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Sleaze Report Ruminations - So Much To Ridicule - So Little Time To Do It

5/25/2004

Filed under: — John @ 8:51 am | Permalink

ANNOUNCEMENT AND EXPLANATION: My four faithful, drunken readers in Joe's Saloon in the Virgin Islands want to know what happened to my Movable Type blog. I migrated to Wordpress, however, my Movable Type blog will remain and you can reach it at this URL.

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If anybody has any information about any member of the Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman cult, you can post it in the Hays Report Forum or you can send me an email.





8/21/2004

Righteous and Just Commentary From the Blogosphere

Filed under: — John @ 10:33 pm | Permalink

Barefoot and Naked has started "BANews - Righteous and Just Commentary From the Blogosphere".




Orcinus exposes “Protect Arizona Now” initiative.

Filed under: — John @ 9:02 pm | Permalink

Orinus has a post that exposes the "Protect Arizona Now" initiative as another looney white supremacist effort to infiltrate American politics. The post also also has a little history about Ruby Ridge and the injustice guys in Montana who pretended to be patriots while ripping off, bullying, and terrorizing their neighbors like mindless thugs who had absolutely no respect for their fellow citizens.




Jack’s back

Filed under: — John @ 7:49 pm | Permalink

Jack's back from the shores of Jersey and the Blues of Oregon and already he's making waves.

I've been told if I link to some blog I have to, JUST HAVE TO say something about what I'm linking to. "Why is that?" I ask. I've been given a lot of stange answers and even a few good ones. However, this is my blog and I'll link to anything I want to except, of course, to anything that violates PayPal's mature audience policy type stuff. That still pisses me off, that some of the people who have been trying to get my website taken down could call up PayPal, lie through their teeth, and PayPal would cut me off without even checking to see if my website actually did violate their mature audience policy. I mean it's irrelevant that nobody ever left a tip, but sheesh, what if somebody actually got really, really drunk and did want to leave a tip. Well now, the PayPal scenario is shot all to hell.

The link above to Blue Oregon will take you to a post about Google's recent entrance into the stock market and how taxpayers helped support some of the technology that the Google guys utilized.

The link above to the post by Jack Bogdanski (he's doing Polish jokes now so we better humor him before he becomes a conservative) concerns extreme sleaze within the Goldschmidt sphere of influence.




Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete And Flawed

Filed under: — John @ 11:05 am | Permalink

According to a WashingtonPost.com report, " Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete And Flawed", the archival records of the Navy tend to favor Kerry's story and not the story of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. I think the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (which is a misnomer - it should be Swift Boat Veterans for Partisan Crap) are just pissed off at Kerry for what he said and did after he left the military. In my opinion Kerry was out of control (especially since some of the stupid things he did he did while still in the Reserves) and I don't think he accomplished anything of note while as a senator, but this Vietnam nonsense is just nonsense designed to take our focus off the issues facing us here and now. Besides, I have it on good authority that the Vietnam War never really happened.

I have other posts concerning this here and here.




Crazy old white supremacist grandmothers who stalk and attack

Filed under: — John @ 10:17 am | Permalink

Well, you know, I gotta have a story about crazy, old, white supremacist grandmothers who stalk and attack every now and then.




Update on a member of the Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman “cult of the really stupid”

Filed under: — John @ 9:58 am | Permalink

John S. Torell has an update on Fritz Springmeier, a member of the "cult of the really stupid".




It’s time for Offsets to go the way of the dinosaur

Filed under: — John @ 9:40 am | Permalink

Insight Mag has an article entitled "Conspiracy of Silence -- Faux Outsourcing Debate". The following is an excerpt.

Posted August 19, 2004
By Jerome Zeifman

In his presidential campaign John Kerry tries persistently to tar George Bush with the brush of out-sourcing. However, there is
a tacit understanding among Kerry supporters not to mention that out-sourcing is currently being fostered by government policies that originated in the Carter administration.

One of the Carter policies involves so-called "offsets." A typical offset arrangement provides that the American seller will abandon his American subcontractors and use foreign workers to manufacture components of the product being sold to the foreign buyer.

As noted recently by Robert E. Scott, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research group in Washington:

Offsets are the equivalent of what we used to do when we bribed foreign officials... It's a tragedy, and it's a race to the bottom. The best way to avoid these kinds of competitive and disruptive games is to outlaw the practice.

To date Congress has failed to provide any remedies for offsets. During the Clinton administration, in effect the Defense Offsets Disclosure act of 1999 did not more than require the disclosure of offsets and simply suggested that large companies voluntary diminish their use. Yet the act noted that among other adverse features:

Offset requirements cause economic distortions. undermine fairness and competitiveness, and may cause particular harm to small and medium sized businesses.

It is time to outlaw the practice of offsets.




Deb and Jarhead Dad make a lot of sense

Filed under: — John @ 12:13 am | Permalink

Deb at Marine Corps Moms has a post about her reaction to Juan Cole's reaction to a New York Times report. Whether or not the report is accurate remains to be seen, but Juan Cole's reaction to the report shows he doesn't know what the hell he is talking about . Check out Deb's post.

Jarhead Dad has a post (posted by Cassandra?) that goes along with Deb's post.




8/20/2004

Muller and Robinson and Malkin together again

Filed under: — John @ 9:46 pm | Permalink

Eric Muller has compiled all of his posts and Greg Robinson's comments about Michelle Malkin's book "In Defense of Internment" into a single file. It's a good thing, too, because I was becoming more confused than usual going hither and yonder trying to piece together all the pieces of the puzzle.




Classic Humor from U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmayer

Filed under: — John @ 9:28 pm | Permalink

Check out Classic Humor from U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmayer. Link via Crimlaw.




Missile Defense Politics - from Taxpayers for Common Sense

Filed under: — John @ 5:15 pm | Permalink

Taxpayers for Common has a post entitled "Missile Defense Politics". The following is the article.




Jacob T. Levy has posted a new paper online

Filed under: — John @ 4:06 pm | Permalink

Jacob T. Levy informs us that his paper entitled "Life Beyond Wet Dreams" (Whoops, wrong paper). Let's see.......I know it's here somewhere.......oh yeah......here it is.........no, that's the application the loonies left behind for Oregon to become a "constitutional republica based on the laws of the New Testament as written by Bill Mayhar". Gotta remember to throw that away. Jacob T. Levy's paper has gotta be here somehwere.....ok.....I believe this is it. The paper is entitled "Beyond Publius: Montesquieu, liberal republicanism, and the small-republic thesis". It is now somewhere in the vastness of the World Wide Web. The following is an excerpt from the paper (stolen quite cleverly, I might add, from the website of the Volokh Conspiracy).

"Beyond Publius: Montesquieu, liberal republicanism, and the small-republic thesis"

Abstract: The idea that republicanism as a form of government was only suitable for small states, given its definitive 18th-century formulation by Montesquieu, rested in that formulation on three major pillars: the difficulty of sustaining public-spirited virtue in the face of diversity of interests and inequality of fortunes; the problem of knowing the public interest when citizens' circumstances varied; and the danger posed to republican government by a large state's large armed forces. The first two worries declined as republican theory changed from classical and civic to modern and liberal, a change associated with Hume's and Publius' re-understanding of faction and interest in large republics. But Publius did not offer the only, or the final, defense of large republics. Other liberal republicans understood the problems differently, or denied that there as a problem at all. The intertwined problems of executive-legislative and civil-military relations, the worry that republicanism in large states would end in military rule à la Caesar, Cromwell, or Bonaparte, stimulated continuing work in constitutional theory decades after The Federalist. Accordingly, even among those who endorsed the new logic of faction, institutional remedies for the problems facing large republics remained, with particular dispute over federalism, the makeup of the executive, and the creation of a neutral or conservation-preserving power. This paper aims to broaden our view of the shift in republican constitutional thought beyond Hume and Publius; to bridge the Atlantic gap in our understanding of late 18th-century constitutional thought; and to show the breadth of the rejection of civic republican assumptions as well as the range of thought about institutional design in the era.




John Ashcroft and the Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman “cult of the really stupid”

Filed under: — John @ 1:20 pm | Permalink

It seems U. S. Attorney General John Ashcroft may have gotten a little closer to the Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman "cult of the really stupid" than he might have liked. In fact, he seems to have posed for a photograph with one of the loonies in the cult, as this post points out below.

For those in law enforcement, especially here in Washington County, Oregon, the ADL Law Enforcement Agency Resource Network has some info for cops who come into contact with the loonies in the "cult of the really stupid". It is entitled Officer Safety and Extremists: An Overview for Law Enforcement Officers.




8/19/2004

The Conscience of Joe Darby

Filed under: — John @ 1:39 pm | Permalink

GQ has an exclusive story about Joe Darby, the guy who blew the whistle on the abuses going on at Abu Ghraib prison. I think what he did was the right thing to do. As an ex-military person I know that the vast majority of American service members are not thugs (despite what John Kerry said about 30 years ago) and when a few service members decide to act like thugs, then they need to be exposed and brought to justice.

The following is an excerpt from the GQ article.

When he saw the horrific abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, Joe Darby knew he had to blow the whistle. But coming forward would change his life—as well as his family's—forever, and for the worse. Because back in his own community and in the small towns of America, handing over those photos didn't make Joe Darby a hero. It made him a traitor.
By Wil S. Hylton

They shut him up. Fast. You never even saw him. No footage of him coming off the plane, no flags or banners waving, no parade in his honor. He came home from Iraq in May, but there wasn't even a formal announcement. In fact, you're not supposed to know he's here.

He lives in a secret location. It might be just down the street, or it might be halfway to nowhere. Maybe he was sitting at the next table last night, having dinner right beside you. You have no way of knowing: Nobody knows what he looks like. The only picture most of us have seen is the one from 1997, the high school yearbook portrait, with his hair parted in the middle and the impish smile on his face. That was before he lost the hair, before he gained the weight and his chest filled out, before he got married and became a man. But that was the picture that ran in all the papers when the scandal broke. It was the only one that slipped out.

He hasn't done any interviews or made any statements since it happened, hasn't talked publicly about what he saw in Abu Ghraib prison or what made him turn in those pictures on that January night in Iraq. All we know is that he did turn them in and that everything changed because of it. The rest is speculation. He's been under a gag order for three months.

He wouldn't mind talking, actually; he wants you to know the truth. The desire to tell the truth was how he got into this thing in the first place. He was the guy who stood up to evil when everyone else fell silent, the guy who put himself on the line when nobody else would. No wonder they won't let him talk. No wonder he can't say what he knows. It would be easier if he could, if Joe Darby could tell you himself, but this will do for now.




A letter from Ray Reynolds

Filed under: — John @ 10:43 am | Permalink

Today seems like a good day to immerse myself for a few minutes in a controversy that's shouldn't even be a controversy, and isn't for most people. The following letter is from Ray Reynolds.




Gov’t Gives Najaf Militants ‘Final Call’

Filed under: — John @ 9:56 am | Permalink

According to a news report at the ABC News website entitled "Gov't Gives Najaf Militants 'Final Call'", that great Iraqi patriot, Muqtada al-Sadr, when he's not doing the bidding of Iran, murdering a fellow cleric by the name of Ayatollah Sayyed Abdul Majid al-Khoe, or having his militia murder innocent Iraqis (including helpless women and children), he's pretending to be the Prophet reincarnated.

The Torrione Castle has more info on the little wannabe tin pot dictator, Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq, and the Iraq war in general.

It would seem to me that in order for the Iraqi government to be a feasible government and a government that can provide some sort of secure environment so Iraqis can enjoy the simple capitalistic bourgeoisie luxuries such as; food, clean water, a viable sewage system, electricity, medical care, education, the freedom to go hither and thither; you know, stuff the petite bourgeoisie in some countries take for granted, then the Iraqi government is going to have to get serious about getting rid of every little tin pot wannabe dictator or local gang leader who wants to strut his stuff.

What really pisses me off about local gang leaders like the Iranian puppet, Muqtada al-Sadr, is that he and his henchmen are murdering innocent civilians AND Americans over in Iraq trying to help the Iraqi people become self sufficient and be a free people.




8/18/2004

Current Status of Kidnapped Foreigners in Iraq

Filed under: — John @ 3:23 am | Permalink

The Northeast Intelligence Network brings us the "Current Status of Kidnapped Foreigners in Iraq".




8/17/2004

Vodkapundit does a fisking

Filed under: — John @ 11:37 pm | Permalink

Vodkapundit has a post about...........hmmmmm.........I wonder what'll happen if I click on that little link type icon. AAAAArrrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! It leads to a fisking. Lord, what'll they think of next???!!!

Vodkapundit fisks Ronald Asmus. There's nothing I could add to the fisking so check it out. Before you do, however, I would like to offer my opinion on the Prez's plan to bring home about 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia. I think it's a good idea and instead of making fun of a news report from Aljazeera that has the following bit of nonsense by the Democrats, I'm going to reread Vodkapundit's fisking and have a good laugh.

From the Aljazeera news report.

US Democrats blasted President George Bush's plan to bring home up to 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia, calling it dangerous, ill-conceived and a ploy to boost his attempt for re-election.

Bush's announcement quickly drew scathing criticism on Monday from former NATO commander Wesley Clark and former ambassador Richard Holbrooke, two senior advisers to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

Clark said the 10-year plan, unveiled by Republican Bush in a campaign speech to US veterans in Ohio, would "significantly undermine US national security".




Thoughts on buying a newspaper

Filed under: — John @ 8:50 pm | Permalink

Rob Salzman has a post entitled "Why I don't take the Oregonian anymore". In his post he explains why he doesn't take the Oregonian anymore. (Uh oh, I feel a plug coming on - The Oregonian.) Since I feel taking the Oregonian is an extremely personal decision, I don't feel right in refuting his decision.

However, I think there are many reasons for taking the Oregonian and I would if I could afford it. If I could afford it I would take the Oregonian for the following reasons preceded by a dead language's numerical system.

  1. Having a newpaper in your hands while reading about recent events somewhere is nice.
  2. Relaxing and reading on a bus or the Max during rush hour is nice and when push comes to shove a person can always smack another person with a copy of the Oregonian whereas smacking another person with a computer is not considered proper computer etiquette.
  3. If a person constantly wants the latest news then check out the cable news channels because newspapers are, sometimes, only published at the most twice daily, except for the New York Times and they're ready to publish at the drop of a pen whenever a bogus story comes in.
  4. It's easier to swat a mosquito or a fly with a rolled up copy of the Oregonian instead of a computer.
  5. The birds in the birdcage can crap on the Oregonian but not on the computer.
  6. A person can write letters to the editor even though a person knows the letters will be rejected but if a person writes a letter to the computer the computer will usually freeze up with the "Blue Screen of Death".
  7. If a person is a spy or a terrorist it is easier to be furtive and to hide one's roaming eyes behind a copy of the Oregonian than by hiding one's roaming eyes behind a computer. For some strange reason, if a person walks around pretending to read a computer whilst being clever and furtive, it draws the attention of obnoxious passersby.
  8. It's easier to wrap fish, a winning lottery ticket, or strange and illegal and exotic pets in a copy of the Oregonian than it is to wrap fish, a winning lottery ticket, or strange and illegal and exotic pets with a computer.
  9. It's easier to send one of those ubiquitous press releases from every loony group on the planet to the Oregonian than it is to send one of those ubiquitous press releases from every loony group on the planet to a computer.
  10. Without the Oregonian there might not be as many ridiculous editorials as we would like to see. (Oh no!!!!!....A sleek, meek, creaky freak, post by the day and post by the week geek named Zeke reminds me, "Oh yeah????!!!! There's always blogs ready and willing to write ridiculous editorials.") This is a good point, however, this is MY post so I'm going to pretend that bit of advice was sent to the Oregonian as a "letter to the editor"and I'm going to ignore it.
  11. When a person feels the need to brag about something it is much more survival oriented to say, "Hey, don't mess with me, I know an editor at the Oregonian who'll kick your butt" than it is to say, "Hey, don't mess with me, I have a computer that will kick your butt".
  12. When it comes time to paint the inside of the house or apartment, you can always spread copies of the Oregonian around but you can't place a bunch of computers around, unless you're Bill Gates. However, I've heard Bill Gates has enough money to hire a few good painters and, also, that he doesn't read the Oregonian because his buddy, Paul, does and if Bill wants to know what's going on in Portland he just asks Paul, who refers him to one of the Blazer basketball players because, as everybody knows, the Blazers basketball players have a lot of time to sit around and read the Oregonian while they're making bail.
  13. And.......and.......and......who wants to take a computer into the bathroom everytime one wants to do a little meditating???!!!



August 25th will be a “Day of Conscience”

Filed under: — John @ 7:57 pm | Permalink

Africa Blog has a post highlighting the crisis in Sudan and how August 25th will be a "Day of Conscience" for SaveDarfur.org.




A Practical Guide for University Crisis Response

Filed under: — John @ 6:33 pm | Permalink

Are you a university administrator? Are you a university administrator with a mundane crisis on your hands? Are you a university administrator who wants to know, "What the hell is a mundane crisis???!!!" If you are, don't look to me for answers because I have no idea what you're talking about.

However, if you're not a university administrator with a crisis on your hands BUT you know a university administrator with a crisis on his or her hands, then check out A Practical Guide for University Crisis Response. It's brought to you from those fine people at the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. They are the real deal. If somebody comes to you and tries to sell you a book from the "American Academy of Non-Experts in Traumatic Stress", you just tell them you weren't born in a barn and that you know enough to close the barn door when you leave.




Today’s lecture is entitled “The Stupidity of Today’s American Culture”

Filed under: — John @ 4:20 pm | Permalink

First off, I would like to point out that the stupidity of today's American culture begins with...........(uh oh, one of my left-wing sociological advisors is looking over my shoulder as I write this. She seems somewhat displeased. I wonder what she has to say.)

These are her words coming out of her mouth at the moment. It is a good thing I can type while pretending to look behind my back at her. Here is what she is saying, "You're writing about the stupidity of today's American culture?"

I nodded.

"You... YOU... who voted for Ralph Nader and some damn, stupid, rightwing, reactionary by the name of Tom Cox... and you read crap from that horrendous, heterosexual by the name of Ayn Rand....."

I interrupted here and said, "Uh... Ayn wasn't a complete heterosexual......y'know...."

"You don't talk when I'm talking," she said. "Now...let's get back to what...Ayn Rand wasn't a complete heterosexual, you say?"

I nodded.

"You mean that damn bitch was ...... why the hell did she believe in .....?.....Nevermind......You can't go around writing about how stupid today's American culture is because you're too stupid."

Well, " I said, "I was just going to write a little satire and all. I was just going to make a few jokes."

"No, you're not," she said.




Gypsy Victims of the Nazi Terror

Filed under: — John @ 4:11 pm | Permalink

Sometimes my ex-wife (the one I divorced in 1980) and her idiot relatives and Roger Weidner drive by the house where I live. When they do they honk their horns and scream epithets at the house. So, here's my questions for the day.

  1. Does screaming at the house make the house feel bad?
  2. Do houses with low self-esteem keep out the rain?
  3. Is there a national crisis about houses with low self-esteem?
  4. Do we need to start a national 12-step program so all houses will feel good about themselves?
  5. Is there a house psychologist lurking nearby thinking, "I smell money."?



A comment entitled “David Duke is a malignant narcissist”

Filed under: — John @ 11:13 am | Permalink

Somebody left a pretty interesting comment on my MT blog and it is entitled "David Duke is a malignant narcissist". Check it out.




Karen and rumors of rumors

Filed under: — John @ 11:11 am | Permalink

There's this woman that comes over to where I live. Here name is Karen. She likes to spread slanderous rumors about people behind their backs. I don't know why. Maybe she's just one of those people who needs to cause hate and discontent. Maybe she just hates people. Anyway, I've been told that nobody in their right mind actually believes any of her slanderous rumormongering. Still, her rumormongering denotes vindictiveness and immaturity and does cause some damage.




Iran says: “We can hit anywhere in Israel”

Filed under: — John @ 11:10 am | Permalink

This doesn't look like a good development. The following is an except from WorldNetDaily. This news was first reported by The Iranian Student News Agency.

Posted: August 16, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

A senior Iranian military official told reporters yesterday Israel and the United States would not dare attack Iran since it could strike back anywhere in Israel and against U.S. military installations in the Middle East with its latest missiles.

"The entire Zionist territory, including its nuclear facilities and atomic arsenal, are currently within range of Iran's advanced missiles," the ISNA students news agency quoted Yadollah Javani, head of the Revolutionary Guards political bureau, as saying.

"Therefore, neither the Zionist regime nor America will carry out its threats" against Iran, he said. An attack on Iran "could only be carried out by angry or stupid people. For that reason, officials of the Islamic Republic must always be prepared to counter possible military threats," Javani said in a statement, ISNA reported.

For more info on Iran visit Free Iran.




8/15/2004

Why DB’s Medical Rants blogs

Filed under: — John @ 10:18 pm | Permalink

Want to know why at least one person blogs? Then check out why DB blogs.

I, for one, am glad he does.




Alex Knapp has a post - “The Mystery of Fascism”

Filed under: — John @ 9:47 pm | Permalink

Alex Knapp has a post entitled "The Mystery of Fascism". From his post you can get into the meat of the mystery.




Federal customs official charged with kidnapping

Filed under: — John @ 7:33 pm | Permalink

KGW.com has a story entitled "Federal customs official charged with kidnapping". The following is an excerpt.

Associated Press

The Multnomah County district attorney's office has charged a high-ranking federal customs official with kidnapping, burglary and assault.

Steve Gilbert, 37, of Vancouver was arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court, along with Heather Edison, 27, also of Vancouver.

Edison was arraigned on charges of custodial interference and attempted burglary, The Oregonian newspaper reported.

Gilbert is the area director for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. He is in charge of about 50 inspectors who work on customs, immigration and agriculture inspections of foreign visitors at Portland International Airport.

According to the district attorney's office, Edison and Gilbert in March went to the home of her son's great-grandmother, the boy's legal custodian. Gilbert is accused of taking the boy from the home after an argument over visitation.

I wonder if this will go to trial.




Czeslaw Milosz dies at 93

Filed under: — John @ 6:54 pm | Permalink

Jacob T. Levy, a bit chagrined at finding a dearth of good obituaries about the recent demise of Czeslaw Milosz at the age of 93., has decided to write a bit of his own. The following is an excerpt.

The Captive Mind is certainly Milosz' most important prose work. Not only is it powerful and compelling; it was also importantly early, a fact that I think has been underappreciated in the past couple of decades. This 1953 book was so long before The Gulag Archipelago or Vaclav Havel's essays or Solidarity's demonstrations or John Paul II's and Ronald Reagans speeches, so long before the fall of Communism itself, that it has been a bit obscured in our retrospective sense of history. But Milosz understood, and explained, the relationship between Communist states and art and ideas just a handful of years after Poland had become one. For this he received considerable scorn from the French intellectual elite who surrounded him after his defection in Paris. And, as a poet with early sympathies for socialism rather than an economist or theologian or politician, he never acquired the kind of natural constituency in the west who would keep the memory of his contribution alive.

For idiosyncratic reasons, I was even more affected by his extraordinary autobiography, Native Realm. It does a remarkable job at evoking the polyglot world of eastern Europe before the age of nation-states, and of the swirling intellectual waters of the interwar years, as nationalism, religion, and ideology competed to provide the organizing disciplines of thought and belief in the region. It excels as a way to help the reader understand the history of the twentieth century as well as being a fascinating autobiography in its own right. Those who liked the movie Sunshine will appreciate Native Realm.

Most important, of course, is poetry. Milosz wrote the following on his 1989 visit to Vilnius.

You'll have to go to the link above to get the poem and the live links but, hey, this is the World Wide Web and linking is what it's all about.




Congratulations to Jeralyn Merritt

Filed under: — John @ 6:45 pm | Permalink

TalkLeft gets her credentials for the Kobe Bryant trial. Have at 'em, girl.

Let's not forget Talkleft was also credentialed for the Democratic Convention.




Update to my post “Will I be investigated again? Should I confess now?”

Filed under: — John @ 5:12 pm | Permalink

The following is an update to my post entitled "Will I be investigated again? Should I confess now?" where I show how Ray Karczewski, one of the members of the Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman "cult of the really stupid", has been trying to get Josephine County, Oregon Sheriff Dave Daniel to arrest me for being a part of the Pernicious Cancer of Government/Media Internet Disinformation That Is Eating Away the Substance of the American People.

In the blockquotes below you will see an excerpt from a letter from Ray Karczewski to Sheriff Dave Daniel. rk stands for old crazy Raymond.




THE WORLD SITUATION - A LETTER TO MY SONS

Filed under: — John @ 1:57 pm | Permalink

There is a letter floating around internet entitled "THE WORLD SITUATION - A LETTER TO MY SONS". It seems the Yemen Observer has also taken note of the letter.

There is a discussion going on over at Snopes.com about the letter.




Info about aircraft

Filed under: — John @ 1:18 pm | Permalink

Want to know more than you ever wanted to know about aircraft? Then visit www.airliners.net.





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