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current text blog updates can be found at blogspot's log entries 5 april - 9 april | 9 april | 05:53:24 PM | 
how "maximium" security? | I work at a maximum security facility | It is my job to listen to ~and see if it is possible to resolve~ complaints from the the residents of that facility | I'm also enjoined to advocate on residents' behalf | It is not a job that engenders friendliness from others working there, though I work hard at maintaining balance |Virtually everyone there is incarcerated, I am careful (as are others) to refrain from using the term "inmates" | Administration may not privately have a problem with that term, but publically it isn't used, because where I work is also a facility operated under the auspices of mental health funding, the inmates are referred to as "patients" | Now, I could get into a whole long discourse here on contrasting "treatment", "care", "services", therapeutic milieu" and such ... and I may do that some time in the future, but right now it would get me off topic | Right now, the topic is just how secure maximum services are | Where I work, given that since the place began operations, in the early 1970s, given that in that entire time no one has ever escaped, I'd say the place is pretty secure about being locked down | My inquiry is more toward how "secure" is a facility [any such facility] if the inmates are albe to learn things about the outside life of anyone working there, especially given that these folks do not have internet access, and opportunities to actually correspond with the outside world, while not absent, are impinged upon significantly | Mind you, I'm not surprised to hear that inmates know details about the personal lives of personnel working inside | Hell, numerous staff, themselves, can be quite chatty and genial ...if not to the inmates, then with their co-workers | And some of those same staff do so -in easy earshot of residents- without even a thought as to whether or not the residents are listening | You can certain that they do | there have been significant details about staff whom I have to find out about, that I have learned from the patients, simply because those staff speak in front of t hem as if they are not capable of remembering what the staff spoke of | Boy, are those staff wrong | It happens, more often than one outside might think it does | If the immates learn about staff personal lives from other staff, especially if and when the details learned can be sensitive, controversial or 
disconcerting to the listener, how secure is that facility?I have my suppositions as to how secure the facility is, but I'm more curious about how others think it might be at the moment | Feel free to private e-mail me on the question | music right now | Michael Franks - Abandoned Garden (1995) | Natalie Cole - Stardust (1996) | recovering back | not that anybody has asked, but my problem with the torn deltoid muscle has abated to the point where I'm now doing real exercises in physical therapy instead of just wincing over deep massage and ultra sound | And it's been three weeks since I no longer had to take oxycontin to ease the pain | If I had any left do you think Rush Limbaugh or Courtney Love would come to visit? | 7 april | 02:04:12 AM | who is who on the 9-11 Commission | Have to thank Big Rick Stuart Radio DJ FM for the set of bio stats | Always good to know who is doing our investigating for us | 
5 april | 11:51:30 PM | My response to the KOS flap | When the British employed the Hessians to fight the upstart American colonists, it didn't serve their purpose in the end |Hired, contracted, mercs, what you may call them, ~ have always gone to where they see their bread getting buttered | I don't blame them, but to pay for their adventures with their lives... I feel bad for the families of the hired security forces who were killed; it is always difficult to lose someone you love, and in a brutal and gory manner | It is the profiteers in such endeavors I hold accountable | Resource, construction and oil compant Executive Officers; Military Strategists; and people who foist themselves into leadership posts to pursure their own ends | If these corporate oilmen (et al) want to have a resource war, let them have it at their own expense. Use some of those corporate perks dollars that go to CEO compensation packages instead of demanding the American, Spanish, British. Aussie or Polish citizenry use their tax dollars to pay for the private profits resource wars | Anybody want to start considering what sentence the crime of committing ECONOMIC treason should bring to the offender? We're talking a whole class of perpetrators here, now, and around the world, bear that in mind | History is gonna catch up with all of those miscreants anyway | So crow loudly at the top of the nest now, because eventually, those at the top are going to lose | Truth always trumps falsehood | Sometimes it just takes longer to be realized | for info about the International International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries, 4 December 1989 click here  10:34:10 AM | Biking through Chernobyl | Elena who hails from the Ukraine, notes early in her commentary that Chernobyl, in her native langauge, is "Wormwood" a substance referred to in the Christain Bible's Book of Revelations, and signifying the end times |On her tour she shows us a land virtually uninhabited, with decaying buildings and well tended highways | There is no place to buy gasoline, however, so travelers had better be well stocked before heading into the area | She says the landscape is divinely eerie | Who could disagree ? |
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 FOUND! vera cais Thanks to Emanuele in Paris | Your response to my posting about Vera Cais has resulted in two kin long separated resuming their prior conversations |  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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