Note: 3rd comment left by Pam on another blog, due to this one being locked... wannabekira on Apr 19, 2008 Whatever his health problems may have been, I'm actually convinced that it was the loss of two of his children that did him in. When I met Ken, one of the plea
Note: this is the 2nd comment left by Pam on another of my blogs, due to this one having gotten locked somehow... wannabekira on Apr 19, 2008 Oh, yeah... of the people I know who knew Ken "way back when," perhaps Sandy Mc. would know the most. I had always thought that Ken
Note: this comment by Pamela, who I mention in the obituary and who was very close to Ken for some time, was left on another blog as somehow this blog got locked... wannabekira on Apr 19, 2008 Phil, since you have locked the article on Ken Gregg (not sure
In the past four decades during which I've been (anti)politically active, one thing that has stuck out like the sore thumb is how often individuals and groups commit self-sabotage. I will try to select paradigms from a host of possible examples taken from the following groups (note that there are some groups that could be classified under more than one of the headings): Clubs Political Parties Philosophical Associations Political Activist Associations
If you accept the Bush administration paradigm for "Homeland Security," then I suppose that my experience makes some sense, in which case you probably shouldn't read this, as you will only be even more confused. Many more people die from preventable auto accidents, equally preventable diseases, and general crime than from terrorists, but we are apparently happy to keep pouring what at last estimate looks to be $3 trillion down a hole that doesn't really seem all that connected to stoppi
09/07/2016 I can't get this blog to unlock, so if you need to reach me or want to post something regarding the passing of either Kenn Gregg or his friend, Pamela, please use my [email protected] email and I'll add it in manually here if feasible. I recently received an email from Kenn's one-time lover, Pamela Maltzman, regarding her reexamination of this blog and thanking me for my effort. Pamela herself just passed away, which did not surprise
Thanks for the blogging suggestion. I probably should check out more alternatives, at least as backups - which I've done before, but not consistently enough. I've tried various venues, but somehow seem to end up here. The general quality of posts here is pretty good, and one thing about the net is that you build a history and it stays with you - for better or worse. Change is BAD, if you want to keep your implicit link ratings, and individuals can get lost in the backg
I only recall the two instances, altho my impression was of more, and I'm willing to assume that perhaps you simply didn't notice that you had not properly framed the discussion regarding lane-switching. It's also possible that I mis-heard. It happens, although I do recall making a definite attempt to get clarification at the time, without success. So, I will edit and expunge that version of my reference, as I can't recall specific evidence that would justify "repeatedly."&
Thanks for the prompt, cogent and thorough response, David. However, having just reread the article at the site you provided above, I stand by my critique, although I will take the trouble to go over it again more carefully when I have a little more time. My apologies if I misrepresented you. I still get the same interpretation tonight as I did when I read the article hot off the press many years ago. I do strongly recommend your article - <a href="http
Phil Osborn, February 27 th , 2008. On Morals:* <span style="fo
There are ways around that: As in, filing a civil rights suit via federal courts...
OK. Just for a moment, ignore the odds and assume that Ron Paul is prez. What could he actually DO ? Well, first off, the margin to get virtually any new legislation through would jump to 67%, in order to get past Paul's vetos. Only legislation that reduced illegitimate government (from a limited state libertarian point of v
Update: 01/27/08: I knew that it couldn't be this easy. I was all ready to start feeling good about the City of Santa Ana, for finally taking action to protect people's rights to quiet enjoyment of their properties. Then the following occurred: Working inside one of my units this morning, in the process of collecting a bunch of stuff to relocate, I hea
U have got to be kidding! I bought a state-of-the-art HP laptop a couple months back with Vista Home Premium. I have only managed to get on line via wireless once or twice, and I can't get online at the library at all, due to Microsloth screwing up the TCP protocols. The library is saying that it may be 2008 before Vista owners have access. When I try to play MY OWN videos shot by my OWN CAMERA, half the time at random Vista refuses to play them, e
All day long today, working indoors doing web design and related computer work in Irvine, OC, I have felt as though I had a cold. My throat is scratchy, my nose stuffed up, and I'm coughing constantly, my stomach feels queezy and there is a dry, metallic taste in my mouth. When I left work just 30 minutes or so ago, it felt more like 7:30 PM than 5 PM. Everyone was
My own general theory of how life and consciousness work is centered around the two concepts of feedback and abstraction. Motivation starts on the sensory level, with finger touching thumb and thumb in mouth in the womb, long before real consciousness. Signals are flowing all over the place in the fetal brain, but only a fraction of them can be replicated
A keyword search system that ranks articles by degree of match. For an example of a highly successful and FAST! keyword search, please see the corporate site - www.seco-larm.com. The site has several product search systems on board but the one I am focusing on is the keyword search, which returns pages (over 1500 pages on the site) almost instantly ranked precisely by degree of match to multiple keywords, and displays a little sumary of what is on ea
"Reply By: Andrew J. Brehm Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2007 " Me: People who chose to have children they cannot afford have no right to them. They should have the right to sell their original rights on the market. All the problems would be solved in one fell sweep. "What "original rights" would they have if they have "no right" to them? ' Their original rights derive from the fact that they made the consider investment n
Life is a gift, however long or short. Every individual is responsible for his or her own survival, either through their own action or through being the beneficiaries of other people's action. If the latter, then it is irrational to assume that someone else would help one without getting any benefit in return. I.e., one is responsible for providing some quid pro quo to one's parents or guardians. In the past, this consisted of doing useful
October 08, 2008 So, to wrap this up, I got several thousand more dollars from the QME evaluation. I don't know if all the prep, bringing my friend as a witness, etc., helped, but it probably didn't hurt. The process ove
Actually there are typically bans against mating with one's parents or children or their children or first cousins as well. That said, small tribes or insular villages can get very inbred quite quickly, regardless, like the famous town in Maine with an average IQ of 70. On the other side, inbreeding does force negative recessive genes out of the gene pool, whereas if everyone married someone of an entirely different racial background,
I awoke in the middle of the night last night suddenly understanding why the incest taboo is such a driving force. Of course, we all know the biological, genetic reason. Closely related people share a LOT of bad genes that would be masked in 99.9% of the cases of mating with a random stranger by the corresponding functional gene from the other partner. Thus, mating
Ocober 21st, 2007: nothing fromt the Post Awful... October 15th, 2007: Nothing from the Post Awful, surprise, surprise. October 12, 2007: Finally got a notice from DHL of a package, and, sure enough, there were the 2 tickets. Mr. Curtis says that he actually mailed them September 18th. Nothing on my end. I went to the Post Awful today for a discuss
"Since you're knowledgable, what do you think of my running XP as the native O/S and Vista as virtual? Would that be a better use of system resources so I'm not using Vista full time? Another option I've considered is dual booting, but I have heard that Vista is not fond of dual boots." Not really knowledgeable. I run the computer and do my thing, but I still use Win2K Professional at work, because of all the stuff I need that will break
I just bought an HP with the configuration you're looking for at Office Depot for &670 after rebates. NOT HAPPY! See my blog here. 1. Microsoft screwed up the wireless beyond all belief. I am barely able to get on at MacDonalds, with the router right there within feet of me. I cannot get on at all anywhere else so far. There are MANY blogs and discussions on this topic. My theory: Microsloth deliberately screwed it up in order to forc
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