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Friday, May 25, 2007

the captain lied

This is actually VERY cool. Rufus Wainright is doing the Leo Cohen song "Everybody Knows" .. but beforehand he does a little interview which segues back and forth between he and Mr. Cohen. Most incredible. I've posted the song before with all the mason stuff it includes but this is just rufus .... it's pretty cool. Leonard is 'grateful' for the Waintrights bringing his work to life. Well, heck, me TOO. But, I think it was well on it's way, eh?
I like to see appreciation among artists. Sometimes the result is not something I would generally listen to but, in this case it was worth showing it around.





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... located in the midtown desired redevelopment center just one block from the river.


They need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.
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Chalk for Peace and support John Edwards TOO.







Here's a great and SOOO easy thing to do. Everyone loves to draw. Or chalk. Or get messy.

Or convene. Or watch ME convene. LOL, yeah you know you do.

Or something that will get them to participate. Find what they love and hand em some chalk and get em on their knees helping...............

At the same time, you can support John Edwards in his call to make this Memorial Day count for all the men and women who serve our country and help bring our troops home from this illegal war.


It's probably illegal in a few places so check ahead. But, it's NOT illegal on your own house. Or your own walkways..... (hint hint)




LOL, George !!!




Take that.

The little people aren't just gonna lie down for you.


What do we want? Peace.



When do we want it?



NOW !


And, some inimitable Molly to keep us cheered on this slightly darker than others day.




Global Peace Day by my fave country: (in memory of theo van gogh)




AND a LIVING PEACE SIGN !! Isn't this beautiful?










It starts here .. but you have to follow it along for the best laugh. LOL. Thanks sinfonian .... (and racy, et. al.) Total day-trip.


Otherwise known as the BCA Bowl brought to you by ..... well, ummm FL. No Texas ... No ... CA...... no .....

Though I heard some rumor that CA wants in or feel they deserve some ..... infamy. Get it on, baby. The web's wide open for nuttiness.


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Headlights to Impeach
Memorial Day 2007 is the one-year anniversary of the Headlights to Impeach Movement. Turn them ON. PlEaSe !
Help a country out here. Also, click the link to sign the petition. Takes three seconds.


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Brought to you LIVE from THE TAMPA NAIL HOUSE ... : Proud members of the drive-by media (just like Thomas Paine, father of America)

... located in the midtown desired redevelopment center just one block from the river.


They need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.
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Next stop: West Point - Turn up the Heat

Bush confronted by antiwar protesters in New London, CT

Congratulations to everyone in cities and towns throughout Connecticut, New England and the Mid-Atlantic who mobilized for the May 23 Protest Bush Rally in New London, Connecticut. Together, we made it an incredible success! Without your help it could not have been done.
As the New Haven Register and many other news outlets reported, 1,000 antiwar demonstrators gathered at the main gate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to protest the visit of George W. Bush and demand an immediate end to the U.S. war in Iraq. CBS television news reported that the antiwar rally was the largest demonstration in New London, CT in over twenty years.
People came by van and car caravan from Hartford, New Haven, New York City, Willimantic, Mystic, Boston, Cape Cod, Westerly, RI, New Paltz, NY, Portland, ME, and many other cities and towns.
The large turnout of the demonstration was particularly impressive given the fact that the demonstration happened at 9:00 am on a weekday.
It was initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition. A wide array of social justice and veterans organizations co-sponsored and mobilized. The rally was co-chaired by Eugene Puryear, Coordinator of Youth & Student A.N.S.W.E.R. and student at Howard University, and Tahnee Stair, Coordinator of A.N.S.W.E.R. - Connecticut.
Veterans and families speak out
The event was noteworthy for the involvement of many veterans, families of soldiers and marines, and active duty military personnel who came to speak out. Speakers included Carlos and Melida Arredondo, whose son Alex was killed in Iraq in 2004; Elliot Adams, President of Veterans for Peace; Ted Goodnight, an Afghanistan War Veteran who served from 2003 to 2004; and Priscilla Lounds, Army veteran and New London activist with the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition.
Students and faculty attended from Connecticut College, University of Connecticut, Central Connecticut State University, Eastern CSU, Western CSU, Southern CSU, Wesleyan University, Yale University, Northern Virginia Community College, Columbia University, Howard University and elsewhere. A contingent of high school students from The Williams School, located across the street from the USCGA, also attended.
In the weeks and days leading up to the demonstration, on the day of and afterward, the demonstration was covered by a many media outlets, including The New Haven Register, The New London Day, The Hartford Courant, The Norwich Bulletin, The Pacifica Network, NPR, The Connecticut Post, New England CBS and ABC television news broadcasts, and more.
The Protest Bush Rally at the USCGA was part of a nationwide campaign initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R.
Coalition called "Turn up the Heat in 2007." Antiwar activists and organizers around the country are joining together to guarantee that wherever and whenever Bush, Cheney, and other government officials and members of Congress step out in public they will be met by antiwar protestors.
Next stop: West Point - Turn up the Heat
On Saturday, May 26, there will be another demonstration at West Point, New York where Dick Cheney will be the keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony. Activists are assembling at Veteran's Park in nearby Highland falls at 8:30 a.m. for a march to the Thayer Gate into West Point. The protest is sponsored by the ad hoc West Point May 26 Organizing Committee, a coalition of 47 regional and national antiwar organizations.
The Two Parties of Militarism, War and Occupation
The Turn up the Heat in 2007 campaign comes at a critical time. The day after his speech at the Coast Guard Academy - at which he labeled the occupation of Iraq as a cornerstone in the so-called "war on terrorism" - Congress again embraced Bush's war.
By an overwhelming margin, the Senate and the House of Representatives voted to give Bush another nearly $95 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Democratic Party leadership agreed to remove the non-binding language for a troop withdrawal timeline that had been included in an earlier bill that Bush vetoed. Seventy-five percent of the people in this country want a troop withdrawal and yet the Senate voted 80 -14 and the House voted 280-142 to give Bush the funds and authority to continue the aggression in Iraq.
Please make an urgently needed donation today
The power to end the war is in the people but we must step up the pressure from every direction. We can’t do this without your help. If you can help by making a financial contribution, click this link to make a tax-deductible donation or learn how to send a check.
Coverage from the New Haven Register
Click here to read the May 24 story “Motorcade avoids 1,000 antiwar protesters”







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Headlights to Impeach
Memorial Day 2007 is the one-year anniversary of the Headlights to Impeach Movement. Turn them ON. PlEaSe !
Help a country out here. Also, click the link to sign the petition. Takes three seconds.


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Brought to you LIVE from THE TAMPA NAIL HOUSE ... : Proud members of the drive-by media (just like Thomas Paine, father of America)

... located in the midtown desired redevelopment center just one block from the river.


They need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.
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Court of Impeachment and War Crimes

Well, heck when I first read this, I thought .... oh, COOL, someone has gathered up a bunch of A-ONE pictures about my fondest dreams and placed them here for me to enjoy and everyone should see this. So I was thinking of a post for it ...

(brief aside) I too am extremely let down by Nancy Pelosi. I made it a point to watch her on the Jay Leno show (never watch the tube) and I wanted to and want to go along with her but .... yknow, I'm .... quite torn, to say the least. It would make me no better than a party cheerleader to pretend I am dazzled. Ed. is a little more clear with his feelings.

... And, yknow, I read FAST. So I went back to go through the pics more slowly and realized I have been linked by the LEGENDARY Ed Dickau. (Precinct Master) Whatever. There'll be no living with me now. (j/k I ate the humble pie by birth, we're a legendary family of behind-the-scenes-folks here at vox) Anyone who knows me knows me. LOL.

Here's his blurb:
This Blog Court Room Is Dedicated To The Legal And Moral Belief That No One Is Above The Law...No One! Send that message to Speaker Pelosi. Call 202-225-0100 NOW!Check Ed out. In with a bang, babe !! Thanks !!! Check Ed out here, too. Wow, I'm impressed. And, he has a handle on his background and images unlike me. Dang.

I think this might also be an appropriate time to thank Lindsay Beyerstein, freelance journalist, for adding me to her blogroll over at MajikThise (like THE BEST blog out there for the few uninformed living under a rock) In fact, I'm kinda thinking Ed. found me through MajikThise. Or possibly Michael Hussey over at Pushing Rope. All good things happen around these folks and those who hold them in esteem. Ya can't hope to outsmart them ... but it sure is cool to hang around in the light with them.

I have ruminated for a week or so trying to figure out how to say thank-you without sounding like I was bragging.
I don't always have the ego for the blogging business but I bet Lindsay HAS to know that being put on the blogroll of someone I deeply admire ... well, that meant EVERYTHING to me. Truly it did. I called people. I did. I bragged to anyone who knows I never brag. I sure did. I was high.

It's not like Lindsay NEEDS any recognition, I mean from the likes of a lowly Tampa blogger .... so this is not enough. But, it's a start. She's not just a good writer, she's had an interesting life which is kinda unexpected for one so young, and she's very kind; all qualities that deserve attention and respect.

I lived the same way and knew most of what I needed to know quite young. I'm enjoying getting to know her and an extremely diverse (could we get a new word for diverse, already??) group of highly intellectual and thoughtful folks over at her fine blog.

Oh, she's NOT solely a blogger: Radio-talk-show, independent journalist, she seems like an artist to me or has an artist's eye ...., orator, mover and shaker, etc... etc...., ...... go see for yourself.

And support her cause(s) and her drive to keep the light on what needs to be well-lit. Buy some ads, make a donation, add some intellectual-ism, enjoy and support her awesome work.

There's a post she has where she talks about her life, I'm looking for it so check back and I'll try to get the link here.


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... located in the midtown desired redevelopment center just one block from the river.


They need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.
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Helped him to the ground

May 25, 2007
Man, 27, dies in police custody
TAMPA -- A 27-year-old man died Friday morning as he was being taken into police custody.

The man, whose name has not been released, told police he was having trouble breathing just before he died, said police spokeswoman Laura McElroy.

The incident happened about 11 a.m. after the man ran up to a house north of Columbus Drive and west of Interstate 275 at 210 W Keyes Ave., McElroy said.

The man ran up to an older man's home, yelling that someone was trying to get him, trying to kill him. The man dove through a glass window, then stripped to his boxer shorts before running down the street, McElroy said. A neighbor tried to stop the man, and an officer struggled with him, handcuffing him.

The man was having breathing trouble, and the officer helped him to the ground, where the man died, McElroy said.

May 25, 2007 in Hillsborough | Permalink


Why is it always handcuffs? Hold him down, sit on him, talk to him calmly .... I can think of three dozen things to do before the handcuffs have to go on or should EVER go on a man who is obviously struggling with some issue or hallucination.

If it's drug-related, it seems that common sense would tell you that handcuffs are not going to help calm the person.
Even if it's NOT drug-related.

I'm so disgusted. I'm so disgusted. I'm so disgusted.

27 years old.

Who will handcuff these first-responders ???

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Memorial Day 2007 is the one-year anniversary of the Headlights to Impeach Movement. Turn them ON. PlEaSe !
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Brought to you LIVE from THE TAMPA NAIL HOUSE ... : Proud members of the drive-by media (just like Thomas Paine, father of America)

... located in the midtown desired redevelopment center just one block from the river.


They need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.
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Blanks and Charges

Okay, tell me if this sounds mercenary. I'm leaving out names and identities for now, and even some words to protect those who frankly don't deserve protection but having never been a RAT (like some) I just don't feel good about spilling people's filthy sides of their lives onto the WWW...

However -- (you knew this was coming, right??) -- I'm willing to disclose same for a fee. In fact, I'm going to disclose some of this in a book which will definitely be for sale very soon but if you'd like to know if your name or some similar aspect that identifies your smarmy and illegal acts towards me and my family have been mentioned I'd be happy to negotiate a fee with you. For the record, save your pennies if I've known you longer than thirty years. Out of respect for you and your family I'll leave your names out. Out of respect for you and your family I have remained silent. Apparently this same respect was not inbred in you. That's a pity but you and yours are safe with me. The ones who took it upon themselves to do your bidding against an innocent family are wide open just like they've left MY family wide open. Herewith I refer to my extended family and network many of whom are currently suffering at your hands. Be on notice.

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In my living room watching;
but I am not laughing ....

..... risk something, take back what's yours
say something that you know they might attack you for
cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before ....
...
Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day

In their living room laughing like,

"what did he say?"



Fight the Good Fight

" .... courage is humankind's cardinal virtue, because ''it makes all other virtues possible."
Reverend William Sloane Coffin

......" And I dare you to ask for a lot, I dare you to hold fast to your ideals and to expound them as publicly and as fearlessly as Martin Luther King and Bill Coffin and Betty Friedan and those dozens of grandmothers arrested a few weeks ago for protesting the war in Iraq."

Francine du Plessix Gray

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MainSTREAMMedia=Bush Propaganda Machine
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Not every man really lives.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends...... Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Patience is NOT a virtue.

It is concentrated strength.
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"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." Frederick Douglass, 1857
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