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22 through 28 march | current text blog updates can be found at blogspot's log entries 28 march | how the west was won "the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
pollyticks | I'll start this with a very brief conversation I had a couple of years ago with my friend David's Uncle Joe | At a Thanksgiving dinner he was gloating about the strides that those he favored were making in changing the direction of rule in the United States | I neither wanted to argue with him, nor get baited into a worthless conversation so all I said was, "Bask in it now. It won't last forever. A few years from now, everyone thrilled with what is going on will be asking ~terrified and unsure~ "What's the f**k happened?" and "How do we get out of this mess?" Nuff said. what's going on in iraq? | Don't take the official view of the occupying forces | see what Raed has to say | He's in Baghdad seeing it from a native's point of view | and what of palestine? | House Demolitions | Go figure | I suppose the lesson came from committing genocide on American Indians? | Maybe they could giev the survivors smallpox infected blankets? Just wondering | corporate largesse | While the Federal Election Commission does what it can to further weaken non-profits, friends of the powerful continue to rake funds that might legitimately belong to shareholders into the piles going to executives and corporate board members | When it is that these two streams of fiscal sewage will officially cojoin (they are certainly already there unofficially) is a matter of conjecture, but surely somebody, somewhere, somehow, shall recognize that what's goiong on here is a form of treason | Think about it | May need to pay heed one of the warnings stated by People for the American Way on how this crap adveresely impacts on real free speech:
who's to blame for 9/11? | a flow chart based on the Congressional hearings may give us a clue:  Thanks to the following bloggers for revealing this document
Kikuchiyo News, Wonkette and Defective Yeti all of whom warrant separate review for content, incidentally |Actually, these days it's more like pollyticks is what the machine of governance might more reasonably be called | Ambition, greed, publicity lust, Cuban cigars, some misguided notion of putting one's self if the history books (no matter how one ends up being cast in the long run) ...corporate fiefdom meddling ...all seem more the motivators for getting into public office than the values and virtues needed from the planet's (fealty to the nation just a part of it) leadership elite class | It is as though the individuals in power positions have altogether ceded leadership for being able to be in the seat | While evidencing some of what are generally recognized as "qualities of leadership," the overall balance is lost without others | What am I talking about? The list below (alphabetical) may suggest :
That's enough for now | go vote or go to a town meeting and speak your piece | Demand accountability from those in power | Stop grousing and speak out | Offer support ~ and by this I don't mean taking apage out of the checkbook | Provide real alternatives | Get acquainted personally with your local legislators | Spend more time and effort on your own involvement...and be better thought about it than the effort it takes to be a dittohead | 22 march | saved personal sites |  Since coming online, there are other sites that I find inexplicably appealing | The range in style from high-tech to unsophisticatedin terms of design | They reflect a lot of work on the developers' parts | Their authors are proud of what they've done, have something original to say, and express themselves in fairly original ways | They are sites I find myself going back to | I post them here in no special priority | Hope you enjoy them as well |
Other Stream | David Gwynne's peripatetic wanderings and peans to greasy spoons, supermarkets and stores full of used stuff | Gotta say that his site provided me the initial inspiration to have a website of my own | Involution | Visually dazzling, complex and well thought about journal website by a woman whom I know only as monde | you have to see it to get any idea what I'm talking about | H Kent Craig's Renaissance Homepage | Can't recall for the life of me how I first ran across this guy's site | Might have been back when Prodigy offered multicolor to what was essentially a DOS screen environment | I liked his light-hearted approach to his subject matter, and also appreciated the fact that he put no pretenses to his efforts | The things he writes on are varied, from canoe trips to HVAC systems | His poetry is also fresh and original, not clogged down with academic self absorbtion | (see naked in the snow for an example | Chris Moore | well, this might be a professional site cloaked in ordinary layout/design | Moore is an author, maybe not as well known as he would like | But he's staying employed that way, that in itself is impressive | Oriental Redneck | A fellow blogger | He taglines his posts as "...rants of a swing dancing OC native far from home..." | That's "OC" for Orange County California, while "far from home is (i think) San Francisco | Maintains a great blog distraction list, too | Cal's Gallery Plus | Nature, structures, tall ships, American Indians, and other items of interest to Cal | Hailing from Toccoa, Georgia, USA, Cal notes he isn't married, adding "...If you own a boat and can clean fish, we'll talk. Please send picture of boat!" other stuff || ECONOMIC TREASON: Do travesties like ENRON make your blood boil? There's a new discussion group on the Yahoo Groups website. The conversation has just begun. Participants are welcome. Stop by, sign up, and add your POV. This website is maintained by Will Brady / wbrady@rondak.org / Last update: see most recent entry |
 | What's up with this? | yer host's booklist | events of interest | write me: wbrady@rondak.org | travelogue | madbook | homo ruminations still looking for vera cais If anybody knows how to contact Czech/French film director Vera Cais, have them send the contact information to her brother Milan Cais/Gauguin at milancais2@operamail.com | Thank you  OTHER VOICES from monde's weblogMEMORY HOLES In the Orwellian 1984 totalitarian scenario (which already seems kinda tame, nowadays, doesn't it?) any bits of information which were to be "revised" would be tossed into tubes called memory holes, little vacuum-sucking holes used by the workers at Minitrue. Once disposed of in this fashion, it would then be considered to have never existed at all...and reality was considered to have never been otherwise. Reality is quite bendy-twisty, flexible. In this sci-fi hell we're living in, truth sometimes just doesn't stay true, and often seems to pass into a state of irrelevancy, of unbeing. The facts change: but the factors stay the same. Or is that the other way around? search engines | iTools | all the web | scrub the web | altavista | northern light plague you with cookies or pop-up adverts but still okay to use | dogpile | yahoo | hotbot
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ABOUT THE "PIX OF THE DAY": Each "day" I present a new image from my own work. The image may or may not be relevant to the text the is next to it. The purpose is more to show off my work | Hope you like them | e-mail | you can write me either at wbrady@rondak.org or at will-b@earthlink.net | I have a couple of older e-mail addresses which have become so clogged with spam that I barely look at them anymore | Too bad, really, since I still seem to get a number of notes on US Civil War artists on one of them | I won't write you back from the old addresses | Regrets for this inconvenience |
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