112 kilos, maybe just a daily variation, but we do eat a lot.
ROD
THE PATRIOTIC AMERICAN (WE CANNOT AFFORD THIS WAR)
3/22/03
Receintly with bushes folly coming down to the wire I have
come to a few conclusions. I hear that if you are against the
“war” you do not support the troops or that is what the war
mongering spin doctors would like you to believe. when in fact
the best support for the volunteers is to have no war and let
them come home walking and not in body bags.
Anyway you look at it the “war” is not just because we cannot afford to support a war that will lead to no benefit for the u.s. public. just as the skirmish in afganistan has led to moving the so called enemy into other countries and disrupting their rudimentry training camps that can easily be setup in other regions. this is what we use our 350 billion for defence or more acutately called our aggression budget. these actions have cost us billions of dollars and an unreported number of lives and now the women in that country can drive cars and don’t have to wear berkas to cover their face (big deal). the u.s. citizen will have to borrow the dollars and never pay it back, which results in the national debt. the new skirmish (“war”) will cost many more billions and we will not receive any benefit from the lost lives and the sacrafices the families will endure. we live in a country that requires the states to have a balanced buget. the federal government does not have to have a balanced budget and they borrow monet to fight these wars and then give away billions trying to get other nations to vote our way in the united nations. that is merely buying their vote so we can say we have a coalition to proceed with the war. that seems to be the american way, threaten and buy their votes. and when they refuse we call them all kind of names that we think will belittle them into voting our way. i always thought the democratic way was to let every one have their vote and let the cards fall where they may. the way this country is proceeding it won’t be long before our personal vote will be questioned and a threat will follow if we don’t vote the way our leaders want. our leaders tell us that the way to peace is to have war. i could never understand that logic. every generation has had to contend with wars that were admittedly a waste of lives, time and money and the prestige of the nation and the american public. but it is a good justification for the huge “defence” budget.
the results of the terrorist attacks have caused the government to overreact hundreds of times more than required has certainly sent a message to the terrorist that they can cause so much chaos and paranoia in this country by only one serious attack that they do not have to have another attack for probably another twenty years. the overreaction has cost the country billions of dollars and nothing has resulted as far as a reprisal. we lost another war.. the war on terrorism goes on but the terrorist fights each incident as a war. each time we allow them to create an act their war is over and they proceed to the next war or incident.
the time to do something smart was twenty years ago and even now it was a time to do something smart. instead we decided it would be a good time to start a war. we would engage the military that we had stationed all over the world and the national guard and the reserves and fight an enemy in a country that could hardly defend itself from the weapons of mass destruction that we could lay on them. the u.s. has the weapons of mass destruction and iraq is a piquer compared to our weapons. the apparent reason for the war is iraq’s biological and chemical weapons. tommy franks recently said “there is no doubt that the regime of saddam husseim possesses weapons of mass destruction” and “as this operation continues those weapons will be found”. this sounds like he was told he would go and find thoes weapons and he repeated they “will” find them. now it is clear they will find the weapons even if they have to import them. if the inspectors were told where the weapons were then we would not have as many reasons for a “war” and we didn’t have many reasons to start with. the usa recently developed a “conventional” bomb that was two thirds the size of the atomic bomb that was set off over hiroshima. the smart bombs is another in the same category. after the first world war the chemical and biological weapons was outlawed by the geneva convention. today thoes weapons are not very effective in a war because of the environmental requirements to make them effective. the question is which is the better way to kill people with the outlawed weapons or the conventional weapons that blow up body parts and scatters the remains over large areas. the u.s. is the master of weapons of mass destruction.
we now occupy afganistan and have added it to the american empire. we are now careful to state we are not occupying iraq but liberating that country. while getting ready for that war we bought off the countrys to the north and east and this added them to american empire. now we are engaged in the occupation of iraq and that will cost us billions and the terrorist keep on working and the money we spend on afganistan and iraq is just the start. other countries have already been tagged to further our aggression and comit our military and other generations to a continued war. the root cause of the terrorism has not been breeched.
6-1-2003
THE SYMPTOMS I HAD WAS BLOATING OF THE STOMACH AFTER MEALS. LARGE GAS DISCHARGE OR PASSING GAS AFTER I ATE.
DAD Stomach cancer can be hard to find early. Often there are no symptoms in the early stages and, in many cases, the cancer has spread before it is found. When symptoms do occur, they are often so vague that the person ignores them. Stomach cancer can cause the following: - Indigestion or a burning sensation (heartburn); - Discomfort or abdominal pain; - Nausea and vomiting; - Diarrhea or constipation; - Bloating of the stomach after meals; - Loss of appetite; - Weakness and fatigue; and - Bleeding (vomiting blood or having blood in the stool).
05-2003
DOCTORS FOR ROD:
Jennifer Leung, PCP
4510 Viewridge Ave
San Diego, Ca 92126
858 499 2704
Pomerado Hospital
15615 Pomerado Road
Poway, CA 92064
858 613 4000
Marcelo R. Rivera, MD
Internal Medicine
1516 Main St #104
Ramona, CA 92065
760 789 3852
(Pomerado Hosp – Emergency)
Robert J. Manly, MD, Inc
General & Vascular Surgery
2929 Health Center Dr
San Diego, CA 92123
858 541 6531
Sam Baradarian MD
Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
8010 Frost St #501
San Diego, CA 92123
858 292 9902
James D. Wolosin, MD,FACP
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
2929 Health Center Dr
San Diego, CA 92123
858 541 6531
Michael A. Crucitt, MD, FACP
Onocology & Hematology
Internal Medicine
6626 Grossmont Center Drive
La Mesa, CA 91942
619 644 6750
Center For Cancer Treatment
Chemotherapy
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THE DRUMS OF WAR
7/23/2004
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind .... And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.
~ William Shakespeare
HERMAN GOERINGS RULES ON WAR 7/23/2004
FROM A GOOGLE SEARCH TITLED HERMAN GOERING
Later in the conversation, Gilbert recorded Goering's observations that the common people can always be manipulated into supporting and fighting wars by their political leaders:
We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."
"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Last
The quote cited above does not appear in transcripts of the Nuremberg trials because although Goering spoke these words during the course of the proceedings, he did not offer them at his trial. His comments were made privately to Gustave Gilbert, a German-speaking intelligence officer and psychologist who was granted free access by the Allies to all the prisoners held in the Nuremberg jail. Gilbert kept a journal of his observations of the proceedings and his conversations with the prisoners, which he later published in the book Nuremberg Diary. The quote offered above was part of a conversation Gilbert held with a dejected Hermann Goering in his cell on the evening of 18 April 1946, as the trials were halted for a three-day Easter recess:
FROM MONICA ABOUT HER HEARING AID
Thanks Dad! I have it in now and it feels really good. It sounds much
better than my old ones and my voice sounds normal instead of like I
was inside a transistor radio. The change is really subtle so I have to
give it some time. If I plug my good ear I can hear stuff - that's a
good sign... I just have to get a comfortable volume without causing so
much vibration that it creates feedback or "tickles" the inside of my
ear with movement!! We'll see!
Three weeks from today we go to Spain... are you and Mom going to join
us in Barcelona?!
Have a good day!
I love you,
Monica
Dear Family & Friends:
Where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday we were doing our around the world thing, but instead, another year has gone by. Wow!
This year has not been the best for us. Rodney’s mother passed away in February at the age of 92. One of my brothers died in April, Rodney was diagnosed with stage IV stomach cancer in May, and my youngest sister passed away in October.
Rodney was rushed to the hospital in May with bleeding ulcers, and the doc discovered a mass on one of the ulcers. He had surgery in June, a complete gastrectomy, and had chemotherapy and radiation treatments in August. Recovery has been slow but progress is being made. We take one day at a time.
Monica & Kevin are doing well. Last year they purchased a condo in Hawaii and this year they bought a house. We kind of get the feeling that Hawaii will be the place of retirement for them some day. Kevin still works for Northrup as a Design Engineer, and Monica continues to be a Research Attorney for the County.
Rodney, Beth, Chet & Johanna are doing well and live in Alpine. Rod Jr. works hard to balance his family life with his insurance business and blooming real estate career. Beth keeps books part-time for a construction company in Carlsbad. Chet will be 13 next month and this past year, learned to play the game of chess. He loves the game and competes with kids his age and older. He wins in tournaments all over the city and the ribbons and medals are mounting up. Johanna will be 2 in May and is a real cutie. She jabbers all the time and is quite the explorer. We spend as much time with her as we can and love every minute of it.
Lezlie, Dave, Nick and Ben are doing well. Lezlie worked on Arnold’s swearing- in ceremony and had a great time. Dave works for a Public Affairs firm with a variety of clients. He’s been there 4.5 years and still enjoys going to work. They live in Rocklin and are currently looking for a new house closer to school and work. Nick and Ben are in pre-kindergarten and love school. They tell their mom that if they don’t go to school, “the teacher will miss them.” They will be 5 in April and both are quite the characters.
We wish you and yours the best of this Happy Holiday Season. May you have a wonderful New Year -2004!
Love,
August 5th, 2004 5:57 pm
Is George W. Bush Planning to Attack America?
The White House
He sure makes it sound that way:
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and
so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to
harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
- George W. Bush, August 5th, 2004
ABOUT KERRYGeorge Bush used the wrong god to use when he made a decision to go to war.
Trying to understand how a simpleton can use religion to make decisions that affect millions is not an easy task.
When you use a “god” or a nonexistent supernatural entirety to make decisions is a pathway for disaster. When you disregard history and listen to people that have an agenda that is contrary to the best use of funds and only feathers their nest, the accomplishment will just prove that their nests will be feathered.
Thinking that a “god” can direct an operation means that the operation will fail when science and intellect is not used to make decisions. The use of a “god” is an acceptable use for an individual for it can only affect just a few people, like Timothy McVey and the 911 bombers that killed 3000 but when you use the wrong decisions like “god” told me to do it in order to retaliate it can affect tens of thousands as was done in Afganistan and Iraq. The use of a “god” is a personal matter and should never be used to encompass others that are not a part of your god and that is always the case because the gods only exist in the mind of the individual person. For that reason the church should never get to be part of the government. And that is the main reason to have a separation of the church and state. When the state enters into religion chaos will result as has been demonstrated over the years by the many wars that originate by religion. The Muslims and Christians have demonstrated this premise over the years and they have killed millions over the years.
8/25/2004
Kerry's War Record Comparing Kerry's military record to George Bush is like shooting fish in a barrel. First of all, Bush received no commendations for his service and probably should have been court marshaled for being AWOL. It is very clear his father got him into The National Guard in order to avoid going to Vietnam. His ability to get into Yale and Harvard Business School was a result of his fathers efforts, and his poor academic ability is demonstrated almost daily when he speaks (Bushisms.) His cabinet shows that he is lead about by them and does their bidding. Kerry, however, was in Vietnam and apparently served honorably. Due to the numerous awards for bravery that he received, the awards are just that - awards. *They were not won. His superiors had to make the the awards and his service records show that fact. The Purple Heart Awards were not for bravery but for receiving wounds while in a war zone. Regardless how he received the wounds, the medals should and were awarded to him. Some GI’s have shot themselves in the foot in order to avoid combat and they were awarded the Purple Heart. It's easy to criticize the arbitrary awarding of medals, but most awards can be criticized. And yes, even Audi Murphy. Most of the admirals and generals awards were just for showing up in a campaign. I will always wonder if we have more admirals and generals than privates? Ketty”s actions, after he returned home, were just. He denounced the war just as millions of people did. That effort demonstrated his courage to go up against the government and say what he thought. Finally, he was right to do those things because the war turned out to be a giant mis-adventure along with Korea and the many other skirmishes that were perpetrated by the military in order to expand the USA imperialism throughout the world. Remember Mi Lie and the coverup by the military. Today we need a president that can say no to the military and the industrial establishment that runs the government. Long ago the citizens lost control of the government, and that is demonstrated by the appropriations in the federal budget. In order to satisfy the militaries need for more and more money, the Congress is willing to borrow money to satisfy their hunger and apparent need for more and more weapons that don't work and even buying equipment that is not tested. The Washington establishment is always there and except for the congress the remainder does not get elected but they continue to run the government regardless of who is the president. The National Debt used to be a big mystery, but today, I think it's quite simple. When you do not receive enough money to take care of expenses, you borrow money to pay the bills. Today the deficit is about seven trillion dollars. That means someone has loaned us that amount of money. We pay an on-going interest in the budget for that loan. Seven trillion is a seven followed by twelve zeros – a big, big number. If the people wanted that money back, we couldn't pay off that debt and we would become just another Banana Republic. Some people would like you to believe we are at war, but remember, only Congress can declare war. This declaration has not happened since WW II. The Congress has given the presidents dictatorial power but not the right to declare war. Many would have you believe we are under attack and the so-called enemy is about to conquer the country, They apparently do not understand that a terrorist attack is not an invasion. They want to terrorize the people and have no ability to invade.*The attacks on 9/11/2001 accomplished the terrorist goals by causing the government to overreact and spend huge amounts of money creating bureaucracies and increasing the military budgets. More so someone convinced the president that we should invade Afghanistan and Iraq. This little misadventure has cost us billions, blowing up these countries and then rebuilding them in our image. The invasions were just another victory for the terrorist that would like nothing more than to get the military out in the open so they could attack more easily. The reason that the so-called war will be a long one is because we cannot determine who the terrorist is or the country they come from. The 9/11 terrorist came mostly from Saudi Arabia and we attacked Afghanistan and Iraq. The reason they attacked us is because they want us out of the muslin countries and to quit supporting Israel. Today the USA has approximately 26 military bases in the Arabian Peninsula. That does not count all the bases that have been established and are permanent in Iraq, Afghanistan and the neighboring countries, which are all muslim. They will fight from now on until we are out of those countries and stop supporting Israel. If the muslim countries were to occupy our country we would probably not like it and we would fight back with a vengeance. *The argument that we should not unseat a wartime president is ridiculous in that if this aggression continues another four years, he will be out of office automatically. Knowing this administration, they will likely try and change the law. Probably most people are not aware of the vast expansion the USA has accomplished in the world. Little events happen and they may make the news, but most of the time they are not noticed by the public or even the news agencies because most people don't care and it seems not to cost too much. When you start adding up all of these events they get to be enormous. When you read the collections that have been puttogether by Chalmers Johnson in his book, “The Sorrows Of The Empire”, you get a good picture about how much we have expanded the US empire and the cost associated with those expansions. Just prior to 9/11, we had 969 military bases in the USA and 725 bases in 38 countries around the world with a replacement cost of $118 billion and as of September-01, the US had 254,788 troops in 153 countries, plus 531,227 dependents and civilians. For the past 52 years, the USA has spent on average of $350 billion each year with 2002 dollars for the misadventures of the military. The military controls the USA and it will be impossible to control in the future. The latest misadventure has cost over 900 American lives, wounded 5976 and killed 13483 civilians. * R Anyone who is trying to put a stop to this pillaging of the US Treasury. The following e-mail was received from supporters of George Bush.709,000 Regular (Active Duty) Personnel293,000 Reserve TroopsEight Standing Army Divisions20 Air Force and Navy Air Wings with 2,000 Combat Aircraft232 Strategic Bombers19 Strategic Ballistic Missile Submarines with 3,114 nuclear warheads on 232 missiles500 ICBM's with 1,950 warheadsFour aircraft carriers and 121 surface combat ships and submarines plus all the support bases, shipyards and logistical assets needed to sustain such a naval force in this country - - - - These are the American military forces that were eliminated during the administration of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. This elimination by Bill Clinton and Al Gore, wassupported by John Kerry and he made sure he was present for these votes. This is the information put out by the Bush re-election committee trying to show that Kerry was trying to reduce the armed forces. A month ago, I was not so sure who I would vote for, but after I saw these statements, it became more clear that a vote for Kerry would actually help the country. Normally I would not vote for either of the puppets put forth on the so-called “Two Party” system, but it sounds like Kerry will be a much better choice than Bush. The greatest victory for the Al-Qaeda you may think was the 9/11 attack or the disasterous economic result which would allow the government to create huge bureaucracies and inflate the military budget in an effort to pillage the treasury. They are very good at spending someone else's money. The greatest Al-Qaeda victory was when we invaded Iraq and allowed the Al-Qaeda to engage US troops in the open. The twenty six bases in the Arabian Peninsula are well protected and cannot be attacked very easily. They are usually out in the desert away from the population and appointed very well with all the creature comforts. The need to invade Iraq was started in 1997 by the Project For The New American Century (PNAC) It was never clear why they wanted to invade Iraq and we may never know. They began lobbying for vigorous aggression against Iraq. They sent A letter was sent to Clinton, dated January 26,1998, calling for the removal of Saddam Hussein. In the letter to the speaker of the House, Neut Gingrich, and also to Trent Lott, complaining that Clinton had not listened to them. The members who wrote the letter, were the war mongers, Rumsfeld, William Kristol and the rest of the Bush Staff; Cheny, Wolowitz et al. They pulled the string when Bush was elected and told him how the country was to be run. Just like a good puppet, he did what he was told. He didn't even have to read into it. (His reading lessons hadn't progressed that far at that time.) All they needed was a justification for going to war. The 9/11 attack was the catalyst for that effort. They just called in the CIA and told them they wanted to invade iraq, and they needed justification, (SO TELL ME WHAT I WANT TO HEAR). The WMD, nuclear and biologicial stories were generated and the spin began. Finally, after the facts were known to the public, they hide behind the bad intelligency story, also an arrangement with the CIA. They then took the advice of Hermann Goering when he confided to an Interview during the war crimes trial at Nirenberg: “Why, of course, the people don't want war,” Goering shrugged. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war, neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communistdictatorship.” “There is one difference,” I pointed out. “In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.” “Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing thecountry to danger. It works the same way in any country.” Or The Drums Of War By Caesar; Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind....And when the drums of war have reached a feverpitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism,will offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. William Shakespeare Then you can start the war and they did just that. Any war monger knows the words of Goering and the drums of war by Caesar. The twenty six bases in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel, of course, are the reasons that we are under attack. The al-Qaeda want us out of those regions, and until we get out, we will be under attack. Bush likes to give more elementary like(elementary school) reasons like, “They don't like us and our way of life”. But they really don't like us invading their countries. I suppose we wouldn't like it very much if the middle eastern governments established military bases in our country. Do yousuppose we would fight them until they left our country? You bet we would. Here are some web sites to go to when you have time:http://www.safmi.hq.af.mil/saf-mii/installations/index.htm State maps http://web1.whs.osd.mil/DIORCAT.HTM#TOPPAGE Personal Placements http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/outreachpublic/map.html About the states http://www.ciponline.org/facts/scpr.htm Southern Command in Puerto Ricohttp:www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/links.htm Military Facilitieshttp://www.defenselink.mil.pubs/almanac/almanac/Graphics/BSR_03.pdf
Hooray for George Bush
9/1/2004
Three cheers for George Bush, he finally told the truth about the war on terrorism when he stated (somewhat out of character) that we could not win the war against terrorism. That was nice to hear after all these years of not telling the truth!!
When you finally find an enemy that is not so visible you might think that you would never know when you won even if you had won. The effort in Afghanistan and Iraq has provided the military a perpetual enemy that will fill the military budget for years to come. Much like the so-called cold war. This war is a hot war and we are expending our on troops and thousands of innocent civilians.
To stop the killing we need to negotiate with the terrorist and put the reasons for war on the table. The reasons for the war are the US occupation of Muslim lands in the Middle East and the support of Israel. When you want to maintain a war you certainly do not want to negotiate a settlement that would provide a peaceful solution and no need for a military. We have maintained since day one “we do not negotiate with terrorist”. With that closed-door attitude you are certainly going to have a perpetual war requiring killing on both sides and maintaining huge military budgets, that is borrowed money. So three cheers for George. Of course the next day he came to his senses and tried to repudiate his open mouth the day before.
THE RELIGIOUS ZEALOT 9-21-2004
Once again a religious zealot that thinks “god” sent him to fix the world problems confronts us. You would think that a deeply religious person would support peace but on the contrary he supports war and the killing of thousands of people including wounding and killing over 5000 of his own soldiers. The mechanism for doing this is an illegal war that was conceived by the industrial-military establishment to further their own agenda. imperialistic, militarism that establishes bases all over the world by bulling and bribing small countries around the world. The attacks on the USA and now other countries are a result of our occupation of Muslim countries around the world and our support of Israel. We currently have over 900 bases in the USA and over 700 bases around the world. Part of the reasons for the war is to establish more bases in the Middle East, which will, infuriate the people of those countries even more. When you have an agenda that is supported by a religious group it is likely that an irrational outcome will prevail and that is what has happened since Bush has become president. It seems that most of his reforms have been driven by a religious agenda. Not for the people.
loy the administration is putting forth on the US public, another lie. In a letter from Duncan Hunter, he sets up five impossible things that will have to be met before we can leave Iraq. 1. establish a political process that leads to a free and democratic Iraq. 2. restore the essential services for the people, 3. establish a foundation for a strong economy, 4. establish the rule of law, 5. increased international engagement and support. He also thinks we fight wars in order to achieve victory when he does not know when victory will occur. We haven’t had a “victory” since WWII and even if there was some way to achieve a victory, Iraq is not going to be one of those places when you don’t know whom you are fighting. We in this country are fighting the terrorist and if we won the battle we would not know when that happened. The best victory you can have with the present circumstance is to stop the causalities and get out just as the Russians did in Afghanistan.
9/21/2004
THE AL-QUEDA AND THEIR DEMANDS
The recent response from the AI-Queda suggesting that Bush should strengthen his
defense has shown that the economics of the war on terror is more of a threat than the bombings. It is relatively inexpensive for the terrorist to explode a bomb or fly into buildings. The cost of the 9/11 attacks has cost the USA billions of dollars and the costs of thousands of lives, both in New York and in the Middle East. We are engaged in this never ending war and we have to feed the people of Afghanistan and Iraq both food and petroleum for transportation. The war is ongoing and the end is not in sight. In Iraq gasoline is sold for a nickel a gallon and the US taxpayers pay the cost of about $1-50 to get the gasoline into the country with 4800 trucks running 7/24. Food costs are running
$15 per person per month. (That costs sounds impossible). At the rate we are spending money for the war on terror (we have to borrow from someone) the national debt will soon become so large that we cannot pay the interest on that debt. When that happens the people that loan us
NEW SUBMARINE WILL BE IMPORTANT IN FIGHTING TERRORISM
10/26/2004
The government has finally built a weapon that is specifically designed to fight the war on terrorism. This sub can go into shallow water and cause the terrorist to shake in their sandals. At least that's the justification for building a $2.2 billion vehicle that will add to the navy's armada. After all 30 are built the Navy will have them to ride around in and show them off to the warmongers of the world. No benefit will result to the public. They should try and find a terrorist and show him what he is up against. He will get a good laugh. It seems today you can spend unlimited amounts of money on whatever and under the name of the war on terrorism have everyone accept it as gospel.
The terrorist do not have to do any more bombing terrorism here in this country they have won the battle of creating economic terror and the public have accepted it without question. After the so-called cold war the military was left without an enemy. The terrorist attacks along with G. Bush has been a windfall for the military, they can now call any shot they want and expand their bureaucracy as fast as they can-No-one is going to standup and deny them anything they want. They have spent $18 trillion in 02 dollars over the last 60 years and the public has received nothing for it other than more dead
American soldiers. There doesn't seem to be anything that can be done about the pillage of the US treasurer or the human toll of dead soldieries.
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WHO ARE WE FIGHTING
10/28/2004
When all this started George was going to prosecute Ben Laden and kill him, then we
were going to smoke him out, but we sent in an army to do the work of maybe 50
personnel of a delta force. Then we declared war on the Al Queda in Afghanistan; So far that has lead to an ongoing skirmish with no end in site. (Remember the Russians). Not satisfied with those results we decided to invade Iraq looking for WMD and that turned into getting Sadam his generals and sons. Each time the goal has proved to be a lie we changed the goal sort of like bate and switch The results of the Sadam hunt became a non-event and the war "against terror" moved on to what we are now fighting, the insurgencies. In between all that we decided to have democratic elections in both Afghanistan and Iraq. The Bush candidate won in Afghanistan (what else) and they are going to have elections in Iraq. What has happened to the "war on terror", have we seen any terrorist or have we killed them all? The terrorist do not fight in wars, their agenda is to create terror and engaging in a war does not achieve those objectives. Invading Iraq
has caused many people to be enraged at the USA and the "insurgencies" want us out of Iraq and the Muslim countries and stop supporting Israel.
A VOTER REGISTRATION CARD 11/25/2004
reading the English language newspaper from Costa Rica, they criticized the election process in the united states. They could not understand how a purported democratic country could have such a corrupt election process. When you are 18 years old in that country you are given a card that allows one vote for whatever is on the ballot.
With a smart card that would solve many problems in this country. The card would allow you to vote wherever you are but it would be checked against a national data base. If you were out of your voting area youcould vote only on the national or state items. When in your districtyou could vote on all issues. If you tried to vote more than once the check with the data base would not allow the vote. When you received your voting card all you would have to do is prove you were a citizenwith a birth certificate. The birth certificate would also have a unique number that would follow you throughout your life and at the time of your death the card would be turned in for a sum of money. That would take you off the voting rolls.
Many people in the south and probably all around the country vote numerous times during an election and are never approached on the subject. Getting a voting card would not require an admittance of a political party. Belonging to a political party has nothing to do with voting. Belonging to a political party is a free choice for every citizen. So the parties can have their associations and not encumber the government to keep those records.
Granted having a voting card is like having a national I.D. card.many things are possible with an I.D. card. It could be your socialsecurity card, your drivers license card, your bank card, arrest warrants, a passport, and many other uses for identification
He's skipping
Christmas
I have decided to skip Christmas. This bloated greed-fest of American consumerism has finally gotten to me. I don't need or desire any of these useless products shoved at me through crass corporate advertisements sent nonstop by media such as this paper.
I really don't. Christmas is supposed to be about "peace on earth, good will toward men." At least that's what I thought when I was a dumb kid. I am not so sure now.
A lot of people these days seem to think that war is the answer, that we should just kill those who have any real and true grievances with our nation's arrogant and selfish conduct in world affairs. The final straw in my decision was this illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. It is actually quite scary and horrific to hear of American soldiers shooting unarmed, wounded Iraqis inside a mosque thousands of miles away, and then to read letters in the paper praising this as noble and heroic. I must conclude that
something in heaven has broken down. So, no Christmas for me. If God is telling Bush what to do, I want no part of his son's birthday this year.
ERIC PARRISH
VISTA, CALIF.
RICHARD LOUV
Call them weapons of mass confusion
September 5, 2004
While some politicians may prefer precision bombs, most scientists prefer precise thinking and accurate language. Certainly that's true of Elie Shneour, a biophysicist and head of the Biosystems Research Institute in San Diego. As a specialist in nuclear, biological and chemical counter-terrorism, he strenuously objects to the current definition of weapons of mass destruction – a term that grows looser by the day.
"Mass destruction means the vast slaughter of human lives coupled with the devastating demolition of buildings and physical infrastructures," he says. "Chemical and biological weapons are not weapons of mass destruction. Nuclear, high explosives and incendiaries are the only weapons thus far devised that can cause real mass destruction." To think otherwise, he argues, is not only imprecise, but dangerous.
Some people will find that statement outrageous; we'll get to Shneour's explanation later. But first a tour of some of the other WMD definitions making the rounds. The U.S. legal code defines WMD as nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. However, the Department of Defense's classification is growing in popularity; it includes chemical, biological, nuclear materials and high-yield explosive weapons (including radiological – "dirty" – bombs and conventional explosives).
The definition of WMD is "limited mainly by one's imagination" after Sept. 11, 2001, according to a paper by the Program for International & Homeland Security at Ohio State University. Future WMD might include natural gas tankers, trains transporting hazardous chemicals, "agro-terrorism to intentionally spread foot-and-mouth disease" – or a cyber attack accomplishing both mass destruction and mass disruption.
The list lengthens. Last year, the Oregon legislature passed a bill creating six new terrorism-related crimes, including possession of a weapon of mass destruction; the bill stalled when an amendment (later dropped) was introduced listing firearms as WMD.
In October, a coalition of human-rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Oxfam, upped the ante by launching a global campaign to regulate the small-arms trade, calling small arms weapons of mass destruction. In support, Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary-general, said "small arms (are) weapons of mass destruction in terms of the carnage they cause." The death rate from such firearms "dwarfs that of all other weapons systems, and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs," he added.
In January, a North Carolina judge offered his own interpretation of WMD, ruling that a 14-year-old boy broke a law prohibiting the possession of components of a weapon of mass death and destruction: the boy had tried to bring homemade black powder, matches and a firecracker onto an airplane. While the boy deserved punishment (in fact, more than the six months of probation he received) the case stretched the definition of WMD to the absurd.
So why should we be concerned about the confusing definition of WMD? Couldn't we just agree to define WMD in the same fashion that Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once nailed hard-core pornography? "I know it when I see it." In the case of pornography, local community standards became the test. Just try that with WMD.
In February, Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri introduced a state homeland-security bill that proposed, among other changes, the closing of some public records, including those showing whether businesses comply with the fire safety code. If enacted, the law would have revived World War I-era restrictions making it illegal to: "speak, utter or print" statements supporting anarchy; speak in favor of overthrowing the government; or to display "any flag or emblem other than the flag of the United States" as a symbol of the U.S. government or a preferred replacement.
Not incidentally, one section of the bill created a new definition of WMD: any "instrument, device or substance designed to cause death or serious injury to a person." By that definition, any weapon would qualify. The bill, dangerous to fundamental civil liberties, fizzled. But the night is young.
Shneour, who as a teenager escaped Nazi-occupied France on foot, worries that the endlessly repeated, expanding WMD mantra could help spread political hysteria: when everything is a potential WMD, then everyone will be viewed as a potential terrorist. Then there's practicality. "If we worry about everything that is possible, we'll go mad. Better to worry about what is probable," he says.
Because of their relatively short range and because they do not flatten city blocks, chemical and biological weapons should be considered weapons of mass terror, he says. By comparison, high explosives and incendiaries are "cheaper, more effective, much more reliable, far easier to manufacture, to conceal and to deliver than any of the other classes of weapons. That is why both governments and terrorists continue to use them."
It's hard to completely accept Shneour's call for linguistic precision, when one recalls images of thousands of Kurds and Iranians bloating in the sun. Convincing their relatives that Saddam's nerve agents were weapons of mass terror, not WMD, would be difficult. Still, Shneour's warning is valid – we risk terrorizing ourselves.
"The profligate and misleading use of the term WMD has already made a difference in how we perceive the world we live in," he says. When it comes to terrorism, of course, anything is possible. But, Shneour adds, to undermine our civil liberties and live in fear because of the possible is "a life-paralyzing agent worse than any biological or chemical weapon."
Louv's column appears on Sundays. He can be reached via e-mail at rlouv@cts.com or via www.thefuturesedge.com.
RECEPTION FOR AN ARMY VETERAN WOUNDED IN IRAQ
12/24/2004
It is certainly a sad time for anyone stationed in the middle east but a couple of nights ago I attended a reception for a wounded Iraq veteran at the VFW hall, which I am a lifetime member. To me it was a very sad affair especially when it didn’t have to happen. The vet was a beautiful woman, 25 years old, a captain and a West Point graduate, with no right arm, removed at the shoulder. She was wounded while riding in an unarmored Hum-Vee. There must have been over 100 people that turned out to honor this veteran in that little VFW hall. The only thing I could think of was what a waste to have this happen to an obviously smart young woman that was convinced she was protecting the USA.
Of course the only reason it happened was because of G.D. George Bush, the Anti-Christ and his warmongering friends. This woman along with thousands of GI’s that have been wounded or killed because of the lies this administration has perpetrated on the American public.
The lies started after 9/11/2004 when the military decided they had a new enemy (they didn’t know who or where he was) and they could start a war. The spin started and went from Bin Laden and the invasion of Afghanistan to WMD and the invasion of Iraq and getting Hussein, to making a democracy out of Iraq (FAT CHANCE) and the price was all the young people that have been wounded, maimed and killed along with all the Iraqi’s (over 100,000), that were fighting to protect their homeland from the invaders, including women and children.. This will all lead to an exodus from Iraq after spending billions that we have to borrow to maintain solvency, and then having to leave with our tail between our legs like Korea and Vietnam. Even if the Iraqi’s get to vote they are going to end up with a theocracy and even if you call it a democracy they can still generate terrorist and because of the war they will probably turn into a terrorist state. The USA has demonstrated how you can be a democracy and be the biggest terrorist state.
In any case the last few years have been very bad and it all could have been so much different and better if we had spent our resources wisely. My wish is for all those troops to come home alive, not maimed and correct the mistakes of the administration. Then we can have a nice new year.
THOUGHTS I HAVE HAD 12/28/2004
Did you ever ask the questions: Do you hear,taste, feel, see, or smell as I do. The answer to these question is NO because there is no way to make the determination. An example would be: do you think the lemon tastes sour only because you were taught that it is sour, or how sour. Another sense is the "god sense", people speak about god and try to convince others that god exists but it is only in the mind of the individual person. People congregate in buildings and try and communicate with a god?. They also "pray" to their god. You may notice that I said their god, well that is the reality and each person has his or her own idea of what god is and to think that we have a common god is a pipe dream. The demonstration is that our senses are not duplicated and likewise our gods are not duplicated. There is no way known to man or animal that can determine what goes on in the brain. You might know that the world is composed of many religions and they will tell you that their god is the true god, and each has at least one"prophet". But it is only in the mind of the individual. Granted many different pictures are painted to depict the god but it is only in the mind of the painter and the people that are drawn in to believe that picture. Having a religion is a good thing, it allows the mind to enjoy life. Going to a church or praying is a meditation that heals the mind. Man has enjoyed his religion since time began, all civilizations have had one. When he prays it causes him to feel good about himself and he wants the things he prays for to happen. The only way he can really cause change. Even if it never happen she still feels he has made a difference. The main reason religion has played a large role in human life is because of all the mysteries in life and especially the big mystery DEATH. Religion bridges that gap by promising a life after death and that mystery will never be solved. Many mysteries are solved by science. Many a charlatan has used religion to take the riches from the weak and uninformed and used it to further their own life style. The latest to accomplish this robbery is our president Bush. He has convinced the majority or a lot of people that he is a born again Christian and that has propelled him into the whitehouse for the second time. His actions however are not what you would consider a good Christian. He has gone against abortion, stem cell research and gay marriages, which is the diversion that appeals to the Christian majority. Conversely he has started an unprovoked war that has killed over 100,000 people and thousands of his own army have been killed or maimed in the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. (Does that sound like the spin that was put forth about SadamHussein?) The main reasons for trying to abolish abortion and stem cell research is to save human life, so if you believe those reasons then why would you start a war and kill over 100,000 people that are trying to defend their country. We would like to think that the ?insurgents? are terrorist but they are the alliance within the Muslim community, trying to oust the invaders. The US alliance turned out to be a small number of countries that were bribed into supporting the US alliance. Some didn't even have an army. Many have since reconsidered and bowed out. Most did not support the alliance. Remember the USA empire has been enhanced and now we have many more bases in foreign countries, so many infact that it is difficult to supply troops to man these new bases. And the costs are staggering when we are operating the war on borrowed money. Don't worry about who is going to pay for the war your kids and grandkids will. And you thought this writing was about religion!!!
THE LATEST CHARALTON 1/12/2005
Many a charlatan has used religion to take the riches from the weak and uninformed and used it to further their own life style. The latest to accomplish this robbery is our president Bush. Early in his career after he was defeated by opponents that were born again Christians he decided to join the movement and use that ploy in his own campaigns and it works. He has convinced the majority or a lot of people that he is a born again Christian and that has propelled him into the white house for the second time. His actions however are not what you would consider a good Christian. He has gone against abortion, stem cell research and gay marriages, (things that would benefit mankind) which is the diversion that appeals to the Christian majority. He has started an unprovoked war that has killed over 100,000 people and thousands of his own army have been killed or maimed in the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. (Does that sound like the spin that was put forth about Saddam Hussein?) The main reasons for trying to abolish abortion and stem cell research is to aid human life, so if you believe those reasons then why would you start a war and kill over 100,000 people that are trying to defend their country. We would like to think that the “insurgents” are terrorist but they are the alliance within the Muslim community, trying to oust the invaders. The US alliance turned out to be a small number of countries that were bribed into supporting the US alliance. Some didn’t even have an army. Many have since reconsidered and bowed out. Most countries did not support the alliance.If you are running for office in the red states or the nation you would be advised to get to church on Sunday and make a good impression to the voter. After you are elected you can act like a dictator if you choose.Remember the USA Empire has been enhanced and now we have many more bases in foreign countries, so many in fact that it is difficult to supply troops to man these new bases. And the costs are staggering when we are operating the war on borrowed money. Don’t worry about who is going to pay for the war, your kids and grandkids will. And you thought this writing was about religion!!!
ABOUT RELIGION (GOD SENSE)
1/22/2005
Did you ever ask the questions: Do you hear, taste, feel, see,
or smell as I do? The answer to these questions is NO because
there is no way to make the determination. Another sense is the
“god sense”, people speak about god and try to believe that god
exists but it is only in the mind of the person. The reality is
each person has his or her own idea of what god is and to think
that we have a common god is a pipe dream. Similar beliefs are
associated with superstition and astrology. There is no
way known
to man that can determine what goes on in the brain. The world is
composed of many religions and they will tell you that their god
is the true god, and each has at least one “prophet". Many different
pictures are painted to depict god but it is only in the mind of the
painter and the people that are drawn in to believe that picture.
Having a religion is a good thing, it allows the mind to enjoy life.
Rod Galloway
WHAT DID GEORGE REALLY MEAN IN HIS INAGURAL ADDRESS??
1-23-2005
It sounded like George said he was going to invade the rest of the world that was not democratic. Most of the world was sure he meant to invade them and kill as many as necessary in order to establish a democracy in each country. It’s easy to understand their anguish after his failed demonstrations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This was the most irrational speech he has given. What sane person would say those things or even write them. But never fear, usually someone comes forth and says he didn’t mean what he said. “What he meant was…” This time his father who also has trouble with his mouth came to his rescue and said that was not what the speech was about. In any case it does not follow that having a democracy eliminates terror and our freedom is not dependent on the rest of the world being free. We have endured for more than 200 years without our democracy being eroded. The biggest threat to the democracy in this country is George W. Bush. Prepare for a perpetual war.
THE ID CARD
1/30/2005
An identification (smart card) should be issued to citizens and foreigners and naturalized citizens indicating their status in the USA. The ID card would be updated and act as a social security card, a driver’s license and would be required when applying for work in the USA. When the recipient had reached the age of voting the card would be used to identify that the citizen along with his address was eligible to vote. The citizen would not be required to register to vote. A change of address would be required. Being a member of a political party would be a private arrangement and not recognized by the government. The card needs to have a current picture, a PIN# and possibly a third means such as a fingerprint or an eye print to be capable of not being copied or falsified. Dead citizens would give up the card.Foreign aliens would be allowed to work under a guest workers program. Anyone that is driving in the country should have a license that indicates they know the rules of the road.
The General Was Right
2/17/2005
When the TV news interviewed the marine at Camp Pendleton that was scheduled to go to Iraq he said he wanted to go and shoot someone. The marine general reported that he liked killing men that mistreated women. There are not many professions that allow being judge, jury and executioner but the few jobs that are available are rushed into by sadist that want to do bodily harm to other humans. The license to commit these acts is given to various people, the president, military, police and possibly others. The remaining population is imprisoned for such acts.
The over $400 billion that is appropriated for the military is used to train and deploy troops to occupy other countries and kill other people when we feel it’s the thing to do or when we just want to have some fun. Like it or not that is the charter and we don’t want to talk about it because the truth does hurt. We would prefer to mask the operations as fights for freedom, liberation, democracy and justice etc. Yes we were attacked on 9/11 by twenty or so foreign nationals but someone in this country attacks us every day.
Justification for Fire and Police Departments
5-8-2005
For years I have watched the budget process and noticed that when the justification for police and firemen came up the only way they could rationalize their request was to compare other cities with the city or county based on population. Never did I hear that we need more for specific purposes or that we need more for high crime areas. For fires everyone has fire insurance and maybe that is the answer. Most times when I see a fire on TV it is showing the fire well along and not able to be put out but the firemen are there pouring water on and achieving nothing. Response time does little if the structure burns down. A better justification would be to show how much in dollars was saved compared to how much was lost due to fire. The response time and the number of firemen in another town has little to do with a building burning down. So you compare the losses against the saves and that is a gage of how effective the department is doing. The analogy is similar to the police justification. Most foreign countries I have visited you very seldom see police or firemen on the street. Most crime is committed independent of the police, the police usually shows up after the fact and provides a response and capture of the criminal, thanks mostly to the citizens that provide descriptions of the events.
In Caracas, Venezuela they have no speed limits, the cab driver says there is so much traffic he can’t go very fast. Most people in this country drive as fast as they think is safe and worry little about getting a ticket. The freeways are usually full of speeders and there is no way to control the speeders. Giving people tickets is a useless pursuit, because while he is giving one person a ticket there are thousands of speeders going by and people still speed after all the tickets that have ever been given. So it shows the tickets are ineffective. A better way to control speeding would be to have traffic breaks and that would not allow the speeding to occur, that is if they really wanted to control speeding. That would require a constant vigil on most roads and is probably not practical because it would require a lot of work by the department.
High crime areas are where the police presence is necessary especially for street crime. When private crime is being conducted it does little good to have police or firemen on the street, only after the fact are they effective. If you have the misconception that they protect you don’t even think it because when a personal crime is to be committed the police are not going to be there and you are responsible for your safety.
The politicians are responsible for the lack of justification and their theme is to campaign for more police on the street regardless of the real needs. A good example is when Washington sends out borrowed money for more police or firemen and the departments squander the money and buy useless toys that lay in the department’s warehouses collecting dust.
JUSTIFICATION FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
5-21-2005
For years I have watched the budget process and noticed that when the justification for the fire department came up the only way they could rationalize their request was to compare other cities payroll. Never did I hear a justification that the department saved homes compared to the losses in dollars. Then you could compare the cost of the department to the benefit of saved property. Not long ago we only had a volunteer fire department and usually plenty of people were willing to participate. Today we pay large amounts for the department and the benefit is the same. For fires everyone should be required to have fire insurance just as we are required to have auto insurance. Response time does little if the structure burns down. A better justification would be to show how much in dollars was saved compared to how much was lost due to fire. The response time and the number of firemen in another town has little to do with a building burning down. So you compare the losses against the saves and that is a gage of how effective the department is doing.
JUSTIFICATION FOR THE POLICE (CRIME)
5-21-2005
High crime areas are where the police presence is necessary especially for street crime. When private crime is being conducted it does little good to have police on the street, only after the fact are they effective. If you have the misconception that they protect you don’t even think it because when a personal crime is to be committed (rape, murder, robbery, etc) the police are not going to be there and you are responsible for your safety. Only after the fact does the police have an impact in catching the criminal. That task is also dependent on the public for there
Cooperation.
The politicians are responsible for the lack of justification and their theme is to campaign for more police on the street regardless of the real needs.
Most times the police chief with his 5 stars suggest that they are going to protect the public with more money, he should be asked how many rapes, robberies, murders, etc did they prevent and how would more police on the street help that situation? What is the ratio of administrative to street police? What is the effect of the administrative police? These are the real questions.
Nuclear Bomb Utilization
5-21-2005
The USA has finally shown its hand in how and when they will use the atomic bomb. As a result of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty being worked on by the UN the USA will not commit to not using the bomb on other countries and reserves the right to use it if another country uses biological or chemical weapons on the USA. So the stage is set and all that remains is for the spin to be completed and another war started, very similar to the way the Iraq war was falsely put to the American public. Bush is now speaking about how badly Roosevelt divided up Europe WW ll. He offers no solution as to how it should have been done. He does not apology about how the Iraq war was conducted and the things that provoked that war or the thousands of his own people that he killed or maimed along with the thousands of Iraqi’s he killed in retaliation for September 11. That used to be called cutting off your nose to spite your face. His popularity is slowly waned as more people accept the fact they have been led down the primrose path.
Rod Galloway
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JUSTIFICATION FOR THE POLICE (TRAFFIC)
5-23-2005
In most countries you very seldom see police or firemen on the street. Most crime is committed independent of the police, the police usually show up after the fact and provides a response and capture of the criminal, thanks mostly to the citizens that provide descriptions of the events.
Most people drive as fast as they think is safe and worry little about getting a ticket. The freeways are usually full of speeders and there is no way to control the speeders. Giving people tickets is a useless pursuit, because after all the traffic tickets nothing changes. So it shows the tickets are ineffective. A better way to control speeding would be to have continuous traffic breaks and that would not allow the speeding to occur, that is if they really wanted to control speeding. That would require a constant vigil on most roads and is probably not practical because it would require real work by the department.
High crime areas are where the police presence is necessary especially for street crime. When private crime is being conducted it does little good to have police on the street, only after the fact are they effective. If you have the misconception that they protect you don’t even think it because when a personal crime is to be committed the police are not going to be there and you are responsible for your safety.
The politicians are responsible for the lack of justification and their theme is to campaign for more police on the street regardless of the real needs. A good example is when Washington sends out borrowed money for more police or firemen and the departments squander the money and buy useless toys that lay in the department’s warehouses collecting dust.
TRAFFIC AND THE POLICE
5-23-2005
In most countries you very seldom see police on the street.
Most people drive as fast as they think is safe and worry little about getting a ticket. The freeways are usually full of speeders and there is no way to control the speeders. Giving people tickets is a useless pursuit, because after all the traffic tickets nothing changes. So it shows the tickets are ineffective. A better way to control speeding would be to have continuous traffic breaks and that would not allow the speeding to occur, that is if they really wanted to control speeding. That would require a constant vigil on most roads and is probably not practical because it would require real work by the department. After a while the public would get the message. Rather than doing something positive the police continue to point their toy radar guns and single out people that are “speeding”.
CONQUERING THE WORLD USA STYLE
5-30-2005
It all began years ago prior to WWII, we had “possessions” in many parts of the world, Hawaii, Philippines, Guam, Wake Island, Alaska, Puerto Rica, US Virgin Islands, etc. It was a small empire. After WWII we occupied Japan, Okinawa, parts of Germany and had bases in North Africa, Italy, France, and many other places around the globe. As time moved on other smaller countries welcomed us and the USA offered military “protection”. Many countries in Central America that don’t have armies still think that the USA will protect them if they are invaded by an outside power. Even though we do not have bases in those countries many do our bidding.
After oil became plentiful in the Middle East and after Israel was given Palestine, the area has been a powder keg ready to blow up into a war of various sizes. The USA has been subsidizing Israel for years by giving them billions of dollars each year. Other countries in that area concluded somehow that they probably needed protection from Iraq or Iran or others and became paranoid about protecting their oil reserves. Iraq and Iran had been fighting and had amassed large armies. So it was a natural thing to bring in the protector the US military and they would allow military bases to be established in their countries. These countries were the Islamic Muslim countries around the Arabian Peninsula. The only problem with this invasion was that the hard line Muslims did not want the American influence in their country and especially a predominant Christian nation bringing their influence into the Muslim countries and supporting Israel.
The Saudi Arabian Osama Bin Laden began a campaign to oust the Americans from the peninsula. With poor results politically he started a jihad or a holy war against the Americans. A number of facilities were bombed and finally the World Trade Center in New York was leveled by two aircraft and one crashed into the Pentagon killing approximately 3000 persons.
President Bush within a few days accused, tried, convicted and sentenced Bin Laden to death for his apparent role in the bombing. The US government started a knee jerk reaction to the bombing and spent billions in an attempt to apparently forestall any further attempt on the USA. The reaction was so great and so chaotic that there was little reason for any further terrorist activities in the USA. The US was brought to believe that we had been invaded and the next strike was eminent. What the attack caused was an economic disaster in our government. The government started spending money like it was going out of style on every pork barrel project that the greedy congress could think of, with borrowed money of course because the country did not have enough money to spend on such luxuries. The lenders are the countries of the world that do not spend their resources unwisely and have surpluses like China, Japan, and others.
They knew that Bin Laden had training bases in Afghanistan, because Clinton had lobed cruise missiles into the area of the training grounds to retaliate for some event. But the ultimate solution was to invade Afghanistan in order to catch Bin Laden. They sent in an army to catch one guy that could have been done with 50 personal from a Delta force or a Seal team. After two years they have not found Bin Laden. The wars were presented to the American public with false claims and spins that were contrived by the intelligence community to satisfy the leaders and the American public that the war was a necessary thing. Soon after the spin a large part of the population was waving flags and promoting the war. Today the truth is coming out and the impeachment of the leaders is approaching. The military however does not take any hits and goes along with its war mongering awaiting a new leader to indoctrinate.
The war in Afghanistan still goes on without an end in site and in addition to that they decided to invade Iraq for reasons that have proven to have no merit. The terrorist won a battle because of the invasion that allowed them to fight on their turf the hated imperialist Americans.
The wars go on in these two countries and the resistance seems to be consistent and will cause the fighting to go on until the Americans leave both of those countries. The terror will continue until the USA is out of the Middle East and stops supporting Israel. Nothing has been learned from the Afghani’s fight getting the Russians out of their country or the fight with Palestine and the Israel. These people will fight until the last of the one billion are dead.
But I think the military knows that and they are willing to give up American youth to continue the fight until they are finally brought down by the American public. This would be similar to the end of fighting in Korea and Viet Nam. They were wars that ended without a victory and nothing happened to the USA as a result of the fighting except we lost thousands of our young men and women along with billions of lost dollars and no lessons learned. The business of the military (like it or not) is to make war. As proved in the past winning the war is not necessary as long as they are engaged in the business of making war. It is the high-ranking parts of the military that is willing to sacrifice the American youth. With the volunteer military they always have a “feel good” attitude about the sacrifice. If you look at the war dead they do not include any high ranking personnel and the rich do not allow their sons and daughters to enlist. Then each Memorial day we can thank the dead for their contribution to the business of making war.
Having a democracy does not guarantee peace as the US maintains will happen in the Middle East. The USA democracy is good proof that having a democracy does not cause peace but on the contrary causes wars to start. This democracy has demonstrated time and again that we are a terrorist state and an aggressor nation. The CIA has been our terrorist arm and continues to do so.
As a result of the fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq we have established many more bases in those countries and in neighboring countries. Not long ago we had over 700 military bases overseas and over 900 bases in the USA. The count has risen sharply since the Middle East invasions. Even when the military admits we have too many bases and are wasting money the public and the foreign countries which are so greedy does not want to close any of the bases, especially not in their back yard. It is easy to see how easy it is to conquer the world and not fire too many shots at least that is what the government thinks. The economic advantage of the military in the region demands that the military stay in the area. The costs for doing that are enormous. The military now has at least 19% of the federal budget, over $400 billion not counting the contribution of each state with the National Guard. Anyone that suggests reducing the military budget would be rode out of town on a rail.
Presidents come and go but throughout the years the military has always been in charge of Washington. Whatever they want or “need” they get even if it doesn’t fly. What the military “needs” are puppets in the legislative and executive areas to do their bidding. That is how our government is controlled. And you thought you had a vote in deciding who would represent you. It turns out it does not make any difference, the military is in control and our representative soon conforms as soon as they arrive in the big town.
Years ago in order to conquer the world you had to fight each country until they surrendered. Today you offer “protection” similar to the mobsters of the twenties and thirties. Or you buy in by offering the local economy a military base that will put money into the local economy and help the local prostitutes at whatever they are selling. By having bases in every country you wish to conquer it is not necessary to invade and create enemies just offer economic advantages and they will come knocking at your door. Some do resist and have to be dealt with. Once in the country we develop a mutual understanding that makes then dependent on the military and the invasion is complete. Also some are too big to deal with and they are left alone for the time being. These countries are China, Russia, Indonesia, are some and not Africa because maybe no oil.
THE ULTIMATE HYPOCRIT
5-31-2005
The president has demonstrated the ultimate in hypocrisy by indicating he will veto the stem cell research initiative that is going to be passed by the legislature. He is perfectly willing to sacrifice American soldiers in Iraq along with thousands of Middle Eastern men, women and children by killing them but when it comes to a fetus he wants to save it. He has in the past indicated the need to save fetuses from being destroyed because of an evangelical belief that we should save all life forms and not let a woman choose what she wants to do with her body. The majority of people believe that this type of research is important in the pursuit of good medicine. The big problem is when the irrational thinking of the religious community aligns itself with the government and has the influence the president has the religion enters the government. The irrational behavior of the religion is acceptable on a personal basis because it does not interfere or impact other people. When the religion gets into the government many people are affected and the irrational ideas are pushed onto the whole population. That is the important reason to separate the church from the state.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOUR REPRESENTATIVES WORK FOR??
5-31-2005
If you think your representatives are doing your bidding in the legislature you have not been listening to what they do. They work for the military and big business, the police and other organizations that have influence within the government. Not just the federal government but the state and local governments. Many laws that are passed are “feel good laws” and that means the maker of the law feels good even though the law cannot be enforced and no funds are appropriated to support that legislation.
A great example is that San Diego supposedly needs a new airport and the Miramar base would be a great place for the public use. The federal representatives insist on maintaining the military at that base and refuses to allow the public access. The military is a minority here in this community and bases could be located in many sites within the county. This is a typical instance showing the legislatures are not working for the public but for the military.
WHY NOT GET OUT OF IRAQ NOW??
6-14 2005
The administration maintains that as soon as the Iraqi’s can protect themselves we can send the troops home (which will never happen). The ploy here is to set a standard that only we can decide when that happens and never allow that to happen. When we leave the Iraqi’s will decide what they are going to do and it will probably be won by the most powerful as usual. What difference does it make if we leave now or later. The sooner we leave the causality list will go to zero and isn’t that what we want. As soon as the Russians left Afghanistan their causalities dropped to zero. I think most people just want to know for sure that we have a withdral plan and then sit back and wait for the administration to change its mind. Remember it is better to have a bird in hand than…..
Necessary reading is the Sorrows of The Empire and Blowback by Chalmers Johnson, which reveal the goals of the American empire. Those that don’t think we are empire builders should question why the military has the largest budget and that more than many countries and prior to 9/11 we had more than 725 bases in foreign countries and more than 900 bases in the continental USA.
The only countries that have asked us to leave are Saudi Arabia and the Philippines. Once we have gotten into a foreign country we never leave. A lot of troops and civilians are required to maintain the bases. With over 250,000 troops on hand when we invaded Iraq we called up the Reserve and National Guard. Those are the ones used for cannon fodder. Counting civilians and dependents more than 475,000.
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THE JOHN CONYERS HEARINGS
6-16-2005
I watched and recorded the John Conyers hearings and it was very enlightening. The evidence shows we have been duped into an illegal war. The people that testified under oath was Ray McGovern a former CIA employee and a well informed person, Joe Wilson, a former diplomat, a woman that is head of the Gold Star Mothers and John Bonifaz from www.afterdowningstreet.org, a young lawyer that advocates the investigation and subsequently impeachment of George Bush and his associates. It was very moving testimony.
I was going to make copies and hand them out at our meeting but I didn’t get to it so I have added it to this memo. The memo I wrote when Kerry was getting tramped on by the lies and liers of the Bush campaign. I rambeled on and told how the war was started and what mechanism was used to dupe the American public into believing the war was justified. Ofcourse each justification was changed when the last justification was proved to be false and today the justification is for democracy in Iraq which is not a reason for war and the killing and maiming of our soldiers and thousands of innocent civilians, much less having a war in a poor environment (hell hole) which no GI should have to endure.
The 9/11 story is not a short one
Rod
From Jerry Dowell:
"We come not as conquerors, but as liberators."
George W. Bush (2003)
"Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators."
Adolph Hitler (1938)
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on
A farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of
it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people
don't want war neither in Russia, nor in
England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after
all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it
is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a
Democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a
Parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people
can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All
you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the
Peacemakers for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Hermann Goering,
Nuremberg Trial 1946
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the
merger of state and corporate power." Benito Mussolini
The Drums Of War By Caesar;
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order
To whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor, for
Patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both
Emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the
mind....And when the drums of war have reached a fever
pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has
closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the
rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry,
infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will
offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly
so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I
am Caesar.
The world expects Good People to do Good.
The World expects Evil People to do Evil.
But for Good People to do Evil, now that takes Religion.
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IS THE WORLD BETTER OFF TODAY OR WORST THAN EVER?
6-21-2005
There are time periods that are better then than now, but in general things are better now than ever. Of all the things that influence our lives the majority of them have improved our way of life. The good things are medicine, science, weather reporting, communications, our food, agriculture, computers and the web, automobiles, alternative energy generators. These things have improved over the years making life more enjoyable. Things that drag us down are the constant conflicts around the world especially the recent one that we have spent our resources without receiving a benefit. When we spend our resources and receive nothing for the expenditure everyone loses. If an individual spent his resources and received nothing for the money he would be very upset but when it is the tax dollars that they don’t control it seems that is ok.
Other things that are worse today than yesteryears, the earths water, pollution of the air and waterways including ground water.
THE UNTAPPED GOLD MINE
6-21-2005
The taxpayer is taxed on everything imaginable and the
government spends more than they take in taxes that always lead
them to think up new ways to get more money. Well there is a pot
of gold just waiting to be tapped and it is with all the so-called
religious organizations and pastors that do not pay any taxes.
Billions of dollars of church property that is sitting around and the
government does not collect any taxes but the churches are very
willing to try and convince the politicians that the laws should
reflect the churches doctrine and cause us to become a theocracy.
They have caused that to happen in many places. Wet / dry
elections in some southern counties are voted dry because of the
churches and the bootleggers get in bed together when that subject
is put to the voters. The call for abolition of stem cell research,
abortion, same sex marriages, gays in society, and now they
advocate continuing the war and the killing of more soldiers
among other things.
The world expects Good People to do Good.
The World expects Evil People to do Evil.
But for Good People to do Evil, now that takes Religion.
THE USA HAS BECOME AN ATTRACTIVE NUSIANCE
6-21-2005
Most people have the mind set that the illegal alien is a problem of the border patrol and the government is not doing enough to keep them out of the country. When legislatures make laws that are unenforceable the laws do not work and the effort is wasted. Thinking the border patrol can keep out the illegals is an exercise in folly. The real problem is the legislatures have created an attractive nuisance and they expect the border patrol to stop the illegal immigration, which is an impossible job but once the bureaucracy has been
created it almost impossible to get rid of. The laws that have been passed over the years have created the nuisance. Laws that allow babies that are bom in the country become automatic citizens, raising the minimum wage attracts foreign workers to come to this country, giving aid such as free hospitalization, food stamps, allowing foreign workers to work without permits, allowing students to go to school for free plus other things.
The best way to handle the immigration is for a guest worker program that is self-controlled. When the unemployment rises to the point that they cannot get work they will go home or some other country after the unemployment insurance runs out. The border patrol can then do their job of checking passports. Subsistence is not free and they must pay for the benefits.
WHO REALLY OWNS YOUR PROPERTY
6-23-2005
Well you have finally bought your house or business and don't rent anymore and you think you "own it". Wrong, the government owns all land and the structures that are built on that land. Remember if you do not pay your property taxes, which amounts to the rent you pay for the privilege of living or working on the property the government will put a lien on the property and when you sell the property they will get the back taxes. Also if the government "needs" the property they can obtain it by condemning and giving you the fair market value and they decide what that number will be. This is called eminent domain. So you see the government actually owns the property and they allow you to live or work the site until they have a need for it.
WHEN WILL WE HAVE PEACE
7-7-2005
Peace comes after each war we lose. Since WWII we have had many days of peace in the USA. Peace is the time when the military regroups and rebuilds its war machine. After a period of time people forget the last disaster and are ready to take on another war and hopefully try and win. We never gain anything and waste a lot of our resources and young lives. We are now going thru another disaster but it will end soon.
WHO ARE THE INSURGENCE?
7-7-2005
It has been difficult to determine in the news which side they are talking about when they say “the insurgence” did this or that. You would think the people that are defending their homeland would be called the defenders and the invaders called the invaders. In today’s case the alliance is composed of the USA military along with the token allies and the Iraqi’s with their alliance are called the insurgency. The Iraqi alliance is composed of friends that do not want the USA to succeed in the invasion of Iraq and wants the USA out of the Middle East. These are the messages that are put forth by the defenders and ignored by the USA.
It seems like the people would know better what was going on if the names were more descriptive of the players.
THE NEW MERCENARY MILITARY
7-7-2005
Washington would like to have you think we have a voluntary military. Years ago prior to WWII we had a volunteer military, they were paid a pittance and was provided with room and board. Since that time the military bureaucracy has grown to the point that they are now giving signing bonuses to new recruits and re-enlistment personnel. We don’t have a draft yet but it is just around the corner. The officers get large sums of pay and large amounts when they retire so you see we have a mercenary military and that is necessary in order to maintain the population and provide for the over 1500 military bases in this country and around the world. If it were not for the large amounts of money that attracts the personal then the military would not be able to recruit for its infrastructure and conduct a war. The military has indoctrinated the public and the congress so well that when they want to close a base the greedy public does not want to allow that to happen because they have a cash cow that they have been milking for a long time.
THE GOOD WE HAVE DONE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
7-15-2005
A few times someone writes about the “good” things that are happening in Iraq. They never tell you what the cost of those “good” things is costing the people of the USA and the world. Since we invaded that sovereign country for all the wrong reasons the costs have been enormous due to all the lives that were lost and the people that were wounded and maimed (over 50,000) due to the invasion effort that will go on for years unless we get our troops out of the region. The number of our troops that have been killed is approaching the number of people killed during the 9/11 attack and over 100,000 Iraqi’s that have died due to being innocent bystanders or those fighting to protect their country from the invaders. After we blew up the whole country we are now trying to rebuild it in our image with greedy US contractors that have taken advantage of the situation and overcharged the American taxpayer for everything needed to replace all the destruction the military has caused. Now if it makes you feel good about all that carnage because of the rebuilding effort have a good time. How many other countries will we invade because we would like them to have a democracy? We should change this republic that we live in to a democracy before we ask others to have one. Having a democracy does not mean “freedom” and it does not eliminate terrorism. We have become the greatest terrorist state and we still don’t have a democracy. The senate is a good example why we don’t have a democracy. That is one reason we have a republic. Maybe after a few years and 10’s of billions of dollars Iraq may get back to what it was before the invasion.
The world expects good people to do good.
The world expects evil people to do evil.
But for good people to do evil, now that takes religion.
The San Diego Union-Tribune • Monday. July 25,2005
How the U.S. can Withdraw from Iraq
By Michaet Provence
More terrorist atrocities have
struck a Western capital. As in
Spain, the terrorists explicitly
cited al-Qaeda and the Iraq war. The
war in Iraq has cost thousands of lives
and seems to have made every corner
of the globe more dangerous for every-
one.
Our enemies are emboldened, and
their ranks continue to swell. Escala-
tion of violence on our part promises
little relief, and threatens to under-
mine the values America represents.
What does the future hold for the
United States and the Middle East? Is it
time to rethink American Mid East pol-
icy and strategy in the war on terror?
President Bush recently argued that
the United States must stay the course
in Iraq, The president still makes the
unlikely claims that America is safer
and Iraq is somehow benefiting from
the occupation.
War supporters claimed the invasion
was necessary for three reasons: Iraq
held vast stockpiles of weapons of
mass destruction, Iraq had undefined
ties with a group of fanatical Islamist
criminals hiding in the distant caves of
Afghanistan and, as a consequence of
the first two reasons, Iraq posed an im-
mediate threat to the United States.
Such claims were widely discredited
in the months before the invasion and
all have now been proven false, but
there were other less well-publicized
objectives common to earlier imperial
adventures in the Middle East
The administration hoped Iraq
would replace Saudi Arabia as a swing
producer of oil. Iraqi oil would be out-
side of QPEC and the U.N. sanctions
regime. Iraqi oil rights would be sold
to American companies. An American-
installed Iraqi government would
sign long-term leases for American
military bases in Iraq.
Iraq would sign a peace treaty with
Israel on Israeli terms. Iraqi oil would
be shipped by pipeline to Haifa In Is-
rael as it was in the days when Iraq, Jor-
dan and Palestine were all British colo-
nial mandates. Governments critical of
Israeli policy in the West Bank and
American policy in the Persian Gulf
would be silenced. No Middle Eastern
state would dare challenge American
or Israeli hegemony in the region.
Iraqis would welcome a U.S. invasion
and occupation of their country and
the rest of the world would eventually
come around to the final realization of
a grand new order. ;
These fantasies have long been
abandoned, though the administration
clings to the dream of a pro-American
Iraq serving as both U.S. military base
and oil pump.
For the people of me Middle East,
this is familiar. Britain and France oc-
cupied the region in 1918 and penciled
in the borders of all modern states.
Middle Easterners desired indepen-
dence, but European powers ignored
their dreams. Foreign rule was almost
universally unpopular. Everywhere it
claims of good intentions. We have
provided a generation's worth of se-
ductive propaganda for the criminal
murderers of al-Qaeda. By our actions,
we have strengthened the hateful and
outlandish arguments of Osama bin
Laden and his associates.
There is a way to extricate America
from the Middle East and begin to sal-
vage our international reputation.
American forces should sponsor an im-
mediate referendum on U.S. pres-
ence in lraq. If Iraqis go to the polls
and reject the American occupation of
their country.we musf
leave in accordanceWith the democra-
tic wishes of Iraqi citizens, we will have
done far better than the British in
Palestine, Iraq and Egypt, and the
French in Algeria, Syria and Vietnam,
to mention onfy a few places.
If America can allow Iraqis a real
choice in their own destiny, things
might start to turn around for every-
one, and the future might begin to look
a little brighter.The only way to
win the war forall.
Provence, author of "The Great Syrian Re-
volt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism," Is
an assistant professor of modern Middle
OUR SCIENCE FAIR FOR ADULTS
7-28-2005
The space shuttle finally got off the ground and the rest of the fleet is grounded because of sloppy workmanship. NASA has performed some tasks well, such as the GPS, weather, and communications satellites and possibly a few other benefits for the public, but for the majority of there more than $30 billion expenditures each year we have got little in return. Add to that someone with a dimwitted idea that we now need to go back to the moon where we learned nothing and also a trip to mars where we will learn that you can’t water ski and its best to not try and get a suntan. It is important that we have a science fair project for our scientific community, it keeps them off welfare but they could be working on something useful that the world really needs instead of throwing good money after bad. They could be working on the problem of the rock throwers in the Middle East. That has been going on for a long time and no one seems to be working on the problem. The private space agency is having great success with a fraction of the money, (no taxpayer $) its called ingenuity.
THE NEW PERPETUAL ENERGY MACHINE
7-29-2005
Finally after all these years man has discovered the perpetual energy machine. Talking to an Iowa farmer assured me the new fuel; Ethanol did not require more energy to make than what was produced. I explained to him that it is not physically possibility to achieve that state but after he explained his position it was clear he knew more about the subject than I did. I have to confess that I did not consider all the ingredients that go into the production of Ethanol. The one ingredient that I was not aware of was “subsidy”. Once you input subsidy all things are possible, you can compete with all foreign competitors with all farm products, oil and manufactured items. When Central and South American countries are giving away coffee and stopping production because the coffee in not worth growing the price in the USA is higher than ever.
War Powers
8-8-2005
According to Peter Irons in his book “WAR POWERS” the constitution gives the president the power to defend the USA and does not allow him the right to make war in a foreign country without the congress approving the engagement by declaring war. This approval has not been granted since WWll, but we have engaged many governments in wars and not had the required approval from congress. They did vote to send troops to Afghanistan and Iraq but the constitution does not allow the congress to make such decisions and not declare war. All of the conflicts since WWll have been illegal and all of the money spent and the lives spent were against the constitution, which the presidents have, swore to uphold. Seems like the fox is watching the hen house.
Then finally G. Bush has signed a presidential directive authorizing him to order anyone, anywhere – including Americans, in America – assassinated as an “enemy combatant” in the “war on terror,” no evidence of wrong doing necessary. Just another example of our dictatorial government in action. Also a violation of the 5th amendment of the constitution.
DUNCAN HUNTERS REQUIREMENTS TO END THE WAR IN IRAQ
8-8-2005
I received the attached letter from Duncan Hunter showing the requirements for leaving Iraq. There are six points that must be accomplished prior to leaving Iraq, all of which cannot be achieved. First, Iraq must have security self-reliance. Second, establish a political process that leads to a free and democratic Iraq. Third, establish a foundation for a strong economy in Iraq. Fourth, establish the rule of law. Fifth, increased international engagement and support. The USA would also like to have those goals.
Rod Galloway
1340 H Street
Ramona, Ca 92065
760 789 1333
The letter is the second page of this fax.
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
9-2-2005
Joel Beyer wrote that the bible says many things but finally admits that Jesus did not say anything about homosexuals. The reality is that the bible was written by many men over a long period of time by men that wanted to think there was a god and he appeared as Jesus. It wasn’t until the 16th century that the church finally decided the book was written by god. When in fact god never wrote anything and most of the writers did not even know Jesus (if he actually existed) and for years theologians have been trying to demythologize the writings that we now know as the King James “version”. Historically there have been many versions and interpretations and of course everyone wants to interpret what it means.
All civilizations have their gods (even the aborigines) and the result is that man needs that crutch to sustain himself during his lifetime and a religion is a good mythological way to accomplish and sustain him. He prays and the benefit is to the person doing the prayer and does no one else any good. It makes the person doing the prayer feel he has helped whatever and as a result he feels better. The human is very susceptible to superstitions and mythological happenings and religion falls right in with those beliefs. So having a religion is a good thing but don’t try and make rules about the contents and rules that others must live by. A good reason we try and keep the church out of the government. A better commandment would be do no harm to others. Only two of the 10 commandments have been made into mans law, stealing and killing and remember the motto of the Evangelical Christians is KILL, KILL, KILL.
DROP MEETING IN OCEANSIDE
9-6-2005
Today I attended a meeting in Oceanside sponsored by BOTH (bring our troops home); Lester Cohen and Lee Shapiro started the organization. The theme was an open discussion on the war in Iraq and the pros and cons of troop withdrawal. The notice was posted in the North County Times.
When the meeting started they said that they didn't want people to say anything derogatory and not use bad language, which was OK. However when anyone got up to speak and said something about the war the two moderators would call on the speaker to stop and they would take away the microphone. One guy was allowed to talk twice and he advocated the Bush line.
When I got up to talk I started by telling them that we would never have been attacked if we had not occupied Muslim land and did not support Israel. I didn't get to tell them that if we left Iraq now and left the Middle East and stopped giving welfare to Israel we would not be subject to an attack. But that was all it took and the microphone was taken out of my hand.
BOTH did not want an open discussion, it was difficult to determine what they wanted everyone to say but practically all presenters were not allowed to talk and give their views.
PLEDGE TO THE FLAG AND THE REPUBLIC
9-19-2005
A pledge of allegiance to the flag and country is an ok thing to do but why do kids need to do it everyday. Once in a lifetime should be enough unless you renounce the allegiance then you may need to do it again if you choose. Kids that are young enough to make the pledge are probably not old enough to know what it really means. After they are old enough to know what they are pledging they will also find out that equal justice and liberty for all could be a goal but it doesn’t exist in this country or probably any country. God certainly does not have anything to do with a pledge to the flag and the republic. You don’t get baptized every day, but the Catholics go thru the same ritual everyday, why not just do it once per lifetime. But if you want to do all those things then set aside a day and say all those things, the pledge, the baptism, the Mass, etc. and then get on with your life and do some good in the world and quit wasting time and money on things that don’t matter to anyone.
THE USA WAS NOT FOUNDED ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
9-28-2005
For the people who constantly indicate that this country was founded on the “Christian” religion they should read the treaty of peace and friendship signed at Tripoli, November 4, 1796 (3 Ramada I, A.H. 1211) and at Algiers January 3, 1797 (Rajab, A.H. 1211). The treaty was ratified by the United States June 10, 1797, John Adams was president at the time.
The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States and the Bey and subjects of Tripoli of Barbary. Tripoli November 4 1796 in the 11th article states:
“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion”……..
You should already know that treaties, once ratified by the Senate and signed by the President become the law of the land.
Look it up at: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm.
AND HE SAID IT VERY WELL--------MOONFLOWER
----- Original Message -----
From: Blake Borgerson
To: Blake Borgerson
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:00 PM
Subject: Senator John Glenn
WHAT SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID
Things that make you think a little:There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January.In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in themonth of January.That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq.When some claim that President Bush shouldn'thave started this war, state the following:a. FDR led us into World War II.b. Germany never attacked us; Japan did.From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost ...an average of 112,500 per year.c. Truman finished that war and started one in Korea.North Korea never attacked us.From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost ...an average of 18,334 per ! year.d John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.Vietnam never attacked us.e. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire.From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost .an average of 5,800 per year.f. Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent.Bosnia never attacked us.He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter threetimes by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us onmultiple occasions.g. In the years since terrorists attacked us , President Bushhas liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippledal-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and NorthKorea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist whoslaughtered 300,000 of his own peopleThe Democrats are complainingabout how long the war is taking.But ..It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Renoto take the B! ranch Davidian compound.That was a 51-day operation.We've been looking for evidence for chemical weaponsin Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to findthe Rose Law Firm billing records.It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and theMarines to destroy the Medina Republican Guardthan it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after hisOldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.It took less time to take Iraq than it tookto count the votes in Florida!!!!Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB!The Military morale is high!The biased media hopes we are too ignorantto realize the factsBut Wait . there's more!JOHN GLENN (ON THE SENATE FLOOR)Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:13Some people still don't understand why military personneldo what they do for a living. This exchange betweenSenators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaumis worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressiveimpromptu speech, but it's also a good example of oneman's explanation of why men and women in the armedservices do what they do for a living.This IS a typical, though sad, example of whatsome who have never served think of the military.Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn):"How can you run for Senatewhen you've never held a real job?"Senator Glenn (D-Ohio):"I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps.I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions.My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 differentoccasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't mycheckbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It wasnot a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take thedaily cash receipts to the bank.""I ask you to go with me ... as I went the other day...to a veteran's hospital and look those men ...with their mangled bodies ... in the eye, and tell THEMthey didn't hold a job!You go with me to the Space Program at NASAand go, as I have gone, to the widows and Orphansof Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee...and you look those kids in the eye and tell themthat their DADS didn't hold a job.You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand inArlington National Cemetery, where I have more friendsburied than I'd like to remember, and you watchthose waving flags! You stand there, and you think about this nation,and you tell ME that those people didn't have a job?What about you?" For those who don't remember ..During W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorneyrepresenting the Communist Party in the USA.Now he's a Senator!If you can read this, thank a teacher.If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran.It might not be a bad idea to keep this circulating.
I WILL SEND THIS ON TO THE GOOD PEOPLE I CONVERSE WITH BUT ONLY AFTER WE STRAIGHTEN SOME OF COMMENTS BY JOHN GLENN.
1. COMPAIRING THE NUMBER OF DEATHS IN DETROIT IS A POOR WAY OF JUSTIFING THE WAR IN IRAQ. THE 39 KILLED IN IRAQ COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED, THE 35 KILLED IN DETROIT IS A NORMAL EVENT AND IF THE PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE BEEN DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THE PROBLEMS IN DETROIT THE 35 MAY HAVE BEEN SAVED BUT HE DOSEN’T CARE ABOUT THOES THINGS.
2. BEFORE WE DECLAIRED WAR AGAINST GERMANY THEY HAD SUNK MANY USA SHIPS THAT WERE CARRING SUPPLIES TO EUROPE.
3. PEOPLE STILL TRY TO JUSTIFY THE CURRENT FOLLY WITH THE MISTAKES OF STARTING THE WARS IN KOREA, VIETNAM, BOSNIA AND ANYWHERE ELSE THE MILITARY HAVE BEEN PROPED UP AND GIVEN JOBS OF KILLING PEOPLE AND AS A RESULT GETTING OVER 100,000 GI’S KILLED IN AN ABORTIVE ATTEMPT TO ADD THOES EVENTS TO THE IMPERIALISTIC TRENDS OF OUR GOVERNMENT.
4. YES OSAMA APPARENTLY DID ATTACK US BUT ONLY AFTER WE OCCUPIED MUSLIM LANDS AND SUPPORTED ISRAEL.
5. WHY WOULD ANYONE PUT UP A SUPERFLIOUS ARGUMENT ABOUT JANET RENO, HILLARY, TED KENNEDY, FLORIDA AND THE FACT THAT OUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IS DOING A GREAT JOB WHEN 28% OF THE COUNTRY THINK THE COUNTRY IS ON THE WRONG PATH AND HIS APPROVAL RAITING HAS DROPPED TO AN ALL TIME LOW.
6. REMEMBER THE “JOB” OF THE MILITARY IS TO MAKE WAR AND WE PAY A HUGE TAX FOR THAT “JOB”. EVEN IF NOTHING HAPPENS AS A RESULT OF THAT EFFORT. ONLY MISSPENT DOLLARS AND THE DEATHS OF OUR YOUNG PATRIOTS.
7. JOHN GLENN’S ARGUMENTS ARE EMPTY AND WHAT WAS HE THINKING TELLING ABOUT A SPACE PROGRAM THAT DELIVERED NOTHING AND HIS “MISSIONS” KILLING PEOPLE IN TWO WARS. ALL OF US THAT WERE IN THE MILITARY DURING THOES MISSPENT WARS WHERE IN THE MILITARY BUSINESS (“JOBS”) OF KILLING PEOPLE AND NOTHING RESULTED OF THOES EFFORTS.
8. APPARENTLY METZENBAUM DID HAVE A JOB DEFENDING THE COMMUNIST AND NOT KILLING OR INVADING PEOPLE IN SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES.
9. NOW READ THE BAD ARGUMENTS BELOW IF YOU CHOOSE
ROD
Walter
Sorry I haven’t responded to the petition sooner but I have been busy..
I decided not to send it out because a lot of what is said doesn’t ring very true.
I don’t think there are very many people if any that want to not use the word god. It is a very acceptable term and maybe some people think there is not a god but they are a small minority. All civilizations have had gods.
CBS probably did not discontinue the program “touched by an angel” because of the word god, they are in the business of making money and when something doesn’t sell they discontinue that program. They have been doing it for years.
Who cares that Madeline Murry O’hare’s son is a catholic or any other religion of which there are thousands.
You should stand up for your religious freedom but when the religion gets into the government it affects everyone. Religion should be a very personal thing and i wish anyone that wants one can have it but don’t try and push it off on to the rest of us.
Our country was founded on a so-called freedom but I don’t see anywhere in the constitution that talks about the 10 commandments. Only two of the commandments appear in our laws that can be enforced, stealing and killing. But our country thinks it is ok to kill other people, even our own. Of course thoes two rules is an attempt to keep other people from harming others and any society would adopt a rule like that.
Finally who is Dobson???
Rod
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DAD
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RODNEY JR.
DEMAND FOR OIL
10-29-2005
The reason we have not had any refineries built in the past thirty years is because there was no need and/or the oil companies did not want any competition. For the last thirty years the oil companies have supplied oil and gas for an ever-expanding population and the demand has steadily increased as the population grew. The demand grows as the population grows and few variations except in time of a staged war which requires more fuel. During the thirty years there has not been a time when the refineries could not supply the required amount of oil products, otherwise we would have to ration the products. So not building more refineries has nothing to do with the price of oil products. Have you ever seen a report about the amount of oil products produced for a month or a year? The answer is no because they don’t want you to know what the production rate is and they do not want to publish the maximum amount of oil products they can produce. If you don’t know then they can use the demand argument and no one can dispute the argument and raise prices as much as they would like which is what has happened over the past few years. Don’t forget who controls the market; the oilmen in Washington and big oil that helps put them in office. The profits are astronomical.
CLOSING THE BORDERS
11-2-2005
The ridiculous idea that the USA can close the borders to illegal immigrants will never happen. The lawmakers frequently try to pacify the electorate by adding a few thousand Border Patrol agents to the huge bureaucracy that already exists. They have not made any impact on the number of people that enter the country illegally. They are only throwing good money after bad and increase the bureaucracy.
The fact is that if the border was protected by agents standing shoulder to shoulder around the circumference of the 48 states they could not stop the flow of people entering the USA. The circumference of the 48 states, which is the border, includes the Mexican and Canadian borders and the states that border the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and don’t forget the Gulf States. That is the mainland and does not include all the possessions, Alaska and Hawaii. The entire population (300 million) standing shoulder to shoulder twenty-four hours a day would not be enough to stop the influx. So when anyone talks about closing the borders they do not have a close touch with reality. No country has ever achieved that purpose.
MY UTOPIAN GOVERNMENT (a work in progress)
7-26-2005
Modified 11-16-2005
When you read this just think how different our country would be if we implemented these provisions in our constitution. Agreed they would be difficult to implement but progress and change has always been difficult to achieve.
IN ORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION AND PROGRESS TOWARDS A MORE PERFECT DEMOCRACY. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE AND REDUCE THE DESIRE FOR POLITICIANS TO BECOME CORRUPT AND MAKE THE POLITICIAN MORE RESPONSIBLE TO THE CITIZENS. THE CITIZEN ALSO NEEDS TO BE MORE RESPONSIBLE. WE NEED TO STOP THE USA ‘s IMPERIALISTIC ATTITUDES.
THE COUNTRY HAS GONE BAD AND THE ONLY WAY TO RECOVER IS TO REMOVE THE POWER FROM THE POLITICIANS. THEY HAVE MISUSED THEIR POWER, LIED AND MISLED THE PUBLIC. THE ONLY RECOURSE THE PUBLIC HAS IS TO WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT ELECTION AND HOPE TO VOTE HIM/HER OUT OF OFFICE. THE PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH SAY IN THE COUNTRY AND THEY HAVE BECOME COMPLACENT AND LAZY. YEARS AGO PEOPLE RAN FOR OFFICE BECAUSE OF A PATROTIC AMBITION BUT THEY HAVE LEARNED TO MAKE A CAREER OUT OF IT AND PROFIT FROM RUNNING THE COUNTRY. YOU TAKE A GOOD PERSON AND SEND HIM TO WASHINGTON AND HE WILL PROBABLY BECOME A CROOK. NOT ALL BECOME CROOKS BUT MANY DO AND THAT IS WHAT WE NEED TO STOP. THEY ALSO STOP DOING THE DOING THE WORK THEY WERE SENT TO WASHINGTON TO DO. THE FOLLOWING ARE SUGGESTIONS THAT WILL HOPEFULLY AID IN THAT OUTCOME. A LOT OF MONEY IS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO RUN FOR POLITICAL OFFICE AND AS A RESULT THE MILLIONAIRES ARE RUNNING THE COUNTRY, NOT THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL.
REMEMBER PROHIBITIONS DO NOT WORK BUT MAKE THE LAWMAKERS FEEL GOOD. THEY MAKE LAWS THAT ARE UNENFORCEABLE. PEOPLE THAT WANT ABORTIONS WILL GET THEM SOMEWAY, LEGAL OR NOT LEGAL. PEOPLE THAT WANT DRUGS WILL GET THEM ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, PROHIBITIONS MAKE THE COSTS HIGHER. PEOPLE THAT BREAK THE LAWS DO SO WILLINGLY EVEN IF THEY HAVE TO GO TO PRISON AND THE PUBLIC MUST SUPPORT THEM. PEOPLE THAT HARM OTHERS SHOULD BE INCARSERATED IN ORDER TO STOP ANY FURTHER REACURANCES.
These items would be amendments to the constitution or laws that applied to the federal and state governments.
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Our present military is too good and we are paying a high price for a country that is constantly over budget and the military is a big reason for the overages along with an administration that has imperialistic ambitions and no known reason for those ambitions other than to prop up the military. We have become an aggressor nation similar to the axis empires of the 1940’s. The pentagon’s role is to stage events for a puppet president in order to further their ambitions for a world order and occupy foreign governments, especially third world countries. Rather than building up the world we are destroying parts of the world and not making friends but making enemies. The process has cost this country trillions of dollars and we the people have received nothing for it. We have a huge debt and it gets larger every day.
The first thing is we need to do is rearrange the military in to a defense force instead of an offence force, give up all the overseas bases all 750 of them and only keep the ones in the states (over 900) that service the new militia. The new militia will be a force of about 20 million reserve men and women (compared to today’s force of 2.5 million) that have been trained to fight for the country if we are invaded or to put down an uprising against the government. The major part of the militia is to train all 18-year-old persons (NO!! Exceptions) to be able defend the USA, that should take approximately 6 months at most and then they would be released into the ready reserves. The reserve period would last until the person was 35 years old and that age would be adjusted in order to maintain the 20 million personnel. We would need one general and a number of colonels that would head each branch like the air force, army, and navy etc. that training command would then direct any call up when a need arrived. Specialties would be preserved. The pay for training a recruit would be a subsistence that would provide for the basic requirements for life on a military base. Pay for the regular militia would be based on rank, longevity and normally associated with civilian jobs with similar educational requirements.
2.
Either get rid of the senate or make it a democratic body by allowing each senator to represent a portion of the population. For instance if we had 200 million people and we wanted to have 100 senators then each would represent 2 million people and as the population grew the senator would represent more people, but no more than the 100 senators would ever be elected. Term limits would also be a good thing and all representatives would be subject to term limits and the retirement system would be the social security system and 401K retirement systems. The House of Representatives would remain the same as we now have with the above requirements.
The president and all representatives would be elected by popular vote. Pay for service would be voted on by the people. Yes, the senatorial district would cross state lines.
3.
NASA would be restrained to development for the common good medicines, agriculture, environment, fisheries, energy sources, etc. Minor investigations into the universe but no effort would be put forth to go to the moon or nearby planets because it has just proven to be a waste of time and money.
Satellites have proven to be a boom to the people and more development would be beneficial.
4.
The major government role would be to develop the infrastructure and defend the country. These would include roads, railroads, airports, harbors and city and country needs.
5.
Deficit spending would not be allowed and the current debt would be eliminated as soon as possible. The interest that would normally be paid would then be used for the infrastructure.
6.
The socially security would have to support itself and when the fund ran out of money or became low on money the people would have to make up the difference with more payroll taxes. Or the government would set out how the payments would decrease and make it available to the public so the public could arrange its retirement when the social security trust fund goes to zero.
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Industry would have to provide health insurance for all workers.
Workers could retire at age 65 and then be covered by the optional Medicare. The unemployed would be covered by a supplement and a limited unemployment compensation.
8.
A computer program would accomplish reapportionment for the government districts. This would apply to all state and federal elected officials.
9.
Foreign aid would be dispensed with until after the government was out of debt. When foreign aid was given a US company using as many US citizens as possible and US materials along with local labor and local materials when applicable would implement the aid. The aid would provide for infrastructure that would help the country to support itself. No money would be given to foreign governments. Low responsible bidder would be awarded the contracts.
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Drugs would not be outlawed, however education at an early age would be a requirement that would teach kids the rights and wrongs about life and drugs. This would eliminate the drug dealer and the crime that goes along with the prohibition of drugs, and therefore the need to police those actions. People that used drugs if they could find them would be made responsible for their actions and all people that harmed another would have to go to prison for long sentences REGARDLESS OF AGE. Citizens would have the right to be stupid.
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Citizens would be responsible for their own bodies and the government would not interfere with that responsibility.
12.
Citizens would be required to vote for items that needed citizen votes and they would vote each month or as often as necessary. Items that would require a vote by the citizen would be:
a. Budget, federal, state, local,
b. Elect representatives and impeach when the public decided they were not acting for the benefit of the public.
c. etc
The citizens would be able to vote out of office any elected official. An impeachment effort and not controlled by the three branches of the government. The representatives would make the budget and approved by the public. Any citizen could run for office.
No political parties would be recognized on the ballot. Runoff elections would be required if the candidate did not receive a majority of the ballots. Private political parties would be acceptable. Today we have a so called two party system which means there are two groups that think very much alike and each trying to gain the elected office and support their friends and give them jobs. The people are even asked which political party they wish to be associated with when asked to “register” to vote. The voter thinks he is associated with that party but in fact he only becomes one of the counted the party thinks they can depend on for an election. They receive no benefit from joining the party and are expected to vote for the candidates in that party. Years ago you could vote a straight party ticket (ballot) by marking the top of the ballot and never need to know the candidates. The only people that benefit from the party are the close friends of the candidate and citizens that want a job working at the pleasure of the candidate. These are candidates for all elected positions, councilmen, mayors, state representatives, governors, senators, and representatives.
Remember the elected officials are there temporarily and the permanent people in government run the offices. For instance the military which has the largest discretionary budget runs the major part of the government. Their business is making war and they look for ways to attain that status. Being an imperial power in the world is what the military needs to support their bureaucracy.
Citizens would be required to vote on the items that are put fourth, approximately once per month. This would be an effort to get the public engaged in the running of the government and an effort to make the government more of a democracy.
And/or
Have scientific polls that show public support and if the poll shows a loss of confidence (less than 50% support) a recall election would be immediately called and within a month, voted on and a candidate wanting the office and getting more than 50% of the vote would replace the recalled candidate immediately. In cases where the new candidate did not get enough votes for a majority, a runoff election would be called for the two candidates receiving the most votes within 2 weeks following the recall election. The electorate could vote two weeks prior to the voting deadline and voting would take place at various polling places and by electronic means with a paper copy generated as a backup. With the registration card that all citizens would have they could vote at shopping centers, over the Internet, libraries, gas stations and other designated convenient areas with permanent voting machines similar to ATM machines.
If the candidate was voted out of office he would be immediately relieved of his office and an assistant would take his place until the new elected official could take his place, within the two weeks period.
The rational for the new elections is that the term of office is too long and the elected official can do great damage when he is no longer accountable to the electorate. The long period of time between today’s nomination and the elections allows lots of special interest to influence the candidate. This special interest has demonstrated that the candidate is beholden to the special interest and not to the public that they should be serving.
A short electioneering period does not allow the candidate to spend much money and allows people with limited means to participate in the democratic process.
The candidate would be more responsive to the public if he/she were subject to a quick recall.
Too many “good” politicians are drawn into illegal activities after being elected as a “do good” candidate and subject to the freedom as an elected official. In other words too many become corrupt after gaining the office. The candidate needs to have a “constant oversight” in order for him to do the work of the public and not be corrupted.
WHERE CAN YOU GET A JOB FOR FOUR YEARS AND EXPECT TO HAVE THAT JOB WITHOUT BEING FIRED FOR POOR PERFORMANCE?? ONLY IN THE GOVERNMENT.
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Part of the swearing in dialog would include the requirement that the elected official would tell the truth to the public while in office. THE ELECTED OFFICIAL WOULD BE UNDER OATH FOR THE DURATION OF HIS TIME IN OFFICE.
14.
All communications within the government would be made public. The government would keep no secrets.
15.
Each voter would have a voter registration card that had his personal ID that would allow him or her to vote and the voting system would only allow one vote per issue or voting period for each item with that ID. The cards would be given to all citizens. (No charge) Going further the card could also show the driver of a motor car was legal and when you leave and return to the states after traveling in foreign countries would show he/she was a citizen, and show he was of legal age to consume alcohol, and other times when ID was required. Used as an ID the card would identify the worker and show where he/she worked by reading the card at the company’s place of doing business. An imbedded photo of the citizen and /or fingerprint and eyeball ID would be placed on the card.
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The government would give no subsidies, pork would be outlawed and/or subject to voter approval. ??
For pork spending each state would levy a tax subject to voter approval for the improvement in the infrastructure. The tax would be applied to each person.
Each person would be charged a tax for the operation of the government, and that would be the budget. A living minimum wage would be established that would satisfy the normal requirements for subsistence. Wages above that amount would be taxed a fixed percentage when calculated would equal the budget divided by the number of taxpayers with their income that earned more that the minimum wage. ???
17.
Speed limits would be open (no limits). Reckless driving would have severe penalties for harming other people (REGARDLESS OF AGE) but would allow people to kill themselves.
Justification for all police and fire departments would be a requirement. In other words they would have to show just cause for their spending. Sometimes it’s better to let a $200,000 building burn as opposed to spending $1 million to save it… fire insurance would be a requirement along with auto insurance.
18.
Guest workers would be acceptable provided jobs existed for the type of work they could provide. The unemployed would have to leave the country. If farm labor had a surplus the worker program in that area would be suspended until the demand showed a need for more workers.
Each guest worker would be issued an ID card that would show his status and he would use it to show where he was working each week that he was in the country. The card would have the same features as the voter ID card but show he was not a legitimate voter. After his job expired he would no longer be able to receive compensation and would have to leave the country.
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Babies born in this country would become citizens only if one of the parents was a citizen of this country.
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Questions to ask the candidate or answers he/she should profess at the start of his campaign during his opening statements.
1 would you take an oath to always tell the truth while in office?
2.do you support the right of a person to choose how to treat his/her body?
3. Do you support the right that the government should not interfere with a persons right to choose how to conduct his/her life provided no harm is done to another person?
4.the above presupposes that the person does no harm to another individual. When harm was done it would require prosecution and severe penalties (REGARDLESS OF AGE).
21.
Pardoning convicted felons would not be allowed for either federal or state officials such as the president and governors.
22.
All court cases would be required to be televised and distributed on local free channels. The jury would not be photographed but the proceedings would be viewed.
23.
THE SUPREME COURT AND LESSOR COURT JUSTICES
The choosing of justices in the past has worked fairly well but let a political dictator enter the picture and the whole idea falls apart. The past has also had poor placement of the judicial system. Therefore we need a new more foolproof way of choosing justices. The idea of a Star Chamber has always been a fascinating way to solve problems.
The Star Chamber would be a secret group that administered the selection of judges for the federal and each states judges. Each chamber would be selected from applicants wishing to be judges that filled out an application and the application would be assigned a number, the application minus the name, race, sex, and address would be forwarded to the chamber. If the chamber decided the applicant was acceptable then he/she would be put in a lottery. The lottery would have no bounds and when a position was available a random number from the lottery would be drawn and that person would fill the vacant position.
A lottery for the chamber using the same criteria would also be put in place for persons wishing to be on the chamber, and when a position became empty the random number would be chosen to sit on the chamber. The chamber could have term limits but the normal turnover should flush the system along with sickness and resignations.
The initial chamber members would be chosen by a group of retired judges that would review the applicants and the selected applicants put in the lottery to become chamber members. As soon as the chamber was filled the group would be disbanded. Each chamber should have 9 members. After the chamber was filled initially the group would remain autonomous. The pay for the chamber positions should be nothing or a per diem to cover expenses.
24. MISREPRESENTATION IN THE UNITED STATES
12-9-2005
Did you ever wonder if you were represented equally in the government? The answer is no you never thought about the representation because you always knew in a “democracy” you were well represented. Well let me tell you in this country you are about as well represented as any dictatorship in the world and here is proof.
Assuming we would continue to have a Senate which we do not need.
The Senate and using California as the basis the following shows what the relationship is between the other states and California. Given that California gets 2 Senators and the population of California has 35.116 million people and the USA has 288.368 million people the following is how the remainder of the country would be broken down in order to have “equal” representation. First the final Senate districts would be 8.22; total population divided by the population in California, rounding up or down would give 8 Senatorial districts. This would provide 2 Senators from each district for a total of 16 for the country, we now have 100.
The following is a slightly rough assignment states to equal the # 1 Senate district, California. The numbers are in millions of people from each state. Going from west to east.
SENATE DISTRICT #2 ----------------------------------------------------
ALASKA .643 NEW MEXICO 1.855
WASHINGTON 6.068 NEBRASKA 1.729
OREGON 3.521 KANSAS 2.715
IDAHO 1.341 OKLAHOMA 3.493
NEVADA 2.173 IOWA 2.936
UTAH 2.316 HAWAII 1.244
WYOMING .498
MONTANA .909
COLORADO 4.506
TOTAL 35.927
SENATE DISTRICT #3 SENATE DISTRICT #5
TEXAS 21.779 MICHIGAN 10.050
LOUISANA 4.482 OHIO 11.421
ARKANSAS 2.710 KENTUCKY 4.092
MISSISSIPP 2.871 TENNESSEE 5.797
ALAB 4.486 WEST VIRGINA .801
TOTAL 36.328 TOTAL 33.161
SENATE DISTRICT #4 SENATE DISTRICT #6
SOUTH DAKOTA .761 FLORIDA 16.731
NORTH DALOTA .634 GEORGIA 8.560
MINNESOTA 5.019 SOUTH CAROLINA 4.107
WISCONSIN 5.441 NORTH CAROLINA 8.320
MISSOURI 5.672
ILLINOIS 12.600 TOTAL 37.718
INDINANA 6.159
TOTAL 36.286
SENATE DISTRICT # 7 SENATE DISTRICT #8
VIRGINA 7.293 NEW YORK 19.157
MARYLAND 5.458 CONNECTICUT 3.460
DELAWARE .807 MASSACHUETTS 6.427
PENNSYLVANIA 12.335 NEW HAMPSHIRE 1.275
NEW JERSEY 8.590 VERMONT .616
MAINE 1.294
TOTAL 34.483
TOTAL 32.229
As you can see the population in each district is not exactly equal to the number in California and in the final districting some states would be cut slightly in order to make it equal but the worst district is only off by about 8%. As you can see there is a great disparity within the Senate.
The House of Representatives is much better associated with the population because “equal” population areas choose the districts. Two problems with the districting are gerrymandering and some states get one representative regardless of the amount of people in the state. Those states also get two Senators with the current arrangement. Again the districts should be chosen based on geographic areas with equal populations rather than political districts. Gerrymandering is a process that the politicians put on the population to insure they get re-elected and is not close to a democratic process.
It also allows the politicians to become corrupt and independent of the democratic process. This is showing up more and more in our elections and indictments of politicians for wrongdoing.
The population numbers are from the Rand McNally atlas of the USA, Canada, and Mexico.
This calculation of 16 Senators can be adjusted for more or less Senate districts. To double the districts to 32 you would have to give California 4 Senators and split the other districts up with half as much population as shown. An approximation for 100 Senators would require that California would get 12 to 13 Senators.
DAVID and GOLIATH
11-19-2005
Today this great nation must again face up to the fact that as a superpower we have spent more money and manpower in establishing a military that any nation in history. The results of that has been demonstrated many times in most wars since WWll that it is not effective against ground troops that use the most rudimentary weapons like rock throwing protesters and similar antagonist that we have recently engaged. No matter how advanced the weapons system the final test is you must peacefully occupy the conquered land and if you cannot do that you have not won the war. We did that in Japan, Germany and Italy. The major incidents that demonstrate this rule that has been put forth by many military men is in Korea, Viet Nam, Mogadishu, Somalia and now in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is also the same story told many years ago about David and Goliath. All the money and manpower spent has not benefited the American public in either defending the country or invading sovereign countries for imperialistic reasons.
NEVER GETTING OUT OF IRAQ
11-20-2005
Iraq will never be able to defend itself against the terrorist and that is the ploy the administration is putting forth on the US public, another lie. In a letter from Duncan Hunter, he sets up five impossible things that will have to be met before we can leave Iraq. 1. establish a political process that leads to a free and democratic Iraq. 2. restore the essential services for the people, 3. establish a foundation for a strong economy, 4. establish the rule of law, 5. increased international engagement and support. He also thinks we fight wars in order to achieve victory when he does not know when victory will occur. We haven’t had a “victory” since WWII and even if there was some way to achieve a victory, Iraq is not going to be one of those places when you don’t know whom you are fighting. We in this country are fighting the terrorist and if we won the battle we would not know when that happened. The best victory you can have with the present circumstance is to stop the causalities and get out just as the Russians did in Afghanistan
STAYING IN IRAQ FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
11-20-2005
Every day we hear the reasons for remaining in Iraq but few of you realize what they are actually saying. The idea of staying “the course” until a democratic Iraq is established and strong enough to defend itself against the terrorist is a goal that cannot be achieved. We cannot defend against the terrorist in this country and even with an army in Iraq we can’t defend against the terrorist. Duncan Hunter’s plan and the administrations plan are to 1. Establish a political process that leads to a free and democratic Iraq. 2.restoring the essential services, 3.establish the foundations for a strong economy, 4. establish the rule of law and 5. increased international engagement and support. These goals are similar to the way Iraq was prior to our invasion. Having a democracy does not rule out terrorism. None of these items can be achieved in your lifetime and our so-called democracy exports the greatest terrorist to the world. Going to other countries and preaching about how they should conduct their countries business and threatening them with a giant war machine if they don’t comply. Then invading those non-conformist and killing thousands of people and even killing our own people for goals that cannot be achieved. Remember the military’s business is to make war not necessarily win wars. We will never leave Iraq and we add another “war” that we cannot win.
INTELLIGENT DESIGN (ID)
11-22-2005
Sounds like the creationist and the 5000-year-old universe is not working too well, thanks to education. So in order to regain a foothold the Christians have found a new argument to counteract Darwin’s oberservations and his writings on the Natural Selection. No question about it the ID “theory” is better than the old dogma but just as unbelievable, if they think the designer was a “god”. A more realistic “theory” would be if the designer were an extra terrestrial from an advanced life system in our galaxy or from another galaxy.
In either case the teachings in our schools should go ahead and teach all the theories about how life began. That should take about a half hour of class time per student per lifetime and the subject would not need to be discussed again in the schools. The real need in our schools is to teach our children how to live a normal life, be good citizens and avoid the pitfalls in life. Avoiding drugs and obeying the laws of the land, learning how to write and communicate, the science of everyday life and not learning about things that they have no control over and will never affect them. Nothing is going to happen as a result of the three theories. Then the arguments would not be needed and should never be brought up in the courts.
the money will want their principal back and we will not be able to pay. We then become another banana republic- Then we will have peace.
ASK THESE QUESTIONS
11-25-2005
Why do we have military bases in the Arabian Peninsula? Why do we have over 700 military bases around the world? Do you think that a small group of people (like 2000) can cause us to lose our freedom? If that is the case we must have a very weak nation. Do you know that terrorist create terror and do not invade other nations? Do you think the terrorist is a greater threat to our way of life than the government itself? Since 911 who has caused the most terror within the USA? What do you think is the agenda of the terrorist? Did anyone ever tell you what the agenda of the terrorist are with the exception of the juvenal explanation the cronies of the president have put forth, like they don’t like our way of life and want to kill us? Did you know that we occupy much of the Arabian Peninsula and the Arabs don’t like it?
These are the questions that don’t get asked and would let you rest easier if you knew the answers.
We have succeeded again in showing the world that this superpower can be brought to it’s knees by a small group of rock throwing, determined people using small amounts of money while we spend trillions invested in a so-called defense force that we will never have to be used in our lifetime. The defense of the nation is in jeopardy.
FPIF Policy Report
Bush Again Resorts to Fear-Mongering to Justify Iraq PolicyBy Stephen Zunes | October 12, 2005Editor: Emily Schwartz Greco, IPS
Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org
President George W. Bush's October 6 address at the National Endowment for Democracy illustrated his administration's increasingly desperate effort to justify the increasingly unpopular U.S. war in Iraq. The speech focused upon the Bush administration's claim that the Iraqi insurgency against U.S. occupation forces somehow constituted a grave threat to the security of the United States and the entire civilized world. The speech focused almost entirely the Iraq War. Yet it began with an eloquent remembrance of the horror of September 11, 2001, despite the fact that Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, which was committed by the Saudi-led terrorist group al-Qaeda then based in Afghanistan. President Bush then listed a series of terrorist attacks by radical Islamists elsewhere in the world in subsequent years, which again had no connection to Iraq, other than the possibility that some of these attacks might have been prevented had the United States instead chosen to put its resources into fighting al-Qaeda rather than invading Iraq. On a positive note, Bush reiterated the fact that terrorism in the name of Islam is contrary to the Islamic faith. He acknowledged to a degree he had not yet done so publicly that many of these movements are part of a loose network of local cells rather than a centrally controlled armed force. Yet much of his speech contained the same misleading rhetoric regarding U.S. policy toward Iraq and the nature of the radical Islamists that has led the United States into its disastrous confrontation in Iraq and has served to weaken America's defenses against the real threat al-Qaeda poses. Some Samples of President Bush's Misleading Statements"These extremists want to end American and Western influence in the broader Middle East, because we stand for democracy and peace." While these extremist groups indeed want to limit American and other Western influence in the region and their ideology certainly does not support democratic institutions or peaceful means to advance their goals, the problems that radical Islamists have with the American role in the Middle East is not related to America's stand in support for democracy and peace. As made clear by their manifestoes and by interviews with individual leaders, the radical Islamist opposition to the United States stems primarily from U.S. support for autocratic Arab governments, the invasion of Iraq, the ongoing U.S. military presence in the region, U.S. backing for the Israeli occupation, and related concerns which have nothing to do with democracy and peace. "Al-Qaeda's leader, Osama bin Laden, has called on Muslims to dedicate, quote, their 'resources, sons and money to driving the infidels out of their lands.' Their tactic to meet this goal has been consistent for a quarter-century: They hit us, and expect us to run. They want us to repeat the sad history of Beirut in 1983, and Mogadishu in 1993--only this time on a larger scale, with greater consequences." Al-Qaeda has existed for barely a dozen years. The network didn't exist a quarter century ago. Nor is there any indication that they "expect us to run" when hit. If anything, their hope and expectation is that the U.S. will continue to overreact through disproportionate and misapplied military force that will further contribute to the dramatic increase in anti-Americanism throughout the Islamic world and thereby increase their ranks. The "sad history of Beirut in 1983 and Mogadishu in 1993" was not the belated withdrawal of U.S. forces but that the U.S. intervened militarily in those countries in the first place. The resistance that fought U.S. Marines in Lebanon was composed of primarily Shiite and Druze militiamen who have never had any affiliation with al-Qaeda, which is a Salafi Sunni organization. In Somalia, U.S. forces battled militiamen affiliated with a number of Somali clans, none of which had any connection with al-Qaeda. Had President Reagan and President Clinton instead decided to keep American forces engaged in the factionalized civil wars in Lebanon and Somalia, it would have likely increased the numbers and influence of Islamic extremists in those countries and elsewhere, just as the failure to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq has done. "The militant network wants to use the vacuum created by an American retreat to gain control of a country, a base from which to launch attacks and conduct their war against non-radical Muslim governments. Over the past few decades, radicals have specifically targeted Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, and Jordan for potential takeover. They achieved their goal, for a time, in Afghanistan. Now they have set their sight on Iraq....We must recognize Iraq as the central front in our war on terror." While small groups of radical Islamists have engaged in a series of terrorist bombings and assassinations in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Jordan in recent years, they never had much of a popular following and were never a serious threat to the survival of any of those regimes. They succeeded in Afghanistan in large part due to the U.S. government sending as much as $5 billion in military aid to radical Islamic groups back in the 1980s during their fight with Afghanistan's Communist government and its Soviet backers. The "vacuum" that would allow radical Islamists to pose a challenge to the Iraqi government has already taken place as a direct result of the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power by U.S. forces. Prior to the U.S. invasion, the only major base of operations for such radical Islamists was Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi's encampment in the far northeastern corner of Iraq, located within the autonomous Kurdish areas where Saddam's government had no control. Now, as a result of the U.S. invasion, Al-Zarqawi's militants operate throughout the Sunni heartland of central Iraq and their numbers have dramatically increased. "The militants believe that controlling one country will rally the Muslim masses, enabling them to overthrow all moderate governments in the region, and establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia. With greater economic and military and political power, the terrorists would be able to advance their stated agenda: to develop weapons of mass destruction, to destroy Israel, to intimidate Europe, to assault the American people, and to blackmail our government into isolation." It is quite possible that these Salafi Sunni revivalists indeed harbor such fantasies, but they are just that--fantasies. The United States has more than a dozen allied governments in the region that have the motivation and ability to resist these fanatics, who have relatively few adherents within these or any other county in the Islamic world outside Iraq. There are dozens of armed groups in Iraq battling U.S. occupation forces and the U.S.-backed government, which include supporters of the former regime of Saddam Hussein, other Baathists, independent nationalists, various Shiite factions, tribal-based groupings, and a number of Sunni Arab factions. The al-Qaeda inspired jihadists whom Bush focused upon in his speech are probably responsible for the majority of terrorist attacks against Iraqi civilians, but they represent only a small minority of the insurgency. Even in the unlikely event of the overthrow of the Iraqi government, it is extremely doubtful that these more extreme elements would end up in control. "Our enemy is utterly committed. As Zarqawi has vowed, 'We will either achieve victory over the human race or we will pass to the eternal life.' And the civilized world knows very well that other fanatics in history, from Hitler to Stalin to Pol Pot, consumed whole nations in war and genocide before leaving the stage of history." The idea that Al-Zarqawi could somehow obtain the power of Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin is utterly ludicrous. He lacks the resources, the state apparatus, the popular support, the propaganda machinery, the disciplined political party, the armed force, the industrial base, or any other attribute that could conceivably give him that kind of power. Bush is cynically playing on the fears of American people and shows a callous disrespect to the millions who died under these totalitarian rulers. "Defeating the militant network is difficult, because it thrives, like a parasite, on the suffering and frustration of others . . ." What Bush fails to note is that much of the suffering and frustration felt by the Iraqi people is a direct result of U.S. policy. Not only did the Iraqi people suffer under decades of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship (which was backed by the United States during the peak of his repression in the 1980s), the U.S. led one of most intense bombing campaigns in world history against Iraq in 1991, resulting in severe damage to the civilian infrastructure. This was followed by a dozen years of crippling U.S.-led economic sanctions that resulted in the deaths hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, mostly children, from malnutrition and preventable diseases. As a result of the U.S. invasion, at least 20,000 civilians have died violent deaths, the country is facing a low-level civil war and an unprecedented crime wave, basic utilities have yet to be restored on a regular basis, unemployment is at an all-time high, there are mounting ethnic tensions which threaten to tear the country apart, priceless national artifacts have been stolen or destroyed from museums and archeological sites, and infant mortality is way up. "The influence of Islamic radicalism is also magnified by helpers and enablers. They have been sheltered by authoritarian regimes, allies of convenience like Syria and Iran..." The Bush administration has failed to present any credible evidence that either Syria or Iran is backing the radical Islamists. On the contrary, Iran is actively supporting the Iraqi government, which is dominated by pro-Iranian Shiite parties and whose leadership spent years of exile in Iran. The Iranian government supports the proposed constitution and backed last January's elections. In fact, Iran has provided security assistance and training to the Iranian government in their counter-insurgency efforts. The Iranian regime has long opposed al-Qaeda and nearly went to war against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan several years ago. Similarly, the Syrian government is a secular nationalist regime dominated by members of the Alawite branch of Islam, which is far closer to the Shiites than the Sunnis. Syria has provided the United States with valuable intelligence against al-Qaeda and has tracked down, jailed, tortured, and killed al-Qaeda suspects. "Some have also argued that extremism has been strengthened by the actions of our coalition in Iraq, claiming that our presence in that country has somehow caused or triggered the rage of radicals. I would remind them that we were not in Iraq on September the 11th, 2001--and al-Qaeda attacked us anyway. The hatred of the radicals existed before Iraq was an issue, and it will exist after Iraq is no longer an excuse. The government of Russia did not support Operation Iraqi Freedom, and yet the militants killed more than 180 Russian schoolchildren in Beslan." No one has claimed that the Islamist radicals responsible for the massacre in Beslan were in any way motivated by the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Those terrorists were Chechen nationalists fighting against the Russian occupation of their homeland. Even the CIA, top Pentagon officials and other U.S. government agencies have acknowledged that the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the bloody counter-insurgency operations that followed has greatly enhanced the appeal of radical Islamist groups and enhanced their recruitment. "Over the years these extremists have used a litany of excuses for violence--the Israeli presence on the West Bank, or the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia, or the defeat of the Taliban, or the Crusades of a thousand years ago... No act of ours invited the rage of the killers--and no concession, bribe, or act of appeasement would change or limit their plans for murder." No major opponent of the U.S. war in Iraq and other U.S. policies in the Middle East is calling for concessions, bribes or appeasement as a means of influencing the behavior of al-Qaeda and like-minded extremists. A strong case can be made, however, that many U.S. policies have strengthened these movements by encouraging the growth of anti-Americanism in the Islamic world, thereby increasing the appeal in the Islamic world of extremist ideologies. The U.S. should cease its unconditional military, diplomatic and economic support for autocratic Middle Eastern regimes and Israeli occupation forces, not for the sake of appeasing terrorists, but because no country that espouses freedom and the rule of law should support governments that engage in gross and systematic human rights violations. "The United States makes no distinction between those who commit acts of terror and those who support and harbor them, because they're equally as guilty of murder. Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization. And the civilized world must hold those regimes to account." If Bush really believes this, it would behoove him to start with the government over which he has the most control: that of the United States. Some known terrorists have sought sanctuary in the U.S. and the Bush administration has refused to bring them to justice through extradition or trial. A recent high-profile case involves the exiled Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, whom the U.S. refuses to extradite to Venezuela to faces charges for masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner which resulted in the deaths of all 73 passengers and crew. "Some observers also claim that America would be better off by cutting our losses and leaving Iraq now. This is a dangerous illusion, refuted with a simple question: Would the United States and other free nations be more safe, or less safe, with Zarqawi and bin Laden in control of Iraq, its people, and its resources? Having removed a dictator who hated free peoples, we will not stand by as a new set of killers, dedicated to the destruction of our own country, seizes control of Iraq by violence." This is totally spurious argument. By virtually all accounts of scholars and journalists familiar with the various constituent elements of the Iraqi insurgency, the vast majority of the insurgents are not dedicated to the destruction of the United States. They merely want foreign occupation forces out of their country. Radical Islamist elements led by Al-Zarqawi and other supporters of bin Laden had virtually no presence in Iraq until after the United States invaded the country and grew in subsequent months as a reaction to the large-scale civilian casualties from U.S. counter-insurgency tactics. As a result, a strong case can be made that the continued prosecution of the war actually increases the chances that Al-Zarqawi and likeminded radicals could take over the country. "If the peoples of that region are permitted to choose their own destiny, and advance by their own energy and by their participation as free men and women, then the extremists will be marginalized, and the flow of violent radicalism to the rest of the world will slow, and eventually end. By standing for the hope and freedom of others, we make our own freedom more secure." In reality, the United States is doing very little to advance the cause of self-determination, the rule of law, religious freedom and equal rights for women in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. For example, the U.S. trains Saudi Arabia's repressive internal security apparatus and sells billions of dollars worth of weapons annually to the family dictatorship that rules that country. Saudi Arabia has no constitution and no legislature. It bans the practice of any faith besides Islam, practices torture on an administrative basis, and is perhaps the most misogynist country in the world. Similarly, the Egyptian dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak remains the second largest recipient of U.S. economic and military assistance despite ongoing repression of pro-democracy movements and their leaders. The United States also continues to maintain close military and political ties to autocratic regimes in Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Morocco, among others. The U.S. is the world's number one supplier of military and police training to autocratic regimes and occupation armies in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. It is also utterly false to claim that the United States supports the right of self-determination in the Middle East, since the Bush administration continues to support the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian West Bank and the Golan Heights of Syria, as well as Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara. These occupations are maintained in violation through ongoing violations of international humanitarian law, the UN Charter, and a series of UN Security Council resolutions. In Iraq, the United States continues to deny the Iraqi government full sovereignty through its continued control of important areas of fiscal, security and economic policy. In addition, the proposed constitution being pushed by the Bush administration actually allows for fewer rights for women and less religious freedom than that under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. ConclusionGiven the large number of misleading statements in this key foreign policy address, it is profoundly disappointing that the mainstream media appears to have taken it so seriously. There has been little critical analysis of the president's remarks and headlines have instead focused upon the unsubstantiated claim in the speech that the United States had in recent years foiled 10 planned al-Qaeda attacks. It is similarly disappointing that leading Democrats in Congress have not attempted to expose the fallacious arguments in this address either. Doing so could advance their party's chances to win back the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House. Since the Democratic Congressional leadership and the vast majority of Democratic Senators and Representatives have chosen to continue their support of the Iraq War, however, it is perhaps not surprising that they remain unwilling to challenge the myths that perpetuate it. As a result, it is up to American people to not only challenge the Bush administration's falsehoods and misleading statements, but to challenge those in the media and in Congress who allow them to get away with such dangerous and illegitimate policies. Stephen Zunes, Middle East editor for Foreign Policy In Focus (online at www.fpif.org), is a professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco and the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage Press, 2003).
The president’s speech to the Naval Academy
11-30-2005
Today the president gave a speech to the cadets at Annapolis. The speech must have lasted for an hour, but it was supposed to be a plan for victory and a way out of Iraq. It was interesting to see how we were going to get out of Iraq and when but the same old rhetoric came out and the impossible reasons for getting out was laid out and finally that the “American” (he must be referring to the people in the USA and not the entire North and South America) people would be “safe” after those goals were met. Having goals that are impossible to meet and correlating that to our safety in the USA means we will never be safe. One thing that was obvious, was after the speech when he shakes everyone’s hand on the first row, there must have been fifteen security people with him looking for someone that would do harm to our president. Where else except maybe in the Whitehouse would the pres be more secure than in the Naval Academy or any military installation where he gives most of his speeches to an audience that is required to attend. Is there a fear the military would do him harm?
The military needs old men
11-30-2005
Military hoping to lure ex-troops
WASHINGTON – For former soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who might be toying with the idea of getting back into uniform, the Army has a new offer: Join us and regain your old rank without repeating basic training.
It's the latest twist in the Army's pitch for recruits at a time when wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are making it increasingly difficult to enlist young people and meet the Army's need for 80,000 new soldiers a year.
"It's common sense," says Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, an Army spokesman. For the cost of mailing a brochure to targeted former service members, the Army can open a door that had been jammed shut before.
Associated Press
Timeline of bribes
November 30, 2005
A chronology of some of the payoffs involved in the more than $2.4 million in bribes that Randy "Duke" Cunningham has admitted taking.
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May 1, 2000: $30,000 check that Cunningham deposited in his personal credit union account in Washington, D.C., and $70,000 check deposited in his personal bank account in San Diego.
Oct. 23, 2000 to March 29, 2001: $11,116.50 in mortgage payments on his yacht, the "Kelly C."
Nov. 16, 2001: $12,000 purchase of armoires and other furniture.
Dec. 3, 2001: $200,000 wired to an escrow account set up to purchase his Arlington, Va., condominium.
Dec. 27, 2001: $50,000 deposited in his San Diego personal bank account.
Jan. 24, 2002: $6,632 American Express corporate credit-card purchase of leather sofa and sleigh-style bed.
Feb. 5, 2002: $7,200 purchase of two 19th-century French commodes.
Feb. 27, 2002: $10,000 check deposited into his personal credit union account in Washington, D.C.
April 6, 2002: $13,500 check for purchase of a used Rolls-Royce.
May 4, 2002: $17,889.96 check for repair work on Rolls-Royce.
Aug. 30, 2002: $140,000 check to buy another yacht, the "Duke-Stir."
Sept. 18, 2002: $20,000 check deposited into his personal credit union account in Washington, D.C.
Sept. 19, 2002: $16,867.13 check for repairs to the "Kelly C."
Oct. 17, 2002: $2,000 check to transportation company to move the "Kelly C."
Nov. 7, 2002: $7,500 check for yacht club fees.
Nov. 22, 2002: $40,000 check deposited in his personal bank account in San Diego.
Nov. 25, 2002: $1,119.95 American Express corporate credit-card payment for repairs on Rolls-Royce.
Dec. 27, 2002 to May 27, 2005: $58,674.90 in mortgage payments for the "Kelly C."
Jan. 13, 2003: $3,000 and $30,000 checks deposited into his personal bank accounts in San Diego.
May 8, 2003: California registration of a 1999 GMC Suburban with altered title claiming he paid $18,000 instead of below-market price of $10,000.
May 14, 2003: $8,000 check he deposited into his personal credit union account in Washington, D.C.
June 20-22, 2003: $2,731.33 in checks to a resort for lodging and meals, $1,500 gift certificate used to purchase a set of earrings and $400 for a charm and necklace.
July 28, 2003: $9,200 check for two Laser Shot shooting simulators.
Sept. 14, 2003: $19,025 check he deposited into his personal bank account in San Diego.
Nov. 5-18, 2003: He negotiated the sale of his Del Mar-area home for the inflated price of $1,675,000. The buyer later sold the house for $975,000.
Nov. 25-Dec. 4, 2003: He used proceeds from sale of the Del Mar-area home and a $1.1 million loan to buy a home in Rancho Santa Fe.
Dec. 31, 2003: $115,100 check he deposited into his personal bank account in San Diego.
Feb. 26, 2004: $11,393.56 American Express corporate credit-card payment to a company to move furnishings from his Arlington condominium to Rancho Santa Fe.
May 13, 2004: $525,000 wire payment to pay off second mortgage on Rancho Santa Fe home.
May, 25, 2004: $2,081.30 American Express corporate credit-card payment for daughter's college graduation party at Washington, D.C., hotel.
June 2004: $6,500 in cash.
June, 17, 2004: $18,000 check to his Top Gun Enterprises, Inc. business.
Aug. 25, 2004: $171,000 and $329,000 checks to Top Gun Enterprises. The money was funnelled to another company and used to make $28,237.20 in mortgage payments on the Rancho Santa Fe home.
May 7, 2005: $15,200 check for five Persian rugs.
November 2001 to May 2005: $50,000 to various antiques stores for furnishings.
January 2000 to May 2005: More than $10,000 to various resorts, hotels and restaurants for meals and entertainment.
Rod Galloway
1340 H Street
Ramona, Ca. 92065
rodjan@yahoo.com
In reply to: 12-6-2005
Senator Diane Feinstein
US Senate
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Diane Feinstein,
I have read your letter and heard many times about the bad intelligence but no one wants to talk about why the intelligence was bad. I do know that the intelligence you had was hearsay evidence and would not be allowed in a court of law, but the congress agreed to go to war and jeopardize American lives based on hearsay evidence. The fact is that we knew that Sadam had WMD’s because the US government gave him those weapons years ago when they were fighting the Iranians. So why not tell the American people the truth? The USA has the most banned weapons (chemical, biological and nuclear) in the history of any country. As I remember the Iraq’s told us they had destroyed those weapons and the weapons inspectors could not find any weapons, which would be a first hand testimony that they did not exist. The administration chose not to believe and started a war. We went into Iraq because we wanted to start a war and prop up the military. That is the role of the military to make war and without a war they cannot justify their existence.
Having a democracy in Iraq does not mean an end to the insurgency (or people trying to defend and oust the invaders from their country). It does not follow that having a right to vote, a constitution, elected officials will make that country any more peaceful. The USA is a good example of a republic that terrorizes the world. They want us out of Iraq and out of the Arabian Peninsula and stop supporting Israel. They are not going to stop fighting until those conditions are met. Anyone that knows something about history must remember Afghanistan, where the Taliban and Ben Laden supported by the USA drove the Russians out after they had invaded that country. Why does this country always get on the wrong side of the fight? They were and are foot soldiers armed with AK-47’s and Stinger missiles supplied by the USA. No high tech mechanisms, just guerrilla fighters willing to fight to the death and it works. If you think we “won” in Afghanistan remember we still have 5000 “reported” troops still fighting that “war”
The reasons for ending the war are a paradox and evidence that we will never achieve the desired goals. We are establishing a beachhead in this Middle Eastern country. The real questions are why do we have over 700 military bases around the world and why do we occupy bases in the middle east other than to protect the US oil companies and protect Israel? When will Israel be able to defend it’s self without the subsidies from the USA? They have been on the dole for 10’s of years. Are the thousands of casualties worth protecting the oil companies and Israel? Since we have been terrorized we have lost at the most 4000 lives and we have probably killed 10 times that in Iraq, including over 2000 of our own troops and it won’t be long before we reach the number 3000, which was killed on 911. Isn’t that like cutting off your nose to spite your face? And that is not counting the thousands that have been permanently maimed and disabled by an illegal war. What is the agenda of this government why can’t the American people be told why we are fighting this war? 70% of the public thinks we are on the wrong track. If the government had good reasons for the fight I am sure the entire population would back the effort 100% and few would decent. This is a very patriotic nation but we need to know what to be patriotic about, so far we have not heard a good rational for the losses and the enormous expenditures this war has cost and with no end in sight. This country goes to pot and we are propping up a bad country, multinational corporations and corrupting and running some politicians lives with the runs on our treasury. Disasters in this country are not supported, along with the infrastructure. As you have pointed out in your letter there have been too many irrational decisions made and the public knows the apparent truth.
It is easy to say we pay homage to the courage, sacrifice and honor of the fallen troops but when you get down to your own it is a different story, a tragedy and there are many in this irresponsible war.
When did the American public decide we wanted a democratic republic in Iraq? Why does the American public care about what goes on in a foreign sovereign country? We need to protect our homeland but we are too busy fighting this war and we have not done the job the government was supposed to do, protecting our own.
After all the negative reasons for starting and maintaining the war, and the paradox about what we need to do to win and have a victory, why would anyone want to pursue and or keep beating a dead horse and losing American lives, when in the end we will leave as we have done in Viet Nam, Korea, and the lesser places within the world?
Why do the Iraqi’s need 325,000 troops when we only have 165,000 troops there now or do we have more than that? Do they have 350,000 people that are trainable? You would have a hard time getting that many out of California and the population of California is much larger than Iraq. We have been there for more than three years. We train GI’s in this country in 8-10 weeks, give them a rifle and tell them to go shoot someone. Why can’t we have trained over 350,000 troops during that time we have been in their country?
Finally we torture prisoners, court marshal GI’s for torturing prisoners, the Secretary of Defense claims he wants to torture prisoners and the Secretary of State goes to Europe and swears that the USA does not torture prisoners when a recently released prisoner claims he was held for 6 months in Afghanistan and finally released when they could not prove anything. Why would anyone have any confidence in how our government is run? We need some integrity in the government.
We need to get out of Iraq as soon as possible and not wait for some idealistic, unattainable events to occur, lick our wounds and try and conduct this country in an orderly manner, that is consistent with our wealth and the world will beat a path to our door trying to emulate this republic. But by continuing this irrational behavior the rest of the world will have no respect and the citizens of this country will also not have any respect.
Sincerely yours,
Rodney Galloway
Retired, with grandkids
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THE CHRISTMAS STORY
12-11-2005
Concern about what to call Christmas is troubling when some want to avoid the religious aspects and instead use the word “holiday”. We don’t have any trouble with happy New Year.
Today we have many ethnic groups in the USA and many don’t celebrate Christmas in the traditional way the protestant religion (a minority religion in the world) has for the years since Martin Luther. Since Luther the tradition has had many faces until today it is a highly commercial time with everyone expected to buy gifts, send cards, etc. Most of those things are acceptable to probably the majority of people in this country but the religious part is where the problem appears, and what else would you expect. When you have people of a different or no religion and tell them about the birth of Christ and how it happened and the results of his life they would walk away shacking their heads, thinking why would someone believe that story. Probably three ways that it is accomplished and that is to have missionaries go out to third world countries and convince those people that the story is true. Everyone at some time in his or her life hopes for a god. Another way is to use threats and make the people accept the dogma. And the third way is to indoctrinate them from birth. Give kids toys, cookies and candy because it is “Christmas” and they become enticed and look forward to that day. Couple that with the explanation of the birthday and Santa Clause and they are hooked. Later things may fall apart once they find out that Santa Clause is not what they were told and the myth is not real along with other myths or highly dubious things (tooth fairy, Easter bunny, devil, hell, heaven etc). The child begins to wonder what is real and what is myth. He also wonders if he can believe what he is told by adults and you get decent. Once you start lying to people they doubt what you say and have said. Not wanting to bring politics (couple poly, many and ticks, blood suckers) into the argument, but lies is what the government perpetrates on the public.
Some of the worst things to happen to you in your life is to find out those myths are not true and when you get out of school and find out you are going to get only two weeks vacation each year you lose faith and wonder, and that is not a good thing for religion.
In order to maintain credibility with friends you need to know when to say Christmas or holiday. In any case it is a good time of the year.
MERRY CHRISTMAS or HOLIDAY and a HAPPY NEW YEAR
PRESIDENT BUSH FOR PRESIDENT OF IRAQ
12-12-2005
I am finally convinced that George Bush should be the president and I will vote for him and he should take office as soon as he can get to Iraq, tomorrow would be fine. Yes I mean he should be elected to the presidency of Iraq the new democracy that he has fostered. The last few weeks he has campaigned so vigorously for the office that I am sure no one will come close to beating him in the election. He is so dedicated to the campaign that he has forgotten what his duties are here in the USA. He needs to go and take the office in Iraq and see all the improvements that he has implemented in that new state. Maybe we could make Iraq the 51st state here in the USA. Maybe we could change the name to Bushland or Bushcountry. Anyone so dedicated and would kill over 30,000 Iraqi’s along with close to 3,000 of his own citizen army and maimed 50,000 of his own troops because of the 9/11 attack which didn’t have anything to do with Afghanistan or Iraq should serve the people and bring great economic benefits to Iraq. Besides being the new president he could also be called the new butcher of Bushland.
There stands the glass 12-12-2005
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there stands the glass---------that will hide all my tears
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CHRISTIANITY AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS
12-18-2005
Subtitled
THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE WORLD AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO THE USA AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS.
People that think our country was founded on the Christian religion would do themselves a lot of good to look at the research that was done by Jim Walker and his writings are
found at this web site.
http://earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/secular.html
How the message happened that the USA was founded on the Christian religion is not clear but if you think about what the church has done to indoctrinate the followers you could expect that they planted the idea and it grew with people that wanted to think it really happened. The primary founders, Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine were deitist, (deity
/dee"i tee/, n., pl. deities.
1. a god or goddess.
2. divine character or nature; divinity.
3. a person or thing revered as supremely powerful or beneficent.
4. the Deity, God.
[1250-1300; ME deite < OF < LL deitas = L de(us) god + -itas -ITY , formed after L divinitas DIVINITY])
People that believed in a god but were definitely not Christian and they believed in deitism and that people reconciled their religion within themselves and not thru a church. They came to that conclusion because of the abuse the church put on them while they were in Europe and the Colonies.
The church exploited the weaknesses of people but it is true that many people needed the religion put fourth by the church in order to survive the day to day traumas and the mysteries of life and the afterlife. The church did a lot of good and bad things during its history and today similar events continue to happen because of the power the church has over the people. During the earlier period of the church they were able to convince people to do the wants of the church but as Walker reports maybe 10% of the population in the colonies practiced religion.
When you believe in deitism there is little need for an organized religion, churches and the trappings of the church, the altars and idols that accompany the church. That form of worship does not lend itself to building churches and tithing and does not support the fundamentalist preachers that try and shape peoples lives. The churches also have created huge bureaucracies and accumulate wealth with money and property, because our government does not tax those religious organizations that can qualify as a religion. Today there are thousands of churches
that are able to qualify and pay no taxes to support the sites and infrastructures that the remaining citizens must pay for.
It is in the interest of the church to melt its way into the government and gain more control over the people. The founders were very much against that happening here because that is what they were trying to get away from in Europe. They have barely succeeded and it is a constant war to exclude the religion from the government. Today many people are convinced that the country was founded on the Christian religion and that is a way to get further entwined in the government. Like it or not the big thing with religion is where is the money? The money is with the people and if they can convince the people they have a product for them they will take the money. That is why there are so many TV Evangelicals that have millions to spend on trying to gain more audience givers to pay for their lavish lifestyles. The sad part about it is they have figured out how to succeed at that robbery.
The government always needs to be called down about the separation of church and state because many religious politicians have been elected and preach the gospel in the three areas of our government. The only organization that continually fights for the civil rights of the people is the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union. There are well meaning people that think the ACLU is against the people because the religious right has convinced the public that it is a bad organization. The ACLU is the primary organization that keeps the church out of government.
The fact that on our money and government buildings the writings “in god we trust” and that gives them the idea that is a church saying. It is just what the deist have always said no church just a god which is what can be said and never proven because everyone has a “god” and all civilizations have had “gods” to protect them from the tragedies in life. The Christian religion wants the people to indoctrinate everyone to make the church stronger and eventually take over the government. They make inroads occasionally such as the pledge of allegiance, where we are now supposed to say “under god with liberty and justice for all” and “god bless America” which has nothing to do with nothing and nothing happens as a result of saying those things except you may get the idea that we have “liberty and justice for all” but that is a lie and no more than a goal. We never have had “liberty and justice for all” and
never will.
The following is a letter I wrote to the newspapers sometime ago that explains GODs.
think that the “insurgents” are terrorist but they are the alliance within the Muslim community, trying to oust the invaders. The US alliance turned out to be a small number of countries that were bribed into supporting the US alliance. Some didn’t even have an army. Many have since reconsidered and bowed out. Most did not support the alliance.
Remember the USA empire has been enhanced and now we have many more bases in foreign countries, so many in fact that it is difficult to supply troops to man these new bases. And the costs are staggering when we are operating the war on borrowed money. Don’t worry about who is going to pay for the war your kids and grandkids will.
And you thought this writing was about religion!!!
Rod Galloway
1340 H Street
Ramona, Ca. 92065 760 789 1333
To KEITH HANSEN IN RESPONSE TO YOUR EDITORIAL, (Constitution protects, not bans, religion)
CHRISTIANITY AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS
12-18-2005
Subtitled
THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE WORLD AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO THE USA AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS.
People that think our country was founded on the Christian religion would do themselves a lot of good to look at the research that was done by Jim Walker and his writings are
found at this web site.
http://earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/secular.html
How the message happened that the USA was founded on the Christian religion is not clear but if you think about what the church has done to indoctrinate the followers you could expect that they planted the idea and it grew with people that wanted to think it really happened. The primary founders, Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine were deitist, (deity
/dee"i tee/, n., pl. deities.
1. a god or goddess.
2. divine character or nature; divinity.
3. a person or thing revered as supremely powerful or beneficent.
4. the Deity, God.
[1250-1300; ME deite < OF < LL deitas = L de(us) god + -itas -ITY , formed after L divinitas DIVINITY])
People that believed in a god but were definitely not Christian and they believed in deitism and that people reconciled their religion within themselves and not thru a church. They came to that conclusion because of the abuse the church put on them while they were in Europe and the Colonies.
The church exploits the weaknesses of people but it is true that many people needed the religion put fourth by the church in order to survive the day to day traumas and the mysteries of life and the afterlife. The church did a lot of good and bad things during its history and today similar events continue to happen because of the power the church has over the people. During the earlier period of the church they were able to convince people to do the wants of the church but as Walker reports maybe 10% of the population in the colonies practiced the Christian religion.
When you believe in deitism there is little need for an organized religion, churches and the trappings of the church, the altars and idols that accompany the church. That form of worship does not lend itself to building churches and tithing and does not support the fundamentalist preachers that try and shape peoples lives. The churches also have created huge bureaucracies and accumulate wealth with money and property, because our government does not tax those religious organizations that can qualify as a religion. Today there are thousands of churches that are able to qualify and pay no taxes to support the sites and infrastructures that the remaining citizens must pay for.
It is in the interest of the church to melt its way into the government and gain more control over the people. The founders were very much against that happening here because that is what they were trying to get away from in Europe. They have barely succeeded and it is a constant war to exclude the religion from the government. Today many people are convinced that the country was founded on the Christian religion and that is a way to get further entwined in the government. Like it or not the big thing with religion is where is the money? The money is with the people and if they can convince the people they have a product for them they will take the money. That is why there are so many TV Evangelicals that have millions to spend on trying to gain more audience givers to pay for their lavish lifestyles. The sad part about it is they have figured out how to succeed at that robbery.
The government always needs to be called down about the separation of church and state because many religious politicians have been elected and preach the gospel in the three areas of our government. The only organization that continually fights for the civil rights of the people is the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union. There are well meaning people that think the ACLU is against the people because the religious right has convinced the public that it is a bad organization. The ACLU is the primary organization that keeps the church out of government.
The fact that on our money and government buildings the writings “in god we trust” and that gives them the idea that is a church saying. It is just what the deist have always said no church just a god which is what can be said and never proven because everyone has a “god” and all civilizations have had “gods” to protect them from the tragedies in life. The Christian religion wants the people to indoctrinate everyone to make the church stronger and eventually take over the government. They make inroads occasionally such as the pledge of allegiance, where we are now supposed to say “under god with liberty and justice for all” and “god bless America” which has nothing to do with nothing and nothing happens as a result of saying those things except you may get the idea that we have “liberty and justice for all” but that is a lie and no more than a goal. We never have had “liberty and justice for all” and
never will.
The following is a letter I wrote to the newspapers sometime ago that explains GODs.
THE FOLLOWING BY JIM WALKER
Some people today assert that the United States government came from Christian foundations. They argue that our political system represents a Christian ideal form of government and that Jefferson, Madison, et al, had simply expressed Christian values while framing the Constitution. If this proved true, then we should have a wealth of evidence to support it, yet just the opposite proves the case.
Although, indeed, many of America's colonial statesmen practiced Christianity, our most influential Founding Fathers broke away from traditional religious thinking. The ideas of the Great Enlightenment that began in Europe had begun to sever the chains of monarchical theocracy. These heretical European ideas spread throughout early America. Instead of relying on faith, people began to use reason and science as their guide. The humanistic philosophical writers of the Enlightenment, such as Locke, Rousseau, and Voltaire, had greatly influenced our Founding Fathers and Isaac Newton's mechanical and mathematical foundations served as a grounding post for their scientific reasoning.
A few Christian fundamentalist attempt to convince us to return to the Christianity of early America, yet according to the historian, Robert T. Handy, "No more than 10 percent-- probably less-- of Americans in 1800 were members of congregations."
The Founding Fathers, also, rarely practiced Christian orthodoxy. Although they supported the free exercise of any religion, they understood the dangers of religion. Most of them believed in deism and attended Freemasonry lodges. According to John J. Robinson, "Freemasonry had been a powerful force for religious freedom." Freemasons took seriously the principle that men should worship according to their own conscious. Masonry welcomed anyone from any religion or non-religion, as long as they believed in a Supreme Being. Washington, Franklin, Hancock, Hamilton, Lafayette, and many others accepted Freemasonry.
The Constitution reflects our founders views of a secular government, protecting the freedom of any belief or unbelief. The historian, Robert Middlekauff, observed, "the idea that the Constitution expressed a moral view seems absurd. There were no genuine evangelicals in the Convention, and there were no heated declarations of Christian piety."
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The Cross of Iron
By Conn Hallinan | December 19, 2003
With less than a year before the next election, the recent scandal over a sweetheart deal to lease air
tankers from the Boeing Corporation underlines the enormous and disturbing power the arms
industry exerts on American politics.
The original deal involved leasing 100 Boeing 767s
for $22.9 billion, several billion dollars more than it
would have cost to buy them outright. The scheme
unraveled when Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) revealed
that Boeing had rigged the bidding through White
House Chief of Staff Andrew Card. In the uproar
that followed, the Department of Defense (DOD)
recast the deal: lease 20 tankers and buy 80, saving a
little over $4 billion.
The whole business, however, is a sobering
reminder of how lobbyists and Political Action
Committee (PAC) contributions can distort the
political process. "The curtain has been lifted on the
real power brokers in Washington," noted Keith
Ashdown, vice-president of Taxpayers for Common
Sense.
There is serious money involved in all this. While
the official military budget for 2004 will be $401.3
billion, that figure doesn't include a number of add-
ons, from the cost of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars,
to the production and maintenance of nuclear
weapons. The actual price tag for military spending
in fiscal 2004 will be $486 billion, or 56% of all fed-
eral discretionary spending.
That figure is likely to rise, given the recent failure
of the Madrid conference to generate little more than
loans and import credits for Iraq—the war that has
already cost $65 billion.
The huge outlays for the military are beginning to
worry even those in Congress who normally rubber-
stamp whatever weapon system comes along.
Recently a group of pro-defense Democrats, the so-
called "Blue Dog Coalition," calculated the impact of
tax cuts and military spending and found that White
House claims that the national debt would be halved
by 2008 were 180 degrees off. It seems the Bush
administration never added in the cost of the Afghan
and Iraq wars. Inserting those expenditures jumped
the national debt from $4 trillion to $8.4 trillion by
2008.
Arms and Politics
But getting a handle on military spending will be
no easy task. Besides the mega-corporations, the
industry includes some 185,000 companies, making
it the 13th largest economy in the world. According
to a study by the World Policy Institute, weapons
manufactures pumped $10.9 million into the 2002
elections, a 23% increase over the 1998 elections.
Besides Political Action Committee (PAC) money
the arms companies also spend tens of millions on
lobbying.
Common Cause found that Boeing. which made
over $2 billion in profits last year, spent more than
$40 million lobbying Congress between 1998 and
2002. The company has 92 lobbyists on the Hill.
Between Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed
Martin, Raytheon. and Alliant Techsystems, arms
corporations spent upwards of $800 million for lob-
bying between 2000 and 2003.
It was money well spent. Boeing wasn't the only
company that profited. Northrop Grumman turned a
$59 million loss last year into a $184 million gain
this year.
Increasingly, those in power are direct representa-
tives of arms giants like Boeing, Lockheed Martin,
Northrop Grumman, United Technologies, General
Electric, Textron, Raytheon, and Alliant Techsystems.
The World Policy Institute found that 32 high
administration officials were former arms company
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executives, consultants, or shareholders. Some 60%
of the companies had employees or board members
who had served, or had close ties, with the executive
branch or Congress.
According to the Center for Political Integrity, nine
out of 30 past and present members of the influential
Defense Policy Board, had ties to defense firms with
$76 billion in DOD contracts.
The list is a veritable "who's who" in the Bush
administration:
In Boeing's corner are Deputy Secretary of State
Richard Armitage (consultant), and Senior White
House Adviser Karl Rove (shareholder). Armitage is
also on the advisory board of Raytheon, maker of the
Tomahawk Cruise missile and the Paveway laser-
guided bomb.
Representing Northup Grumman is White House
Chief of Staff, I. Libby Lewis, (consultant); Under
Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith (legal client);
Deputy Sec. of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (consultant);
Air Force Secretary James Roche (former president);
and Air Force Assistant Secretary Nelson Gibbs
(comptroller).
Lockheed Martin, the largest arms company in the
world, has a stable that includes: Deputy National
Security Adviser Stephen Hadley (legal client);
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta (sharehold-
er); Deputy Attorney General Larry Johnson (legal
client); Vice-President Dick Cheneys wife, Lynn (for-
mer director); Air Force Assistant Secretary Peter
Teets (former CEO); Navy Secretary Gordon
England (former president).
While two-thirds of the lobbying and PAC money
goes to Republicans, the arms corporations have key
Democratic supporters as well, including John
Mertha (D-PA). ranking member of the House
Appropriations Defense Subcommittee (Boeing and
Lockheed Martin): Jim Moran (D-VA) of the
Defense Subcommittee (Boeing); Norman Dicks (D-
WA), Defense Subcommittee (Boeing); and the man
for all seasons, Ike Skelton (D-MO) ranking member
of the House Armed Services Committee (Northrop
Grumman; Raytheon; Lockheed Martin; Alliant
Techsystems).
Linda Daschle, wife of Senate Minority Leader,
Tom Daschle, is a paid lobbyist for Lockheed Martin,
and defense firms have close ties with the powerful
Democratic Leadership Council, including Party
Chair, Donna Brazille.
On the surface there is an illusion of "competition"
between the arms giants, but in reality the defense pie
is carefully apportioned. Visualize, for a moment, an
F/A-18 Super Hornet ($39.5 million) warming up on
the deck of an aircraft carrier. Boeing makes the
plane, Northrop Grumman the airframe, and
General Electric the engines. It bristles with firepow-
er, including AGM-84H air to surface missile
(Boeing, $475,000); an AGM-Maverick anti-tank
missile (Raytheon, $110,000); a GBU-24 Paveway
laser guided bomb (Raytheon, $55,600); a GBU-87
cluster bomb (Alliant Techsystems, ($13,941); and an
AGM-88 anti-radar missile (Texas Instruments,
$200,000).
By defense spending standards, the Super Hornet is
a middling costly system, not as cheap as Lockheed
Martins F-16 fighter-bomber ($19 million), but
nowhere near as costly as Lockheed's F-22 stealth
fighter ($128 million).
Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon have also
cornered 60% of the Bush administrations anti-bal-
listic missile (ABM) system, a technology we have
spent some $95 billion on already, according to the
Center for Defense Information. The U.S. will spend
$9.1 billion on the ABM next year.
Sometimes defense firms play a direct role in policy
formation. Bruce Jackson. Lockheed Martins vice-
president for corporate strategy and foreign policy,
openly bragged to journalist and space weapons
expert, Karl Grossman that "I wrote the Republican
foreign policy platform."
The arms companies also use think tanks, like the
American Enterprise Institute or the Heritage
Foundation as lobbies. Thomas Donnelly was execu-
tive director of the Project for the New American
Century, a think tank that created the Bush adminis-
tration's blueprint for pre-emptive war. One of the
Project's main goals was to dismantle the ABM Treaty
and deploy an anti-missile system. When Donnelly
resigned from the Project he became Lockheed
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tives, a major ABM contractor.
The Cross of Iron
The consequences of allotting almost 60% of dis-
cretionary spending on the military are sobering. In
five years, 77 million baby boomers will reach retire-
ment age; in eight years, they start collecting
Medicare.
Jagadeesh Gokhale. senior economist at the Federal
Reserve Bank, and Kent Smetters, former deputy
Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy for the U.S.
Treasury, added up all future revenues the govern-
ment can expect to collect, minus future expendi-
tures, and hit the "calculate button." What they came
up with was the perfect economic storm: $44 trillion
in the hole.
The number is so enormous, the terrain so unfamil-
iar, that it is impossible to imagine a deficit of that
size without fundamental economic dislocation.
However, given the power and influence of the arms
corporations, it will be hard to rein in the financial
hemorrhage caused by military spending, which
increasingly comes from the pockets of the average
American.
According to the National Priorities Project, spend-
ing $100 billion in Iraq—we will be lucky to get out
for twice that much—will cost federal taxpayers
across the country hundreds of millions of dollars;
New York. $2.4 billion; Detroit, $182 million;
Denver, $152 million; Des Moines, $142 million,
Atlanta, $80 million.
More than 40 years ago. President Dwight D.
Eisenhower warned that military spending would
crucify humanity on. "a cross of iron." Preventing
that crucifixion will take a serious re-examination of
the growing power of those who forge that cross.
(Conn Hallinan is a
provost at the University of California at Santa
Cruz and a political analyst for Foreign Policy in
Focus (online at www.fpif.org).)
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THIS IS A COVER LETTER TO HANSEN THE EDITOR OF THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER, RAMONA SENTINAL. HE WROTE AN EDITORIAL ABOUT HOW THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION WAS PART OF THE CONSTITUTION AND HOW THE FOUNDING FATHERS WERE CHRISTIANS.
1340 H Street
Ramona, Ca. 92065
rodjan@yahoo.com
December 20, 2005
Keith Hansen
P.O. Box 367
Ramona, Ca 92065 (in response to your editorial 12-15-2005)
Dear Keith Hansen,
Enclosed is some writings by me, Rod Galloway and Jim Walker giving a historical account about the religious aspects of our founding fathers. He quotes conversations and letters written by the most celebrated writers of the Constitution. Mostly the ACLU and the courts are protecting the Constitution. Nothing in the Constitution refers to the Christian religion and I don’t see any “Biblical principals” or the “intention of the authors” for this to be a Christian nation in the Constitution.
Article XI of the treaty of Tripoli specifically states, “As the government of the United States of America is not founded on the Christian religion. Treaties become the law of the USA. So you could say that we now have a law that states the country was not founded on the Christian religion.
Every civilization has had “GODS”, even aborigines in Africa and Australia, and that is a very personal thing because gods only exist in the minds of men, and can never be proved or disproved just as the beliefs of all religions.
Thanks for your attention,
Rodney Galloway
1340 H Street
Ramona,Ca. 92065
760 789 1333
STRANGE TERRORIST WARS
1-20-2006
Today the USA is fighting the so-called terrorist in a country that did not have anything to do with 911 using methods learned during WWII. The terrorist strike a major blow after some minor attacks and this country starts spending billions each day while the terrorist just sit back and watch the paranoia and knee-jerk reactions while they spend nothing. Who do you think will win that “war”? You see part of the terrorist effort is to let the USA spend itself into oblivion and put the country into bankruptcy because we have to borrow money to support the lavish spending required by the Washington bureaucrats and the greedy industrial establishment and the states that want all the money they can get in the form of pork spending. In order for the terrorist to maintain the “war” all they have to do is have a spokesman make a tape that threatens the country and they have done their job, spending no money while the USA continues to maintain their “security” and think that everyone is a terrorist. Also to convince the public that everyone is a terrorist and the real terrorist is sitting back waiting to fuel the fire if the bureaucrats start to let up and they will again spend a few bucks and make another threat that will start the chasing of our tail and continue spending billions each day in an effort to do nothing but support the federal welfare for the government employees and the industrial establishment.
Other types of terrorism that are not named as such is the “war on drugs”, so called “police protection”, fire protection and illegal immigrants. All of these “efforts” produce no benefits, people will continue to use drugs independent of the “war”. The authorities do not know how to stop the use but continue the “war” because it supports the police and the dealers while the public pays both for the “war” and the high cost of the drugs.
The police do little to “protect” the people but they are a reactive force that does go after the perpetrators of crime but only after the fact. They cannot prevent crime such as
murder, robbery, assaults, speeding, traffic infractions, but the appeal to the public as if they do those impossible jobs.
The firemen do little to prevent fires but “react” and mostly try to keep them from spreading. The house usually burns down while they pour water on it in an attempt to show support.
The legislature makes laws that encourages the third world poor people to come to the USA for the benefits and then complains that they are coming and try to stop the immigration by having more “police” presence, called “border patrol” and building fences that neither will keep out the hungry from trying to survive.
The military supports terrorism by invading other countries that retaliate by using terrorist methods by bombings and killing people. When the military does not invade other countries and try and kill off the population we do not have a threat from those countries. With the exception of the Middle East today no other countries have attacked a USA installation. Many countries have allowed our occupation of their countries because we bribe them (we are good at that) or they seek our “protection” and allow us to occupy their land that in turn allows the USA to extend our imperialism through the world. When we are asked to leave a country we usually comply but when a politically influentially person objects to our presence or actions there is little for them to do but wage a terrorist attack, and that is the state we are in today. That applies to citizen terrorist such as the Oklahoma City bombing.
When the press secretary and the president keeps repeating “we do not negotiate with terrorist” he fails to recognize that each encounter with the defenders in Iraq on a daily basis is a negotiation to end the so-called war. When the agenda is to make war you should carefully avoid negotiation because that would probably end your goals of wanting to make war.
ROD GALLOWAY
PLAN TO DEFEAT HUNTER IN THE PRIMARY
12-21-2005
THINKING WHAT WOULD BE THE BEST WAY TO DEFEAT HUNTER AND SOME IDEAS SPROUTED. THE FIRST OPPURTUNITY TO DEFEAT HUNTER IS IN THE PRIMARY ELECTION. IN ORDER TO DO THAT YOU NEED A MAJORITY TO DEFEAT OR ELECT ANOTHER REPUBLICAN TO TAKE HIS PLACE. THE WAY THE GAME IS PLAYED IN THE PRIMAIRY THE REPUBLICANS VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICANS AND THE DEMOCRATS VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATS. IN ORDER FOR THE INCUMBANT TO BE DEFEATED IF THE DEMOCRATS ALL CHANGED REGISTRATION TO REPUBLICAN THEN THEY COULD VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN THAT WOULD OPPOSE THE INCUMBENT. IF A PERSON SEEKING THE NOMINATION SAW THAT HE HAD A CHANCE TO DEFEAT HUNTER HE/SHE WOULD PROBABLY RUN. SO THE CAMPAIGN WOULD BE TO HAVE THE DEMOCRATS REREGISTER FOR THE PRIMARY AND VOTE AGAINST HUNTER AND DURING THE GENERAL ELECTION THEY COULD VOTE ANYWAY THEY WISHED. IN A REPUBLICAN GERRYMANDERED DISTRICT IT MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEAT THE REPUBLICAN BUT AS LONG AS IT WASN'T HUNTER YOU WOULD HAVE WON. AND YOU COULD DEMONSTRATE THE POWER OF THE DEMOCRAT/INDEPENDENT VOTE.
FEINSTEIN RUNS AGAIN IN 2006, SO BOXER WILL PROBABLY RUN AGAIN IN 2008 OR 2010.
ROD
VOTES IN THE PAST
1-25-2006
1998
McCARTNEY 498 VOTES
HUNTER 84,703
BADLER LIB 10320
PELTON NL 15843
VOTES NOT CAST 15843
2000
HUNTER 91,560 71.75%
BARKACS DEMO 30,711 24.07%
BENOIT LIB 4,100 3.23%
SHERMAN NLP 1,238 .97%
2002
HUNTER 118,561 70.1 %
DEMO 43,526 25.7%
LIB 6,923 4%
CURRENT REGISTERATION
DEMO 100,885
REPUB 154,093
AIP 7,806
GRN 1,713
LIB 2,119
NLP 765
P&F 554
MISC 1,821
DSCL 64,018
TOTAL 333,774
Rod Galloway
1340 H Street
Ramona, Ca. 92065
rodjan@yahoo.com
12-29-2005
To the USA Government
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Government,
I have read your letters and heard many times about the bad intelligence but no one wants to talk about why the intelligence was bad. I do know that the intelligence you had was hearsay evidence and would not be allowed in a court of law, but the congress agreed to go to war and jeopardize American lives based on hearsay evidence. The fact is that we knew that Sadam had WMD’s because the US government gave him those weapons years ago when they were fighting the Iranians. So why not tell the American people the truth? The USA has the most banned weapons (chemical, biological and nuclear) in the history of any country. As I remember the Iraq’s told us they had destroyed those weapons and the weapons inspectors could not find any weapons, which would be a first hand testimony that they did not exist. The administration chose not to believe and started a war. We went into Iraq because we wanted to start a war and prop up the military. That is the role of the military to make war and without a war they cannot justify their existence.
Having a democracy in Iraq does not mean an end to the insurgency (or people trying to defend and oust the invaders from their country). It does not follow that having a right to vote, a constitution, elected officials will make that country any more peaceful. The USA is a good example of a republic that terrorizes the world. They want us out of Iraq and out of the Arabian Peninsula and stop supporting Israel. They are not going to stop fighting until those conditions are met. Anyone that knows something about history must remember Afghanistan, where the Taliban and Ben Laden supported by the USA drove the Russians out after they had invaded that country. Why does this country always get on the wrong side of the fight? They were and are foot soldiers armed with AK-47’s and Stinger missiles supplied by the USA. No high tech mechanisms, just guerrilla fighters willing to fight to the death and it works. If you think we “won” in Afghanistan remember we still have 5000 “reported” troops still fighting that “war”
The reasons for ending the war are a paradox and evidence that we will never achieve the desired goals. We are establishing a beachhead in this Middle Eastern country. The real questions are why do we have over 700 military bases around the world and why do we occupy bases in the middle east other than to protect the US oil companies and protect Israel? When will Israel be able to defend it’s self without the subsidies from the USA? They have been on the dole for 10’s of years. Are the thousands of casualties worth protecting the oil companies and Israel? Since we have been terrorized we have lost at the most 4000 lives and we have probably killed 10 times that in Iraq, including over 2000 of our own troops and it won’t be long before we reach the number 3000, which was killed on 911. Isn’t that like cutting off your nose to spite your face? And that is not counting the thousands that have been permanently maimed and disabled by an illegal war. What is the agenda of this government why can’t the American people be told why we are fighting this war? 70% of the public thinks we are on the wrong track. If the government had good reasons for the fight I am sure the entire population would back the effort 100% and few would decent. This is a very patriotic nation but we need to know what to be patriotic about, so far we have not heard a good rational for the losses and the enormous expenditures that we borrow from China and then threaten China because we think they do not treat their people right. This war is costing billions with no end in sight. This country goes to pot and we are propping up a bad country, multinational corporations and corrupting and ruining some politicians lives with the runs on our treasury. Disasters in this country are not supported, along with the infrastructure. As you have pointed out in your letter there have been too many irrational decisions made and the public knows the apparent truth.
It is easy to say we pay homage to the courage, sacrifice and honor of the fallen troops but when you get down to your own it is a different story, a tragedy and there are many in this irresponsible war.
When did the American public decide we wanted a democratic republic in Iraq? Why does the American public care about what goes on in a foreign sovereign country? We need to protect our homeland but we are too busy fighting this war and we have not done the job the government was supposed to do, protecting our own.
After all the negative reasons for starting and maintaining the war, and the paradox about what we need to do to win and have a victory, why would anyone want to pursue and or keep beating a dead horse and losing American lives, when in the end we will leave as we have done in Viet Nam, Korea, and the lesser places within the world?
Why do the Iraqi’s need 350,000 troops when we only have 165,000 troops there now or do we have more than that? Do they have 350,000 people that are trainable? You would have a hard time getting that many out of California and the population of California is much larger than Iraq. We have been there for more than three years. We train GI’s in this country in 8-10 weeks, give them a rifle and tell them to go shoot someone. Why can’t we have trained over 350,000 troops during that time we have been in their country?
Finally we torture prisoners, court marshal GI’s for torturing prisoners, the Secretary of Defense claims he wants to torture prisoners and the Secretary of State goes to Europe and swears that the USA does not torture prisoners when a recently released prisoner claims he was held for 6 months in Afghanistan and finally released when they could not prove anything. Why would anyone have any confidence in how our government is run? We need some integrity in the government.
We need to get out of Iraq as soon as possible and not wait for some idealistic, unattainable events to occur, lick our wounds and try and conduct this country in an orderly manner, that is consistent with our wealth and the world will beat a path to our door trying to emulate this republic. But by continuing this irrational behavior the rest of the world will have no respect and the citizens of this country will also not have any respect.
Sincerely yours,
Rodney Galloway
1340 H STREET
RAMONA, CALIF 92065
760 789 1333
DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORIST
1-22-2006
When the press secretary and the president keep repeating that “we do not negotiate with terrorist” they must recognize that each encounter with the defenders in Iraq on a daily basis is a negotiation to end the so-called war. When the agenda is to make war and that is the business of the military you should carefully avoid negotiation because that would probably end your goals of wanting to make war. As a result the war goes on and new foes are spun (like Iran) into the acceptance of the public in order to further the aspirations of the military and the industrial establishment, both of which profits from the war. The ones that do not profit from the “war” are the many that are brought home in coffins and the maimed and disfigured but we are quick to say how sad we are for their loss and call them heroes. Its easy to maintain the “war” when its not your kin or friends that are being sacrificed and tell everyone how sad we are about their loss, an empty gesture to the surviving family and friends.
RESPONSE TO A PAPER WRITTEN BY??
1-24-2006
1. If this guy that writes this stuff could get close to reality and stop talking about irreverent topics he could probably write a good paper. He needs to forget about WWII when talking about
We (the USA) retaliated by invading the wrong country and getting beat by a bunch of rag heads in sandals, we using this “war” and relate to the facts that:
2. We invaded the Arabian peninsular and aided Israel.
3. Osama retaliated using terrorist tactics a number of times.WWII techniques against the guerrillas.
4. We will loose as many personal as was lost on 911 and wounded and maimed about 15 times that before we leave Iraq. That’s called cutting off your nose to spite your face.
5. As Osama says regardless of what happens in Iraq the USA will still be subject to a terrorist attack.
6. WE spend more than a billion a day and they spend pennies if that much. Who do you think will win???
7. The reason that we have not been attacked when we are so vulnerable is: why would they attack when we are now spending over a billion a day?? We wouldn’t be able to figure out how to piss away more money so another attack would be useless. When we gain our senses and stop spending so much then they might have another attack. When they chose and not because of any security we have put forth.
Now read this tome that has little to do with anything if you want to waste your time!!!
Rod Galloway
WHEN THE DEMOCRACY IS ACCEPTABLE TO THE USA
1-26-2006
The President likes to align democracy with peace or peaceful nations but when a democratic state threatens Israel (like the Palestine Hamas) then it’s a new ballgame. When we agree with the government we like it but when we don’t agree then the lies and derogatory remarks show up about that state. Terrorist states such as Palestine, Israel and the USA have all demonstrated that they can be so called democratic and spread terror. States like Iraq and Iran support terrorist but the USA as a country engages in terrorism.
It’s funny when the propaganda from the white house tries to get us thinking about why we are at “war” they try to paint a picture about why the Muslims hate us and fail to tell the people that the terrorist did not have a gripe with the USA prior to our occupying the Arabian peninsula. The subsidies to Israel could be a negotiated situation and it is on going, but the occupation is what set off the terrorist attacks. Our invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan just added fuel to the fire of the Muslims and until we vacate the Middle East we will be subject to attacks. When you have a giant military to support it is not easy to justify their existence without an enemy and a “war”. This country will never have peace as long as the warmongers are in charge in Washington.
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START WRITING ABOUT THE NEED TO EXAMINE WHY WE VOTE THE WAY WE VOTE???
2-6-2006
Why does a person that is a Christian vote for someone that causes so much destruction and killing thousands of people??
What benefit do you have to belong to a political party??
Why do you support candidates that do not support your political and religious beliefs??
MABY CHRISTIANS JUST WANT TO BE CALLED CHRISTIAN IN ORDER TO HEGDE their bets and be part of the group but are really hostile and the church is just a coverup!!
Judging what some church leaders say its easy to see that they are hostile and like the idea of killing anyone they don’t like and especially other religious faiths..
They (the church) is in a constant fight to attract parishioners to join their church. They need the new money to enhance their position and win the race..
How could a village idiot get elected to the presidency of the USA??? You know the type I mean those that we used to hang out with and you wanted him to do some ridiculous thing like bang his head on a car window and he would go do it for laughs. Or dive into a one foot pool of murky water.. or run out in front of the traffic on main street.
THE PROBLEM, MATH 2-6-2006
FIND THE INITIAL VALUE OF A PRODUCT THAT HAS BEEN DISCOUNTED BY 25%,10% AND 3% WHICH WOULD YIELD A FINAL VALUE OF $195.89.
SOLUTION:
(X – X(25/100)) = Y = X (1-.25) = X(.75) = Y
(Y – Y(10/100)) = Z = Y (1- .1) = Y(.90) = Z
(Z - Z( 3/100)) = Z (1-.03) = Z(.97) = 195.89
SUBSTITUTING FOR Z AND Y USING THE INITIAL VALUE, X
SUBSTITUTING FOR Z
Y(.9)(.97) = 195.89
SUBSTUTUTING FOR Y
X(.75)(.9)(.97)=195.89
SOLVING FOR X
X = 195.89/ (.75)(.90)(.97)=$299.18
NICE PROBLEM, I FINALIZED IT TODAY AT 4:30 AM
GRANDPA
MODERNIZING OUR SCHOOLS
2-7-2006
It is a sad time in our history when the people that are controlling our schools are so badly educated that they are influenced by bad decisions, information and spend money that could be better spent on real requirements.
Today the Grant Middle School in the EUSD is going to spend $2.7 million replacing the “aging” electrical, fire alarm and multipurpose room air conditioning systems. The systems have “outlived their 30 year life expectancy by more than two decades”. Then saying “we got our money’s worth out of it and then some” is a ridiculous thing to say about a system that is apparently working today and has worked well for over fifty years. “The system is still safe, it’s just worn out now” is not justification for tearing apart the system and replacing it with a “modern” system. You should maintain the system until the maintenance costs are so high that it requires replacement. Electrical systems are unlikely to undergo extinction because of “old age”. Sounds like the old adage that if it is not broke don’t fix it. This is clearly a case of lets fix it because its old and not the justification that would be needed if it wasn’t working or the maintenance costs were high or safety was a factor, things that are apparently not a factor in the spending of $2.7 million. There is something wrong with condemning a “5000 volt system and replacing it with a 440 volt system” because the 5000 volt system is probably a distribution system to the school and it is normally converted to a usable 120 volt system which is what is used in most buildings in the Americas. There are cases when 220 volts are used but in schools it is probably not needed.
Sounds like that the real reason for the expenditure is to put a mural on one of the exterior walls, and that is the kind of reasoning that ill educated people would consider justifying spending that kind of money. Remember prop MM and the replacing of good fence with new fence and the paint is pealing so lets replace the building rather than put on new paint. When did the copper in wire get “old” and unusable? Why would digging up old copper wire and replace it with new copper wire ever accomplished anything other than inflating the pockets of the contractors? After fifty years of operation the system appears to work well, don’t fix it. The arguments put forth to justify this project are childish and ridiculous by people that are uninformed about reality.
Copies to EUSD and North County Times
Coalition at a glance
February 9, 2006
A look at nations in the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq
Albania: 120 noncombat troops, mainly patrolling the airport in Mosul; no plans to withdraw.
Armenia: 46 soldiers serving under Polish command through year's end; no plans to withdraw.
Australia: Roughly 550 troops and support personnel in Iraq, plus several hundred others in the Persian Gulf; no dates set for any pullout.
Azerbaijan: 150 troops, mostly serving as sentries, on patrols and protecting a dam near city of Hadid Ha; no plans to withdraw.
Bosnia-Herzegovina: 36 experts identifying and destroying unexploded ordnance; experts being rotated every six months; no plans to withdraw.
Britain: About 8,000 troops in southern Iraq, roughly 2,000 others in Gulf region; government and military deny media reports that 2,000 will be withdrawn starting in May.
Bulgaria: Pulled out 380 infantry troops in December; will deploy 120 noncombat troops by mid-March to guard refugee camp north of Baghdad.
Czech Republic: 100 military police training Iraqi officers; mission extended to end of 2006.
Denmark: 530 troops patrolling southern Iraqi city of Basra; mission expires July 1.
El Salvador: 380 soldiers doing peacekeeping and humanitarian work in Hillah; no immediate plans to withdraw.
Estonia: 34 troops, mostly infantry, serving under U.S. command in Baghdad, working checkpoints, patrolling neighborhoods, searching houses for weapons, escorting convoys; mission extended to end of 2006.
Georgia: 858 combat forces, medics and support personnel serving under U.S. command in Baquba; no plans to withdraw or reduce contingent.
Italy: About 2,600 troops, most in Nasiriyah, involved in training, security and reconstruction; government plans to draw down gradually this year, with contingent roughly halved by June and civilian replacements to be deployed.
Japan: 600 noncombat troops based in Samawah to purify water and do other humanitarian tasks; government and military have not confirmed media reports that a pullout could begin in March and end by May.
Kazakhstan: 27 military engineers; no plans for withdrawal.
Latvia: 135 soldiers, mostly infantry, working checkpoints, patrolling and escorting materials; mission expires at end of 2006.
Lithuania: 60 soldiers, mostly infantry, serving with Danish contingent near Basra; mission to last at least through 2006.
Macedonia: 32 troops providing security in Taji; no plans to withdraw.
Moldova: 11 bomb defusal experts; mission expires in July; extension prospects uncertain.
Mongolia: 160 troops; no plans to withdraw.
Netherlands: 15 soldiers as part of NATO mission training police and army officers; mandate expires in August.
Poland: 900 noncombat troops; commands multinational force south of Baghdad; presence expected to last at least until December; new president says deployment could be extended into next year.
Romania: 863 troops, including 400 infantry, 150 mine experts, 100 military police, 50 military intelligence members plus medics and U.N. guards; no plans to withdraw.
Slovakia: 107 troops stationed in Hillah in Polish sector, mostly engaged in demining; no plans to withdraw.
South Korea: 3,270 troops around Irbil in northern Iraq helping train Iraqis and providing security for U.N. officials; about 1,000 to be withdrawn in stages this year; overall mission expires at end of the year.
Associated Press
Coalition shrinking, slowly but steadily
Levels could drop noticeably this year
By William J. Kole
ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 9, 2006
· Coalition at a glance
VIENNA, Austria – The Ukrainians are gone. So are the Norwegians. The Italians and South Koreans are getting ready to leave, and the Britons and Japanese could begin packing their bags later this year.
Slowly but steadily, America's allies in Iraq are drawing down or pulling out as Iraqi forces take more responsibility for securing the country. By year's end, officials say, the coalition – now 25 nations supporting a dwindling U.S. contingent of 138,000 – could shrink noticeably.
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The withdrawals and reductions will test the Iraqis' ability to tamp down attacks and rebuild, said Anthony Cordesman of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, warning in a new report: “It is too soon to predict the extent to which Iraqi forces can eventually replace coalition forces.”
Britain, with about 8,000 troops in Iraq, is the United States' most important coalition ally. British officials repeatedly have said they hope to begin bringing home some of their troops this year, though Defense Secretary John Reid has played down recent reports that Britain has settled on a timetable for withdrawal.
“We are going to hand over to the Iraqi security forces . . . whenever they are ready to defend their own democracy. We are there as long as we are needed and no longer,” Reid said in a recent interview in London, stressing that any withdrawal would be done in stages.
Yesterday, however, he also made clear that “if things in Iraq continue to progress as they are, there will be significantly fewer British forces there by next year.”
Poland's new president, Lech Kaczynski, said his country might keep its scaled-down contingent of 900 troops in Iraq into 2007.
But other countries have abandoned the coalition, shrinking the overall size of the force to 157,500, including the 138,000 U.S. troops. The Pentagon says the U.S. contingent has been cut to its lowest level since last summer, when a buildup for election security expanded the U.S. force to about 160,000.
In the months after the March 2003 invasion, the multinational force peaked at about 300,000 soldiers from 38 nations – 250,000 from the United States, about 40,000 from Britain, and the rest ranging from 2,000 Australians to 70 Albanians.
Many of the non-U.S. forces are in heavily Kurdish and Shiite regions that are relatively peaceful, unlike Sunni Arab flash points where U.S. troops are concentrated.
Among the larger contributors to pull out of Iraq was Ukraine, which withdrew its last contingent of 876 troops in December.
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HOME WORK
2-16-2006
THE FOLLOWING IS OF COURSE OPTIONAL
WRITE BELOW AND TELL ME: 1. WHY YOU SUPPORT A POLITICAL PARTY AND 2. THE BENEFIT YOU RECEIVE FROM THAT SUPPORT.
I DON’T NEED TO KNOW WHICH PARTY YOU BELONG TO OR FOR HOW LONG.. IF YOU PUT YOUR NAME AT THE BOTTOM OF WHAT YOU WRITE I WILL ACKNOLEDGE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE THING I AM WRITING AND/OR IF YOU DON’T WANT YOUR NAME IN THE CREDITS YOU WILL BE PART OF THE ANONYMOUS DONORS. I WILL NOT ASSOCIATE YOUR RESPONSE WITH YOUR NAME, JUST AS A CONTRIBUTOR..
ROD
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EVOLUTION, INTELLIGENT DESIGN AND TRANSPLANTATION
2-23-2006
Leave it to my grandson to ask me the “good” questions; they are the ones you either don’t know the answer to or thought no one would ever ask. Anyway the question was if I knew what the “Drake Equation” was? I had never heard about it so he told me generally what it was and after a Google and a Wikipedia.com the following results were shown:
The Drake equation states that:
where:
N is the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which we might expect to be able to communicate
and
R* is the rate of star formation in our galaxy
fp is the fraction of those stars which have planets
ne is average number of planets which can potentially support life per star that has planets
fl is the fraction of the above which actually go on to develop life
fi is the fraction of the above which actually go on to develop intelligent life
fc is the fraction of the above which are willing and able to communicate
L is the expected lifetime of such a civilization
This is just the number of civilizations that could be calculated by estimating (guessing) the seven variables in the equation and it seems likely it could be used for any galaxy.
Having just read in National Geographic analysis about how the earth’s civilization migrated from Africa about 200,000 years ago to the landmasses in the world it reminded me about the argument between Darwin’s theory of evolution and the intelligent design idea that has been put forth by the Christians in order to cover up their long held belief that the universe was only 5000 years old and everything was created in seven days. It always seemed to me a stretch to believe we evolved from a single celled “bug” or “animal”. There should be little doubt that since man has been on earth a giant evolution has taken place with man and it goes on today. Darwin also proved that the animals of the Galapagos evolved because of the changing environment. That proof leads others and Darwin to theorize that man evolved from a natural chemical process. Not wanting to believe we evolved from apes the Christians and others held to the writings of the Bible and finally to intelligent design after finding it difficult to explain the 5000 year theory.
An equally difficult to explain idea is that the entire living things on earth were transplanted here by extra-terrestrials. Don’t laugh it just as believable as the other theories, which can’t be proved. There is evidence that man has existed here on earth in some form for about 200,000 years ago which gives a starting point along with evidence that the earth is maybe 4.5 million years old. Suppose other civilizations could have existed a million years prior to them transplanting life on this planet it very likely they could have developed means to travel vast distances and had the technology to do the transplant knowing that evolution would take place and a new society would emerge with new characteristic. If the transplant was a common village they knew that thru mutations different races would evolve. There must have been more than one set of humans because with what we know today the inter breeding of relatives creates a weak line of humans, but that could have happened. Before the transplanting of humans the planet had to be prepared for the human to survive so a long time before man was transplanted all the vegetation had to be transplanted and then the animals transplanted and had to mature to the point that man and animal could survive.
Sound like a fairy tale well this theory is just as factual as the others because none of them can be proven and it is all speculation as how it all happened. Finally if the extra-terrestrials did the transplant here on earth, how or where did they develop??
The bottom line is that which ever way it happened nothing is going to happen as a result and the schools can teach whatever they like because again NOTHING is going to happen and we will never know how it all came about. This is very similar to thinking what happens after death, no one will ever know. There are many subjects that are argued today that result in nothing happening, typical are the “feel good laws”, border protection, policemen on horseback, the war on drugs, abortion, traffic laws (the people that pay attention to the laws are people interested in their own safety and do not need a law, the scofflaws do not care), ect, you get the idea, think about it!!!
Thanks to the Grandson Chet.
On November 20, 2005 Connie Frankowiak made the following statement
declaring that she would run against Duncan Hunter in the 2006 election.
Since Duncan Hunter in my 52nd Congressional District is not
representing the people of our district and is instead representing the
corporations and has supported the presidents efforts to destroy the
Social Security Program and has also supported the Iraq war I have decided
to run against Duncan Hunter in the 52nd Congressional District in the
2006 election.
When elected to the U.S. House of Representatives I will introduce
the following bills:
1. A bill of impeachment against President Bush and Vice President Cheney
for lying to the American people, the U.S. Congress and the UN so that
they could make war against Iraq.
2. A bill that states that within 90 days all American troops will be
withdrawn from both Iraq and Afghanistan.
3. I will introduce legislation that will totally reform America's
governmental, political, legal, tax and corporate systems.
4. I will introduce a bill that will establish a National Health Insurance
Program for all the American people and this program will be paid for
with the billions saved by eliminating the thousands of Health Insurance
Plan bureaucracies and also the mindboggiing governmental, medical and
insurance paperwork and replacing t-hese with a total electronic system
as other democratic nations have established. It is a disgrace that all
the democratic nations of the world can provide all their citizens with
national affordable health insurance plans except the wealthiest democratic
nation that has 50 million taxpaying Americans who are unable to afford
health insurance and 50 million more who can only afford limited health
care insurance and increasing numbers of corporations and businesses can
i.-J longer afford the skyrocketing health insurance plans for their employees.
5. A bill that will create jobs through contracts to rebuild America,
Halliburton need not apply.
6. A bill that will increase the minimum wage to $7.00.
7. A bill that will abolish swindle bills like the Pharmaceutical, Energy
and Transportation bills and also to abolish that mean spirited, cruel
and greedy credit card bill.
8. A bill to create a permanent U.S. Congressional special prosecutors
office that will investigate and prosecute all corruption, fraud and
waste that occurs in governmental contracts, programs and federal agencies
since the U.S. Department of Justice is politicized and refuses to
protect the people from these criminal activities, abuses of power and
unrestrained greed.
9. I will introduce a bill that will revoke the broadcasting licenses of
the owners of FOX, CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS news stations since they are
making billions on the peoples airwaves by lying to, deceiving and mislead-
ing the American people and refusing to tell the people about what is
really going on in America and the world. These are not news stations but
right wing fascist propaganda stations that are abusing their power. The
day that America rids itself of its corrupt corporate mass media will be
the beginning of the end of fascism in America and as a result a rebirth
of democracy in the land.
A PLEDGE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE 52nd CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: I will never
lie to the people that I will be representing, I will never vote for
swindle bills or the destruction of the Social Security Program nor will
I support any war of aggression based on lies.
Connie Frankowiak, 14925 Gr. S. Overland, Julian, CA 92036 (760) 765-2650
CONNIE FRANKOWIAK’S POSITIONS
2-25-2006
EDUCATION:
1. There should be a comprehensive civics program from 1st grade through high school that teaches America’s young people their responsibilities and duties in their democracy.
2. Since schools have stopped teaching Physical Education the problems of obesity in America’s young people has become one of the most serious health problems and I propose that every school at grade level have a PE/ Health program.
3. There should be a comprehensive program from 1st grade to 7th grade that teaches children how to write a complete sentence emphasizing diagramming each word.
4. At least half of America’s young people are not going to college and lose interest in their classes in high schools these students should skills in the various trades; mechanics, plumbing, electric, trucks, construction or how to start a small business.
ABORTION:
No government has the right to interfere in a woman and her doctor’s decision to have or not to have an abortion
UNIONS:
The deliberate and aggressive efforts by the Republican Party to destroy the Unions over the past 40 years has resulted in the destruction of the middle class in America.
America’s corrupt corporations can now pay employees poverty wages and ignore employee safety regulations. (The mine accidents are a good example of corrupt corporations putting their greed before the safety of their employees.)
More and more Americans are trying to live on poverty wages and as a result America’s corrupt corporations are making astronomical profits and the reason this is allowed to go on is that America’s highly paid representatives in the US Congress who have the best health plans in America refuse to pass increases in the minimum wage or give the people a National Health Plan that includes all Americans because the corrupt corporations have paid these representatives off through campaign contributions in the millions so our representatives are not representing the people but instead we have a corrupt fascist government of the corrupt corporations and the people suffer because they can’t afford the skyrocketing health insurance because they are making poverty wages and also are forced to pay billions in higher taxes and higher costs toward swindle bills like the Pharmaceutical, energy and transportation bills that the corrupt corporations representatives in the U.S. Congress passed and Bush signed.
In other words anyone in America who thinks we have a democracy think again because we do not have a democracy since no democracy would deliberately keep the people in poverty, refuse to provide health insurance for all its people or pass swindle bills that steal billions from the people.
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE:
No tax money should go to support any church or church schools.
Any church activity involved in political activity should be taxed.
Any religion using the people’s airwaves to promote their religious dogma to get money from the people will be taxed 50% of the money they receive.
The U.S. Senate and the House will not be allowed to have Christian prayers and sermons in those chambers unless all the other religions are also allowed to give prayers and sermons.
RELIGION IN THE SCHOOLS:
The separation of church and state laws forbids any religious dogma being taught in the public schools.
TEN COMMANDMENTS IN COURTHOUSES:
All courthouses in America should remove these Christian religious symbols and dogma because our laws are based on truth and justice and the history of Christianity has proven to be antagonistic and hostile to the principles of truth and justice.
GAY RIGHTS and MARRIAGE:
A true democracy will not prevent any citizen from enjoying the privileges and rights granted to other citizens.
LOBBIST REFORM:
Lobbyist can lobby for anything they want as long as money is not given to the representatives that they are lobbing.
America will never regain her democracy until the corrupting influence of money is totally removed from the U.S. government.
Right now America has a corrupt fascist government of the corrupt corporations, by the corrupt corporations and for the corrupt corporations.
These corrupt corporations are not Americans or patriots and they have destroyed America’s democracy because of their greed and selfishness.
UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS:
Since the employers of these hard workers are making millions because they pay these workers poverty wages I believe these employers should pay a tax to the local communities these undocumented workers are working and living in to help pay for the extra costs to the schools and medical clinics in these local communities.
HOMELAND SECURITY:
Homeland security is nothing more than an inconsistent, inefficient, wasteful and corrupt layer of government wasting billions of our tax dollars that should be going to our local communities for emergency equipment and training and toward protecting our energy, chemical and defense.
I would introduce a bill that would return all those federal agencies like FEMA to independent agencies like they were originally and completely get rid of that useless, wasteful, incompetent bureaucratic mess called the Homeland Security Department.
BORDER SECURITY:
Over the years thousands of Mexicans have died in border area deserts, mountains and abandon trucks/trunks because they were so desperate for jobs in this country.
These Mexicans would prefer to stay in their country with their families and friends if they could find work in their country.
America could prevent future tragic deaths of Mexicans in our country by investing in Mexican businesses.
The Bush administrations spreading and promoting of fear in this country has created a bunch of vigilantes along our border who are abusing Mexican citizens.
THIS HAS TO STOP:
Cheney , Rove and Bush Inc. are spreading the poisonous seeds of fear, hate ignorance and intolerance across the land.
CONSERVATION:
During the last five years the Bush administration and the Republican Congress have undermined, ignored or altered America’s environmental laws to the point these laws are useless, so that America’s corrupt corporations can mine, develop and poison America’s lands, her waters and the air anywhere, anytime anyplace these corporations choose.
Never before in U.S. history has the peoples air, land and water been so abused, harmed or misused and anyone who votes for a Republican in 2006 election votes for the destruction and poisoning of America’s air, water and lands.
ENERGY:
As long as energy corporations run America’s governments America will never have a comprehensive, sane enlightened or forward looking energy policy.
TAX CUTS:
When the rich get all the tax breaks and the poor have to pay for those tax breaks then there is no doubt that America has the best government money can buy.
A NEW TAX SYSTEM:
We should throw out all those tax books that can fill the biggest library in America and replace our tax system with a simplified system that requires all Americans corporations and business to pay their FAIR SHARE of TAXES.
THE DEATH PENALITY:
I oppose the death penalty.
STEM CELL RESEARCH:
Anyone whop opposes stem cell research has no compassion or concern for Americans who are suffering from all those diseases that have plagued human kind throughout human history.
ASSISTED SUICIDE:
The government has no right to interfere with the terminally ill patients who wish to end their suffering under the supervision of a doctor.
UNITED NATIONS:
The United Nations compassionate good works such as their effective efforts to stop wars of genocide and other conflicts and their efforts to slow population numbers through birth control and to assist third world countries in their efforts to deal with poverty and health issues makes the U.N. the most important humanitarian organization in the world and this organization should be supported by every nation on earth.
VETERANS MEDICAL and FINANICAL SUPPORT:
The cutbacks in medical and financial support to our veterans is a national disgrace and the increases in cost to the veterans to use the increasingly limited medical and financial support available reveals a lack of compassion and concern for those who have been willing to make the greatest sacrifices for America and her people.
TO CONNIE 2-21-2006
CONNIE THIS IS AN EXCERPT FROM A PAPER I WROTE I THINK EARLY IN 2004
I don’t know the exact history of Israel but it was formed in 1948 and it was done by the UN with the prodding of the USA. Since then the USA has subsides Israel with about $5 billion each year in today’s dollars and sometimes more. Always protective of Israel we started establishing bases in the Arabian Peninsula to protect from the Muslims, which were outraged because Israel took the land from Palestine, and they are still mad about it. After Bin Laden had a successful fight in getting the Russians out of Afghanistan, the USA was his ally, he became embolden and decided he wanted the USA out of the Muslim countries and to stop supporting Israel. That was when we should have been supporting Russia and taken over Afghanistan. Using the techniques learned in Afghanistan he knew to use the terrorist tactics against the USA. He knew he could not win a war against the USA and their WWII war machine. He has found success in holding off the USA by using terrorist tactics and the USA does not know how to fight that kind of war. Invading Iraq just added fuel to the fire and we have to fight the defenders in their backyard. The defenders in Iraq have shown they can bring the USA to its knees and they won’t quit till we are out of the Middle East. Even Sadam Hussen knew they couldn’t win a WWII type war with the USA and they fell back and used the guerrilla type tactics, which have proven to be very effective against a WWII type military. The time to have taken out Sadam was during the first gulf war but we demonstrated then and now we are a paper tiger and can be defeated. We have played our hand
The need to invade Iraq was started in 1997 by the Project For The New American Century (PNAC) it was never clear why they wanted to invade Iraq and we may never know. They began lobbying for vigorous aggression against Iraq. They sent A letter was sent to Clinton, dated January 26,1998, calling for the removal of Saddam Hussein. In the letter to the speaker of the House, Neut Gingrich, and also to Trent Lott, complaining that Clinton had not listened to them. The members who wrote the letter, were the war mongers, Rumsfeld, William Kristol and the rest of the Bush Staff; Cheney, Wolowitz et al. They pulled the string when Bush was elected and told him how the country was to be run. Just like a good puppet, he did what he was told. He didn't even have to read into it. (His reading lessons hadn't progressed that far at that time.) All they needed was a justification for going to war. The 9/11 attacks was the catalyst for that effort. They just called in the CIA and told them they wanted to invade Iraq, and they needed justification, (SO TELL ME WHAT I WANT TO HEAR). The WMD, nuclear and biological stories were generated and the spin began. Finally, after the public knew the facts, they hide behind the bad intelligence story, also an arrangement with the CIA. They then took the advice of Hermann Goering when he confided to an Interview during the war crimes trial at Nuremberg: “Why, of course, the people don't want war,” Goering shrugged. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war, neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.” “There is one difference,” I pointed out. “In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.” “Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” Or The Drums Of War By Caesar; Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.... And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. William Shakespeare Then you can start the war and they did just that. Any warmonger knows the words of Goering and the drums of war by Caesar. The twenty-six bases in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel, of course, are the reasons that we are under attack. The al-Qaeda want us out of those regions, and until we get out, we will be under attack. Bush likes to give more elementary like (elementary school) reasons like, “They don't like us and our way of life”. But they really don't like us invading their countries. I suppose we wouldn't like it very much if the Middle Eastern governments established military bases in our country. Do you suppose we would fight them until they left our country? You bet we would. Here are some web sites to go to when you have time:http://www.safmi.hq.af.mil/saf-mii/installations/index.htm State maps http://web1.whs.osd.mil/DIORCAT.HTM#TOPPAGE Personal Placements http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/outreachpublic/map.html About the states http://www.ciponline.org/facts/scpr.htm Southern Command in Puerto and we lost. The military- industrial establishment has taken control of the government and we may never be able to get it back. Today they are inventing terrorist organizations to prolong the fight in the Middle East and Africa.
THE FOLLOWING IS PART OF WHAT I WROTE IN 8-25-2004
THE PORT PROBLEM
2-24-2006
When the Bush opened his mouth about the Dubai Ports running the East coast ports he again should have kept his mouth shut and let someone that knew some logic speak for him. Of course that would have been a good idea as soon as he was elected and would have kept the world from laughing about how we could have elected a more uneducated man to “run” this country. Of course he doesn’t run the country he is just the puppet.
Today he uttered these words: “if there was any chance that this transaction would jeopardize the security of the United States, it would not go forward”. Even the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, John Warner, R, Virginia repeated the words, apparently another illiterate.
The fact is that you must have covered all the bases when you say, “if there was any chance”, well there will be many chances and we won’t like it when one shows up. No one should ever say those words about anything and if they don’t cover it up we will find that many chances may surface. Not a good way for a politician to predict the future. George should know by now if he keeps his mouth closed he wouldn’t suffer foot in mouth disease.
The people that say we don’t want foreigners running our ports should remember that the British own P&O and have been running the ports for a long time.
HOW TO END THE WAR ON TERROR
2-27-2006
I didn’t know if anyone cared but the way to end the terrorist attacks and stop the government from spending our taxes and our grandkids taxes is to get out of the Middle East and stop supporting Israel, bring our military missions home and stop invading other countries and killing innocent people and then peace will come to the United States of America. Provide infrastructure to undeveloped countries with USA technology.
It has occurred to me that this country has killed and destroyed more people and structures that any other country in history including the Germans and the Japanese. Consider the wars we have been in since the revolutionary war and the war against the Indians, the civil war, and down through history and you will come to the same conclusion.
But what do you do with the current huge military and the industrial complex that supports the military?? Well you develop a smart military that defends the homeland and does not commit the autocracies of the past. It could be called “GIVE PEACE A CHANCE”. Do we need to be missionaries of destruction and trying to impose the will of a few warmongers in this country on the rest of the world??
REBUTAL TO THE BLACKLEDGE STORY
2-27-2006
You must remember that if it were not for the wages the mercenaries get for civilian service none of them would be there. The “new” voluntary military is apparently not populated well enough to be able to perform the routine tasks that the old military was able to conduct. In Japan during the Korean “war” we used the Japanese to do the tasks the GI did not want to do for pennies.
Today we have a huge lobby that wants to do the “dirty” work of the military. Of course they want to get paid for the work. They employ people from all over the world but the most highly paid are probably from the USA. When a person needs to go from one location to another requires a two-day “reservation” and an escort of two-gun escort in the front humvee, two guns in the vehicle to protect the person being transported and two guns in the humvee following the second vehicle. Each gun gets $1000 per day to do that task. ( from a Public Radio interview of an engineer stationed in Iraq). So you see having a war has its benefits.
Blackledge also indicated that KBR gets a small “profit” and explained “who here would make an investment where you were limited to a 3% profit?” Its nice to know the subsidiary Kellog-Brown & Root of Halliburton is practically a non-profit company. Everyone believes that.
So you see war is a good thing, we have a military that gets good pay and re-enlistment bonuses in the tens of thousands dollars, enough to encourage the young people to risk their lives to “serve their country”. It turns out to be a very lucrative endeavor for a civilian and especially one that commands 2600 personnel.
Iran and Syria are the coalition that is helping the Iraqi’s defend their country. So are we about to spin a war against those two countries? They want us out of the Middle East and stop supporting Israel.
I called the Reserves and the National Guard and they said they would take any warm body that wanted to “protect” the USA regardless of their former employment.
When Rumsfeld says the Al-Queda has a better PR than the United States does he really means the Al-Queda just keeps quite and that is all they have to do because the Americans make the news and no PR by the Al-Queda is all that is required. When did you hear of a PR by the Al-Queda??
The 10% of the Muslim people that are against the USA amounts to 150 million!!! So you see this may not be so easy.
Hardly anyone knows what a dirty bomb is and it turns out the results of a device like that is very limited but just to say the words “nuclear” I
s such a scare tactic most would now think it would destroy the entire population which is far from the truth.
THE SAN DIEGO AIRPORT
2-27-2006
The obvious location for a new airport in San Diego is at the Miramar Marine Air Station. The reasons for that decision are it is at the population center and very little infrastructure is required to implement the transition to a civilian facility. The military’s constant refusal is based on their refusal to allow joint operations of military and civilian aircraft. They should also know there are many joint uses of airfields within the USA that have been going on for years with no adverse effects.
Because they are so insistence about no joint operations I have concluded they are right and the solution is they should move to a location that allows them sole use of the airbase. After all they could move to anywhere with in 100 to 200 miles of San Diego and have a successful operation. There is no physical reason they are at Miramar except for the San Diego weather, otherwise that would have been part of their argument. The 2 million people within the metropolitan need a central location for their traveling needs and that trumps the military’s “need” to be at that location. There is a world of locations a military base could be located and ones that are more secure rather than within a much traveled corridor within the city.
WHEN THE DEMOCRACY IS ACCEPTABLE TO THE USA
3-1-2006
The President likes to align democracy with peace or peaceful nations but when a democratic state threatens Israel (like the Palestine Hamas) then it’s a new ballgame. When we agree with the government we like it but when we don’t agree then the lies and derogatory remarks show up about that state. Terrorist states such as Palestine, Israel and the USA have all demonstrated that they can be so called democratic and spread terror. States like Iraq and Iran support terrorist but the USA as a country engages in terrorism.
It’s funny when the propaganda from the white house tries to get us thinking about why we are at “war” they try to paint a picture about why the Muslims hate us and fail to tell the people that the terrorist did not have a gripe with the USA prior to our occupying the Arabian peninsula. The subsidies to Israel could be a negotiated situation and it is on going, but the occupation is what set off the terrorist attacks. Our invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan just added fuel to the fire of the Muslims and until we vacate the Middle East we will be subject to attacks. When you have a giant military to support it is not easy to justify their existence without an enemy and a “war”. This country will never have peace as long as the warmongers are in charge in Washington.
STEM PULLER FOR A MOEN SHOWER FAUCET
3-5-2006
THE ATTACHED PHOTO IS AN EXAMPLE OF "NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTIONS".
THE FAUCET COMPANY IS A GOOD COMPANY AND THEY HAVE A GOOD WEB SITE AND WERE VERY HELPFUL WHEN I HAD A PROBLEM. WHEN THEIR FAUCETS NEED REPAIR YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE THE HANDEL AND PULL OUT THE CARTRIDGE AND REPLACE IT OR DO WHATEVER MAINTENANCE THAT IS REQUIRED. WELL I HAVE HAD THE OPPURTUNITY OF DOING THIS OPERATION A NUMBER OF TIMES. LATELY I COULD NOT GET THE CARTRIDGE RELEASED FROM THE HOUSING.I TRIED ALL KINDS OF METHODS IN ORDER TO REMOVE THE CARTRIDGE WITH NO LUCK. CALLED MOEN AND THEY SENT ME A "TOOL" TO DO THE REMOVAL BECAUSE THE FAUCET WAS WITHIN THE 5 YEAR WARRENTY PERIOD. THE "TOOL" PROVED TO BE TOO WIMPY AND WOULD NOT BUDGE THE CARTRIDGE, IR WAS PLASTIC, IF IT HAD BEEN MADE OF METAL IT MAY HAVE WORKED.
REMEMBERING GEAR PULLERS I DECIDED I NEEDED A "SHAFT" PULLER SO I SET OUT TO MAKE ONE. SORT OF A SIMPLE TOOL, I WILL NOW REFER TO THE PICTURE AND TELL YOU HOW IT WORKS. I AM SURE EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW THIS AND THAT IS WHY I AM GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW THIS WORKS.
AFTER THE SURROUNDING PARTS ARE REMOVED FROM THE HOUSING A ONE INCH PVC COUPLING IS SHAPED TO SET FLUSH WITH THE HOUSING. THEN THE ASSEMBLY TO DO THE REMOVAL IS ATTACHED. THIS ASSEMBLY IS COMPOSED OF TWO, 2X2 INCH SQUARES OF .090" ALUMINUM (6061). THE ONE NEXT TO THE PVC COUPLING HAS A HOLE DRILLED IN THE CENTER THAT ALLOWS THE SQUARE TO FIT OVER THE FAUCET STEM AND REST AGAINST THE PVC COUPLING. THE NEXT SQUARE SAME SIZE AS THE FIRSE BUT WITH FIVE HOLES DRILLED. THE CENTER HOLE IS LARGE ENOUGH TO CLEAR THE STEM SCREW THAT HOLDS THE SHOWER HANDLE AND THAT IS ATTACHED TO THE STEM WITH THE STEM SCREW. 4 ADDITIONAL HOLES ARE DRILLED THAT ARE SPACED EQUAL DISTANCES APART ON A 1 INCH DIAMETER CIRCLE, OR AT EACH 90 DEGREE LOCATION ON THE CIRCLE. THE HOLES SHOULD CLEAR A # 10 SCREW THAT HAS A NUT THAT IS BETWEEN THE TWO PLATES (NOT SEEN ON THE PHOTO, BAD PHOTOGRAPHER) THE NUTS MAINTAIN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO PLATES AND WILL HAVE TO BE HELD WITH AN OPEN END WRENCH. IF THE MATERIAL FOR THE OUTTER PLATE IS THICK ENOUGH THREADS COULD BE PLACED IN THE SQUARE AND NUTS WOULD NOT BE NEEDED. WHEN THESE THINGS ARE DONE THE STEM CAN BE REMOVED BY ADJUSTING EACH SCREW A FEW TURNS, REPEATING THIS WITH EACH SCREW AND THIS WILL APPLY PRESSURE TO THE PVC COUPLING (AND THE HOUSING) AND TO THE STEM IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS. THE STEM WILL SLOWLY GIVE UP AND COME OUT. I SHOULD HAVE TOLD YOU TO TURN OFF THE WATER TO THE HOUSE BUT DO NOT RELEIVE THE PRESSURE IN THE WATER LINES BECAUSE THAT HELPS APPLY PRESSURE TO THE CARTRIGE AND HELPS WITH THE REMOVAL. A U SHAPED KEY HOLDS THE CARTRIGE IN THE HOUSING AND THAT MUST BE REMOVED PRIOR TO INSERTING THE TOOL AND AFTER THE WATER IS TURNED OFF.
IF YOU CALL A PLUMBER TO DO THIS SIMPLE TASK "YOU LOSE".
I AM SURE YOU WANTED TO KNOW THESE THINGS.
ROD
RODJANRG@YAHOO.COM
POLITICIANS SHOULD NEVER SAY OR TALK ABOUT GOD
3-13-2006
All civilizations have had their God/Gods and it is good for the people because it allows them to explain the mysteries of life that have plagued man since the beginning of time. Having a God is a personal thing and the God only exists in the mind of the believer and they must have faith to believe these things.
The trouble is when a politician or a person that can influence others introduces and incorporates God doctrine into the other persons life by whatever means he has, a politician and/or an employer (a leader). Such beliefs in a supernatural being leads the leader to impose an irrational belief on others. Similar beliefs about superstitions, devil worship, astrology, mind reading etc are irrational beliefs that others try and impose on fellow human beings. Politicians can irrationally influence others by making laws that they think is the way their God wants the world to believe but when it only exists in the mind of the leader, he is imposing only his belief on the people he has control of, similar to a dictator. The politician’s thinking should also be questioned when he tries to put forth his religious doctrine on other people. The separation of church and government is a most important part of our constitution because it allows freedom of religion, which is also freedom from religion. Most politicians want to end his speech with “God bless America” and there is no way anything like that could happen but they keep saying it because the Christian religious sects want to hear it but so do the Muslims and the other Gods that serve their country. Just look around at all the different churches and you will find they cannot have a common religion because sooner or later a disagreement will show up about the religion and they are off to create another church that they believe in.
When the politician introduces laws that are derived from his religious beliefs, like outlawing stem cell research, abortion, faith based initiatives, and prayer in schools, etc. they impose will on many people’s rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and not from a logical standpoint. They impose their religious beliefs on the whole population and many people do not want those beliefs in their life. Prohibitions do not work because the people that want to incorporate the prohibition in their life will do so regardless of the cost and the others that abide by the prohibition were going to do so regardless of the law. These are mostly “feel good” laws in that they make the lawmaker and some of the population “feel good” because of the law but do nothing to enforce the mostly unenforceable law.
Common examples of “feel good” laws are the drug laws, illegal immigration, traffic laws, drinking alcohol laws, abortion, etc.
The separation of church and state is a part of the Constitution that was drawn up by our founding fathers and they knew the downfalls of mixing religion and government. Government should be based on reality and not on superstitions and unproven fairy tales. The people can have all the religions and irrational beliefs and live their lives in a fairy tale manner but it should never be imposed on the population. Somehow our politicians have recently indicated that freedom of religion is a part of democracy and try to impose that belief on the Muslim states. It is a part of our democracy but not necessarily other countries especially when Islamic law usually supersedes their constitution. Apparently they need a refresher course in what is democracy
ROD GALLOWAY a recently registered republican that wants to engage in the corrupt behavior and feather my nest as the Republican party has demonstrated in the recent past.
SDG&E SHOULD BE THANKFUL FOR THE OPPOSITION
3-13-2006
SDG&E should be pleased that the opposition to the Sunrise Powerlink has so many uninformed, uneducated people. Their arguments about “deep wounds – as wide as a football field --- that would cut into oak covered mountains and wildflower-carpeted desert canyons”, “a knife slicing through some of the best natural landscapes in San Diego County”. Also “people like to drive through to enjoy sweeping natural vistas” are some of the remarks that have no basis in fact but are glamorous ways to incite the people to rise up against an organization that must bring power to the very same people that need the energy and are opposed to the installation.
When you have a new source of energy like the Sierra (green energy) have advocated and has been implemented you need to get it to the locations that use the energy in the shortest distances in order to make the system as efficient as possible which is another reason the Sierra club should be in favor of the powerlink.
The irrational arguments put forth without an intelligent alternative should give the power company plenty of ammunition to squash the know-nothings and proceed with the project.
WHEN THE MILITARY DIDN’T HAVE CIVILIANS ON THE PAYROLL
3-13-2006
Not so long ago (60 years) the military was a closed organization in that it took care of itself and did not use civilians to do its dirty work. The dirty work was kitchen police, etc, which was done by the grunts, and troops that were being reprimanded for one thing or another. Along came the “volunteer” military and those dirty jobs were contracted out to the “civilian contractors”. When you had the privates doing the work the cost for that labor was minimal, a lot less than the minimum wage. When they hired civilians the cost was also minimal but when the military didn’t want to put up with personnel problems and disputes they decided it would be easier for them to contract out the labor and let someone else worry about those problems. The government with large amounts of cash and they could borrow as much as they needed, found the costs were not a problem. When the contractor charged for the work he charged the military the wage for the employee plus the usual markup of about 3.5 to 4.0 and then added a “profit” of whatever the law would allow. So the cost would easily be the salary times a factor between 4 and 5. Today in Iraq the private contractor hires a civilian to ride shotgun in a convoy and pays him $1000 per day to do that dangerous work that could be done better with a Marine that knows how to shoot people. Adding the markup cost the government 4 to 5 thousand dollars per day, a goose that lays the golden egg and the taxpayer feeds the goose. Additional tasks that the private contractors provide are; supplying bottled water, rations, fuel, vehicle repairs, and other distribution services. Can you imagine what a bottle of water costs!!!
3-15-2006
RESPONSES TO A POLL AND TO BARBARA BOXER
BUSH HAS PROVEN TO BE TOTALLY INCOMPETENT IN STARTING A BAD WAR KILLING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE INCLUDING OVER TWO THOUSAND OF HIS OWN TROOPS AND GETTING THOUSANDS WOUNDED AND MAIMED IN RETALIATION FOR 3000 KILLED ON 911. THE MILITARY IS DRIVING HIM AND THEY NEED A WAR TO SURVIVE, THAT IS HOW THE MILITARY BUREAUCRACY MAINTAINES ITSELF AND GROWS. THE ANSWER IS HE WILL BE THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER.
ROD GALLOWAY
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:17:06 -0800 (PST)
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ANOTHER USLESS LAW THAT IS UNENFORCEABLE AND WILL NEVER BE PROSECUTED. CROSSING THE BORDER ILLEGALLY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CRIME. PROHIBITION LAWS DO NOT WORK AND NEVER WILL. THEY JUST MAKE THE LAWMAKER "FEEL GOOD" AND AS A RESULT ARE CALLED "FEEL GOOD LAWS". TRY TO FIND OUT WHY PEOPLE DO THINGS AND TRY AND FIX THE PROBLEM. PUTTING PEOPLE IN JAIL DOES NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
From: "ROSE MANION FITZPATRICK" View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert
To: "Elizabeth Elsner"
CC: "Rodney Galloway"
Subject: Re: directions to Mexico house for Beth
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:45:00 -0800
Dear Beth and Dave,
From the border crossing, get over to the right lane without going to Centro, and take bridge with sign saying Rosarito/Ensenada Quota Road, which runs parallel to the US/Mexico border, and follow to the first toll, aprox. $2.50 just past Playas de Tijuana, and continue to next toll just past Rosarito, you have gone aprox. 27 miles. From there when you have gone aprox. 18 miles you will see on the road below you, which is the free road, or Libre road, and exit that says La Mision/La Salinas, that is our exit, but you keep going aprox. 6 miles further south, to the Bajamar exit, and turn right, go thru the Security Gate, and follow road to the hotel, about 2 miles. All these miles are estimates, not in stone. When you leave Bajamar to come back to our place, go over the Toll Road, and proceed north aprox. 6 miles, and exit at La Salinas/La Mision, go under freeway, and turn left on the free road going south, go past La Fonda Hotel and Rest. about one mile, and watch for small sign, Playa La Mision, and Security gate which should have a guard to open it for you. Go down the road a block (long) to the fork, take the right road, and there it is, between the upper and lower beach roads. 135 Padre Salas. Honk and we will let you in. If guard is not there, enter code 1111 to open gate. Looking forward to seeing you and hope it is not raining.
Love,
Rosemary and Don
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Ethanol Industry Braces for Growing Pains
By BRAD FOSS, AP Business WriterMon Mar 20, 3:42 PM ET
After a spurt of good fortune, the fledgling U.S. ethanol industry is anticipating some growing pains that could bring it unwanted attention this summer.
Ethanol's public profile rose significantly for the better last July when Congress passed an energy bill that mandates the doubling of biofuels output by 2012. In January, President Bush gave the industry a further boost with a strong endorsement in his State of the Union speech. And with the imminent phaseout of a petrochemical added to gasoline to reduce tailpipe emissions, more U.S. motorists will depend on the corn-derived fuel than ever before.
But there's trouble looming: The ethanol industry might not be ready to satisfy the expected summertime jump in demand. And by crimping the overall supply of motor fuel, this could contribute to a spike in gasoline pump prices at the start of the country's peak driving season.
That, at least, is the view of the Energy Department, which issued a report last month detailing the challenges midwestern ethanol producers will have in getting their fuel to key markets along the East Coast because of railroad, trucking and other distribution bottlenecks. The report also highlighted concerns about the limited output capacity of an industry still in its infancy.
The Renewable Fuels Association, a trade group representing ethanol producers such as Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Pacific Ethanol Inc., says the industry's challenges and their influence on gasoline prices are being overblown. The association sent an angry letter to the Energy Department last week, questioning the overall thoroughness of its research and accusing it of creating "unnecessary fears in the marketplace."
Still, ethanol-related worries hang over the U.S. market, contributing to a 42-cent-per-gallon increase in unleaded gasoline futures since mid-February. There are other factors behind the recent wholesale gasoline price spike, including soaring oil prices, strong demand and persistent strains on the U.S. refining system.
The average retail price of gasoline in the United States is $2.51 a gallon — the highest level since October — and some analysts say $3 is a possibility by summer.
Wholesale prices for ethanol, meanwhile, have surged to roughly $2.75 a gallon, or about 50 cents per gallon higher than usual, according to the Oil Price Information Service of Wall, N.J. Because ethanol makes up one-tenth of every gallon of unleaded gasoline with which it is blended, this windfall for ethanol producers ends up costing motorists an extra 5 cents per gallon at the pump.
High prices will spur more ethanol production — there are 33 new plants under construction — but some minor near-term complications can be expected due to the rapid increase in demand, said Bob Dinneen, president of the Renewable Fuels Association and the author of the letter sent to the Energy Department.
Dinneen said the industry is taking steps to mitigate the problems, such as filling ethanol storage tanks on the East Coast before summer arrives and contracting barges that can ship ethanol down the Mississippi River and then up the Atlantic seaboard.
Energy analysts said it is unclear whether ethanol producers can manufacture and distribute enough supply once U.S. refiners phase out the use of a petrochemical called methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE, which enables gasoline to burn more completely, and thus more cleanly, but carries some public health risks.
The refining industry says it warned Congress for years about the difficulty ethanol producers would have in offsetting the loss of MTBE, which accounts for about 10 percent of the volume of every gallon of gasoline with which it is blended.
"When it comes to ethanol, Congress is guilty of more irrational exuberance than on any other issue," said Bob Slaughter, president of the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association.
California, New York and Connecticut have banned MTBE in recent years, but consumers from Virginia to New Hampshire, as well as in Texas, still depend on it.
MTBE, a natural gas derivative, has been the oxygenate of choice since the mandate was established roughly 10 years ago as a byproduct of the Clean Air Act.
But MTBE also has been found to contaminate drinking water supplies and it may cause cancer, exposing the petroleum industry to lawsuits filed by water districts and municipalities on behalf of their citizens. After Congress refused to grant the industry protection from such lawsuits, refiners made clear their intention to stop using MTBE.
Valero Energy Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp. and Shell Oil Co., the U.S. subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, all plan to cease using MTBE in gasoline by May 5, spokespersons for the companies said.
Valero, the country's largest independent refiner, estimates the country's total gasoline supply will shrink by 145,000 barrels per day, or about 1.5 percent, once MTBE is removed — a transition expected to be complete by May 5. That is when an obscure provision of the energy bill goes into effect, eliminating the need for a so-called oxygenate in gasoline.
Now it is up to ethanol producers to bridge the gap. While U.S. ethanol producers have the capacity to produce roughly 4.3 billion gallons per day in 2006, the near-term crunch means more imports will be needed from Brazil, Dinneen said. The United States imported more than 150 million gallons of ethanol in 2005.
Dinneen said part of the problem for the U.S. ethanol industry right now is that it was caught off guard by the oil industry's faster-than-expected phaseout of MTBE. "Refiners made the decision to accelerate the removal of MTBE, not ethanol producers," Dinneen said.
Perhaps the biggest issue is distribution.
Gasoline with or without MTBE can be shipped in large quantities through an extensive network of pipelines. But ethanol, which tends to corrode pipelines, must be transported on trucks, trains and barges in relatively small batches to storage terminals where it is then blended with gasoline.
"I suspect there will be enough ethanol, but that logistics — getting rail and truck transportation to furnish the ethanol to key markets — will be the nightmare that drives prices," said Tom Kloza, an analyst at Oil Price Information Service.
The trucking industry is faced with a multiyear labor shortage and railroad capacity is tight because of strong demand to ship coal, grain and steel.
"Barges are in short supply too," said Joanne Shore, the Energy Department analyst who co-authored the report on the ethanol industry's challenges.
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THE LAST OF THE VOLUNTEER MILITARY
3-20-2006
Like it or not the volunteer military is on its last legs. During the last few wars the USA has played its hand and has shown that the poker face did not hold up in its bluff to the world. Yes, we have become a paper tiger and we need to have a strong military. We have not been successful in waging a WWII type war on some of the most rag tag opponents in the world and we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to pump up the bureaucratic military, building extremely expensive equipment and paying exorbitant prices for a civilian corps to cleanup after the military and do their dirty work. The cost of this “volunteer” (mercenary) military is bankrupting the country and does not add a productive factor to the infrastructure and in short has become a burden to the society. In order to maintain the force we have to buy the volunteer (a mercenary) with enlistment bonuses like $40,000 to $140,000 along with relatively high pay and promises of a great life after the enlistment if the government will let you out before you are disabled or killed. The troops have performed brilliantly but the problem has been the leadership has failed us miserably and cannot be depended on to accomplish the tasks that they have set out on. Anyone that suggests our freedom has been compromised by a handful of terrorist does not have both oars in the water. The tasks of terrorist are to create terror and they have performed brilliantly. Terrorist do not invade other countries especially the USA, they create terror and have an agenda and that is to get us out of the Muslim countries in the Middle East. They do not want us disturbing their way of life and do not want the western influence. Another misconception is that a Democratic country is a peaceful country. The USA, Israel and Palestine and others demonstrate all the time their homegrown terror by invading and attacking other countries not counting all the terror the CIA puts out every day. Germany elected Adolph Hitler. It certainly does not suggest any freedoms, especially for religion and a “universal democracy” does not exist.
The knee-jerk reaction after 911 is exactly what the terrorist had in mind and to think we have done something in the meantime to suppress further attacks is pure poppy cock. They caused so much terror and chaos in that one incident that another attack would not have been worthwhile and as a result no new attacks. Even though the propaganda indicates they have put down further attacks. All the expense in “preventing” another attack has so many holes that another attack would be easy for the most amateur of terrorist. Every day we find the protection is not there. We have never been protected from attack by the government and probably never will.
The problem in the Middle East has always been our occupation of Middle Eastern lands and our support of Israel. We apparently do not know how to accomplish those goals in a peaceful manner. We have over 800 military bases throughout the world and the costs for these bases is staggering. Over 900 bases within the USA that also costs billions each year. Most of these bases have been established since WWII without a publicly stated objective and merely represents an occupation of the lands where the bases are located. We also bribe governments to establish bases on their soil.
A civilian that is in the war zone and paid by the civilian contractor gets a huge salary (probably 3 times what he would receive in the USA) and the contractor charges the government 3.5 to 4 times that salary for the effort. For instance a civilian-riding shotgun in a convoy gets $1000 per day and the cost to the government is probably $4000 per day. A private in the military would get $40 per day and they know how to shoot people. So it cost about 100 times more for a civilian doing the job than a private could do for the military. Its not unheard of for a case of soda costing the government $40. This is why toilet seats and screwdrivers cost so much. So the civilian contractor takes advantage of the deep pockets and the US taxpayer pays and pays. All government contracts are done on a similar basis, that is why so many do illegal things to obtain those contracts. When we don’t have the money to make the payments we have to borrow from our closest friends like the Communist Chinese, Japanese, etc and the public. The military needs to take care of its own and not hire civilians to do the work the military does not want to do. That is the way the military used to be before they found the deep pockets.
The solution to these problems is an overhaul of the military and create a strong military and country. Creating a military of 20 million does this and every person in the country is a part of the effort. Drafting 18 year olds and training then to be good soldiers and after the indoctrination returned to the reserves and to civilian life, until a national disaster requires their service. Not invading other countries. The regular military would be composed of a one star general (the general would report to the President) and a colonel for each branch, which would contain a training command necessary to train the inductees. All persons would be trained in some sort of benefit to the country, no exceptions; there would be some job that every person could do even the physically and mentally handicapped. Maintaining the 20 million would be controlled by the age of the reserve. If the number was exceeding 20 million then the older reservist would be released and the 20 million controlled.
Abandoning the bases throughout the world would reduce the expenditure for the military tremendously and giving up bases in the USA that were not needed for the defense of the country would also be a benefit to the budget. We currently have 2.5 million in the military but have a hard time getting 140,000 into Iraq and the exercise has gone on for 3 years so a recycling of troops is necessary. The duty in Iraq has to be one of the worst in the world. Shortly we will have lost 3000 troops, a similar number killed in the 911 attack, wounded and maimed 20,000 plus killing and maiming 100,000 Iraqi’s. (“This will be a slam dunk”, somebody said) This is also called “cutting off your nose to spite your face”.
Walter Cronkite recently said in Esquire (April 2006) “indeed we are in another Vietnam. Almost play by play. It’s a terrible mistake that we are in Iraq, and it’s a terrible mistake to insist on staying there”.
Our leaders indicate the defenders of Iraq do not play fair and do not wear uniforms and are bloody killers but completely disregard the fact we have killed more than 100,000. They also indicate they should not cut off peoples heads but the Middle Eastern people have been doing it for centuries. We would prefer hanging by the neck and sometimes by mistake beheading by hanging, or electrocuting or by killing by blowing off the head by firearm or exploding large bombs that separate most of the body parts. We know the right way to kill.
Our leaders also forget the British complained during the Revolutionary war that the Minutemen did not play fair by shooting from behind trees and other obstructions and shooting the British officers. The rule was you shouldn’t shoot the opponents officers, the troops were fair game, sounds similar to today’s engagements, protect the officers.
These changes would be difficult for the military because of the hierarchy that exists and the control the military has on the puppet elected officials but the country cannot afford to continue along these expensive lines. Any surpluses that this reorganization would provide should be used for infrastructure in this country that would develop into a showplace that would show the world what a great Democracy we have.
ROD GALLOWAY a recently registered Republican that wants to engage in the corrupt political behavior and feather my nest as the Republican Party has demonstrated in the recent past.
Ricohttp:www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/links.htm Military Facilitieshttp://www.defenselink.mil.pubs/almanac/almanac/Graphics/BSR_03.pdf
PRESIDENTIAL POLLS
3-21-2006
When the president tells us that he doesn’t listen to the polls he is telling you that he doesn’t care what you think he is going to go ahead and continue to do the things that have made him unpopular. His thirty something ratings are the people on the republican dole and they want to keep the welfare going. The answer to this is to have elections every year and then they will listen to the public. The four-year terms are not working. We need elections each year and he/she can be elected for eight terms if he can survive the yearly elections. The same restrictions should apply for each elected official, federal, state, county and city. The voter needs to be more involved with the running of the government; otherwise it becomes a dictatorship.
British memo details confident path to war
Bush was determined to invade, adviser writes
By Don Van Natta Jr.
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
March 27, 2006
LONDON – In the weeks before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, as the United States and Britain pressed for a second U.N. resolution condemning Iraq, President Bush's public ultimatum to Saddam Hussein was blunt: Disarm or face war.
But behind closed doors, the president was certain that war was inevitable. During a private two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003, he made it clear to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain that he was determined to invade Iraq without the second resolution, or even if international arms inspectors failed to find unconventional weapons, said a confidential memo about the meeting written by Blair's top foreign policy adviser and reviewed by The New York Times.
AMERICAN
3-31-2006
Wouldn’t you think after hundreds of years the politicians that govern our country would be able to understand the fact that the United States of America is not America? America is the continents of North, South and Central America, which include many countries. The United States is just part of North America. I am sure that they do not want to include those other countries when they speak of the United States but when they do say America they are including those other countries. As a result of that ignorance can we expect an invasion of the remaining countries within the Americas to join and become additional states within the United States of America?
ROD GALLOWAY A recently registered Republican that wants to become part of the corrupt administration and feather my nest
BASEBALL, TIME FOR THE NEW SEASON
4-1-2006
The new season is about to start and the talk of the town is steroids and how to ban their use. Well a different approach would be to improve baseball and that is necessary because the players today are so mediocre that we need to give them a shot of “good baseball”. The way to do that is to require that they take steroids and that will make them a better ball player, more home runs, faster running and overall a better ball player. A lot of the players have demonstrated how taking the drug has improved their game. Guys like Barry Bonds, San Diego’s Ken Caminity, and Mark McGuire that played for St. Louis were the main ones. Over the years the leagues have expanded to the point that most of the ballplayers are not fit to play in the major leagues. Most of them do not even know how to hold a bat without breaking the bat on a knuckleball. This is because they have been brought up on aluminum bats that don’t break so easy. The answer is to improve baseball all the million dollar flukes should be required to take prescribed doses of steroids and then maybe it would be worthwhile paying to see them play ball.
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR POLITICIANS
4-5-2006
When writing about the poor political system we have some ideas surface that explains why some of the decisions that are made by our elected officials is because they are basically a group of uneducated people trying to come to a conclusion about something that most of them know nothing about. In order to get most jobs with companies a basic education is required and if the prospective employee cannot meet that requirement he must seek employment as a laborer and do basic stoop labor or grunt work. The politicians seeking employment within the governmental system of our country fall within those guidelines with the exception that they have money and/or they have friends that want to put them in office so they can line their pockets with the spoils of the system. We have accepted this idiotic system for centuries and the results have been disastrous. In order to make decisions about the life and death of our citizens we should demand that the people doing the voting must have a basic education in management and science in order for them to make rational and logical decisions. Hopefully that would lead us away from becoming an imperialistic society. The world would respect us and not fear that we would invade their country and kill their people.
ROD GALLOWAY A recently registered Republican that wants to engage in the corrupt practices that will feather my nest.
THE LAST OF THE VOLUNTEER MILITARY
3-20-2006
Like it or not the volunteer military is on its last legs. During the last few wars the USA has played its hand and has shown that the poker face did not hold up in its bluff to the world. Yes, we have become a paper tiger and we need to have a strong military. We have not been successful in waging a WWII type war on some of the most rag tag opponents in the world and we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to pump up the bureaucratic military, building extremely expensive equipment and paying exorbitant prices for a civilian corps to cleanup after the military and do their dirty work. The cost of this “volunteer” (mercenary) military is bankrupting the country and does not add a productive factor to the infrastructure and in short has become a burden to the society. In order to maintain the force we have to buy the volunteer (a mercenary) with enlistment bonuses like $40,000 to $140,000 along with relatively high pay and promises of a great life after the enlistment if the government will let you out before you are disabled or killed. The troops have performed brilliantly but the problem has been the leadership has failed us miserably and cannot be depended on to accomplish the tasks that they have set out on. Anyone that suggests our freedom has been compromised by a handful of terrorist does not have both oars in the water. The tasks of terrorist are to create terror and they have performed brilliantly. Terrorist do not invade other countries especially the USA, they create terror and have an agenda and that is to get us out of the Muslim countries in the Middle East. They do not want us disturbing their way of life and do not want the western influence. Another misconception is that a Democratic country is a peaceful country. The USA, Israel and Palestine and others demonstrate all the time their homegrown terror by invading and attacking other countries not counting all the terror the CIA puts out every day. Germany elected Adolph Hitler. It certainly does not suggest any freedoms, especially for religion and a “universal democracy” does not exist.
The knee-jerk reaction after 911 is exactly what the terrorist had in mind and to think we have done something in the meantime to suppress further attacks is pure poppy cock. Daily reports come out showing the Homeland Security cannot detect explosives on people boarding airplanes, the ports only screen 5% of cargo coming into US ports and it’s impossible to close the borders. The terrorist caused so much terror and chaos in that one incident that another attack would not have been worthwhile and as a result no new attacks. The government says we are protected and the proof is that we have not had a new attack. Even though the propaganda indicates they have put down further attacks. All the effort in “preventing” another attack has so many holes that another attack would be easy for the most amateur of terrorist. Every day we find the protection is not there. We have never been protected from attack by the government and probably never will.
The problem in the Middle East has always been our occupation of Middle Eastern lands and our support of Israel. We apparently do not know how to accomplish those goals in a peaceful manner. We have over 800 military bases throughout the world and the costs for these bases is staggering. Over 900 bases within the USA that also costs billions each year. Most of these bases have been established since WWII without a publicly stated objective and merely represents an occupation of the lands where the bases are located. We also bribe governments to establish bases on their soil.
A civilian that is in the war zone and paid by the civilian contractor gets a huge salary (probably 3 times what he would receive in the USA) and the contractor charges the government 3.5 to 4 times that salary for the effort. For instance a civilian-riding shotgun in a convoy gets $1000 per day and the cost to the government is probably $4000 per day. A private in the military would get $40 per day and they know how to shoot people. So it cost about 100 times more for a civilian doing the job than a private could do for the military. Its not unheard of for a case of soda costing the government $40. This is why toilet seats and screwdrivers cost so much. A cement truck driver in Afghanistan makes $100,000 per year driving on a 25 square mile military base and $80,000 of that is tax free if he stays out of the country for the tax year. So the civilian contractor takes advantage of the deep pockets and the US taxpayer pays and pays. All government contracts are done on a similar basis, that is why so many do illegal things to obtain those contracts. When the government doesn’t have the money to make the payments we have to borrow from our closest friends like the Communist Chinese, Japanese, etc and the public. The military needs to take care of its own and not hire civilians to do the work the military can do or does not want to do. That is the way the military used to be before they found the deep pockets.
The solution to these problems is an overhaul of the military and create a strong military and country. Creating a military of 20 million does this and every person in the country is a part of the effort. Drafting 18 year olds and training then to be good soldiers and after the indoctrination (less than 6 months) returned to the reserves and to civilian life, until a national disaster requires their service. Not invading other countries. The regular military would be composed of a one star general (the general would report to the President) and a colonel for each branch, which would contain a training command necessary to train the inductees. All persons would be trained in some sort of benefit to the country, no exceptions; there would be some job that every person could do even the physically and mentally handicapped. Maintaining the 20 million would be controlled by the age of the reserve. If the number was exceeding 20 million then the older reservist would be released and the 20 million controlled.
Abandoning the bases throughout the world would reduce the expenditure for the military tremendously and giving up bases in the USA that were not needed for the defense and training would also be a benefit to the budget. We currently have 2.5 million in the military but have a hard time getting 140,000 into Iraq and the exercise has gone on for 3 years so a recycling of troops is necessary. The duty in Iraq has to be one of the worst in the world. Shortly we will have lost 3000 troops, a similar number killed in the 911 attack, wounded and maimed 20,000 plus killing and maiming 100,000 Iraqi’s. (“This will be a slam dunk”, somebody said) This is also called “cutting off your nose to spite your face”.
Walter Cronkite recently said in Esquire (April 2006) “indeed we are in another Vietnam. Almost play by play. It’s a terrible mistake that we are in Iraq, and it’s a terrible mistake to insist on staying there”.
Our leaders indicate the defenders of Iraq do not play fair and do not wear uniforms and are bloody killers but completely disregard the fact we have killed more than 100,000. They also indicate they should not cut off peoples heads but the Middle Eastern people have been doing it for centuries. We would prefer hanging by the neck and sometimes by mistake beheading by hanging, or electrocuting or by killing by blowing off the head by firearm or exploding large bombs that separate most of the body parts. We know the right way to kill.
Our leaders also forget the British complained during the Revolutionary war that the Minutemen did not play fair by shooting from behind trees and other obstructions and shooting the British officers. The rule was you shouldn’t shoot the opponents officers, the troops were fair game, sounds similar to today’s engagements, protect the officers.
These changes would be difficult for the military because of the hierarchy that exists and the control the military has on the puppet elected officials but the country cannot afford to continue along these expensive lines. Any surpluses that this reorganization would provide should be used for infrastructure in this country that would develop into a showplace that would show the world what a great Democracy we have.
The effort by the government to spread “freedom” around the world is a statement that we are going to be in a war for the rest of our lives. Maybe they will call it the Hundred Years war except that name was also formerly used by another group of idiots. Maybe killing a few more million will satisfy the warmongers in Washington. Bush will go down in history as the person responsible for killing more people than any other person. What a great legacy. Do we need to enlarge the USA Empire by invading and killing innocent people, and spending the treasury until we are bankrupt???
ROD GALLOWAY a recently registered Republican that wants to engage in the corrupt political behavior and feather my nest as the Republican Party has demonstrated in the recent past.
IMIGRATION ISSUES
4-3-2006
Immigration issues require changes to the law and a system for dealing with the labor shortages within the USA. A major change in the law requires that babies born in the USA that come from citizens are automatically designated as citizens. Babies born of aliens are not given the citizen status.
Workers that are looking for work would be allowed into the country on conditions that they abide by the following rules:
1. Each person would apply using a standard application that specified the type of work they would like to do and the length of time they wanted to stay in the country.
2. They would be issued an ID card that had the requirements for work that would be readout at a machine similar to an ATM machine. The daily data would be sent to a central computer system that kept track of the hours worked (similar to a time clock) and dispense the checks that the worker had earned.
3. The employer that hired the worker would pay the workers wages (at least the minimum wage) into the “trust” fund for the worker. The employer would agree prior to employment to transport the employee both ways from the border of the country of origination. These requirements would be agreed to by the worker and the employer and a penalty issued for not living up to the contract.
4. The employer would be required to provide a place for the worker to live and conditions for cooking and hygiene.
5. The trust fund would take out taxes from the workers pay and send money to a person of the workers choice.
6. At the conclusion of the contract the worker could apply via the computer system for additional work with another employer. As a result he would move around the country and benefit from work around the country.
7. Without further employment he would have to be transported to his port of entry and deported. It would be illegal to pay someone and not go through the trust system. That would be how an illegal would become illegal and the employer would also be prosecuted.
These rules and possibly others would be needed to assist the worker and the employer in using the labor necessary to accomplish tasks that were needed in the states.
When a person did not sign in each day a warrant would be issued to determine why the person was out of work.
WAYS TO CIRCUMVENT THE RULES WOULD BE DEVELOPED AND THEY WOULD REQUIRE ADJUSTMENTS. A few more hours and some adjustments could produce a real good plan. Using this system could also apply to all workers in the USA.
ROD GALLOWAY A recently registered Republican that wants to be part of the corruption and feather my nest.
BUSH SHOULD END IT AND REALIZE THE RAPTURE
4-7-2006
George has disrespected the office of the president by his childish lying and misrepresentations and killing over 100,000 people including his own military during his tenure in the office. So the time has come for him to own up to his mistakes and do the right thing. I would be pleased to assist him in this endeavor and supply him with a 9 MM semi-automatic pistol that we never use and he can keep it for the Smithsonian where it can be displayed as the only weapon that was used by a setting president that took his own life. He will marvel in the rapture and the world will be a lot better off with this ignorant person no longer in control of the United States of America. Good-bye George.
ROD GALLOWAY A recently registered republican that wants to be a part of the corrupt party and feather my nest.
THE CIA AND 911
4-7-2006
Did you ever wonder how long it would take for the information to leak out about the CIA’s role in the 911 attacks? The best guess is in 3 generations when the population will ask what was 911? That’s probably when the freedom of information act (the act that is meant to keep public information from the public until they have forgot about what happened) would allow the public to see how corrupt the government really was.
ROD GALLOWAY A recently registered Republican that wants to be a part of the corrupt party and feather my nest.
THE SCOOTER LIBBY LEAK
4-7-2006
The media is quick to show there is no proof to the testimony of Scooter Libby that implicated the president. The reason is how could “proof” show up when a casual conversation was conducted and he was told to leak the information? This is the way mobster’s today and yesteryears committed horrendous acts and the FBI could not prosecute them (for lack of evidence/proof) until they were prosecuted for tax evasion. It’s always important to know how to circumvent the law.
ROD GALLOWAY A recently registered Republican that wants to be a part of the corrupt party and feather my nest.
THE GALLOWAY SHOWER
A RECYCLEABLE SHOWER OR INSTANT HOT WATER HEATER
4-14-2006
ABSTRACT:
The need to save energy, water and reduce the discharge of wastewater into the oceans has led to the need to develop this system. The system uses recycled hot water that could be used in a shower or other needs for hot water. The prototype was developed for use as an outdoor shower but could be used as an indoor shower or a temporary shower in a remote location. Built into every house the advantages are mind boggling to save water, energy and eliminate the discharge into the sewer system and subsequently into the oceans. The following specification will justify the savings that could be achieved.
SPECIFICATION
The title of the invention is “THE GALLOWAY SHOWER”. The applicant is Rodney Galloway, a citizen of the United States of America residing at 1340 H Street, Ramona, Ca. 92065
0001 What is it made of?
1.
The system is made of a 7-gallon (arbitrary value) pan for collecting the drained water.
2.
A pump that will pump the necessary amount of water for the system approximately 5 gallons per minute.
3.
The filter is a drip irrigation system filter model # ---------------------.
4.
Two electrically operated valves that are normally used in drip irrigation systems, Rainbird model # 54048, ¾ inch, one for flow control and the other for gray water dispensing.
5.
An electrically operated valve for draining the system for cleaning and ejection the gray water.
6.
A heater assembly that is composed of a 24” section of 3 inch black ABS plastic drain pipe with end pieces that mount the electrical heaters that are normally used in an electrical water heater. The assembly contains inlet and outlets for the water that is to be heated.
7.
A temperature controller that controls the water temperature. The control uses a thermostat and triacs to adjust the current thru the heating elements.
8.
Shower heads if required and a shower enclosure to contain the water and return the water to the reservoir.
9.
¾” plastic schedule 40 PVC piping
10.
A ground fault (GFI) system that is a safety system to prevent electrical shock. The GFI uses a standard household outlet and wired to a relay that controls the 220 vac to the heater and controls.
0002
Figure one is a block diagram of the prototype system and describes how the invention works. Water, approximately 5 gallons is pumped from a reservoir located on the floor thru a filter, passing a valve that redirects the produced gray water to the landscape or garden. The water without the valve turned on passes thru a heat exchanger that heats and reheats the water and on to a showerhead. The water from the shower drain is then deposited into the reservoir and recycled thru the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger contains a 4500-watt water heater element at each end of a capped black ABS plastic pipe where the water is heated. The cycle continues until the water reaches an adjustable temperature that is satisfactory to the user. At that time the heating energy is reduced to a “maintain” condition that maintains the desired temperature and only supplies energy to replace the cooling that takes place within the system.
0003
The calculation for heating the water uses the BTU and an 8000-watt heater to heat the 5 gallons of water to 50 degrees above the “cold” water temperature. The BTU is the amount of energy required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit.
A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds and to convert BTU’s to kilowatt-hours requires multiplying BTU’s by 0.000293 and to multiply kilowatt-hours to kilowatt-minutes, multiplying by 60 minutes per hour. The temperature of “cold water” was measured at 64°. Raising that temperature to 114° is the 50° rise that is used in the calculation. 8.34 pounds X 5 gallons X 50° = 2085 BTU’s
2085 BTU’s X .000293 kwhr/BTU =.610905 kwhr
.610905 kwhr X 60 minutes/ hour =36.6 kwminutes
36.6 kwminutes divided by 8 kilowatts = 4.57 minutes to heat the 5 gallons of water 50 degrees. The temperature of “cold water” was measured at 64° in Southern California during the month of April. Raising that temperature to 114° is the 50° rise that is used in the calculation. This does not account for the multiplication that results when the warmed water is recycled thru the heater that will cause the final temperature to be reached sooner than 4.57 minutes. At 5 gallons per minute the warmed water will go thru the heater 4 times in 4 minutes.
0004
A similar system located in present day houses heats a 30-gallon tank to temperatures up to and exceeding 140°. The energy required to heat that amount of water from 64° is 8.34# X 30 X 140 – 64 X 0.000293 = 5.567 kilowatt-hours. The water heater heats the water then uses approximately 10 gallons for a single shower and new water is then input to the tank to be heated causing 1/3 of the tank to be heated using an additional 1.857 kilowatts for a total of 7.427 kilowatts. The Galloway Shower uses approximately .61-kilowatt hours plus the energy to run the pump 115 VAC x 9 amps or 1 kilowatt for the length of time the user is in the shower. Assuming a 10 minute shower, 61 + 1/10 + .61/2 for half of the energy to maintain the temperature for a total of 1 kilowatt-hour. A difference of 4.5 kilowatt-hours not counting the energy required to maintain the temperature from day to day. Not counting the water down the drain and needing to be cleaned to the point of being able to dump into the ocean. The Galloway Shower would do wonders to conserve energy and water. The multiplier of-course is the total population of the world and the average number of showers everyday.
0005
After the water has reached a preset temperature that is measured by a thermostat the system goes into a maintain temperature condition that supplies energy to account for the cooling losses.
0006
The thermostat is located on a ¾” copper pipe that conducts the water temperature that is flowing thru the pipe to the showerhead.
0006
The heat exchanger shown in the block diagram and in detail in figure 3 is fabricated using 24 inches of black plastic ABS pipe. The pipe is capped off with end caps at each end and the water heating elements are mounted on and extend into the pipe. The end caps with the heaters are glued onto the pipe. The water heaters are mounted with a neoprene gasket and held in place with 4, 3/8” bolts that are held captive on the cap by gluing the heads of the carriage bolts to the inside of the cap. The heating elements are then held in place with the bolts and 4 nuts on each end. The sides of the end caps are then drilled and tapped for ¾” pipe threads and a street elbow is installed at each end as shown in figure 3. The elbows allow the water to enter and exit the heat exchanger.
0007
Prior to the water entering the heat exchanger the water is pumped out of a 7-gallon reservoir thru a Rainbird drip system filter as shown in figure 1 and 6.
0008
An electrical circuit that is schematically shown in figure 2 controls the system. With 220 VAC applied to the controller and the power switch turned to the “on” position, power is applied to the sump pump P1 and the short across the capacitor C1 is removed allowing the two triacs to be fired. That will not happen until the pressure switch S5 is closed indicating the system has water and is at the top of the shower. The location of the pressure switch is shown on figure 6. Without water in the system at the height of the shower damage could be brought on especially if the heat exchanger is not filled the heating elements would melt and be damaged beyond repair and required replacement. As long as water is in and flowing the heating elements will operate properly. The system uses the triacs to control the current in the heating elements. The circuit R1, R2, R3, C1, DIAC D1 and the triacs T1 and T2, achieves this. The diac is fired when the voltage across C1 reaches approximately 25 volts due to the 115 VAC that is applied to the circuit. After the DIAC is fired the charge in C1 is distributed to the gates of T2 and T3 that allows current to flow into the heating elements until the applied voltage crosses or goes to 0 VAC and the triac ceases to conduct. As the voltage rises in the negative direction and charge across C1 reaches approximately -25 volts the D1 again fires and causes the triacs to conduct. The voltage on C1 is controlled by the combination of R1, R2, R3 causing the DIAC to fire later and not allowing current to flow and reducing the average current thru the heating elements. After the preset temperature has been achieved as seen by the thermostat, S3 opens and inserts more resistance into the charging circuit and should be set to the amount of current that would maintain the desired temperature.
0009
Operating the triacs from a single source is achieved with the DIAC that supplies enough current for two or more gates of the triacs.
0010
A low power switch is provided to use one heating element and a pushbutton to allow cold water to be put in the reservoir to either fill the reservoir and or the cool the water in the reservoir.
Resistor R1 is to limit the resistance in the circuit and R2 and R3 are adjusted to manage the cooling losses.
0011
The circuit is assembled on aboard that mounts the components. Figure 5 shows the locations for the parts and wiring from the 220 VAC, the transformer is not located on the board but provided on the schematic figure 2 for function only. The terminals for wiring are made of 6-32 screws and nuts as shown on figure 5. S1, S2 and S8 are mounted on the circuit board along with R1, R2, R3, C1, and D1 the DIAC. T2 and T3 are located on the plate soldered to the ¾” pipe that runs to the showerhead as shown on figure 6.
stopped
What does the invention do?
The mechanism recycles water thru a heater that allows the user to use the heated water as a shower or other means that requires hot water. The mechanism has a temperature control that will maintain that temperature. The water can then be reheated or dispensed as gray water.
The end result
The end result will allow an independent shower with an electrical connection and finally save water and energy by tightly controlling the amount of water used and only heating the desired amount of water to the users selected temperature without mixing cold water with overheated water that is normally used in households.
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How does it work?
The original purpose for the invention was to heat water for a shower. Block diagram #1 describes the operation. Water from a reservoir is pumped with an electrical pump at flow rates up to 10 per minute thru a moderate filter and thru valves that control gray water discharge and a bleed valve in parallel then thru an 8000 watt heater with an electrical controller that controls the amount of current flowing in the heater for temperature control. The water is then delivered to the showerheads and the water is then collected in the reservoir and recycled. Additional uses for the heated water could be for hand washing or other uses for hot water.
WHAT DID EISENHOWER KNOW
4-21-2006
Did you ever wonder what Eisenhower knew when he warned the world to “beware of the military-industrial establishment”. Today after many presidents and many “wars and skirmishes” around the world, and the establishment of over 800 military bases around the world it is becoming more obvious what he meant or knew. The military today consumes more than 15% (>400 billion) of the federal budget and the industrial establishment consumes a large part of that budget. Since 1961 the USA has established many of these bases in the Muslim countries and that has infuriated (Bin Ladens complaint) those countries enough so that they have retaliated and attacked the USA using terrorist tactics. Those attacks have only added incentive to the military and further increase spending and launch a “war” against any Muslim country, which they have done. Terrorist does not invade other countries as our officials have led you to believe but merely cause chaos and they have accomplished that overwhelmingly. This type of retaliation has caused an escalation of the war machine and the “takeover” by the military-industrial establishment. Even warmongers in Washington want God to bless the contractors. Presidents and elected officials come and go but the military-industrial establishment will always be with us and the electorate does not elect them. Welcome to the anarchist world.
BORDER FENCE INSTRUCTIONS
5-3-2006
Someone should tell the Minutemen that a barbed wire fence is used for cattle and some livestock but never for humans. People have been crawling thru barbed wire fences ever since they began using it for fencing in cattle. The fact is that fence in general has never stopped humans from crossing from one side to the other. The people that want to “seal” the border are so misinformed that they do not have any idea how to stop people from crossing to the other side. So when you find a politician or others that want to “seal” the borders ask them just exactly how do you do that?? While the discussion is going on be sure to include the total border with Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic coast, the Canadian border and the Pacific coast and don’t forget Alaska, Hawaii and the possessions. These people are very mobile. The embarrassed person will have to admit there is no way to accomplish the task. Then get on to actually solving the real problem if there is one. Don’t rely on bad law as an argument.
QUESTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES
5-13-2006
1. HOW IS THE POLITICAL PROCESS IN IRAQ GOING TO DEFEAT THE INSURGENCY OR THE DEFENDERS OF IRAQ?
2. WHY DO WE HAVE MORE THAN 750 MILITARY BASES AROUND THE WORLD IN MORE THAN 130 COUNTRIES?
3. WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO DUMP MONEY IN THE MIDDLE EAST KNOWING WE HAVE MADE THOUSANDS OF MISTAKES?
4. WHY DO WE HAVE LEADERS THAT MAKE THOUSANDS OF MISTAKES STILL IN LEADERSHIP ROLES?
5. WHEN DID THE RULE THAT DEMOCRACY EQUALED PEACE COME INTO BEING? THIS COUNTRY IS A GREAT EXAMPLE THAT THE RULE IS FALSE.
6. WHAT DID EISENHOWER KNOW WHEN HE CAUTIONED THE WORLD TO BEWARE OF THE MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX???
7. SPECIFICALLY HOW DO YOU "SEAL" THE BORDERS? MOST OF THE METHODS USED SO FAR HAVE NOT WORKED.
8. WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO GIVE TAX RELEIF TO THE RICH WHEN THEY DON'T NEED IT AND IT DOES NOTHING FOR THE ECONOMY?
9. WHEN WILL WE STOP SPENDING BILLIONS ON THE MILITARY AND START IMPROVING THE INFRASTRUCTURE?
10. HOW MANY USA MILITARY AND IRAQI’S DO WE HAVE TO KILL IN ORDER TO AVENGE THE 911 ATTACK?
THE BOOGIEMAN WILL GET YOU
5-18-2006
Remember that title? Well it works very well and big brother uses it all the time to keep the people in check. Since WWII we have had many boogiemen and all of them have proven to be just as you remember during your childhood, a false threat that kept you controlled. Without the threat where would our country be except having a surplus of money and an infrastructure that the world would marvel at and try and duplicate? The boogiemen have never had an opportunity to cause us to loose our freedom or our country. The constant inventions of big brother have caused the country to pour trillions of dollars down the drain and gain nothing. The “secrets” that big
brother would like you to think they have are only for the public and to make sure they don’t know how big brother is spending the treasury into oblivion. Take a look at the “enemies” we have had and try and see what they would do with those “secrets” and you will find they could not care less. The “enemy” defends regardless of our invasions and tactics. We loose and go on to find and fight a new boogieman.
JUST WHO ARE THE WAR MONGERS?
6-23-2006
Did you ever wonder just who the so called “war mongers” are, well let me tell you. They are the people that propagandized the people of the USA and the politicians that voted to start, perpetuate and fund the war. These “leaders” that have lied to the world and could easily be tried and convicted for war crimes are the ones that have convinced the public to sacrifice over 100,000 people because we lost 3000 in New York and that they are doing the right thing are the warmongers. Any one that has supported the “war” by voting for any of the politicians that have supported the “war” are also “war mongers”. This includes the Republicans and the Democrats for neither are safe in their defense of the “war”. You may not think of yourself as a war monger but if you have voted for any of the “officials” such as Bush, Cunningham, and particularly Duncan Hunter then you are also a “war monger” and each time a G.I. is wounded, militated and killed in this wrong war is a burden on your irresponsible actions of voting for these irresponsible politicians and have let this country down and turned the world against the USA.
The movie about the government
6-25-2006
It all started a long time ago the USA Empire had reached into the Middle East and we had military bases in these foreign lands. A lot of people in the Middle East did not like the infidels occupying Muslim land and spreading the Christian religion and western ways in their countries. Especially the evil one Osama Bin Laden who was our buddy in the old war against the Russians in Afghanistan where the USA supplied weapons to the Al Queida. The Al Queida was successful in ridding Afghanistan of the Russians. At that time the Russians was a “cold” war enemy and using WWII techniques found they could not successfully occupy that country against the Al Queida that were in sandals and towels wrapped around their heads and of course they all had AK47’s and Stinger missiles that could knock down a helicopter or a jet fighter. And the biggest threat, they knew how to throw rocks. The USA would finally relearn that lesson in Afghanistan and Iraq. After the Russian Empire fell the USA did not have an “enemy” and the military was depressed because the last time the USA lost an enemy the then president Eisenhower reduced the military drastically and the war mongers did not like that situation and they always need a enemy in order to maintain their bureaucracy. Also some of the background had to do with Sadam Huseim during the Iraq-Iran war we allied with Sadam and supplied him with weapons, especially weapons of “mass” destruction. As always we overdid the gifts and Sadam stockpiled large amounts of these weapons. Another part of the background was the fact that the USA gave Israel large gifts to fight the Palestinians and that aid had gone on since Israel became a state by the United Nations, 1948. Finally Osama Bin Laden also without an enemy decided for some reasons that he was going to start a Jihad against the USA and force the USA out of the Middle East. At that time the USA probably had over 20 military bases in the Arabian Peninsula and the number kept growing. After Sadam invaded Kuwait and the USA drove him back into Iraq and stopped short of going into Baghdad and getting him which was a thing to do at the time. Instead they placed sanctions on Iraq with no-fly zones and the military policed the country from the air. They also used an economic embargo against the country and limited oil sales only for humanitarian purposes that turned out to be a sham and Sadam proved to be much smarter that the rules placed on him and everything was “normal”.
The story picks up from there and the following events took place:
1. Osama trained men that flew two airplanes into the world Trade Center, one plane for each building and a third plane was flown into the pentagon, the fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. More than 3000 people died in those incidents. That was a huge embarrassment for the government for it was only the second time the country had been attacked after Pearl Harbor in 1941.
2. After the attack and the president finally got back to Washington, D.C. the meetings started and it was immediately determined that Osama was to blame and they had to retaliate. They knew he had training camps in Afghanistan. So the president shortly thereafter declared Osama guilty and sentenced him to death, why do we need a trial, maybe he was guilty but they didn’t need him or a trial he was number one on the hit list. Part of the problem was that most of the men that did the 911 attacks came from Saudi Arabia. We knew Osama had training facilities in Afghanistan because president Clinton had the Navy lob Cruise Missiles into the camps after the bombing of the Navy ship Cole. Nothing happened as a result of the cruise missile attacks.
3. So it “follows” that we go after Osama in Afghanistan and we send in the Army and Marines with the Navy off the coast and waiting for orders to fly and bomb whatever. It turned out that as far as the military was concerned that it is always better to have an enemy and probably not a good idea to do away with him but “keep” looking for him. At that time Osama was very vulnerable and a 50-man Delta force could have taken him out but that would have been the end of the conflict and no enemy left to fight. Not so fast the military needed an enemy and he was the only one they had so they sent in a military operation and fought the Al Queida until they thought they had defeated them and then a need was put forth for a new enemy and Iraq showed up as a “enemy” because they had weapons of mass destructions and we knew he had them because we gave him the weapons during the Iraq-Iran war and it would be easy since the Gulf war they knew Sadam was very vulnerable.
4. Problem was they had forgotten how the Al Queida had persisted and drove out the Russians. After they thought Al Queida was done they started uprising and the war in Afghanistan goes on and on.
5. The Iraq war goes on for 5 years longer than any modern wars including WWII and the public is weary of the continued killing of our young men and women that had volunteered for the military and fight for their country, a noble gesture but the dieing continued. The president also weary about the bad ratings and his advisors had not convinced the public that the war was going well began to have some second thoughts. As a Christian he began to think it was not a good thing for him to have engaged in this war at the encouragement of his advisors. Day after day the fog of war became more difficult to live with and he decided to tell all. Against the advice of his cabinet and propaganda experts he headed to a news conference and told the world that he had been misled and the war was a sham and we would withdraw all the troops from the Middle East and he and his associates would immediately fly to the Hague in the Netherlands and face a war crimes trial that ended with him and his associates imprisoned in Alb Grad for life with Sadam in Iraq. After all November was coming up and new elections would be coming up and the Republican Party needed to continue with a majority in the House and Senate!!! This gesture would again help the Party to gain confidence with USA public.
6. Don’t forget to put in about state secrets.
7. Don’t forget to put in civilian efforts to continue the war.
THE SIGHTS BEHING THE SENES 6-26-2006 The briefing room was dark and the generals and admirals were conferring about the end of the war in Korea. After the truce had been signed they were satisfied that they had done the right thing. The causalities of the war were high and they could not overcome the desperate fighting by the North Koreans. Anyway they now had control of the south and the truce seemed to insure no attacks but they needed to make sure the 38th parallel was protected so the presence of the U.S. military was necessary for the foreseeable future. Shortly thereafter Eisenhower delivered his “beware of the military/industrial establishment” and the men in the room was startled at this admission by the president because they felt they had a good relationship with him. He was after all a good military man but he apparently knew something that set him off on a distrust of those two agencies. The new task facing the leaders was to secure South Korea and prepare for the next conflict. That was getting to be a big task because the president had announced he was going to reduce the military and cut the budget, so where was the leaders to go next? This was a quarterly meeting of the select group of the joint chiefs of staff and the meeting was very top secret and held in the secure room of the pentagon. They met to assess the world situation both militarily and political. They would get briefings from each segment that affected the military. The select personal that did the briefings did not know each other and were assigned to post that did not allow mixing socially and all their work was top secret and could not be disseminated with even other military without a “need to know”. They were the separate military intelligence. Each group would handle a certain region of the world and report the military and political happenings in that part of the world. The quarterly meetings would last a few days and was very intense. The chiefs would take the data presented and act on it for the presentations to the president and congress for these were the ways that a defense budget was started. The different branches of the military would also report on their needs for the future. When the briefings were concluded the collection of data would be put forth and a requirement for funds would be put before the congress and finally the president. Shortly thereafter the North Vietnamese began an invasion of the South and the world was worried that the communist was about to take over the world by a so-called domino theory. Again the stage was set for the next conflict.
The need to show how the president is convinced that an emergency is imminent and have him make a speech to the nation warning of the danger. Use words like lose our freedom, kill Americans, we will win this war and we will never give up then show him giving up, these enemies are murders and show a bombing of a civilian house and an airplane that dropped the bomb or a tank that shot a shell at the house. .
DON’T GET OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST TOO SOON
6-26-2006
There are a lot of people that depend on this war for their livelihood and retirement. Therefore it is not a good idea to cut and run. It would be a better idea to prolong the war a while so the generals could get another star and the civilians that take advantage of the war to feather their nest need to get more out of this fiasco. Every time they take a G.I. out of the region the civilian companies make less, so it is important to continue the war with a maximum of troops. By this time the generals have grown weary of the war and are looking for other opportunities to spend the $450 billion that they squander each year. Regardless of the amount of war dead a lot of people make big bucks supporting the effort.
To end the war and get out of the Middle East, stop supporting Israel in their never ending conflict with the Palestinians could cause the terrorists to quit griping with the west and our efforts to protect the homeland would be relieved and we could spend the money paying off the national debt that the war has cost. That would take a few generations and then we could improve the infrastructure and worry about how we could rid our dependency on foreign oil.
ROD GALLOWAY
1340 H STREET
RAMONA, CA. 92065
760 789 1333
DON’T CUT AND RUN
6-26-2006
Don’t cut and run just be a man and admit you have made the worst mistake this country has ever known. That is what a real cowboy would do. Go to the troops and tell them they have preformed brilliantly but tell them they were under a giant handicap because their training did not prepare them for the kind of fighting they encountered in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their superiors had no plan for fighting or ending the war and they never had any plan to ever get out of Iraq or Afghanistan. Their superiors admitted they did not know how to fight this war and the WWll methods don’t work with this modern war. Tell them that all the expenditures for the war did not solve the problem. Do a news conference on television and tell the public the same story. Get on a plane and go to The Hague in Amsterdam and face the war crimes trial and get sentenced to hard time in Abu grad prison in Iraq for the rest of your life. Just do the right thing and don’t cut and run like a wimp, take your medicine like a man.
ROD GALLOWAY
1340 H STREET
RAMONA, CA. 92065
760 789 1333
KEN LAYS DEATH 7-6-2006
what is the only way you could get out of a prison sentence? thats right DIE.
WELL THAT IS WHAT KENNETH LAY DID, BUT WITH ALL HIS MONEY HE DIDN'T REALLY DIE HE JUST GOT A CADAVER AND MADE IT UP TO LOOK LIKE HIM AND THAT IS WHAT THE CORONER SAW AND WROTE THE DEATH CERTIFICATE. I KNOW HE IS IN THE SOUTH PACFIC AND I AM GOING TO SEE HIM ON MY NEXT ROUND THE WORLD TRIP IN AUGUST.
ROD
A LITTLE HISTORY
7-25-2006
When the warmongers try and tell you about your loosing your freedom, think about it. Our freedom has never been in jeopardy by a foreign country, not once since we thru out the British has this country been invaded by a foreign country. No veteran, including myself has ever had the opportunity to save your freedom. During the world wars we were attacked but never invaded and after the fact we became the aggressor and fought the war in a foreign land. Until recently we have used WWII techniques to invade other countries, and they have not worked. When we expanded the empire into the Middle East notably in Muslim countries they have retaliated by using terrorist tactics against the USA an all the alliance that was hoodwinked into assisting us in Iraq and Afghanistan. The terrorist goal was simply to make us pull out of the Muslim lands. Their goal was never to “invade” this country or “kill”. Their tactics work very well, we have become a paranoid schizophrenic country and spending billions of dollars thinking we would “win” the battle while they spent a few hundred dollars maintaining the terror by doing nothing. Leaving the few hundred bases we have established in the Middle East would jeopardize the USA Empire so we resist and spend thousands of lives and a fortune that is borrowed money that the administration doesn’t have to worry about paying back because the next generation will have the responsibility to pay for the pilfering of the treasury. Stopping or “winning” the “war” against the terrorist is an impossible task because you would never know if you did win and as long as one terrorist exist the war goes on. They can spend very little to maintain the “war”. The Israelis are a good testament to loosing the war; they have been at it for 58 years and have not nor will they ever win the war. They have won a few battles but are loosing the war. We have open borders and there has never been a country that could “seal” the borders. The terrorist can come and go as they see fit. The government doesn’t know how to “seal” the border or fight the terrorist so get used to those facts. Terrorism works very well and the greatest power becomes vulnerable to the terrorist tactics. They have a modern day Trojan horse. The good part of the equation is that the “military/industrial” complex is well funded and many people make lots of money supporting the loosing effort. The only way we loose our freedom is allowing the government to take it away, as much as the electorate will allow. Most don’t care but it happens each day. “The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.” Eugene McCarthy.
Rod Galloway
1340 H Street
Ramona, Ca 92065
760 789 1333
Sent: Monday, August 7, 2006 7:56:54 AM
Subject: CANDIDATES STATMENT FOR RMWD, MAYBE LAST TIME I DIDN'T INCLUDE THE TEXT
ROD GALLOWAY
I WILL DEDICATE MY TIME AND WORK FOR THE CITIZENS OF RAMONA AND NOT SHOW FAVORITISM OR SPEND ANY TIME WITH SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS. LISTEN TO AND DETERMINE THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION FOR THE WATER DEPARTMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF RAMONA.
EXPERIENCES
TOBACCO FARM WORKER, MARBLE CHAMPION, PLAYER OF BASKETBALL AND BASEBALL, CONSTRUCTION LABORER, BUSBOY, AUTOMOBILE ASSEMBLER, US AIR FORCE, AIRCRAFT MECHANIC, BS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, ELECTRONICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING WORK IN THE AEROSPACE/ OFFENSE FIELDS, LANDLORD, INVENTOR, INVESTOR, HOME OWNER/BUILDER, DIVER, GARDENER, WOODWORKER, WELDER, SAILOR, SKIIER, HANDBALL PLAYER, MUSICIAN, MARRIED WITH THREE CHILDREN AND FOUR GRANDCHILDREN, WRITER, TRAVELER, MEMBER OF RAMONA GARDEN CLUB, VFW POST 3783, RAMONA FORUM, AND VETERANS FOR PEACE.
(OFFENSE is not misspelled)
To Maureen Robertson
Subject: Ramona Water District Board Division 4 Candidate
Name: Rodney Galloway
Age: 74
Background: Employed as an Electronic Engineer at a number of Defense companies in the San Diego area for greater than thirty years after receiving a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Kentucky in 1960. I have not held any elected office. My life started as a tobacco farmer in Kentucky and after various jobs including time in the military and putting myself thru college I moved to San Diego and started a career as an Engineer working on the defense of the Unites States then retiring a number of years ago.
I am seeking the seat on the water board in order to offer a public service and improve the quality of life for all of Ramona’s residence.
If elected I will within the year, at my own expense, tour the world looking for a quality water system for the residence of Ramona.
The most critical issues facing the water board is the planning and execution of plans for a quality water system. I have extensive experience in solving these kinds of problems and the drive to getting the job done.
The conspiracy THEORY
8-10-2006
A few years ago I accused the San Diego Trust and Savings bank of encouraging bank robbers to rob the bank. The reasons are that they do nothing to suppress that action like putting up bulletproof glass in front of the tellers and locking the doors when an attack took place. Today a number of instances have shown that effort would be effective. The bank wouldn’t bother because they have insurance and do not care about the welfare of the employees and are more concerned about appearances.
Today we are faced with another situation with the terrorist war effort. The TSA was put in place in a lame attempt at suppressing further attacks. The real reasons was just a dog and pony show for the public and it worked, they got the idea that they were safer but the final reasons was to convince the terrorist that we were just as vulnerable as before the 911 attack. Most people would recognize the fact that the effort was full of holes that an amature terrorist could see thru, and that was to “bring them on” and commit another attack, but they had caused so much havoc with that one attack another would have ment nothing because the government had so overreacted and spent the farm on the bureaucracies that another attack would not have meant nothing.
But after the trail runs dry as it has and the public is convinced that the war was a fraud another layer must be laid on to revive the war effort. So you concock another effort to revive the fraud, especially when another election is around the corner. Where else with such a good ally as the British where you don’t have to worry about the ACLU and the USA legal system to set the stage. So you round up the usual suspects approximately 21 and accuse them of staging an attack on the air lines with liquid explosives. Just one of the liquid explosives nitro-glycern could easily fill one of the holes in the TSA inspections. After all the government was encourging some one to do it and they know what will go unnoticed. There are many other ways to commit the same act and noone is looking for those mechanisms. Again the terrorist were uninterested bu the government could make a hit by revealing it to the bewildered public and convince them that they had done something positive. Regardless of the fact that they don’t want the war to stop because they have so much invested and the industrial establishment surely doesn’t want to cut their own throat by stopping the war.
Add some embellishments like they “think” these 21 guys had some connection to al Queida by visiting Afganistan or Packistan to get “trained” in explosives when all they had to do was Google the information and they could have saved a trip. Maybe they just went to get a suntan. Anyway that seems to be all that was necessary to create another chapter to the saga of war.
So instead of shaking down grandmas for their fingernail clippers they can now invade their privacy by confiscating their perfume and other body lotions. Sounds like as usual they left the door wide open with baby milk and medicine. So now they want to color the nitro with a white colored liquid and we are back to normal. Also air cargo is shipped without any inspection, and that way you don’t loose a fellow terrorist in the bombing. The only solution would be to stop all air traffic but that would leave no other way for the false threat except the busses and trains but just the poor people use that means to travel and we don’t need to spend much money to protect them. Remember it has been 4 years and none of these “holes” have been filled. So create the image and give it to CNN and they will run with it never let it rest and the publicity will be good for the “war effort”.
Its always good to see the police walking around with an automatic weapon, like if he uses it before or after the terrorist blows him up!!!
DAILY NEWS 8-21-2006 SIDNEY
Great hotel close to China town and shops. Bought me a sweatshirt with AUSTRALIA AND A FLAG for warmth, cold here. I look like an Aussie ready for the Olympics. The hotel has a great indoor pool on the 15th floor overlooking the city. This is a very busy part of the city. They have a large botanical garden right in the heart of the city, which I will visit. Had KFC tonight from across the street. The Internet in the hotel is $5 Aus for 30 minutes so I will send using that source and read from down the street at an Internet café. The exchange rate is $1 US for $1.2 Aus, so whatever you buy is like a 20% discount, great idea. I could have that backwards and that wouldn’t be so good. Anyway things here are higher than I would be used to, especially at the hotel.
8-21-2006
I will send these updates when the hotel gets its act together and has the WI-FI working or when I find a WI-FI location.
Had my coffee and tomato juice with Tabasco sauce along with a wedge of Laughing Cow Cheese this morning. Got the cheese in Tahiti and the juice and sauce across the street at a grocery that is next to the entrance of the train station. I may have forgot to mention that the main train station for Sidney is right below my window and a lot of the traffic here is due to the large station. Its 5:55 AM and dawn is breaking looking to the east out of my window. So its 1:55 PM in San Diego.
Yesterday I got everything together and walked to the Botanical Garden about 2.5 miles and I was a little tired, but I had planned to take the bus back to the hotel and I did. George Street is a main drag here and busses run up and down the street so you can take the bus and go to the bay and see the opera house or the harbor bridge then go to the other side of the street and return to the hotel. The fare for the bus is dependent on the distance you are going so it cost about 1.80# to return to the hotel. I thought that was a lot but many people use those busses. While walking to the Garden I pasted the village of Woolloomooloo (name dropping) that is adjacent to the garden. Had McDonalds breakfast sandwich and some shrimp from across the street then last night some chicken-corn soup at a “gourmet” restaurant across the street. I couldn’t understand the Chinese girl, she said the soup was chicken-con but after she spelled it out I knew she meant corn and she was embarrassed.
This morning I am watching Good Morning America on television. They reviewed the book Freakonomics that I think I have read at least part of it.
I would buy a number of the books about the early days of the country “America On Fire” by Bernard A. Weisberger. You learn about some details of history in school but you never get any details, only what the government wants you to know like Washington cutting down the cherry tree, which was a lie. What you need to know is that these people were real with normal desires and morals with everyone wanting to go in a different direction and things are still that way. I don’t remember how I got the book but the price tag is $6.99 and for that price everyone in the US should read and be given to all school kids to counter the propaganda put out by the government.
One thing before I forget again is that in all these country I don’t see any police on the streets. Occasionally I hear a siren but no police or firemen??? I of course have written letters about this before and I need to reiterate those ideas about the bureaucracy in the USA.
While its fresh on my mind…..
The role of the police is to be a reactionary force, a crime is committed and the police go after the perpetrator, find him along with the evidence and prosecute and fine or imprison the person. If you have been led to believe that they “protect you” that is what they would like for you to believe but when you are being robbed or a crime is committed on you, when did a cop show up to stop the crime, very seldom or never. They report the number of crimes but never report the number of convictions that is their real goal. They also don’t report all the crimes in order to convince you that the crime rate is low. If they reported all the crimes and the number of convictions you would have a batting average to judge their performance but they mislead the public by telling them what the crime rate is and never try and justify the number of convictions. In order to increase their bureaucracy they compare the number of police to the population and what the neighboring communities rates are which has little or nothing to do with their performance. Why are they so militaristic with the “chiefs” having stares as a sign of rank like the generals in the military? The public would like to think that they are not a militaristic organization, but many times they act like an invading force.
As a way the bureaucracy is run the public have no way to judge their performance but to continue to enlarge the force. Similar results are found in the fire departments that do not try and justify their existence by showing the number of structures that were saved and the number that were destroyed. Their goal is to increase the force and of course create heroes and give medals to employees that are expected to do those jobs. They plead to the soft public and the public eats it up. Usually the structure burns to the ground and insurance would be just as good as a fire department.
END OF THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY!!!
I traded my 48000 pesos for 82.60 aus dollars. I thought they were worth 540 per US dollar or $88.88. The euro is worth 1.5 and the US $ 1.166. So 82.6/1.166 gives 70.84 US $ and
More LATER..
8-23-2006 Wednesday
I had breakfast at the Gormet express, not too great but today I am going to eat at the hotel, they have a buffet which don’t like because I can’t eat too much. I then walked to Darling Harbor past the Haymarket and a number of Chinese restruants. I later went back at dinner time and had duck with plum sauce that was good. Leaving today for Darwin and warm weather
A GOVERNMENT OF SAVAGES
9-1-2006
Long ago the Aboriginal communities around the world decided that making war was a useless endeavor. Today we still call them uncivilized but they were smart enough to make improvements in their lives that the so called civilized have not learned and viewed from the Aboriginal position they would call the current savages that run the world as uncivilized. The propaganda put forth by out governments would have you to believe that we are very far advanced and you can hear people say that the USA is the greatest country in the world but most of those people have not seen the other countries and are not prepared to voice an opinion about what is the best country. Foreigners are also duped into the idea that the USA is also a good place to live but most of the people that want to immigrate here are trying to improve their position and they will return to their home countries after they have achieved their financial position that they need to in order to survive and live well in their own country, some stay. They just use this country to achieve their goals.
You can take a savage and put a suit on him but that does not change his ideas of world domination and the quest to engage in a perpetual war, obviously an uncivilized way to conduct a nation that claims to be civilized. Many countries around the world have elected to not engage in warfare and succeed very well. They improve their infrastructure as much as they can and do not engage in wasteful spending by invading other countries and ending up defeated. Many countries have learned this lesson but it will apparently take the USA a few more generations and many USA lives and many trillion dollars of taxpayer dollars to learn the lesson. The blowback from aggressive warfare is to be attacked by whatever means they have and today we are under constant attack by forces because we have invaded their countries and the reaction is a terrorist activity that is near crippling the USA and its allies.
So the savage leaders that lead our country are reaping the rewards of their aggressive behavior, by spending trillions of dollars trying to put out the fires they have started. Always demonstrating that they cannot handle the problems within this country and they then try to tell other countries how to conduct their affairs, but are being rebuffed by those countries and our savage leaders are not learning their lesson. They are lame ducks and the leaders that follow them will have to cleanup the activities that were conducted by the previous administration. Politicians come and go but the military/ industrial establishment is with us all the time and they take advantage of the duped USA population into thinking they are doing something good.
ROD
EXPENSES BY CREDIT CARD AND ATM
9-16-2006
These are the dates and what I have kept at this time..
8-18-06 ROYAL YAHITIEN 55,321 3 ROOM CHARGES
9-9-06 DISCOVER INDIA TOURS 32,360/46
9-8-06 PHARMACY PILLOW 39.90
9-12-06 SHSHPURA HOUSE 1920/46
9-10-06 ATM 2300/46
9-8-06 SWISS GARDEN REST. 49.45
8-9-06 CHAND PALACE 450/46
9-9-06 ATM 2500/46
9-4-06 SOUP REST. SCOTTS 29.35
9-6-06 REST. 500.68/46
9-9-06 SPLASH REST. 456.6/46
9-8-06 SWISS GARDEN HOTEL 185
9-10-06 YAJ VIEW 1932.O6/46
8-31-06 BALI TOUR CASH 360,000
9-1-06 LUNCH GROUPER 213,500
9-1-2006 RAMADA RESORT BALI 750,200
8-28-06 ATM 2X 500,000
8-31-06 BALI CONNECTION 270,000
8-31-06 BALI ATM 1,000,000
8-31-06 LUNCH BALI 281,325
8-29-2006 ATM BALI 500,000
8-29-06 BALI CRUISE 445,900-----$49
8-17-06 ROYAL TAT 1060 2350 850
8-18-06 “ “ 1060
9-11-2006 TAJ VIEW 1923.06 CREDIT
9-9-2006 ATM 2500.00
9-12-2006 SHAHPURA HOUSE 1920
9-1-06 BALI RAMADA 750,200
8-23-06 MERCURE SIDNEY $7.50
8-16-06 RENTAL CAR EASTER 25000
8-16-06 HOTEL MANAVIA $245 132,300
8-12-06 GARDEN HOTEL LIMA 957.28
9-16-06 le meridien gift shop 4500/70 = $65
9-16-06 food and room at le meridien
9-5-06 royal plaza on scotts 55.08
9-8-06 restruant credit 120.00
9-8-06 shirt long sleeve credit 79.90
9-17-06 le Meridien includes room charges 30,631.96/70
9-6-06 eden airport rest. 120 +10 tip klia
9-8-2006 visa 79.90 megamail klia long sleeve shirt
9-6-2006 30,631 GOKARNA KATHMANDU, NEPAL 30,631.96
9-19-2006 309.84/5.7 PARAMISA CAIRO
9-20-2006 500/5.7 CASH ATM,,, I THINK I DID THIS TWICE
9-19-2006 83.87/5.7 PARAMISA HOTEL CAIRO
9-22-2006 252/5.7 LUXOR HOTEL CREDIT FOOD COST
9-19-2006 45.68/5.7 PARAMISA CAIRO FOOD, CREDIT
9-24-2006 363.76/5.7 parymisa island final bill
9-25-2006 500/5.7 cash ATM for taxi to Hilton
9-26-2006 603.10/5.7 hotel and transport to Cairo,,CASH,, credit cards would not
work!!!!!
THESE ARE THE NUMBERS I HAVE AT THIS TIME, SOME NEED TO BE ADJUSTED TO DOLLARS, I WILL CHANGE THE NUMBERS AS I GET TO IT AND ADD EACH USE OF THE CREDIT CARD AND ATM.. WHEN I PUT A NUMBER LIKE 2500/46 THAT MEANS YOU DIVIDE THE FIRST NUMBER BY THE SECOND TO GET $54.34 DOLLARS.
HAVE FUN
ROD
KIDS KILLING OTHER KIDS
10-11-2006
Could it be that when kids grow up in this societies where the government is in a constant war with created enemies of the world in order to prop up the military/industrial establishment that our kids get the wrong impression about life and how to live in a peaceful condition. When we have the violence of the video and the Internet most of which are tailored after the military you must wonder if they are influenced by what our government does and how they handle the world situation. As the youth grow up they are constantly bombarded by war and killing of others they must be influenced by those things. When they get to be the age of enlistment in the military they are hounded by the military to join and learn how to kill someone. As the younger ones grow they see what is expected of them and the “patriotic” thing to do when they become of age and it is easy to forgo all of that and take things into their own hands and get a gun and shoot someone, after all that is what the government does and asks the young people to do. Many a time I have heard a new graduated recruit say he is anxious to get in the battle and shoot someone, which is what the military wants you to do and they encourage the recruit to do and think those things, that is until they have to be put on the battlefield and then things change because then the “enemy” is shooting at you and that does not sit so well, especially when he has a friend have his head shot off or a wound that spills his guts on the ground. Things get different thoughts when those things happen. But that is what the government expects out of a patriotic citizen to do.
So it is very reasonable to think a younger person looking up to his older friends and conducting himself in the same manner to exploit his grievances against whoever has wronged him or her.
A country that is engaged in making war must also be responsible for the fallout of its young persons. Our government is mainly an aggressor nation and will always be engaged in a war or preparing for one. That is the agenda of the government and they do that under the guise that they are doing it for peaceful purposes and that propaganda is what the people think is happening but somewhere the government is trying to establish an empire throughout the world. One of the ways they do that is signing treaties with foreign governments to “protect” them in case of an attack by another country. Many countries that do not have a military will tell you that the USA will protect them, the USA then establishes bases on those lands and that becomes part of the USA.
In any case our young are heavily influenced by the military operation of this country and will always be that way until less emphasis is placed on perpetual war.
CONVERTING THE MILITARY AND TAKING THE MONEY OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT
11-9-2006
THINGS TO DO::::
Strengthen the military by::
The volunteer military has not worked and instead we now have a mercenary military. When you start giving reenlistment bonuses of $40,000 you have a mercenary military and an expensive one.
Starting a draft that all citizens would participate starting at age 18. They stay in the military for 6 months that would include 8 weeks of basic training, 2 months of specialty training in a specific area like the army, navy marines, coast guard or air force. 2 months work in the fields providing food for the military. All work for the military would be done by the military and the pay would be a stipend to cover basic requirements for living in the military.
When the 6 months had elapsed the recruit would go into the inactive reserves for a period of time that would depend on the number of people in the reserves. An attempt to make the military stronger we need a 20 million person military, each year the 18 year olds enter an equal number of the oldest reserves would be discharged.
Assuming in a population of 300 million we have approximately 4 million 18 year olds each year which would mean a 5 year term in the inactive reserves, and a training establishment to train 4 million each year, divided by 12 would be 330,000 each month would go into training. No small task.
The military would be mostly self sufficient and would require some outside support, such as infrastructure, heating, cooling, household items, fertilizers, transportation, water, electricity, sewage, R & D, but would be located in areas not too close to large cities. Hiring outside workers at the prevailing wage could be done by each arm of the military but the hiring must be done by the branch and not sub contracted.
The idea is to take the military to a different level and eliminate the money from the equation as much as possible but to strengthen the military with a large number in order to protect the country from the people that would invade and disrupt the way of life we have established.
NEW DEAL FOR THE COUNTRY
10-29-2006
THE TIME IS RIPE FOR A NEW ADMINISTRATION IN WASHINGTON
The Republicans and the Democrats have demonstrated for the last 60 years that they have not lead the country to be successful in their endeavors. They have been essentially throwing away the resources of this country and we the citizens have not received any benefit from the actions they have put fourth. Since WWII the inept leadership has consistently shown they cannot “win” any conflicts and we the taxpayer have consistently paid for the shortcomings and received nothing for their effort. The “idea” that they are “defending” this country is a ridiculous thought for they have consistently shown they do not defend the country but continually make war in foreign countries in order to further their ambition to expand the empire which is no benefit to the American (USA) public. The government has consistently thought that the “defense” of the country was to make war in foreign countries like Korea, Viet Nam and other minor skirmishes around the world and the results were that we did not prevail and nothing happened as a result of the defeats and our security was not threatened as a result of those losses. The people of the USA are very patriotic and when the propaganda put fourth by the administration insists that we need to go to war they accept it as gospel and support the loosing effort until they finally determine they have been hoodwinked by the war mongers and then turn against the administration. But they are always ready to be fooled again when they should have known “fool me once, shame on you, but fool me twice, shame on me”.
We need to abandon our bases around the world and mothball them and let the country where they exist maintain them at their expense. We have maintained bases since WWII and there is no benefit for keeping and spending good money after bad in order to maintain and update those facilities. When we start wars in the Middle East we draw on the reserves and the national guard to fight and not the regulars located in these over 700 military bases around the world. Our presence in the Middle East has caused the attacks on our military and on New York City. If we didn’t insist on occupying those lands the Muslims would not have a gripe with our country and have no reason to attack our country.
The military as usual performs well as they are trained but with poor leadership they are not able to prevail in countries fighting with guerilla techniques and complaining about their techniques, breaking the rules of war and torturing prisoners that do not have any information to provide. They are trained to fight a WWII type war against rock throwing, sandal clad, ragheads, people trying to protect their homeland and oust the invaders and it does not work, and again we demonstrate we are a weak country with plenty of resources and shows the world we are a paper tiger and not capable of winning these skirmishes.
This country has spent trillions of dollars on these misadventures and received nothing for it. Other countries around the world have improved their infrastructures and not wasted their resources on frivolous endeavors. The benefit of the USA Empire is nonexistent and cannot be defended in a rational manner so why do we maintain and throw good money after bad in order to maintain the status quo. We are currently spending 550 billion on the military and not counting other matters that are associated with that effort probably close to one trillion dollars and we will receive nothing for the effort. We must borrow money for that effort and that weakens our effort in the world because we are dependent on those countries that loan us money for financing these exercises. When you must seek financing from anyone they set the standards and we must maintain good relations with the lenders.
The countries we are “defending” with military bases in their countries should be told that they can defend themselves and not to depend on the USA to do that job. After that is settled we can concentrate on defending the USA, and spending our resources on the needs of the citizens in this country and reducing the national debt so we are not dependent on foreign nationals for our financial situation. We should spend our foreign aid expeditiously and using USA citizens to achieve those efforts.
In order to be respected in the world we need to have a military that can vigorously defend this country and no country would be willing to try an invasion. We need to have a draft that lasts for 6 months and everyone needs to participate in that effort. After the 6 months that person would go into a reserve unit and the reserve unit would be 20 million troops and the oldest would be phased out in order to maintain the 20 million. The number of troops in the training would be the 18 year olds and after they were 18 ½ they would go into the reserves and stay in that category till they reach the age of leaving the reserves. The military would not need any more troops that those necessary to train the 18-year-old recruits in the four areas of military training with one star general and the necessary infrastructure to operate that training command.
Response to EMMA ABOUT TRIP. OCT 31, 2006
THE TRIP WAS GOOD, I SAW A LOT OF PLACES I ALWAYS WANTED TO VISIT AND I AM GLAD I WENT BUT SOME OF THEM I WOULDN'T GO BACK TO, LIKE EGYPT AND INDIA ALTHOUGH JANET AND I ARE GOING TO VISIT 2 PORTS IN INDIA ON A QE2 AROUND THE WORLD CRUISE IN LATE JANUARY (3 MONTHS). I LIKED SINGAPORE, KATHMANDU, DARWIN, KAULA LIMPUR, MALTA, EASTER ISLAND AND LISBON. EGYPT WAS HECTIC AND THEY NEVER LET YOU ALONE ALWAYS WANTING MONEY OR SELLING SOMETHING,
ROD
FOR ANY ONE THAT WANTS TO HAVE OR MAKE A BLOG YOU CAN PROBABLY GO TO GOOGLE AND WRITE BLOG AND IT WILL TAKE YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO GO.
ANOTHER WAY IS TO GO TO MY BLOG, CALLED A BLOGSPOT AND ENTER IN THE ADDRESS AREA http://rodjanrg.blogspot.com
and you can view my spot or blog. IN THE UPPER RIGHT OF THE FIRST PAGE IS A PLACE TO CLICK ON IF YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR OWN BLOG, COST NOTHING AND WILL BE THERE FOREVER I GUESS.
ROD GALLOWAY
IGNORANT SENATORS
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE A BUNCH OF IGNORANT SENATORS AND AN IGNORANT GENERAL THAT SAYS HE IS IN CHARGE OF THE OPERATIONS IN IRAQ BUT CONFESSES THAT THE INSURGENTS ARE IN CHARGE YOU SHOULD HAVE WATCHED THE SENATE ARMED FORCES COMMITTEE MEETING TODAY ON CSPAN. WE SURE HAVE A BUNCH OF JERKS IN CHARGE OF THE LIVES OF OUR TROOPS IN THE MILITARY!!!
ROD
MY RECOLLECTION OF THE ACCIDENT ON 11-2-2006
My wife and myself was going west on H street towards Ramona street and at that intersection I collided with a bicycle that was driven by a woman that lives on 1857 El Cajon Lane. Her name is Barbara Borhies. H Street terminates at the intersection of Ramona Street. She was traveling south in the northbound bike lane on Ramona Street and I was turning north from H Street on to Ramona Street when the collision occurred. She admitted she saw that I did not stop at the stop sign and she thought she would miss me turning to the right. As I was about half way through the turn when she appeared in my headlights and I immediately turned to the right in an effort to avoid hitting her. My left front fender hit her and knocked her from the bike. Within a few feet I stopped the car next to the curb and got out to help her if I could. By the time I hit her she was in the traffic lane because I hit her with the left front fender, which was not close to the bike lane. The northbound bike lane stopped before it got to H Street.
I had slowed to make the right turn and assure the traffic to my left was clear for an entry into the intersection. As a result of her traveling the wrong way in the bike lane and being night-time 1800 (6:00 PM) it was difficult to see someone coming from the right which you do not expect because all the traffic is going to the right in those lanes. She was probably in the bike lane and when she saw me getting ready to turn she tried to avoid the collision and turned into the traffic lane rather stopping and or staying in the bike lane and the collision would have been avoided. That was when the collision occurred.
I will take some pictures 11-3-2006 in the morning to show the intersection and will attach them to this description of the accident.
The left fog light on the Expedition was broken, no other damage was observed.
ROD GALLOWAY SR.
1340 H STREET
RAMONA, CA 92065
760 789 1333
THE BORHIES PHONE NUMBERS
760 315 5197 CELL
760 788 4804 CELL BUSINESS
ASTRO VIEWER CODE
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CONVERTING THE MILITARY AND TAKING THE MONEY OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT
11-9-2006
THINGS TO DO::::
Strengthen the military by::
The volunteer military has not worked and instead we now have a mercenary military. When you start giving reenlistment bonuses of $40,000 you have a mercenary military and an expensive one.
Starting a draft that all citizens would participate starting at age 18. They stay in the military for 6 months that would include 8 weeks of basic training, 2 months of specialty training in a specific area like the army, navy marines, coast guard or air force. 2 months work in the fields providing food for the military. All work for the military would be done by the military and the pay would be a stipend to cover basic requirements for living in the military.
When the 6 months had elapsed the recruit would go into the inactive reserves for a period of time that would depend on the number of people in the reserves. An attempt to make the military stronger we need a 20 million person military, each year the 18 year olds enter an equal number of the oldest reserves would be discharged.
Assuming in a population of 300 million we have approximately 4 million 18 year olds each year which would mean a 5 year term in the inactive reserves, and a training establishment to train 4 million each year, divided by 12 would be 330,000 each month would go into training. No small task.
The military would be mostly self sufficient and would require some outside support, such as infrastructure, heating, cooling, household items, fertilizers, transportation, water, electricity, sewage, R & D, but would be located in areas not too close to large cities. Hiring outside workers at the prevailing wage could be done by each arm of the military but the hiring must be done by the branch and not sub contracted.
The idea is to take the military to a different level and eliminate the money from the equation as much as possible but to strengthen the military with a large number in order to protect the country from the people that would invade and disrupt the way of life we have established.
TAKE THE MONEY OUT WAR
11-16-2006
Taking the money out of war would stop the warmongers and we will have peace by doing the following:
1. Strengthening the military and protect the homeland by establishing a draft of all 18-year citizens (no exceptions) for a 6-month training period and then put them in an inactive reserve unit that is 20 million strong. The older reservist will be phased out as new 18 year olds enter and maintain the 20 million reserves.
2. Remove all troops from the over 700 foreign bases and mothball those bases and let the foreign countries maintain the facilities.
3. Eliminate the “camp followers” those that leach off the military and let the military maintain itself as was done in the distance past. No subcontracts for work other than for equipment. Direct hiring can do menial jobs; the recruits would produce all food for military consumption.
4. Close and mothball all bases (over 900) within the USA that are not used for training and “protection”.
5. Do not sell or give weapons to foreign nations.
6. The command structure for the military would be one brigadier general and 6 subordinate colonels that control each specialty such as the air force, army, etc. and on down to the recruit in a traditional fashion.
7. Do not occupy foreign lands.
8. TBC…
GOD asked me to write this paper.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"
Subject: Fwd: LATimes: Michael Moore's Pledge
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:27:18 EST
> Subject: LATimes: Michael Moore's Pledge
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Michael Moore's pledge
The liberal filmmaker extends an olive branch to disheartened conservatives.
By Michael Moore
MICHAEL MOORE directed the Oscar-winning documentary "Bowling for Columbine"
and "Fahrenheit 9/11." His next film, "Sicko," will be released this summer.
November 17, 2006
I WOULD LIKE TO extend an olive branch. Those of you who consider yourselves
conservative and usually vote Republican have not had a very good couple of
weeks. Trust me, I know how this feels.
In fact, those of us on the other side of the fence don't really know what
it's like to win, so if we seem a bit awkward right now (were we supposed to
vote for the majority leader the speaker said to vote for, or stick to our
promise to the other guy?), forgive us.
I know you are dismayed at the results of last week's election. You've got to
be freaking out about what this bunch of tree-hugging, latte-sipping,
men-kissing-men advocates will do now that the country is in our hands. I don't blame
you. We'd never admit it, but we secretly admire you because you know how to
chop down a tree, take your coffee black and enjoy watching women kissing
women. Good on you!
What I don't want is for you to drop into the deep funk we liberals have been
in for two-plus decades. Yes, your Republican revolution is over, but hang in
there. And do not despair. I, and the millions who voted for Democrats, have
no interest in revenge for the last 12 years. In fact, let me make 12 promises
as to how we will treat you, the minority, in the coming years.
Thus, here is "A Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives":
1) We will always respect you. We will never, ever, call you "unpatriotic"
simply because you disagree with us. In fact, we encourage you to dissent and
disagree with us.
2) We will let you marry whomever you want (even though some among us
consider your Republican behavior to be "different" or "immoral"). Who you marry is
none of our business. Love, and be in love - it's a wonderful gift.
3) We will not spend your grandchildren's money on our personal whims or to
enrich our friends. It's your checkbook too, and we will balance it for you.
4) When we soon bring our sons and daughters home from Iraq, we will bring
your sons and daughters home too. We promise never to send your kids off to war
based on some amateur Power Point presentation cooked up by men who have never
been to war.
5) When we make America the last Western democracy to have universal health
coverage, and all Americans are able to get help when they fall ill, we promise
that you too will be able to see a doctor, regardless of your ability to pay.
And when stem cell research delivers treatments and cures for diseases that
afflict you and your loved ones, we'll make sure those advances are available
to you and your family too.
6) When we clean up our air and water, you too will be able to breathe the
cleaner air and drink the purer water. When we put an end to global warming, you
will no longer have to think about buying oceanfront property in Yuma.
7) Should a mass murderer ever kill 3,000 people on our soil, we will devote
every single resource to tracking him down and bringing him to justice.
Immediately. We will protect you.
8) We will never stick our nose in your bedroom or your womb. What you do
there as consenting adults is your business. We will continue to count your age
from the moment you were born, not the moment you were conceived.
9) We will not take away your hunting guns. If you need an automatic weapon
or a handgun to kill a bird or a deer, then you really aren't much of a hunter
and you should, perhaps, take up another sport. In the meantime, we will arm
the deer to make it a fairer fight.
10) When we raise the minimum wage, we will raise it for your employees too.
They will use that money to buy more things, which means you will get the
money back! And when women are finally paid what men make, we will pay
conservative women that wage too.
11) We will respect your religious beliefs, even when you don't practice
those beliefs. In fact, we will actively seek to promote your most radical
religious beliefs ("Blessed are the peacemakers," "Love your enemies," "It is easier
for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the
kingdom of God" and "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers
of mine, you did for me"). We will let people in other countries know that God
doesn't just bless America, he blesses everyone. We will discourage religious
intolerance and fanaticism - starting here at home.
12) We will not tolerate politicians who are corrupt and break the law. And
we promise you we will go after the corrupt politicians on our side first. If
we fail to do this, we need you to call us on it. Simply because we are in
power does not give us the right to turn our heads the other way when our party
goes astray. Please perform this important duty as the loyal opposition.
I promise all of the above to you because this is your country too. You are
every bit as American as we are. We are all in this together. We sink or swim
as one. Thank you for your years of service to this country and for giving us
the opportunity to see if we can make things a bit better for our 300 million
fellow Americans - and for the rest of the world.
Now pull yourself together and let's go have a Frappuccino.
SAVING THE DEMOCRACY
11-20-2006
Still the old story of how to get the money out of Washington, suppress the corruption and let the legislatures be representatives of the people rather that the special interest groups, lets do the following:
1. Eliminate all campaign contributions and gifts to the congress, local electors and the presidency.
2. Require all communications via the airways and print media to broadcast or print campaign rhetoric without charge. A number of minutes per candidate per week and all candidates are treated equal regardless of the number.
3. All political parties would be private and would not show on the ballot, only the candidate’s name and his profession.
God asked me to write this paper
MIXING REALITY WITH RELIGION
12-4-2006
When you mix religion with reality you are trying to make real situation out of a supernatural unrealistic situation that may exist only by chance. Such is the making of war and hoping for divine guidance. When G. Bush said he was guided by a higher father than his own natural father he had escaped from reality and was in a never land where no person should ever engage other persons in their fantasies. It is ok to have irrational fantasies within ones self but when you engage others in this irrational fantasy you put those people in harms way and the results is a crap shoot as to the results. This has been proved in the recent past with the debacle in Afghanistan and Iraq where irrational decisions was made and thousands of people and billions of dollars have been squandered and has cost the lives people of those countries and the United States.
Finally when reality shows up and the “hopes” have shown to be false the question arises as what to do??? The person should resort to the initial premise and correct the illogical conclusions and start down a realistic path. Obviously the realistic path would take you to not to peruse the path that was unrealistic and correct the wrong. This is accomplished by removing as soon as possible the troops from the two countries and let them fend for themselves. Stop the useless killing of innocent people based on an illogical conclusion that was based on a “higher authority” that does not exist. This was demonstrated in the recent past in Korea, Vietnam and other skirmishes that only benefit the military/industrial establishment. Our leaders were misguided and the results was thousands of lives lost and billions of resources squandered with nothing accomplished.
MY CHRISTMAS LIST
12-15-2006
1. CD’S BY ANDRES SEGOVIA OR CARLOS MONTOYA (BOTH ARE LONG TIME DEAD)
2. GUITAR MUSIC BY SEGOVIA OR MONTOYA WITH TABULATURE.
3. A MUSIC SKETCH BOOK WITH STAFF AND TABLATURE THAT CAN BE USED FOR WRITING MUSIC.
4. MUSIC WITH TABLATURE BY WILLIE NELSON OR CHET ADKINS.
5. A WHITE, FOLD UP TOP HAT. (23 INCH CIRCUMFERENCE ON HEAD, THAT’S 7 1/4 INCH DIAMETER). YOU KNOW (pD=C).
6. A TIE IT YOURSELF BOW TIE
7. TRAVEL BOOK ON EUROPE, OR ON CD.
8. AN ESSAY BY CHET ON THE RECENT HISTORY (60 YEARS) OF THE USA IMPERALISM AND THE MILITARY TAKEOVER OF THE COUNTRY.
OR WHY THE PUBLIC EMBRACES MAKING WAR.
9. DOO WOP MUSIC ON CD.
CHOPINS “POLONAISES” MUSIC WITH TABLATURE
Don’t WORRY THE SO CALLED "JESUS CHRIST" HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CHRISTMAS!!!!!
ROD
RODJANRG@YAHOO.COM
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 11:08:16 AM
Subject: MAKING MONEY
AFTER GETTING THE BOOK ABOUT FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS FROM THE PUGLIA FAMILY IT OCCURRED TO ME AN OLD IDEA THAT HAS NEVER TOOK HOLD..
1. MAKE A NEW DEAL ABOUT HAMBURGERS, AND START A BUSINESS USING IRRADIATED MEAT.
2. STERILIZE MEAT WITH A LINEAR ACCELERATOR SO IT CAN BE EATEN RARE OR RAW, STORE IT AND ....
3. SELL IT BY STARTING A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT AS A HAMBURGER COOKED AS YOU LIKE IT, (RAW TO RARE AND WELL DONE) NOT WELL DONE AND A PIECE OF LEATHER.
4. STERILIZE OTHER FOODS USING THE SAME METHODS THAT CAUSE ILLNESSES TO THE STOMACH AND KILLS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD.
5. INSERT FLAVORINGS THAT ATTRACT VARIOUS TASTES.
6. MORE IDEAS TO FOLLOW....
7. STOP THINKING MAKING A MILLION AND START THINKING OF MULTIPLE MILLIONS MAYBE EVEN BILLIONS IF YOU WANT A BOAT AND AIRPLANE ALONG WITH CREWS TO MAN THOES TOYS, HOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND SECOND AND THIRD HOMES IN THE STATES.
ROD
GERALD FORD
12-29-2006
Pardoning Dick Nixon was the worst thing he could have done at the time and 60% of the nation thought it was a bad thing to do but someone gave him credit for “healing the nation” which didn’t happen. Then in an interview in 2004 he said that the Iraq war was a bad thing to do but didn’t want it known until after his death did a disservice to the country and the many GI’s that have given their life and limbs in what he thought was a bad war. Well it’s a good thing he died before the war was over so that bit of information could be put fourth. These people that have a large stature in the country can shape the outcome of political decisions. The disservice is to the ones that have sacrificed themselves at the hands of an evil president.
Rod Galloway
1340 H Street
Ramona, ca. 92065
760 789 1333
FOREWORD
MURDER FOR HIRE, LARGE SCALE
General Butler's angry eloquence in 1935 didn't
Slow down the inexorable machine that pushed an
entire planet into war a few years later. And when
that war was "over" (as if it were truly over yet) we
got into another one so fast they hardly had time to
put a new coat of paint on the tanks. That one's not
over yet either, but we did draw a line in the sand,
the mud, and walk away.
The war in Vietnam was actually brewing before
we even went to Korea. The Vietnamese were en-
gaged in trying to kick out the French, and when
the French tried to starve them into surrender in
1945 —locking up a season's rice crop and letting it
rot —Truman ignored Ho Chi Minh's plea for hu-
manitarian aid. Two million Vietnamese died in the
famine, and the Viet Minh started an eight-year war
against the French colonialists. After the Korean
War, we started sending military aid to the French,
and eventually wound up financing 80% of their
war effort.
The French finally gave up the ghost in 1954,
and the treaty that ended their war allowed for a
gradual disengagement, with free elections to take
place two years hence. It wouldn't happen. Uncle
Ho was too popular. Our Joint Chiefs of Staff wrote
that "a settlement based on free elections would be
Smedley Butler on Interventionism
-- Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
Things you have to believe to be a Republican today:
Saddam Hussein was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a
bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy
when Cheney did business with him, and a bad guy when
Bush needed a "We can't find Bin Laden" diversion.
Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is
Communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital
to a spirit of international harmony.
The United States should get out of the United
Nations, and our highest national priority is
enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.
A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own
body, but multi-national corporations can make
decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.
Jesus loves you and shares your hatred of homosexuals
and Hillary Clinton.
The best way to improve military morale is to praise
the troops in speeches while slashing veterans'
benefits and combat pay.
If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't
have sex.
A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our
long-time allies, then demand their cooperation and
money.
Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy.
Providing health care to all Americans is socialism.
HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests
of the public at heart.
Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk
science, but creationism should be taught in schools.
A president lying about an extramarital affair is a
impeachable offense. A president lying to enlist
support for a war in which thousands die is solid
defense policy.
Government should limit itself to the powers named in
the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages
and censoring the Internet.
The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle
trades, but George Bush's driving record is none of
our business.
Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime,
unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an
illness, and you need our prayers for your recovery.
You support states' rights, which means Attorney
General John Ashcroft can tell states what local voter
initiatives they have the right to adopt.
What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital
national interest, but what Bush did in the 1980s is
irrelevant.
Feel free to pass this on. If you don't send it to at
least ten other people, we're likely to be stuck with
Bush for four more years. Friends don't let friends
vote Republican.
marc zicari < >
"It is only with the heart that one sees
rightly."
THE LITTLE PRINCE
WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT??
1-10-2007
You may think there is something to a grand plan by a GOD or an evolution plan that was conceived by DARWIN, not about humans but about animals, but most of these theories have sever shortcomings that cannot explain how it happened. An intelligent design does come close but does not have enough detail to explain any reality. So this will supply the necessary details that will conform to the reality that is necessary to complete the picture of “WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT”. For many years we have been listening to hear transmissions from distant galaxies and from our own to see if there are any intelligent beings out there in space. So far we have found no transmissions and as a result we are not likely to hear any. We look out into the universe but the intelligent beings are right here among us, flying through the air, landing here and there and probably communicating with someone somewhere with a technology that we will probably never be able to conceive. (never say never) Using propulsion systems that are also elusive to our way of thinking. Their technology is in a different realm than what we know about the electro-magnetic spectrum and we will never be able to communicate.
For hundreds of years and probably before man has witnessed extraterrestrials visiting our planet. They are doing an inspection of the experiment they planted thousands of years ago trying to determine how to better the experiment when further planting on other planets. If a real “GOD” had developed the experiment he would have done a better job and not have all the “bad” things that we experience in our everyday life. Evolution has good ideas but not even close to conceiving a creation and how this all could have happened. Evolution is an aspect of life but not the solution to “WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT”.
Today if you were a designer and the project was to design living organisms that would cohabitate a planet the following would be the storyboard or requirements for the design.
1. The first thing to consider would be the environment on the selected planet and how the organisms would survive in that environment.
2. What came first is probably not too important but it did take some time to populate the EARTH with all the organisms that we now have and the remains of what the Earth contained in the early years of conception.
3. Today we know that there is little difference between Man and other living things. So the designer started the design and gave the organism the following abilities that are very similar to the mechanical and electrical inventions that man has developed over the ages.
4. The development of the human was to incorporate a system within an organism that would allow reproduction, memory, and strength to accomplish tasks, and acquire the ability to survive on this planet.
5. The development of lesser organisms was a modification of the higher human but with fewer abilities to survive but necessary for the survival of the higher human model.
6. Similar to the development of systems by humans, which are relatively simple compared to the animals the extraterrestrials were able to develop systems using flesh, proteins, fat, etc, which goes into the makeup of live organisms. This is a concept not visualized by many humans but the makeup is very similar to building electro-mechanical that we experience in our daily life. When the need to design a human in the earth environment the following parts are necessary to accomplish the task.
7. A structure to support the necessary mechanisms, a means of taking on energy to maintain the mechanisms, the major items and the necessary connections for the interrelated connections are the lungs for using the 21% oxygen of the earth environment, the other organs, heart, liver, kidneys, blood, muscle, skin, brain, digestive system for taking on energy and expelling the waste, eyes for visual control, senses for hearing, taste, smell, feeling, other regulators that control the interaction of these parts. Not an easy development when we consider the technology that we know today. These would be the ingredients that an Organism Engineer would use to fabricate a human, an animal, insects, and plants. The development of these functions are similar to our engineering developments and they do have flaws, which show up in reproduction, ageing, disease and abilities to overdo and cause failures within the body. But when you consider from where we come from and how we have developed it is easy to consider other systems within the universe that have the ability to develop human and other organisms that support the human, some good, and some bad. Along with that the ability to distribute these systems throughout the earth along with the plants and probably implanting the energy, coal, oil, gas necessary for improving the lifestyle of the organisms.
8. Consider the different style of humans and the distribution throughout the world and the facts about where some species that are only found in certain locations or and not other locations. When you consider the age old question about which came first the chicken or the egg it is easy to see the chicken came first and then the reproduction system of the chicken produced the egg.
9. In order to realize this concept you must consider the advances doctors and researchers have accomplished during the recent years and then assume a factor of thousand or a million times those advances and you are probably in the realm of making organisms that could survive in a planet within the universe using oxidizers different from oxygen and other environments. Today we are able to create human tissue that a few years ago the thought would have been impossible.
10. The mental capacity and ability given the living inhabitants is also a major factor in the development of the planet. Even giving the capacity to think there is a GOD that controls everything and all generations of humans have developed this unrealistic ability to think and imagine after worlds such as heaven and hell is an amazing accomplishment that enables the human to survive the bad things (provides a crutch) that happen. So go ahead and have your “gods” if it makes you feel better but don’t worry about the afterlife because you don’t have any control of that development. But remember that the biggest scam or fraud that has been perpetrated on the human was religion. Before the missionaries came to the south pacific hey had a religion and gods and after the missionaries they still had a god but the missionaries required them to have buildings to worship the god and even with their meager facilities and resources they built churches but nothing else changed. Today they have churches all over the islands, similar to towns in the USA like Ramona, California where the residences have used their resources to have a church.
11. So when a report of a UFO is transmitted over our media just remember they are the extraterrestrials are just doing inspections, even if you are taken aboard the spacecraft you are just a part of the experiment and an improvement in other planets will be the outcome of the inspections. This experiment is not perfect and many improvements could be made with respect to disease, violence, pests, weather, wars and the ability to annihilate each other.
12. Remember if there was a God he would have done a much better job when making life on earth. The first Juristic era met with a disastrous end and then a new system was born. This is as best as we can determine today from the present day research.
13. These extraterrestrials have a science that is far advanced from what we know today and it may take centuries to achieve without their
14. help.
NEW DEAL FOR THE COUNTRY
10-29-2006
THE TIME IS RIPE FOR A NEW ADMINISTRATION IN WASHINGTON
The Republicans and the Democrats have demonstrated for the last 60 years that they have not lead the country to be successful in their endeavors. They have been essentially throwing away the resources of this country and we the citizens have not received any benefit from the actions they have put fourth. Since WWII the inept leadership has consistently shown they cannot “win” any conflicts and we the taxpayer have consistently paid for the shortcomings and received nothing for their effort. The “idea” that they are “defending” this country is a ridiculous thought for they have consistently shown they do not defend the country but continually make war in foreign countries in order to further their ambition to expand the empire which is no benefit to the American (USA) public. The government has consistently thought that the “defense” of the country was to make war in foreign countries like Korea, Viet Nam and other minor skirmishes around the world and the results were that we did not prevail and nothing happened as a result of the defeats and our security was not threatened as a result of those losses. The people of the USA are very patriotic and when the propaganda put fourth by the administration insists that we need to go to war they accept it as gospel and support the loosing effort until they finally determine they have been hoodwinked by the war mongers and then turn against the administration. But they are always ready to be fooled again when they should have known “fool me once, shame on you, but fool me twice, shame on me”.
We need to abandon our bases around the world and mothball them and let the country where they exist maintain them at their expense. We have maintained bases since WWII and there is no benefit for keeping and spending good money after bad in order to maintain and update those facilities. When we start wars in the Middle East we draw on the reserves and the national guard to fight and not the regulars located in these over 700 military bases around the world. Our presence in the Middle East has caused the attacks on our military and on New York City. If we didn’t insist on occupying those lands the Muslims would not have a gripe with our country and have no reason to attack our country.
The military as usual performs well as they are trained but with poor leadership they are not able to prevail in countries fighting with guerilla techniques and complaining about their techniques, breaking the rules of war and torturing prisoners that do not have any information to provide. They are trained to fight a WWII type war against rock throwing, sandal clad, ragheads, people trying to protect their homeland and oust the invaders and it does not work, and again we demonstrate we are a weak country with plenty of resources and shows the world we are a paper tiger and not capable of winning these skirmishes.
This country has spent trillions of dollars on these misadventures and received nothing for it. Other countries around the world have improved their infrastructures and not wasted their resources on frivolous endeavors. The benefit of the USA Empire is nonexistent and cannot be defended in a rational manner so why do we maintain and throw good money after bad in order to maintain the status quo. We are currently spending 550 billion on the military and not counting other matters that are associated with that effort probably close to one trillion dollars and we will receive nothing for the effort. We must borrow money for that effort and that weakens our effort in the world because we are dependent on those countries that loan us money for financing these exercises. When you must seek financing from anyone they set the standards and we must maintain good relations with the lenders.
The countries we are “defending” with military bases in their countries should be told that they can defend themselves and not to depend on the USA to do that job. After that is settled we can concentrate on defending the USA, and spending our resources on the needs of the citizens in this country and reducing the national debt so we are not dependent on foreign nationals for our financial situation. We should spend our foreign aid expeditiously and using USA citizens to achieve those efforts.
In order to be respected in the world we need to have a military that can vigorously defend this country and no country would be willing to try an invasion. We need to have a draft that lasts for 6 months and everyone needs to participate in that effort. After the 6 months that person would go into a reserve unit and the reserve unit would be 20 million troops and the oldest would be phased out in order to maintain the 20 million. The number of troops in the training would be the 18 year olds and after they were 18 ½ they would go into the reserves and stay in that category till they reach the age of leaving the reserves. The military would not need any more troops that those necessary to train the 18-year-old recruits in the four areas of military training with one star general and the necessary infrastructure to operate that training command.
their techniques, breaking the rules of war and torturing prisoners that do not have any information to provide. They are trained to fight a WWII type war against rock throwing, sandal clad, ragheads, people trying to protect their homeland and oust the invaders and it does not work, and again we demonstrate we are a weak country with plenty of resources and shows the world we are a paper tiger and not capable of winning these skirmishes.
This country has spent trillions of dollars on these misadventures and received nothing for it. Other countries around the world have improved their infrastructures and not wasted their resources on frivolous endeavors. The benefit of the USA Empire is nonexistent and cannot be defended in a rational manner so why do we maintain and throw good money after bad in order to maintain the status quo. We are currently spending 550 billion on the military and not counting other matters that are associated with that effort probably close to one trillion dollars and we will receive nothing for the effort. We must borrow money for that effort and that weakens our effort in the world because we are dependent on those countries that loan us money for financing these exercises. When you must seek financing from anyone they set the standards and we must maintain good relations with the lenders.
The countries we are “defending” with military bases in their countries should be told that they can defend themselves and not to depend on the USA to do that job. After that is settled we can concentrate on defending the USA, and spending our resources on the needs of the citizens in this country and reducing the national debt so we are not dependent on foreign nationals for our financial situation. We should spend our foreign aid expeditiously and using USA citizens to achieve those efforts.
In order to be respected in the world we need to have a military that can vigorously defend this country and no country would be willing to try an invasion. We need to have a draft that lasts for 6 months and everyone needs to participate in that effort. After the 6 months that person would go into a reserve unit and the reserve unit would be 20 million troops and the oldest would be phased out in order to maintain the 20 million. The number of troops in the training would be the 18 year olds and after they were 18 ½ they would go into the reserves and stay in that category till they reach the age of leaving the reserves. The military would not need any more troops that those necessary to train the 18-year-old recruits in the four areas of military training with one star general and the necessary infrastructure to operate that training command.
WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT??
1-10-2007
You may think there is something to a grand plan by a GOD or an evolution plan that was conceived by DARWIN, not about humans but about animals, but most of these theories have sever shortcomings that cannot explain how it happened. An intelligent design does come close but does not have enough detail to explain any reality. So this will supply the necessary details that will conform to the reality that is necessary to complete the picture of “WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT”. For many years we have been listening to hear transmissions from distant galaxies and from our own to see if there are any intelligent beings out there in space. So far we have found no transmissions and as a result we are not likely to hear any. We look out into the universe but the intelligent beings are right here among us, flying through the air, landing here and there and probably communicating with someone somewhere with a technology that we will probably never be able to conceive. (never say never) Using propulsion systems that are also elusive to our way of thinking. Their technology is in a different realm than what we know about the electro-magnetic spectrum and we will never be able to communicate.
For hundreds of years and probably before man has witnessed extraterrestrials visiting our planet. They are doing an inspection of the experiment they planted thousands of years ago trying to determine how to better the experiment when further planting on other planets. If a real “GOD” had developed the experiment he would have done a better job and not have all the “bad” things that we experience in our everyday life. Evolution has good ideas but not even close to conceiving a creation and how this all could have happened. Evolution is an aspect of life but not the solution to “WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT”.
Today if you were a designer and the project was to design living organisms that would cohabitate a planet the following would be the storyboard or requirements for the design.
1. The first thing to consider would be the environment on the selected planet and how the organisms would survive in that environment.
2. What came first is probably not too important but it did take some time to populate the EARTH with all the organisms that we now have and the remains of what the Earth contained in the early years of conception.
3. Today we know that there is little difference between Man and other living things. So the designer started the design and gave the organism the following abilities that are very similar to the mechanical and electrical inventions that man has developed over the ages.
4. The development of the human was to incorporate a system within an organism that would allow reproduction, memory, and strength to accomplish tasks, and acquire the ability to survive on this planet.
5. The development of lesser organisms was a modification of the higher human but with fewer abilities to survive but necessary for the survival of the higher human model.
6. Similar to the development of systems by humans, which are relatively simple compared to the animals the extraterrestrials were able to develop systems using flesh, proteins, fat, etc, which goes into the makeup of live organisms. This is a concept not visualized by many humans but the makeup is very similar to building electro-mechanical that we experience in our daily life. When the need to design a human in the earth environment the following parts are necessary to accomplish the task.
7. A structure to support the necessary mechanisms, a means of taking on energy to maintain the mechanisms, the major items and the necessary connections for the interrelated connections are the lungs for using the 21% oxygen of the earth environment, the other organs, heart, liver, kidneys, blood, muscle, skin, brain, digestive system for taking on energy and expelling the waste, eyes for visual control, senses for hearing, taste, smell, feeling, other regulators that control the interaction of these parts. Not an easy development when we consider the technology that we know today. These would be the ingredients that an Organism Engineer would use to fabricate a human, an animal, insects, and plants. The development of these functions are similar to our engineering developments and they do have flaws, which show up in reproduction, ageing, disease and abilities to overdo and cause failures within the body. But when you consider from where we come from and how we have developed it is easy to consider other systems within the universe that have the ability to develop human and other organisms that support the human, some good, and some bad. Along with that the ability to distribute these systems throughout the earth along with the plants and probably implanting the energy, coal, oil, gas necessary for improving the lifestyle of the organisms.
8. Consider the different style of humans and the distribution throughout the world and the facts about where some species that are only found in certain locations or and not other locations. When you consider the age old question about which came first the chicken or the egg it is easy to see the chicken came first and then the reproduction system of the chicken produced the egg.
9. In order to realize this concept you must consider the advances doctors and researchers have accomplished during the recent years and then assume a factor of thousand or a million times those advances and you are probably in the realm of making organisms that could survive in a planet within the universe using oxidizers different from oxygen and other environments. Today we are able to create human tissue that a few years ago the thought would have been impossible.
10. The mental capacity and ability given the living inhabitants is also a major factor in the development of the planet. Even giving the capacity to think there is a GOD that controls everything and all generations of humans have developed this unrealistic ability to think and imagine after worlds such as heaven and hell is an amazing accomplishment that enables the human to survive the bad things (provides a crutch) that happen. So go ahead and have your “gods” if it makes you feel better but don’t worry about the afterlife because you don’t have any control of that development. But remember that the biggest scam or fraud that has been perpetrated on the human was religion. Before the missionaries came to the south pacific hey had a religion and gods and after the missionaries they still had a god but the missionaries required them to have buildings to worship the god and even with their meager facilities and resources they built churches but nothing else changed. Today they have churches all over the islands, similar to towns in the USA like Ramona, California where the residences have used their resources to have a church.
11. So when a report of a UFO is transmitted over our media just remember they are the extraterrestrials are just doing inspections, even if you are taken aboard the spacecraft you are just a part of the experiment and an improvement in other planets will be the outcome of the inspections. This experiment is not perfect and many improvements could be made with respect to disease, violence, pests, weather, wars and the ability to annihilate each other.
12. Remember if there was a God he would have done a much better job when making life on earth. The first Juristic era met with a disastrous end and then a new system was born. This is as best as we can determine today from the present day research.
13. These extraterrestrials have a science that is far advanced from what we know today and it may take centuries to achieve without their
14. help.
THE REASON FOR WAR
GEORGE BUSH THE MOVIE
1-27-2007
CHAPTERS
1. Growing up with a government bureaucrat
2. Living in Texas
3. Becoming a drunk and a druggie
4. Getting married and the abuse of family
5. Avoiding the war in Viet Nam and getting in the National Guard with the help of fathers pull
6. Running for office and losing
7. Running for office after becoming a Christian
8. Getting advice from smart politicians
9. Winning elections for small offices
10. Getting elected to the governor of Texas
11. Running for president and covering up his past
12. Getting elected and finding out who runs the government
13. Getting help with his speech and presentation to the public
14. Terrorist attacks, showing why the attacks took place, using the CIA to implement the attacks that would propel us into a war that supported bases in the Middle East and help for Israel. Show that the Muslims do not want the western influence in their lands and that the presence of U.S. troops represents an invasion of their land. When we place troops in the Muslim countries the only way they have to fight back is to use terrorist tactics and when we invade a Middle Eastern country the whole world of volunteer Muslims are willing to come to that country and fight the Americans and throw them out of the region. Show the bad intelligence was made up to support the end result. Show the camp followers costing the government large sums of dollars and how they cook the books and get more than they have contracted for by just changing the bottom line and adding a few million each time the billing is sent to the contracting office and how the VP supports the escalating cost and pays whatever the billing.
15. Maintaining the war for the military/industrial establishment, using terms that will have a perpetual war and the defense budgets can rise exponentially. Show that they do not care because they do not have to pay for the war and the next generation will have to pay.
16. Show the Iraq war was a mistake and a fabrication, show the execution of Sadam.
17. Show the exodus from Iraq and Afghanistan and the reduction of military spending and a peaceful USA. Doing humanitarian things around the world.
18. Show the missteps that lead to the arrest and conviction of the president and his party in a foreign country and the war crimes trials.
19. Show the war criminal trials against the leadership and the removal from office. Show how the political parties were at fault in the past and how the world would be without them.
20. Show how peaceful the world would become as a result of the peace.
21. End
FIRST CHAPTER
A. Growing up with a bureaucrat father
Life is tedious with a governmental father living in various places around the world, going to different schools frequently, makes for a poor education and that is what g.b. experienced during his early years. He wanted something different, more exciting and stability, but as a result of the constant moving he learned how to pass tests by cheating and learn about more excitable things and not learn the important parts of an education and why did he need to with a influential father he did not need to be able to shift for himself. After he got older he experienced some of the vices such as smoking and occasionally an introduction to some of the popular drugs of the day and loose women. These things he found more inspirational than education and he found that lacking, especially in his later years.
When he became of age he found himself facing the draft for the Viet Nam war and he didn’t want to have to endure those hard times in the military that was noted for giving recruits a hard time and told his father he wanted to avoid the draft and join the National Guard where he could stay in the states and have a good time. He had tried to join the National Guard but was turned away because they had filled their quotas with people that could influence the recruiters, so he went to his father and told him the situation after which the father said he would be able to talk to someone and get him in to be trained as a pilot. That would be an exciting thing to do and he would get away from home and he could have the carefree life that he liked.
The military in the states was good for George and he could have a good time with his drinking and all the pretty girls to have as companions. George was a handsome guy and the women were attracted to him, which was a mutually agreeable situation.
Chapter 2
Return to Texas and the next stage of life.
Texas did not provide the resources that allowed George to live the lifestyle he had become accustom to in the military so his father a former ambassador suggested he run for political office so he tried running for mayor of the small town and failed at a number elections to political offices. His father and brother were elected to the presidency and the brother became the governor of Florida. He had asked his father what was wrong with his attempts at political office so the president’s advisor went to Texas and survied the situation.
His conclusion was that George should get married and become a Christian because he was living in the bible belt and all politicians in that area were active church members and they attracted those voters. He had been going to the library and was interested in the virgin librarian so he started going to the same church in an effort to add the virgin to his sexual accomplishments. She was adamant about the fact that he had not been baptized and she wanted to get married before she allowed him to have relationship with her. This was the situation that he needed to become a politician and he agreed to the requirements even though he was not a believer he was going to do whatever he had to do to get elected and it worked. He was elected mayor and to the senate in the Texas legislature and finally became governor. Always running on the platform of a good-looking guy, happily married and a religious conservative born again Christian, which was an important factor with the local population.
He was easily influenced and the Republican Party had a firm control over him. He was very popular in Texas and did what he was told.
After his father was defeated by a Democrat and 8 years later the elections were coming up for president and he was tapped by the party to run. After many successful primaries he was selected in the Republican convention to run for president. His fathers close political advisors were in charge of getting him elected when they discovered his education did not allow him to speak wisely and they had to tutor him in speaking and how to present himself to the public. He was criticized by many about his poor use of the language. People wrote books about his misstatements and it turned out as a somewhat benefit for many that thought he was more like them because of his Texas drawl and he could act as illiterate as the next guy, and he appealed to that segment of the population along with the Evangelical Christians. He was elected by a small majority of electoral votes and he was sworn in as the 3x president of the USA.
Chapter 3
The president of the USA
As soon as the election was over he was indoctrinated about how the president was to react to the congress and to the military/industrial complex and the judicial branch.
The indoctrination started after a few weeks in office the military and congress informed the president that the way Washington works was as the military/industrial establishment wanted. He was told that presidents come and go but the military and the industrial community along with the Congress was a permanent body in the government. His father the diplomat also cautioned him that that was the way the office was to be conducted. He could have some pet projects that he could promote as long as they didn’t interfere with the military requirements. He could promote conservative judges, oppose abortion, gay marriages, prayer in schools, things that the electorate wanted but were trivial items in order to appease the Christian lobbyist he could work those aspects but when the military had needs they would be met. It was also important that his speechwriters were advised by the military and it was important for him to do what was necessary to satisfy the military. The military was in the doldrums and did not have a real war since the Viet Nam war and it was time to start a new war for the benefit of the military.
At first he rejected these ideas but was told that it was dangerous for himself and his family to not abide with the advice. His father in confidence told him of another president that refused to go along with the military and he was assassinated.
This was a mind-boggling assignment and he constantly needed coaching as to what to do and what to say and how to say and react to criticism. He would find he was the puppet and he did react favorable to the people pulling the strings. Even his father was influential as to what he wanted him to accomplish. In foreign affairs his father was in favor of invading Iraq because he was severely criticized for not taking out Sadam during the gulf war, and they had decided that the Muslims were infuriated about the fact that the military had invaded the lands of the Muslim and they did not like the western influence. They retaliated by using terrorist tactics and were actively bombing U.S. facilities. The ruler of Iraq had threatened to kill his father and the father was out to revenge that attack.
When a few terrorist bombed a military base in the U.S.A. that was the opportunity to act and start a war. So they decided that Iraq would be the target and the CIA shaped the intelligence to show that Iraq was responsible and the propaganda was started to convince the public that Iraq was the enemy and a threat to the liberty of the population. The propaganda was and is very effective and soon the lie was a reality and the troops were amassed for the invasion.
Osama Bin Laden was the driving force in the Muslim community for trying to get the westerners out of the Middle East and stop supporting the Israelis, because they didn’t want the western influence in the Muslim world, which was contradictory to the U.S.A. goals of global domination. For years the U.S.A. had almost secretly placed military bases throughout he world and as a result established a U.S.A. foothold in the foreign nations. The government had established bases in 200 foreign countries and was attempting to take over the Middle East in order to protect Israel and further the U.S.A. presence in the world, which was another factor in driving the president and foreign relations.
After a number of minor attacks by the Muslims, a “major attack” was in the city of “Austin Texas” by a large truck bomb and it was traced to the Muslims. That was all that was needed to put fourth an attack on Bin Laden so the Marines and Army invaded Afghanistan but they did not know where Bin Laden was but the attack was to find and kill him. The invasion was successful and the Talaban was driven into the hills where they started guerilla warfare against the invaders but it seemed the attack was successful. But they never found Bin Laden and the Guerilla war went on in Afghanistan and finally the Americans were thrown out. With the encouragement of the military and his father they then invaded Iraq. While the war in Afghanistan was winding down the Iraq war was started. The Iraq war was at the encouragement of his father and the military. In order to gain public support the intelligence was fabricated to show the dictator in Iraq was using WMD’s and he was a brutal dictator and had to be removed. It seemed to be a successful invasion but the Iraqis had regrouped and started a guerrilla warfare and the war took on a different atmosphere and not an easy fight with a WW2 force the new war dragged on for years and finally the troops had to be withdrawn after thousands of GI’s lost their lives and were maimed by the guerrilla attacks.
The guerilla attacks was supported by neighboring countries and drew on the Muslim men that supported Bin Laden in his fight to throw the Americans out of the Muslim countries. So thousands of volunteers showed up to fight the Americans.
Chapter 4
After flying to Moscow and then flying back they had engine trouble and had to land in the Netherlands. The officials of the war crimes tribunal learned of the aircraft problem and after the plane landed they arrested all passengers and they were held for a trial for war crimes about Iraq. The accomplishes were the Vice President and the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State.
All in the party were tried for war crimes and convicted. The leader of the senate, the opposition party became president and the election of people changed from every four years to every month using electronic means that allowed more people to vote and bringing the government closer to the people to assure that the elected officials do not act as dictators. The sentence was life in prison for the arrested entourage. The scene changes to the Congress and where the politicians determine that it is best to withdraw troops from all foreign lands and start doing peaceful things like, humanitarian, improving the infrastructure along with things that would benefit the country and the world. Finding that approach caused more dictatorships to become democratic and doing it without killing people and destroying cities and nations.
ROD
JERRY FALWELL A PERFECT AXXHXXX
5-15-2007
Yesterday was a great day and should go down as a victory for the human race; remember 5-15-2007 as the day you were liberated from the scourge of Falwell.
Jerry Falwell did do the right thing and bow out of his hideous life. Almost never has someone person done so much to harm the human race as has Jerry A--H--- Falwell. His so called Judo-Christian religious efforts (THE OXI-MORON MORAL MAJORITY) has created more bad laws and has put women in a defensive position probably more than the Taliban or Al QuEida and has risen to the heights as the worst home grown terrorist in the USA. He was a large part of the warmongers that have caused all the deaths and maiming in the Middle East, of course our own GI’s and the Iraqi people. All caused by his irrational thinking and convincing millions to follow his misspent advice, even the politicians that run this corrupt country. He is even more of a terrorist than G. Bush crime family and ranks right up there with Adoff Hitler and the axis of WWII. The REAL Christians should applaud his passing and try and recover from all the violence he has caused and try and live the Christian life. Some others that are right up there with him are also asked to leave this earth after all the damage they have done, (700 club) and others.
He demonstrated what his so-called GOD thought of him when he prayed for 20 more years of life so he could spread more hate and discontent, didn’t work.
And tomorrow I will tell you what I really think,JJ.
CONNIE FRANKOWIAK
14925 GR. S. OVERLAND
JULIAN, CA. 92036
Dear Connnie,
I have been reading your letters and I have been unable to respond because we have been on an extended vacation, going around the world on the Queen Elisibeth 2 ship. I took 3 months. We are home now for a while. I was glad to see your monthly writings and today the NCT had a letter to the editor. We are having weekly meetings of the Ramona Forum on Wednesday nights at the Cheers Bar on the west side of Ramona about 6 o’clock. (I think) keep the writing coming.
Sincerely and best wishes
Rod Galloway
RAMONA FORUM UPDATE
Update 5-22-2007
Well the Democrats have blinked and they are not going to leave Iraq during our lifetime, so we need to start a new effort to dismantle the military and impose the draft and bring all overseas troops home. Look at www.globalsecurity.org/mlitaryfacility/iraq.htm. They probably have a few hundred bases in Iraq and they are not going to leave.
They have over 800 bases on foreign soil and they are increasing the American empire a little at a time in hopes of conquering the world. By 2020 the entitlements will consume the income from the taxpayer and the people that loan us money (China, Japan etc.) will stop the lending and the country will go to pot.
ROD
SEE YOU WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT CHEERS..
ROD
THE FUTURE OF IRAQ
6-13-2007
The future of our endeavors in Iraq are looking more rosy each day and all we have to do is just pump more money and personnel into the fight and the effort will only last for another 10-15 years. In Iraq we have established 108 “camps”, 68 “forward operating bases” and 51 “other nomenclature” facilities. The “embassy” that has 140 acres and 20 + buildings will be called the District of Columbia (DC) will be completed shortly. The Al QaEda have killed and maimed more Americans and associates than they could have ever hoped for in terrorist attacks and caused us to spend billions under the “guise” of do nothing “homeland security” while they spend little or nothing. If everything goes as bad
as it has in the past we will have established the Divided States of Iraq (DSI), with the capital located within DC. The country will be run indirectly from Washington as it has been for the last 5 years. After 15 years we will only have an estimated 20,000 dead and 200,000 maimed USA citizens with few Iraqis (300,000 dead and maimed) left within the borders after most have been killed or left the country and are being assimilated within the USA. The requirements for president will be a citizen of the USA.
WHEN AND WHERE DID THE USA EVER LEAVE A COUNTRY THEY INVADED UNLESS THEY WERE KICKED OUT BY THE HOST COUNTRY??
OUR FREEDOM HAS NEVER BEEN IN JEOPARDY, YES WE HAVE BEEN ATTACKED BUT FOLLOWING THAT WE BECAME THE AGRESSOR. I CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN WE ACTUALLY DEFENDED THE COUNTRY AGAINST AN AGRESSOR.
YES THE BRITISH!!
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7-19-2007
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ROD
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ELDER CARE 7-19-2007 FOR LELIA GAMPFER
ELDER CARE LEGALS
7-19-2007
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SINCE 911 AND SICKO
7-23-2007
Another hit by Michael Moore and we have a common reaction by some of the community, especially the people that didn’t see the movies. The ones that didn’t see the movie and didn’t like it are part of the group that think GWB is doing a good job sacrificing the young military and spending the countries resources on a failed effort to establish a legacy for himself. Long ago he was declared the worst president ever and he keeps getting worsened. The warmongers have most to gain from the blood of our military and putting the country into bankruptcies. They get payback and kickback from the illegal efforts in the Middle East and the health care system within the USA. They are the congress, military (their business is making war) and the civilians that are composed of military contractors including the camp followers that wipe the behind of the troops. It wasn’t long ago that the military didn’t need anyone to wipe there behind, they did it themselves, but when they found out they could get someone else to do the dirty jobs they jumped at the chance. What that meant was a civilian contractor could do the job for 4 to10 times what they used to pay a private and the contractor could contribute to the government elections as a kickback and everyone was happy. With the size of the military, close to 2000 bases and approximately 2.5 million personal around the world and another 2 million camp followers the expense gets BIG. The 30% that like the situation are the contractors, military, Congress, president, pharmacology, AMA, and a lot of others that benefit from the blood of our troops. But why do the ones that didn’t like the movies support the government. They don’t have anything to gain and must be a handful of people. The taxpayer shouldn’t like and will elect a new administration in 2008. That illogical, irrational behavior is hard to realize why they take a position of opposition to the realities of life.
THE PRESIDENTS HIGHER AUTHORITY
7-24-2007
Who would believe the president when after all these years he hasn’t been right about anything. As a prophet he has never been right. When he said “he was guided by a higher authority” he was just dreaming and the result was his “higher authority” had no credibility. Just as all “gods” have no credibility and to depend on them for good happenings is foolhardy. After all these years of one excuse after another he has one of the worst ratings of all the presidents and will go down as the worst president he still persist as a dictator, independent of the public wants and needs. Letting the “war” drag on just as LBJ did in the Viet Nam war that netted us nothing except a large debt and thousands of lives.
The country is being run by a group of warmongers that for some reason think we need to invade and/or occupy the world. World domination is the goal by invasion or buying in and the public keeps accepting these ridiculous ideas, when the only ones that benefit are the “military/industrial establishment” that Eisenhower warned us about. The people that follow these wrong headed people and vote for wars have no respect for the countries resources or the young military man/woman that are willing to sacrifice their lives with almost a hidden “death wish” to “defend” the country when the last time we had to defend the country was against the British. Invading other countries has become a patriotic thing to do when ill directed persons running the country want a war in their legacy. We have over 2000 military bases around the world. We continue to threaten other countries when we can’t occupy a little country like Iraq or Afghanistan. The end result a paper tiger.
Rod Galloway
MIKE SMITH
7-31-2007
To whom it may concern:
I have known Mike Smith and his family for many years and I visited him at Donavan a few years ago. After listening to the events that took place and he was convicted of I think it is time to consider a parole as the best choice for Mike and the Justice system. After almost 20 years it seems clear that he has amended his thinking and would become a good citizen.
His crime was he became a victim of circumstances and a “dammed if I do and dammed if I don’t” situation or a catch 22 or a self-defense situation. When an associate tells you that you terminate two lives or I will terminate yours does not leave you with many options. That was the case with the associate having already shot the victims and they would probably not have survived the shooting ordering Mike to “finish” them off with a knife.
A parole is in order.
Sincerely
Rodney Galloway
THE PERFECT WAR
8-2-2007
TO BE COMPLETED
THE PERFECT TERRORIST ATTACK
8-2-2007
Still a topic with the government the 911 attack in New York and they don’t want us to forget it soon. You have to hand it to the handful, approximately 18 men that staged that attack they were so lucky to take down those towers, never in their wildest dreams could they have envisioned such a result. The only reason that they succeeded was because an inept government allowed them to accomplish the task. The Israeli government years ago had thwarted an attack like the 911 attacks. The previous attacks by the Bin Laden groups were small, hardly worth talking about unless you were a victim but this was something that the government could take advantage of and create bureaucracies, increase the military budget, limit the freedoms of the people and invade other countries and increase the empire, kill thousands of people including the maiming and killing of thousands of our own people, more than the terrorist could have imagined in another attack. After the so called “cold war” the military didn’t have an enemy and had difficulty in justifying their existence, but they provoked the Muslims by establishing bases in the Middle East and supporting Israel, embolden Bin Laden and he took a handful of supporters and has provided the military with an elusive “enemy” that has provided the “perfect war”, a war without end because no one could tell when it would end.
REGISTRATION FOR A PRIMARY ELECTION
8-6-2007
The registration for a political party is very easy and you can change as often as you wish. When a person is running in a primary election and you wish to vote for that person all you have to do is change your registration to the party that has the candidate you wish to vote for and then vote for that candidate. The major corrupt political parties think that once a person is registered in that party they have a hold on the person. When registered as an independent you have few candidates to vote for and probably none of which you wish to vote for. So change your registration as you see fit and vote for a candidate you like. The corrupt political parties will have to make a new law taking away more of your freedoms to prevent you from voicing your choices.
TSA’S NEW DIRECTION
8-6-2007
As predictable the TSA has completed another knee jerk reaction to some “supposed” terrorist using liquid explosives. Not surprising they have put down another attempt to down another aircraft. But really they are so infantile in their thinking but just enough to scare the little old lady into thinking they are protection her from an attack. Reality shows there are hundreds of ways to get around the inspections but after you have saturated the country with threats why would the terrorist need to even try and down another plane, the USA government has succeeded in propagating the terrorist idea and instilling fear within the public that they need to do nothing. What really counts with the government is that they keep people worried about terrorism and they can continue to spread fear within the population.
GEORGE USED THE WRONG GOD 9-14-2007
George Bush used the wrong god to use when he made a decision to go to war.
9-14-2007 I WROTE THIS SOME TIME AGO BUT DID NOT PUT IN A DATE
Trying to understand how a simpleton can use religion to make decisions that affect millions is not an easy task.
When you use a “god” or a nonexistent supernatural entirety to make decisions is a pathway for disaster. When you disregard history and listen to people that have an agenda that is contrary to the best use of funds and only feathers their nest, the accomplishment will just prove that their nests will be feathered.
Thinking that a “god” can direct an operation means that the operation will fail when science and intellect is not used to make decisions. The use of a “god” is an acceptable use for an individual for it can only affect just a few people, like Timothy McVey and the 911 bombers that killed 3000 but when you use the wrong decisions like “god” told me to do it in order to retaliate it can affect tens of thousands as was done in Afganistan and Iraq. The use of a “god” is a personal matter and should never be used to encompass others that are not a part of your god and that is always the case because the gods only exist in the mind of the individual person. For that reason the church should never get to be part of the government. And that is the main reason to have a separation of the church and state. When the state enters into religion chaos will result as has been demonstrated over the years by the many wars that originate by religion. The Muslims and Christians have demonstrated this premise over the years and they have killed millions over the years.
A LETTER TO D.HUTER JR.
9-14-2007
To Duncan Hunter Jr.
I was surprised to hear you were running for the congressional seat your father has held in this gerrymandered district for so long. Riding the coat tails of a father is an experience most people could only imagine. Especially one that has been involved with the biggest blunder in the history of this country. I would think after your short experience with the military and the invasion of a sovereign country, hanging the leaders, destroying the infrastructure, killing and maiming large numbers of the population, murdering and raping the local people, getting your comrades killed and maimed in numbers that the terrorist could only have hoped for, you would have second thoughts about supporting a government that lied to the public to promote the “war” and taking money from the warmongers that live off of the blood of your fellow comrades. I suppose you would have to take money from the warmongers in order to finance a political campaign and win. When we are at “peace” the military can just cool its heals and wait for retirement, lofty goals, that many have enjoyed over the years, producing nothing and doing nothing that would improve mankind’s life on earth but not destroying anything and not even leaving a footprint. So I suggest staying in the military and hope for a peaceful retirement on the dole.
ILLEGAL ALEINS
9-10-2007
You may think the problem with illegal aliens is because the government does not enforce the bad laws they make which they don’t, or because we don’t have a fence around the country that is impenetrable (thousands of miles). The fence is an impossible task and has not worked in any country. The real reason for illegal aliens entering the country is because of our education system. When you educate the masses properly they are prepared for good jobs that does not involve stoop labor. How many people do we educate to do stoop labor? As a witness to this process a boy growing up on a farm that requires stoop labor will soon learn that if he excels in school he can get a job paying good wages that does not involve stoop labor. As we educate our children we don’t have them prepare for a stoop labor job but something that would be as good as the parents have experienced. As a result there will be a gradient between the best student and the worst, they will take the jobs within that bound and the most successful will end up at the top of the earnings tree and the worst will end up at the bottom, generally speaking with lots of exceptions. The stoop labor jobs will not be filled by the U.S.A. educated students but by the uneducated that can only do that work. The city-state of Singapore’s education system is so good that a cab driver told me with a law degree he was qualified to drive a cab. They import all of the stoop labor jobs, as do many other countries.
If you make bad law, which is an everyday occurrence in this country, you will suffer the consequences, by not allowing for the education factor and having to imprison the illegal, and cause discontent within the country, you cause a tax on the public and the illegal cannot be contained in order to do the work the country needs done.
Rodney Galloway
WHAT IF THE WORLD DIDN’T HAVE RELIGION??
6-26-2007
Can you imagine what kind of a world it would be if we didn’t have religion?? We would grow up only knowing a realistic world, not the fantasy world religion puts us in soon after birth. Shortly after birth we learn to say prayers to an unknown “god”, blessing friends and relatives and asking for all the good things to be delivered for free. Realizing the good things are really delivered by the fictitious persons like the tooth fairy, the Easter bunny, Santa Clause, and others in different religions than Christianity. When in trouble asking for good results, when the results are solely dependent on your own efforts and others in the real world.
Without religion it would be difficult to tell the difference between people. We wouldn’t have church leaders with funny clothing and strange hats or the huge and expensive churches. You could just go anywhere and meditate. I wonder if we would fight wars based on the appearance of others? We could still discriminate about people of color the way today’s childish thinkers does today but just in a social way.
The taxes on people of religion are great when they have to support both religion and government. My taxes for government is considerably less than the 10% expected for religion and a lot of the government taxes is used to fight wars that are concerned about religion. I don’t know why the religions need so much money but some churches have large lawsuits. Without religion that overhead would be eliminated and that money could go to improve your situation.
When you live in a fantasy world facing reality is difficult to accept and other means are used such as mind-altering drugs and religion to face the realities of life.
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